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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Gusteau was originally going to be more involved in the story -- still living, but too [[HeroicBSOD depressed and gloomy from Ego's review.]] The producers felt the story was complicated enough, so his role was trimmed down and he was ultimately killed off78.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Gusteau was originally going to be more involved in the story -- still living, but too [[HeroicBSOD depressed and gloomy from Ego's review.]] The producers felt the story was complicated enough, so his role was trimmed down and he was ultimately killed off78.off.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Gusteau was originally going to be more involved in the story -- still living, but too [[HeroicBSOD depressed and gloomy from Ego's review.]] The producers felt the story was complicated enough, so his role was trimmed down.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Gusteau was originally going to be more involved in the story -- still living, but too [[HeroicBSOD depressed and gloomy from Ego's review.]] The producers felt the story was complicated enough, so his role was trimmed down.down and he was ultimately killed off78.

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* PetFadStarter: Sales in pet rats went up considerably after this film's release. Not the worst case of this trope, as rats are relatively easy to care for even for a child, but it did lead to some abandoned rats.



* TheRedStapler: Sales in pet rats went up considerably after this film's release.
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* TheMockbuster: Video Brinquedo attempted to cash in on the success of this film with ''Animation/{{Ratatoing}}'', a movie with a plot that was completely different [[ClicheStorm (although infinitely]] more idiotic), but with a setting identical enough to be considered copyright infringement. Except instead of Paris it was, for CreatorProvincialism reasons, Rio de Janeiro.

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* GeniusBonus:
** The sight of Remy nearly throwing up from the smell of Linguini's wretched cooking makes the latter look even more incompetent if you know that rats don't actually ''have'' a vomit reflex. Yes, Linguini's cooking ''is so terrible it makes rats defy laws of nature''.
** Anton's food-induced {{Flashback}} hails from Marcel Proust's concept of "involuntary memory". It's actually a very well-known concept in France, used in common speak through the expression "''C'est ma madeleine de Proust''" (it's my madeleine of Proust). Quoth ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time#Themes In Search of Lost Time]]'':
-->No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. ... Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize and apprehend it? ... And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it. And all from my cup of tea.
** The reference to Chef Boyardee is surprisingly significant: he was also a well-known and successful chef that was reduced to a face on prepared foods after his death.

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** The sight of Remy nearly throwing up from the smell of Linguini's wretched cooking makes the latter look even more incompetent if you know that rats don't actually ''have'' a vomit reflex. Yes, Linguini's cooking ''is so terrible it makes rats defy laws of nature''.
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** Anton's food-induced {{Flashback}} hails from Marcel Proust's concept of "involuntary memory". It's actually a very well-known concept in France, used in common speak through the expression "''C'est ma madeleine de Proust''" (it's my madeleine of Proust). Quoth ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time#Themes In Search of Lost Time]]'':
-->No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. ... Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize and apprehend it? ... And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it. And all from my cup of tea.
** The reference to Chef Boyardee is surprisingly significant: he was also a well-known and successful chef that was reduced to a face on prepared foods after his death.
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* RealLifeRelative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Remy and Django are voiced by real-life father-and-son Hector and Sergio Bonilla.

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* RealLifeRelative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Remy and Django are voiced by real-life father-and-son Hector Héctor and Sergio Bonilla.
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* RealLifeRelative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Remy and Django are voiced by real-life father-and-son Hector and Sergio Bonilla.
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** The sight of Remy nearly throwing up from the smell of Linguini's wretched cooking makes the latter look even more incompetent if you know that rats don't actually ''have'' a vomit reflex.

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** The sight of Remy nearly throwing up from the smell of Linguini's wretched cooking makes the latter look even more incompetent if you know that rats don't actually ''have'' a vomit reflex. Yes, Linguini's cooking ''is so terrible it makes rats defy laws of nature''.
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** In Vietnam, it's called ''The Rat Chef''.

