TV's Frink said:

This is having a ridiculous disproportionate I don't even know what. It was dumb when they made it, and it's dumb to try and save it.

That's like saying it's okay to not release Song of the South because it has dumb racist caricatures. It's just a product of both the times and the creator(s) at the time. It belongs in a certain context. I can't say that someone owes us the OUT and at the same time say that we should not restore the original version of Knick Knack. As stupidly over-proportioned as the mermaid is, that's part of what the short is. It may be dumb, it may be unrealistic, but it's important nonetheless.