History WesternAnimation / TheBossBaby

** Creator/SteveBuscemi plays [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc an antagonist working in a factory]].

* TheDiaperChange: During the scene where they are getting ready in the bathroom, Tim is quickly shown powdering Ted's butt, implying he was changing his diaper.

* ElderlyFutureFantasy: The Boss Baby warns Tim that if he doesn't if he doesn't help him with his mission, he will turn into a ''real'' baby and live him with him forever as his brother. He tells him that every Christmas, every birthday party, he will be there. This culminates with him telling them that they will grow old together and a vision of the two of them going gray with wrinkly faces, then facing each other down on scooters on a barren plain, Tim thrusting his walker at the Boss Baby and the Boss Baby thrusting a cane back, before colliding in a mushroom cloud.

* BrokenPedestal: Boss Baby aspires to be as successful as Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, SCBFBB grew up and became Francis E. Francis, the CEO of [=PuppyCo=] out for revenge against [=BabyCorp=] for getting rid of him because the anti-aging formula wasn't working on him due to his lactose intolerance. Boss Baby is horrified to learn the truth.]]

* CutenessProximity: Puppies, especially the [[spoiler: Forever Puppy, which is so adorable that it made one of the audience members in the pet convention leave her baby with her eldest child ''alone''.]] Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the Boss Baby earlier in the movie.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Tim's middle name is Leslie. [[spoiler: When Boss Baby officially becomes part of the Templeton family, he is named Theodore ''Lindsay'' Templeton. Towards the end of the movie in the present, both have become part of the brothers' friendly ribbing of each other.]]

** The toys on Tim's floor the first time we see his room hint at later events: [[spoiler: a barn, Mousetrap, a figure on a bike jumping the train, the pirate ship, the Habitrail tubes, and a rocket with small puppies]].

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* {{Unperson}}: [[spoiler: When the baby's work is finished and he has to leave the family, a team of babies show up to magically erase the parents memory of him and remove all evidence that he was there, replacing all photos he was in with versions where he's not there. As the baby says, it's as if he never existed. Downplayed slightly in that Tim is given the option to keep his memories, which he chooses to do, so Boss Baby isn't completely Unpersoned.]]

** In the Japanese dub, it's not the first time we hear Creator/RieKugimiya (Teddy) voicing a [[LightNovel/{{Kampfer}} stuffed toy]] or someone named Film/{{Ted}}-dy, at least as a kid.

''The Boss Baby'' is a 2017 American [[AllCGICartoon animated film]] by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation directed by Tom [=McGrath=], one of the co-directors of ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' and [[WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa its]] [[WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted sequels]]. It is loosely based on a picture book of the same name by Marla Frazee.

* LogoJoke: The Creator/DreamWorks moon is represented by a baby mobile, and the clouds are colored similarly to those of the original Creator/DreamWorks logo.

* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Pretty much everything within the film as bizarre and insane even for Creator/DreamWorks' surreal nature. This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1QPtPHjD50]] WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings episode pretty much says it all. This is including, but not limited to:

** Boss Baby pulls out a Voltron action figure. In fact, Dreamworks now owns the Voltron franchise owner Classic Media and currently produces the critically-acclaimed reboot ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender''.

* NominalImportance: The Boss Baby's name is never used throughout most of the movie; it is only revealed after he becomes a "proper" member of the family. [[spoiler:It's "Theodore."]]

* SchmuckBait: When Tim and the Boss Baby sneak into a secret room at Puppy Co., they find the supposed plans for the Forever Puppy lying in a manila envelope right out in the open on a dais with a spotlight on them and fall for it hook, line and sinker. They swap it with another envelope that the Boss Baby drips drool on and is then lowered away. When they open the folder, it turns out to have nothing but a piece of paper inside it that says something like "Gotcha!" They then have a cage dropped on them, followed by them being ejected down a trapdoor.