The WORST episodes of The Little Mermaid

Every episode of The Little Mermaid ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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 name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the film.

Last Updated: 3/26/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended

6.05

19 votes

#1 - 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.

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6.29

17 votes

#2 - 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.

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6.40

15 votes

#3 - 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.

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6.43

21 votes

#4 - 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.

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6.45

22 votes

#5 - 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.

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6.47

15 votes

#6 - Trident True

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/1992

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.

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6.64

14 votes

#7 - 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.

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6.71

17 votes

#8 - 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.

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6.75

16 votes

#9 - Wish Upon a Starfish

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1993

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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6.83

30 votes

#10 - 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.

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6.86

14 votes

#11 - 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.

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6.87

15 votes

#12 - 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.

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6.88

16 votes

#13 - Metal Fish

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1993

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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6.90

20 votes

#14 - 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.

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6.93

44 votes

#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.

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6.94

16 votes

#16 - 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.

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6.94

17 votes

#17 - Heroes

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1994

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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6.95

19 votes

#18 - 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.

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7.04

24 votes

#19 - 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.

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7.06

18 votes

#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.

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7.06

16 votes

#21 - Red

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/1992

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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7.07

14 votes

#22 - 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.

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7.14

14 votes

#23 - Charmed

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1992

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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7.15

96 votes

#24 - 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.

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7.33

21 votes

#25 - 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.

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