As significant as this scene is for the film's humor John Candy, and even Eugene Levy to a smaller degree carry most of the comedic load. However you can't forget the "I am not a fish!" line from Hanks.
That was deliberate on director Ron Howard’s part, since he told Tom Hanks after the read-through that his job was not to be funny (since John Candy and Eugene Levy would get all the laughs), but instead his job was to love the girl because if the audience doesn’t buy into the love story, then the movie would fall apart: ua-cam.com/video/YB7dLBQTnTk/v-deo.htmlm54s . Of course, that’s not to say Tom Hanks doesn’t have some funny memorable lines in the movie, like “I am not a fish” and “All my life I’ve been waiting for someone, and when I find her, she’s…she’s a fish!”.
I think in context, you'll find those are 'display' TV's only and have no sale value as such.....so technically the store would be ripping her off, not the other way round.
Unlike most Hallmark movies where it’s the woman giving up her career, her home, and her friends to marry some generic hot guy, it’s the MAN giving up his career, his home, and his friends to be with the mermaid he loves under the sea.
Funny you should mention that, since “Fairly OddParents” creator Butch Hartman actually admitted on his podcast series “Speech Bubbles” that he based the character of Denzel Crocker on Eugene Levy’s character Walter Kornbluth from “Splash”: ua-cam.com/video/U2Ro_mGVnBc/v-deo.htmlm12s
0:00-0:09 Love the shoutout to Disney’s “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”! (Makes sense, since “Splash” was also produced by Disney, albeit released under the label “Touchstone Pictures”)
1 day for developing a full language system? She must be part robot and part mermaid. I've never heard of someone having the capability of building an entire useful lexicon of one language (say- a low figure of 10,000 words) and speak it fluently. The base number of 10,000 words would all have to be somehow spread through the magical programming of that single day. Mermaid ears + robot language processing unit = check.
+Jay Flippen: "If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts (La la la)/Just repeat to yourself 'It's just a show, I should really just relax'"
This does speak volumes about her intelligence, though. In one day, she learned to speak English, but it was a bit warped from how people tended to speak on TV. Every other bit of her "naiveté" was simply because she'd never dealt with humans before.
Museums and shops selling cathode ray tubes should prohibit speaking mermish because it is spoken in a way that breaks the windows in 10 Downing Street... if your voice can get louder than nuclear weapons going BOOM and a maximum pitch of 1959 quadrillion exahertz.
I figure that the mermaid's real name sounds A LOT BETTER in the water than it does out of the water. I believe that in the water, her name has a beautiful, musical aspect to it (i.e., "Madison" SINGS her true name). It's just like Harry Potter's golden egg in that sense. After all, that egg did speak in the voice of a mermaid! So, if Harry Potter opened this egg out of the water, it would make a series of terrible shrieks. And yet, if he opened this egg in the water (i.e., in the bathtub of the Prefects' bathroom), then it would sing beautifully to him. The egg's message was as follows: Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, An hour long you'll have to look, To recover what we took.
Female nudity to be more precise, since before “Splash”, there was “Pollyanna” which opens with a closeup of a BOY’S butt as he swings on a rope to go skinny dipping with his buddies; and there also was “Never Cry Wolf” in which there’s brief nudity of Charles Martin Smith both front and back as he runs with the caribou.
This is the only mermaid film that doesn't make me feel uncontrollable amounts of hate. This is because it isn't a musical like The Little Mermaid and Madison's happiness isn't sickening it's cute and endearing. In The Little Mermaid Ariel's happiness and wonder is sickening because it's a Disney Princess film and almost every 5 seconds she sings.
