Awesome / The Little Mermaid (1992)

• The "In Harmony" number from "The Evil Manta". Ariel derails the Manta's plans, defeats him and drives him away... with one song.
  Evil Manta: I hate singing, hate it! I hate love and friendship and do I ever hate, that little mermaid!
  • Especially awesome when you remember that singing is Ariel's most noteworthy talent.
  • Earlier, Flounder gets one by tricking the Manta into thinking his brainwashing is working, then dropping the act the moment Ariel catches up to him.
• In the episode "Thingamajigger", the Evil Manta gets his hands on the eponymous item (actually a boot someone dropped into the sea) so he can threaten King Triton with it (At the moment the boot was found, a stray cannonball from ships fighting on the surface fell and destroyed the rocks the boot happened to be pointing at, so the observers assumed the boot did it). Ariel, however, manages to scare him away by pointing two "Thingamajiggers" at him like a pair of guns.
  • What's even better about it is that the "Thingamajiggers" Ariel pointed at Manta belonged to her future husband Eric; she swam up to a pier where Eric was talking with some friends and saw him lose one boot and discard the second (which also confirmed to her that the boots in themselves are worthless rather than weapons), but at the time she didn't have the courage to surface and see him directly.
• In "Whale of a Tale", Ariel adopts a baby killer whale, Spot, who got lost by his family. And he is too innocent, scared and childish to go back to the wild ocean. However, when three sharks attack Ariel, who has been like a mother to him, Spot gets mad. And the way he beats the crap out these terrifying sharks, is just... beautiful.
  • The music in this episode is so good it makes all the others look lame.
• In "A Little Evil" Ariel kills the Brain Sponge with Little Evil's help by wrapping some vines around him to pull him off the Evil Manta, then ties him between two pillars before pushing a boulder onto him, crushing him to death.

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