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** In Vietnam, it's called ''The Rat Mouse Chef''. [[note]]In their defense, "rat" and "mouse" is the same word in the local language. Rémy's species would be a ''chuá»™t cống'', sewer rat, but who'd put that in the title?[[/note]]

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Japan, the movie is titled ''Rémy's Delicious Restaurant''.

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In Japan, the movie is titled ''Rémy's Delicious Restaurant''.Restaurant''.
** In Vietnam, it's called ''The Rat Chef''.

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* GeniusBonus: The sight of Remy nearly throwing up from the smell of Linguini's wretched cooking makes the latter look even more incompetent if you know that rats don't actually ''have'' a vomit reflex.

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The sight of Remy nearly throwing up from the smell of Linguini's wretched cooking makes the latter look even more incompetent if you know that rats don't actually ''have'' a vomit reflex.reflex.
** Anton's food-induced {{Flashback}} hails from Marcel Proust's concept of "involuntary memory". It's actually a very well-known concept in France, used in common speak through the expression "''C'est ma madeleine de Proust''" (it's my madeleine of Proust). Quoth ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time#Themes In Search of Lost Time]]'':
-->No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. ... Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize and apprehend it? ... And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it. And all from my cup of tea.
** The reference to Chef Boyardee is surprisingly significant: he was also a well-known and successful chef that was reduced to a face on prepared foods after his death.



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* GeniusBonus: The sight of Remy nearly throwing up from the smell of Linguini's wretched cooking makes the latter look even more incompetent if you know that rats don't actually ''have'' a vomit reflex.
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* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/PattonOswalt, Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, Ian Holm, Will Arnett, Creator/PeterOToole, and Creator/BradGarrett.
** And Jamie Oliver voices the health inspector in the UK version.
** Other minor voices include Will Arnett as Horst, James Remar as Larousse, John Ratzenberger as Mustafa and Teddy Newton as Skinner's lawyer.
** Rémy himself is no stranger to ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''. In Canadian French, he's Duncan. In Brazil, he's Trent.
** In Spain and Italy, Colette is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]].
** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]].
** In the Mexican dub, Linguini is [[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter]], Gusteau is [[Series/ElChavodelocho Señor Barriga/Mr. Beliarge]] and Anton Ego is both [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]] and [[Series/KnightRider the 80's K.I.T.T.]]
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* RealitySubtext: Comediane Creator/JaneaneGarofalo plays a woman who had to fight tooth and nail to become successful in a career dominated by latently sexist traditions. She famously left the writing staff of ''LiveActionTelevision/SaturdayNightLive'' after one season because the male-dominated team made it what she called a "boy's club."
* TheRedStapler: Sales in pet rats went up considerably after this film's release.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Japan, the movie is titled ''Rémy's Delicious Restaurant''.
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** Creator/JaneaneGarofalo as Colette, Creator/BradGarrett as Gusteau and Ian Holm as Skinner. None of them are French.

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** Creator/JaneaneGarofalo as Colette, Creator/BradGarrett as Gusteau and Ian Holm Creator/IanHolm as Skinner. None of them are French.
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** In the Mexican dub, Linguini is [[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter]], Gusteau is [[Series/ElChavodelocho Señor Barriga/Mr. Beliarge]] and Anton Ego is both [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]] and [[Series/KnightRider K.I.T.T.]]

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** In the Mexican dub, Linguini is [[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter]], Gusteau is [[Series/ElChavodelocho Señor Barriga/Mr. Beliarge]] and Anton Ego is both [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]] and [[Series/KnightRider the 80's K.I.T.T.]]

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** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]].

