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American Dad!

Finances with Wolves*

In the first scene we see Roger the space alien, he’s anxiously pacing in the attic while he waits for his Sea-Monkeys to hatch. After they hatch, Rogers opens a champagne bottle to celebrate their birth, and he then proceeds to pour some in the Sea-Monkey flask, causing the instant death of his newborn Sea-Monkeys named Romeo & Anastasia.

*This episode aired on January 29, 2006, but information about its specific episode number and which season it belongs to varies by source.

Bones

Brickleberry

Season 3 Episode 8 | Steve the Fearless Pilot

Warning: Adult oriented show.

Malloy the bear finds a white supremacist comic, and from its ad section he buys X-Ray Specs, a Polaris Submarine, and Sea Monkies. Disappointed by the single Sea Monkie that hatched, he flushed it, and the Sea Monkie ended up in radioactive barrels found at the bottom of a lake. It immediately turns into a giant radioactive Sea Monkie that starts causing mayhem among the National Park visitors. The day is saved when Steve, the park ranger, kills it.

Degrassi Junior High

Fairly OddParents, The

Season 2 Episode 9 | Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary/Nectar of the Odds:
The first Sea-Monkeys appearance we see is in the Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary segment. During a brief conversation with the fairy godparents, Timmy says that something is fishy, to which Cosmo responds by transforming into various aquatic animals, one of them being a Sea-Monkey.

Season 7 Episode 16 | Food Fight/Please Don't Feed the Turners:
The second one we see is in the Please Don't Feed The Turners segment, when we briefly see a Sea-Monkey family in a tank that is part of an alien zoo owned by Timmy's rival, Dark Laser.

Family Guy

Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, The

Futurama

Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, The

Dream Mutt/Scythe For Sale*

At the beginning of the second segment, Scythe For Sale, Billy sees an ad for Sea Critters, prompting him to hold a yard sale so he can raise the $49.95 needed to order them. During the yard sale, he mistakenly sells Grim's powerful scythe to Irwin. With the scythe in hand, Irwin causes some mayhem during the episode, eventually Billy & the Grim recover the scythe, and turn things back to normal. Back at the house, we see that Irwin was turned into a Sea Critter as punishment. Billy proceeds to add a Sea Critter sachet from which a big & strong Sea Critter is born. This new friend in the aquarium immediately consumes Irwin, bringing this episode to an end.

*This episode aired on June 17, 2005, but information about its specific episode number and which season it belongs to varies by source.

Home Improvements

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids: The TV Show

Season 2 Episode 2 | Honey, She's Like a Fish Out of Water

Amy Szalinski and her classmate Veronica use an experimental cream that makes the user a better swimmer, but as a side effect, they slowly get turned into mermaids. A greedy water-park owner kidnaps the girls to use them as an attraction for the water-park.

To find and rescue them, the Szalinski family sneaks into the water park and dresses up as aquatic characters from the park; the brother, Nick, dresses as a shrimp, while the parents, Diane & Wayne, dress up as Sea-Monkeys. Around the park, we see some posters listing the attractions, on them we see "Dancing Sea Monkeys" along with other sea creatures. As the dad walks about, a child park goer yells, "It's Sandy the Sea Monkeys, do the dance!" Reluctantly, the father does so as more kids gather around, he eventually manages to get away to continue searching for the girls. Having split to cover more ground, in another area, the mom also dances so as not to look suspicious, and get away from a guest she crossed paths with.

We see the parents wearing these Sea-Monkeys costumes all the way until the episode ends, with the girls having been rescued and an antidote given to them.

It's Garry Shandling's Show

Johnny Bravo

Season 2 Episode 10 | Man with the Golden Gut/Welcome Back, Bravo/Aunt Katie's Farm

During the beginning of the Welcome Back, Bravo segment, we see a Sea-Monkey proclaiming to be the superior species at the peak of its power. This speech quickly gets interrupted when Suzy—Johnny's little neighbor girl & owner of this Sea-Monkey colony—stirs the glass they're living in with a spoon. A few seconds later, Johnny walks in and picks up the glass, its content unbeknownst to him, and drinks from it. He quickly spits out the water due to its bad taste, thus making the reign of these Sea-Monkeys a short-lived one.

