Remy, the ratatouille, the rat of all my dreams.
I praise you, my ratatouille.
May the word remember your name.
I praise you, my ratatouille.
May the word remember your name.
"Paris, I hope you're ready for Remy on the rise
With passion and perseverance surprising for his size
This gastronome is finally home and ready to proclaim
That the world will remember my name!"
With passion and perseverance surprising for his size
This gastronome is finally home and ready to proclaim
That the world will remember my name!"
—Remy, "Remember My Name"
Ratatouille the Musical note is a 2021 TikTok musical based on the Pixar movie of the same name. It was a fanmade idea but later had an official release with Broadway stars.
Remy the rat has big dreams to be a chef, due to his keen sense of smell. His father Django discourages it for his son's safety, worrying they're dead if caught in the kitchen. When a chance accident lands Remy in Gusteau's kitchen, he sings—and cooks—his heart out.
"Anyone can trope, anyone can trope, all you've gotta do is look inside yourself..."
- Adaptational Context Change: In the musical, an offscreen journalist finds out that Linguini is Gusteau's son. This means that Remy isn't responsible for getting the evidence to Linguini.
- Adaptational Heroism: Owing to the limits of remote recording, Skinner doesn't manhandle Linguini when catching him cooking. He also doesn't know that Linguini is Gusteau's son, which means that he didn't cheat him out of his inheritance.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Emile is Smarter Than You Look in this version, figuring out that if Remy is in a kitchen, he has access to food. He also has a ballad about how you have to appreciate the little things rather than striving for more.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Remy is a little more egotistical, even if he has earned those laurels. His survival instincts vanish the more successful Linguini is.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Django is played as less stern as he is in the movie. He sings about how he understands that Remy's dreams are amazing, but they are impractical.
- Anti-Villain: Skinner for most of the musical is this. He's spiteful and suspicious of Linguini's sudden success, and rightly so. Yet he's not a bad person, and honestly wasn't expecting that Linguini was Gusteau's heir.
- Art Shift: The figment of Gusteau appears with a black and white filter.
- Casting Gag: Remy references how humans fascinate him despite his dad telling him that humans suck. Tituss Burgess's
Star-Making Role was playing Sebastian in The Little Mermaid where Ariel had the same opinion. - Colorblind Casting: Emile is played by a white actor, while his brother Remy and their dad Django are played by Black actors. Granted, in the film, Emile has brown fur and Remy and Django have blue fur.
- Cross-Cast Role: Chef Skinner is played by a woman, Mary Testa, though the character is still male.
- Demoted to Extra: Gusteau's figment disappears after advising Remy to go into the kitchen.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Ego sings a Distant Duet with his child-self about the love for their mother after trying Ratatouille.
- "I Want" Song: "Remember My Name" for Remy, and "Anyone Can Cook (Reprise)" for Linguini. Both detail their respective singers' dreams of being a chef.
- Pragmatic Adaptation: The video wisely skips over the sequence of Remy crawling through the pipes and walls. Remy also narrates the points that they can't display with remote recordings, such as Linguini messing up the soup.
- Race Lift:
- Ego and Colette, who are white in the original movie, are respectively Black and Asian in the musical.
- Downplayed as they're still rats, but Remy and Django, who are voiced by white actors in the film, are played by Black actors here.
- Setting Update: In contrast to the movie's Ambiguous Time Period, the musical is set after 2020 as Django tosses an empty bottle of hand sanitizer and notes that 2020 was a bad year.
- Shout-Out: The song Remy sings while going into Gusteau's kitchen to fix the soup pays homage to "Defying Gravity" from Wicked.
- Take That!: Django sniffs a bottle of hand sanitizer at one point during "Trash is Our Treasure", and immediately afterwards says it smells like 2020 and calls it a bad year.
- Talking in Your Sleep: The old woman sings, "Kill the rodents" in her sleep. She wakes up, repeating it with a Psychotic Smirk.
- Villain Has a Point: Skinner has a point in his Villain Song when singing that Linguini is a parasite Stealing the Credit for being the new star chef in Paris.
- Villain Song: Skinner has "I Knew I Smelled a Rat" while scheming to ruin Linguini.
Because of you, we guarantee
Paris won't be the same
Oh, Remy, the ratatouille
May the world remember your name!
Paris won't be the same
Oh, Remy, the ratatouille
May the world remember your name!
