Fridge Brilliance
- Alex describes Marty as being the zebra that is "black with white stripes" as opposed to the other way around. Marty is the embodiment of his voice actor Chris Rock, a black comedian, and shows some Jive Turkey mannerisms, so of course black, rather than white, is his base color.
- Melman the Giraffe is ambiguously Jewish. This makes sense once you remember giraffes are kosher animals
- It's been said that giraffes cannot vomit because of their long esophagus, and therefore avoid eating any toxic plants or rotten fruit. This fits with Melman's hypochondriac personality because if he gets so much as a stomach virus, that can't be good for him.
- Phil the chimp can read, though he can't speak. This is established in the first movie when his reading ability is required by the penguins to determine where they are going... yet in the third movie, Kowalski can quickly and easily read DuBois' (likely criminal) file. The negotiations in the second movie may have involved knowledge exchange as well as the inexplicable maternity leave...
- Though curiously, Kowalski is back to being illiterate in Penguins of Madagascar.
- So in the Korean dub, the Zoosters think they've landed in Hollywood, so why should they be unhappy about it? Because to them it's probably a trashy strip filled with tattoo parlors. Or it's probably like ¡Three Amigos! where they think they're on a movie set.
- Why does King Julien have a vaguely Indian accent? Madagascar and India used to be part of the same landmass.
- Why does Mort clap after Alex bites Marty? All Hail King Julien reveals that he's a Nightmare Fetishist Animalistic Abomination, so of course he's gonna find something like that worth cheering upon.
- When he goes feral out of hunger, Alex only tries to eat Marty and mostly ignores Gloria and Melman. In the wild, lions tend to eat zebras more than giraffes or hippos, since giraffes can easily deal lasting damage with their larger bodies and longer legs, while hippos are extremely aggressive (even shown in the movie itself when Gloria smashes through a brick wall) and territorial to the point where lions will stay away from them unless absolutely necessary.
- When Alex chases the fossa away from his friends, he roars at them that he never wants to see them on "his turf" again. So it could be that he scared them so much that they'll be sticking to their own side of the island, too afraid to go near where the lemurs live, unless they get curious and decide to check if Alex is still around...
- It's not obvious at first glance, but you can see that Alex, the Penguins and the other recurring characters are not the only characters on the liner in the first film. (Containers marked with "Rhinoceros" and stuff like that.) None of these other animals are ever seen anytime else... which means that they're still on the ship more than likely DEAD while the gang is in Paris.
- Or the penguins dropped them off somewhere else.
- Possible, but unlikely. The penguins are known psychopaths, and left the humans on an inflatable life raft in the middle of nowhere. How many rhinos can use an inflating boat?
- The humans were opponents / enemies, the penguins were getting rid of them so they couldn't interfere. The other animals were "in the same boat" as the penguins, so to speak. On the boat against their will. Also, these are the same "psychopaths" who were willing to risk themselves to help someone they barely knew, so surely they have some standards.
- Or the penguins dropped them off somewhere else.
- So Alex is only fine in the sequels because he eats seafood. Should he suffer another food shortage his Sanity Slippage would happen all over again, though he might have learned to control himself enough to stop himself from down right attacking someone.
- Did the lemurs eat all the flesh off the human bodies?
- Um... lemurs are herbivores (or insectivores), they don't eat flesh. The skeletons we see in the movie probably just had their flesh rot away or eaten by ants and other scavengers. Still gruesome.
- Actually, ring-tailed lemurs have been known to eat small vertebrates like birds and lizards. The idea of them eating meat off of a human corpse if given a chance isn't too unlikely.
- Um... lemurs are herbivores (or insectivores), they don't eat flesh. The skeletons we see in the movie probably just had their flesh rot away or eaten by ants and other scavengers. Still gruesome.
- If you look at it from the other perspective, Alex going savage was basically Marty's fault, since he "encouraged" Alex to play tag with him, even though Alex told Marty he's tired and doesn't want to play with him. The entire third act of the movie could had been avoided if Marty didn't forced Alex to go on four legs and have him chase him.
