History Trivia / THERESCUERS

* DiedDuringProduction: Joe Flynn (Snoops) died unexpectedly in 1974, three years before this film was released. The voicework for the film was done around 1973.

* LateExportForYou: The film was first released in Japan in 1981, seven years after its initial theatrical release.

* ActorSharedBackground: Eva Gabor is from Hungary, which happens to be the country Bianca represents at the Rescue Aid Society. Makes sense, as there is no hiding Gabor's accent.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: "The Adventures of Bernard and Bianca" in France. "Bianca's Big Adventure" in Japan.

* CreatorCouple: Jeanette Nolan voices Ellie Mae, while her husband John [=McIntire=] plays Rufus. Both have since died after the film was released.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: "The Adventures of Bernard and Bianca" in France.

* ActorSharedBackground: Eva Gabor is from Hungary, which happens to be the country Bianca represents at the Rescue Aid Society.

** Brutus and Nero are called alligators in [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/5e/fd/855efd4f96ec14db887bab4f5a056bde.jpg the concept art]], but the in the film itself Bianca calls them "crocs", suggesting that they are crocodiles. However, some spinoff material (such as [[https://archive.org/details/disney365bedtime0000unse/page/n325/mode/ this book]] still calls them alligators.
** An original scene that never made it into the final film involved one in which Madame Medusa was sewing the Devil's Eye diamond into Teddy. This is still kept in some book adaptations of the movie.

** It may be the case that her swampmobile is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorjet motorjet]], an early form of jet engine where the compressor is powered by a separate (in this case internal combustion) engine, rather than the jet itself.

** Brutus and Nero are called alligators in [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/5e/fd/855efd4f96ec14db887bab4f5a056bde.jpg the concept art]], but the in the film itself Bianca calls them "crocs", suggesting that they are crocodiles.
** An original scene that never made it into the final film involved one in which Madame Medusa was sewing the Devil's Eye diamond into Teddy.

* Madame Medusa's jet ski, or "swampmobile", appears to be powered by a jet engine. This is evidenced by the jet engine-like rear exhaust and the distinctive jet noises the vehicle makes. However, in a later scene in the film, a normal four-stroke engine is shown to lurk under the hood at the front.

* DuelingDubs: The film was dubbed into Japanese twice. The first was released in 1981 and featured Noriko Shindo as Miss Bianca and the late Yasuo Yamada as Bernard. Nineteen years later, a new dub was produced for a home video release, with Creator/NorikoOhara reprising her role as Miss Bianca from ''The Rescuers Down Under'' and Yoshito Yasuhara taking over for Yamada as Bernard; this was eventually carried over to the Creator/DisneyPlus streaming service.

* DuelingDubs: The film was dubbed into Japanese twice. The first was released in 1981 and featured Noriko Shindo as Miss Bianca and the late Yasuo Yamada as Bernard. Nineteen years later, a new dub was produced for a home video release, with Creator/NorikoOhara reprising her role as Miss Bianca from ''The Rescuers Down Under'' and Yoshito Yasuhara taking over for Yamada as Bernard; this was carried over to the Creator/DisneyPlus streaming service.

* ImageSource: For RollingPinOfDoom.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The "Tomorrow Is Another Day" song clearly sounds like a product of TheSeventies.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Milt Kahl based Madame Medusa on his ex-wife, who he particularly hated.

* CreativeDifferences: Animators Frank Thomas and Milt Kahl disagreed about a sequence in which Brutus and Nero try to blow Miss Bianca and Bernard out of a pipe organ. Kahl felt that the alligators clowned too much, thus losing their menace. In response, and with playful spite, Thomas retaliated that he felt Kahl's own Madame Medusa loses her menace moments later when she falls off of a chair, after Mr. Snoops clumsily pushes it from beneath her feet.
* CreatorBacklash: Animator Creator/DonBluth was said to have finally had enough of Disney repeatedly falling short of their reputation with this film and, shortly thereafter, lead an infamous mass exodus of animators to his garage-based studio. He later said that the main characters' SkintoneSclerae was a particular pet peeve of his.

** The second attempt was based on the sixth book in the series, ''Miss Bianca in the Antarctic''. It was going to be a vehicle for Louis Prima (King Louis of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''), playing Louie the Bear, and, according to the video in the link, to be about a polar bear using a pair of mice to help him escape from the zoo and to save his friends at the North Pole. This version was scrapped shortly before Prima lapsed into a coma and it was {{Retool}}ed into the movie we know today, which is based mainly on the second book in the series, ''Miss Bianca''.[[note]]Prima never regained consciousness from his coma, and died the year after the finished film was released.[[/note]]