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Rainbow Fish: Season 1

52 episodes Premiered Jan 8, 2000 Updated Oct 20, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (49): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E2 Core

Rainbow Fish Meets Wayne Grunion

Jan 15, 2000

Rainbow is excited to meet his hero, renowned hockey star Wayne Grunion when he comes to town for a visit.

S1·E3 Core

Rainbow Fish Plays the Conch Shell

Jan 22, 2000

In the school band, Mrs Chips gives Rainbow Fish the conch shell, the hardest instrument in the band to play. Rainbow is then forced to practice, and he does so, gradually making f

S1·E4 Core

Riptide

Jan 29, 2000

When Rainbow Fish and his friends attempt a dangerous sport called "Riptiding", Blue is swept away on a riptide, and Sea Filly and Rainbow must find him before it's too late.

S1·E5 Core

Rainbow Fish Gets an 'A'

Feb 4, 2000

Rainbow Fish gets a bad report card (he gets a "C"). But when he accidentally spills ice cream (from a kelp gusher milkshake) on it at Wanda's, his parents mistake the "C" grade fo

S1·E6 Core

Grandpa's Fish Tales

Feb 11, 2000

Rainbow is not enthusiastic about spending time with his grandpa while his parents are away at the store, thinking that he will be bored, but when his grandpa tells him an amazing

S1·E7 Core

Rainbow's Dental Dilemma

Feb 18, 2000

Rainbow fears visiting the dentist, but when he goes, he discovers that dentists are not as bad as he thought they were.

S1·E8 Core

Rainbow Fish and the Pop Star

Feb 25, 2000

Rainbow mistakenly brags to his friends that he knows the famous pop star, Bruce Sturgeon, which lands him in trouble and causes him to force Bruce Sturgeon himself to perform at t

S1·E9 Core

Sherman Shrimp

Mar 3, 2000

A new student, Sherman Shrimp, comes to school and Rainbow Fish treats him badly. However, after Sherman saves Rainbow from a sudden shipwreck, Rainbow realizes that he has been ba

S1·E10 Core

Lost in Crumbling Canyon

Mar 10, 2000

Chomper, the school bully, gets lost in a canyon along with Rainbow Fish, and the two opposites must work together to find their way out.

S1·E11 Core

The Golf Lesson

Mar 17, 2000

Rainbow fools around with his father's golf club and breaks it, causing him to search for a new one before his father's big game with Sir Sword.

S1·E12 Core

Ruby's Adventures in Babysitting

Mar 24, 2000

Ruby decides to babysit their guppy neighbors' baby, Ferdie, and says Rainbow is too irresponsible to help her. However, Ferdie turns out to be more troublesome than expected and s

S1·E13 Core

Sir Sword Goes Back to School

Mar 31, 2000

Sir Sword needs to finish third grade, so he attends Rainbow's school, the School Of Fish.

S1·E14 Core

Rainbow de Bergerac

Apr 7, 2000

Blue has a crush on Goldie, but he's too shy to ask her on a date, so Rainbow tells him what to say via a communicator made by Sea Filly. However, Chomper and Stingo soon ruin the

S1·E15 Core

Big Fish on Campus

Apr 14, 2000

When Blue becomes a hall monitor for the School Of Fish, he lets the power go to his head.

S1·E16 Core

Sibling Rivalry

Apr 21, 2000

Blue gets a new baby sister, and he feels left out, all because of the attention his mum and friends are giving to the baby.

S1·E17 Core

One Fish's Treasure

Apr 28, 2000

Rainbow lines a sea-monkey bowl with his sister Ruby's magazine, ruining the magazine itself in the process.

S1·E18 Core

Project Rainbow Fish

May 5, 2000

Rainbow learns a lesson about charity and works on a project involving just it.

S1·E19 Core

Ruby Slips In

May 12, 2000

Ruby starts spending time with Rainbow, Blue and Sea Filly the sea-horse, leading Rainbow to believe that she is trying to steal his friends.

S1·E20 Core

Working Fish

May 19, 2000

Rainbow gets a job at the Candy Counter to earn money.

S1·E21 Core

Cecil B. de Rainbow

May 26, 2000

Rainbow takes up making movies, thanks to a new waterproof camera, and casts himself as Director.

S1·E22 Core

Rainbow's Pen Pal

Jun 2, 2000

Rainbow's pen pal is coming to visit him, and Rainbow is excited about it.

S1·E23 Core

Campus Current

Jun 9, 2000

Sea Filly becomes the editor of the School Of Fish newspaper. Unfortunately, in her enthusiasm for journalism however, she soon becomes nothing but a tabloid gossip columnist and n

S1·E24 Core

Fish Alone

Jun 16, 2000

In spite of some ongoing construction taking place outside the School Of Fish causing a big deal of noise, Rainbow is sent home early and gets freedom. A pair of burglars soon brea

S1·E25 Core

Rainbow Fish and the In Crowd

Jun 23, 2000

Rainbow and Blue start hanging out with a new clique called the High Tides, due to the chagrin of Sea Filly.

