History YMMV / Babe

* NightmareFuel: The scene where we zoom in on Duchess' face after she was thrown out for hurting Babe. Even though she's a normal cat, you can still tell that she's sporting a KubrickStare, planning a way to throw Babe out, which is very unsettling and a bit intensely scary. The narrator's dialogue and the music serve to add to the unnerving nature of this scene.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The Hoggett's son-in-law is played by Paul Goddard who is better known to sci-fi fans as Stark from ''Series/{{Farscape}}''.

* MemeticMutation: "That'll do, pig. That'll do."

* AccidentalAesop: Never try to break up a fight with your bare hands, as you might get hurt. How literal or metaphorical it is depends on whether its humans or animals (as which happens with Fly and Rex).

* UncannyValley: The CGI of the animals speaking gives of this effect sometimes.

* OneSceneWonder: An infamous example, involving the SpoiledBrat granddaughter who [[SkewedPriorities screams over not getting the dollhouse from TV]], [[UngratefulBitch rather than appreciate her grandfather's hard work over the dollhouse he made for her]].

--->'''Rex:''' You put these ideas into his head! You ''two-faced'', ''TRAITOROUS'', '''''WRETCH!'''''

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The actress who plays the bratty granddaughter, Brittany Byrnes, would go on to play the ArcVillain Charlotte in ''Series/H2OJustAddWater''. Both characters have grandparental issues; the granddaughter being a SpoiledBrat, and Charlotte resenting her grandmother for being a mermaid.
** Creator/HugoWeaving who plays the bitter sheepdog Rex, would go on to play ShellShockedVeteran Thomas Doss in ''Film/HacksawRidge''. Both characters have a wife and a son (in Rex's case, a foster son of a different species), both are embittered by their pasts that resulted in the deaths of those he cared about (Rex failing to save the sheep in a rainstorm that results in them drowning and his deafness, while Doss lost his childhood friends in the First World War), they take it out occasionally on their families (Rex attacks his mate, which gets him punished by his master when the latter tries to break it up and Rex bites him, and he even snarls at Babe, while Thomas is an abusive alcoholic who gets into fights with his wife and would beat his children with his belt if they get out of line), both characters get into fights with their wives that prompts another character to break it up (Rex's aforementioned dogfight with Fly and Hoggett trying to separate them to Thomas' fight with his wife while armed with a gun that resulted in his son Desmond to come to his mother's rescue and disarm his father), but they are proven to be decent characters enough to come to their sons' rescue (Rex racing back to the Hoggett farm to know the password to help Babe at the sheep dog trials, while Thomas comes to his son Desmond's defense with a letter exonerating Doss from the court-martial) and their sons are protagonists of their respective movies (Babe being the title character of his movie and Desmond being the protagonist of his own film).

* HarsherInHindsight: Watching ''Babe'' can be rather bittersweet for some when you realize his actress, {{Creator/ChristineCavanaugh}}, passed away in 2014.

* FridgeHorror: Babe's mother and siblings probably got killed.

* FridgeLogic: Rex is nearly deaf, yet he and Fly have at least one very quiet conversation together. One might justify this as him being a dog and so he's only "almost deaf" compared to other dogs, but Fly specifies that he couldn't hear his master's commands while herding - commands which almost certainly would have been shouted or at least called out loudly. [[note]]About the only thing that ''might'' justify this is how quiet the scene in question is -- it's nighttime and you can't even hear any insects. Make of that what you will.[[/note]]

--->'''Rex:''' You put these ideas into his head. You two-faced, traitorous ''WRETCH!''

* EarWorm: "If I Had Words".

** Creator/HugoWeaving who plays the bitter sheepdog Rex, would go on to play ShellShockedVeteran Thomas Doss in ''Film/HacksawRidge''. Both characters are embittered by their pasts that resulted in the deaths of those he cared about (Rex failing to save the sheep in a rainstorm that results in them drowning and his deafness, while Doss lost his childhood friends in the First World War), they take it out occasionally on their families (Rex had attacked his mate that got him punished by his master when he tries to break it up and even snarled at Babe, while Thomas is an abusive alcoholic who gets into fights with his wife and would beat his children with his belt if they get out of line), both characters had got into fights with their wives that prompts another character to break it up (Rex's aforementioned dogfight with Fly and Hoggett trying to separate them to Thomas' fight with his wife while armed with a gun that resulted in his son Desmond to come to his mother's rescue and disarm his father), but they are proven to be decent characters enough to come to their sons' rescue (Rex racing back to the Hoggett farm to know the password to help Babe at the sheep dog trials, while Thomas comes to his son Desmond's defense with a letter exonerating Doss from the court-martial) and their sons are protagonists of their respective movies (Babe being the title character of his movie and Desmond being the protagonist of his own film).