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1	!!Book
2	[[WMG: The food was made and sent by a FoodGod]]
3	However, the people of Chewandswallow did something to offend or tick them off. Maybe they were supposed to share it with the world but instead hoarded it all for themselves, or were getting gluttonous and kept wanting more, or maybe they were growing complacent and lazy. Thus, the god decided to punish the people by giving them increasing bigger foodstuff in one big RadishCure.
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5	!!Film
6	[[WMG: Brent's parents owned the Baby Brent Sardine Cannery]]
7	They named it (perhaps a rename) after their newly born son, and later modeled its mascot after him as well.
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9	[[WMG: Brent was just one of many baby boys born around that time named Brent]]
10	Depending on how long Baby Brent Sardines has been around, there may have been several "Baby Brents" over the years, with new ones being auditioned all the time. The only reason Brent got to be Baby Brent for so long was due to the cannery closing, otherwise, he would have been replaced like all the others.
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12	[[WMG: The story of this film is the back story of the original book.]]
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14	Or the book is the future of an alternate universe from the movie where the machine doesn't malfunction and is never turned off.
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16	[[WMG: Spray on Shoes does wear off over time.]]
17	Likely a few days, he is seen spraying them on or having a fresh pair at various points in the movie because he wants to wear them.
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19	[[WMG: Until it goes off the rails, the food created by the FLDSMDFR is hypo-allergenic.]]
20	Food allergies don’t seem to be a concern in Chewandswallow until Sam gets affected by peanut brittle inside the giant meatball.
21	* Well she does decline to have it rain peanut butter early on because of her peanut allergy. Then again, how would she know it was hypoallergenic?
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23	[[WMG: Flint is Grandfather Henry, who narrates the story in the book.]]
24	After working with his dad, Flint's interest in inventing wore off, since he learned his lesson from the events of the film. He gave up inventing, eventually moved off the island, married Sam and changed his name. Then he had grandkids. Due to his old age, Flint could not remember details of what happened- he even forgot that all the problems were caused by the food machine- so the difference in the book is the version he told his grandkids.
25	* Heck, maybe Flint isn't even the character's real name. Perhaps it's a nickname everyone calls him that has no relation to his real name (which would be thusly Henry) but that he is commonly known by anyway. (It just occurred to me, and it makes no sense, but hey, it's possible.)
26	** It makes perfect sense. Flint/Henry was simply [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Known Only By His Nickname]] until he settled down.
27	* Alternatively to the "forgot" part, he may have just been embellishing and deceiving when telling it to his grandkids in the name of simplification and covering up his part in it.
28	** Or he used the same memory wiping device he used on himself and Sam (which made them forget each other) to make himself forget.
29	* It could also be that Henry is Flint's son or grandson.
30	* Explain how the book's sequel, "Pickles to Pittsburg" fits in.
31	** Well, they can't just leave the island covered in food like that, now can they?
32	* [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs/ An alternate version of the end credits]] ties into this theory.
33	** Well, Henry is actually the name of the grandson from the book.
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35	[[WMG: The [=McHales=] are distant relations of The Snows of ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'']]
36	Assuming that Brent's parents were the owners of the Baby Brent Sardine cannery, of course. In ''Carousel'', Enoch Snow made his riches by inventing the concept of sardines:
37	-->'''Carrie''': Who's gonna eat all that herring?
38	-->'''Mr. Snow''': They ain't gonna be herring. I'm gonna put 'em in cans an' call 'em sardines.
39	-->Aha... Gonna build a little sardine cannery. Then a big one, then the biggest one in the whole country.
40	Also, according to the musical, the Snows had a whole brood of kids. Supposing that the canneries were distributed among the kids, and managed to stay in the family for a little over a hundred years, it could very well be that a Snow married a [=McHale=] somewhere along the way and inherited the cannery in Swallow Falls.
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42	[[WMG: Chewandswallow 2 eventually becomes the town from ''Anyone Can Whistle'']]
43	As seen in the end credits, the Baby Brent Cannery becomes the new factory for Flint and Dad's Spray-On Roofing Sealant, which is based on the formula for Spray-On Shoes, so we know it doesn't come off. Meaning, one coat and you never need to apply it again. Now, according to the first lines of ''ACW'', "This town manufactured a product that never wore out," which led to the town becoming destitute, and the mayoress (and her cronies) putting together a "miracle" to bring in tourists. Swallow Falls/Chewandswallow may be stuck in a loop of [[HistoryRepeats history repeating itself]].
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45	[[WMG: The reason London is untouched is that they were dealing with the zombie apocalypse from ''28 Days Later'']]
46	It is also the reason why nobody helped England in ''28 Days Later''. They were busy dealing with and recovering from the food storm.
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48	[[WMG: The movie takes place in 2006.]]
