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The Best Episodes of The Little Mermaid

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The Best Episodes of The Little Mermaid

Disney's The Little Mermaid is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation based on the 1989 Disney film of the same...

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  1. Background image for Message in a Bottle
    7.9/10(87 votes)

    #1 - Message in a Bottle

    S1:E7

    A lonely dragon writes a message in a bottle. Ariel finds it and visits him, he decides to come to Ariel's house but King Triton won't allow it until he saves them from some evil sea creatures.

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    Director:Unknown
  2. Background image for Marriage of Inconvenience
    7.8/10(89 votes)

    #2 - Marriage of Inconvenience

    S1:E9

    King Triton thinks that Ariel and Prince Thor would make a perfect couple, but not Urchin so he plays tricks on Thor to make him change his mind about Ariel. The prince gets exasperated and tells his kingdom to have war with Atlantica. Urchin stops it, and Triton explains that he wanted Ariel and Prince Thor to be a couple in the olympic sea games.

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  3. Background image for Heroes
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #3 - Heroes

    S3:E5

    King Triton, and the other residents from Atlantica are very happy to know that their hero Apollo is returning to Atlantica. Ariel and Flounder ask Triton who he is, and Triton explains. 20 years ago Atlantica was in a battle between the Octipins who contained a triton that was more magically than King Triton's triton. Apollo, in the vines snuck up on them and broke it. After the story Apollo appears. He and Ariel go on an adventure, but Ariel and Flounder soon find out that his victory over the Atlanticans was an accident. Ursula revives the Octipins and gives them 8 magic tritons, and now Apollo becomes a hero for real.

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  4. Background image for The Great Sebastian
    7.6/10(100 votes)

    #4 - The Great Sebastian

    S1:E3

    Sebastian thinks that he's the best crab under the sea, but when King Triton wants him to deliver a document to Sharkania he shows his fear.

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  5. Background image for The Evil Manta
    7.6/10(71 votes)

    #5 - The Evil Manta

    S1:E10

    The city of Atlantica is a wonderful place to live in, but when Ariel releases an evil manta from imprisonment he spreads the path of prejudice for the creatures of Atlantica. Everybody separates from each, but Ariel and Flounder stay together and work things out in Atlantica.

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  6. Background image for Thingamajigger
    7.6/10(79 votes)

    #6 - Thingamajigger

    S1:E11

    Prince Eric drops one of his boots down to the sea, and when Ariel finds it she thinks its a wonderful human thingamajigger, but Triton thinks its dangerous. Soon terrible things start to happen and every sea creature thinks that the thingamajigger is the cause, so every bad guy wants it to take over Triton's kingdom, but Ariel goes to the surface and finds out what they really do.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Land of the Dinosaurs
    7.6/10(61 votes)

    #7 - Land of the Dinosaurs

    S3:E4

    Ariel suggests that her family takes a trip up to the frozen north, but something else lies beneth the ice. Dinosaurs, and Ariel thinks that they're adorable so she free's them with her father's triton, but they seem more harmful than adorable. Later on King Triton stops them and after that he uses his triton to destroy all the ice and discover the dinosaurs' home. Now the dinosaur's can roam the land freely thanks to Ariel's curiosity.

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  9. Background image for Ariel's Treasures
    7.6/10(69 votes)

    #8 - Ariel's Treasures

    S3:E7

    Ariel treasures her items from the humans of above. She shows her items to Gabriella and she loves them too, but someone else saw Ariel's treasures to. Ursula, and now she's using her evil spells to take control over Ariel's treasure's so they can destroy Atlantica.

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    Director:Unknown
  10. Background image for Eel-Ectric City
    7.5/10(96 votes)

    #9 - Eel-Ectric City

    S1:E1

    Ariel's friend Pearl comes to town, and takes Ariel to Eeel-Ectric city. Triton ofcourse dosen't want her to go. so Pearl lie's and says they're going to have a slumber party. They go to the place anyway but when a terrible storm comes Triton finds out the truth.

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  11. Background image for Red
    7.5/10(71 votes)

    #10 - Red

    S1:E12

    After Ariel's party King Triton feels that he's too old, so his glowing glowfish gets Triton a magical age stone that turns Triton into a little boy called Red. Later on Ariel and Sebastian find out and they trace the jewel to a magic sorcess who only old King Triton can beat.

