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Flushed Away
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Flushed Away (2006) is the third and final collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations, using CGI to replicate Aardman's trademark Claymation style of animation.An upper-class fancy rat named Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman), after a mishap with a sewer rat called Sid (Shane Richie), ends up flushed down from his swank Kensington home into the underworld of vermin beneath London. Desperate to get home, he encounters Rita Malone (Kate Winslet), who is on the run from an unscrupulous crime lord called The Toad (Ian McKellen), who royally despises all rodents equally, and wants them put on ice... literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey (Andy Serkis and Bill Nighy), to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin — that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog (Jean Reno). Can Roddy stop the Toad's evil plan and get back home? | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The frog mime is named Marcel, an homage to famous French mime Marcel Marceau. | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste: The Toad, and to a lesser extent Le Frog. Roddy had shades of this in his suit and wealthy background (he lives in Kensington, incidentally). In fact, Toad is delighted to discover Roddy shares his high-class background...at first. Possibly a subversion, though, since most of the Toad's collection is actually tourist souvenir crap that somehow ended up in the sewers, which is probably the reason why Roddy wasn't really impressed by it. Also, let's not forget that he couldn't recognize the fake ruby, something that Roddy did by just looking at it. | |
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Fat Idiot | |
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Fat Idiot: Subverted with Sid, who quickly realizes that Roddy is trying to trick him and sends him down the toilet instead. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: That of the Toad. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Spike expresses his distaste for happy endings at the end of the film, saying he prefers unhappy endings with lots of violence. Pain ensues moments after. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: Parodied when the Toad is talking to his legion of tadpoles and he regularly switches back and forth between a deep, booming voice when talking about his evil plans and a sweet little baby voice when talking directly to the tadpoles, only to accidentally talk in the baby voice when Spike and Whitey return before correcting himself. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Le Frog, during his cousin's exposition dump. Then the Toad repeatedly when outlining his Evil Plan. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: Roddy's hamster butlers — Gilbert and Sullivan — appeared in an early trailer. They were removed when Aardman realized that they actually made no sense, from both a thematic and practical view (though they still appear in the film's tie-in video game). The trailer also gives plenty of spotlight to Sid, making it look as if he's a main character. In the actual movie, Sid is a talking Plot Device. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: A "frog" is a derisive term for a French person. The day is saved when a British Airways bag lifts the heroes out of danger, while stealing the master cable back from Le Frog along the way. | |
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Soft Water | |
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Soft Water: Roddy falls from some unspecified height, which is portrayed as an abyss. When he finally lands, he hits water and is unharmed. Said water barely goes up to his knees. And he's a rat. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Rita sarcastically pretends to be tempted by her brother’s plan to turn Roddy over to the Toad, then scolds him for even suggesting the idea. Roddy overhears only the first part of this conversation and assumes that Rita is planning to betray him, prompting him to hijack the Jammy Dodger and leave. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: The Toad. Or, at least, he thinks he's a villain with class and good taste. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Rita’s brother Liam suggests calling Spike and turning Roddy over for a reward, but Rita angrily dismisses this idea before she goes after Roddy (the latter having overheard and misunderstood their conversation). One of Spike’s men later mentions having an anonymous tip-off to Roddy and Rita’s whereabouts. The identity of this caller is not revealed, opening the possibility that it was Liam. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: "Those floodgates won't hold forever, you know!" Pretty much anything having to do with the World Cup Final. Liquid nitrogen. Roddy and Rita are almost frozen with it, and Roddy uses it in the climax to freeze the giant wave brought on by everyone using the bathroom at halftime and save Ratropolis. | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: Thimblenose Ted's thimble nose. | |
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No Flow in CGI | |
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No Flow in Claymation: This movie (which was in production before Toy Story) was originally intended to be a traditional claymation movie like Chicken Run, but Aardman couldn't find a way to animate flowing water convincingly in claymation. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The majority of the film takes place in about three days just before the day of the World Cup Finals. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: See Mood Motif, below. | |
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GrossOutShow | |
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Gross-Out Show: Naturally, there's a significant bit of potty humor, given the fact that Roddy arrived in Ratropolis from being flushed down the toilet, and most of the film's action takes place in a sewer. | |
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French Jerk | |
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French Jerk: Le Frog. He even lampshades it. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: Roddy, trying to reach for the paperclip in Rita's back pocket when they're tied back to back in the Toad's fridge, accidentally grabs... something else of hers. Not long after, Roddy gets to see a little more of Rita than he wanted. | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Ian McKellen and Jean Reno previously appeared together in The Da Vinci Code; the former as Leigh Teabing, the latter as Captain Bezu Fache. | |
