When Bob showed this to Stanton he laughed and it made it into the film.īob also had quite a few other lines that didn’t make it into the scene – here are my favorites: “Claus, Claus the pinata’s drooping” and “No E=MC squared and you know it as well as I do.” After hearing the lines that Bob wrote for Dory, we have to assume that he was the one behind the hilarious Monsters University trailer where Mike says (in a deep sleep), “ My pony made the Dean’s List.ĭuring a test screening/focus group, a mother suggested that the angler fish scene should be toned down. In the scene where Marlin and Dory are taking a nap in the scuba mask, you can hear Dory mumble “The sea monkey has my money,” if you remember any of the old Disney Kurt Russell films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes you’ll remember there’s always a monkey reference. An amazing detail that I’m sure did not go unnoticed by dentists everywhere.Īndrew Stanton had narrowed Gil’s voice down to three voices, when John Lasseter heard that he was considering Willem Dafoe, it was a done deal. Lee noted that he was thrilled that the shot made it into the film and apologized to all dentists for the scene, including his cousin who is a dentist.īob Peterson was constantly on the phone with his dentist, Roni Douglas DDS, in order to get the steps of the root canal just right so the characters would have the correct technical dental verbiage when the tank gang is discussing the procedure.

Unkrich took credit for the patient who is blurred in the foreground writhing in pain from a procedure while the tank gang looked on. The Pixar team wanted the cast of characters in the fish tank to be a bit looney as they are trapped in the four-walled tank, Unkrich mentioned that they watched films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and King of Hearts as inspiration for the character’s behaviors. Stanton also mentioned (from the fish’s perspective) how weird it must have been to see people for the first time by watching dental procedures. He recalls being a kid and actually looking forward to going to the dentist to see the fish. The fish tank in the dentist’s office was designed after Stanton’s childhood dentist office. If you look closely towards the end of the film you will notice a young child reading a comic with The Incredibles on it. The one thing that I would like to know is if the toy chest is the same model as in Toy Story with just a few minor adjustments.

You can spot Buzz Lightyear tossed on the floor in the toy corner of the dentist’s office. Next, we’re going to list a few hidden items from other Pixar films. The line, “Here’s Brucie!” is a nod to one of Unkrich’s favorite films, The Shining.

Stanton mentioned that it was just a bit long and unnecessary so it was cut.ĭid you know that Dory’s nosebleed was the first time that blood was shed in a Pixar film? Blood was visible in A Bug’s Life when the mosquito ordered some to drink in the restaurant bar. One of the original stories had the sharks playing volleyball with the underwater mines rather than the chase scene in the submarine.

Stanton, Peterson, and Unkrich all agreed that the sharks were the coolest to model, create, design, voice, and animate. Director of Photography, Sharon Calahan, discussed how the fish have 80% gummy substance in them to make them look like real fish with the right level of luminosity. Now, the effect of adding transparency is affectionately referred to as the “gummy effect”. The look the technical team needed to achieve was best described as holding a gummy bear to the light and noticing how you can see slightly into the gummy bear. Stanton talked about how fish have transparency to them in the water and that the animators needed to re-create the same effect somehow (or they would look fleshy and flat).

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