Shout Out / Ratatouille

• The old woman getting the umbrella stuck in her shotgun looks awfully reminiscent of the rifle from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. To wit.
• Look carefully, and you'll spot Bomb Voyage from The Incredibles on a street corner when Linguini and Colette roller-skate past Skinner. Here, he's not so villainous: just a regular old French mime.
• When Colette is introducing the other chefs she mentions one of them (the pyro) was a member of a failed Résistance (although he won't say which war) — cue the La Résistance music from Medal of Honor, which shares a composer with this film.
• Possibly Colette herself: her last name is "Tautou", like the actress of Amélie. And Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, mostly known by her family name, is a famous French author.
• The first thing Skinner says to Linguini on his first day as an official chef is "Welcome to hell."
• The scene with the various Gusteau cutouts. The fried chicken one sounds like a certain rooster and has a goatee and dress resembling Colonel Sanders. Another, a cartoon of a literal corn-dog, talks like Scooby-Doo.
• Not to mention that some of the loop group of Paris worked on this film. (Cue the end credits)
• During the scene where the clan helps Rémy cook, he orders a steak really tenderized. The brawniest rat in the clan punches the steak repeatedly.
  Rémy: Stick and move!
• When the old woman first attempts to fire her shotgun, an umbrella opens out of the end, quite reminiscent of a scene in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• When Michael Giacchino is involved, expect a Hurricane of Puns in the soundtrack. This one has Granny Get Your Gun.
• Collette's description of the cooks at Gusteau's as a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits is similar to Anthony Bourdain's description of cook life in New York in Kitchen Confidential.

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