Fish Police ran from February until March 1992 on CBS.
Fish Police was a starnge animated police series with allusions to the Raymond Chandler films of the 1940's, but set in underwater Fish City. Inspector Gil ( voiced by John Ritter), was a nononsense cop trying to rid Fish City of organized crime. Others on the force were Chief Abalone ( Edward Asner), Det. Catfish ( Robert Guillaume), young Tadpole ( Charlie Schlatter), and Goldie ( Georgia Brown), the secretary. The head of the local underworld was Calamari( Hector Elizondo), owner of the Shell Shack, the sleazy nightclub were sexy Angel( JoBeth Williams), was the singer; his tentacles were everywhere. Others on the wrong side of the law were Sharkster, ( Tim Curry), Calamari's crooked attorney, and Mussels Marinara( Frank Welker), his bodyguard. There were 2 females in Gil's life, Angel and innocent Pearl( Megan Nullaly), who ran the local diner.
Fish Police was full of dreadful fish puns ( Angel was a fin-fatale, and a soul singer), the choice of which fish would portray what character was stereotypical, and even lines in the press release were ridiculous ( " all the characters are fish-well some are crustaceans, but why carp?"). The concept may have been funny, but the finished product smelled like, well, dead fish. It lasted 3 weeks.
A Review from Entertainment Weekly
TV Review
Fish Police
Reviewed by Ken Tucker | Feb 28, 1992
The latest cartoon series to hit prime time features more attractive and imaginative animation than Capitol Critters, but Fish Police's humor doesn't come within swimming distance of The Simpsons'. Based on Steve Moncuse's cult-hit comic books about crime-fighting carp, Fish Police follows the exploits of an underwater police department's Inspector Gil (his voice is provided by John Ritter). Gil solves crimes while he and everyone around him emit a ceaseless flow of fish-themed sight gags, jokes, and puns. Sure, some of these are funny: When Gil notices a crime suspect paying more attention to a shapely female fish than to his questions, he snaps, ''I said 'Inspector Gil,' not 'inspect her gills'!'' But before the first episode was over, I was already tired of being asked to laugh at the running joke that Gil's police badge is actually a wriggling starfish. Moncuse's comics are a lot more varied and better constructed — their plots worked as mysteries, whereas here the stories are just excuses for more fish humor. This is a stinky idea. C
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