History Trivia / Ratatouille

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/BradBird cast Creator/IanHolm as Jonah Robert Skinner after seeing him in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.

* ImageSource:
** FoodTropes
** TheMockbuster (left side)
** PeoplePuppets
** VillainousCheekbones (4th column).
** EiffelTowerEffect
** GayParee

* CastingGag: In a standup routine before this movie was made, Patton Oswalt described meeting and having a conversation with Brian Dennehy, who encouraged him to continue acting at a movie premiere after party. Oswalt also spoke of how miserable he was that night because he was on a diet and unwilling at first to partake in any of the food. That said, his resistance eventually breaks down and he begins shoveling food in his mouth (very much unlike his character in the film) and feeling terrible about himself when all of a sudden, Brian Dennehy, as if he had seen Oswalt looking miserable, joins him and exclaims loud enough for everyone in the room to hear, "CHARACTER ACTORS! Who gives a fuck if we're fat?!" As he proceeds to join Oswalt in chowing down on the food. Dennehy plays Django, Remy's father.

* 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.

* 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.

* PortOverdosed: The video game adaptation has some notoriety for being released on just about every single conceivable platform that was available at the time. This includes all major consoles for the sixth [[note]][=GameCube=], Xbox, [=PS2=][[/note]] ''and'' seventh generation [[note]]Wii, [=PS3=], Xbox 360[[/note]], both computer platforms [[note]]Windows and Mac[[/note]], PSP, ''plus'' three {{Reformulated Game}}s for the Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and mobile phones, bringing the platform total up to a whopping ''twelve'', an extremely unusual platform count for a brand new game.

* DVDCommentary: with writer/director Brad Bird and producer Brad Lewis. Only available on the Blu Ray release.

* PortOverdosed: The video game adaptation has some notereity for being released on just about every single conceivable platform that was available at the time. This includes all major consoles for the sixth [[note]][=GameCube=], Xbox, [=PS2=][[/note]] ''and'' seventh generation [[note]]Wii, [=PS3=], Xbox 360[[/note]], both computer platforms [[note]]Windows and Mac[[/note]], PSP, ''plus'' two {{Reformulated Game}}s for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, bringing the platform total up to a whopping ''eleven'', an extremely unusual platform count for a brand new game.

** In Japanese, the movie is titled ''Rémy's Delicious Restaurant''.

* 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 off.

* CreatorsOddball: This film stands out among the Pixar pantheon as the only one that was created with adults as the intended audience.

* ActorAllusion:
** It's not the first time [[Creator/IanHolm Ian Holm]] has played a loud, FakeNationality chef/restaurateur. However, his character in ''Film/BigNight'' is more sympathetic.
** It's also not the only time that Creator/PeterOToole was involved in a animated film featuring [[WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince rodents]].

** VillainousCheekbones (4th column)

** It's not the first time [[Creator/IanHolm Ian Holm]] has played a loud, FakeNationality chef/restaurateur. However, his character in [[Film/BigNight Big Night]] is more sympathetic.

* ActorAllusion: It's not the first time [[Creator/IanHolm Ian Holm]] has played a loud, FakeNationality chef/restaurateur. However, his character in [[Film/BigNight Big Night]] is more sympathetic.

** Main/FoodTropes

** Main/PeoplePuppets

** In Japan, the movie is titled ''Rémy's Delicious Restaurant''.
** In Vietnam, it's called ''The Mouse Chef''. [[note]]In their defense, "rat" and "mouse" is the same word in the local language. Rémy's species would be a ''chuột cống'', sewer rat, but who'd put that in the title?[[/note]]
** In Hong Kong, it is titled ''Five Star Head Mouse'', also a pun as "mouse" in Cantonese sounds very familiar to "chef" as in "head chef".

* In Hong Kong, it is titled ''Five Star Head Mouse'', also a pun as "mouse" in Cantonese sounds very familiar to "chef" as in "head chef".

** 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.

* 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 ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' after one season because the male-dominated team made it what she called a "boy's club."

* 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."