S1·E26 Core

Knights Of The Coral Table

Jun 30, 2000

Sir Sword lends Rainbow a book that he becomes hooked on and cannot stop reading.

S1·E27 Core

Bad Luck Ruby

Jul 7, 2000

When Ruby encounters a series of unfortunate events one day, she believes that she has been cursed.

S1·E28 Core

Father's Day

Jul 14, 2000

Rainbow's class has Dads' Day at school and all students' fathers are invited to describe their own, personal jobs. Rainbow is worried, however, as he thinks his father has a borin

S1·E29 Core

Prehistoric Pal

Jul 21, 2000

Rainbow finds a hole in the ground that an extinct coelacanth called Carl swims out of. However, Carl spends most of his time in the modern world, trying to impress Ruby. This migh

S1·E30 Core

May the Better Fish Win

Jul 28, 2000

Rainbow and Blue compete for the role of class president. They both try to impress Sea Filly in order to get her vote.

S1·E31 Core

Blue's Fishy Catch

Aug 4, 2000

Blue wins the clamball championship for his school, but only because no one sees him drop the ball anywhere.

S1·E32 Core

To Catch a Thief

Aug 11, 2000

Rainbow is suspicious of his sister, Ruby, when she starts acting very strangely. However, it turns out, that she is just making a surprise gift for their parents.

S1·E33 Core

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Aug 18, 2000

Rainbow's mother, Aqua, invites his teacher, Mrs Chips, to dinner, and Rainbow Fish is worried that Mrs Chips herself will act just like a teacher.

S1·E34 Core

It's a Wonderful Fish

Aug 25, 2000

One difficult day, a glowing guardian angel fish shows Rainbow Fish the value of his life.

S1·E35 Core

Moving Day

Sep 1, 2000

Rainbow Fish fears that both his parents, Sol and Aqua, are planning to sell the cave to two fish called Ret and Snapper, and so his friends attempt to make his house as much of a

S1·E36 Core

Romantic Dinner

Sep 8, 2000

Rainbow and Ruby prepare an anniversary dinner for their parents.

S1·E37 Core

The Bodyguard

Sep 15, 2000

Rainbow saves a whale's life, and, in return, the whale (Leslie David Baker) becomes his bodyguard.

S1·E38 Core

Mom's Away

Sep 22, 2000

Rainbow is not pleased when his mother, Aqua, gets a job in his school.

S1·E39 Core

How Sea Filly Got Her Groove Back

Sep 29, 2000

After being teased by her classmates for not being feminine enough, Sea Filly decides to take up cheerleading, causing Blue and Rainbow to worry about her becoming a different pers

S1·E40 Core

High Tide Noon

Oct 6, 2000

Rainbow is embarrassed after failing to stand up to Rocko Rockfish (Alan Marriott), a bullying second grader.

S1·E41 Core

Game Girl

Oct 13, 2000

After watching Rainbow and Blue play it in Shipwreck Park, Sea Filly becomes addicted to a 2000 computer game called "Clam Blaster" and hardly does anything else. However, when she

S1·E42 Core

There's No Business Like...

Oct 20, 2000

Rainbow, Blue, and Sea Filly hear the tale of two feuding crabs who were once song-and-dance partners, and then, they all set out to bring them back together, once and for all.

S1·E44 Core

Prince Blue

Nov 3, 2000

When Blue looks at his book and mistakenly thinks that his ancestors were royalty, he starts acting like a prince.

S1·E45 Core

The Pool Shark

Nov 10, 2000

When Chomper's cousin Slick (Macaulay Culkin), a pool-playing master, comes to Wanda's refreshment shop, he beats everyone in Pool by secretly cheating. Rainbow, unaware of this at

S1·E46 Core

Halloween Under H₂O

Nov 17, 2000

Rainbow tries to put Sea Filly in the Halloween spirit, but then has a haunting Halloween dream, and wakes up to find that Sea Filly has actually scared him in his sleep.

S1·E47 Core

Eviction Notice

Nov 24, 2000

Phineas T. Gronch is planning to permanently demolish the Mollusk Reef Villas as well as wipe out half of Neptune Bay to build a shopping mall in its place. Rainbow, Blue and Sea F

S1·E48 Core

The Vacation

Dec 1, 2000

Rainbow and his family go on a camping trip.

S1·E49 Core

Cave Mates

Dec 8, 2000

Important friendship is tested when Blue comes to stay in Rainbow's cave.

S1·E50 Core

Chomper, Master Thespian

Dec 15, 2000

Chomper is given the lead role in the school play, but he mistakenly believes that voice acting is for wimps.

S1·E51 Mytharc

Rainbow's Hiccups

Dec 22, 2000

Rainbow's love of kelp gusher drinks causes him to get a nasty case of hiccups. It's Wanda the Octopus who eventually finds the "wild" cure.

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