Finding Nemo - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Finding Nemo or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Finding Nemo

[carl]

When Nigel is trying to rescue Marlin and Dory from the hungry seagulls, one of the boats on the harbor says "For the Birds" which is a reference to the Pixar short, For the Birds (2000).

[elmer]

There are up to 200 turtles in the background of the turtle drive sequence.

[morris]

In the scene where the silver fish are playing charades with Dory, one of the shapes is that of an old ship. The fish are whistling "Whale of a Tale", which was sung by Kirk Douglas in the beginning of the 1954 Disney movie, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The submarine captain in that movie was named "Nemo".

[javier]

The first Pixar movie to have a post-credits scene.

[kenneth]

All drains do lead to the ocean (or at least a river or lake). It's just that raw sewage isn't dumped directly into the water; there are a number of mechanical and chemical processes in the way that, if depicted in the movie, would probably not be pleasant. A deleted scene would have had Nemo going through and struggling to dodge the filtration machines, but it was cut out of the film with only a hint given that his small size allowed him to survive.

[sophie]

Dory's species is known by several common names, including, regal tang, palette surgeonfish, blue tang, royal blue tang, hippo tang, flagtail surgeonfish, Pacific regal blue tang, and blue surgeonfish.

[norma]

The fullscreen version of the film (exclusive to the original 2003 US home release) accidentally (by expanding the aspect ratio vertically) reveals the visible portion of a woman's legs as she enters the waiting room, essentially showing some of her bare leg as the hem of her skirt is now seen.

[darrell]

An animator recalled a story of one of their consultants talking about the biological inaccuracies in their final fish designs. The animator replied, sheepishly, "Well... in real life they don't talk either, so..."

[francisco]

The look and feel of the underwater world was essential to the film's success. To that end, the production crew were all exposed to visits to aquariums, diving stints in Monterey and Hawaii, study sessions in front of Pixar's own 25-gallon fish tank and even a series of in-house lectures from an ichthyologist (the branch of zoology that deals with fish).

[leo]

Rendering a frame (at a resolution of 1600x900), which lasted about 1/24th of a second, in the film, could take up to four days because of the complexity of the underwater environment, with sunlight coming through the water and hitting fish scales.

[scarlett]

Crush says "dude" twenty-one times. Squirt says it four times.

[kristina]

On the bottom of a tank is an algae-coated model boat, on top of which is the mermaid from Knick Knack (1989), the short which accompanied this film.

[lena]

The name Blenny is quite likely a reference to the suborder blennioidei, which is commonly known as "blenny".

[norma]

This is the second Pixar film after A Bug's Life (1998) to say the end at the end. Both of these films had directorial efforts done by Andrew Stanton.

[liam]

Dory says the address eleven full times (counting figuring it out at first as one). She also says it nine partial times (three of them were stating they were in Sydney).

[melinda]

Burt Newton, Rove McManus, and David Koch, are just a few famous television personalities from Australia, with uncredited cameos. They actually play the three crabs, closer to the end of the film.

[toni]

Pixar's first film to be worked on by Peter Sohn, Josh Cooley, Bradford Lewis, Mark Andrews, Brian Fee, and Adrian Molina after joining the studio shortly in 2002 during the production of this film, although Lewis later left the studio in 2011 after Cars 2 (2011) had been released.

[kyle]

Megan Mullally revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film. According to Mullally, the producers were quite disappointed to learn that the voice of her character Karen Walker on the television show Will & Grace (1998) wasn't her natural speaking voice. The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role. When Mullally refused, she was fired.

[camila]

Chum is the most hyper out of all three sharks. This would be fitting his nature, given that mako sharks are the fastest of all shark species