Lil' Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers

Season 1 Episode 8 | Monkey Sea, Monkey Do

Li'l Elvis Jones is determined to have a pet; after his previous options were declined by his mother, he sees a commercial for Sea-Monkeys with the claim that they're maintenance-free. After obtaining a kit and hatching them, he's quickly disappointed by their actual appearance, leading him to be careless and litter the tank during the episode.

In a nightmare sequence, he finds himself inside the aquarium tank where he's being confronted by his Sea-Monkeys, now looking like they did in the commercial, about the junk he tossed inside. He agrees to help clean the tank, but during the process, the glass breaks, causing him to fall and wake up from the nightmare. This motivates him to be more responsible in the real world.

Martin Mystery

Season 3 Episode 6 | Rise of the Sea Mutants

At the beginning of this episode, a tank of Sea-Monkeys is flushed down a toilet after the owner finds them disappointing. Martin and his sister Diana get the assignment to investigate recent disappearances in a newly developed community. They discover the Sea-Monkeys, which have mutated, and eventually find the missing people in underwater capsules. After some hostile encounters with the mutant Sea-Monkeys, they defeat them by draining the lake and exposing them to water, which causes them to disintegrate.

My Gym Partner's a Monkey

Season 4 Episode 7 | Synch or Swim/Lyon's Anatomy

In the Synch or Swim segment, Jake Spidermonkey wants to be part of the high school synchronized swimming program, but he's not allowed due to his primate nature, which the teacher does not consider suitable for that aquatic sport.

He eventually learns about the existence of Sea Simians from a Captain Clowny comic ad, motivating him to purchase some so he can meet his aquatic relatives to form his own team. Upon receiving and hatching them, he's quickly disappointed by their actual nature. He flushes them down a toilet, causing them to mutate and spread like a plague through the water system. They eventually infect the pool water, causing panic amongst the swimming team. To save the day, Jake Spidermonkey performs a cannonball, causing all the water to splash out of the pool and thus getting rid of all the mutant Sea Simians.

NCIS

Night Court

Phineas and Ferb

Season 2 | Phineas and Ferb Hawaiian Vacation Part 1*

In the Phineas and Ferb subplot of this first part, the boys buy a box of Aqua Primates from the hotel store after seeing the back of the box showing the Aqua Primates performing various activities, amongst them fighting robots and designing websites.

Upon hatching them, Phineas is unsatisfied with their size, since they won't be able to do all the things on the back of the box. With some growth elixir, they head to the hotel pool with their Aqua Primates to make them human-sized. When mixed into the pool with the growth elixir, the Aqua Primates reach the desired size, and a musical number called Prime Calypso begins. After the song is over, the sister, Candace, gets startled by the presence of the Aqua Primates, causing them to run amok in the hotel. With a stray ray from Dr. Doofenshmirtz's De-Evolution-ator, the Aqua Primates get turned into tame humans, thus putting the hotel situation under control.

*This half-hour special aired on July 9, 2010, but information about its specific episode number season varies by source.

Roseanne

Rugrats

Season 2 Episode 9 - No Bones About It / Beach Blanket Babies

The second segment, Beach Blanket Babies, begins with Chuckie and Tommy looking over a Sea-Monkeys aquarium bowl in the living room. They notice the Sea-Monkeys (called Sea Monies by the kids) look bigger and happier in the box packaging, meaning their Sea-Monkeys at home are probably sad and want to go back to their underwater castle in the ocean. Determined to return them to the ocean during the beach visit happening that day, Chuckie and Tommy dump their Sea-Monkey aquarium content in the beverage cooler to sneak them by the adults.

At the beach, they face a few delays while attempting to get the cooler to the ocean water, but eventually, with their dog Spike's help, they get the cooler in the water, thus releasing their Sea-Monkeys to the wild. With sadness, Chuckie waves them goodbye while calling out some of their names; the names being Spiffy, Spot, Blinky, Oreo, Lefty & Mike.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Samurai Jack

Season 1 Episode IX | Jack Under the Sea

Jack journeys out to sea in search of the underwater city called Oceanis, where the Sea-Monkey-esque dwellers called Triseraquins live, and apparently have a time machine which could help Jack defeat his nemesis, Aku. The rough waters cause Jack to fall into the ocean, causing him to start sinking. As he is falling deeper, a jellyfish-like creature rescues him. Jack is now able to breathe again and uses the creature to navigate his way to the underwater city.

