{"slug":"ratatouille","type":"movie","title":"Ratatouille","year":2007,"releaseDate":"2007-06-29","franchise":"pixar","genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"creators":["Brad Bird","Jan Pinkava"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille","hook":"A tin of Nemo-brand caviar sits in Gusteau's pantry, A113 is stamped on a laboratory rat's ear tag, and the credits end with a shot fired at motion capture.","intro":"Two of the sharpest hidden details in *Ratatouille* are cruel, and both of them are food. In Gusteau's pantry sits a tin of **Nemo brand caviar** — the clownfish from the previous decade's biggest family film, processed and shelved. Elsewhere, **Git**, the scarred laboratory rat, wears an ear tag reading **A113**: Pixar's affectionate signature for the CalArts classroom, repurposed as an experimental subject number. Brad Bird's film is about the gap between what people think is disposable and what turns out to be capable of art, and its easter eggs keep making that argument in miniature.\n\nThe research layer is unusually deep too. Pixar sent its team to cook in **Thomas Keller's** kitchen at The French Laundry; Keller designed the layered dish Remy serves to Anton Ego — a refined **confit byaldi** — and turns up voicing a patron. Gusteau's dining room is drawn from **La Tour d'Argent**, the real restaurant on the Seine, down to the lamps and the cheese trolley.\n\nAnd then there is the last thing in the film, long after the story is over: a stamped quality guarantee reading **100% Genuine Animation**, promising no motion capture was used. In 2007, with performance-capture features arriving every year, that was not a joke. It was a position. Here is what else is hiding, from a mime who used to rob banks to a dog who would not get his own movie for two more years.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":2062,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2062","imdbId":"tt0382932","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/"},"counts":{"eggs":11,"confirmed":4,"community":7,"theory":0,"sources":13},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Ratatouille has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"Yes, but it is a gag rather than a scene. At the very end of the credits an animated Remy is draped over the final credit line; when the text fades he drops, picks himself up and limps off screen — right beside the film's '100% Genuine Animation' stamp promising no motion capture was used.","detail":"**Ratatouille ends with a small post-credits gag rather than a story scene**, and it is worth knowing what you are staying for so you can decide.\n\nThere is no extra plot. Nothing is set up, no sequel is teased, and no character's fate changes. What plays at the very bottom of the credit roll is a piece of animation: a cartoon **Remy** is lying draped across the last credit line as though it were a shelf, and when that text fades out from under him he falls, gathers himself, and limps off screen. It is about three seconds long and it is the last image in the film.\n\nSitting immediately beside it is the thing most worth seeing. Pixar stamps the credits with a mock quality guarantee — **'100% Genuine Animation! No motion capture or any other performance shortcuts were used in the production of this film.'** — complete with a winking mid-century businessman giving a thumbs up. In 2007 that was a live argument rather than a whimsy: motion-capture features were arriving every year, awards bodies were wrestling with whether they qualified as animation, and Brad Bird was firmly on one side of it. The stamp is the film's closing statement of principle, hidden in the smallest type on screen.\n\nThe credits themselves also run a stylised sequence of hand-drawn character illustrations rather than a plain roll, so the last few minutes are designed rather than administrative. If you have the patience, stay; if you do not, you are missing a joke and a manifesto, not a plot point.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"nemo-brand-caviar","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-nemo-brand-caviar","title":"Nemo brand caviar is sitting in Gusteau's pantry","description":"Behind Remy, while Linguini talks to him, sit two tins labelled **Nemo brand caviar**. Caviar is fish eggs. The joke is that Pixar took the most beloved fish character it had ever produced — the one whose film was built entirely around a father's terror of losing his son — and put his name on a delicacy made of unhatched young. It remains one of the darkest cross-references the studio has ever shipped, and it is on screen for a couple of seconds with no comment at all.","scene":"Gusteau's pantry — behind Remy on the shelf while he eats cheese and Linguini talks","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Ratatouille Trivia","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Ratatouille_Trivia"},{"label":"ComingSoon.net — Did You Find the Easter Eggs in Ratatouille?","url":"https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/21776-did-you-find-the-easter-eggs-in-ratatouille"}],"motifs":["product-of-the-fictional-universe"],"referencesSlug":"finding-nemo","referencesWork":null},{"id":"a113-on-gits-ear-tag","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-a113-on-gits-ear-tag","title":"A113 is the lab-rat number on Git's ear tag","description":"**Git**, the big scarred rat in Django's clan, is a former laboratory animal, and the tag clipped to his ear reads **A113**. Pixar's warmest in-joke — the CalArts classroom where Brad Bird, John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton studied — is here recast as the identifier stamped on a test subject. The film plants a second one too: **A113** appears on a train in the