He's going from dumpster diving to fine dining!
References to the film in other media.Comedy
- John Mulaney famously related a story where he attended a drunken party when he was younger
. Things got hectic when the police arrived to bust everyone, whereupon a friend of his called for everyone to scatter, and they promptly did so:Mulaney: It was like that scene in Ratatouille where the humans come in the kitchen and the rats go in different ways...
Fan Works
- Danny Phantom: Stranded: In "Visited", when Donovan offers the 1947 Chã Cheval Blanc, Danny recognizes it as "that wine everyone's heard of from that movie with the cooking rat".
- Group Chat features David having a dream, at one point, in which a tiny Adam Smasher is puppeting him by the hair and forcing him to cook beef bourgignon. It's played with, however, when David tells the others about it and their point of reference is instead Raccacoonie.
Films — Animation
- Cars 2: In Paris, we see a restaurant named "Gastow's".
- Inside Out: In one scene during the prologue, a cooking magazine with Colette's picture on the cover can be seen in the Andersons' living room.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: When Splinter shows up at TCRI's headquarters to rescue the turtles, one of the guards mockingly calls him "Ratatouille". He doesn't take it well.
- WALL•E: The scooter Skinner takes from Lalo can be seen among the trash. In addition, the robot mouse that appears on the Axiom is known as REM-E.
Films — Live-Action
- Everything Everywhere All at Once: In the film, certain characters have the ability to connect with their counterparts in alternate universes, which can be used to gain their skills or take control of their bodies. Evelyn tries to explain this concept to her family using Ratatouille as an example. However, she refers to it as Raccacoonie, since she misremembers the movie's plot as being about a raccoon who controls a human chef by pulling on his hair instead of a rat. Later on, in a universe where Evelyn is a teppanyaki chef, her rival coworker actually has a raccoon under his hat controlling him. That universe's Evelyn even ends up piloting the man in the same way (followed by the other way around) to rescue Raccacoonie from animal control.
- In The Suicide Squad, as they're about to raid the presidential palace, Rick Flag calls Ratcatcher "Ratatouille".
Live-Action TV
- In the Broad City episode "B&B-NYC," Trey and Abbi watch Ratatouille to cheer up Abbi after she's robbed.
- In The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, Viv said the movie wasn't based on a true story.
- In The Good Place, Jason describes the Bad Place as "scary, like the movie Ratatouille".Jason: "I ain't trying to have rats living in my hats and pulling my hair to get me to do stuff."
- There is a Saturday Night Live sketch where a man (played by John Krasinski) insists on having sex with a girl with his top hat on. Lo and behold, he reveals to the girl that Remy is under there helping him the entire time. The sketch even ends with a rare Anton Ego parody, where he, as depicted by Pete Davidson, gives a glowing review to their "performance".
- In Ted Lasso, Rebecca learns that her Bantr match's favorite movie is Ratatouille, which gives her pause. Keeley refuses to see that as a problem:Keeley: Who fucking cares what his favorite movie is? Also, Ratatouille is a goddamn masterpiece, and ironically, it's about snobbery and how good art can come from anywhere. Stop your dithering and go fuck your cartoon rat!
Music
- Migos' "Bad and Boujee" has the line "Still be playin' with pots and pans, call me Quavo Ratatouille".
Video Games
- LEGO The Incredibles: Linguini is an unlockable character, unlocked by building Gusteau's Restaurant in New Urbem Downtown. Linguini can summon Remy, who can travel through pipes.
Web Animation
- hololive: Amelia Watson's March 5, 2022 stream of Clash of Chefs VR has a brief gag at the very end where her virtual avatar Buff Ame's secret is revealed by accident. Underneath her hat, she's being piloted by a Smol Ame à la Remy with Linguine.
Web Videos
- An episode of SuperMarioLogan is entitled "Ratatouille!", which features Remy helping Chef Pee Pee make a special soup for Bowser.
- Who could forget Ratatouille the Musical, which began life on TikTok and escalated into a one-night benefit performance? The full story is here.
Western Animation
- Amphibia: In "Commander Anne", Anne suggests that the team stand on their shoulders to form a bridge to cross a moat. She got the idea from a movie about mice in a French kitchen.
- Big City Greens: In the episode "Montaged," after Cricket ends up in a never-ending cycle of montages, he ends up as a chef. He comments that it seems normal, only for it to be revealed that his friend, who is named Remy, was hiding in Cricket's hat, on top of his head, and controlling his hair.
- Kid vs. Kat: There is an episode titled "Rat-a-Phooey".
- MAD:
- In the sketch "TransBOREmores", Remy appears as the waiter in a restaurant.
- In "Mickey Mouse Mouse Exterminator Service", Remy is among the mice and rats that Mickey captures.
- Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): Upon seeing rats raid a pizzeria in the cold open of “Teacher’s Pet”, Lunella comments that “they looked way cuter in that movie about the pizza rat”.
- Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: In the episode "Mc One-Armed And Dangerous", McFist ends up eating a mcsquiddle, prompting a flashback to his childhood a la the scene with Ego.
- Robot Chicken
- A sketch from "Immortal" features Anton Ego threatening to give Gusteau's his lowest marks. While Remy has Linguini get Ego a new plate, Linguini's hat is knocked off, revealing Remy to the restaurant patrons. Ego's hat is knocked off his head as well, revealing a cat. Ego reveals that his heartlessness was due to the cat threatening his family. Remy and the cat control their respective humans and battle, and just as Linguini and Remy are about to be impaled by a meat skewer, the evil cat is shot dead by a police officer, who reveals he is being controlled by a dog that he has hidden underneath his hat.
- A sketch from "Food" features Remy helping Linguini with his relationship with Colette.
- A sketch from "Boogie Bardstown in: No Need, I Have Coupons", Linguini is a contestant on MasterChef Celebrity Showdown, where he has to cook with the thing he fears most: a rat.
- The Simpsons:
- In "Gone Maggie Gone", Homer says that having rats in the kitchen is like "that delightful movie I taped in the theater" and holds up a bootleg copy of the movie (misspelled "Ratatooey"). One of the rats then controls Homer with his two hairs to help him cook. After tasting the meal, Homer declares it good. Good but not great and leaves to buy rat poison by pulling his own hairs to help him move.
- In "The Food Wife", Marge shoots some delicious food into a meth lab worker's mouth, causing him to have a flashback just like Ego's.
- "Pay Pal" has an Itchy & Scratchy episode called "Catatouille", where Scratchy is a chef and Itchy controls him to kill and serve cats to other cats and then let the customers know they're eating cat. They're disgusted.
