History WhatAnIdiot / Ratatouille

'''Instead''': Linguini doesn't think this far ahead. While he accuses Remy of treating him like a puppet after an argument over Linguini not revealing Remy to the press and the reviewer Anton Ego and [[spoiler:kicks him out of the kitchen when Remy leads hordes of rats into the restaurant out of spite]], he realizes that without "Little Chef"'s recipes, the kitchen can't function and impress Ego with a new dish. [[spoiler: ''Collette'' manages to do this, by cooking alongside Remy when she talks to him and he shows her his way of making ratatouille.]]

'''Instead''': Linguini doesn't think this far ahead. While he accuses Remy of treating him like a puppet after an argument over the press and the reviewer Anton Ego and [[spoiler:kicks him out of the kitchen when Remy leads hordes of rats into the restaurant out of spite]], he realizes that without "Little Chef"'s recipes, the kitchen can't function and impress Ego with a new dish. [[spoiler: ''Collette'' manages to do this, by cooking alongside Remy when she talks to him and he shows her his way of making ratatouille.]]

'''The Result''': Linguini walks in to reconcile with Remy, discovers the rest of the colony, and throws them out, causing the colony to lose a potentially viable food source. Even then, they got ''lucky'' that's all that happened - if it had been any of the other KnifeNut chefs or the food inspector, the colony would have likely been ''killed''. It's only after this that Django tries to stop Remy from returning to Gusteau's, now knowing that his son could get harmed if the humans see him.

'''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since, if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far. \\
'''To Be Fair''': As someone on the Headscratchers page pointed out, Remy didn't know exactly WHO was coming in just then. It could have been anyone, and, while Collette may have been forgiving to Linguini for sleeping on the job, someone else (say, Skinner) might not.

'''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since, if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far.
'''To Be Fair''': As someone on theH headscratchers page pointed out, Remy didn't know exactly WHO was coming in just then. It could have been anyone, and, while Collette may have been forgiving to Linguini for sleeping on the job, someone else (say, Skinner) might not.

* Linguini and Remy form an alliance so that Remy can cook for Linguini in the kitchen. They come up with a system so that when Remy pulls on Linguini's hair, Linguini's body moves like a marionette.
** '''You'd Expect''': That Linguini would start writing the recipes down, or figure out a way to communicate with the rat. Remy can't write but he can read, and Linguini can understand most of his miming. Practically speaking, there may be occasions of them getting separated, or even Linguini wanting to give Remy a night off. If on the off-chance their relationship goes sour (which it does), Linguini will be able to tell the other chefs how to replicate the dishes like the sweetbread or the soup. Linguini is shown to have the capability to take notes and listen, as he does when Collette mentors him. Even if Linguini doesn't know what the ingredients are, Remy does and can match them, and he could identify them by what they look like/what container they're in.
** '''Instead''': Linguini doesn't think this far ahead. While he accuses Remy of treating him like a puppet after an argument over the press and the reviewer Anton Ego and [[spoiler:kicks him out of the kitchen when Remy leads hordes of rats into the restaurant out of spite]], he realizes that without "Little Chef"'s recipes, the kitchen can't function and impress Ego with a new dish. [[spoiler: ''Collette'' manages to do this, by cooking alongside Remy when she talks to him and he shows her his way of making ratatouille.]]
* After customers tire of Linguini's soup, they ask him to make something new. Skinner is shocked, and suspicious that Linguini is SmarterThanYouLook after reading the letter from Renata that Linguini is [[spoiler:Gusteau's son. Skinner is waiting on a DNA test to see if this is true.]]
** '''You'd Expect''': That Skinner would realize that, suspicions aside, Linguini ''is'' a good chef, so sabotaging him by making him prepare a bad dish could easily cause the restaurant to lose another star.
** '''Instead''': Skinner spitefully orders Colette and Linguini to prepare a sweetbread recipe that Gusteau considered "a disaster". He hopes this will discredit Linguini at the cost of the restaurant's reputation. Fortunately, Remy fixes the recipe and prepares it before Colette can stop "Linguini" from changing it, and it's only then that Skinner realizes how "good" this is and the near-miss he had.
* After the night of success with changing a sweetbread recipe, and Remy reuniting with his family, he returns to the restaurant to find Linguini passed out on the kitchen floor after a night of cleaning while drunk. Remy hears Collette entering as well.
** '''You'd Expect''': Remy to let Collette find Linguini sleeping. It's not a bad thing given the kitchen is clean and that he performed double duty as garbage boy and chef, which means that, to Collette, Linguini is either a dedicated worker or the boss's puppy to kick.
** '''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since, if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far.

