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{{quote|''"Anyone can cook."''}}

 

 

For information on the preceding short ''Lifted'' or the follow-up short ''Your Friend the Rat'', see the [[Pixar Shorts]] page.

 

For the infamous [[The Mockbuster|Mockbuster]] equivalent, see ''[[Ratatoing]]''.

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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Colette hits Linguini in the face on several occasions when she is upset with him. He never complains and she is still presented as completely sympathetic throughout the film. See also Slap-Slap-Kiss further down.

* [[Be Yourself]]: A major theme in the movie, although it is mildly subverted because Linguini and Rémy only reach success in the first place because they are basically each other.

{{quote|"Let's think this out: you know how to cook, and I know how to... appear human."}}

* [[Big Eater]]: Émile. Oh dear God, ''Émile''. Could probably qualify as a [[Fat Bastard]] in some interpretations.

* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Done by the rats to both Skinner and a health inspector near the end of the movie to get them out of the way, if only temporarily.

* [[Brandishment Bluff]]: [[Multiple Choice Past|One of the stories]] Horst tells of why he was in prison is that he once "held up the second biggest bank in France using only a ball-point pen."

* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Linguini with Colette, much to Rémy's chagrin.

** If you look closely, you can see that this is what caused him to spill the soup in the beginning, setting the whole plot into motion.

** Anton Ego's office, where he has consigned many a chef to infamy, is shaped like a coffin; also, his typewriter resembles a skull. Ego himself was designed after a vulture.

*** The title of his column is given at the very beginning of the film: "The Grim Eater".

* [[Dropping the Bombshell]]: Skinner reveals during a discussion with his lawyer that he is paranoid about the rat, thinking Linguine is trying to psyche him out. Skinner's lawyer notes that he had to take a second sample of Linguine's hair. When Skinner asks why, the lawyer says:

{{quote|''Lawyer'': The first time, it came back identified as ''rodent'' hair.}}

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: A few minutes into the film, a shadow of a dog can be seen against a wall while it barks offscreen. [http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/up-character-seen-in-ratatouille.html According to the DVD commentary], that dog is Dug from ''[[Up]]''.

* [[Escape Convenient Boat]]: Rémy attempts this twice; it doesn't work the first time, but does the second.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: For the better, perhaps. The film's original director, Jan Pinkava, was replaced with Brad Bird after Pinkava was unable to come up with a satisfactory resolution to the story. Bird, who had won an Oscar for his work on ''[[The Incredibles]]'' a year earlier, was given a tight deadline to rewrite the script using ''already finished models of the characters in place'' and make it better! Among the most apparent changes were redesigning the rats to make them less cartoony and ''killing off Gusteau'', only having him appear through Rémy's imagination. He won a second Oscar for this film. Needless to say, he took a brief hiatus from film-making after this.

* [[Face Palm]]: Colette while Ego is observing the kitchen in Gusteau's after his meal.

* [[Fake Nationality]]: [[Janeane Garofalo]] as Colette, [[Brad Garrett]] as Gusteau, and Ian Holm as Skinner. None of them are French.

* [[Foil]]: Rémy is a talented chef who's determined to break free of the norm; Linguini is horrible at cooking and has no ambitions greater than holding a steady job.

** As pointed out in the [[Technician Versus Performer]] section, Colette is a by-the-book chef while Rémy loves experimenting. Interestingly, they both hold Gusteau in high regard, but take different interpretations of his advice while adhering to his most cherished belief: anyone can cook.

* [[Food Porn]]: The filmmakers took extra care to make sure the food was (obviously) delicious-looking.

* [[Gay Paree]]: The film takes place in Paris, France.

* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: In one scene, Linguini is hinted to be wearing boxers with the logo of [[The Incredibles|a certain other film by Pixar]] imprinted on them.

* [[Head Pet]]: Rémy, while technically not a pet, rides on top of Linguini's head to control him while cooking since the chef's hat hides him from sight.

* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Linguini is one.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Colette <s>arguably</s> qualifies.

* [[Humans Are Morons]]: Unlike Rémy's father (directly above), Rémy believes the humans are just ignorant, seeing that rats have traditionally been pests, anyway.

** If you were part of that kitchen staff and found your star chef had kept a ''wild rat'' on his head during his entire tenure, wouldn't you quit on the spot?

** Not to mention when Linguini himself took a testing taste of said soup earlier... and immediately ran to the window to lose his lunch.

** Also, rats are physically incapable of vomiting, so the soup must be ''that bad'' to make Rémy gag.

* [[Male Gaze]]: In a ''PIXAR'' movie, never the less!

** Hey, it ''is'' set in France, so it could have been ''way'' worse.

* [[Marionette Motion]]: Remy's control of Linguini.

* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: While they mention several times that Gusteau is a figment of Remy's imagination, he also tells Remy several things that Remy couldn't possibly know.

** When does it ever say his age? He looks more in his early 20s.

** Given the age some [[Real Life]] chefs started in the business, it is entirely possible that Colette is barely into her twenties.

* [[Monumental View]]: Linguini's apartment has a magnificent view of the Eiffel tower.

* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Horst.

* [[My Car Hates Me]]: Happens to the health inspector.

* [[National Stereotypes]]: Virtually all French stereotypes make cameos here. Almost all are affectionate, however.

** Although since the most popularly taught second language in the UK is French (also the country's closest neighbour) as opposed to the USA's Spanish, it kind of makes sense that the creators would presume more UK viewers wouldn't need the text translating for them.

** Also, Gusteau's is called a five-star restaurant, rather than having to explain that for élite restaurants (e.g. Michelin Guide) the highest rating is three stars (almost all restaurants would get zero stars).

* [[Villainy-Free Villain]]: Anton Ego fits this trope to a T. He seems less interested in doing his job and more interested in acting on some bizarre vendetta against Gusteau's.

* [[Visual Pun]]: Skinner's humiliating ousting from the restaurant and subsequent creepy determination to prove that a rat is involved somehow ends up driving him in Seine.

* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Linguini does this out a window after a brief taste of his own soup... before Remy fixes it.

* [[Welcome to Hell]]: Shown in a nightmare.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Lampshaded. Rémy's major struggle is the fact that humans think rats are gross; the movie shows them as just mischievous and self-interested at worst.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Rémy has to fight for his respect as a chef, through Linguini at least.

 

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