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** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]]. Dumbledore]].
** In the Mexican dub, Linguini is [[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter]], Gusteau is [[Series/ElChavodelocho Señor Barriga/Mr. Beliarge]] and Anton Ego is both [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]] and [[Series/KnightRider K.I.T.T.]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice: PattonOswalt, Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, Ian Holm, Will Arnett, Peter O'Toole, and BradGarrett.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: PattonOswalt, FakeNationality:
** Creator/JaneaneGarofalo as Colette, Creator/BradGarrett as Gusteau and Ian Holm as Skinner. None of them are French.
** Lou Romano as Linguini, who is half-French, half-most likely Italian (he's named after a pasta and his mother's name was Renata). Romano is American.
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/PattonOswalt,
Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, Ian Holm, Will Arnett, Peter O'Toole, Creator/PeterOToole, and BradGarrett.Creator/BradGarrett.



** Remy himself is no stranger to ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''. In Canadian French, he's Duncan. In Brazil, he's Trent.

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** Remy Rémy himself is no stranger to ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''.''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''. In Canadian French, he's Duncan. In Brazil, he's Trent.



** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]].

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** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]].
* TheMockbuster: Video Brinquedo attempted to cash in on the success of this film with ''Animation/{{Ratatoing}}'', a movie with a plot that was completely different [[ClicheStorm (although infinitely]] more idiotic), but with a setting identical enough to be considered copyright infringement. Except instead of Paris it was, for CreatorProvincialism reasons, Rio de Janeiro.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Creator/PattonOswalt's stand-up routine is not only quite vulgar, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking but filled with]] [[GeniusBonus obscure, nerdy references]] and not appropriate at all for kids. He has one routine about how, in the press tour for this movie, he had a lot of trouble being positive and friendly in front of his audience. Although the man does do quite a lot of voice-work for many other lower-profile kid-friendly projects, so it was probably more about the required constant promotion of the film. His profane rant on Black Angus is what got him approached for the role; in addition to being really funny, Brad Bird liked the sound of Oswalt describing the food in his routine.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Gusteau was originally going to be more involved in the story -- still living, but too [[HeroicBSOD depressed and gloomy from Ego's review.]] The producers felt the story was complicated enough, so his role was trimmed down.

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** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]].

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** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[HarryPotter [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]].
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** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.

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** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
** In the Brazilian dub, Anton Ego is [[HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]].
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** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.

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** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
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** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemostrating/TheJoker.

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** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemostrating/TheJoker.SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.

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** In Spain, Colette is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]].

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** In Spain, Spain and Italy, Colette is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]].Azula]].
** In the Italian dub, Skinner is [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries almost]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman every]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold animated]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum incarnation]] [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity of]] SelfDemostrating/TheJoker.
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** Other minor voices include Will Arnett as Horst, James Remar as Larousse, John Ratzenberger as Mustafa and Teddy Newton as Skinner's lawyer.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: For the better, perhaps. The film's original director, Jan Pinkava, was replaced with Brad Bird after Pinkava was unable to come up with a satisfactory resolution to the story. Bird, who had won an Oscar for his work on ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' a year earlier, was given a tight deadline to rewrite the script using ''already finished models of the characters in place'' and make it better! Among the most apparent changes were redesigning the rats to make them less cartoony and ''killing off Gusteau'', only having him appear through Rémy's imagination. He won a second Oscar for this film. Needless to say, he took a brief hiatus from film-making after this.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: PattonOswalt, JaneaneGarofalo, Ian Holm, Will Arnett, Peter O'Toole, and Brad Garrett.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: PattonOswalt, JaneaneGarofalo, Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, Ian Holm, Will Arnett, Peter O'Toole, and Brad Garrett.BradGarrett.



** Remy himself is no stranger to WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland. In Canadian French, he's Duncan. In Brazil, he's Trent.

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** Remy himself is no stranger to WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland.''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''. In Canadian French, he's Duncan. In Brazil, he's Trent.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: PattonOswalt, JaneaneGarofalo, Ian Holm, Will Arnett, Peter O'Toole, and Brad Garrett.
** And Jamie Oliver voices the health inspector in the UK version.
** Remy himself is no stranger to WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland. In Canadian French, he's Duncan. In Brazil, he's Trent.
** In Spain, Colette is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]].

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