History Headscratchers / AnAmericanTail

* In the first film, why did all the other sweatshop workers never think of tying their sheets together into a rope and going out the window before? Why did they need a little kid to tell them they could do that when at least one of them is clearly an adult (the one with a deep voice and a beard)? And what made them think Fievel was crazy and it wouldn't work?

* In the first film, why did all the other sweatshop workers never think of tying their sheets together into a rope and going out the window before? Why did they need a little kid to tell them they could do that when at least one of them is clearly an adult (the one with a deep voice and a beard)?

* In the first film, why did all the other sweatshop workers never think of tying their bedsheets together into a rope and going out the window before? Why did they need a little kid to tell them they could do that when at least one of them is clearly an adult (the one with a deep voice and a beard)?

* In the first film, why did all the other sweatshop workers never think of tying their bedsheets together into a rope before? Why did they need a little kid to tell them they could do that when at least one of them is clearly an adult (the one with a deep voice and a beard)?

* In the first film, why did all the other sweatshop workers tying their bedsheets together into a rope before? Why did they need a little kid to tell them they could do that when at least one of them is clearly an adult (the one with a deep voice and a beard)?

* In the first film, why did all the other sweatshop workers tying their bedsheets together into a rope before? Why did they need a little kid to tell them they could do that when at least one of them is clearly an adult (the one with a deep voice and a beard).

* In the first film, why did all the other sweatshop workers except Tony act like Fievel was crazy when he thought of tying their bedsheets together into a rope and going out the window? This could have been justified by them being little kids, and thus maybe unfamiliar with this trick, except at least one of them is an adult.

* Why didn't Fievil follow the train tracks in the second film after going overboard?

** They weren't under the impression that the cats in Green River were good until after they got there, right?

* Unless we never see Fievel go through immigration at the end of the first movie, Fievel's technically an illegal immigrant!
** DEY TOOK OUR JEEEEEEEERBS!!
** In 1888? there was no such thing. If you got here, you were legal.
** They are animals and laws do not apply to them like that?
*** But we see the rest of his family become registered citizens at Castle Garden early on in the film, which makes the FridgeLogic more jarring. Although it probably didn't matter as much back then.
** Maybe the Statue of Liberty flight happened right after running Fievel through immigration. They were in the right area for it to happen, and we don't know how much time has passed since the family's reunion and Fievel and Tanya getting a close up view of the newly finished statue.

** They weren't under the impression that the cats in GreenRiver were good until after they got there, right?

* Something that's always annoyed me: Fievel's dad in the second film telling him to effectively forget about Tiger because 'He was still a cat.' despite acknowledging that he was good - But they're going to Green River where apparently cats are good, too. Why?

* What is the point of the scene in the second movie where the human lady shoves the cat in her cleavage while shouting "pussy"? Like, is that supposed to be funny? It just seems so random and out of place, especially in a kids' movie.

* I get that humans can't understand the talking animals but do they not notice that they wear clothes?

** OffscreenVillainy. We never see a mouse actually get eaten by a cat in the entire series, it's only implied that it happens (though Fievel gets ''almost'' eaten).

* When the cats capture Fivel in the first film, why do they put him in a cage instead of just killing him?

** Maybe they were planning on sending him back to the sweat shop.

* When the cats capture Fivel in the first film, why do they put him in a cage instead of just killing him?

** As a young child, I saw it as [[YouCantFightFate unfortunate coincidences]] keeping them ''barely'' apart until Fievel fulfilled his destined prerogative or the movie was close enough to feature-length. RuleOfDrama (the poignancy of repeatedly missing them ForWantOfANail, and the TruthInTelevision of him missing them InSpiteOfANail) and seeing that his family was making their way okay, I think, justified the near-misses.

** As a young child, I saw it as [[YouCantFightFate unfortunate coincidences]] keeping them ''barely'' apart until Fievel fulfilled his destined prerogative or the movie was close enough to feature-length. RuleOfDrama (the poignancy of repeatedly missing them BecauseOfANail, and the TruthInTelevision of him missing them InSpiteOfANail) and seeing that his family was making their way okay, I think, justified the near-misses.

* Watching this movie as a kid, it really bugged me when, every five minutes, Fievel and his family would be moments away from reuniting without realizing it. It's a real MindScrew for a seven year old child.

** Same way the human immigrants got ''their'' unfortunately false misconceptions about America.

* Where did they get the idea that there were no cats in America in the first place?

** [[TooDumbToLive Same reason]] Cat R. Waul has no trouble tricking them ''again'' in quite a few episodes of ''Fievel's American Tails''.

** Maybe they all just never pay attention?