I.T.G.U.L.L

ARIEL: I don’t know

airspeed check altitude check landing gear check awk clear the runway awk hello ariel

ARIEL: Scuttle look what we found

more human paraphenicular eh youve asked the right bird I happen to be an expert on that very specie-ality

FLOUNDER: Can you tell us what its for?

oh this is rare ridonkulously rare and in sistine condition

ARIEL: What? What is it?

its a dinglehopper

ARIEL: A dinglehopper?

commonly used in saloons yes of the beauty variety humans they like to wear their hair tails pony or pig or duck its all the same to them a primp here and a twirl there and viola a pompadourable and all thanks to

ARIEL: The dinglehopper

give ya two sand dollars for it

ARIEL: Scuttle no-

i’m tellin ya kid on the open sea ya wont get more than a few clams but im prepared to offer

ARIEL: Im not sellling it scuttle im saving it for my colection

howza bout a swap i got something stupelicious museum quality really a banded bulbous snarfblatt second cousin to the tuba

FLOUNDER: It makes music?

sure thing kid I aint just blowin smoke why it makes music so fantabulous so absolutely marvica

ARIEL: thank you

ya change your mind and wanna sell call me first ya hear

ERIC: A girl who’s as carefree and alive as the sea itself! where?

well whaddaya know

ARIEL: Scuttle be quiet they’ll hear you

oh i gotcha i gotcha we’re being intrepidacious

ARIEL: I’ve never seen a human this close before

me neither

ARIEL: I thought you were an expert

on their stuff sure but egads the sight of em horrible that square jaw those broad shoulders and two eyeballs the same color no variety

PILOT: Eric take the wheel

woah the atmosphericals goin haywire

ARIEL: careful Scuttle watch out

ariel

ARIEL: was I too late?

its hard to say i cant make out a heartbeat

GRIMSBY: ahoy somebody anybody

on your way kid before we’re divulged

TOP OF ACT 2

well look who beached hm theres something different dont tell me ill desyphon myself aha your hairdo youve been using the dinglehopper

SEBASTIAN: She traded her voice to the sea witch and got legs

no not your beautiful pipes

SEB: Not a sound

aw kid it hurts me to say it but that that was lousy swap

FLOUNDER: shes got just three days

three days to what

FLOUNDER: hes got to kiss her

the prince well you want to snare the prince youve gotta learn a graceful way of perambulatin

SEBBY: She’ll do no such thing

sure she will come on now upsie daisy whats this you givin up so soon thats not like you

POSITAGGITY

bravo ariel now thats what I call reeling him in

SEBBY(DADDY): This is gonna get me in real hot water

can you believe that guy what a crab

ERIC: Not another living soul for miles and miles

nothing is happening

SEXY: This is going nowhere fast

24 hours left he’ll be married off and poor ariel she’ll be deep sixed

NEXT IN LINE: we gotta do something and quick

but what

SEB(I COULDN’T THINK OF ANYTHING): we got to create the right kinda mood

Something romantical candlelight and shampoo

ERIC: Ariel are you all right

sebastian what was that

JITT: Lighting?

from under water