History Trivia / HomeOnTheRange

** Animator Lee Crowe recalls that many of the other crew members outright hated the film, with many of them disparagingly nicknaming it "The Shitty Cow Movie".

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: "The Farm Rebels" in France.

** When the White House plan was scuttled, Slim's plan was changed to having the cows sold for slaughter. Disney had an eye on a [=McDonald=]'s promotion, and didn't want kids making the connection, so the fate of the cows is left ambiguous: the only reference left in the film is the line "Don't wanna be late for that big round-up in the sky!"

* FranchiseKiller: The failure of the movie killed Disney's traditional animation department and made them move into CGI starting with Chicken Little. An attempt to move back into traditional animation in the late 2000s/early 2010s with The Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh was unsuccessful as the two films were written off by the company as financial disappointments, and led to ten members of the staff in the traditional animation department being handed their walking papers.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Believe it or not, the film actually cost over $110 million to produce and promote; they came up woefully short and caused the film to gross $145, which indeed [[{{Pun}} bought the farm]].

* VindicatedByCable: Home on the Range was overpowered by ''Film/ScoobyDoo2MonstersUnleashed'', ''Film/WalkingTall2004'', and ''Film/Hellboy2004'' but it finally found its audience on cable.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Believe it or not, the film actually cost over $110 million to produce and promote; they came up woefully short, and ultimately [[{{Pun}} bought the farm]].

-->'''John Sanford''': "Yes, I love it when people live stream ''Home on the Range'' and tweet comments. Good or bad, it’s fun. Except you, Nostalgia Critic. You can go fuck yourself, you unfunny douche nozzle. My issue was the incredibly abrasive tone of his reviews, and in particular, when he accused the crew of [=HoTR=] of “laziness”. You can say what you want about the movie, it’s deeply flawed, but our crew was anything but lazy. I won’t stand for that."

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: This one hardly ever gets re-released on home media, let alone broadcast on television, due to how badly it performed at the box office, and Disney's blacklisting of Roseanne Barr for racism as of June 2018, as well as the separate controversies surrounding Randy Quaid, is only going to make it even harder to find. Rescued, as it's available on Creator/DisneyPlus.

* VindicatedByCable: Home on the Range was overpowered by ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', ''Film/WalkingTall2004'', and ''Film/Hellboy2004'' but it finally found its audience on cable.

* StarDerailingRole: In addition to being a Creator Killer it also killed off Creator/RoseanneBarr's career outside of TV guest appearances prior to the 2018 revival of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' (and even that got retooled a few months later due to her controversial views).

* OldShame: Widely considered one of Disney's weakest and most forgettable films to date, and as such is rarely seen these days among Disney's vast merchandising.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: This one hardly ever gets re-released on home media, let alone broadcast on television, due to how badly it performed at the box office, and Disney's blacklisting of Roseanne Barr for racism as of June 2018, as well as the separate controversies surrounding Randy Quaid, is only going to make it even harder to find. It's available on Creator/DisneyPlus, though.

* StarDerailingRole: In addition to being a Creator Killer it also killed off Creator/RoseanneBarr's career outside of TV guest appearances prior to the 2018 revival of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' (and even that got cancelled a few months later due to her controversial views).

** The WorkingTitle for this film was ''Sweatin' Bullets''. Despite being much less conventional than a title taken from an already-famous song, Disney reportedly changed it because they did not "want children seeing a film with the word 'bullets' in the title!"

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: This one hardly ever gets re-released on home media, let alone broadcast on television, due to how badly it performed at the box office, and Disney's blacklisting of Roseanne Barr for racism as of June 2018, as well as the separate controversies surrounding Randy Quaid, is only going to make it even harder to find. It's available on Disney+ though.

** Originally Slim and his trio of henchmen were going to be ghost rustlers after being killed in a stampede. The one legged rabbit whose leg Slim stole was going to be a protagonist.
** The deleted scenes revealed an alternate opening with three singing/narrating fly creatures, an alternate meeting with Lucky Jack, a coyote chase scene, and a different goal by Slim to use his hypnotized cows to storm the White House and be president. The producers realized all these scenes worked well on their own, but not in the context of the overall film, so they cut them all out.

* GenreKiller: As far as 2D Disney animation goes it ''almost'' killed the franchise, until ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' redeemed it somewhat.