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• In the first theatrical trailer, Roddy was not the only pet of the little human girl. There was also a cage with two small yellow gerbils, who seemed to be Roddy's menservants. However, in the final cut of the film, these two characters were removed, probably to advance the story, and make Roddy appear to be a character who is more "alone" than "spoiled". The first trailer also shows the discovery of Sid during the day instead of late at night.
  
  
• Aardman's first fully-CGI feature film. The reason for using computer animation instead of the studio's trademark clay animation was the large amount of scenes involving water, which is nearly impossible to do convincingly in stop motion.
  
  
• Hugh Jackman also provided the screams for the slug that Roddy first meets in the sewer.
  
  
• For security reasons, early prints of the film were shipped under the title "Leech".
  
  
• When Roddy is selecting a movie for the movie premiere, the following DVDs are on the shelf, from left to right (Note that those with real titles are all from Dreamworks): - Chicken Run (2000) - A Clockwork Potato - Die Again Tomorrow - 12 Angry Folks - A Few Good Puns - The Curse of the Daddy - Brief Incontinence - The Maltese Budgie - You Only Live 9 Times - Once Upon a Yime in a Vest - Death in Venice II / Zombie - The Mancunian Candidate - All the Presidents Own Teeth - Ratman Ratman Returns Ratman Returns (Again) - Puckered Lips Now - Piddler on the Roof - Goon with the Wind - In the Heat of the Fridge - My Big Fat Greek Bottom - A Fistful of Dullards - The Julianos of Boca - Courtney and Brendon - The Weisberg Chronicles - Nicky and Dylan - The Chaos of Charis - Madeline's Mayhem - Macy & Owen's Day out - Z is for Zaneta? - Kira - Forces of Nature (1999) - Galaxy Quest (1999) - Just Like Heaven (2005) - The Love Letter (1999) - Mousehunt (1997) - Old School (2003) - Paulie (1998) - The Peacemaker (1997) - Red Eye (2005) - Shrek (2001) - Shrek 2 (2004) - Over the Hedge (2006) - Shark Tale (2004) - The Last Castle (2001) - Antz (1998) - Madagascar (2005) - Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - The Prince of Egypt (1998) - The Road to El Dorado (2000) - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) - Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
  
  
• On Rita's house on the bottom part, on the right side of door outside is a newspaper clipping adorning the wall, mentioning a mysterious veggie monster terrifying local gardeners. This is a reference to events in Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
  
  
• The animators nicknamed one of the Kung Fu Frogs' attack moves "the Reindeer of Death".
  
  
• When Roddy is going through is wardrobe at the beginning of the film, the third outfit he goes past (the green woollen vest) is Wallace's outfit (Wallace from Wallace & Gromit).
  
  
• At the beginning of the film, when Roddy is going through his wardrobe, the outfit he chooses is an Elvis Presley-style rhinestone jumpsuit.
  
  
• The brand name of the toilet Roddy is flushed down in the beginning is actually 'Jacuzzi". There is a plate saying so next to the lever Sid pulls.
  
  
• According to Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman, this film's original concept involved pirates, and was pitched to Dreamworks soon after the release of Chicken Run (2000). However, Aardman were told that there was no market for pirate films (this was before Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) was made), and were told to modernize the concept. By the time the writer had done this, the project was temporarily shelved to make way for the production of Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
  
  
• The film uses software that was developed for the rabbits floating around the Bun-Vac 6000 in Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). The software reproduces the 'imperfections' found in clay-mation (i.e. dropped frames, thumb-prints, etc.).
  
  
• Andy Serkis beat Robert De Niro and William Shatner to play the part of Spike.
  
  
• Jean Reno beat Stellan Skarsgård, Kevin Kline, and Johnny Depp to play the part of "Le Frog".
  
  
• At the beginning, when Roddy is looking for an outfit to wear, he picks up Wolverine's costume from the X-Men. Hugh Jackman, who provides Roddy's voice, played Wolverine in the four X-Men films.
  
  
• As Roddy and Rita attempt to free themselves in The Toad's freezer full of enemies and do-gooders, a rodent version of Han Solo is visible at right, in the "frozen in carbonite" pose from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
  
  
• To the left of Roddy's cage, sitting on the windowsill of the room, is a toy of Alex from the movie "Madagascar".
  
  
• There are many references to previous Aardman productions: There are toys of Gromit and rabbits from Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) in Roddy's owner's house while the dolls house has a "Wallace" costume.
  
  
• The bug behind the refrigerator is reading a copy of the book called, The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. In the book a man suddenly wakes up one morning as a bug.
  
  
• When Rita and Roddy are down below in the boat talking, Rita picks up a pencil topper that has a figure of Gromit from Wallace & Gromit on it.
  
  
• The Toad wears a Freemasons ring on his pinkie finger.
  
  
• The books on Toad's shelf are "Warts and Peace" by Leo Toadstool, "Unfinished Verse" by Long Tung, "A Brief History of Slime," and his scrapbooks, "The Tragic History of the Great Great Toad, Vol. I," followed by Volumes II through VI.
  
  
• In Tabitha's bedroom, as Roddy, Rita, and Sid are talking, there is a book behind them labeled "Animation".
  
  
• The frog dressed as a mime is named Marcel. This is a reference/homage to famed French mime artist Marcel Marceau. The frog in question is dressed as Marceau's famed character named Bip.
  
  
• Nicole Kidman was considered for the role of Rita.
  
  
• Several of the names found in the DVDs and on Rita's father's cast belong to the children of producers, directors, and other people involved in the movie.
  
  
• When Rita pulls the Master Cable from the control panel, the sound the equipment makes as it shuts down is the same sound as the "Millennium Falcon" makes when it won't go into hyperspace Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
  
  
• When Roddy and Rita are about to be 'iced' in the fridge, you can see that the controls panel the Toad is using is an early Atari 2600 game console (all the controls on the front). The game plugged into the unit is called "Froggie", a play on the old game "Frogger." When facing the Toad, the label on the back of the unit warns of "no service usable parts inside", and "opening the unit voids the warranty".
  
  
• At the beginning of the film, one of the outfits Roddy takes out of the wardrobe is Wolverine's blue-and-yellow "tiger stripe" costume. Wolverine was played on film by Hugh Jackman.
  
  
• Rita, voiced by Kate Winslet, watches her boat sink in the same way that Winslet's character Rose watches the boat sink in Titanic (1997).
  
  
• On the shelf with the DVDs, seen when Roddy is choosing a movie, there is a photo of Wendolene from Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave (1995). Earlier, while Roddy is putting on his shoe, you can see a picture of Shaun (the sheep) from the same movie on the shelf above.
  
  

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