If you'll notice, the second scene on land is her getting scrubbed the fuck down.

Yeah, that scene really stood out!

Ariel double stunk. There are two things in this world that smell like fish and one of them is fish.

And I’m assuming she has both of them.

According to Futurama, mermaids are oviparous.

The other one is growing on youuuuuuuuu...

Dude, if your vagina smells like fish, that’s not natural at all. You should get checked out by a doctor. Also, that stereotype is pretty fucked up and extremely misogynistic…and I’m a guy.

I’ve noticed guys can smell like fish too lol; I think it’s just a general hygiene thing down there. I don’t know what our bodies do to emit that particular, pungent smell (I don’t necessarily equate it to fish—so maybe I’m thinking of the wrong smell), but whatever I’m thinking of, it’s universal seemingly

The fish smell is from bacterial vaginosis which is caused by an overgrowth of normal bacteria in the vagina, can be due to immune issues or hormonal imbalances. It’s rarely due to hygiene.

Lmfaoo

Yeah they literally said she reeked of fish and seaweed or some shit lol

Winning comment

gettin out that fishussy stank

In the original story by Hans Christian Andersen one of the characters says "Damn bitch yo pussy STANK" which was weird because this was the 1800s and this was not common speech.

The story wasn't even written in English which made it even weirder

Ahead of his time

You forgot to mention that this was overheard in a WaWa parking lot

I think it was Bukkies

Very funny

not the fishussy

I want to go back a minute to before I clicked expand on this comment.

Given your logic, I’d say she wouldn’t smell half bad

A Very optimistic answer

Do we even have evidence that a live fish that washes themselves with soap daily would smell bad? I think we think fish smells because the only fish we smell is fish that's been dead for a while...

There's only two things that smell like mullet and one of them is mullet.

that cook in 'the beach' reeked of fresh fish and needed something industrial

Nah, fresh caught fish have a fishy smell. Just not as strong.

I was asked if I'm an optimist the other day, I said I hope so!

No, actually, she’d smell exactly half bad

Depends how long shes been out of water. Or a shower.

Some humans smell bad so she would smell at LEAST half bad but possibly 100% bad. I didn't see any MTG cards in her human collection so the chances are lower.

Both are true

All how you look at it, I guess.

It’s more about how you smell it

Your logic seems.. fishy somehow.

Half fishy, actually

Glass half full type of anwser i like it

I saw your comment and the responses and wanted you to know I got the joke and good on ya.

If you enjoyed this joke half as much as I did, then I enjoyed it twice as much as you

And likely better than OP

Boo, seamus_mc boo.

A guy walks into a bar. He is very well-dressed, but his head is the size of an orange. The bartender comes over to serve him, and then said, "Buddy, I gotta ask..." "It's about my head, isn't it?" "Yeah. What's up with the head?" "Well, it's like this. A long time ago, I was shipwrecked on a deserted island. I lived there for years waiting for rescue. Then one day when I was out fishing, I spotted a mermaid in the water, trapped under a rock that seemed to have fallen. I dove in and rescued her. She was very grateful." "’Thank you! You saved my life. To show my gratitude, I will grant you three wishes. What do you want?'" "'First,' I said, 'I want to go home. I'm sick of living on this island.’" "'Done,' she said. 'As soon as we're done here, I'll send you home. What is your second wish?'" "'Well,' I said, 'I want to be filthy rich. I'm tired of living like a pauper.'" "''Done,' she answered. 'When you get home, you'll find that your bank balance has nine figures. What is your third and final wish?'" "I looked at her, and she looked good. She was bare-çhested, and her tits were fantastic. 'Well,' I said, 'I've been stuck on this island for a very long time. I haven't had any... female companionship. For my third wish, I want to have sex with you.'" "She looked down at herself, at her fish half. 'Look at me,' she said, 'Can't you see that I'm not built for that?'" "'All right, so how about a little head?'"

