02x08 - Metal Fish

[bunniefuu]

[Theme music playing]

Slow down, Ariel.

Rraah!

Rraah!

Did I say slow down?
I meant hurry up!

Oh, flounder,
don't be such a
scaredy-catfish.

But, Ariel,
this is a wilderness.

Anybody who comes here
is really, really foolish.

♪ Hi-h*! Where are we going? ♪

♪ Nobody knows,
but we're rarin' to go ♪

♪ hi-h*,
where have we been? ♪

♪ Nobody knows,
'cause we're followin' him ♪

[Giggling]

Cut that out!

Oof!

We are not
going anywhere,

'cause we're already here.

Ah, yes...

This is where
we'll make camp,
my little crab scouts.

-Wow!
-All right!

Camp!

-Yay!
-Yes!

Last one to build
a crab scout shelter

is a rotten turtle egg!

[Trills]

Crab scouts!

That is not
the proper procedure!

You must go by
the crab scout manual.

Let's see,
"before making camp,
a crab scout must recite

the crab scout oath."

"Crab scouts, crab scouts,

"crustacean explorers
are we.

"We lend a helping claw

to everyone under the sea."

[Click click]

Chokes me up every time.

That's where
Archimedes lives?

Yeah. See?
I told you it wasn't far.

Then why are
my fins so tired?

I can't wait
to give Archimedes

this biggermajigger
for his collection.

Say, uh, Ariel?

Let me take a peek.

Rraah!

Aah!

Why does Archimedes
live way out here, Ariel?

I'm the only friend
Archimedes has, flounder.

Merpeople don't want
to be around him.

What's the matter
with Archimedes?

Merpeople don't
like Archimedes

because he's like me.

He wants to know
about humans.

Archimedes knows
more about humans

than anybody
under the sea.

I have so many questions.

Drop anchor!

Furl the sail,
mates!

Tie off that boon!

Look alive!

There she is, penny.

We'll discover a whole new world
under the sea.

I've heard tales
of fantastic creatures

who live down there.

The question is,
are they only a myth

or do they
really exist?

If they do,
imagine the stories
we'll tell!

Ah, Ariel,
what a nice surprise.

Hi, Archimedes.

Well, well...
Another surprise.

Well, this is
my friend flounder.

Hi.

I brought you
something--

a biggermajigger!

Hmm...
A human's telescope.

Tele-what?

How does he know
so much about
biggermajiggers?

Uhh...never mind.

Some things I know
the human word for.

Those are statues...

Those are potteries...

And those
are called anchors.

Gee, I always thought
they were fishing hooks

for really big fish.

Some things, though,
I have no idea what to call.

This, for example.

It's a storage
device humans use

to hold what
they call "coins."

Coins?

Yes. Humans carry coins
around so they can jingle
everywhere they go.

Hmm.

[Quack]

Have you ever actually...

Met a human?

Yes.

Once I brought food
to some shipwrecked humans.

What were they like?

Well, they kept rubbing
their eyes over and over

and staring at me
strangely.

Why?

They think merpeople
are a myth.

A myth?

Believe it or not,
they think

we only exist
in their imaginations.

Oh. If only we could
show them atlantica!

Oh, yeah!

King triton would
love that idea!

Daddy is so stubborn.

Well, he believes humans
would destroy our world, Ariel.

You and I have a bit
more faith in humans,

but even if king triton
allowed them to visit,

well, humans can't live
under the sea.

But they sure do leave
a lot of their stuff
down here.

Tell you what.

Let's go to the surface
and try out your
biggermajigger.

The surface?

I-I'll just wait here.

Yikes!

Oh!

All right for you!

Ha ha ha ha!

Hey, stop!

You're gonna get it now!

Ow!

Aah! Stop!

Stop!

-Uh-oh.
-Uh-oh.

Hey, you don't use mud
to build a crab scout shelter!

Why not?
It's good clean mud.

And it holds
the rocks together.

I don't care.

And muddy putty is
highly adhesive.

See?

The idea!
Muddy putty.

Muddy putty?

The crab scout manual
says nothing about this!

Pfft! Muddy putty!

We must go by the book.

Here! I'll show you
how to build

a proper
crab scout shelter.

Now let me see...

"Slide stone 'a'
onto stone 'b'

as shown in figure 'c.'"

looks like he doesn't
need our help.

Yeah.

-Hey, look!
-Lepidoptera
osteichthyes!

That's "butterfly fish"
to the average crab.

Yeah?
Well, let us see-eth
where it is going-eth.

Hmm...

"See appendix "b,"

paragraph "q."

Hmm. Aha!

Hoo hoo hoo!

And that,
my little crab scouts,

is how it's done--

by the book,

and without the use
of muddy putty.

Aah! They're gone!

Come along, penny.

A human,
riding on a metal fish!

What did you see?

Ohh, something wonderful!

Adventuresome,
isn't she?

Is water wet?

I can't believe it!

The fish fly like birds!

The plants are dancing,

and look, penny...
The sun!

Down here, it's
blue as a cornflower.

[Reow]

Ariel, be careful!

Meow?

Flounder,
you have to see this.

That's the hairiest human
I've ever seen.

That's not the human.

He must be up here.

[Meow]

[Reow]

[Blows whistle]

Crab scouts!

Oh, mon!

I never should have
turned me back on those
little snipper-snappers!

Now they're lost,
and so am I!

Waa!

Crab scouts!

Crab scouts!

