Tumblr Thread: Extreme Analysis of the Ratatouille Timeline

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Eric Lund
Oct 11, 2020 3:00 PM EDT

Tumblr has a love for delving into Pixar movies, specifically Ratatouille and The Incredibles. For example, here's Tumblr's deep look at The Incredibles as well as Tumblr's look at the significance of the Ratatouille Chef Boyardee scene. To give credit where credit is due, they're good movies worthy of attention. That said, Tumblr gets extreme with its analysis of this kind of stuff.

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    Text - thestuffedalligator "In what year did the events of Pixar's Ratatouille occur?" They do not give a specific year, but the film offers a lot of information if you look. There are no computers, celphones, or internet, so we know it takes place prior to the PC revolution of '95; it is not contemporary with its release date of 2007. Skinner and Linguini share a bottle of "61 Château Latour", so we that is the absolute earliest year the film can take place in. Rather than go down the list of c
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    Art - Bomb Voyage... in Ratatouille. Image from Imgur.
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    Text - Canonically (according to the producers), this mime seen in Ratatuille is Bomb Voyage, the supervillain seen in the first act of The Incredibles (I). This is good, because we know with a fair degree of certainty when The Incredibles takes place. Wwwvn Metrauille Tribune SCIENTISTS F THE MISSING LIN Meirovine Critu. Crinma MONDAY MAY 16TH 1962 ISTS FIND CATASTRO AS CRISIS May 16th, 1962, in Act II of the first Incredibles film. Image from Imgur.
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    Text - As seen in the newspaper, the date of the second act is 16 May 1962. Now we need to figure out when the first act took place. 15 YEARS LATER Image from This Insider. We know that Act II starts fifteen years after the events seen in ACT I. Violet's age of 14 is consistent with this timeline.
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    Text - 1962 - 15 = 1947 If we assume that superheroes and ultratech existed in 1947, that would explain the (in our eyes) anachronistic car designs seen in Act I. Looking at the Bomb Voyage pics, we can see that the face (and body) has not changed much, but by the same token, neither has Mr. Incredible, so this does not help much with the date... so let us look at other clues. Paris has no modern buildings, so this fits well with a time frame closer to the end of the Second World War. Pantry che
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    Text - Colette wears her hair in a style popular in the late 1950s and early 60s but practically non-existent in the late 1940s and early 50s. Colette's motorcycle looks anachronistic, but can be explained by the existence of superhero tech... if contemporary fairing designs are not convincing. All TVs are B&W, with only a few color cabinet models seen. All product packaging is contemporary with the late 40s to early 60s timeframe. So everything is pointing to Ratatuille taking place in the vici
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    Text - vivaciousarcanist not so fast, in the review of gusteau's anton ego compares gusteau to chef boyardee or hector boiardi with a tone implying that boyardee is dead and in history Gusteau has finally found his rightful place in history, right alongside another equally famous chef
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    Office equipment - Monsieur Boyardee.
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    Cook - Hector Boiardi CHEF AYAR-DEE Ettore Boiardi as shown in a 1953 television commercial
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    Text - Born Ettore Boiardi October 22, 1897 Piacenza, Italy Died June 21, 1985 (aged 87) Parma, Ohio, U.Ss. given that gusteau died shortly after this and the will takes 2 years after death that if after a period of two years from the date of death
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    Text - assuming that ego's review was the same year that boiardi died then the absolute EARLIEST the movie can take place is 1987 and about the incredibles, when looking for the scene with the newspaper i stumbled across this SPE CIAL E 5Hewdopolis Tribune DAILY IBILE EDITION tITION INCREDIBLE RESCUE AT SEA ES KIDS Mr. Incredible Beats Typhoon
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    Text - SDAY. BEPTEMBER 16TH, 2008 a headline from 2002, and given that lawsuits generally take a while and september to december is really quick for the banning of supers so let's say they were banned in mid 2003, at the EARLIEST incredibles can take place in 2018, with ratatouille taking place sometime in between 2003 and 2018 assuming that was a mistake, thunderhead died november 15 1958, a date where superheroes would've been illegal if incredibles 1 took place in 1962
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    Sky - -Listen, E.. -November 15th of '58. and adding onto the impossibility of the date being 1962 his death is included in the shutdown reports of the national supers agency
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    Text - U Y4 THUNDERHEAD POWER TYPE STRENGTH ENDURANCE INTELLIGENCE AGILITY INDESTRUCTIBILITY POWERS • STORM POWERS ABILITY TO HARNESS AND CONTROL EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH MANIPULATION OF BAROMETRIC PRESSURE • TRANSPORTATION: MULTI-ENVIRONMENTAL VEHICLE (M.E.V.) PLANE/CAR COMBO • WEAKNES: CLEAR DAY PERSONALITY - PUSHOVER - EASILY CONTROLLED BY HIS EMOTIONS • LOVES KIDS, ADOPTED SINGLE FATHER OF 5 CHILDREN. RAISINGTMEMW LPOFGROOMMATE, SCOTT DIED IN ACTION SUIT MALFUNCTION TOP SECRET NATI
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    Text - thestuffedalligator I take it back This is the level of hyperanalystic bullshit I live for dog-potato IS NO ONE GONNA MENTION THAT THUNDERHEAD IS GAY?!?! dammitsammy OMG OMG OMG "loves kids, adopted single father of 5 children, raising them with help of his roommate, Scott"
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    Hair - majestic-spiffingness Okay, was anybody going to tell me that Thunderhead was gay
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    Text - or was I just supposed to find it in a post about ratatouilles timelinemyself? Source: thestuffedalligator #long post
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