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• In the scene where Nicky Flippers, played by David Ogden Stiers, needs to understand what Twitchy the squirrel is saying, he uses a tape recorder to slow down Twitchy's speech so that he can find out what Twitchy is saying and save the day. This is a reference to A Circle of Children (1977) (TV). In that movie, a teacher named, Dan Franklin, also played by Stiers, needs to understand what a young boy is saying and uses a tape recorder to slow down the boys speech so that he can find out what the boy is saying and save the day. This method (recording and playing back in slow motion) was also used in Dick Tracy (1990) to understand what "Mumbles" (played by Dustin Hoffman) is saying.
  
  
• In the scene where Nicky Flippers, played by David Ogden Stiers, recognizes the wolf as the reporter who was snooping into the Rumpelstiltzkin's real name the wolf says his guess was Greg Stillson. Greg Stillson is the name of a recurring creature played by Sean Patrick Flanery in the TV show "The Dead Zone" (2002) that also stars David Ogden Stiers as Rev. Gene Purdy.
  
  
• The scene where Boingo tells Keith to change his name was not scripted. It was ad-libbed by Andy Dick while recording his lines.
  
  
• According to Todd Edwards at Anderson University's Chapel, this is the first fully independently-funded computer-animated feature film.
  
  
• On the Happy Yodelers poster it says Tonite only, Sporthalen - Eskiltuna, Tisdag 29 oktober 19.00, This is Swedish. There is a town namned Eskilstuna and they have a sporthall, tisdag means Tuesday.
  
  
• The Weinstein Company's first fully-animated feature.
  
  
• Some of the text within the film's pop-up book is actually that of Charles Perrault's version of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairytale.
  
  
• Animated independently entirely in the Philippines.
  
  
• Went into production in the summer of 2002.
  
  
• During production, producer Sue Bea Montgomery showed little kids some concepts for the movie and watched the expressions on their faces. Since they especially liked the character of Japeth the Goat, they decided not to delete him, as they had initially planned.
  
  
• One of the locations on the goat's map is Sam Hill, a common epithet, used especially when one is lost.
  
  
• The wolf's fall off the cliff and into the river is an homage to the Coyote in the Warner Brothers' Roadrunner cartoons.
  
  
• When Wolf and Twitchy are first riding in the mine car, Red and Japeth can be seen in the background going down the steep descent.
  
  
• The newt director of the commercial is a satire of the Geico gecko.
  
  
• The wolf's byline on his column is Walt W. Wolf, a satirical jab at Walt Disney.
  
  
• Other locations on Japeth Goat's map are Murphy's Low, Boulderdash, Puckett Grove, and Kanbar Kanyon. Kanbar is the name of the production company that made the movie.
  
  
• Nicky Flippers was patterned after The Thin Man, clear down to the expensive suit and the little white dog.
  
  
• During the interrogation, both Red and Wolf are offering different versions of the same story. Both insist they are innocent of wrongdoing, and both are wearing hoods (Wolf is wearing an athletic hoodie). Both their hoods are primary colors. In every way, they are in competition with each other.
  
  
• Boingo's chief henchman looks and talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but is named Dolph, a nod to Schwarzenegger's tough-guy competitor, Dolph Lundgren.
  
  
• At one point Boingo is admonishing his henchman, Keith, that his name isn't scary enough and tells him to change it to Boris. This is ironic because the names mean almost the same thing. Keith is Scottish-Gaelic and means, "from the battlefield". Boris is Slavic, and means, "battler, or, warrior".
  
  

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