Rock-a-Doodle/Trivia


 * Hey Its That Voice: Mandark is Snipes, Baloo and O'Malley are Patoo, and Audrey is Goldie.
 * Killer and The Dirty Bubble is Hunch and Captin Von Trapp and Charles Muntz is The Grand Duke.
 * The Grand Duke also sounds a lot like General Chang at times.
 * Boss Hogg is Pinky.
 * Sandy Duncan (probably best known for her appearances on game shows) is Peepers.
 * Executive Meddling: Bluth had to change some potentially scary aspects, such as giving the Grand Duke "Lucky Charm breath" and cutting out a scene of him eating a skunk in a pie. They also made him change wine into "soda" (see below) to avoid a PG rating.
 * Incidentally, the Skunk Pie sequence was cut not because the idea of a Complete Monster giant owl threatening to eat a live baby skunk in a pie is inherently scary in itself (even though it damn well is). It was cut because of a note Bluth's studio received from the preview audience. The scene was too scary and had to be cut because "most cases of child abuse happen in the kitchen, and involve baking instruments". (We can't help but think Bluth had to spend a while staring at the walls of the pub while nursing a Guinness after reading that one. Especially when you consider, why did they let the "Les Poissons" scene in The Little Mermaid slide?)
 * They let that slide because it's Disney, who can get away with almost anything.
 * So eating a skunk in the kitchen is reminiscent of abuse, but throwing a knife at your nephew in the kitchen is fine?
 * Somebody along the line (some point the finger at Bluth himself) decided we needed to see the final live-action/animation sequence in an attempt to cash in on the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Goldie was an attempt to replicate the sex appeal of Jessica Rabbit -- except that by making her a bird (some animals just... don't make for Cute Furry Girls), he creates a whole slew of other problems. And then he still had to censor Goldie to cover up many cleavage shots and skimpy costumes.
 * What Could Have Been: The film was originally pitched at Disney as Chanticleer and Reynard, which would have been a crossover between the myths about Reynard the fox and Chaucer's Chanticleer fable. Instead it was rejected, and after being in Development Hell for several years, was snatched up by Bluth.
 * Meanwhile, Disney recycled the idea of a singing rooster and a tricky fox (and other things) and made it into Disney's Robin Hood.
 * Just remember that Robin Hood came out years before Rock A Doodle. BTW, little fun fact, guess what animator worked on Robin Hood before leaving Disney? Don Bluth!
 * Though there is a fox in Rock A Doodle (*coughPINKYcough*), so maybe Don Bluth was thinking about what they were originally going to do, but wanted to give it a twist? Though Pinky probably isn't anything like Reynard, save the "tricky" part.