49	According to the coloring book ''Greetings From Chewandswallow'', the Baby Brent Cannery has been in business since 1983, so it's safe to assume that this is Brent's birth year, and also Flint's, since they're in the same class. According to the script and the artbook, Flint is 8 in the first scene, meaning it takes place in 1991, and the junior novel says that the rest of the film takes place 15 years later, thus, 2006 (making Flint 23, btw). This also means that Fran died when Flint was 13.
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51	[[WMG: Flint has a mild form of Asperger's]]
52	If you were to look at the requirements for diagnosing a person with autism, Flint meets a lot of them:
53	* He's socially awkward
54	* Has a special interest (inventing)
55	* Doesn't know how to interact socially (example: laughing at Sam when she talks about being made fun of as a kid and mistook a snowball fight as a battle to the death)
56	* Awkward way of talking - he's often very loud or talks very quickly
57	* Black-and-white thinking (his inventions are either good or bad)...and the list goes on.
58	** Another thing; he has difficulty with eye contact, such as in the scene where his dad wants him to stare into his eyes to see if he's lying, and he finds it very difficult. Often, autistic people find eye-contact painful.
59	** His lab coat could be a security item, as he's had it for years after his mom's death, wears it everywhere, and it's still white as the day she got it.
60	** His dad's character arc is how he wishes his son would cut it out with the weird inventions but eventually learns to accept who his son is and encourage him to follow his heart. Make of that allegory what you will.
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62	[[WMG: Sam has ADHD]]
63	She seems to lose focus on a lot of things and gets overexcited easily. This especially shows in her first meeting with Flint.
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65	[[WMG: Swallow Falls was the surface of the site of the VideoGame/TeamFortress2 battles.]]
66	The town was designed to allow the teams' family members to live near them without compromising security, and the whole place was declassified before the movie. This is why it was previously covered by the A in Atlantic. Flint's dad is Heavy's little brother, and officer Earl is related to Demoman ([[FriendlyEnemies Demoman and Soldier]] [[HoYay may]] [[AllThereInTheManual be Earl's two dads]], but he may have gotten the CrazyIsCool"emphasis on crazy" from Soldier just being around), and the Mayor is [[OlderThanTheyLook BLU Scout's mother's ex-husband]]. This is also where they got the idea to [[NumberedSequels call the new town Chewandswallow 2]].
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68	[[WMG: Swallow Falls is in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'']]
69	Berk is an Island...Chew and swallow is on an island, Hiccup could've been embellishing the whole "located on the meridian of misery" thing plus, Vikings traveled the world looting and pillaging. It's possible that The original Hiccup Horrendous Haddock found the island and claimed it as the new tribe's home. the movie just takes place centuries or so after HTTYD (obviously) Flint could also be a descendant of Hiccup, due to their very, very similar personalities now as to what happened to the dragons? I leave that up to you
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71	[[WMG: Flint is related to [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Cave Johnson]]]]
72	Both of them have the 'incredible inventions poorly applied'. Flint's remote control TV (with its working arms and legs, and apparent AI); Cave has the Portal gun that was only used to test the 'real' inventions like propulsion gel.
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74	[[WMG: "Raining Sunshine" is a song from the musical ''Five Guys With Umbrellas'']]
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76	[[WMG: The food the FLDSMDFR creates is specially engineered not to rot.]]
77	This is why all the food from Mount Leftovers was still fresh when it came down & they were able to use it as building materials in the Credits.
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79	[[WMG: Afterward, Flint goes to work at [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Aperture Science.]] ]]
80	Flint, after marrying Sam, gets a job at Aperture, where he goes on to create Wheatley.
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82	[[WMG: Flint was going to be the original Baby Brent]]
83	Flint's father created/worked for the Baby Brent Sardine Company, and was going to name his son "Brent" and have him as the mascot, but his wife preferred the name "Flint." He happily went along with this, thinking that he could change the company name. Outraged that he couldn't, he quit his job and ran a tackle shop. This made him somewhat depressed since he had to sell was his old company's sardines or else he would go out of business. He blamed his son for this, so he never talked to him much and, as a result, never had a good relationship with him when Flint was a kid.
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85	[[WMG: In the sequel, Chester V and/or Barb the orangutan will be the main antagonist(s).]]
86	* [[spoiler:Confirmed]]
87	** [[spoiler: And Barb is TheDragon who pulls a HeelFaceTurn.]]
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89	[[WMG: If we were to count the credits in Cloudy 2, then that means...]]
90	That the credits from the first film were some sort of idea from the minds of Flint and Sam. If Chewandswallow had never been cleaned up, then the credits from the first film wouldn't make much sense...
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92	[[WMG: Chester V is a reflection of what Flint could've become if Sam wasn't in his life]]
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