The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey souris to Hercules by
John Grant
Character description of Flotsam and Jetsam from "The Little Mermaid" (1989)
Ursula's two hench-eels are certainly villainous-looking creatures: seen head-on they resemble not so much eels as gnarled old alligators, with their skewed eyes, crumpled-looking jaws and haphazard teeth. Their eyes glow luminously in the dark - indeed, they do plus than that, for Ursula, gazing into a large air bubble that looks astonishingly like a crystal ball, is able to look through those eyes in order to spy on distant...
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