In Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid, Scuttle calls a fork a “dinglehopper.”
Ariel discovers the fork among the human objects in her underwater grotto. When she asks Scuttle what it is used for, the seagull confidently gives it a made-up name and claims humans use it to arrange their hair. Ariel accepts his explanation and later uses the fork while preparing to live on land.
The joke reflects Ariel's fascination with human culture and Scuttle's unreliable knowledge. The utensil is actually a fork, but “dinglehopper” is the memorable term used in the film. It is sometimes confused with “snarfblatt,” another invented name Scuttle gives to a human object: a pipe. Both words belong to the same comic scene, but only the fork is the dinglehopper.
The scene also helps establish Ariel's collection of human artifacts before she makes her bargain with Ursula. Her interest in these objects is central to the story because it shows how strongly she wants to understand the world above the sea.