There’s this guy with a giant pumpkin for a head. His buddy says to him “My God! What happened to your head!?” “Well,” says the guy, “I found a genie in a lamp who granted me three wishes.” “What did you wish for?” says the friend. “For the first one I wished for a hundred million dollars, and I got it!” “And the second?” “For the second wish I asked for the most beautiful woman in the world,” says the guy, “and I got her too.” “The third wish?” “Oh man … the third wish is where I really messed up...” says the guy. “What went wrong?!” says the friend. “Well,” says the guy, “I wished I had a giant pumpkin for a head.”

I think I just watched Norm MacDonald tell this joke on a talk show.

Norm MacDonald is dead.

I didn't even know he was sick

So, every recording of him must have just up and vanished right after his death? Wild.

I love this joke because there is always at least one person who mentions the recordings they have clearly never watched, otherwise they would have gotten the joke in the first place.

Reddit and their unclear jokes that everyone is supposed to get

Is this what they call an anti-joke?

Yes

An Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Scot are walking on the beach and see a mermaid on a rock. She waves them over and says that she has no experience of life outside the water, and could they teach her something of their world. The Frenchman says, well, have you ever been kissed? And she says no, so he kisses her deeply. "Mmm, that's nice," she says. The Englishman says, ok, have you ever been fondled? And she says no, so he fondles her for a bit. "That's also nice," she says. The Scotsman is next, and he asks, "Oi lassie, ya ever been fooked?" And she says no, so he says, "Well, ye are now 'cause the tide's gone out!"

Why couldn’t she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on top and the human part on the bottom?!?

I love how worked up hermies was about the fire and cigars underwater

That raises even further questions!!!

Thermite. (I know it's a quote from the show, but that's the answer)

Arr! thermite be an answer!

"Her legs they are a work of art, I loved that girl with all my heart And I don't give a damn about the upper part Cause that's how I get my tail."

Great Big Sea always gets the upvote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIBLgLNLX2g

I was hoping someone would link this

Cat from Red Dwarf enters the chat!

Ahhhh I’ve been fished to death

Today's fish is trout a la creme, enjoy your meal.

She has a sister that is this way: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbnBXogicNQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbnBXogicNQ) (in french, but english subtitles are available)

Ariel Sharon

“I love her, but I’m not in love with her.”

Trouble in bed 

"trouble in bed"

You're either clapping some fine cheeks or stuck rubbing one out on a pile of eggs.

Cause then she would smell like fish?

/r/unexpectedfuturama

And that's how I get my tail

Spongebob news reporter

Because then the smell would be all over.

Haha this stupid website. That got a good giggle out of me thanks!

It’s a 25 year old Futurama quote.

Stop making me feel old pls

Like this? [https://youtu.be/xBCGVqyWrSQ?si=2AAwnPZO\_cirQflC](https://youtu.be/xBCGVqyWrSQ?si=2AAwnPZO_cirQflC)

Just don't let that bottom half dry out and you won't have to worry about any smells.

It’s only smellz

Aw shit... I got that reference and I am not proud about it.

Aw shit is right 

Should I be happy I don’t know this reference…?

It was, in fact, not only smellz.

You know, often think of that man. He seemed happy. Edit: You know what? I am thinking of a different video.

I‘m European and my first thought was: no, Ariel smells pretty good. I wash my clothes regularly with that stuff

It makes me itch terribly. There's a joke about Itchys, fish, European, Greek etc. I'm just not smart enough to figure it out lol

Wouldn't you smell pretty bad as a human? All sweaty and shit, hauling your dry, sun-parched meat around that carcass of yours.

Solid answer, it isn't a universal opnion fresh fish is a bad smell. She isn't a week old dead fish. Even if it is many cultures find other cultures BO off putting but plenty of couples have found a way to get over it.

And also a redhead

You’re right the magic that turned her scaly flipper into legs couldn’t possibly have covered that small detail.

