A character in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)

Cheeks quotes from The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)

Kevin Michael Richardson

Scenes with Cheeks

6 scenes
Ink Spot
[Meanwhile, at the dungeon. Ray-Ray throws the ball against the wall with Flounder, as Sebastian, Cheeks and Shelbow are sad being in the dungeon, as Ink Spot panics]

I got to get out of here. I got to get out. The walls, they're closing in. There's no space! No Air! [grunting] I got it! We'll start a riot! Follow my lead. ATLANTICA! ATLANTICA! Join me, guys. ATLANTICA!

Ray Ray

Hey, Ink Spot.

Ink Spot

Yeah? [Ray-Ray throws the ball to Ink Spot as he squeezes the ball while breathing]

Ray Ray

This ain't living. You know what I'm saying?

Sheldon

And the acoustics are non-good-ular. Listen. ♪ Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do ♪

Flounder

Come on, at least we're hanging out. Can I get a "hoo-yah?"

Sebastian

Come on, guys. This looks a lot worse than it is. I'll just get an audience with the king and I'll fix it.

Shelbow

Now, no offense, man, but you had ten years to fix it, and this is where we end up?

Ink Spot

In jail. [The band gathered around to discuss the plan]

Sebastian

Well, I... [And the band are done discussing the plan]

Ray Ray

The band has talked it up, see, and we want you to...

Cheeks

Slip through the bars.

Shelbow

Use your claws to pick the lock, man.

Ink Spot

And open that door! [They have each other about that being a good plan]

Flounder

Liquid! [the gang looked at him] Just kidding.

Sebastian

No! Bad Plan! If we break out of this jail, there ain't no coming back here, mon! We'll be fugitives! [The pause at that, but they agree on being fugitives]

Flounder

What's a fugitive? [Ariel arrives and heads to their cell]

Sebastian

What about Ariel? You just gonna abandon her, leave her to deal wit all dat we tangled her up in? You tink that small, weak, helpless little girl can do anything by herself? [Ariel smashes the cell door with the rock] Ariel?

Ariel
[opens the cell door]

Come on Sebastian, let's go.

Shelbow

I'm with her.

Sebastian

If we run away from Atlantica, it will break your father's heart.

Ray Ray

She got to do what she got to do.

Ariel

I'm sorry. I just can't live here.

Ink Spot

Yeah, let's go.

Sebastian
[closes the cell door]

Listen, I will not be responsible for taking you away from your family.

Ariel
[opens the cell door again]

I'm leaving! With or without you.

Cheeks

All right!

Sebastian
[closes the cell door again, but this time he is out of the cell]

NOBODY'S LEAVING! [gasps]

Shelbow

Except you.

Ray Ray

Mmm-hmm.

Ariel

Look, Sebastian, without music, this place just isn't home.

Shelbow

You know she ain't lying.

Ray Ray

Ain't no comeback to that!

Ink Spot

You got that right.

Sebastian
[Tries to think]

Ha! Oh, no, no, no. [gasps, grumbles] Never mind. [screams]

Ariel

Are you OK?

Sebastian

Ariel, you're right! Without music, this place just isn't home. I know just where to go!

Band and Flounder

FREEDOM! [They go through the cell door ramming Sebastian against the wall]

Sebastian

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

Flounder
[scatting]
Sebastian

Flounder, shh! Move it, move it, move it, mon.

Flounder

Move it, move it, move it.

Sebastian

Flounder, please!

Flounder
[scatting]
Sebastian

Shh! This way. Come on.

Flounder
[scatting]
Ink Spot

Flounder, shh! Be quiet.

Cheeks

Ditto!

Shelbow

Shh!

Flounder
[scatting loudly]

YEAH! HIT ME!

Ray-Ray

Hey, small fry, I think you could use some lessons in fugitivity.

Flounder

Oh, yeah. Right. Got it. [conutining scatting]

Cheeks

You're gonna blow it for all of us.

Flounder

Blow, good. [continues scatting]

Shelbow

Hey, kid, ixnay on the soundtrack.

Flounder

Why?

Ink Spot

Why? Why? Why? Try jail!

Cheeks

Prison!

Shelbow

The big house!

Sebastian

The slammer!

Ray-Ray

Music is against the law, you dig?

Flounder

Not out here.

All

What?

Flounder

Come on. We ran away so we could sing. And I'm singing. Sing it with me. [scatting]

Shelbow

You know, the kid's striking a major chord.