The triseraquins welcome Jack with open arms, giving him plenty of food and offering to take him to the time machine. Their kindness is short-lived, as they eventually imprison Jack, revealing they've made a deal with Aku, who banished them to the depths of the ocean, and in exchange for Jack, he would return their city to the surface. With Jack in his hands, Aku immediately breaks his promise to the triseraquins, showing his true evil nature. With the triseraquins' help, Jack is rescued from his prison, now with their combined efforts, Aku is banished, and thus bringing Oceanis back to the surface.

Simpsons, The

In the year 2000, the card manufacturer Inkworks, which eventually ceased operations in 2009, released a Simpsons anniversary card set, in which card Nº 80 features this underwater couch gag.

Announced in late 2003 and later released in 2004, The Hamilton Collection produced a series of Simpson couch gag figures, one of which was this underwater opening scene.

So NoTORIous

Season 1 Episode 1 | Plucky

In this pilot episode, we first see Tori Spelling's Sea-Monkeys colony when she saves them from being thrown away in the sink by the maid. According to her, the colony is one and a half years old, a personal record for her. We later learn that some members of the Sea-Monkey family even have their own names; the mom is called Gladys, the father is Herman Binglehofer, and their children include Audrey, David, and Minglo (who is adopted).

Unfortunately, these Sea-Monkeys have an untimely demise when, during a conflict at a party, they get spilled over some snacks, with some ending up as cracker topping.

South Park

Season 6 Episode 7 | The Simpsons Already Did It

Warning: Adult oriented show.

Cartman and friends chip in to buy a kit of Sea-People so they can see them play basketball, build a castle, ride turtles, etc. The night before the Sea-People kit arrives in the mail, Cartman has a dream in which he is having fun with the anthropomorphic version of Sea-People in their underwater world.

With the Sea-People kit in hand and ready to hatch, the children are prepared to give them a big welcome; Cartman is wearing a cape & a crown, Tweek is holding the keys to the city, and Kyle is holding a sign that says "Welcome Sea People!" Seconds after hatching, Cartman is quickly enraged because they don't look anything like in the box art. Stan points out that they're brine shrimp, which he used to feed his fish with. Instead of getting rid of the Sea-People, the children decide that pouring them into their teacher's coffee would be funny.

The next day, the children see their dead teacher being put inside an ambulance, causing the kids to panic about their actions. In the news, they learn that during the autopsy, "Sea Men" was found in the teacher's stomach. This prompts the children to go retrieve said "Sea Men" from the coroner's office so they can put them back in the tank with the other Sea-People.

The day after having recovered the "Sea Men" and putting them in the Sea-People tank, Cartman noticed that the creatures inside the tank evolved into what he called a "Sea Ciety." He decides to acquire more Sea-People and "Sea Men" so he can see them thrive. With a larger aquarium and more "reacting agents" in hand, a new Sea Ciety begins and quickly evolves technologically. A Cartman statue is erected on one side of the aquarium, while on the other side, a statue of Tweek is made. Conflict arises from both sides, leading to a missile launch from both sides, causing an explosion in the tank, and bringing this Sea Ciety chapter to an end.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Spin City

SpongeBob SquarePants

Throughout the SpongeBob series, various sea primate species make appearances across different episodes.

Their first screen appearance is in the Not Normal episode, where for a brief second, we see a couple of sea monkeys in the Bikini Bottom Zoo, where SpongeBob and Patrick land after having launched themselves due to their shenanigans. In Plankton's Pet, we see a sea monkey in the animal shelter, where Plankton gets his amoeba pet, Spot.

In the episode The String, we see three sea monkeys in a cage, where a resident is teasing them with a hamburger. They're set loose by SpongeBob, and they proceed to attack the resident. Whereas the sea monkeys we previously saw had fin appendages on their heads and plain tails, the sea monkeys in this episode had the crown-like appendages & flipper-like tails that more closely resemble the design of the anthropomorphic Sea-Monkeys seen in marketing.