background of the film Linguini watches on television.","scene":"Git's ear tag in the rat clan scenes; also on a train in the TV movie Linguini watches","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComingSoon.net — Did You Find the Easter Eggs in Ratatouille?","url":"https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/21776-did-you-find-the-easter-eggs-in-ratatouille"},{"label":"CalArts — Vulture Video Tackles the Meaning of 'A113'","url":"https://blog.calarts.edu/2016/05/24/vulture-video-tackles-the-meaning-of-a113/"}],"motifs":["a113","recurring-hidden-signature"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"pizza-planet-truck-over-the-seine","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-pizza-planet-truck-over-the-seine","title":"The Pizza Planet truck crosses a bridge over the Seine","description":"Pixar's most-travelled vehicle makes its Paris appearance on a bridge over the **Seine**, passing through frame while Skinner chases Remy across the city. Getting the truck into a period-flavoured French film without breaking the world is exactly the kind of constraint the gag thrives on — the crew has since had to sneak it into medieval Scotland and prehistoric Earth.","scene":"On a bridge over the Seine, during Skinner's pursuit of Remy through Paris","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"D23 — Where to Find the Iconic Pizza Planet Trucks in Pixar Films","url":"https://d23.com/where-to-find-the-iconic-pizza-planet-trucks-in-pixar-films/"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Pizza Planet Truck","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Pizza_Planet_Truck"}],"motifs":["pizza-planet-truck"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"bomb-voyage-is-now-a-street-mime","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-bomb-voyage-is-now-a-street-mime","title":"The mime on the Paris street is The Incredibles' bank robber","description":"One of the street performers in Paris is **Bomb Voyage**, the mime supervillain Mr. Incredible fights in the prologue of *The Incredibles*. Both films are Brad Bird's, and he moved the character across without a single line of acknowledgement. Fans have argued for years over whether this is the same criminal gone straight, a cameo with no continuity attached, or a director quietly reusing a design he liked — Bird has been happy to leave it alone.","scene":"The streets of Paris — among the buskers and performers","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","reference"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Incredibles Wiki — Bomb Voyage","url":"https://the-incredibles.fandom.com/wiki/Bomb_Voyage"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Ratatouille Trivia","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Ratatouille_Trivia"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-incredibles","referencesWork":null},{"id":"linguini-incredibles-underwear","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-linguini-incredibles-underwear","title":"Linguini's underwear is branded with The Incredibles logo","description":"During the frantic business of hiding a rat under his clothes, Linguini's underwear turns out to carry the **Incredibles** insignia. It is a throwaway sight gag, but it is also the second Brad Bird self-reference in the same film, which makes the pattern deliberate rather than incidental — Bird was quietly stitching his two Pixar features together in the background.","scene":"Gusteau's kitchen, while Linguini tries to conceal Remy","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Ratatouille Trivia","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Ratatouille_Trivia"},{"label":"MovieMistakes — Ratatouille (2007) easter eggs","url":"https://www.moviemistakes.com/film6807/eastereggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-incredibles","referencesWork":null},{"id":"dug-barks-two-years-early","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-dug-barks-two-years-early","title":"The dog that barks at Remy is Dug, two years before Up","description":"The dog whose silhouette lunges and barks at Remy during his flight through Paris is **Dug**, the golden retriever from *Up* — which would not open until 2009. Pixar's habit of seeding the next film into the current one is at its subtlest here: Dug appears as a shadow rather than a character, so there is nothing to recognise until the film he belongs to exists.","scene":"During Remy's escape through the city — the barking dog's shadow","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Ratatouille Trivia","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Ratatouille_Trivia"},{"label":"ComingSoon.net — Did You Find the Easter Eggs in Ratatouille?","url":"https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/21776-did-you-find-the-easter-eggs-in-ratatouille"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":"up","referencesWork":null},{"id":"thomas-keller-designed-the-dish","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-thomas-keller-designed-the-dish","title":"The dish that wins over Anton Ego was designed by Thomas Keller — who also voices a diner","description":"The layered vegetable dish Remy serves is not a rustic ratatouille at all. It is **confit byaldi**, a refined version created for the film by **Thomas Keller** of The French Laundry, who consulted on the production and hosted Pixar's team in his kitchen so they could learn how professionals actually move. Keller had first written up a byaldi in *The French Laundry Cookbook* in 1999; his film version adds a piperade beneath and a vinaigrette on top. He also appears in the film, voicing a restaurant patron.","scene":"The final dish served to Anton Ego — and a patron's voice at