Finding Nemo

Fish, probably the most unwelcome thing to find on a pizza aside from maybe a heaping helping of crude oil. You probably don’t think that much about fish as you go through your daily life, and unless you’re a sociopathic dentist trafficking kidnapped fish to your equally unhinged niece to murder, they’re not terribly concerned with you either. This mutual indifference does a great disservice to both our species, however, because, as we see in the 2003 animated classic Finding Nemo directed by Andrew Stanton, fish actually have vibrant internal lives and a sprawling, complex culture! This week let’s all take some time to sit down with this movie and reflect on all we can learn from our aquatic allies, the good we could do together, and the many unfortunate pets who ended up in sewage treatment plants because of little Billy’s kind-hearted but ultimately misguided attempt to send his fish to the ocean via the toilet on Gill’s advice. Despite the minor fish genocide Finding Nemo undoubtedly caused with its infamous assertion that “all drains lead to the ocean”, the movie is rightly considered to be one of the many jewels in Pixar animation studio’s heavily bedazzled crown, and because Nathan and Elliot were getting kind of depressed with all these movies about people dying and civilization collapsing, they’ve made it the subject of their latest episode! Expect plenty of banter and some top tier recommendations to go along with their DEEP (that’s an ocean pun) analysis of the movie’s content. Let’s SINK in (this is cracking good stuff I’m giving you, why aren’t you laughing?)!