This is helping me repair a Billy Bass. Thanks for your sacrifice to this guy.

I had a big big laugh... the humor was great... especially when he was still moving, after being "gutted"! Thanks a lot... made my night!!

I remember when i was younger my dad used to buy me broken toys or electronic devices for me to disassemble with him in the workshop, great times and great vídeo as always! Happy holydays from Argentina!

Usually the most common issue with these is the motor shaft gear (9,or 10 tooth) gets a little tiny split in it, causing the gear not turn properly. This explains why the head was making a loud buzzing sound. There's nothing to turn the gears inside. It's a pretty simple fix if you know how to fix it. If you would like to fix your singing fish, check out my channel and look for the video called "how to repair your singing fish's head". Same goes for the tail, and mouth

EXCELLENT SIR, … no one else has shown anywhere close to what you have shown and to top it off a GREAT sense of humour !

Hi Mr. Pete, All, At 15:57, there is a small vertical circuit board right above your thumb that has a black blob on it. Under that black blob is likely one or more integrated circuits such as a microprocessor, and or digital to analog converter. That's the conductor of the whole show. Everything else, resistors, capacitors, transistors, wires, appears like common off the shelf parts you could get from an electronics supplier such as Digi-Key. The arrangement of all of the parts, the position of each part's lead holes, and the shaping of the each part's leads, makes me fairly certain that these parts were assembled by hand to the circuit board. The circuit board per se is of the least expensive "brown board" variety, where copper traces are only found on one side, and jumper wires were used if needed on the top side to complete the circuit routing.

Love this Lyle! "I'm gonna cut him open from stem to stern here..." Classic!

Billy Bass wearing a Christmas hat and singing Christmas songs...worst Christmas gift I ever received.

The black epoxy / die combo is known as COB "chip on board". It's the cheapest way of adding an IC to anything in large volumes. Usually reliable, it's basically impossible to repair if anything goes wrong.

There was one at our shop above a desk and was forever pestering us with his songs. That desk was close to the trash can and anytime an item was thrown at the can Billy would crank up. Thanks for doing what I had thought about doing several times.

Thank you very much for showing me how billy bass works because I am so interested in stuff like this so that I can fix billy and other singing fish.

For a minute there I thought I was in Biology class dissecting, instead of shop class. LOL Great video.

Now I know how does the big mouth billy bass fish works

I took one of those apart a few years ago. I never knew it was so tidy inside. We used a 12 gauge.

My new favorite how-to fillet a fish video!

"i haven't seen him doing that later , i must've cut a nerve" 7:27 LOL

You killed Billy!

That "earphone Jack" is actually the motion sensor. Another awesome video!

Thumbs up, The black item you thought was earphones is a motion detector , a cool circuit .

Some designers went to a Hell of a lot of trouble just to produce a silly gag. A friend had one of these and it was funny the first time.

Wow i am jealous! I am a gemmy collector and i payed like $50 for mine, also my whole family are driven insane by my billy! Also this one is broken, the head is meant to stick out when the mouth moves.

Thank you for demonstrating the proper use of wire-cutters...! And...on that circuit Board...at one side, with the 7-8 contacts...a tiny metal 'heat-sink' with a dab of black epoxy....under that epoxy is a small integrated circuit that has a bit of built-in 'memory' that controls everything and generates the 'music'....similar stuff can be found in cheap digital watches and 'musical' toys...I even found a similar circuit inside the red LED flashing light for my bicycle...

11:59 "you can use those on future projects but since I'm 72 there aren't too many future projects left" LOL you are a very funny old man XD

Love your sense of humour! Thanks for the wonderful video.

If you pause at the 16:01 minute mark you will see that big black dot of epoxy on the left of the mother board. Under that is the chip that has not only the sound but the programming that controls the whole thing. They epoxy the chip to keep it "protected". Basically so you can't steal the code/music. Fun video!

Sure hope PETA doesn't see this one. I'm sure they'd find something objectionable!!!

That was GREAT! Now run the video in reverse for everyone to see how "Billy Bass Comes To Life". Merry Christmas andHappy New Year to you and your family. I enjoy and learn from every one of your videos, hope they continue for a long, long, time.

All those motor driven mechanical movements can be explained by reading the book Mechanical Movements Devices and appliances by Gardner D Hiscox M E printed in 1917 fifteenth edition.

