Earl
Background information
Feature films
Shark Tale
Voice
Kevin Michael Richardson (planned)
Character information
Full name
Earl
Other names
Dad
Greatest Tongue Scrubber in The World
Earl is Oscars father and a supporting character in Shark Tale. He was best known as a record braking tongue scrubber at Whale Wash, inspiring his son to start a career of tongue scrubber before his death. Like his son, he is a blue-streaked cleaner wrasse.
Shark Tale provides examples of the following tropes:
- After faking his own death, Lenny pretends to be a dolphin named “Sebastian” so that he can live as a vegetarian in peace. The problem is that dolphins, like sharks, are carnivores.
- Many of the bigger shark species, like the great whites and great hammerheads seen in the film, are typically solitary creatures. Smaller and medium-sized species like grey reef sharks and scalloped hammerheads are far more social. Granted, great whites dont live in groups, but recent studies have shown they have a far more complex social structure than previously thought and enjoy the company of others of their kind every once in a while.
- Lennys expected to eat positively tiny prey like shrimp and cleanerfish. Since Lennys clearly meant to be the equivalent of an older teenager or young adult, he should have outgrown a diet of such animals some time ago and switched to larger, meatier prey like tuna, seals and sea turtles.
- Although killer whales (orcas) are featured as associates of the Shark mob, they are actually predators of sharks.
- Contrary to what this movie claims, great white sharks are warm-blooded, not cold-blooded. On the other hand, maybe thats why Frankie slapped his brother and called him a “moron” on his deathbed.
- Sperm whales dont get “serviced” by cleaner fish. Ironically, sharks (not great whites, but smaller species like reef and gray nurse/sand tiger sharks) do.
- Also, sperm whales only have teeth in their lower jaws.
FAQ
What happened to Oscar’s dad?
The cause of his (implied) death is still unknown, though it is implied he died of old age.
Who is the dad shark in Shark Tale?
Voice cast
Robert De Niro as Don Lino, a great white shark and leader of a mob consisting of criminally-inclined sharks, who wants his two sons to take over his business and run it together.
Who plays Lenny’s dad in Shark Tale?
Oscar is the main protagonist of the Shark Tale franchise. He is Angie’s boyfriend and co-worker, Lenny’s best friend, Lola’s ex-boyfriend and the former tongue-scrubber and current co-manager of the Whale Wash. He is a bluestreak cleaner wrasse. He is voiced by Will Smith.
