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The Best Episodes of The Little Mermaid

Every episode of The Little Mermaid ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Little Mermaid!

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. 8.0/10(84 votes)

    #1 - Wish Upon a Starfish

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    S2:E6

    Ariel wants legs so she can dance but no one believe's in her dream. She gets discouraged until she meets another mermaid called Gabriella who wants to sing so they go to a magical starfish who can make their dreams come true.

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  2. 8.0/10(66 votes)

    #2 - Metal Fish

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    S2:E8

    Ariel wants to learn more about humans, so she goes to a humanalogist who makes her day when he tells her that a human is coming under the sea in a metal submarine shaped like a fish.

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  3. 7.7/10(64 votes)

    #3 - Heroes

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    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. 7.6/10(61 votes)

    #4 - Land of the Dinosaurs

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    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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  5. 7.6/10(69 votes)

    #5 - Ariel's Treasures

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    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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  6. 7.5/10(69 votes)

    #6 - Against the Tide

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    Ursula's evil spells haven't been working lately because of a bad luck creature. Ariel finds the creature and brings him home, but Ursula still wants to destroy the bad luck creature and whoever owns him.

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  8. 7.5/10(64 votes)

    #7 - Tail of Two Crabs

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    S2:E7

    Sebastian's old perfect friend from his childhood comes to town. When Sebastian gets angry because he's so perfect, Sebastian becomes a pawn in Ursula's plan to take over the kingdom.

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  9. 7.4/10(61 votes)

    #8 - Save the Whale

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    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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  10. 7.4/10(58 votes)

    #9 - Island of Fear

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    S3:E3

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

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  11. 7.4/10(54 votes)

    #10 - The Beast Within

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    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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  12. 7.3/10(63 votes)

    #11 - Resigned to It

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    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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  13. 7.3/10(64 votes)

    #12 - Calliope Dreams

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    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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  14. 7.3/10(69 votes)

    #13 - Giggles

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    Ariel laughs at everything, even things serious so a sorceror blowfish cast a spell on Ariel so when she laugh's seaquakes will rise.She gets sick of it so when she meets up with thisblowfish she teaches him the power of laughter.

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  15. 7.2/10(60 votes)

    #14 - T'ank You for Dat, Ariel

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    S2:E9

    Sebastian is sad because he's a little crab, so Ariel goes to a cave where she becomes a sea witch. She puts a spell on Sebastian that makes him big, but the bigger Sebastian gets the less room their is for everyone in the sea.

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  16. 7.1/10(58 votes)

    #15 - King Crab

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    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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  17. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Red

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    S1:E11

    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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  18. 7.0/10(59 votes)

    #17 - Scuttle

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    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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  19. 7.0/10(63 votes)

    #18 - A Little Evil

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    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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  20. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Whale of a Tale

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    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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  21. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #20 - The Great Sebastian

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    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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  22. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Stormy

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    S1:E3

    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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  23. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Eel-Ectric City

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    S1:E14

    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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  24. 6.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Thingamajigger

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    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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  25. 6.5/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Trident True

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    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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  26. 6.2/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Urchin

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    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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Best Episodes Summary

"Wish Upon a Starfish" is the best rated episode of "The Little Mermaid". It scored 8/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron, it aired on 10/23/1993. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Metal Fish".