Mr. Peabody & Sherman - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[janice]

During the montage of their past adventures, Peabody is seen signing a paper and handing it to Shakespeare, who is looking after Sherman. This scene is a nod to the popular theory that speculates William Shakespeare is not the true author of the works for which he is widely known. It was previously spoofed in Peabody's Improbable History: William Shakespeare (1961).

[jessie]

Mel Brooks' second animated film, the first being Robots (2005).

[bessie]

Some of the foreign names for the WABAC Machine (Mr. Peabody and Sherman's time machine) include the "TIDMAC" (Denmark), the "Chronomat" (France), the "Zeitomat" (Germany), the "CHRONOAVGO" (Greece), the "Tornindietro" (Italy), the "Modorin" (Japan), the "TILBAK" (Norway), the "VEYBEK" (Russia), and the "Vueltatrás" (Spain).

[wallace]

Originally, this movie was to be a live-action computer animated film to be released in 2003. But it wasn't realized until 2011, when the film was announced, to be a computer-animated movie.

[gerald]

When Mr. Peabody is trying to impress Penny's parents with his many talents, upon being asked for something more rock'n'roll, he plays the opening riff from "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, and even does it as Hendrix would, left-handed (or, in Mr. Peabody's case, left-pawed). He then switches to playing flamenco guitar in a normal right-handed manner.

[bryan]

Leslie Mann's second role playing a mom character after Shorts (2008).

[kylie]

According to Rob Minkoff, Penny Peterson was originally going to be shown as a boy. But they later changed her into a girl, so that she could later become the love interest for Sherman.

[terry]

The Trojan Horse scenario in the film is a bit different from the Homeric version of the story. The entire brain trust of the Greek army is shown in the Horse, which in Homer's Odyssey was inhabited only by a bunch of sappers supervised by Odysseus, whose mission was to open the gates so a much larger Greek army could enter. (Publius Vergilius Maro's first century B.C. retelling in the Aeneid, put the high commanders in the horse.) Oedipus is present, even though in the original stories he had died before the Trojan War ever began. Agamemnon's father was the wholly-human king Atreus, not the Minotaur beast. Agamemnon was already married, long before the Trojan War, but Ms. Grunion would not have been the only "prize" he brought home.