Fraggle Rock Crayons/The Little Mermaid (from Big Bird presents Hans Christian Andersen)

Cast

 * Red Fraggle Yellow as Big Bird
 * Doozers Green as Oscar the Grouch

Transcript
Red Fraggle Yellow: You know, the whole world loves Hans Christian Andersen, but the people of the city of Copenhagen always loved him best of all and their favorite story was the one about The Little Mermaid. They loved her so much that they made a statue of her that sits in the harbor of their city right to this day. When people all over the world think of Copenhagen, they think of The Little Mermaid.

Doozers Green: Hold on, hold on here. What is a mermaid? Something awful, I hope. Heh, heh.

Red Fraggle Yellow: Oh, definitely not.

Doozers Green: Oh.

Red Fraggle Yellow: A mermaid is a beautiful girl. Well, actually, she's half a girl and half a fish. Luckily, her bottom half is the fish part. The Little Mermaid lives at the bottom of the sea where all mermaids live except she was a princess. More than anything else, she wanted to see what the world was like above the sea where the strange people with legs live. At last, on her 15th birthday, she got her wish. She was allowed to swim up, up to the world of sunlight. When she reached the top, though, what should she find but an awful storm and a sinking ship and a handsome prince about to drown? Of course, she saved the prince, swimming to shore with him. Now it was dark and stormy and the prince never saw what she looked like, but she saw the prince all right and she fell in love with him. After leaving him safely on the land, she swam back down to her sisters, but she couldn't forget the handsome prince. So The Little Mermaid went to the terrible, powerful Sea Witch. She was very frightened, but she asked her question. "Can you help me go back up and win my prince?" The Sea Witch replied in a fierce some voice: "I will help you! But it's going to cost you a lot! If you drink this magic potion, your fish tail will disappear and you will have pretty little human legs. It will hurt a lot, but if the prince marries you, you'll become a human being. If he marries someone else, you'll die the next day. And in return for the magic potion, you must give me your voice!" The mermaid was scared, but she agreed. She drank the potion, swam up to the surface and her tail turned into a pair of beautiful legs. When the prince found her, he fell in love with her immediately, but he didn't know it was she who saved his life and she couldn't tell him. One day, he met a princess from a neighboring kingdom. Now this princess had found him after the mermaid had left him on the shore and the Prince, when he had awaken, had thought she had saved his life. He was so happy to find her again, he decided to marry her right away. The world came crashing down on The Little Mermaid. Instead of waiting for the next day, she threw herself into the ocean, but when she opened her eyes, she was high in the sky, surrounded by beautiful floating spirits. They told her they were called "The Daughters of the Air". The mermaid could see right through them. "Come with us", they said in the sweetest voices. "You'll float with us around the world, doing good deeds, blowing sweet winds to make sick people well again, and we're always on the lookout for good children who make their parents happy." You know what, Doozers Green? I'll bet the Little Mermaid is probably floating right around here right now.

Doozers Green: Well, she isn't gonna find any good children in this trashcan.

Red Fraggle Yellow: Uh, oh. It's getting to be time to say goodbye to The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen and Copenhagen. Weren't those stories wonderful, Doozers Green?

Doozers Green: Yeah, well, I did like the part about the mole. Heh, heh, heh. Now scram!