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The Worst Episodes of The Little Mermaid

Every episode of The Little Mermaid ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Network:CBS

Worst Episodes Summary

"Scuttle" is the worst rated episode of "The Little Mermaid". It scored 6.9/10 based on 59 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".

  • Scuttle
    6.9/1059 votes
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    #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

  • Marriage of Inconvenience
    7.0/1068 votes
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    #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

  • A Little Evil
    7.0/1063 votes
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    #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

  • King Crab
    7.1/1058 votes
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    #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

  • Double Bubble
    7.2/1085 votes
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    #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: Marie Sager, David Schwartz, Laraine Arkow

  • Eel-Ectric City
    7.2/1067 votes
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    #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

  • T'ank You for Dat, Ariel
    7.2/1060 votes
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    #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

  • The Great Sebastian
    7.3/1093 votes
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    #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

  • Urchin
    7.3/1078 votes
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    #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

  • Resigned to It
    7.3/1063 votes
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    #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

  • Calliope Dreams
    7.3/1064 votes
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    #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

  • Save the Whale
    7.3/1060 votes
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    #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: Dev Ross, Laraine Arkow

  • Giggles
    7.3/1068 votes
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    #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

  • Message in a Bottle
    7.4/1073 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Trident True
    7.4/1071 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Against the Tide
    7.4/1067 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Island of Fear
    7.4/1058 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • The Beast Within
    7.4/1054 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Beached
    7.5/1069 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Tail of Two Crabs
    7.5/1064 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Land of the Dinosaurs
    7.5/1061 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Ariel's Treasures
    7.5/1068 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Whale of a Tale
    7.6/1090 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Thingamajigger
    7.6/1069 votes
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    #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

  • Stormy
    7.7/1096 votes
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    #25 - 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