The Flounder puppet in 'The Little Mermaid: Live' is the stuff of nightmares, and also memes

Look at this fish.
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Caitlin Welsh
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Look at this thing.

Is that a fish?

Was someone at ABC shopping on Wish?


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Wouldn't you think they'd make Flounder... slightly more piscine?

It's like a bad dream.

So of course, it would seem —

That Ariel's sidekick's already a meme.

A budget fish puppet the whole 'net wishes it'd never seen.

There's relatable content aplenty:

Online shopping letdown jokes galore:

You want memes and mean tweets? Here, have 20!

But who cares? No big deal! I want more... information about the travesty that is Shaggy's Sebastian The Crab costume.

I truly wish that this production was not part of my world.

Topics Disney Memes

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.

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