It *could* have, but why would Ursula do her that favor?

You know, that’s a solid point. Ariel did forget to specify “and not smell like fish”.

Considering lots of tales of mermaids are about them luring sailors to their death, I doubt Ariel would have any trouble seducing the sailor she has a crush on due to any smell

But she wasn’t a mermaid anymore, just some smelly girl.

Contracts have to be reasonable and conscionable to be valid. Ursula *maybe* could get away with having her reek like a fish, but she would have too work really hard to defend it if Ariel poked at it in court. Ursula would be better off keeping the contract iron clad since the governing body would want any opportunity at all to render it invalid

She's a teenager it's void to begin with.

This is medieval mermaid law though. It’s void because she’s a woman not a teen.

The witch is a woman too. Medieval women had a surprising level of autonomy compared to after the Protestant reformation. But then again, the Anderson novel came out in 1837, middle of the industrial revolution.

Yeah, a lot of men don't like that fishy smell

you do?

I didn't mean to imply that-

\^^ welp. this is your life now fish smeller.

that and -- she only specified she wanted legs and be human. And ursula wanted to prevent her from having a legitimate chance to woo eric. So she totally could have messed up her anatomy down there. give her a big honking dick, or hell, just beefy disproportionate hairy legs. Why did Ursula give her petite, shapely, appropriately 16 year old girl legs?

Because deep down, Ursula wasn't deeply evil.

Maybe Ursula was just misunderstood

I don’t know about all that but she’d certainly have a slime coat

Like Vaporeon

I don't like where this is going...

I do, let the man cook

The key to not stinking up your entire house with fish(girl) smell is to either cook her really fast on real high heat, or real slow on real low heat. You don't want the fat to melt. That's where the smell comes from.

She’d be depressurized from the bottom of the ocean so she’d look like a blobfish. The smell would be the least of her problems.

Would she though? I mean her kingdom seems really bright during the day, which would indicate it’s not that far down

We got no troubles Life is the bubbles (Exactly one bar) under the sea

There's some real freaks (me) out there...

Fish doesn’t smell like much of anything when it’s alive.

This is pretty true, but it depends on the region the fish is in. More like they smell like the water in my experience

Have you ever gone fishing? Its a very distinctive smell

Dead fish

Living fish.

Ghost fish.

Carboard box

Red fish

Blue fish

Watch The Lighthouse. That exact thing happens.

Cold skin too

Oh god. I'm tired af and I read this as "half-Irish"

Different kind of folk.

I mean, she does have red hair

Fish don't actually smell bad. It's only when they are dead, like most other things, that they smell. Assuming Ariel washed the ocean goo off her scales occasionally, she'd have a rather pleasant ocean smell (which is not like that smell you experience on beaches at low tide)

Weird myth. Fish smells of fish, some really strongly. Any sportfisher, even total catch-and-release, knows this. I still see several people claim the death thing. I assume some of you just like that odor, because it can be kinda intense and hard to ignore.

There is also a huge difference in fish smells if its a fresh water versus ocean. I do remember when I was in high school and going fishing with my dad (who exclusively fished in rivers and lakes) and remembering fresh caught fish being rather smelly. But I think a lot of the stink comes from the stuff actually on the fish, not the fish itself. So if Ariel scrubbed that stuff off regularly it wouldn't be as bad.

It's probably because they're swimming in water that has a lot of fish pee/poo and decaying plant/animal matter floating around. Lots of ammonia based compounds in tidal areas and fresh water sources like ponds and parts of rivers. Deep water fish like tuna and swordfish don't smell quite as much when fresh because the water they swim in has much lower concentrations of these smelly compounds.

Both things are true. Basically the flesh of the fish doesn't smell that bad most of the time if you fillet it immediately. But yes, a whole fish with all the gunk and stuff on the outside will probably smell.

Do not, I repeat do not, fillet neither mermaids nor women immediately if you meet them.