Gusteau's","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — Confit byaldi","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confit_byaldi"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Ratatouille Trivia","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Ratatouille_Trivia"}],"motifs":["cameo-by-source-creator"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"anton-egos-office-is-a-coffin","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-anton-egos-office-is-a-coffin","title":"Anton Ego works inside a coffin, at a skull-shaped typewriter","description":"The critic's study is not decorated like a study. The room is built as a **coffin** — narrow, tapering, lidded — and the **typewriter** he writes his executions on is shaped to read as a skull. Nothing in the dialogue points at it. It is pure production design doing characterisation: the man who can kill a restaurant with a paragraph is drawn working inside his own funeral furniture, which makes his eventual review land as a resurrection rather than a change of mind.","scene":"Anton Ego's study, whenever he is writing","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"MovieMistakes — Ratatouille (2007) easter eggs","url":"https://www.moviemistakes.com/film6807/eastereggs"},{"label":"The Movie Facts — Ratatouille movie facts, easter eggs and hidden details","url":"https://themoviefacts.com/ratatouille-movie-facts.html"}],"motifs":["colour-coded-fate"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"gusteaus-is-la-tour-dargent","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-gusteaus-is-la-tour-dargent","title":"Gusteau's dining room is a real Paris restaurant, reproduced","description":"Gusteau's is invented; its room is not. 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Audio easter eggs are rarer than visual ones because they survive no freeze-frame; you either catch this on a good system or you never know it is there.","scene":"The sewer sequences — buried low in the sound mix","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","reference"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"MovieMistakes — Ratatouille (2007) easter eggs","url":"https://www.moviemistakes.com/film6807/eastereggs"},{"label":"eeggs.com — Ratatouille easter eggs","url":"https://eeggs.com/tree/11457.html"}],"motifs":["quoted-line-homage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"hundred-percent-genuine-animation-stamp","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille#egg-hundred-percent-genuine-animation-stamp","title":"The credits end with a stamped guarantee that no motion capture was used","description":"After the loop groups and the production babies, the very last thing in *Ratatouille* is a quality-assurance stamp: **\"100% Genuine Animation! No motion capture or any other performance shortcuts were used in the production of this film.\"** — beside a winking 1950s ad-man giving a thumbs up. Read in 2007, with performance-capture features arriving annually and industry arguments raging about whether they counted as animation, this was not a whimsical sign-off. It was Brad Bird planting a flag on behalf of hand-keyframed animation, in the smallest type in the movie.","scene":"The final card of the end credits","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"IMDb — Ratatouille (2007) crazy credits","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/crazycredits/"},{"label":"Cartoon Brew — Ratatouille Triumphant","url":"https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/ratatouille-triumphant-3560.html"}],"motifs":["fourth-wall-break"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Ratatouille?","answer":"We have catalogued 11 documented easter eggs and hidden details in Ratatouille, including the Nemo brand caviar in Gusteau's pantry, A113 on Git's laboratory ear tag, the Pizza Planet truck crossing the Seine, Dug from Up appearing two years early, Bomb Voyage from The Incredibles busking in Paris, and the '100% Genuine Animation' stamp that closes the credits."},{"question":"What is the Nemo caviar easter egg in Ratatouille?","answer":"Two tins in Gusteau's pantry are labelled 'Nemo brand caviar', visible behind Remy while Linguini talks to him. Caviar is fish eggs, which makes it one of the bleakest cross-references Pixar has ever slipped into a family film — the star of Finding Nemo turned into a luxury product."},{"question":"Where is A113 in Ratatouille?","answer":"On the ear tag worn by Git, the scarred former laboratory rat in Django's clan — Pixar's CalArts in-joke recast as an animal test-subject number. It also appears on a train in the background of the film Linguini watches on television."},{"question":"Is the ratatouille dish in the film a real recipe?","answer":"Yes. It is confit byaldi, a refined layered version created for the film by chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry, who consulted on the production and hosted the animation team in his kitchen. Keller also voices a patron in the film. He had published an earlier byaldi in The French Laundry Cookbook in 1999."},{"question":"What does the stamp at the end of the Ratatouille credits mean?","answer":"It reads '100% Genuine Animation! No motion capture or any other performance shortcuts were used in the production of this film.' In 2007, when performance-capture features were multiplying and the industry was arguing over whether they counted as animation, it was a deliberate statement of principle from Brad Bird rather than a throwaway joke."}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-19","updatedAt":"2026-08-19","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/ratatouille","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/ratatouille","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}