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  • MerMan (1998) When Emma (Elizabeth Banks), a spunky marine biologist, discovers a real life Merman, she promises to keep his secret if he’ll help get her a research grant.

    Judd Apatow’s Funny People: The Films of George Simmons | /Film 2009

  • GROSS: So this is Ethel Merman from the original cast recording of "Gypsy."

    Look, He Made A Hat: Sondheim Talks Sondheim 2010

  • GROSS: So this is Ethel Merman from the original cast recording of "Gypsy."

    Look, He Made A Hat: Sondheim Talks Sondheim 2010

  • So they recited together the Fátihah, and the fisherman loosed the Merman from the net and asked him, “What is thy name?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I always thought it was pretty hilarious that he calls Merman who just happens to be in the middle of wrestling a huge aquatic monster …

    Branded in the 80s! 2010

  • I always thought it was pretty hilarious that he calls Merman who just happens to be in the middle of wrestling a huge aquatic monster …

    Branded in the 80s! 2009

  • I always thought it was pretty hilarious that he calls Merman who just happens to be in the middle of wrestling a huge aquatic monster …

    Branded in the 80s! 2009

  • I always thought it was pretty hilarious that he calls Merman who just happens to be in the middle of wrestling a huge aquatic monster …

    Branded in the 80s! 2009

  • Besides, the sea was calm and the evening fair, and, as a last attempt, they steered still farther out, and cast their nets beside a rock which rose rough and grey above the water, and was called the Merman's Seat -- from an old report that the fishermen's fathers had seen the mermen, or sea-people, sitting there on moonlight nights.

    Granny's Wonderful Chair Frances Browne

  • Besides, the sea was calm and the evening fair, and, as a last attempt, they steered still further out, and cast their nets beside a rock which rose rough and gray above the water, and was called the Merman's Seat – from an old report that the fishermen's fathers had seen the mermen, or sea-people, sitting there on moonlight nights.

    Granny's Wonderful Chair 1928

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