Where are you?

-[Crack]
-Ooh. Aah!

Here they come.

Aah! A herd of tiny sharks!

Aah! Aah!

Waah!

Yieee! B-b-b-aah!

I hurt me claw!

I can't swim up.

There must be something about
this in the crab scout manual.

Oh, yes.

I remember.

Help!

Help!

Come on, crab scout leader
Sebastian, grab hold!

The three of us are
strong enough
to pull you up, sir.

As long as the rope
doesn't break.

Then you'd fall into the canyon
and smash like a melon.

Yeah!

Thank you for that, Duffy.

Come on, crab scouts,
pull together!

[Grunting]

[Grunting]

Uhh!

Whew! Ohh!

Don't worry, kids,

the crab scout manual
is all right.

[Crab scouts groaning]

But I do seem to have
broken me claw.

Crab scout rule
number 396--

"don't ever wander away
from the crab scout leader."

Aah! What have you done?

The crab scout manual told us
how to mend a broken claw.

We didn't have
exactly what
it called for.

So we used muddy putty.

Hmph! This is
the most ridiculous--

ohh!

Ooh!

That's right,
little crab scouts,
we must tell the king!

[Reow]

Ariel!

If we can find where
the metal fish fell,

we'll find Ariel.

There it is!

And there's Ariel.

I tell you,
your majesty...

It was a u.S.O.!

An unidentified
sinking object.

This could only be
the work of humans.

Ahh! Humans.

It's my
worst nightmare!

Next to
the nightmare

where you're
yelling at me.

Hmm.

Oh, your majesty,
I shudder to think

what might've happened
if that human thing

had landed on
my little crab scouts,

not to mention on my little me.

We must take action.

But what action,
your ma--aah!

They must be stopped!

No, your majesty.

I'll get the little
snipper-snappers.

Ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha!

I was talking about
the humans.

Whoo!

Whoa-oh! Yeah!

Sorry, your majesty.

My little crab scouts
are hard to control sometimes.

Yes, well, humans are
always hard to control.

♪ Hi-h*, where
are we going? ♪

♪ None of us knows,
but we're rarin' to go ♪

Forgive me, penny.

My adventure seems
to have been a great folly.

[Reow]

Huh?

Ohh!

Did you see her, penny?

Was it my imagination?

Am I losing too much air?

No.

I saw her.

It was...

A mermaid!

Wh-what's the matter?

What does it mean?

The humans
need those bubbles
to breathe.

It's what the humans
call "air,"

and it's running out.

"Breathe"? "Air"?

It's how they...Live.

Hang on, human,
hang on!

Archimedes,
we have to do something.

-Triton.
-Daddy.

Good idea.
We'll tell daddy!

Tell the king?
You know what he'd say.

[Imitating triton]
Ariel, I've told you
over and over...

Stay away from humans!

Aah!

Ahem.
Ariel and humans...

We might have known,
sire.

Daddy, you've got
to help the human.

Never!

Hey! Ugh.

[Crab scouts giggling]

Crab scouts,
rule number one--

stay away from humans!

But, Sebastian...

What about
the crab scout oath?

"Lend a helping claw
to everyone under the sea."

And that guy's totally
under the sea.

You're right,
my little crab scouts.

Contact with humans
is forbidden, Ariel.

Triton, think of
the opportunity.

Archimedes--
the humanologist.

-Can't you see?
-See what?

See the humans
destroy our world?

The human is an explorer,
like Archimedes,

an adventurer, like me.

But you are not a human, Ariel.

Maybe I'm not all human,
but I'm part human,

and so are you, daddy.

It is the truth,
sire.

We are all members
of the same family--

the family of life.

We have to
save the human.

And his hairy friend.

Penny, I think they're going
to try to help us.

We have to stop
those bubbles
from coming out.

The crab scout manual say
anything about saving humans?

Of course not, Duffy!

We'll just have to--

think for ourselves.

We can make faces at him,
so he'll swim away.

We could blow
more bubbles for him.

Ah! Muddy putty.

-Muddy putty?
-Muddy putty?

That's it!

To the mud!

What are you waiting for?

Is this going to be like
building crab scout shelters,

or can we all help?

Oh, my little crab scouts,

we're all gonna do
this together.

All right, crab scouts,

keep that muddy putty
coming, mon!

That's it, flounder,
tap it in there real good.

There...

I think we did it.

Yes! We stopped the bubbles
from getting away!

Yes, indeedy! Aah!

It's only temporary.

He'll still run out
of air eventually.

Ohh.

Hmm...

Oh...

All right.

All right!

Grrr...

Someday,
Archimedes.

But not today, Ariel.

A human in the sea
is like a fish out of water.

Yeah, a fish...

Or a mermaid.

Goodbye, metal fish.

Goodbye, human.

[Rreow]

Ohh... well, it looks
like we'll live to tell
the tale after all.

[Meow]

Thanks to... her.

Ahoy! Matey!

Hey, it's Mr. Andersen.

Hans Christian andersen?

-That's me.
-What are you writing?

A story I'm calling...
The little mermaid.

Oh, Mr. Andersen,
please read it to us.

All right.
Gather 'round.

"Far, far from land,

"where the waters are
as blue as the petals
of a cornflower

"and as clear as glass,

"there, where no anchor
can reach the bottom,

live the merpeople."

Hans Christian andersen

wrote the story of
the little mermaid

and many other
classic fairy tales.

You can find his books
at your library.