User:MrLeap/Billy Bass and More!

This is my page on singing fish and more dementia-influenced singing. I will talk about my singing fish, knockoff fish I don't have but I find interesting, and more. I will also add photos.

My Singing Fish
Well, where do I start? I have no friends- wait let me start again!........... I guess I'll start at the most popular singing fish: Big Mouth Billy Bass. I have several of these. Some work, some don't, but I like them all. Some used to belong to family members, which brings me to the first fish I'm going to talk about: my grandmother's (on my father's side).

In 2001, my parents and I got my grandmother a Billy Bass as a present. She kept it for about a year, until she had a stroke and died a few months afterward. I then got her Billy Bass. I miss her a lot though.

Next is a Billy Bass my uncle (on my mother's side) gave me. In 2002, when I was really into singing fish, my uncle gave me his Billy Bass. My uncle is a smoker, so the Billy Bass smelled like tobacco, and I didn't like it, so I took it to my grandmother(on my mother's side)'s house. She kept it for a while, and a couple of years ago near Halloween, when I wanted back some other singing fish that I think I took there, I told my grandmother to give me any singing fish she found in a room that has a bunch of her and my cousin's stuff piled up in it (it used to be my grandfather's room before he died.), and she found the Billy Bass my uncle had given me. Well, it still smelled like tobacco, and my father and I covered it in baking soda and Febreze and put it in a bag in the garage for a while. When we took it out, it smelled better. It smells even better now because it's aired out.

P.S. It works great!

You noticed I mentioned my grandfather slept in that room before he died? Well, he too had a Billy Bass, and it sat on the close end of the room near the door, across from a heater.* Well, when he died, I asked my grandmother if I could have it. The fish, not the heater. She said it was okay. When I got it home, the battery compartment was rusted. My father later cleaned it out, but before that, I used an adapter that came with another singing fish. It worked fine, except for the head. That component had gone bad. I later opened it up to see if the problem was fixable. It wasn't, and then I couldn't figure out how to get it back together. I opened the back of my grandmother's(on my father's side) Billy Bass to see how it was connected. That didn't help, and then I lost the screws to both of them, and several wires were pulled loose. Then, about a year ago, I got both out again and my parents and I bought some new screws, I found a few of the old ones, put them back together, and my father soldered the wires back where they belonged.


 * That heater has now been removed and my grandmother has central heat and air.

My aunt on my mother's side found her Holiday Billy Bass and gave it to me in 2008.

Well, that's enough about Billy Bass. So now I'm going to talk about a Cool Catfish that my my other uncle on my mother's side gave me. In 2008, I think it was, he gave it to me, but the head and tail had gone defective. This was not that surprising, because I already had three other Cool Catfish that had also gone defective, but I kept it anyway.

Now I'm going to talk about singing fish that were mine to begin with. My first ever singing fish was a Big Mouth Billy Bass: Sings For The Holidays like the one my aunt gave me. It came in a display box and worked very well. Shortly after I got it, I cut off its hat and took the bell off its tail. My mother later sewed the hat back on, but it has come loose again. I accidentally broke its mouth at some point. I have now replaced it with the mouth from a Billy Bass my mother bought at a thrift store. The mouth skin also got torn, but my mother sewed that too. This fish is loose on its plaque because some of the plastic is broken. The back of the plaque is broken too, because I think my mother threw it at one point. It works though. This was a fish I slightly cut the skin on because I was real young and curious if it would cut.

My second singing fish was a Travis the Singing Trout (Tommy the Freshwater Trout in UK). It did not come in a display box. It came in a picture box. I got it on Christmas 2000. It was another singing fish I cut. I know, stupid, right? But I was really curious. Its mouth skin got torn, too, and then the mouth broke because it moved out too far. The mouth skin then got completely torn off, as it is in the picture.

Okay, that's enough for now. But I will talk some more later on.