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HammerSpace | |
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Hammerspace: Rita is able to stuff both the ruby and emerald Roddy gives her to provide for her family and build a new Jammy Dodger in her pockets. Both of these are about the same size as her hands and they don't stick out at all. | |
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National Animal Stereotypes | |
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National Animal Stereotypes: Many of the residents of the sewer are various British stereotypes, except for Le Frog; his henchmen are a bunch of Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys and a mime. | |
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Everyone Hates Mimes | |
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Everyone Hates Mimes: Played with. A French frog mime tapes a cellphone to his body and flips the screen so Toad's face is shown. Every word he says the mime acts it out like he's physically there (though some actions don't work to his intention like saying "dance" or dramatically turning around). He's basically projecting the Big Bad and giving the heroes a little interaction. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Hugh Jackman as Roddy. Only happens once. | |
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Minion with an F in Evil | |
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Minion with an F in Evil: Whitey. See also Token Good Teammate below. | |
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Spaghetti Kiss | |
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Spaghetti Kiss: In a short gag, two slugs are seen eating a plate of spaghetti and look like they're about to kiss when they're eating the same noodle... only for the female to suck on her end too hard, resulting in her devouring the other slug along with the noodle. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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As stated in Actor Allusion, the X-Men Film Series, given Hugh Jackman, who voices Roddy, portrayed Wolverine. The Wolverine outfit cones from the comics, rather than the films, though. (Bonus points for him giving a snarly face when posing with it.) | |
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Ignorant About Fire | |
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Ignorant About Fire: At one point, Roddy's hair catches fire and he doesn't notice until Rita points it out. | |
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Thoroughly Mistaken Identity | |
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Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Rita's grandmother thinks that Roddy is Tom Jones after hearing him being called a 'peeping tom'. Amusingly, he is quite happy to play along with it. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: When showing Rita around his home, Roddy insists that his “master bedroom� is not a cage, and that the lock and bars are merely a "proper" home security system. Rita is not convinced. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: The Toad's evil rants are pretty much built on this trope. Le Frog seems to feel this way about his ninja team and definitely feels this way about his cousin the Toad. | |
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Flashback-Montage Realization | |
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Flashback-Montage Realization: When Roddy realizes the Toad's plan. | |
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Smart Jerk and Nice Moron | |
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Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: Spike tends to take great pleasure in the pain and suffering of others and tends to be the smart one when compared to his partner, Whitey, who is a Minion with an F in Evil and considered to be the nicest guy in the film. | |
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Scavenged Punk | |
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Scavenged Punk: The sewer world is built all out of human materials. Just check out those eggbeater jet-skis or the Jammy Dodger, for example. | |
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Innocent Bystander | |
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Innocent Bystander: Roddy tries to paint himself as one, saying the exact words. Unfortunately, everyone else thought he was introducing himself as "Millicent Bystander". | |
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Mistaken for Thief | |
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Mistaken for Thief: When Roddy arrives, Rita claims that he stole the ruby the baddies are looking for and is an international jewel thief. This lie fools the baddies, and Rita's brother Liam, who also believe his name is Millicent Bystander due to Whitey mishearing "an innocent bystander". | |
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Badass in Distress | |
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Badass in Distress: Rita, during the climax. | |
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Mistaken for Flatulence | |
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Mistaken for Flatulence: Subverted. A balloon makes a rude noise as it deflates, and Spike accuses Whitey of farting. It turns out that Whitey did fart; he was taking the opportunity. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Roddy suffers comedic misfortunes at first, followed by Spike who stays consistent all throughout the film. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: At the start of the end credits we cut back to Sid just as the family returns home...with a new cat! | |
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Harmless Freezing | |
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Harmless Freezing: Played with. The Toad traps anyone who dares irritate him by freezing them with liquid nitrogen, encasing them in a perfectly clear ice-cube. He intends to do the same to Roddy and Rita, but they escape, causing Spike and Whitey to suffer the same fate. Their frosty prison is immediately broken by Toad and commands them to chase after Roddy and Rita, which they do. Very stiffly. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
Flushed Away / int_4a4d6f7c | comment |
Comedic Sociopathy: Let's face it; watching Roddy suffer five groin attacks in a row is hilarious. Also occurs in-universe with Le Frog: "I find everyone's pain funny but my own. I'm French!" | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_4a4d6f7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_4a4d6f7c | |
Flushed Away / int_4b0ef86e | type |
