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But the first mermaid that comes into focus doesn’t so much evoke wonder as it does a flashback of Ben Stiller’s merman in “Zoolander.”

In her first novel, “The Pisces,” a disaffected Sappho scholar named Lucy has a love affair with Theo, a merman.

On “The Mighty Boosh,” one of the strange and beautiful characters he played was a merman who shot light out of his “man-gina.”

He is tall and strong, with uncanny blue eyes—“sea-cold,” “merman” eyes.

But Mr. Van Ness was not feeling his normal gorgeous self, the boisterous “Yass queen” merman that fans of “Queer Eye” adore.