01x08 - Marriage of Inconvenience

[bunniefuu]

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Never fear, ariel.

I, super merman,
will save you.

Hey! What--

Crab salad, anyone?
Ha ha ha!

Whoa! Hey! Watch it!

Urchin! Look out!

The boy's sleeping in,

And it isn't even
a school day.

Oh, urchin, wake up.

Take that,
crab monster!

Huh? Sebastian,
what are you doing here?

Delivering a message,

That is if I live
long enough to do so.

Now...

Princess ariel
requests our presence

At the water slide, man!

All right!

Hey!

Urchin, get back here

And comb your hair
and brush your teeth.

Hey! Watch it!

But, ariel,

Won't getting from up here
to down there

Involve a lot of...
Screaming?

Wow.
Isn't she great?

Oh my. Yes. I can't wait
to try it myself, man.

I think--huh?

Uh...oh.

Good morning,
your majesty.

Uh...excuse me.

I was just on my way
to do something
very dignified and serious.

She's wonderful,
isn't she?

[Urchin]
she's great,
just great.

[King triton]
and perhaps
old enough, too.

Old enough? For what?

I'll go to olympia personally

To make
the arrangements.

Arrangements?

Young prince thor and ariel
will be perfect together.

The perfect union.

Union?

And when I return,

I might have
a surprise for you, ariel.

But, daddy, the olympians
are brutal and warlike.

I know, but they've
never really been to w*r.

Besides, I have
my trusty trident.

Onward, lads.

Bye, daddy! I love you!

Bye,
your highness!

Goodbye! Goodbye!

Have a good trip,
your majesty!

Yes! Ha ha ha!

Thanks for not asking me
to go with you.

Olympia
is a horrible place.

Sebastian,
what's a union?

Union. Well, it's...

It's
usually a marriage.

King triton's
going to olympia

To arrange
a marriage.

Marriage? The king?

Urchin, the king wouldn't
be getting married

Without consulting me.

Not him. Ariel!

Oh, urchin, that's
the silliest thing
I've ever heard.

Yeah.

I told him, but
he thinks the king's
arranging a marriage

For you with the prince
of olympia no less.

Father would
never do that.

Don't worry, urchin.

Daddy has
six older daughters

To marry off first.

Maybe he's starting
at the bottom.

[King triton]
there's no question,
augustus--

Your son thor and
my daughter ariel

Would make
a perfect pair

In the aquabatics
competition

At this year's
sea games.

Our two nations never had
such a partnership.

It might help
keep the peace between us.

Olympians prefer w*r.

Yet you've never
really had a w*r.

True.

Let us discuss
this peace idea of yours
over lunch.

I'm not gonna risk my chances
in the sea games with
some atlantican princess.

I'm gonna go see if she's
as good at aquabatics
as her father says.

h*, gnasher. On, crusher.

I'm telling you, urchin,
nobody is gonna marry ariel.

Thank you very much,
sebastian.

What I mean is nobody is gonna
come here from olympia to--

[Messenger]
announcing
his royal highness

Prince thor of olympia!

I'm here
for princess ariel.

I told you so.

You can't
have her.

Well, you're
pretty enough.

And you're more than
arrogant enough.

What does arrogant mean?

It means snooty,
stuck up, really no fun at all.

Oh, good. Then she
doesn't like him.

Look, this isn't my idea.

Now I suppose
you'll tell me

My father
arranged it.

Yes, he did.

See?

Yes. I see.

Obviously there's been
a terrible misunderstanding,

Or somebody's playing
a big joke.

Well, I obey my father.

If he says
we're partners,
then it shall be so.

Thor. What kind of name
is that?

He is royalty.

We must treat him
with respect,
with dignity.

Sebastian,
this is ridiculous!

I'm too young
to get married!

When daddy gets home,
he'll--

Be most upset. You've
insulted the prince.

Ugh. All right.

Invite him
to dinner.

And maybe by then
you can teach him
some manners.

Urchin,
you find the prince,

And I'll see to dinner.

It's bad enough
he came to atlantica,

But he brought
sharks, too.

No, we must stay,
gnasher.

We may be spending
a great deal of time here,
so we better get used to it.

I hope
he hates it here.

We don't want this prince
taking ariel away, do we?

No.
No.
No.

Then do what I told you,
and he'll want to leave
on the next tide.

Here he comes.

Say, thor, ariel wants you
to join her for dinner.

Huh. I knew
she'd come around.

Yeah. But you'd
really impress her

If you knew some of
our... Customs.

Very well. Teach me
these quaint customs
of yours.

Well, in atlantica, you
pet an electric eel

Before every meal.

Shh.

To work up an appetite,

Atlanticans always wrestle
an octopus before dinner.

[Thor]
aah! Ooh! Ee!
Ooh! Ee! Aah! Ooh!

Yaah!