Cheeks

I feel it, I feel it.

Shelbow

Look at him go with his bad little self.

Cheeks

Oh, yeah.

Ink Spot

Come on. Let it happen.

Ray-Ray
[scatting]
Gang
[singing]

♪ Sha-na-na, na, na, na, an Na, na, na, na, na, an Shake, shake, shake, Senora Shake your body line ♪

Ariel
[singing]

♪ Shake your body line ♪

Gang
[singing]

♪ Shake, shake, shake, Senora Shake it all the time ♪

Sebastian
[singing]

♪ Shake it all the time ♪

Gang

Work, work, work, Senora Work your body line ♪

Ariel
[singing]

♪ Work your body ♪

Gang

Work, work, work, Senora Work it all the time ♪

Flounder
[singing]

♪ Let's break it down Jump-J-J-Jump in the line Rock your body on time ♪

Ray-Ray

There he goes again.

Flounder
[singing]

♪ J-J-Jump in the line ♪

Cheeks

He's groovin'!

Ray-Ray

Let me try again now.

Ray-Ray and Flounder
[singing]

♪ Jump-J-J-Jump in the line - Rock your body on time - ♪

All

We're in!

Gang
[singing]

♪ Jump-J-J-Jump J- J-Jump Jump Whoo! Jump in the line ♪

Ink Spot

HIT IT!

Gang
[singing]

♪ Jump in the line Rock your body in time ♪

Shelbow

All right.

Ink Spot

OK.

Cheeks

Let's step-a-doodle.

Gang
[singing]

♪ Jump in the line Rock your body on time ♪

Flounder

Where are we going exactly?

Sebastian
[To Flounder]

Don't worry, mon.

Flounder

'Cause I got to go to the bathroom.

Ariel

Oh, Flounder.

Flounder

Are we there yet?

Sebastian

No.

Flounder

Are we there yet?

Sabastian

No.

Flounder

Are we there yet?

Sebastian

No.

Flounder

Are we there yet?

Sebastian

No.

Flounder

Are we there yet?

Sebastian

Yes. This is it.

Flounder

Are you sure?

Sebastian

Yes.

Ray Ray

Are you sure?
Sebastian Yes.

Ariel

Are you s-?

Sebastian
[losing control of his rage and yelling at Ariel]

YES!!!

Ink Spot

Oh, man. We can't live here!

Shelbow

Yeah, this place is all "Oom-pa-pa." We need some... [drumbeats]

Sebastian

Nonsense. It's perfect. Just listen to them acoustics: [singing] ♪ Do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti, do ♪ [It echoes three times] Solid.

Ray Ray

Well, it beats the dungeon.

Cheeks

But not by much.

Shelbow

It'll do for the time being. Excuse me.

Ray-Ray
[He goes inside his shell and, Ink Spot goes on a boulder and sleeps upside down, and Ray-Ray buries himself in the sand]

Ooh... [Flounder tries to do the same thing that Ray Ray but fail and spits out the sand]

Flounder
[sputtering]
Ariel

Sebastian, be honest. Are we lost?

Sebastian

No, this is fine. There's more to this place than meets the eye.

Flounder
[The gang went to sleep until...] [Once again, scatting]
Everyone
[angrily]

KNOCK IT OFF!

Flounder

Sorry.

Ariel
[In the morning, Then Ariel wakes up as well and hears something and see something flashing in the distance, Sebastian snoring]

Sebastian.

Sebastian

Ten minutes, Mommy.

Ariel

Sebastian, did you hear that sound?

Sebastian

Leave me alone. I'm Sleeping.

Ariel

But there's something out there. Come on, help us find it.

Sebastian

I'm tired. You go check it out.

Ariel
[Ariel swim out to follow the sound, Sebastian watches her leave as Ariel swim to follow the sound, and she stopped near the kelp forest, She swim through the kelp forest, and she's amazed of what she seeing, A shiny cave is what she's entered, as she look through the walls] [chuckles]
Sebastian
[Ariel looks around and sees a reflection of herself and then she sees something, Ariel picks up the box and opens it and King Triton dancing with Queen Athena.]

It was an anniversary present. Your father had the music box made for your mother. Athena was more than his queen, you know. She was his best friend.

Ariel
[Flashback of her and her sisters young, and Triton dances with Athena. And they play with each other, and young Ariel playing the piano for the first time. And her bandaged hand being kissed by King Triton] [VO]

The family together. Music playing all the time.