From chile thanks very useful complete teardown 🙂

Big mouth Billy Bass is is extremely common to find

He will never Forget this

Looks like a hammer and chisel mechanic got a hold of Billy :-)

Mr. Pete that "headphone jack" is actually a sensor and if you turned billy off he could still operate by pressing the red button. The on/off switch only controls the sensor.

Muito bom 👍👈 sucesso aí família 🤝

A very interesting watch. Thanks for the upload, mrpete222. Thanks, Beau Gaultier

What looked like an ear phone jack is the motion sensor, used to activate the fish.

Enjoyed the dissection of Billy the annoying big mouth bass. Thanks for all the vids.

Ahoyhoy, what I did was cut the back part and then carefully stretch the latex over the endoskeleton so I could put him back together after I was done learning how it works.

6:45 And Miles Dyson and his wife from the terminator are sitting on the floor shocked... Joking a side, its clever how the motor movement for the jaw and parts synchronise with the songs

best thing to happen to billy the big mouth bass found it very funny and entertaining love the what makes it work series merry Christmas mr pete and family and all the best for the new year

High voltage toys with fried speaker chips be like: 9:30

Amen on the short life of novelties like this. I just got my Eva a little gnome that wolf-whistles when someone walks in front of him. Not even Christmas, and the "shiny" is already gone. I expect he will end up in the next garage sale (after I have retrieved the batteries).

I must say I had a good laugh all the way through the video. Merry Christmas. Mike

I caught a 24 ft grey nurse shark and the thing has taken a supporting wall down with it's thrashing and wiggling. The thing also constantly swears 'f'ing and c'ing' and telling anybody who approaches to 'get stuffed'. I should have thrown it back.

I near split myself watching you skin Billy out with him still flopping around! I hated those things and often wanted to do what you did. Should have the ceremonial flaming burial for the remnants of Billy. Great videos and keep doing what you do.

I think that little dot below the power button was a photo eye so Billy would not run at night.

That was a nice catch, Lyle! The biggest largemouth bass I ever caught was only 10#, but that isn't too shabby for an IL farm pond. Anyway, I would have thought that Jordan would be interested in the gears, motors, and electronic components for some projects since he has you for guidance and inspiration. Unfortunately, far too many of the youth today would rather be playing video games instead of making something cool, which the demise of the shop classes contributes to. I hope you and your family have a merry Christmas!

Singing Trophy Animals. Very simplistic animatronic toys

Excellent mrpete. That's the best gutting and filleting job I have seen for a long time. I like this series very much. Have a great Xmas holiday and a Happy New Year to you and your family. regards from the UK

I had a good laugh on this one. Thanks, I needed that!

You'll shoot your eye out mister ! Merry Christmas Mr. Pete

Very cool content, thanks TC! Peace,prosperity, good health and happiness my friend! Seasons Greetings from Canada!

I enjoyed the autopsy Mr.Pete. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Regards, Duck

A classic ! Lessons learned: One of the mom's took away the D batteries that this ran on. Revelation: AA batteries are the same length as D batteries. Solution: Take the batteries out of the TV remotes, and put them in Billy Bass. Mom.......................FURIOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a riot and a learning experience for the children about making due with what they have.

For Billy may he Rest In Pieces

The switch in the back is to turn on and off the sensor in the front of the board

I was hoping you would chuck that up in the bridgeport and take a skim cut with one of those fly cutters.

well i thought they were using servo motors but now i am curious how they protected those DC motors from overcharging for example when the mouth is fully open or the body is fully rotated ; the motor is still on but it doesn't rotate that's why we keep hearing that buzzing sound . i think they are using some current limiting circuit and i need some schematics LOL. by the way ,i think that black thing under the red button is a motion sensor, that's why when you moved your hand over it(at 3:10) or when you flicked your knife it started moving. well , thank you very much for the video : +1

my black and brown wire coming out of motor got separated from billy's circuit board .now i don;t know which wire should be soldered to M1- and M2- (- is negative).will i fry the motor if i connect wires incorrectly..thank you for assistance .Ross

Yayy! nice little funny video for 50 cents! 😃

gave me flashbacks of biology class and shark dissections :P

Thank you for unmasking this. I had thought a mounted Bass that spoke and moved was evidence of demonic possession.

That just creeped the heck out of me!