Advertised Extra | |
Flushed Away / int_4b0ef86e | comment |
Advertised Extra: Despite his actor being third billed in the opening credits and appearing in trailers and promotional pictures, Le Frog does not appear until about two thirds into the movie. Downplayed with Sid, who frequently appears in trailers and promotional pictures but has very little screentime in the actual movie. However, he's a case of Small Role, Big Impact, as he's the reason Roddy's in the sewers to begin with. | |
Flushed Away / int_4b0ef86e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_4b0ef86e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_4b0ef86e | |
Flushed Away / int_4f4dd4b8 | type |
Tastes Like Disdain | |
Flushed Away / int_4f4dd4b8 | comment |
Tastes Like Disdain: After driving Rita away in a moment of Don't You Dare Pity Me! over his refusal to admit how much of a Lonely Rich Kid he really is, Roddy returns to the living room of his house to find Sid, the sewer rat who flushed him down the toilet into the sewers in the first place, watching the World Cup final and eating cheese puffs right in front of him. Sid, despite having humiliated Roddy in front of Rita earlier, cheerfully offers Roddy a cheese puff, only for Roddy to calmly crush the Puff into orange powder in his grasp. Sid offers him another one, which he snaps in half, and a third, which he just throws away over his shoulder, before Suddenly Shouting at Sid to move over and let him sit on the sofa. This is a positive example of the trope, since it shows that Roddy Grew a Spine from his time spent in the sewers, and is no longer going to let Sid push him around or try bribing him anymore. | |
Flushed Away / int_4f4dd4b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_4f4dd4b8 | featureConfidence |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_4f4dd4b8 | |
Flushed Away / int_51be8071 | type |
Forced from Their Home | |
Flushed Away / int_51be8071 | comment |
Forced from Their Home: The film's plot starts when Roddy tries to trick Sid into jumping inside a toilet to flush him away. Sid catches on and turns the tables on Roddy, pushing him inside the toilet and flushing him out of the house and into the sewers. | |
Flushed Away / int_51be8071 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_51be8071 | |
Flushed Away / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
Flushed Away / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Le Frog. The only reason he seems to put up with the Toad at all is because they're cousins. The Toad himself as well, initially. When he and Roddy first meet, the Toad is more than happy to show his collection of royal memorabilia, and acts very civil with him. Then Roddy calls his collection "amusing", not "diverting" like the Toad had hoped. And then Roddy accidentally breaks a good number of the Toad's collection, and a visibly angry Toad orders him to be frozen with Rita. | |
Flushed Away / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_537dd8fe | |
Flushed Away / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
Flushed Away / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Le Frog is the second-in-command to Toad. | |
Flushed Away / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_53f5119f | |
Flushed Away / int_54bb502b | type |
Nobody Poops | |
Flushed Away / int_54bb502b | comment |
Nobody Poops: Averted. This aversion actually forms part of the Toad's plan, as he intends to open the floodgates when everyone uses the bathroom at half-time to flush Ratropolis away. | |
Flushed Away / int_54bb502b | featureApplicability |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_54bb502b | |
Flushed Away / int_55172a70 | type |
Zombie Gait | |
Flushed Away / int_55172a70 | comment |
Zombie Gait: Something is... off about Thimblenose Ted. Besides having a thimble for a nose, that is. | |
Flushed Away / int_55172a70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_55172a70 | |
Flushed Away / int_5650223c | type |
Plot Device | |
Flushed Away / int_5650223c | comment |
The trailer also gives plenty of spotlight to Sid, making it look as if he's a main character. In the actual movie, Sid is a talking Plot Device. | |
Flushed Away / int_5650223c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_5650223c | |
Flushed Away / int_599f943f | type |
Karma Houdini Warranty | |
Flushed Away / int_599f943f | comment |
Karma Houdini Warranty: Sid initially faces no repercussions for invading Roddy's home and even trashing it quite a bit, to say nothing of him throwing Roddy into the sewers, potentially away from his home forever. However, Tabitha comes home with a new "friend": a cat. Cue Oh, Crap! from Sid. | |
Flushed Away / int_599f943f | featureApplicability |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_599f943f | |
Flushed Away / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
Flushed Away / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Le Frog and his henchmen. They even put having dinner ahead of going after Roddy and Rita. | |
Flushed Away / int_5fcedca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_5fcedca | |
Flushed Away / int_61b576af | type |
I Take Offense to That Last One | |
Flushed Away / int_61b576af | comment |
I Take Offense to That Last One: Upon meeting the Toad, Roddy and Rita have different ideas about what's more offensive about his wit: | |
Flushed Away / int_61b576af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_61b576af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_61b576af | |
Flushed Away / int_62d4ceb3 | type |
Mood Motif | |
Flushed Away / int_62d4ceb3 | comment |
Mood Motif: Spoofed, in an awesome and ridiculously cute fashion, when the slugs provide the music during Roddy's first encounter with the Jammy Dodger. | |
Flushed Away / int_62d4ceb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_62d4ceb3 | |
Flushed Away / int_63d861f8 | type |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
Flushed Away / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Toad seems to really love his tadpoles. | |
Flushed Away / int_63d861f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_63d861f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_63d861f8 | |
Flushed Away / int_643659d4 | type |
Spit Take | |
Flushed Away / int_643659d4 | comment |
Spit Take: Done by Roddy when Sid mentions that he's waiting to go to the bathroom at half-time...which leads into him realizing that the Toad is waiting until half-time, when everyone will use the bathroom, to drown all the rats by opening the floodgates. | |
Flushed Away / int_643659d4 | featureApplicability |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_643659d4 | |
Flushed Away / int_651ec44d | type |