Sebastian

The palace always echoing with laughter.

Sebastian
[The two girls hide and then they tackled their father, and they laugh in joy, and fades to Triton and Athena being on the rock at the surface world. And we fade back to the present.]

When your mother died, the whole kingdom was heartbroken. The heart that never healed was your father's. [Ariel are sad about this]

Ariel

It's so sad. He's forgotten what it feels like to be happy. I... I have to bring this back to him.

Sebastian

If you insist.

Ariel

This is why we came here, isn't it? [Sebastian smiles and we cut to the gang]

Ray-Ray

Whoa, whoa, let me get this straight. You led us out here...

Ink Spot

To the armpit of nowhere, man.

Shelbow

In the hope that Red might find the music box. And now you wanna go back to the palace...

Ink Spot

To return the music box to the king...

Ray-Ray

On the chance that maybe it'll...

Shelbow

Remind him to remember how to be happy...

Ink Spot

And then he'll bring music back?

Sebastian

That about sums it up.

Cheeks

Couldn't we just strap it to a dolphin? He'd get it eventually.

Ray-Ray
[The band gathered around again, to discuss it. And the band are done discussing it and say.]

Listen, the band talked it over, and...

Shelbow

We just can't take that chance.

Sebastian

What?!

Flounder

Huh?

Ariel

It's OK. Maybe someday it'll be different. You'll come home and play music all you want.

Ray-Ray

Sure, Red. Someday. Someday.

Ariel

Bye. [They swim different as Flounder is distaught by this]

Flounder

What? No, no, wait. Ray-Ray! Guys! We can't just let them go back alone.

Ray-Ray

Drop it, small fry.

Flounder

But we took an oath! To jump, jive, wail, groove, rock steady, and at all times lend a helping hand to your fellow music lovers!

Ray-Ray

The Catfish Club is history. That oath don't mean a thing.

Flounder

Well, it still means something to me. Hey, Ariel! Wait up! Ariel! [Flounder swims up to Ariel's direction as the band watch him go]

Marina Del Rey
[Sebastian facing against Marina]

I've tasted power, Sebastian. And I'm never letting go.

Sebastian

Bring it on! [gathers the starfish] Come to daddy.

Sebastian
[Marina tries to attack him, but he throws starfish at her, and her face is covered with them]

Oh, my! [chuckling]

Ink Spot
[Marina gets angry and whacks him with her tail, Go back to Ariel and Flounder being chased by eels and comes across a dead end. Then Tentacles appear out of nowhere grabs them and pull them up and it turns out to be Ink Spot]

NOW!

Ray-Ray

Fire!

Flounder
[He slingshits Cheeks into the pillars and they fall down and traps the eels inside]

Yeah! Awesome!

Ray-Ray

Ooh, they hurtin' for certain.

Cheeks

Yup, yup, yup. [chuckles]

Ariel

Sebastian's in trouble!

Flounder

Follow me!
[They swim to where Sebastian is facing Marina]

Ariel
[At the final battle is over, Marina, still stick in a tube, decides to swim up and run over Sebastian] [gasps]

SEBASTIAN!

Flounder

LOOK OUT!!!!

King Triton
[As Ariel swims forward, King Triton arrives and watches] [horrified]

ARIEL! NO!

King Triton
[Marina starts to go after to hit Sebastian, but Ariel blocked the attack, knocking her out of the way to save Sebastian, but rendered her unconscious. Ariel falls down, As King Triton swims toward her as the others watch in sadness. Then, the music box falls down from Ariel's arms and it opens and plays the song, as King Triton listens to it and realizes what has become of him] [devastated]

What have I done? [singing] ♪ Endless sky. Waves try to measure. The days that we treasure.

Ariel
[Then suddenly, Ariel wakes up]

Daddy?

King Triton

I'm... I'm so sorry I didn't listen.

Ariel
[hugs him]

Daddy. Let's go home.

Both
[sigh]
Flounder
[King Triton swims off with Ariel in his arms]

Guys, you came back.

Ray-Ray

Sure did, small fry. Like you said, we took an oath.

Ink Spot

Come here, you little knucklehead. Group hug!

Shelbow

Big hug!

Cheeks

We dig you, man.

Flounder
[They group hug around Flounder, squeezing him.]

Guys... can't breathe.
[Then Sebastian closes the music box and smiles at the audience]

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