YMMV / Hot to Trot

• Alternate Character Interpretation: After Fred turned down Walter's offer to buy his half of the company, he comes home to learn that Walter told his girlfriend to pack up Fred's things and kick him out. Did he do this just because he turned down his offer, or because, with his wife now dead, he no longer had to let Fred with there (it was a few days after her death)? Or both.
• Angst? What Angst?: Walter Sawyer never seems to be upset over the death of his wife. On the day of the funeral, he's already got a new girlfriend (and it's implied they had an affair before she died, which likely explains his lack of grief over it).
• Award Snub: Despite being critically panned, it lost the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture to Cocktail^note which was likely due to the fact that Tom Cruise also starred in the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Rain Man.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This would not be the last time Warner Bros. would hastily retool a film after test audiences hated the original version and deceptively market it as a kid-friendly animal comedy only for the resulting product to go down in critical infamy forever.
• Nightmare Fuel / Accidental Nightmare Fuel:
  • The talking fly Don’s father is reincarnated as. Dear god.
  • The main horse portraying Don also qualifies for how disturbing his visibly fatigued and pained lip movements look, although it’s more depressing than anything else knowing the behind the scenes story.
  • The bloodcurdling scream Fred’s neighbor lets out when she realizes Don is real, although it doubles as Narm with how comical of an overreaction it is and how she seems to strangely cut herself off mid sentence with it.
• Retroactive Recognition: Writer and executive producer Andy Breckman would eventually be more notably recognized for creating Monk.
• Uncertain Audience: It's too raunchy to be a proper family film (despite its premise leading you believe otherwise), but it also plays itself too straight to be a proper adult comedy. One can see why neither demographic was pleased.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It's a movie about a talking horse, it seems like it would be a fun family film, right? But there's a lot of excessive swearing (particularly "shit", as well as jarringly casual use of the f-slur) and explicitly sexual jokes for something aimed family audiences, even by the comparatively lax standards of the '80s.

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