Little Mermaid: Live Flounder Puppet

About

Little Mermaid Live: Flounder Puppet refers to the character Flounder featured in the ABC live performance of Disney's The Little Mermaid. During the live television performance in November 2019, Twitter users commented heavily on the the puppets low-quality appearance and stare.

Origin

On November 5th, The Little Mermaid Live! aired on ABC channel. That day, ABC uploaded a potion of the performance to YouTube (shown below). The clip features Flounder as a puppet. The video gained over 170,800 views in a day.

Spread

On November 5th, 2019, Twitter users began commenting on the puppet's appearance. Twitter user @PianoPrincess3^[1] tweeted, "I know Disney owns the Muppets, but that aint no reason to let Flounder look like an inbred Muppet" (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 500 likes and 70 retweets in a day. Twitter user @TylerJRoney^[2] compared the puppet to the original animated Flounder in a tweet that received over 700 likes in a day (shown below, center). Twitter user @Syracuse_716^[3] compared the puppet to something bought on Wish (shown below, right).

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