Unlike Ariel, Madison is an ADULT (presumably in her 20s), so she doesn’t come with the stereotypical teenage traits of selfishness and impulsivity that Ariel has. Sure, like Ariel, Madison may start off as dopey and naive on land, since she’s a literal fish out of water, BUT unlike Ariel, Madison shows herself to be *a quick learner (as evidenced by her learning English from watching six consecutive hours of TV, and by her being able to ice skate in one try despite never being exposed to ice),* as well as someone who can *easily navigate around the human world in her own way (as evidenced by her ability to convince the male construction workers that instead of paying for the soon-to-be demolished mermaid fountain with hard cash, Madison will instead trade in her NECKLACE for the mermaid fountain that would then be installed in Allen’s bedroom thanks to Madison’s instruction).* It also helps that unlike Ariel who spied on Eric from afar and was convinced that Eric was the one for her despite knowing nothing about him, Madison had already met Allen when they were LITTLE KIDS in the film’s prologue. Sure the two never shared a verbal conversation, obviously due to being underwater, BUT the young Madison could still sense the young Allen’s KIND, LOVING NATURE towards her as evidenced by *Allen reaching out his hand for Madison to grab and Allen staring happily into Madison’s eyes.* Yes, the prologue in “Splash” is very much a “love at first sight” scenario, but it’s meant to show that Allen and Madison were destined to be together, as they both waited 20 years to reunite as adults and consummate their love. Furthermore, unlike Ariel, Madison doesn’t give up her world to be with Allen on land, but rather ALLEN gives up his world to be with Madison 🎶under the sea🎶. It’s weird how “Splash” (which was released under Disney’s “Touchstone Films” banner) PREDATES Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” by five years because “Splash” feels like a response to the criticisms levied against “The Little Mermaid”. 😂 What happened to feminism between 1984 and 1989? 😂
@@willfomes406 Ariel is not my favorite movie mermaid, since that obviously goes to Madison in “Splash”, but I don’t despise her either since my autistic self can relate to Ariel feeling like no one understands her “special interest” in human culture (for me, my special interests include collecting sheet music; listening to Israeli pop singers like Ofra Haza and Yardena Arazi; and obsessing over 80s movies that deserve more love like “Splash” and “For Keeps?”). Plus I love Ariel’s design, which ironically came about because the animators didn’t want to turn Ariel into an animated version of Madison. 😂
@@willfomes406 It’s worth noting that the original ending of “Splash” didn't have Allen (Tom Hanks) jumping in the water to be with Madison (Daryl Hannah). HOWEVER, according to director Ron Howard in the DVD commentary for “Splash”, the ending was changed to have the lovers swim off in the ocean thanks to the suggestions of *Ron’s wife, producer Brian Grazer's wife, AND the wives of screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel* (in fact, Babaloo's wife went as far as saying to Babaloo, *”If he doesn't go, you go!”).* Even the June 1984 issue of the British sci-fi magazine “Starburst” corroborated this, by having Ron Howard state: *”At one point we didn’t really go for a happy ending, more for a bittersweet one. Actually all of our wives protested about that so much that we listened to them - and I’m so glad we did!”.* Source of quote above: archive.org/details/Starburst_Magazine_071_1984-06_Marvel-UK/page/n17/mode/1up
@@willfomes406 Contrast that with “The Little Mermaid” where NO WOMEN (not even the wives of directors and screenwriters John Musker and Ron Clements) were consulted for the script, which might explain the feminist backlash against Ariel changing herself in order to be with Eric on land.
"Excuse me. I never went to college, but wasn't that English?" LOL
Hilarious
Darryl was so incredibly beautiful and the best 80’s fashion model
Way to go, Madison! Now, thanks to you, Alan owes the biggest TV bill in the history of NYC!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I believe he did pay for it 😂
Splash is a great movie and this scene was so damn hilarious 😊
Excuse me, do you know this woman?
"No, I just felt like hugging a random blonde."
Ha
Madison: My name is... (high pitched squeak)
Me: Youch! That hurts!
In that water, the name would sound heavenly XD
“What a lovely singing voice you must have!” - Peter Venkman, “Ghostbusters”
Eee eeee eeeeee!
I like her name, it suits her.
The CAPITAL OF WISCONSIN!!
I always loved this scene!
Me to
Me three!
The lesson learned here is never ask a mermaid her name in a TV store.
I love how they created a mermaid language to say he name. Its fascinating 😮
But how did they make the high pitched squeaking? A creaky hinge? Pulling a balloon end?