Injured Limb Episode | |
Flushed Away / int_651ec44d | comment |
Injured Limb Episode: It doesn't take up much of the plot, but Rita's dad is seen with all four limbs in casts. | |
Flushed Away / int_651ec44d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_651ec44d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_651ec44d | |
Flushed Away / int_6611496a | type |
Grossout Fakeout | |
Flushed Away / int_6611496a | comment |
Grossout Fakeout: Roddy is flushed down the toilet and ends up holding onto a brown lump. He recoils, but then it turns out to have been a chocolate bar. | |
Flushed Away / int_6611496a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_6611496a | |
Flushed Away / int_66805a18 | type |
Race for Your Love | |
Flushed Away / int_66805a18 | comment |
Race for Your Love | |
Flushed Away / int_66805a18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_66805a18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_66805a18 | |
Flushed Away / int_66907f54 | type |
Hourglass Plot | |
Flushed Away / int_66907f54 | comment |
Hourglass Plot: The movie begins with Sid, a thuggish sewer rat, invading the wimpy Roddy's home and makes a total pushover out of him. Following his experiences down the sewers, Roddy returns as a hardened, bitter rat with a foul temper and a commanding personality, whereas Sid's time living Roddy's old, luxurious lifestyle rubs the edge out of him and he's reduced to being an even bigger wimp than Roddy used to be, with the latter now pushing Sid around instead. | |
Flushed Away / int_66907f54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_66907f54 | featureConfidence |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_66907f54 | |
Flushed Away / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
Flushed Away / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: It's never explained how the Toad got so many children. | |
Flushed Away / int_66dfe36a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_66dfe36a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_66dfe36a | |
Flushed Away / int_6b491939 | type |
Stop Faux-tion | |
Flushed Away / int_6b491939 | comment |
Stop Faux-tion: The film was made with CGI, but was made to resemble Aardman's stop-motion Signature Style. The main reason for making it CGI was that the water effects and underwater scenes would have been difficult if not impossible to implement with real stop motion. | |
Flushed Away / int_6b491939 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_6b491939 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_6b491939 | |
Flushed Away / int_757bbdb8 | type |
Massive Numbered Siblings | |
Flushed Away / int_757bbdb8 | comment |
Massive Numbered Siblings: Rita is the oldest of thirty or so children. But then, they are rats. | |
Flushed Away / int_757bbdb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_757bbdb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_757bbdb8 | |
Flushed Away / int_78c895c8 | type |
Amusing Injuries | |
Flushed Away / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Cryonics and Spike. Roddy, too, when he suffers five consecutive strikes to the groin in an attempt to follow Rita after escaping the Toad's fridge. | |
Flushed Away / int_78c895c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_78c895c8 | |
Flushed Away / int_7a265daa | type |
Eagleland | |
Flushed Away / int_7a265daa | comment |
Eagleland: The loud tourists who confuse American Football with the other football. | |
Flushed Away / int_7a265daa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_7a265daa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_7a265daa | |
Flushed Away / int_7c889239 | type |
Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal | |
Flushed Away / int_7c889239 | comment |
Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Practically all the characters. | |
Flushed Away / int_7c889239 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_7c889239 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_7c889239 | |
Flushed Away / int_7e4c67ec | type |
Send Me Back | |
Flushed Away / int_7e4c67ec | comment |
Send Me Back: After Roddy pieces the Toads's ultimate plan to flush away all of Ratropolis and everyone in it by opening the sewer floodgates when everyone uses the bathroom at halftime during the World Cup final, Roddy quickly asks Sid to flush him back into the sewers, bequeathing his home and lavish former lifestyle to the latter to sweeten the deal. | |
Flushed Away / int_7e4c67ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_7e4c67ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_7e4c67ec | |
Flushed Away / int_7ec94d53 | type |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
Flushed Away / int_7ec94d53 | comment |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The Toad. He was once Prince Charles's most favorite pet. Then someone brought in a rat for Charles' birthday, and a servant flushed the Toad down the toilet so Charles could focus all his attention on his new pet. This became the Toad's motivation for trying to wipe out Ratropolis, along with every rat living in it. | |
Flushed Away / int_7ec94d53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_7ec94d53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_7ec94d53 | |
Flushed Away / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
Flushed Away / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Rita. Best exemplified by Le Frog: | |
Flushed Away / int_7ef728b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_7ef728b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_7ef728b1 | |
Flushed Away / int_7fbe9a30 | type |
Freak Out | |
Flushed Away / int_7fbe9a30 | comment |
Freak Out: Roddy repeatedly when he realizes he's in the sewer and trying to snap out of it by slapping himself: | |
Flushed Away / int_7fbe9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_7fbe9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_7fbe9a30 | |
Flushed Away / int_805deb6e | type |
Small Role, Big Impact | |
Flushed Away / int_805deb6e | comment |
Downplayed with Sid, who frequently appears in trailers and promotional pictures but has very little screentime in the actual movie. However, he's a case of Small Role, Big Impact, as he's the reason Roddy's in the sewers to begin with. | |
Flushed Away / int_805deb6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_805deb6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_805deb6e | |
Flushed Away / int_8084141a | type |
Out-of-Context Eavesdropping | |
Flushed Away / int_8084141a | comment |
Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: Played for Drama. When Rita's brother Liam falls for Spike's fake wanted poster of Roddy, he tells Rita and her father of a plan to sell him to the Toad and gain a fortune. Rita, knowing it's a sham, sarcastically recites this plan... just as Roddy is carrying dishes back into the kitchen, where this discussion is happening. He hears her recital and decides to steal Rita's boat as revenge. This bites him back later when Rita tells him off for stealing her boat and accuses him of sneaking around. | |
Flushed Away / int_8084141a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_8084141a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_8084141a | |
Flushed Away / int_816a4e80 | type |
Star Wars (Franchise) | |
Flushed Away / int_816a4e80 | comment |
One of the Toad's frozen victims is wearing the same clothes as Han Solo, and is in the same stance as Han when he was frozen in carbonite. | |
Flushed Away / int_816a4e80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_816a4e80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_816a4e80 | |
Flushed Away / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
Flushed Away / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: LeFrog. Also, Ian McKellen as the Toad. | |
Flushed Away / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_823c6e3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_823c6e3e | |
Flushed Away / int_826ffcc8 | type |
Demonic Dummy | |
Flushed Away / int_826ffcc8 | comment |
Demonic Dummy: Spike invokes it when he brings out 'The Persuader' (a creepy nutcracker doll) and does a mock ventriloquist act with it, which scares Whitey into exclaiming "The Persuader's alive, Spike!" as if it were a Perverse Puppet. | |
Flushed Away / int_826ffcc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_826ffcc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_826ffcc8 | |
Flushed Away / int_82f5ced1 | type |
Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
Flushed Away / int_82f5ced1 | comment |
Conservation of Ninjutsu: The ninja frogs working for The Toad lose in spite of outnumbering our heroes. Justified in that they're shown not to be as competent as they claim to be. | |
Flushed Away / int_82f5ced1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_82f5ced1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_82f5ced1 | |
Flushed Away / int_82ff8b68 | type |
Artistic License – Animal Care | |
Flushed Away / int_82ff8b68 | comment |
Artistic License – Animal Care: Deconstructed. In the beginning of the film, Roddy is shown to be a lone rat in a wire cage with little substrate, which is not encouraged when owning pet rats in real life. Though Roddy is initially happy with this lifestyle, he gradually realises how boring and lonely it actually was, and Rita's mother later discusses with him how unhealthy it is for a rat to live alone. | |
Flushed Away / int_82ff8b68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_82ff8b68 | |
Flushed Away / int_87e661e8 | type |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
Flushed Away / int_87e661e8 | comment |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The sewers appearing more spacious than in real life is possibly justified, as the characters seen there are rats. Also justified in that it's the London sewer, which, like the Paris sewer, is absurdly spacious in Real Life. | |
Flushed Away / int_87e661e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_87e661e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_87e661e8 | |
Flushed Away / int_8d612fe6 | type |
Swapped Roles | |
Flushed Away / int_8d612fe6 | comment |
Swapped Roles: This happens between Roddy and Sid, when they meet up again in Roddy's home. At the start of the movie, Roddy was a fancy rat with no experience regarding the outside world while Sid was a rough-and-tough rat who was perfectly fine forcing Roddy to take his orders, but after Roddy ends up in the sewers, the latter ends up going soft from his new life of luxury while the former Took a Level in Badass and became a strong sewer hero, eventually culminating in Roddy requesting Sid to flush him down the toilet again to save all of Ratropolis. | |
Flushed Away / int_8d612fe6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_8d612fe6 | |
Flushed Away / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Flushed Away / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: It's hard to argue about the Toad. | |
Flushed Away / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
Flushed Away / int_8f1f3f3e | type |
Soccer-Hating Americans | |
Flushed Away / int_8f1f3f3e | comment |
Soccer-Hating Americans: An American tourist rat is watching the World Cup final game along with the other rats in the underground city. He asks why there's no helmets, no quarterback, and why no one is picking up the ball. | |
Flushed Away / int_8f1f3f3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_8f1f3f3e | |
Flushed Away / int_8f4a4aad | type |
Tongue on the Flagpole | |
Flushed Away / int_8f4a4aad | comment |
Tongue on the Flagpole: The evil Toad and his French cousin Le Frog get their tongues frozen onto a large pipe containing liquid nitrogen after Roddy smashes it apart to freeze the tidal wave Toad sent to drown the rats of Ratropolis. After being unfrozen, it's implied that the Toad was arrested while Le Frog and his henchmen hitchhiked back to France. | |
Flushed Away / int_8f4a4aad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_8f4a4aad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_8f4a4aad | |
Flushed Away / int_8f612013 | type |
Token Good Teammate | |
Flushed Away / int_8f612013 | comment |
Token Good Teammate: Whitey, despite being one of the biggest of Toad's thugs and being paired up with Spike, is actually one of the friendliest characters in the movie and is only working to pay the bills. He also loves happy endings. | |
Flushed Away / int_8f612013 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_8f612013 | |
Flushed Away / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Flushed Away / int_970c790a | comment |
Despite his actor being third billed in the opening credits and appearing in trailers and promotional pictures, Le Frog does not appear until about two thirds into the movie. | |
Flushed Away / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_970c790a | |
Flushed Away / int_978a82e6 | type |
Big Bad Duumvirate | |
Flushed Away / int_978a82e6 | comment |
Big Bad Duumvirate: The Toad and Le Frog, though the latter only shows up later on in the film. | |
Flushed Away / int_978a82e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_978a82e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_978a82e6 | |