** '''You'd Expect''': That Linguini while working with Remy would start writing the recipes down, or figure out a way to communicate with the rat. Remy can't write but he can read, and Linguini can understand most of his miming. Practically speaking there may be occasions of them getting separated, or even Linguini wanting to give Remy a night off. If on the off-chance their relationship goes sour, which it does, Linguini will be able to tell the other chefs how to replicate the dishes like Linguini's Sweetbread. Linguini also has the capability to take notes and listen, as he does when Collette mentors him. Even if Linguini doesn't know ingredients, Remy does and can match them.
** '''Instead''': Linguini doesn't think this far ahead. While he accuses Remy of treating him like a puppet after an argument over the press and the reviewer Anton Ego and then [[spoiler:kicks him out of the kitchen when Remy leads hordes of rats into the restaurant out of spite, the next day]] he realizes that without "Little Chef"'s recipes the kitchen can't function and impress Ego with a new dish. [[spoiler: ''Collette'' manages to do this, by cooking alongside Remy when she talks to him and he shows her his way of making ratatouille.]]
** '''In Fairness''': He may be able to communicate with Remy on some level, but Linguini knows next to nothing about ingredients and though he watched Remy work on the soup, he was guessing what ingredients Remy used. A recipe isn't any good if you don't know the names of the ingredients and Remy has no way of telling him what's what.

** '''You'd Expect''': That Skinner would realize that sabotaging Linguini on preparing a new dish could easily cause the restaurant to lose another star.
** '''Instead''': Skinner spitefully orders Colette and Linguini to prepare a sweetbread recipe that Gusteau considered "a disaster". He hopes this will discredit Linguini, at the cost of the restaurant's reputation. Fortunately, Remy fixes the recipe and prepares it before Colette can stop "Linguini" from changing it. Skinner only then realizes how "good" this is and the near miss he had, before interrogating Linguini with wine.

** '''You'd Expect''': Remy to let Collette find Linguini sleeping. It's not a bad thing given the kitchen is clean and that he performed double duty as garbage boy and chef, which means that to Collette either Linguini is a dedicated worker or the boss's puppy to kick.
** '''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far.
* Django is about both keeping a low profile and feeding everyone in the colony. One night, Emile and a few rodents come to him, telling them Remy has a new food source and wants to share it with everyone. This happens to be Gusteau's kitchen. Normally Remy would go inside to grab food and take it out, but he's mad at Linguini for his new AcquiredSituationalNarcissism and isn't thinking straight.\\
'''You'd Expect''': He would be suspicious about Remy going OOCIsSeriousBusiness because his son has been close-mouthed about his new "home"; Remy has been discreetly feeding Emile and his friends, some of who are an UngratefulBastard lot, and mocking him, so as to not attract suspicion. Django also believes in staying hidden, what with his showing Remy the rat trap shop. All it takes is one human seeing them, and it's over for their newest food supply.\\
'''Instead''': When Remy leads them to the kitchen, Django praises his son for being so lucrative and leads everyone on a feeding frenzy.\\
'''The Result''': Fortunately, it's just Linguini that sees the colony in the kitchen, kicking them out with a broom. But imagine if it had been any of the other KnifeNut chefs, or worse the food inspector. Even so, it means that they lost a potentially viable food source and leaves them prey to regular traps, as shown when Remy rescues Emile from one. Django then tries to stop Remy from returning to Gusteau's during the dinner rush and realizing Linguini needs him, rightly knowing his son will get killed if the humans see him.

