Ratatouille
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Trivia: Near the beginning, when Remy is in the sewers and begins to make his way up to the skyline of Paris, he is startled by a barking dog in one of the apartments. If you pause and look at the silhouette of the dog, it greatly resembles Dug the dog, from the 2009 Disney/Pixar release Up - another precursory nod to an upcoming movie by Pixar. (00:16:35)

randy29

Trivia: The wine that Anton Ego requests at dinner is Cheval Blanc, one of the best wines in the world. It is one of only two to receive the highest rank of Premier Grand Cru Classé (A) status in the Classification of Saint-Émilion wine of 1955, along with Château Ausone.

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Trivia: When Skinner stops chasing Remy, a mime artist is visible in the background. This man is none other than Bomb Voyage, a character from The Incredibles, Pixar's previous production. (01:17:30)

Dr Wilson

Trivia: In 2007, Rottentomatoes.com stated that Ratatouille was the highest reviewed film of the year, with 97% of reviews "Fresh."

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Trivia: Once again, another reference to "The Incredibles": before Remmy & Linguini go into the kitchen for the first time, Linguini pulls his pants open, and we can see his boxers. His boxers, have the Incredibles logo on them.

moviedude345

Trivia: The number A113 has appeared in every Pixar film. In this one, it appears on the big buff rat who appears when Emile comes with more rats for the food. He is the one who asks "Is there a problem?" The number can be seen on the gold tag on his ear. (01:11:10)

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Trivia: Toward the end of the movie, Linguini and Colette are reading Ego's review in the paper. In the paper is an advertisement for the step stool ladders that Skinner uses throughout the movie.

Brad

Trivia: When Skinner is driving his car and sees Remmy skittering towards Linguini, but he says it was just his keys, listen to the music playing on the radio. That is the same song that is playing later in the movie, after Skinner is fired.

moviedude345

Continuity mistake: When Remy and Emile are cooking the mushroom on the roof, notice that the mushroom is skewered on the antenna. When Remy and Emile are hit by lightning and sent careening off the roof, the mushroom is instantly on a stick in Remy's hand, instead of the antenna. It could've been sent flying by the lightning bolt, but even if it was, there was no stick in the previous shot for it to have ended up on. (00:07:50)

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Remy: What is that?
Emile: I don't really know.
Remy: You don't know... And you're eating it.
Emile: You know, if you muscle your way past the gag reflex, all kinds of food possibilities open up.

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Question: Does anyone know anything about the theory that chefs hats represents the number of ways that they know how to prepare eggs? If this is correct, then why is Linguini allowed to wear a chef's hat when he, in fact, isn't one? Wouldn't he be wearing a different hat?

Shannon Jackson

Chosen answer: This is a legend, which states that the number of pleats on a chef's hat (or toque) represents the number of ways that they know how to prepare an egg. There's certainly no evidence that it's actually true - it would be highly impractical if it were, requiring a chef to get a replacement every time they learned a new method. Regardless, many toques are made with exactly 100 pleats, supposedly based on the idea that there are 100 ways to prepare an egg, however, chefs wear them regardless of their culinary skill in that department.

Tailkinker

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