The Disney Channel is back with another one of its theme weekends: Whodunnit?  As such, all of their shows focus on the same theme.  My favorite: “What the What?” weekend.

A story: When the class fish dies, Riley and her friends are the main suspects. Owl Detective Auggie Matthews takes on the case.

So here is the set up.  Apparently throughout the whole school year, each student in Corey’s class has had the honor of taking the class fish, Chelsea, home.  When it is RIley’s turn, her brother Auggie gives her the fish, which promptly ends up belly up (I’m not sure why Topanga and Auggie are there at this auspicious moment, but they are.  But hey, why aren’t any other parents there ever?)  Auggie, dedicated viewer of the show, Owl Detective, is on the case.

We slip back and forth between color and film noir as the investigation unfolds.  Farkle, Lucas and Maya all admit to killing Chelsea (Maya’s killed 7 of them); all of the new Chelseas come from Phil’s Fish House (the visual of many, many fishbowls with the same fish made me laugh).  In the end, every kid in the class had killed – and replaced – Chelsea during their tenure.

However, since Riley only had the fish on her desk for a second or two, who killed Chelsea 104?  SPOILER ALERT: Auggie goes to feed the fish graham crackers (which apparently fish cannot eat, who knew!) and soon realizes when he fed Chelsea graham crackers in Corey’s classroom, that’s what did the trick.  I’m sure no one saw this one coming.

Every GMW is a little junior high school morality play.  At the end of this episode, Riley asks what the lesson to be learned is, and Corey surprisingly says there isn’t one, just “whatever you came up with.”  In this case, its about taking care of each other.

This episode appears to be oddly out of sequence as the opening credits are from Season 1.