An 8-minute romp where a mermaid crashes your career ambitions — literally.
Jeff heads home to rest before cooking for an important person. When he is lured to a pool by an amorous mermaid, he has to choose between satisfying his libido or staying focused on the future.
Practical Effects
Mermaid tail that commits to the bit.
Acting
Damian Samuels' escalating panic is perfectly calibrated.
Writing
Economic storytelling — setup, temptation, punchline, done.
Director
Mark Eccleston
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ewen MacIntosh (The Judge) is better known as Keith from the UK Office — his casting adds meta-layers of workplace humiliation.
The mermaid-as-temptress trope gets a deliberately unsexy British working-class spin, landing somewhere between Carry On and early Aardman.
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