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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)
  
  
• The animators nicknamed one of the Kung Fu Frogs' attack moves "the Reindeer of Death".
  
  
• 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".
  
  
• 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 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".
  
  

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