Favorite TLM Underwater quips....

[im_not_a_guppy]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 12:30am

what are your favorite TLM underwater lyrics/lines? Mine are

"...So let the clock run out, their time is almost up, and once they're trapped i'll have them wrapped around my suction cup.." from the "I want the Good times Back reprise"
"...one more chance to get her man, and then-the squid will hit the fan..." from "sweet child reprise"
"...She doesnt even speak, she treats me like sashimi left over from last week" from "She's in Love"

what are yours?

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 12:32am

"She treats me like sashimi left over from last week" is my favorite :).

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 12:42am

"Look, I think she's even wearing brand new shells."
"Is she ill or insane, is water on the brain?"
From She's In Love

[dshnookie]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 12:53am

I like

-"I want the entire sea to worship me on bended fin" in I Want the Good Times Back

-The mersisters have a good one in She's in Love, "She's flipped, it never fails - all hot beneath her scales. She's found a deep sea hunk - and how she's as good as sunk"

My least favorite is Triton's line in If Only

"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin waters" ... it's a little forced

[emmadny]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 5:43am

All IF ONLY

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 5:56am

Wow, those are all painfully awful.

[kate2]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:06am

Thanks for sharing, Lizzie... Anywho, back to the original purpose of the thread, I love "She treats me like sashimi left over from last week" too!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:08am

I totally read that as:

"Favorite TLM Underwear quips"

My next thought was...I think I had a pair as a kid, but I kinda outgrew them.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:09am

Oh Doug Wright, I love you, but your puns in this show are PAINFUL.

[im_not_a_guppy]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 11:14am

oo I also like the line-
"soon we'll be back on top, sipping bubbly! Eating caviar before it hatches!" From "I Want the Good Times Back".

[Rentfan931]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 11:20am

Mine is "Now its got a procedural cause sort of a squid pro quo" from "Poor Unfortunate souls" and I also like " Now see for yourself how banishment feels" form "Poor Unfortunate Souls Reprise"

[kate2]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 1:58pm

I like a lot of the lyrics in "Human Stuff" too. They're cute.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 4:05pm

"Wow, those are all painfully awful."

That's only a tease of what the show has to offer. You almost wish only a quarter the way through that a shark would come out and have a real feast...because only that would make it worth seeing.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 4:17pm

"As long as you're living under my reef"-just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.



Seriously? How can anybody like these puns? They made me cringe in the theatre. And you're talking to a person who actually like Wicked!

[James885]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 4:28pm

I think this here is one of the worst lines:

"I'll make you obey/'Till you do as I say!" - The World Above (reprise)

It doesn't even make any sense!

Although I have to admit that the song Human Stuff was kind of cute.

[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 5:30pm

I began losing what little faith I had in the show once Grimsby said "As for me, I'm about to heave-HOOOOO". I cringed at pretty much every lyric in "She's In Love". Once Ursula referred to her contract having a "squid pro quo", I lost it.

[wicked91]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 5:51pm

One of my favorites is in I Want the Good Times Back.

"I want to make the merfolk cower
Like they did in days of yore
Sure, it’s sheer abuse of power—
Ain’t that what power’s for?"

[winston89]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:04pm

I literally was sitting in the theatre with this look of pain on my face. I saw it during a wednesday afternoon after school and this crap was comming at me so hard I couldn't figure out if I liked it or not.

I then realized afterwards that I would rather have gotten a castration then sit through this show.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 1:33am

"I then realized afterwards that I would rather have gotten a castration then sit through this show. "

Wow. I really enjoyed the show, sure it had it's flaws, but overall I had a good time.

The performances helped, and the music was decent. It's Disney not Shakespeare! One thing we can say is that it is certainly not as bad as that jungle monster known as Tarzan.

[Not Barker, Todd.]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 1:39am

Two things.

1. I haven't even seen the show, and I find the puns excessive. Even on the demo it was a bit much.

2. I hate it when people say "It's not Shakespeare" to make an excuse for a show. Ok, it isn't. But that doesn't mean it can't be good. There are are plenlty of good shows that aren't Shakespeare.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 1:42am

"2. I hate it when people say "It's not Shakespeare" to make an excuse for a show. Ok, it isn't. But that doesn't mean it can't be good. There are are plenlty of good shows that aren't Shakespeare. "

Okay, fine.

It's no [insert well-known amazing author or playwright here]

I'm just saying just because it's not the most wonderfully written amazing thing on the planet doesnt mean it's crap. To the little kids around me when I saw it, it was their perhaps first musical and they will always look back on it fondly, was it amazing, it had it's moments. But, it certainly shouldn't be degraded as it has been. Flaws are flaws, but to it's target audience, it's good.

[Not Barker, Todd.]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 2:27am

It's either good or bad. If it isn't good, it's bad. Don't tell me it's not something amazing as some kind of excuse for flaws.

[Not Barker, Todd.]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 2:28am

Back on topic though, I do like the caviar before it hatches line.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:32am

"Oh Doug Wright, I love you, but your puns in this show are PAINFUL."

As most of these are lyrics, I think Glen Slater is the one to thank. Or blame.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:42am

You wanna talk about "fun" shows with quality: City of Angels, Little Me, ...Forum, She Loves Me, (as much as I hate to say it) The Producers, Kiss Me Kate, Annie, Promises Promises, How to Succeed.... All of these are well structured, well written shows. They were all "fun", too. Not every show that sucks should be labeled "fun" and be given the Get out of Jail Free Card because of it. Some shows just suck. The Little Mermaid is one of them. Terrible dialogue, terrible new lyrics, bland new music ("Beyond My Wildest Dreams" and "One Step CLoser" have music ripped right from the movie score), awful designs (save Natsha Katz's lighting), bland choreography, elementary staging, and plot holes so big that you're afraid one of the actors is gonna fall into one while riding their heelies. Yes, the talent on that stage is impeccable and the original songs are great, but what good does it do the show?

Updated On: 3/12/08 at 03:42 AM