Chef Louis’s signature cooking song is “Les Poissons” in Disney’s 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid.
“Les Poissons” is a comic musical number performed by Chef Louis while he prepares seafood in Prince Eric’s castle kitchen. The French title means “The Fish,” and the sequence uses exaggerated cooking actions, frantic movement, and Sebastian’s desperate attempts to avoid becoming dinner.
The scene is one of the film’s major comic set pieces and helps introduce the conflict between the human world and the sea creatures Ariel cares about. Chef Louis does not understand Sebastian’s intelligence or his attempt to escape, which drives the slapstick humor.
The song’s title is often remembered imperfectly because its lyrics emphasize food and kitchen vocabulary rather than advancing the main romance. It is separate from the film’s major Ariel and Sebastian songs, including “Part of Your World” and “Under the Sea.”