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    Director:Unknown
  12. Background image for Stormy
    7.4/10(82 votes)

    #11 - Stormy

    S1:E4

    Ariel wants to ride a wild seahorse called Stormy but her father dosen't so she sneaks off and rides off with him in the wild.

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    7.4/10(78 votes)

    #12 - Double Bubble

    S1:E6

    Ariel and her friends have to babysit some baby mertwins, but when they cause mischief they provide Ariel with some double trouble.

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  14. Background image for Island of Fear
    7.4/10(58 votes)

    #13 - Island of Fear

    S3:E3

    Once again Sebastian gets kidnapped, but this time a mad scientist kidnaps Sebastian for his crab experiments.

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  15. Background image for The Beast Within
    7.4/10(54 votes)

    #14 - The Beast Within

    S3:E6

    On one of Ariel's adventures makes Flounder turn into a howling hairfish. They go to a magical fish and she tells them that the cure its to be srowded in silver. There's no such thing as silver under the sea, so Ariel uses silverfish instead.

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  16. Background image for Whale of a Tale
    7.3/10(96 votes)

    #15 - Whale of a Tale

    S1:E2

    Ariel finds an abanded baby whale, and decides to take care of it and be it's Mother. She names him Spot, but when Spot causes mass destruction around the kingdom Ariel decides to teach it how to survive in the wild.

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for Urchin
    7.3/10(89 votes)

    #16 - Urchin

    S1:E5

    A poor merboy named Urchin tries to make friends in Atlantica, but when he meets the wrong friends( The Lobster Mobster Squad) it takes a good friend like Ariel to set him right.

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  18. Background image for Beached
    7.3/10(73 votes)

    #17 - Beached

    S1:E13

    Ariel and her big sister Arista get into a big arguement, so they can't go to the carnival. Everything gets all out of hand but when some gators try to rob the kingdom Ariel and Arista learn the true value of sisterhood and teamwork.

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  19. Background image for Trident True
    7.2/10(69 votes)

    #18 - Trident True

    S1:E14

    Ariel and her little sea friends get King Triton gifts for Father's day. She goes to a cave to get a glowing seashell and they get trapped in by an octupus so Urchin uses the triton to beat him but loses it in the process.

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  20. Background image for King Crab
    7.1/10(58 votes)

    #19 - King Crab

    S3:E2

    While King Triton's away Sebastian will play. Ssebastian's parents come over,and he lied to them telling them that he is the king of Atlantica. All goes well until King Triton comes home, but when things seem confused Urchin, Ariel, and Flounder get Sebastian out of this mess.

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  21. Background image for Charmed
    7.0/10(70 votes)

    #20 - Charmed

    S1:E8

    Ariel finds a beautiful human bracelet, and when she wears it she can't take it off. Knowing that her father hates human things she decides not to go home until she finds the key to take it off.

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    7.0/10(59 votes)

    #21 - Scuttle

    S3:E1

    After Sebastian gets kidnapped by some pirates Ariel has to relie on her new bird friend to help her rescue him, but a question of trust is at matter as they start to share a common bond with their new friend Scuttle.

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  23. Background image for A Little Evil
    7.0/10(63 votes)

    #22 - A Little Evil

    S3:E8

    The Evil Manta has an evil son who wants to follow in his father's evil footsteps, but he shows signs of good. Ariel finds him, and tries to bring that good out of him.

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  24. Background image for Resigned to It
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Resigned to It

    S2:E1

    After overhearing King Triton talk about him Sebastian thinks that he got fired as the King's trusted advisor. He searches for a new job but gets rehired in the end.

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  25. Background image for Calliope Dreams
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Calliope Dreams

    S2:E2

    King Triton wants Ariel to learn how to play the calliope, but Ariel wants to learn how to play the harp. She tries to learn the calliope and her bad playing wakes up an old ancient evil sea monster.

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  26. Background image for Save the Whale
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Save the Whale

    S2:E3

    Spot the whale returns and before Ariel and the others can rejoice the circus people take him away to join the act with all the other abused animals.

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    Director:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Message in a Bottle" is the best rated episode of "The Little Mermaid". It scored 7.9/10 based on 87 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Lynn Lefler, it aired on 10/17/1992. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Marriage of Inconvenience".