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Little Mermaid Live is a live television adaptation of Disney's Little Mermaid due to air on November 5th, 2019 on ABC.^[1] Turned viral on Twitter after ABC revealed its casting which inculdes John Stamos, Shaggy and Queen Latifah.

History

On October 6th, 2019, ABC Network tweeted a casting reveal video for their November 5th live production of Little Mermaid (shown below). The video reveals that Auli'i Cravalho would play Ariel, Queen Latifah would play Ursula, Shaggy as Sebastian, John Stamos as Chef Louis and Graham Philips as Prince Eric. The video gained over 2,700 likes and 650 retweets in two days.

That day, Many Twitter users reacted in excitement and remained curious as to would would be playing King Triton or Flounder (shown below, left).^[2] Other Twitter users like @speriod^[3] commented that "There is so much going on in the Little Mermaid Live ad" (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 130 likes two days.

Most Twitter users commented on the casting of John Stamos and Shaggy as Chef and Sebastian. On October 7th, Twitter user @Buote^[4] tweeted, "is there a change dot org petition to have ABC add a number where Sebastian sings It Wasn't Me in The Little Mermaid Live because I will sign it" (shown below, left). Twitter user @alexisthenedd^[5] also tweeted that day in it can't hurt you format (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 160 likes in a day.

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