Flushed Away / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Flushed Away / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Roddy pretending to be Tom Jones, singing like his for the benefit of Rita's senile grandmother. The closing gag ends with Jones himself singing "What's New, Pussycat?" over the credits. Earlier in the movie, the great flood was mentioned by Prophet Harold. Near the end of the film, the flood almost happens. Roddy's first words in the movie are "When the cat's away, the mice shall play!" In the stinger, when Roddy's owners return from their vacation, it turns out they brought a cat home with them (much to Sid's horror). | |
Flushed Away / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away | hasFeature |
Flushed Away / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Flushed Away / int_a18042f1 | type |
Left the Background Music On | |
Flushed Away / int_a18042f1 | comment |
Left the Background Music On: The slugs provide the Mood Motif of spooky music when Roddy first finds himself in the sewer and is freaked out. They stop when Roddy turns and realizes they're doing it. Every time music plays in this movie, it's either the slugs or a character doing it. They loved this joke. As the protagonists are sailing away, the ninja frogs pop up menacingly in the foreground of the shot, accompanied by a quick French accordion burst... then one of the frogs turns and continues playing the same accordion, much to the annoyance of Le Frog, who promptly slaps him silly. | |
Flushed Away / int_a18042f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Flushed Away / int_a18042f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Flushed Away / int_a18042f1 | |
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Red Is Heroic | |
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Red Is Heroic: Rita, who has red hair and owns a ruby that she stole back from the Toad. It turned out though that the ruby was a fake one made of glass. | |
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All-CGI Cartoon | |
Flushed Away / int_a65975e5 | comment |
All-CGI Cartoon: Aardman's first feature to be completely computer-animated, as technology at the time would not allow for that much water to be composited into a stop-motion film. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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The day is saved when a British Airways bag lifts the heroes out of danger, while stealing the master cable back from Le Frog along the way. | |
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Lonely Rich Kid | |
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Lonely Rich Kid: Roddy is a prime example, being the pet of a rich family who doesn't have any friends. | |
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Mouse World | |
Flushed Away / int_a8298592 | comment |
Mouse World: The film follows the convention of rodents and other small creatures having their own society mimicking that of humans. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
Flushed Away / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: A fly hovering above Le Frog and his men mutters the kid-friendly version "oh, bother," just moments before they all try to eat him. Roddy has this reaction when he realizes that even though the ruby was a fake, he probably shouldn't have broken it in front of Rita. Roddy and Rita in the climax when they hear toilets flushing in the distance. Everyone when they see the giant wave coming towards them. Sid has one when Tabitha comes home and reveals her new pet cat. Roddy when he accidentally destroys all the Toad's royal memorabilia. | |
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I Choose to Stay | |
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I Choose to Stay: During his journey to get back home, Roddy and Rita end up falling in love, to the point where Roddy decides to give up his lavish lifestyle as a house pet and stay in the sewers with her (which turns out to be a great choice when his former owner brings home a pet cat at the end of the film). | |
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All for Nothing | |
Flushed Away / int_aed65980 | comment |
All for Nothing: Subverted. Rita falls into this when she learns that the ruby she’s spent years trying to get for her family was a fake all along. But as promised, Roddy gives her a real ruby along with an emerald from his family’s jewel collection upon returning to Kensington. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
Flushed Away / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: After mishearing Roddy's protest of "I'm an innocent bystander!", many start referring to him as Millicent Bystander. Oh, and Rita's grandmother keeps calling him Tom Jones. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
Flushed Away / int_af696bef | comment |
Fish out of Water: Roddy is flushed down his owners' toilet (by the one he tried to get rid of) and winds up ejected from his posh home and into the miniature cities of the sewers. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
Flushed Away / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Rita. Unlike most examples, it seems to stem less from her physical appearance than her badass persona. Even the scene where her pants fall down isn't played in a sexy way (Roddy's Accidental Pervert moment in the fridge is up for debate, though). | |
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Loners Are Freaks | |
Flushed Away / int_b04fdcc4 | comment |
Loners Are Freaks: When living alone as a pet, Roddy spends his time with his owner’s dolls, even speaking to them as if they were real people. When thrust into the sewer, he has no real idea how to interact with other rats and desperately wants to return home. His Character Development involves him realizing that real relationships and a life on the outside is better than his lonely, literally caged life in Kensington. | |
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I Ate WHAT?! | |
Flushed Away / int_b1191cb2 | comment |
I Ate WHAT?!: While having dinner, the slugs inform Roddy (in song!) that what he thought was rice was actually maggots. | |
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"Ugly American" Stereotype | |
Flushed Away / int_b32d9d96 | comment |
"Ugly American" Stereotype: A recurring background character is an American rat tourist in a cowboy hat engaging in typical obnoxious tourist behavior, like teasing a Royal Guard, or watching the World Cup final and criticizing the players for not knowing the first thing about football…American football. | |
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Take That! | |
Flushed Away / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: A case where the plot revolves around it. Football fans don't want to miss watching their game so they wait until halftime and don't have any breaks. This is essentially what the Toad's plan is trying to comment on. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