See if these had been flatscreens, this wouldn't have been a problem.
Well, Madison’s real name is simply HILARIOUS, blowing up the TVs like that!
Forever one of the most random scenes of all time. I cry.
As significant as this scene is for the film's humor John Candy, and even Eugene Levy to a smaller degree carry most of the comedic load. However you can't forget the "I am not a fish!" line from Hanks.
That was deliberate on director Ron Howard’s part, since he told Tom Hanks after the read-through that his job was not to be funny (since John Candy and Eugene Levy would get all the laughs), but instead his job was to love the girl because if the audience doesn’t buy into the love story, then the movie would fall apart: ua-cam.com/video/YB7dLBQTnTk/v-deo.htmlm54s .
Of course, that’s not to say Tom Hanks doesn’t have some funny memorable lines in the movie, like “I am not a fish” and “All my life I’ve been waiting for someone, and when I find her, she’s…she’s a fish!”.
Dolphin squeaks goes wrong.🤣🤣😂😂
My favorite Tom Hanks movie right behind Big
"You break them, you buy them" XD
Yep
I think in context, you'll find those are 'display' TV's only and have no sale value as such.....so technically the store would be ripping her off, not the other way round.
I like Madison's voice
0:47 She's so adorable.
0:48-0:53 And what a lovely singing voice you have! 😂
Oh, nice to meet you "Eeeek, Eeeek"
Still a better name than North West.
Still a better love story than Hallmark movies.
Unlike most Hallmark movies where it’s the woman giving up her career, her home, and her friends to marry some generic hot guy, it’s the MAN giving up his career, his home, and his friends to be with the mermaid he loves under the sea.
I consider this and You've Got Mail (where the leads speak like they're Dawson's Creek characters) to be my favorite Hanks romcoms.
Laughed my ass off, when I first saw this.
Best scene in the movie!
It would be awesome to learn another language by watching TV all day!!!
do it everyone else does.... or says they do
That Honestly Is A Good Way To Learn Because That's One Of The Ways That I Am Learning Spanish!!!
Watches TV to learn new language.
Breaks TV by speaking new language.
1 TV survived that squeaking.
That TV was the closest to her. Maybe that TV is a high quality one. The rest is rubbish!
How my Tinder dates usually go...
Her real name reminds me of the little dolphin who cried dolphin noise from the Fairly Odd Parents 🤣🐬
Funny you should mention that, since “Fairly OddParents” creator Butch Hartman actually admitted on his podcast series “Speech Bubbles” that he based the character of Denzel Crocker on Eugene Levy’s character Walter Kornbluth from “Splash”: ua-cam.com/video/U2Ro_mGVnBc/v-deo.htmlm12s
0:16, When I first heard Daryl Hannah say that line, I said to myself, "So, she can speak."
hi my name is Eeeeeeee my name is who? my name is EEEE EEEEE
there goes my ear drums...... annnnnddd there goes my computer screen
You need a different computer to type this message! :D
...and there goes those Knicks!
Eee eee eeee!!!
finally figured out what Mariah Carey sings like
Madison just gave Mariah Carey a run for her money! 😂
😂
0:17 This Is My Funniest Scene In The Movie. Thanks Mate. X
7 TVs disliked this video.
0:00-0:09 Love the shoutout to Disney’s “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”!
(Makes sense, since “Splash” was also produced by Disney, albeit released under the label “Touchstone Pictures”)
Ouch, my ears. Dolphin language really hurts your ears doesn't it? Maawwhawhawhawhaw!
Yes it was.
That part scared me for the first time. My ears hurt now.
1 day for developing a full language system? She must be part robot and part mermaid. I've never heard of someone having the capability of building an entire useful lexicon of one language (say- a low figure of 10,000 words) and speak it fluently. The base number of 10,000 words would all have to be somehow spread through the magical programming of that single day. Mermaid ears + robot language processing unit = check.
+Jay Flippen: "If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts (La la la)/Just repeat to yourself 'It's just a show, I should really just relax'"
This does speak volumes about her intelligence, though. In one day, she learned to speak English, but it was a bit warped from how people tended to speak on TV.
