History Trivia / FlushedAway

* ThrowItIn: Roddy's 'Ice-Cold Rita' song was improvised on the spot by Hugh Jackman. Jackman was suppose to sing another song, but for whatever reason that song was unavailable.

* BillingDisplacement: Le Frog, appears third billed in the opening credits. But he does not appear until the last 37 minutes of the movie and barley appears in the trailers and pictures.

* CreatorKiller: Due to ''heavy'' ExecutiveMeddling, Aardman broke off from their five-picture contract with Creator/DreamWorksAnimation towards the end of the film's production. Since then, Aardman's films have been distributed in America by a rotating cast of studios.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/IanMcKellen and Creator/JeanReno previously appeared together in ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode''. The former as Leigh Teabing, the latter as Captain Bezu Fache.

* ActorAllusion:
** Whitey, voiced by Creator/BillNighy, has a button on his front in the shape of a V symbol that those familiar with the Film/{{Underworld|2003}} movies would recognize.
** Creator/HughJackman's character briefly considers a Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} costume when picking what clothes to wear.
** Creator/JeanReno plays ''a frog''. (For those not in the know, Frog is a (not very) derogatory term for Frenchman, just like Limey is for Englishman)
** In the Brazilian dub of the movie, the fish that asks Roddy if he's seen his father was voiced by Gustavo Pereira, who also did the voice of [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]].

** Whitey, voiced by Creator/BillNighy, has a button on his front in the shape of a V symbol that those familiar with the Film/{{Underworld}} movies would recognize.

* DirectToVideo: This and WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas were the only Dreamworks movies not to get a theatrical release in Japan, until the release of WesternAnimation/Megamind

* DirectToVideo: in Japan

** Creator/BillNighy is usually more intimidating and villainous in his roles than as the AffablyEvil DumbMuscle Whitney.

* AllStarCast: Creator/HughJackman, Creator/KateWinslet, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/JeanReno and Creator/AndySerkis, to name a few. What more is there to ask for?

* ThrowItIn: Roddy's Ice-Cold Rita song was improvised on the spot by Hugh Jackman. Jackman was suppose to sing another song, but for whatever reason that song was unavailable.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/HughJackman is often type-cast as the street-wise tough character that Rita plays in the film, rather than the pampered and cowardly Roddy.

** Roddy also was supposed to have hamster butlers by the names of Gilbert and Sullivan, if what was expected in the trailer to be true. They're only in the video game. They were removed because it wouldn't make sense for them to be in the plot of Roddy being a loner.

** According to the WordOfGod, they were removed because they made no sense to the plot, and they wanted to stress the fact that Roddy is a loner; the song ''Dancing with Myself'' was added late in the production as well.

* BillingDisplacement: Le Frog, appears third billed in the opening credits. But he does not appear until the last 37 minutes of the movie and barley appears in the trailers and pictures.

* BillingDisplacement: Le Frog, the film's BigBad, appears third billed in the opening credits. But he does not appear until the last 37 minutes of the movie. But he barley appears in the trailers and pictures.

** After some time in DevelopmentHell, this film was ChristmasRushed so that it could be released with ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' still fresh in audiences' minds, hence why it was CGI instead of claymation.[[note]]It didn't help that the film also had a heavy emphasis on water (which could damage clay models had the film been made using that method), and compositing CGI water with claymation was deemed too expensive.[[/note]]