Ariel Needs Legs is a short comic made by Neil Cicierega. Based on The Little Mermaid (1989), the comic is a What If? scenario where Ursula gives Ariel eight legs instead of two.
The comic can be found here
. A video version voiced by Cicierega and Ming Doyle can be found here.
Ariel Needs Legs contains examples of:
- Art Shift: Ursula is drawn in a more realistic and dramatic art style when she tells Ariel to leave.
- The Blind Leading the Blind: Ursula isn't sure how many legs humans actually have and asks Ariel if eight sounds right. Unfortunately, Ariel has no idea herself and just goes along with that.
- Cephalothorax: Unlike in the movie, here Ursula's neck connects directly to her octopus legs with no human torso in between.
- Dirty Old Man: Grimsby's reaction to Eric telling him that Ariel has eight legs is to tell him to consider that she probably has seven vagánias. Maybe more. Imagine.
- In-Universe Factoid Failure: Both Ursula and Ariel think humans have eight legs. Ariel is appalled to realize the depths of her error when she sees that Eric only has two.
- Geeky Turn-On: Eric infodumps to Ariel about Pokémon, talking about Flareon's moveset and a mashup he's working on of the theme songs. Ariel decides "I can't not fuck him" and tears off her dress immediately.
- Lame Pun Reaction: The comic ends with Ariel (who's back to being a mermaid) smashing Sebastian after he says "Ariel I guess yeh never had a laig to stand on".
- no punctuation is funnier: The comic uses no punctuation, accentuating the Stylistic Suck comedic effect.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Ariel disguises the fact that she has eight legs by putting on a dress that barely hides them. It still manages to fool Eric.
- Stylistic Suck: The comic is drawn in an intentionally Off-Model way. Eric's flute playing in the video version is intentionally terrible as well.
