Ratatouille: No one noticed this moving wink at 24 minutes and 26 seconds

The famous A113 code hanging from a huge rat’s ear, a dish reference to Rocky Balboa, the shadow of Doug the dog up there, and a box of noodles we’ve already seen (a few times) somewhere…

As in all the other films of the Pixar studios, Ratatouille, the 8th feature film from the famous Pixar studio, directed by Brad Bird in 2006, is a pantry full of many small treasures, more or less well hidden, that should bring joy. The most greedy viewers.

While some of these easter eggs are obvious upon first viewing of the film, others are much more subtle and likely to throw you off guard if you blink at the wrong time. What interests us today, for example, we discovered only after many viewings of the film over the years.

in 24 minutes and 26 seconds

By cutting the sequence for interview purposes, we finally got to see an element we’ve never touched before at exactly 24 minutes and 26 seconds.

This happens in a sequence where Remy tries to escape from the kitchen of Gusto’s restaurant, but can’t help but stay for a moment to pay for the soup spoiled by the linguine. While the little rat moves around the pot to add different ingredients, pay close attention to the copper of the container. You will notice in a second that there are four letters written there.

AG + RA

AG and RA. The first two clearly correspond to the initials of the restaurant’s former owner, Auguste Gusteau. And as for the last two, we’re definitely tempted to think of Renata Linguini (even if the L was usually an A, but maybe she changed her name in the meantime).

As we discover later in the film, in fact, from their union was born the young hero of Ratatouille many years ago, who is therefore the rightful owner of the restaurant. But could the latter have even suspected, at the moment, as he stood before this pot in his clerk’s apron, that the flame of his parents probably burned around the same vessel?

(Re)discover all the hidden details of ‘Ratatouille’…