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‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Black Princess Test

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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The Princess and the Frog Prince

The movie is based on the traditional frog prince story where you know you have to kiss a frog and it becomes a prince. The Disney-fied version of that is there's a little black girl who kisses a frog and the frog is under a voodoo spell, which also makes her a frog. They both become frogs and then they're both saved in some weird showdown between good and evil at the end.

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