** '''You'd Expect''': That Linguini while working with Remy would start writing the recipes down, or figure out a way to communicate with the rat. Remy can't write but he can read, and Linguini can understand most of his miming. Practically speaking there may be occasions of them getting separated, or even Linguini wanting to give Remy a night off. If on the off-chance their relationship goes sour, which it does, Linguini will be able to tell the other chefs how to replicate the dishes like Linguini's Sweetbread. Linguini also has the capability to take notes and listen, as he does when Collette mentors him.

** '''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far.

** '''Instead''': Linguini doesn't think this far ahead. While he accuses Remy of treating him like a puppet after a silly argument over the press and the reviewer Anton Ego and then [[spoiler:kicks him out of the kitchen when Remy leads hordes of rats into the restaurant out of spite, the next day]] he realizes that without "Little Chef"'s recipes the kitchen can't function and impress Ego with a new dish. [[spoiler: ''Collette'' manages to do this, by cooking alongside Remy when she talks to him and he shows her his way of making ratatouille.]]

** '''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far.
* Remy visiting his family, Pet rats are well known, Remy could've just said, "I'm a chef's pet. I'm safe, I'm close, and I eat nice food. It's a good deal." It's close enough to the truth that it would appear true, and if that makes Remy happy and keeps him safe, what issue would the dad have?

* Alfredo Linguini, a young clumsy man whose mother has died recently, comes to Gusteau's asking for a job. Chef Skinner, the head chef, doesn't like him, but he accepts his second-in-command hiring Linguini for the menial garbage boy position. However, while mopping he accidentally knocks a pot of soup over.
** '''You'd Expect''': Linguini to take responsibility for the mistake and promise to be more careful in future. It's not likely that he'd be fired for a single relatively minor mistake.
** '''Instead''': Linguini on an impulse decides to recreate by throwing in random ingredients making the soup taste terrible. He nearly gets fired because Chef Skinner catches him with a ladle in his hand, and would have lost his job if Remy hadn't been watching and fixed the soup in record time. Chef Skinner decides to hold a grudge against Linguini as a result and watch him closely while hiring him as a chef on probation.
* Following this, Linguini and Remy form an alliance so that Remy can cook for Linguini in the kitchen. They come up with a system so that when Remy pulls on Linguini's hair, Linguini's body moves like a marionette.

* At the start of the movie, Remy and Emile get caught by an old lady in the house where their colony is residing. Due to her being a terrible shot, she fortunately misses Emile and Remy with her shotgun but unfortunately unearths the entire colony by bringing down her ceiling. Django, Remy and Emile's father, calls a retreat. Remy starts to flee but notices Gusteau's book.
** '''You'd Expect''': Remy would run. He and Emile are in a life-or-death situation.\\
'''Instead''': He doubles back for the book and has to smash through the lady's window to escape right when she unleashes toxic gas.
** '''The Result''': Remy gets separated from his family when they flee for the river since he doesn't make it in time to the colony's makeshift rafts -- although the old lady also reloads, follows and fires at them-- and goes down the wrong tunnel. He has to leave the book behind anyway to get out of the sewers and to the surface, where there's food and Gusteau's restaurant in Paris. Remy also has to apologize to his father when they reunite because it was technically Remy's fault that the colony got relocated.

** '''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far.

* Alfredo Linguini, a young clumsy man whose mother has died recently, comes to Gusteau's asking for a job. Chef Skinner, the main sous-chef, doesn't like him, but he accepts his second-in-command hiring Linguini for the menial garbage boy position. However, while mopping he accidentally knocks a pot of soup over.

* Alfredo Linguini, a young clumsy man whose mother has died recently, comes to Gusteau's asking for a job. Chef Skinner doesn't like him, but he accepts his second-in-command hiring Linguini for the menial garbage boy position. However, while mopping he accidentally knocks a pot of soup over.

** After customers tire of Linguini's soup, they ask him to make something new. Skinner is shocked, and suspicious that Linguini is SmarterThanYouLook after reading the letter from Renata that Linguini is [[spoiler:Gusteau's son. Skinner is waiting on a DNA test to see if this is true.]]