Last week we brought you the X-rated detail on the cover of The Little Mermaid’s OG VHS, but we’re not done pointing out dingle-dangles – as Scuttle would say – from the film.

Oh no, that was just the beginning folks.

‘Cause there is one scene which some of y’all might have missed. 

Come, let us paint you a word picture.

Prince Eric and Ursula – in her skinny, non-Octopodian suit – are walking down the aisle as Ariel desperately tries to catch up, carving through the ocean on a barrel. 

Eric and Ursula reach the altar and a short lil’ minister begins officiating…

… When a raging… ‘eggplant’ makes itself known in his pants.

The Little Mermaid erection scene is so widely discussed that there is a legit Snopes enquiry into the whole thing. Snopes, who devotes themselves to unbiased research and fact checking, explain that the scene went largely unbothered until 1995.

It wasn’t until the American Life League, a conservative Christian organisation based in Stafford, Virginia, offered it an example of the “subliminal sex messages” Disney had been planting in their films that one woman got suuuuper riled up about the whole thing. ‘Whole thing’ being a casual The Little Mermaid erection scene.

The Arkansas woman, named Janet Gilmer, filed suit against The Walt Disney Company and Buena Vista Home Video in Washington County Circuit Court, claiming in Gilmer v. The Walt Disney Co. that:

“Through its marketing efforts, the use of the Disney name, and a ‘G’ rating, the defendants represented to the public that The Lion King and The Little Mermaid video cassettes were suitable for use and viewing by young children.”

“… Consistent with the explicit sexual message displayed on the package of The Little Mermaid, Disney included a visible sexual message in the movie itself. During a scene in the movie where two of the characters are to be married by a clergyman dressed as a priest, the movement of the priest’s garments in the area of his crotch suggests that the priest is getting an erection as the bride and groom approach the alter [sic]. The depiction of this ‘event’ is visible at regular speed on the home video, but is even more noticeable when viewed in slow motion or frame-by-frame.”

She eventually dropped the lawsuit but the scene, now cut, lives on in infamy. 

Which is more than we can say for these dirty Disney jokes.

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