The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008 Video)

Jodi Benson: Ariel

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• Sebastian : What about Ariel? You just gonna abandon her, leave her to deal wit all dat we tangled her up in? You tink that small, weak, helpless little girl can do anything by herself?

  Sebastian : [Ariel smashes open door]  Ariel?

  Ariel : Come on Sebastian, let's go.

• King Triton : This is how you watch over my daughter?

  Sebastian : Sire, I...

  King Triton : I trusted you.

  Sebastian : Sire.

  King Triton : Guards, lock him away.

  Ariel : What? No.

  King Triton : Lock them all away!

  Sebastian : But, your majesty, please.

• King Triton : Attina, take your sisters home.

  Attina : Yes, sir.

  Ariel : Father, you can't do this.

  King Triton : It's already done!

• King Triton : You are all confined to the palace.

  Attina : Yes, Father.

  Ariel : [angrily]  Why don't you just lock us in jail?

  King Triton : Ariel, you are confined to the palace until you understand what you've done.

  Ariel : What did we do? Tell me, Daddy.

  Attina : Ariel, leave it alone.

  Ariel : No!

  [swims up to Triton so she can try to reason with him] 

  Ariel : We haven't done anything wrong. All we did was listen to music.

  King Triton : Which you know is forbidden!

  Ariel : But why? Why can't we have music?

  King Triton : This discussion is over.

  Ariel : Just tell me.

  King Triton : I do not have to explain myself to you.

  Ariel : I don't understand. We love music.

  King Triton : [shouts]  I will not have music in my kingdom!

  [pause] 

  Ariel : I may not remember much about my mother. But I know she wouldn't have wanted this.

  [sadly swims away] 

• Ariel : Attina?

  Attina : You just don't know when to quit.

  [she swims away] 

  Ariel : [Alana swims away]  What?

  [all of the others start to swim away] 

  Adella : It's over, Ariel.

  Ariel : But we were finally happy.

  Attina : Look around, Ariel. No one's happy.

• King Triton : [sternly]  A princess does not tickle another princess with seaweed.

  Ariel : You saw that?

  [beat] 

  Ariel : I was just trying to have some fun.

  King Triton : You disrupted your sisters.

  Ariel : Well, they laughed.

  King Triton : Well, I didn't.

  Ariel : But, Daddy, why can't we...?

  King Triton : [interrupts]  Is it too much to ask that you simply walk with your family?

  Ariel : [frustrated]  That's all we EVER do.

  King Triton : [threateningly]  Ariel.

  Ariel : Can't we do something different?

  King Triton : Enough! You have to learn to respect the way I run this kingdom.

  [holds out a seashell-shaped tool] 

  King Triton : Barnacles.

  Ariel : [shocked]  What? That'll take all day.

  King Triton : [hands her the tool]  Well, then, you'd better get started, young lady.

  Ariel : [under her breath as she swims away]  I hate this place.