Every other bit of her "naiveté" was simply because she'd never dealt with humans before.
To quote Princess Jasmine from Disney’s “Aladdin”, *”I’m a fast learner!”.*
haha this clip always freaks my dog out.
Matt Falkenberg I know like it as well it's funny dude 😀
I've been asked by my restaurant manager to not try to make this noise in the main dining room during my shifts..
Is it me or can I see this as an E Meme?
Madison says "My Name Is..." and we get the E Meme saying..."E"!
* COAST GUARD NOISE *
My gruncle said that
Grunkle Stan?
Well, ask a dumb question...
“Hey how ‘bout those knicks?” Lol
Perfect name
Museums and shops selling cathode ray tubes should prohibit speaking mermish because it is spoken in a way that breaks the windows in 10 Downing Street... if your voice can get louder than nuclear weapons going BOOM and a maximum pitch of 1959 quadrillion exahertz.
I figure that the mermaid's real name sounds A LOT BETTER in the water than it does out of the water. I believe that in the water, her name has a beautiful, musical aspect to it (i.e., "Madison" SINGS her true name). It's just like Harry Potter's golden egg in that sense. After all, that egg did speak in the voice of a mermaid! So, if Harry Potter opened this egg out of the water, it would make a series of terrible shrieks. And yet, if he opened this egg in the water (i.e., in the bathtub of the Prefects' bathroom), then it would sing beautifully to him. The egg's message was as follows:
Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
An hour long you'll have to look,
To recover what we took.
At 0:37, millenials or zoomers would probably respond "Ariel".
I always tiptoed in the tv department at Sears and Macys. I was terrified of mirrors at the salon.
My favorite mtv video was Thompson twins
I will so pay for those!
"Hey, how bout those Knicks?"
Only In Theaters: March 9, 1984
the knicks are pretty good
Geweldig
I have blonde hair just not as blonde as the beauty Madison I want her hair! So blonde so goureous ❤️❤️❤️
Nice canary cry!
0:47 LOL
Sea maiden
LOL!
0:39 classic
You’re name is EEEE?? 🙃🙃 lovely name
What is the name of the Bonanza episode she watched?
How beautiful ❤️ how bout those mets
My Goodness, the 🐬 Ears are Hurting your Ears.
EEEEE!! EEEEE!! EEEEE!!
Jesus Christ (giggle) ya ya
God bless
0:37 is the good stuff
My eardrum is still my hearing is ok just put volume low so you can hear
oops! sorry 'bout dat chief!
This part was a bit much. But it was great acting.
Hey how about that Lin guy?
Alguien se acuerda de esta película me podrían decir como se llamaba esta película
123 Splash
Year 1984
😝✌️💯
lol
I am her
First Disney movie with nudity, right?
Female nudity to be more precise, since before “Splash”, there was “Pollyanna” which opens with a closeup of a BOY’S butt as he swings on a rope to go skinny dipping with his buddies; and there also was “Never Cry Wolf” in which there’s brief nudity of Charles Martin Smith both front and back as he runs with the caribou.
What did Allan mean by how about those nicks?
Just to change the subject,
The New York Knicks, a sports team
A professional basketball team, to be exact.
He was talking about the new York knicks.
This is the only mermaid film that doesn't make me feel uncontrollable amounts of hate. This is because it isn't a musical like The Little Mermaid and Madison's happiness isn't sickening it's cute and endearing. In The Little Mermaid Ariel's happiness and wonder is sickening because it's a Disney Princess film and almost every 5 seconds she sings.
Unlike Ariel, Madison is an ADULT (presumably in her 20s), so she doesn’t come with the stereotypical teenage traits of selfishness and impulsivity that Ariel has.
