The movie about a mermaid that wants to be a girl has caused millions of girls to want to be a mermaid. amirite?

Even worse, Finding Nemo led to many people buying Clown Fish and then not being able to take good care of them. How can you miss the message of that movie so much?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Same happened with the ninja turtles

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Radioactive turtles are notoriously difficult to care for. They require 7 pepperoni mushroom pizzas a day. They should not be a "first pet" for a child

by Anonymous 1 year ago

How about second?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Maybe a giant rat?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And ratatouille

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think I read something about the shelter rates for Dalmatians going up sharply after 101 Dalmatians was made too

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Same with Belgian Malinois after the movie Dog. They are not a breed for the average dog owner. The shelters always have them where live. :(

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Now where can I go buy a mermaid?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

When I was young it was Splash. Just pour the salt in the bathwater and presto!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Fun fact: in the original fairy tale, the mermaid wanted to be human in order for her soul to be immortal like a human's and marrying a prince is merely the condition to make that happen. She also didn't manage to get the prince and became seafoam.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The original story was a cautionary tale about voluntarily giving up your voice and identity in order to become something you weren't.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Gotta love a deity that gives sentience but not an immortal soul--unless its stolen from a romantic partner. Not entirely sure I'd want to live in any plane of existence made my that sociopath...

by Anonymous 1 year ago

....she is rewarded with a soul In the original story. Not marriage to the prince to get it. She is rejected by the prince, and her sister sell their hair to give her a chance to return home, a dagger to kill the prince. She doesn't By not killing the prince, she is is rewarded with a soul and goes heaven her body became sea foam.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Ummmm not just girls, imagine how much cooler diving would be if you never had to come up, or worry about decompression sickness! ΔP would still be terrifying though.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Identify as a mermaid if you'd like. But can't do it just when it's convenient, gotta own that lifestyle

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Because they learn from the movie that mermaids get married to wealthy good looking young man so they also want to be a mermaid so that they will get married to good looking wealthy young man. If they had watched the original mermaid where the mermaid died and the prince went off to marry someone else, they would associate being a mermaid with death and so they will not want to be a mermaid.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I wanted to be a mermaid because of the pretty colours and talking fish.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Also, the mermaid just wanted to have an immortal soul.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

now she's just sea foam.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Actually, they'd associate the mermaid with seafoam. Better than Classical Greece.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Netflix just released a docuseries -Merpeople 😃 Great timing 😏

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And grown men to have meltdowns, while trying to logically explain how a mermaid is the "wrong color".

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My children are mixed (black/white) and they've been running around all day calling it The Brown Little Mermaid. Im raising little Archie Bunkers

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I (very briefly) dated a girl that definitely smelled like she was half fish below the waist.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Sounds delicious

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If tastes like chicken keep on lickin', if it tastes like trout get the hell out.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I attribute it more to H2O: Just add Water laying the groundwork for years.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not the first movie to do exactly that. "Splash" is one of my favorites.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Well then, they should be mermaids since children are clearly able to make long term life changing decisions based on fantastical concepts. That's the clown world we all live in now.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I've always found this puzzling. What is so appealing about sleeping in a toilet? You can do that as a human, but people generally choose not to.

by Anonymous 1 year ago