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* [[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."

* [[Evil All Along]]: At the film's climax, Skinner reveals his secret to Linguini{{spoiler| that he works for Ego}}.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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 Happened to the Mouse?]]: It's unknown what happened to Skinner by the end of the movie. The last we see of him is him being thrown into the pantry by Rémy's rodent chefs tied and gagged.

* [[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.

 

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[[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]]

[[Category:Cooking Stories]]

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