With the film being a Deconstructive Parody of Pixar films, expect there to be a ton of pop culture references in the film.
Pixar References
- The potato being joyful about being the chosen one bears similarity to the alien toy in Toy Story being joyful about being chosen from the skill crane.
- Douche taking a bite out of Frank is very reminiscent of Stinky Pete cutting open Woody's arm in Toy Story 2.
- Darren throwing away the foods in a trashcan is similar to the scene in Toy Story 2 where Woody has a nightmare where Andy drops him onto a pile of cards that somehow leads to a trashcan.
- Douche controlling Darren through his scrotum is a clear reference to Ratatouille.
- The scene where the food are happy to be at the customer's house but then realize their true fate is a reference to the scene in Toy Story 3 where the toys are dropped off at a daycare and can't wait to be played with by their new owners, but then everything goes wrong once the kids misuse them.
- Also, the food holding hands when they believe their end is about to come is akin to when the toys believe they will be incinerated and hold hands one last time.
- A less affectionate one is the "Dixar" bumper sticker on the Druggie's car, along with "A113"note on his license plate.
Other
- The character designs are a Whole Costume Reference to the animated theater bumper "Let's All Go To The Lobby"
. - Near the beginning of the movie, during "The Great Beyond" song, when Honey Mustard is picked for buying, he happily stands and extends his arms from the front of the shopping basket.
- Giant television screens are placed throughout the entire Shopwell's supermarket. And said screens are used to project people faces on them in order to watch every move in the entire store.
- The Bag of Flour is labeled "Walter's White Flower". It even has the little hat on it!
- Frank watching the aftermath of cart collision with various food yelling in agony as he is on the ground, disheveled, parodies the Omaha Beach battle in Saving Private Ryan, complete with a Can of Spaghetti trying to keep his Noodle Intestines inside and an Oreo walking around, dazed, and picking up one of his biscuits.
- The death of Carl, with him suddenly looking down and seeing Camille's knife blade coming out from his chest before being sliced in half takes a page from the Alien Queen dispatching Bishop in Aliens.
- During a musical sequence, Meat Loaf makes an appearance as a literal meat loaf. Later, he rides away from an explosion on a motorbike, striking a pose similar to the one on the cover of Bat Out Of Hell.
- "I'll get you! And your little sausage too!"
- Gum looks very similar to Dr. Honeydew with the whole not having eyes under his glasses thing he's got going on.
- Frank eventually finds proof about food's ultimate destiny through a cook book.
- When the Fruit prepare to go into battle, they dance and snap their fingers.
- During the climax, Darren tries to shoot Gum. Gum morphs from his bullet hole into his original form, all while a certain famous theme plays in the background.
- One of the characters in the battle scene is named Sgt. Pepper.
- At the end the characters go through an actual Stargate into the real world.
- The scene where Sammy and Lavash throw ladles at one of the humans is a reference to the first Spider-Man film, where a group of bystanders at the Queensboro Bridge throw pipes and other debris at Green Goblin during the climactic battle.
- Druggie has a drug trip similar to that of Beavis and Butthead's in Beavis And Butthead Do America.
Meta
- During the month of June, the Twitter page for the movie would post a picture spoofing a Romantic film (along with a food-based Pun) every Monday. The films were Titanic [1], Casablanca [2], The Notebook [3], and Jerry Maguire [4].
