History Trivia / ThePrincessAndTheFrog

** In the very first version of the story that was released online, the heroine was a chambermaid named Maddy (short for "Madeline") who worked for a SpoiledBrat rich woman who later evolved into [[SpoiledSweet Charlotte]]. Groups complained both about the UnfortunateImplications of a black girl being a chambermaid, AND they complained about the name "Maddy", as it supposedly sounded like "mammy".

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** RagsToRoyalty
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* DeletedRole: Composer Music/RandyNewman was originally going to voice the turtle that appears during "When We're Human", and was going to say "You sure 'bout that?" multiple times throughout the song. The dialogue was cut and the turtle ended up being mute. Then the directors created an otter character for him to voice, before Newman ended up having a one-line cameo as Ray's cousin Randy.

* CaliforniaDoubling: At points in the film, the sounds of the bayou sound awfully like the The Australian Bush...

** Surprisingly averted for a Disney film with the cast mostly being made up of character actors and actual voice actors. A few cameos aside, the biggest names in the cast are Creator/JohnGoodman and Creator/OprahWinfrey. Emeril Lagasse is in there too, as a crocodile who yells "[[CatchPhrase Bam]]!" a lot.

** In an earlier script, Dr. Facilier wasn't just a dark wizard who wants to conquer New Orleans with the help of his Friends on the Other Side - he would have been Mama Odie's ''son'', who followed the path of the dark arts unlike his mother. In this same script, there was to be a showdown between the two of them, which would have converged into a major battle during the Mardi Gras. Also, Facilier was originally named Dr. Duvalier after Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, the Voodoo practicing genocidal dictator of Haiti.

** In the very first version of the story that was released online, the heroine was a chambermaid named Maddy (short for "Madeline") who worked for a SpoiledBrat rich woman who later evolved into Charlotte. Groups complained both about the UnfortunateImplications of a black girl being a chambermaid, AND they complained about the name "Maddy", as it supposedly sounded like "mammy".

* DuelingMovies: Disney released ''The Princess and the Frog'' against 20th Century Fox's ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'' and ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. Disney fans as well as non-Disney animation buffs question on how Disney made a big mistake.

* ReferencedBy: ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' has a [[ItMakesSenseInContext desk lamp]] named [[NamesTheSame Ray]] who's called that for also being a 'ray of light in the darkness'.

** When Creator/JimCummings sang Leon Russell's "Cajun Love Song" during his audition, it was so perfectly on-key that the filmmakers used the audio from it for a scene were Ray is randomly humming to himself.

* ThrowItIn: Originally, the plan was for Naveen to say "That's new" after his vocal sac inflates suddenly in a surprised tone of voice (i.e. "Whoa, that's new.") However, Bruno Campos said the line in a suave tone of voice, making the scene arguably much funnier (especially since his new tone of voice makes it sound more like "That's a new feature", in other words, that he's trying to pretend he already knew about it).

* GenreKiller: Not in the literal sense, but Disney banked their interest in returning to do Traditional Animation films by how well ''Princess and the Frog'' performed at the box office. It did ''okay''. ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' came out the next year and gave Disney their highest numbers since ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}.'' The next 2D animated film, ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'', was the real last-ditch attempt before Disney finally gave up on 2D. [[HopeSpot For now]].

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* GenreKiller: Not in the literal sense, but Disney banked their interest in returning to do Traditional Animation films by how well ''Princess and the Frog'' performed at the box office. It did ''okay''. ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' came out the next year and gave Disney their highest numbers since ''Disney/TheLionKing.'' The next 2D animated film, ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'', was the real last-ditch attempt before Disney finally gave up on 2D. [[HopeSpot For now]].

* ProductionPosse: The movie was directed and co-written by Ron Clements and John Musker, known for their work on movies like ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' and ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', both of which also have Corey Burton, Jim Cummings, and Frank Welker voicing major and supporting characters, just like this movie.

** Disney was originally going to digitally ink and paint the film by once again using their old propietery software CAPS, which had been mothballed after ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'', but it was too slow for production, so Disney switched to using Toon Boom instead.

* GenreKiller: Not in the literal sense, but Disney banked their interest in returning to do Traditional Animation films by how well ''Princess and the Frog'' performed at the box office. It did ''okay''. ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' came out the next year and gave Disney their highest numbers since ''Disney/TheLionKing.'' The next 2D animated film, ''Disney/WinnieThePooh2011'', was the real last-ditch attempt before Disney finally gave up on 2D. [[HopeSpot For now]].

* AcclaimedFlop: Not nearly as badly as many other examples, but despite its beautiful animation and well-received story and characters, the film only had middling success at the box office. This was partly due to poor marketing (Ed Catmull, Disney's president, admitted that putting "Princess" in the title [[GirlShowGhetto made it seem as though the movie was only for young girls]]) and poor release timing (the film debuted just five days before the release of the box-office shattering ''Film/{{Avatar}}'').