The Little Mermaid

Continuity mistake: When Ariel makes her dress with a sail and ropes, it looks really poor, with the ropes surrounding her body. When she climbs on the rock, the dress looks perfect, and the ropes are neatly aligned on the top part and waist.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Ursula and Eric are about to marry, everyone is facing the aisle. A frame later, from a different angle, they've turned 45ยบ and face the priest.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: On the pier, when Ariel watches Eric's ship sail away, the flowers around the column are two meters above her head. When the angle changes, they're now just a couple of centimeters above.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Ariel sees a fork for the first time, it is sitting on some wooden planks. When the shot changes, the fork's position, plus the looks of the planks (which now resemble something like a broken chair) are completely different.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Sebastian runs away from Grimsby's plate, the second fork on the right disappears, only to reappear in the next angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Sebastian falls in the boiling pot, the kitchen swaps from turned off to having huge flames rising.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Louis flours Sebastian while holding the bowl sideways by the edge of the table. A frame later, his hand is away and the bowl is laying flat on the center of the table.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Ariel grabs the fork the prongs on the side are skewed. When scuttle grabs it, just the one on the right is, the rest look perfect.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While investigating the sunken ship, Ariel is about to see the fork, she swims upwards towards a hole where a broken log stands out on the left. When the angle changes, the hole is completely different and the log is gone.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Ariel and Eric lay on the shore, Sebastian is sitting on a rock and his jaw falls, with Scuttle standing by his side. A frame later, Scuttle is standing meters away.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Grisby shows the covered statue, the shape of the bulk underneath changes drastically between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Ariel and Eric exit the town on the chariot, she has her right arm down, but in the close-up it's up and holding a bouquet and some other stuff.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Eric sits on the side of the boat wishing to find his true love, between a ladder and a rope. From the opposite angle, where we see Ariel peeping, the rope is gone.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before the maid brings the food, Grimsby puts his glass on the far left of the table. When the angle changes it's standing right in front of him.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: At the start, when King Triton makes his appearance he's holding dolphin reins, and at first it's shown as two separate straps in Triton's hand as he tells Sebastian he's looking forward to the performance, but when Sebastian replies that it will be the finest concert he's ever conducted, Triton lets go of the rein and it's a single continuous strap. (00:04:15)

Super Grover

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Ursula: Come in. Come in, my child. We mustn't lurk in doorways. It's rude. One might question your upbringing.

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Trivia: The two minute storm took 10 special effects artists over a year to finish.

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Question: What are the names of Ariel's sisters? It's very hard to hear it during their song.

Answer: Their names are Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Atina, Adella, and Allana.

Krista

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