6.9/1057 votesLoading...#1 - Scuttle
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.0/1066 votesLoading...#2 - Marriage of Inconvenience
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Weber, Karen Willson
7.0/1061 votesLoading...#3 - A Little Evil
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.1/1056 votesLoading...#4 - King Crab
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.2/1083 votesLoading...#5 - Double Bubble
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1992
Ariel and her friends have to babysit some baby mertwins, but when they cause mischief they provide Ariel with some double trouble.
Director: Mircea Mantta
Writer: Laraine Arkow, Marie Sager, David Schwartz
7.2/1065 votesLoading...#6 - Eel-Ectric City
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/5/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chuck Menville
7.2/1057 votesLoading...#7 - T'ank You for Dat, Ariel
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1090 votesLoading...#8 - The Great Sebastian
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1076 votesLoading...#9 - Urchin
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1992
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.
Director: Mircea Mantta
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1061 votesLoading...#10 - Resigned to It
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1062 votesLoading...#11 - Calliope Dreams
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1058 votesLoading...#12 - Save the Whale
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laraine Arkow, Dev Ross
7.3/1066 votesLoading...#13 - Giggles
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.4/1069 votesLoading...#14 - Trident True
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/27/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tony Marino
7.4/1065 votesLoading...#15 - Against the Tide
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.4/1056 votesLoading...#16 - Island of Fear
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1994
Once again Sebastian gets kidnapped, but this time a mad scientist kidnaps Sebastian for his crab experiments.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.4/1052 votesLoading...#17 - The Beast Within
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.5/1071 votesLoading...#18 - Message in a Bottle
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lynn Lefler
7.5/1062 votesLoading...#19 - Tail of Two Crabs
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.5/1059 votesLoading...#20 - Land of the Dinosaurs
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.5/1066 votesLoading...#21 - Ariel's Treasures
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Emily Dwass
7.6/1088 votesLoading...#22 - Whale of a Tale
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter S. Beagle
7.6/1093 votesLoading...#23 - Stormy
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1992
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.
Director: Mircea Mantta
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.6/1067 votesLoading...#24 - Thingamajigger
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chuck Menville
7.6/1067 votesLoading...#25 - Beached
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alicia Marie Schudt
The Worst Episodes of The Little Mermaid
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Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
"Scuttle" is the worst rated episode of "The Little Mermaid". It scored 6.9/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron, it aired on 9/17/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Marriage of Inconvenience".