Is Sebastian from The Little Mermaid a Crab or a Lobster the important thread

[Buffalo]

He has a non segmented carapace, he's a crab.

Yeah ok Jacque Cousteau

[Victor Mildew]

He has a non segmented carapace, he's a crab.

Yeah ok Jacque Cousteau

More like Jack Costco amirite

[Kezzer]

OP is garbage, not even a picture to help us decide.

[Zilnad]

He's Earthworm Jim inside a crab carapace.

[Yubel]

'Under the sea' huh, Sebastian? You live in the sea, below the surface through which light penetrates. But is the ocean floor 'under the sea' or just an impenetrable boundary preventing sea life from truly going under it?

[Qikz]

A better question is whether he is Jamaican or Trinidadian.

I’ve had such a weird little light bulb moment reading this because my immediate thought was ‘eh? Sebastian the Crab was obviously French!’

I then tried singing ‘Under the Sea’ in my head and immediately thought ‘why the strawberry float did I think he was French for the last 30 years?’

Just a tiny little tidbit of completely wrong memory that has gone unchallenged for a few decades.

[Albert]

You lot and your labels.

Maybe just let people (or fish) be who they want to be yeah.

[more heat than light]

Kerr's gone awfully quiet all of a sudden. I'm guessing he was Team Lobster and is now locked in his room questioning his life choices.

[kerr9000]

Kerr's gone awfully quiet all of a sudden. I'm guessing he was Team Lobster and is now locked in his room questioning his life choices.

Actually I am Team Crab... I wanted to leave it blank on which side of the argument I was to not bias anyone's answer. I have been reading my other half the answers.

Neither of us are salty about it.

Yep he is a crab, but I see the lobster connection, its stuff like his head being longer etc but that's to humanise it and add room for expression etc

[Oblomov Boblomov]

Is Ariel a mermaid or animatronic giraffe?

[Herdanos]

Under the sea
Under the sea
It's a discussion
Of the position
Of G R C
Listen Kerr's missus
Of all the fishes
You misinterpret:
This one's delicious
Skarjo says France
We say that's pants
Under the sea

On G R C
On G R C
Kerr's wife's at fault-y
She should be salty
(Just like the sea)
There's much frustration
'Bout this crustacean
I can't believe we're having
This conversation
Yubel went meta
Lad Seb likes wetter -
Very naughty!

Under the sea
On G R C
Smut overwhelms us
It's what unites us
Take it from me!
Everyone wants to
Know who said Lobster
"What about Ariel?"
Asks the Ob Bobster
I voted Lobab
(Clearly he's a crab)
Naturally

That's it from me;
Mr Moggy
Giving a lesson
On 90's poisson
Gee - ogg - raphy
Is he Jamaican?
No, he's from Bristol
I meant Sebastian
Don't take the piss! I'll
Have to leave now, yes
I've overdone this.
Under the seeeeeeeeeaaaaa!

[more heat than light]

Bristol does not rhyme with Piss I'll. So I'm taking away one laughing emoji.

[Victor Mildew]

Under the sea
Under the sea
It's a discussion
Of the position
Of G R C
Listen Kerr's missus
Of all the fishes
You misinterpret:
This one's delicious
Skarjo says France
We say that's pants
Under the sea

On G R C
On G R C
Kerr's wife's at fault-y
She should be salty
(Just like the sea)
There's much frustration
'Bout this crustacean
I can't believe we're having
This conversation
Yubel went meta
Lad Seb likes wetter -
Very naughty!

Under the sea
On G R C
Smut overwhelms us
It's what unites us
Take it from me!
Everyone wants to
Know who said Lobster
"What about Ariel?"
Asks the Ob Bobster
I voted Lobab
(Clearly he's a crab)
Naturally

That's it from me;
Mr Moggy
Giving a lesson
On 90's poisson
Gee - ogg - raphy
Is he Jamaican?
No, he's from Bristol
I meant Sebastian
Don't take the piss! I'll
Have to leave now, yes
I've overdone this.
Under the seeeeeeeeeaaaaa!

[Oblomov Boblomov]

Amazing and I definitely think Bristol works from a rhyming perspective with 'piss I'll'!

[Rubix]

+1 for Crab, he’s clearly a Crab! 13 people voted lobster have a word with yourselves

[kerr9000]

Well I have enjoyed this so next time me and the misses have a funny dispute we need solving I will make sure to bring it here.

[shy guy 64]

i mean disney call him a crab. i would have said that was definitive

[Kezzer]

According to my sources, Sebastian was molested by a Chef? is this true?

[Albert]

It was a different time.

[Ironhide]

My memory says lobster but from any image of the character I can clearly see he's a crab.

I haven't seen the film since the original cinema release so I'm putting it down to unreliable childhood memory