


Sherman throws the pelican out of the office and slams the window shut. Sherman, still holding Nemo's bag, tries to grab Nigel, but bumps into the pelican, causing him to fall and to drop the bag onto the tray of dentist's tools. However, he is interrupted by Darla's scream because of Nigel the pelican invading the office. When the dentist finds Nemo in that state, he assumes that Nemo has died, but instead of flushing him down the toilet, the dentist instead heads for the trash to dispose Nemo. After Darla arrives at the office, Nemo plays dead to try to have the dentist flush him down the toilet. The dentist then scoops Nemo out with a plastic bag, and to prevent Nemo from falling, he puts the bag into a plastic storage tray. Coincidentally, it is also the day when Darla is coming to the office, so he prepares his gift for his niece by scooping Nemo out of the tank with a net, but Nemo, with help from the Tank Gang, swims down, causing the dentist to drop the net. Rather than putting his fish into bags and clean the tank himself like what he used to do, he installs an AquaScum 2003 into his tank to let the device do the job, thus sabotaging any chance of his fish escaping the office. He asks Barbara to leave the time before his earliest appointment open so that he can clean the tank prior to Darla's arrival. Sherman enters the office to take care of patient Davey Reynolds, he finds his tank dirty. Throughout the film, aside from watching over his fish, he takes care and checks on bad teeth from patients, who yell in pain whenever their teeth are checked. Though technically not a villain, he only caught Nemo, whom he thought would die in the ocean, and when he sees Nigel by his office fish tank, he probably thinks the pelican wants to eat the fish, so he shoos him away. He is also supposedly going to offer Nemo to her as her new pet fish. He is Darla's uncle, as well as a scuba diver.

Philip is the dentist who takes Nemo, adding him to the collection in his fish tank at his office. He wears a teal dentist uniform and white gloves. Philip Sherman is a tall, slender man, with long nose, both gray eyebrows and hair, and blue eyes.

He cares for his fish since he puts Gill back in the tank when he spots him out of the water and is saddened when he thinks Nemo died when he is playing dead. Also, he sometimes treats his patients rather careless when attending them, as shown when he accidentally yanks his patient's tooth out rather hard when he gets surprised after Nigel hits the window hard. Since pelicans eat fish, Philip dislikes Nigel because he thinks the bird wants to eat his fish. He only kidnaps Nemo because he believes he would die in the ocean. Like his niece, Philip Sherman is not truly villainous since he genuinely loves his niece and just wants to give Nemo to her as a present.
