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Most people, for instance, hate Sir Squirt and an ongoing poll surveys the audience asking whether or not they should kill him. Humans have the odd propensity to project personalities and emotions onto things that can’t actually express them, and this show’s engine runs on that.īecause of that, the fish – Dottie, Mammoth, Sir Squirt, Greenberg, Th’Lump, Yo Hal Look At That Tang (always shortened to Tang), Ol’ Blue, Mimosa and Hamburger (sometimes referred to as Eel Hamburger, haha) – all have dedicated fan bases, many of whom contribute artwork or play games in hopes of gaining points for their favorite fish. But you’d be surprised just how quickly you arbitrarily decide which fish you like and which you demonize. The same reason people like any animals on the internet, I guess. Why do people care about these fish? They’re just fish. Since the hosts are constantly explaining everything that’s going on, rarely anything vitally visual happens, so it almost feels a like a radio show or podcast, the perfect thing to have on in the background while you do something else. I have to imagine that’s sort of where the show’s origin lies. The collected feeling of the whole thing feels like if you and a couple friends got real bored one day and decided to watch people walk through your neighborhood, making a game of what they’re doing. So, naturally, when a fan-favorite crayfish named David Anderson was to be fed to the zebra moray eel named Hamburger, it was spun as a Mayweather-Pacquiao-esque Fight of the Century, played up for weeks. For instance, the fishes’ diet partially consists of live crayfish, which are fed on Feeding Frenzy Fridays. Running jokes were made out of completely everyday events to reward longtime viewers. Call-ins became a staple of the show, and new games were invented to play with fans. Once the hosts actually knew someone was watching, FishCenter started coming into focus (though it’s still very much a lark). After this, in February, Adult Swim decided to play daily highlights on the network proper, and quickly after, a small cult began to grow around it, its social media presence growing in thousands of fans over the next few months. Soon, though, the commentators developed games for the fish to play, adding a weekly competition element, with whichever fish winning the most points being named King of the Tank. There was no real promotion, no real audience, and at that point it was strictly web-only. It appeared last fall, more or less, as a way for the Adult Swim staffers to entertain themselves. A few Adult Swim employees – usually Dave Bonawitz, Andrew Choe, Max Simonet and AS creative director Matt Harrigan – comment on whatever’s going on in the tank, sounding like a cross between ESPN announcers and morning zoo DJs, though far more apathetic than either. It consists almost entirely of a single, extended shot of the aquarium in Adult Swim’s Atlanta office, commonly referred to as “The Tank,” filled with, as of now, nine fish.
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So in the interest of drumming up some viewership for FishCenter, and for those who aren’t familiar with the tragic life of David Anderson or who that is, I’ll break it down for you.įishCenter, or more formally, FishCenter Live, is an hour-long, live web series that airs weekdays at 4pm on Adult Swim’s site, with highlights broadcast that night on the network itself at 4am. The more obsessed these people become with the show, the more attention that’s paid to it, the funnier the joke gets. Some of that appeal is surely the therapeutic experience of simply watching an aquarium, but like my friend and I’s stupid Facebook game, there’s also the insane reality that something this mundane not only has its own show, but has attracted fervent followers who send in artwork and call in to rant about how one of the fish should die (this happens more than you’d think). Yet it has an appeal almost impossible to describe, given its ultra-low concept. It’s just a live show centering on four guys who talk about the fish in their aquarium while they play around with Photoshop. But if you’re unfamiliar with its existence, which is entirely possible because it’s a late-afternoon web show that’s had virtually no promotion, it can be hard to understand why. So it’s no surprise that when that same friend introduced me to Adult Swim’s FishCenter a month ago or so, it’s since been occupying a surprising amount of brain space. Every so often, late at night if we can’t sleep, my friend and I make a game of seeking out Facebook pages with zero likes and liking them, pages as kickass as “sixteen-segment display” and “glue logic” and “withaferin A.” The idea these pages exist, that any emphasis at all is placed on something so incredibly trivial, is weirdly funny to me.