Sure, like Ariel, Madison may start off as dopey and naive on land, since she’s a literal fish out of water, BUT unlike Ariel, Madison shows herself to be *a quick learner (as evidenced by her learning English from watching six consecutive hours of TV, and by her being able to ice skate in one try despite never being exposed to ice),* as well as someone who can *easily navigate around the human world in her own way (as evidenced by her ability to convince the male construction workers that instead of paying for the soon-to-be demolished mermaid fountain with hard cash, Madison will instead trade in her NECKLACE for the mermaid fountain that would then be installed in Allen’s bedroom thanks to Madison’s instruction).*
It also helps that unlike Ariel who spied on Eric from afar and was convinced that Eric was the one for her despite knowing nothing about him, Madison had already met Allen when they were LITTLE KIDS in the film’s prologue.
Sure the two never shared a verbal conversation, obviously due to being underwater, BUT the young Madison could still sense the young Allen’s KIND, LOVING NATURE towards her as evidenced by *Allen reaching out his hand for Madison to grab and Allen staring happily into Madison’s eyes.*
Yes, the prologue in “Splash” is very much a “love at first sight” scenario, but it’s meant to show that Allen and Madison were destined to be together, as they both waited 20 years to reunite as adults and consummate their love.
Furthermore, unlike Ariel, Madison doesn’t give up her world to be with Allen on land, but rather ALLEN gives up his world to be with Madison 🎶under the sea🎶.
It’s weird how “Splash” (which was released under Disney’s “Touchstone Films” banner) PREDATES Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” by five years because “Splash” feels like a response to the criticisms levied against “The Little Mermaid”. 😂
What happened to feminism between 1984 and 1989? 😂
@@beethovensfidelio That's a really good comparison between the characters. Madison is 100% better than Ariel.
@@willfomes406 Ariel is not my favorite movie mermaid, since that obviously goes to Madison in “Splash”, but I don’t despise her either since my autistic self can relate to Ariel feeling like no one understands her “special interest” in human culture (for me, my special interests include collecting sheet music; listening to Israeli pop singers like Ofra Haza and Yardena Arazi; and obsessing over 80s movies that deserve more love like “Splash” and “For Keeps?”).
Plus I love Ariel’s design, which ironically came about because the animators didn’t want to turn Ariel into an animated version of Madison. 😂
@@willfomes406 It’s worth noting that the original ending of “Splash” didn't have Allen (Tom Hanks) jumping in the water to be with Madison (Daryl Hannah).
HOWEVER, according to director Ron Howard in the DVD commentary for “Splash”, the ending was changed to have the lovers swim off in the ocean thanks to the suggestions of *Ron’s wife, producer Brian Grazer's wife, AND the wives of screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel* (in fact, Babaloo's wife went as far as saying to Babaloo, *”If he doesn't go, you go!”).*
Even the June 1984 issue of the British sci-fi magazine “Starburst” corroborated this, by having Ron Howard state:
*”At one point we didn’t really go for a happy ending, more for a bittersweet one. Actually all of our wives protested about that so much that we listened to them - and I’m so glad we did!”.*
Source of quote above: archive.org/details/Starburst_Magazine_071_1984-06_Marvel-UK/page/n17/mode/1up
@@willfomes406 Contrast that with “The Little Mermaid” where NO WOMEN (not even the wives of directors and screenwriters John Musker and Ron Clements) were consulted for the script, which might explain the feminist backlash against Ariel changing herself in order to be with Eric on land.
Just read it's being remade
Yes. In this case the genders will be reversed and it will be a lonely woman meeting a hunky merman!
why?
@@causeeffect7624 , +Richelle Flores: Fortunately, going by IMDB, it appears to be stuck in development hell, where it belongs.
@@JKTube yes leave it be!
It meamine me chipmunk go to the movie Alvin call them splosh
0:46
0:45 thank me later
I love this movie. But dont get me started on the negative consequences this would have in real life.
...no, get started....then finish
+Sarah Connor: Well, given what happened in YOUR movie released the same year, you can talk about the consequences of impossible situations. ;)
You break ‘em. You buy ‘em.
Iam sorry you can't kill Humanity Hatti
💦😎
Madison is having problems speaking English
My name is stop stealing from the vineyard
Hey thanks for everything! Here’s something for fun: ua-cam.com/video/ZFgro4GnnT4/v-deo.html
I don’t wanna be rude but her mermaid language hurts my ears too