In this Family Guy Disney cartoon parody, Meg has tentacles for her lower half:
In Drawn Together, in “Clara’s Dirty Little Secret” the parody of a Disney princess, Clara, has long tentacles coming out of her crotch.
http://drawntogether.wikia.com says it is “a reference to tentacle rape, a theme found in a number of hentai films. The monster might be more directly a reference to the anime Urotsukidoji [“Legend of the Overfiend”], which is probably the most famous film dealing with the subject.”
I think tentacles coming from the girl and tentacles going into the girl is a different concept (from what I remember of Legend of the Overfiend the girls were normal?). Also that doesn’t explain Meg.
The basic premise is that women look good on the surface and they attract men towards them but they’re secretly monsters who want to destroy men via sex. Tentacles are the chosen metaphor because women will supposedly trap a man and not let him escape.
It’s a belief that reveals a lot about the believer.
A melusine is a term for a two-tailed mermaid (or, more correctly, the singlular Melusine is often depicted as a two-tailed mermaid- it’s like the Pegasus=all winged horses thing)
Quite right, although it seems to have permeated the rest of our culture – I see a lot of half-serpentine Medusas these days.
Harryhausen arguably got the look by plagiarizing himself – he had a half-serpentine belly dancer in The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Although you can find half-snake people on ancient Greek pottery, so Harryhausen didn’t invent that part of it.
Eh. Stewie also got tentacles in an episode (as did Maggie Simpson). There’s no need to get Freudian about it - sometimes a tentacle is just a tentacle.