That black thing at the bottom of the nameplate is not a headphone jack it's a motion sensor

the thing you thought was an earphone jack is actually a motion sensor

That is the Gemmy Industries Big Mouth Billy Bass

Tobermorey, Ontario. The upper end of Georgian Bay 1998. A gift shop that we frequented on a regularl basis. Billy the Bass. Every time. Billy the Bass did his thing. At the end of 4-5 days, I wanted to take a sledge hammer to Billy the Bass. But what makes him tick? Well, Mr Pete222 just demonstrated what Billy does. But he didn't show it. I still want to take a sledge hammer to Billy. To understand why, Mr Pett222 has to demonstrae what Billy says.

billy the bionic bass.. thanks for sharing sir...

You can play the songs on youtube, I do it all the time on my other channel. All that happens is you MIGHT lose the ability to monetize the particular video in question. since you don't own the rights to the song. But in this instance I doubt the algorithm will detect your song since they're not the originals. Both the originals were performed by The Talking Heads and Bobby McFerrin respectively.

Someone had to go through a lot of trouble to create such a "technologically complicated" toy. I guess they had a good laugh too along it's design

Thanks for making this video, i've learned a lot without the work, Ebay sells the 9 tooth gear that makes his head move, Im hacking my bass to work with my amazon Echo!

he sings take me to the river and dont worry be happy

Well, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" may be like a Bob Marley song but that doesn't mean you can't post that song on KZfaq!

LOL, Great video. Merry Christmas

Thanks for the fun!

That jaw is terrifying without skin

Is there going to be a #12a video titled mrpete222 reassembles Billy the Big Mouth Bass? In all seriousness, thanks for the video and in my opinion the knowledge you shared (gear trains and small motors) are everywhere around us is well worth the 50 cents spent at the garage sale. Looking forward to the next video in the series.

A motherboard is a board which has a daughter board associated to her. That looks more like she is an orphanboard. Incidentally I would called it a "mobo" just because it sounds cool, but been a expansionless mobo why not just call it a PCB? ... Boy! It was hard to write all that stuff and avoid the software trying to correct my spelling al every single word. It would have made this comment understandable. Marry Christmas to you Lyle and everyone one else too.

Cool! I collect singing fish :)

Dam Mr Pete a waste of good sushi , nice white fillets.

Don't Worry Be Happy

Rip big mouth billy bass 1999 2015

I wonder if it would be possible to extract the signals from the Chip On Board

around april or may you should find hully gully Christmas santa at a yard sale... rc

We owe Mr. Pete big for taking one of these out of service!

Hopefully the kids will see this video and will take theirs apart. I agree that those things were funny the first time you saw it and gets real annoying shortly afterward. Chris

My Dad always said " Take it apart and see what it's made of". Then he'd tell me to put it back together.

my fave MrPete222 vid!

I thought that only one country could make that novelty and you might guess but it begins with C and ends in A, not Texas. Instead of burying Billy why not boil or fry him there,s plenty to go at. Thank you for sharing very amusing video but again very interesting.

My brother reprograms these. Do a search for "tiger bass band sings radio active" here on KZfaq. He's mounted several of them to a wall along with a tiger that was like Billy Bass. He's an absolute genius when doing stuff llike that.

One of the electronics guys where I worked opened one of those THAT WAS EASY buttons, from Staples, and reprogramed it with a few different phrases. The guys I worked with were, for the most part, a rough crowd, so you can imagine. One of the modified buttons would repeat several different phrases, at random. The foreman special button said "Get back to work" and "WXX do you want?" and I'M GONG TO KICK YOUR XXX."

Now I also now, how a real nature Fish looks inside. I never looked inside, because I ate them very fast. ;-)

You know, as Billy last wish you should take it to the river and put in the water.

Over here we practice a lot of "catch and release", now, it's a little too late for Billy.... :( lol

Would it be okay if I posted a parody of this video on my original Lemax Studios channel or would you rather me not do that

Actually the songs aren't copyrighted it's covers of the copyrighted songs so you can play the music!

GLAD YOU CUT THE SPEAKER WIRE , (( SO WE COULDN'T HEAR HIM SCREAM )) :-) POOOOOOR BILLY . :-)

Billy died in the name of science, not in vain!

1:25 The song played

Some things.... are just better left unknown.....