Some early Concept Art of the Non-Perishable characters with one of them having an unfortunate design.
Examples
- Lavash's pubic hair was originally visible at the end of the food orgy scene, but this gave the film an NC-17 rating. In order to be reassigned with an R rating, his scrotum was digitally shaved.
- Originally Frank was going to be named Oscar (like Oscar Myer), but it was changed when the filmmakers decided they wanted to only have Bland-Name Product foods.
- Mr. Grits was originally named Uncle Tom's Rice and his design resembled an old man with white hair
◊. His name was also changed so as not to resemble a real food brand (in this case, Uncle Ben's rice), as well as consensus that the joke was a little too racy. - The Non-Perishables originally had a fourth member in a Tuna Can who has the stereotypical mannerisms of a pirate. Firewater also states that Tuna was the lyricist of the "Great Beyond" song instead of Twink like in the final film. It is unknown while Tuna was removed
- Nick Kroll originally played Douche as an Evil Brit, but Seth Rogan felt it sounded too much like Jafar and, since the film is more a parody of Pixar and DreamWorks films than of Disney films, it wouldn't be appropriate. He also didn't think it sounded "douchy" enough.
- Douche was, in one scene, doing “unsavory physical things with a group of rabbits.” Unsurprisingly, that got cut.
- A lot of things were shuffled around, altered, or removed altogether between the original script and the finished movie, as explained here. To highlight some of the more important changes:
- Instead of opening with Frank and the other sausages preparing to sing the film's theme song, the story begins with a corn cob and a mushroom arguing over who will be chosen by the Gods. Furthermore, the lyrics for "The Great Beyond" in the original script are very different than the ones in the finished version.
- In much earlier scripts, the cast never leaves the store until the very end, but are instead left behind and lost within it as they try to head back to their isles before the Fourth of July sale so they can be bought and go to the Great Beyond.
- Barry was apparently supposed to be the main character of the story instead of Franknote , and in the original script, there was a mural with a picture of Barry on it, and it's said he's supposed to be The Chosen One.
- The food massacre happens much earlier in the original script.
- The song "The End" by The Doors was supposed to play during the scene where Honey Mustard commits suicide.
- There was a scene where Douche is fighting off a group of rats when he encounters a piece of cheese stuck in a mouse trap. Taking advantage of this, he sacrifices the cheese to the rats, and becomes their leader in the process.
- Instead of buying straight bath salts, The Druggie buys heroin that's laced with bath salts.
- Firewater's flashback scene was originally in black-and-white, set in 1954, and much more disturbing.
- El Guaco had a much larger role in the original script and is portrayed as a gangster who kills taco shells, which is how the gang meet Teresa del Taco rather than meeting her in the bar. Additionally, Tequilla brings Brenda to be killed by El Guaco, who has just killed Teresa's mother, but Sammy and Lavash save both her and Teresa which leads into a fight, ending with El Guaco falling to his death while yelling his name, later being eaten by Douche and his rats. All of this was likely cut because it was too violent and not comedic enough.
- Douche and his rats attack Brenda, Sammy, Teresa, and Lavash after the montage scene and takes them as prisoners. Douche rapes one of the rats while interrogating the group and then threatens to shove his finger, which has just been up the rat's asshole, into Lavash's mouth unless he tells him where Frank is. Frank eventually comes and rescues them.
- The orgy scene happens before the climax in the original script, and it was supposedly much longer and more graphic than in the finished movie. Also, it was mostly restricted to the main gang instead of the entire store.
- The final fight is a bit different from the final cut. The deaths are more brutal and violent while Douche chases Frank in a chariot pulled by his rats. During the chase, one of the rats, Dangles, pounces on Frank. As they fall, they land onto a grill which burns Jangles to death, leading to Douche going berserk and attacking Frank to avenge him. Additionally, Darren wasn't going to be controlled by Douche during the film's climax. Instead Darren has a mental breakdown in all the chaos and declares himself "the Dark Lord" after hearing the food refer to him as such while laughing maniacally, only snapping out of it when he shoots Gum but the latter doesn't die. Darren being controlled by Douche was probably added in to coincide with an earlier summer film that Darren's VA, Paul Rudd, was in. Additionally, Douche declares himself a "fucking god" after taking a bite out of Frank, making this a sort-of Development Gag towards Darren's mental breakdown in the original script.
- Originally, Lavash was intended to die near the end of the film in a Heroic Sacrifice, due to the fact that he had reached his expiration date. However, this was changed so that he instead becomes the boyfriend of Sammy Bagel, Jr. This was most likely due to the fact that expiration isn't shown to be fatal in itself to foods and they only die when Darren throws them out.
- Instead of ending with the foods finding out that they're cartoon characters and going through the portal that Gum built into the real world to take on their real creators, the original script concludes with the foods leaving the store after the climactic battle as they set out into the outside world, ending the story with a Fade to White.
- Sean Combs was offered a role in the movie as a bottle of Courvoisier, he turned down the role because the movie was animated, not live-action.
- At one point, there was going to be a character named Kummy, a homosexual kumquat who likes to throw double entendres, mostly involving twigs and berries. It's possible that he was removed to reduce the amount of gay characters in the movie or he was replaced by Teresa del Taco.