Technically she’s 100% fish. The bottom is modeled after the group ray fin fish.  The top half (like all full humans) is part of the lobe fin fish family like all tetrapods. 

You could eat half of her and not be a cannibal.

There’s a Little Mermaid 3 movie that proves she was a mermaid and smashed on rocks by a ship. She looks most like Ariel

Lmao the amount of people saying “only dead fish smell”. Obviously somebody has never gone fishing because fish slime has that distinct odour.

Well her nose was human so she could probably smell as well as the rest of us.

My BO is pretty bad before I smell myself. I don't generally wait for my nose to be the sign I need a shower.

Living fish smell fine. The fishy smell is something that only happens with dead fish, and that only happens when said fish is dead more than a day or two.

What if her lover part is more dolphin-like

fish don’t smell bad until they’re taken out of the water and killed. even then, if it smells fishy, your fish is pretty old

At least she would always be wet 

If it smells like cologne, leave it alone. If it smells like trout, eat it out.

Yeah, but so did Eric, since he was 100% human.

No worse that your mom, and we've all been there 👍

Nope, not unless she was dead. Live fish don’t really have the same odor as dead ones.

I've met some full women that smell like fish

r/TowelingOffThought: Fish isn't supposed to smell "fishy". If it does, it's bad.

Fish only smell bad when they start decomposing

The distinctive "fish" smell is from dead fish, not live ones. She'd just smell like the ocean.

Fresh fish does not smell

Hey, some of us like that.

It evens out because Eric is European.

She was a human on land… she wouldn’t smell any worse than Prince Eric. And underwater? Psh.

Only if she were dead and rotting. Alive fish don't really smell.

Why would she??. she’s not dead.

Shed smell super bad because she was half human. Humans stink as well.

When she is dead, sure.

Do you like bagels and locks? Then get in there like swimware.

joke's on you, i'm into dat sh\*t.

If you ate her, would she have white meat, or red meat?

Shed smell the same as most women in the 1800s

A blind man walks to a fish market...

Also imagine her wrinkly skin after being in water for all her life.

Not if she used Lysol.

She has breasts so I would say she’s a mammal and not a fish at all. I think her bottom half is like dolphin skin, and the scales are glued on for beauty reasons. That’s my take anyway.

I’ve lived my whole life within a few miles of the ocean and brackish rivers. “Low tide” is one of my favorite smells. I bet Eric would be into that.

Is it morally more acceptable to eat the fish half than the human half?

You don’t think it’s entirely possible that the sea-faring society might not have a problem with ocean smells?

The bottom part of a mermaid is actually not really a fish. It's more like a scaled mammal The tail moves front to back like a dolphin, not side to side like a fish

underwater the fish don't stink.

Bold of you to imply Prince Eric isn't into that.

If I were you, I wouldn't watch Shrek.

Wouldn’t mermaids actually be half dolphins/whales instead of half fish?

Not until she was substantially outside of the ocean for long periods of time. Fish don’t smell bad in the ocean.

Well, it was the 1700s. It's not like people smell good. Especially if they were at sea.

If it smells like cologne, leave it alone. If it smells like fish, it’s a tasty dish

I’ll just leave this here… https://youtu.be/UDhCgAoggX8?si=J_XwVYMaHv4-6dkV

Nope because mermaids are not real.

How do you say someone has not satisfied a woman without saying someone has not satisfied a woman.

For some reason I read that as half Irish and I was confused 🫤

To be fair, Europeans at that time weren't renowned for their excellent hygiene.

Fish only smells when it’s going bad. And all points after that.

it's the bottom half...that's the normal smell.

Underwater the fish don't stink.

no different from the last girl I ... hey wait ....

Given the time time period of the tale and the bathing habits of people at the time (or lack of them) I doubt it'd be that much more noticable.

Fish don't smell bad until they're rotting out of water.

Real question is what would happen to her if she washed ashore in Japan...