Flushed Away / int_b97c2cfb | comment |
Maybe Ever After: Though the two are clearly romantically interested in each other, the end of the movie isn't really clear if Roddy and Rita have started a relationship or not. | |
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Mirror Character | |
Flushed Away / int_ba5bbda5 | comment |
Mirror Character: Aside from being "men of wealth and taste", the Toad and Roddy were also pets from an upper class home (in Toad's case, royalty) who found themselves discarded into the sewer (though in Roddy's case, it wasn't his family's decision). | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
Flushed Away / int_bb0c0a4d | comment |
Fiery Redhead: Rita has red hair and can be temperamental. | |
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Berserk Button | |
Flushed Away / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
The Toad himself as well, initially. When he and Roddy first meet, the Toad is more than happy to show his collection of royal memorabilia, and acts very civil with him. Then Roddy calls his collection "amusing", not "diverting" like the Toad had hoped. And then Roddy accidentally breaks a good number of the Toad's collection, and a visibly angry Toad orders him to be frozen with Rita. | |
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Break the Fake | |
Flushed Away / int_c05d7fcc | comment |
Break the Fake: Roddy smashes Rita's prized ruby to prove that it's fake. Rita, furious that she spent all those years trying to retrieve that ruby for her broken family, only to now discover it was a fake all along, attacks Roddy in a rage. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
Flushed Away / int_c3286b8e | comment |
Uptown Girl: Gender-inverted. Rita and her family live down in the sewers, while Roddy comes from a posh suite on the surface. It ends with him giving up his lavish lifestyle to stay with her. | |
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Irony | |
Flushed Away / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: In the voiceover commentary, the directors noted multiple times that there's something hilariously ironic about small characters having disproportionately low voices. Also, this bit: | |
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Mocking Music | |
Flushed Away / int_c5193552 | comment |
Mocking Music: After Rita leaves Roddy's house, the trio of slugs that had escaped the sinking of the Jammy Dodger appears and starts singing Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely". An annoyed Roddy shuts the window on them. | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys | |
Flushed Away / int_c64a7400 | comment |
Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Lots of potshots to the French abound here. It should be noted that Le Frog's voice actor is the Spanish-French Jean Reno. The directors at Aardman felt that Le Frog would have been more of a caricature and less of a character if he was voiced by an Englishman faking a French accent, so they sought out the services of Jean. He was more than happy to help. And the result is hilarious. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Flushed Away / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The film is loaded with them. One of the Toad's frozen victims is wearing the same clothes as Han Solo, and is in the same stance as Han when he was frozen in carbonite. At the beginning of the film when Roddy browses for a movie to watch, the DVD titles are mostly comprised of DreamWorks SKG and Dreamworks Animation films... and then there's Ratman, Ratman Returns, Ratman Returns Again!, Puckered Lips Now, My Big Fat Greek Bottom, Piddler On the Roof, Death in Venice II directed by Rob Zombie, Once Upon a Time in a Vest, A Clockwork Potato, A Fistful of Dullards, Goon with the Wind, In the Heat of the Fridge and so on. As Roddy is first going through the pipes, he runs into a small fish that asks, "Have you seen my dad?" A fly squeaks out "Help me!" before the Toad eats it. A cockroach is seen reading The Metamorphosis. At one point, Spike says, "To the ratmobiles!", complete with spinning background, Spike and Whitey's heads zooming toward and away from the camera, and even the music sting from Batman (1966). When Roddy falls down after Rita punches him for breaking the fake ruby, a drawing of Shaun can be seen. As stated in Actor Allusion, the X-Men Film Series, given Hugh Jackman, who voices Roddy, portrayed Wolverine. The Wolverine outfit cones from the comics, rather than the films, though. (Bonus points for him giving a snarly face when posing with it.) To James Bond — Roddy has a throwaway bit involving firing a suction cup dart gun through the hole of a DVD. A movie titled Die Again Tomorrow, go figure. That scene also has numerous DVD cases with punny titles (12 Angry Folks, A Few Good Puns) or straight-up DreamWorks Animation films. A newspaper clipping referencing a mysterious veggie monster terrifying local gardeners (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, also by Aardman). There's a Gromit Pez-dispenser head in the interior of the Jammy Dodger. Also, in Tabitha's room at the beginning, you can see a stuffed Gromit (and also a stuffed Alex the lion by the window as well). And there's three stuffed bunnies from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The candy bar that Roddy clings to in the sewer (although the DVD commentary maintains this one is a coincidence). And then, of course, there's Sid. The henchman Thimblenose Ted's face accessory may be referencing another henchman, Tsjuido from Speed Grapher. Aside from the Wolverine outfit, he also pulls out Wallace's shirt and sweater vest, a diving suit, Fred Flintstone's outfit, a wizard's outfit, and settles on Elvis Presley's spangled outfit. "Feed the flies, tuppence a bag!" The Jammy Dodger sinks like the T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Overlaps with Done The Research, the road signs in the sewers are completely accurate for layout, typeface and colouring. When Roddy is sent flying off a Spinning Teacup ride, he flies through a laundry line and ends up with it as an outfit. Cue this from three rats: | |
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Taking You with Me | |
Flushed Away / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: Attempted by the Toad. | |
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Funny Phone Misunderstanding | |
Flushed Away / int_cbf04bf6 | comment |
