FishCenter Live

FishCenter Live was presented as a weekday call-in talk show narrating over footage of tropical fish swimming around in a fish tank. The fish are ranked according to their points, which are awarded when the fish complete a number of challenges. These challenges include "Coin Quest," floating over coins that are superimposed on the video feed. The show was hosted by Dave Bonawits, Andrew Choe, and Max Simonet, and Gēmusetto Machu Picchu. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was done remotely starting in March 2020, with the hosts talking through Zoom. During this time, two hosts left for extended hiatuses: Dave Bonawits left from late April to early June for parental leave, while Andrew Choe left in late July after feeling burnt out, returning for the show's final two weeks in November. The show was reduced to just three days a week in September, running two hours every Tuesday through Thursday, while also being simulcasted to YouTube and Twitch. On November 10, 2020, parent company WarnerMedia announced a large round of layoffs, with Adult Swim being affected. Among the laid off staff were all of the FishCenter Live hosts, except for Max Simonet, and the layoffs ultimately resulted in the cancellation of the Adult Swim streams. Following two more weeks of programming, FishCenter Live, and the Adult Swim streams as a whole, ended on November 25, 2020, with a two-part finale declaring TZ2 as the last Galaxy King. The live stream then became a silent feed of the fish tank until its eventual removal in January 2021. ==Final animal cast==

Former animal cast Super and Galaxy Kings Sir Squirt was represented by Hamburger in the 2016 Galaxy series. Due to Sir Squirt's death the second place fish for the Winter season, being Hamburger, was declared the Super King representative. Ale was represented by TX Cupper in the 2018 Galaxy series due to Ale's untimely death earlier in the year. == Games ==

The callers, fish, and guests compete for points in various games: • Coin Quest: fish swim into the coins superimposed over the tank to collect points. • Guess This Gourd: a game with Post Malone. • More-Bid-Angel: someone had to choose the highest-priced angel figurine. • Truth or Se-Dare-Is: Truth or dare? with author David Sedaris. The caller dared Sedaris to wear socks on his hands for the rest of the show. • What's Your Fetus?: made for death metal band Dying Fetus, someone had to guess what was hidden in a person's pelvic region based on an X-ray photograph. == Guests ==

100 gecs, Alvvays, George Clinton, Carach Angren, Consider the Source, Dinosaur Jr., Injury Reserve, John Maus, Dying Fetus, Billie Eilish, Yung Lean, Daughters, Hard Working Americans (HWA), Colin Hay, Le Butcherettes, Los Lobos, Morbid Angel, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, David Sedaris, Tower of Power, Trampled by Turtles, and Turkuaz played on FishCenter Live. Alvvays' played the song "Not My Baby" from their sophomore album Antisocialites. HWA played the songs "Burn Out Shoes" and "Half Ass Moses". along with being bitten by Mom after drinking 9 beers on his first appearance. Waka Flocka Flame and DJ Whoo Kid played on FCL as well. 100 Gecs later included their performances on the show in the digital version of 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues, released on July 10, 2020. The final band to play on the show was Dawes, who appeared on the November 12, 2020 episode. == Collaboration ==

On 24 October 2019, American rock band Cage the Elephant released a music video for the song "Social Cues" from their eponymous album. It was shot at FishCenter Live with additional direction from Matt Shultz. == Homages ==

In the episode broadcast Thursday, 13 December 2018, a parody of the original Star Treks USS Enterprise was featured called the "USS FishCenterprise NCC-1065." 1065 is a reference to the street number for Williams Street, which produces content for Adult Swim. ==Broadcast and reception==

FishCenter Live was originally released in September 2014 on Adult Swim's official website. Deciders Kayla Cobb said "[i]t's weird, but it works." The A.V. Clubs Erik Lindvall said FishCenter "the latest weird thing" to come from the network "in a streak of really weird things", describing it as a "wonderful, web-based world of piscine sports". In reviewing Tender Touches, Geeks Jose Rodriguez said the pilot had "more in common with Xavier: Renegade Angel or FishCenter." Reviewing their Alvvays performance, Uproxxs Derrick Rossignol declared "every band should be on it, because at the very least, it's one of the most bizarre live internet shows you can possibly watch." Later, while reviewing the Post Malone episode, Rossignol followed-up with "a totally bizarre, daytime, aquatic, call-in web show that doesn't make much sense, and that's what makes it great." In an interview with host Max Simonet, Sonoma Index-Tribunes David Templeton remarked "[it's] a bizarrely simple cult-hit web-and-television show." == Controversy ==

In 2016, two Dragon Con cosplayers, claiming an association with Adult Swim and Cartoon Network and wore "Make FishCenter Great Again" hats, dressed as the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. Images of the cosplay were widely shared on social media sites as Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. Bleeding Cools Rich Johnston speculated they were cosplaying as the game Rampage, while Facebook commenters drew a connection with the anime Terror in Resonance. ==Australian adaptation==

Australian channel 9Go! promoted their Australian adaptation of FishCenter (known as FishCentre) airing at 12:00 on the channel, along with the Adult Swim block they have on the channel. Unlike the American version of FishCenter, FishCentre was not live and consisted of scripted shorts no longer than 2 minutes in length, with voices super-imposed onto the fish. It ran for 12 episodes. ==Notes==