History WesternAnimation / IceAge

** ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': At one point, Manny and Diego hear another animal farting and mistake it for the sound of a mammoth.

* StrictlyFormula: All of the films revolve around the main characters attempting to reach a location. Kind of expected, given that the characters aren't as human-like as those from {{WesternAnimation/Kung Fu Panda}} or {{WesternAnimation/Zootopia}}.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite being set in the literal [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoriceLifeMammals Ice Age]], the characters speak Modern English and make references to aspects of modern society, even though they're not only animals ''before'' English was even a language, but there isn't even a human society around to create the conventions it repeatedly makes reference to. Justified because it does it for the RuleOfFunny.

** Roshan's mother in the first film. She leaped over ''a waterfall'' to protect her son from the sabers.

*** After defeating a ppterosaur that tried to scare him and his brother, Crash personally farewells the distressed pterosaur with a phrase parodied from Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay

*** After defeating a ppterosaur that tried to scare him and his brother, Crash personally farewells the distressed pterosaur with a phrase parodied from Film/Terminator2

* ConsolationBackfire: The short ends with Scrat stranded on a small iceberd in the middle of the ocean. He pulls out his acorn, relieved that it's still with him. Then it scatters into ash.

** It's also the second appearance of any human since the original film.

** Ellie being the only tree-climbing mammoth helps her to save one of the dino eggs in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''.
** Diego's forcing panicked Manny to flee ''towards'' the giant raft in ''Meltdown'' qualifies, as the other saber-tooths' plan to ambush the mammoth in the first film involved driving him to his death. Presumably Diego knows how to do that too.
** In the original, Sid's proficiency at wintertime athletics allows him to distract Soto's pack.

** Rudy was a colossal albino ''Baryonyx'' who, while also a prehistoric reptile like Cretaceous and Maelstrom that had no personal vendetta against the herd, was a land-based predator seemingly possessing [[ItCanThink some level of sapience]], as evidenced by his grudge against Buck for knocking out one of his teeth to use as a knife and grinning menacingly when he though he had crushed the weasel to death. Furthermore, Rudy is the only villain in the franchise who works independently, as opposed to the leaders Soto, Gutt, and Gavin were and the partners Cretaceous and Maelstrom were.

** In the third, when the herd is leaving the underground world, Buck states that they should have that adventure full of mortal peril again.

*** Ellie slides down a dinosaur's back like [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]], while yelling his catchphrase "Yabba-dabba-doo!"

*** Crash farewells with a phrase parodied from Film/Terminator2:JudgementDay

** Scratte appears to be wearing blue eye shadow, but makeup won't exist for millions of years, so it's probably natural coloring. In other words, you could say it's all down to her [[IncrediblyLamePun biological makeup]].

*** Crash farewells with a phrase parodied from [[Film/Terminator2:JudgementDay