Funny Phone Misunderstanding: Rita, in a fit of rage after Roddy destroys the fake ruby, fires crayons at Roddy bow-and-arrow-style, the latter using a cell phone as a shield. This ends up dialing the number of a Chinese restaurant. In a panic, Roddy tries to tell the waiter he's being attacked by Rita, only to wind up almost pushing through with an order. | |
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Goofy Print Underwear | |
Flushed Away / int_cc3c365f | comment |
Goofy Print Underwear: Rita's pants slide down, revealing her boxers, which are blue with white horizontal stripes. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
Flushed Away / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Roddy has one, accompanied by a Spit Take, when Sid tells him he won't make it to half-time if he drinks too much, leading him to piece together the Toad's plan. | |
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British Royal Guards | |
Flushed Away / int_d1a6c9d7 | comment |
British Royal Guards: An American couple teases a guard in the sewer rat version of London. | |
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Connected All Along | |
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Connected All Along: Rita knows Sid, much to Roddy's dismay. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Flushed Away / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Twice, once with Spike, another with The Toad. | |
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Last-Second Joke Problem | |
Flushed Away / int_da928271 | comment |
Last-Second Joke Problem: The film ends with the Toad being defeated, Roddy and Rita getting together (resolving Roddy's loneliness), and Sid taking Roddy's place so that Tabitha still has a pet rat. However, Tabitha brings home a "new friend" for "Roddy": a cat. | |
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Bond Gun Barrel | |
Flushed Away / int_dabb67be | comment |
Bond Gun Barrel: The James Bond gun barrel sequence is referenced in a sight gag where Roddy shoots at a DVD with a suction cup gun. | |
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Action Girl | |
Flushed Away / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Rita is a female and does her share of fighting. | |
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Toilet Teleportation | |
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Toilet Teleportation: An inadvertent one is how the plot starts. | |
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Male Gaze | |
Flushed Away / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: There are a handful of jokes about Rita's posterior, not to mention one shot of her shaking at The Toad's cronies during the riverboat chase. And who can forget her pants falling down? | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em: After the failure of the Toad's plan, Le Frog and his men are seen attempting to hitchhike back to France. Spike and Whitey apparently knew when to fold it too. | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
Flushed Away / int_e4ba33fc | comment |
Disaster Dominoes: When Toad is showing Roddy his collection. Toad is...less than pleased, to say the least. | |
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Greek Chorus | |
Flushed Away / int_e4d079c1 | comment |
Greek Chorus: The slugs. Their songs have some degree of relevance to whatever is currently happening in the story often enough that some of them could be considered narration. The "Bella Notte" parody is a good example. | |
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Groin Attack | |
Flushed Away / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Roddy has several unfortunate impacts to his nether regions upon arrival in the sewer, hitting his groin on pipes, hammers, and a huge boot that highlights the trope to the extreme, capped off by being hit by a stray soccer ball. Spike as well, during the Chase Scene. Inverted during the Chase Scene when Ladykiller is catapulted backwards and lands crotch-first in Thimblenose Ted's face. | |
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Comedic Underwear Exposure | |
Flushed Away / int_f08f8f89 | comment |
Comedic Underwear Exposure: While ziplining over the water, Roddy accidentally pantses Rita, exposing her mid-thigh-length boxers, much to her embarrassment. | |
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Identical Stranger | |
Flushed Away / int_f27ec906 | comment |
Identical Stranger: It's not obvious at first, but Roddy and Sid are actually very similar in their looks, save for the fact Sid is overweight. It's indicated that Tabitha will not notice the difference when she returns from her holiday to find Sid in Roddy’s place, especially since she was overfeeding Roddy at the beginning. | |
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Road Trip Romance | |
Flushed Away / int_f38c2f75 | comment |
Road Trip Romance: Over the course of the film, Roddy and Rita warm up to each other, eventually culminating in the former deciding to stay in Ratropolis with her. | |
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Americans Are Cowboys | |
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Americans Are Cowboys: Features an obnoxious American tourist with a cowboy hat and Texan drawl. | |
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Shaking the Rump | |
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Shaking the Rump: Both Rita and Roddy taunt the bad guys by shaking their rears. | |
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Priceless Ming Vase | |
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Priceless Ming Vase: Roddy accidentally destroys Toad's entire collection of cheap Buckingham Palace gift shop knick-knacks priceless royal family memorabilia. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The slugs punctuate several moments throughout the movie, musically and otherwise. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: After Roddy breaks the fake ruby, a distraught Rita laments that her father “broke every bone in his body� trying to get it. When we eventually see him in the flesh, he uses a wheelchair and is covered in casts all over, indicating that Rita wasn’t being hyperbolic. | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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Innocently Insensitive: Roddy tries to do Rita "a favor" by showing her that the ruby she’s been desperately trying to get is actually a fake. He does this by smashing it to pieces right in front of her. By the time he realizes what he just did, Rita is attacking him in a rage. | |
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Evil Duo | |
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Evil Duo: Spike and Whitey are two of the Toad's henchmen and are always seen together. | |
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