This Arkansas Restaurant Wants To Adopt Your Big Mouth Billy Bass

At the turn of the century (from 1999 to 2000, that is), an odd phenomenon took hold of the United States. Everyone, it seemed, wanted an animatronic singing fish on their walls. Big Mouth Billy Bass was singing "Take Me to the River" every chance he could get.

It's now nearly two decades later, and, for the most part, these fish have moved from walls to closets and attics — except at The Flying Fish restaurants.

The nine-location mini-chain has a Billy Adoption Wall at each location, where people can surrender their unloved dancing fish in exchange for fame — and a basket of fried catfish. The seafood-centric restaurants carefully source all the fish on the menu. The brown shrimp are from the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coasts, as are the oysters. The catfish are farm-raised throughout the South. And the Billy Bass come from around the country.

The walls are filled with these singing fish, and it only makes us wonder: How sick must the servers be of that damn song?