In King Plankton, SpongeBob has an aquarium of sea chimps, which he leaves under Plankton's care. To practice his ruling abilities, Plankton shrinks himself to become the king of the aquarium dwellers. After a short period of ordering the sea chimps around, he is captured and placed on a platform as a sacrifice for the giant tongue. As we quickly learn, the giant tongue belongs to Patrick, who has been eating SpongeBob sea chimps, as he finds them delicious. Patrick proceeds to gulp the whole aquarium before SpongeBob can stop him. Inside Patrick's stomach, Plankton uses his resizing belt device to bring himself and the sea chimps to a larger size, allowing them to exit via Patrick's mouth, thus saving everyone.

In Who R Zoo?, the sea baboon specie make their first appearance. Like their sea chimp cousins, the two sea baboons we see in this episode have the crown-like appendages & flipper-like tails. Near the end of this episode we also spot a single sea chimp on top of a hippopotamus. In Sheldon SquarePants a single sea baboon makes a brief appearance when SpongeBob and Plankton are visiting the zoo.

Trivia: SpongeBob's father's name is Harold, just like the creator of the Sea-Monkey brand.

Spy Groove

Season 1 Episode 1 | Move Over Miami

Agent #1 & Agent #2 are eavesdropping on Mr. Fish, the villain in this episode, to gather information about his evil plan for Miami. Already familiar with the spies, Mr. Fish quickly greets them and points out what they are up to just as he leaves the meeting location.

Before they can pursue him further, Agent #2 is attacked by a Robotic Killer Sea-Monkey left behind by Mr. Fish as an ambush. While Agent #2 is fighting the robot Sea-Monkey, Agent #1 looks up the dossier of it, which states that it's armed with a razor-sharp trident and titanium teeth & can chew through the average secret agent in three-point-two seconds.

Agent #1 asks his device about an emergency deactivation, but at this point, Agent #2 has dealt with the killer Sea-Monkey by ripping its head apart from the body. This is the last we see of the Robotic Killer Sea-Monkey. As per the dossier, emergency deactivation can be done by accessing the interface module located in the left butt-cheek of the robot.

State, The

Season 3 Episode 2 | Episode 2

In the Sea-Monkeys sketch, Kevin Allison plays the house owner with pet Sea-Monkeys, and Joe Lo Truglio plays the friend who will be house-sitting. When Joe learns about the pet Sea-Monkeys, he recalls having them as a kid and spilling them in school; for him, they were a rip-off.

Kevin's human-sized Sea-Monkeys playfully enter the scene and meet Joe, but when Kevin goes off-screen to verify things around the house, their demeanor changes. They act aggressively towards Joe and question him about his treatment of his childhood Sea-Monkeys. With Kevin in the vicinity again, they act innocent and don't talk; all Kevin knows is that they can sing, which they do so by signing "Scarborough Fair." After another aggressive encounter between Joe & the Sea-Monkeys, he recommends that it's better if Kevin takes them with him on vacation because they'll be happier, to which he agrees.

Tiny Toon Adventures

Season 3 Episode 16 | Sport Shorts: Minister Golf & The Undersea World of Fifi

Fifi La Fume is on board her ship, Calliope, to try to capture the elusive Sea-Monkey, whose existence has been recorded throughout history. Her crew consists of Plucky, Hamton, and Elmyra Duff, who's the one going underwater to explore. Having dove down, Elmyra starts exploring the underwater world in search of the Sea-Monkeys while Fifi narrates the journey like a nature documentary. Elmyra finally finds the Sea-Monkey settlement, but they scatter before she can capture one. During her pursuit, she finds Sea-Monkeys in a barrel, some having fun with an octopus, and even has a swordfish fight with one. The search continues across the ocean, but the journey eventually comes to an end, as the Sea-Monkeys evade capture.

Wizards of Waverly Place

Season 1 Episode 16 | Alex In The Middle

Instead of taking magic lessons from her Uncle Kelbo, Alex, at her uncle's insistence, opens a sample of Sea Chimps that came via wizard mail. The Sea Chimps envelope starts pouring water out into the room, which leads to filling the whole room with water and turning Alex and her uncle into Sea Chimps. Uncle Kelbo is not skilled enough in magic to get them out of this situation, so Alex's father eventually comes to the rescue by using as the spell Dehydratus Lugatus Apus Escapus and returning things to normal.