It's okay. We always
take a bath before dinner--

A mud bath.

Hey! Cut it out!

And during dinner,
you must always

Wear a worm
on your head.

And in atlantica, guests are
always expected

To paint their
hair orange.

I should warn you,
that hair dye has a tendency

To attract
dogfish.

Dogfish? Aah!

We did it! Ha ha!
Piece of cake.

Thor schmor!

So, we must be very careful
not to insult the prince.

I know, sebastian,
but--

Atlantica's
a terrible place.

Oh, really? Then I guess
you'll want to leave

And never see me
again.

No. Our union
is too important to our nations.

Be ready to leave
on the low tide.

I'm taking you
to olympia.

Halt, gnasher.

Hold, crusher.

Ariel,
I'm ready to leave.

Oh, I can't believe

He thinks
I'm gonna marry him.

If we follow my plan,

He won't even want to be
in the same ocean as you.

He is the prince
of olympia.

We can't be making him
any madder than he already is.

Thor might not
believe me again,

So I'll need
sebastian's help.

Me?

What is taking her
so long?

When the tide is low,
ariel is even lower,

And the tide
is unusually low today.

I feel so miserable
when it's low tide.

This is nothing
she really gets silly

When grunion
are running.

Uh-oh! There
go some grunion now.

Being around this all day
gonna make you want
to live on land, man.

Worst of all is
when she flips out.

Yeah, but don't worry.
That only happens

When two giant squids
swim by doing the tango.

And how often
does that happen?

She's flipping out.

Now I understand.

-Uh, you do?
-All too clearly.

You think she's
too good for me.

That's about
what we had in mind.

Home, gnasher.

Home, crusher.

You know, olympia
holds all the records

For trident toss.

Would you care
to try your hand?

It would be my pleasure.

Are we going to throw tridents
or are you going to fool around?

Father...

Princess ariel and her
friends attacked me.

-What?
-Ariel? I don't
understand.

They hit me with mud
and made dogfish chase me.

My ariel
would never do such a thing.

You call my son a liar?

If the tail fits...

Leave olympia.

Any thought
of peace between us
is impossible.

We'll show them

They can't insult
a prince of olympia.

Father, what
do you intend to do?

And thor said
you attacked him

When he told you
you were to be partners
in the sea games.

-Games?
-Games?
-Games?

You and thor could have
won that event.

It would have been
a perfect union.

There's no wedding?

Wedding?

Of course, there's no wedding.

Now where did I get
such a silly idea?

Father, I think
there's something
you should know.

Olympia has declared w*r
on atlantica!

The olympians have
finally found a reason

To go to w*r.

Father, i--

Not now. Get down.

I've been waiting for years
to try this.

Fire!

Oh, oh, mon! I was
almost a crushed crab.

We have to stop this.

You take care of flounder
and sebastian.

Be careful, ariel.

Fire!

Fire!

You? Here?

Thor, it was all
a terrible misunderstanding.

I apologize.

Now stop this silly w*r
before someone gets hurt.

It's ariel.
Thor's captured her.

Urchin, come back!

Urchin!

Nooo!

Oh, no! What have I done?

Father, stop the shelling.

Cease fire!

Cease fire!

Urchin?

Ariel, you--
you can't go away.

Can't go away.

Can't go away.

Can't go away.

What's wrong
with everybody?

Urchin, why
have you bothered

To return to atlantica?

Since ariel left,

This place
has been no fun at all, mon.

The king hasn't signed
a proclamation in years.

There's no dancing,
no singing,

And flounder
has become...

The juvenile
delinquent fish.

This-- this is terrible.

I'm going to find her
and bring her back.

Hang it up, mon.

Ariel is
never coming back.

Never coming back.

No, what am I gonna do?

Never coming back!

Coming back.

Ariel!

Ariel!

Arieeeeeeel!

Can't go away.

Can't go away.

I'm not going away.

Don't worry.

Ariel?

The merboy
was only stunned.

Perhaps peace between us

Isn't such a bad idea,
augustus.

Agreed, triton,

And w*r is a bad idea.

Can you believe it?

I caused a w*r.

I was just so scared you'd leave
and never come back, ariel.

I was scared I'd lose
the first real friend
I ever had.

Oh, urchin,

No matter what happens,
our friendship is forever.

Ahhh, that ariel,

She's got a heart
as big as the whole ocean.

Yeah, it's big enough

To love her father
and me and urchin

And that big old octopus

And the squids and
jellyfish and turtles,

Great big whales
and little tiny starfish.

I didn't hear no crab
in there.

Oh, and of course
ariel loves you, sebastian.

That's much better.

Maybe we can be
partners after all.

Maybe...

In the sea games.

And now, to conclude
this year's sea games,

Princess ariel
of atlantica

And prince thor of olympia

Will perform
mixed aquabatics.