Python wrote:
I always sort of liked her look. She didn't have to be scary, just "fishy."


The beauty of childhood. I saw this at a very impressionable age and for years and years afterwards,i remembered the mermaid to be this flaming haired, bulging eyed Lovecraftian horror that really left an impact on me. Just thinking of the episode would bring the image of the creature clearly to mind as vivid as it was the day i saw it. I then saw a rerun several years ago and it was a jarring dose of reality. I realized this aquatic horror all along was a Gillman like mask with a stringy frightwig and i learned the power of misremembered childhood memories. A bummer to be sure.