tiktok’s ratatouille musical is a beautiful mess 

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IM STILL SO MAD OVER THE LYRICS. REMY IS NOT A RATATOULLIE. RATATOUILLE IS A FOOD!!! edit: broskis it is not that serious please😭🙏

Wayne Brady is the only rat of the three who thought to give himself whiskers and I respect the hell out of that

How would they portray Remy being inside the hat live, you ask? Simple: They would construct half a giant, floating chef's hat and hang it over the stage. Remy would be hoisted into it and would sit there, yanking on huge strands of crunchy orange hair while Linguini runs around the kitchen (still wearing a regular-sized hat, ofc). The monstrosity of a hat would turn and sway, with Remy yelling "Whu-ooooooooooh!" and "Watch it!" to the audience's delight. When Linguini puts pieces of food into his hat for Remy to taste, giant foam pieces would go into the hat. It would make it into every trailer as the big, innovative set piece. They would win awards for the set design, and every other musical would follow their lead and make a comedically large hat to appeal to the younger generation. In the year 3040, musicals will be known as hatsicals (or, colloquially, 'ratsicals', and they will only feature increasingly bigger hats populated by vermin punctuated by the occasional comedic drum beat. Remy the Ratatouille will change the world - he will bring peace to us all and prosperity, merging every nation into one, hat-loving, rat-loving bunch of groupies. Or, more realistically, they would use a big, tacky screen and fill it with sparkles and ugly CG.

This is the strangest attempt at portraying the idea of a musical I’ve ever seen. The cast is freakishly star studded and it manages to be so…middle school theatrecore. Delightfully middle school theatercore, but middle school theatercore.

That one part where Remy sings and gets interrupted by Linguini is a SIX the Musical reference. The first line from the opening song: “Ex Wives”

I’m sorry but “radical songs for radical rats” is the greatest lyrics ever written

I actually paid money for this and I will never forget laughing so hard with my entire family over "trigger warning: vulnerability" said out loud that it's the only thing i remember

I will die mad over “remy the ratatouille” as a lyric. I will die mad over no one coming up with a better alternative

The part that disappointed me the most were the costumes. Throughout the hight of the trend i saw plenty of clever and gorgeous costume concepts, and it’s really sad to see that nothing came out of it. For heavens sake! Remy doesn’t even have the decency to put on a set of ears! You can’t even tell he’s supposed to be a rat.

The editing in the musical was hysterical. I couldn’t stop laughing. The original song did annoy me though, but I do remember it being fun to see it being conceived

Afterthought: The guy playing Gusteau did a really good job in making his character wise, warm and wholesome. I wish we could've seen more of him. Also I could understand the stuff he was saying in the "ghost scene" since I know the movie off by heart.

dude. I remember watching this live at the height of lockdown n I truly think it’s something that only could’ve spawned during a worldwide pandemic. the entire thing stuck with me despite only seeing it once but I think my #1 ratatouille tiktok musical moment was the reporter saying “fresh faguette” on accident. that’ll haunt me til I die

The women who wrote the song Wayne Brady sings actually became friends with Wayne because of the musical. She was just an Aussie girl in a rural town who now does music comedy shows in big cities.

The Hamilton version is literally my favourite video on the platform so when I saw this-

I wish they had done something like starkid's nightmare time where they're all in a zoom call playing off each other and the songs are pre-recorded with little music videos that they play in between scenes. Starkid did such a good job creating live musical theater during shutdown and I think the format would've been great here

The fact that this exists at all is befuddling. Only the perfect storm of TikTok, pandemic and movie nostalgia could’ve jump started this 😂

Hi, I was actually part of the educational partner of the musical (Broadway for all) and I saw some of the stuff that went on behind the scenes with the production. I spoke to a few of the people at Seaview who picked it up which... was an experience. They were marketing themselves as a company to a bunch of kids from 14-18 who were just trying to learn about the ins and out of the production and gain industry connections for when they entered. The closest we got to learning was when one of my conservatory mates co-hosted a panel but I don't remember a whole lot other than a few of us were asked to create questions for the panel and I was featured with my pre-transition self. It was a very strange experience back in the pandemic days.

I paid for this during quarantine, ordered the playbill too LMAO. I was so excited to see a broadway show after not being able to for months. Went into it expecting a half production like a regular play or musical. Got a compilation of tiktoks and have never thought about it again💀

the way it started as a joke and then turned into an entire musical😭 tiktok is something else

For what it had to be, I loved it. If this weren't in a pandemic this whole things would be really cringe. But the fact that a bunch of people and even DISNEY gave it a shot to help keep music, art, and happiness alive turning a really dark time. I find the whole thing really touching.

The Falsettos reference of "flair. and passion. and passion and flair" just brought me LIFE

i feel like with enough reworking and enough embracing it’s “camp-ness” i feel like it could be a decent musical ngl

There is something about Tituss Burgess where he sells things that would be terminally cringe from anyone else and makes them endearing and lovely. I think part of it is most of us coming to know him from Kimmy Schmidt where he literally plays a character with just… no shame? Ever? And in the best way I feel like Tituss has that energy where if something is stupid his hilarious confidence just makes it work.

Thank you for acknowledging the effect Something Rotten! has had on the world. We can never go back to a pre-Something-Rotten! society and we need to raise awareness of this fact.

Having watched the video in full: I actually had no idea this even came to fruition as a live stream, let alone with such an INSANELY star-studded cast (I audibly gasped when you showed Andre Shields as Anton Ego like are yOU KIDDING ME??!!); the Bigger Mouse aka Disney having signed off on it makes me a little apprehensive that something like this will just be IP-shelved for the rest of eternity but if it ever does become a stage production I really hope they keep many of the songs. I really like the Kitchen Tango and The Rat's Way of Life, and it's a great big break for a lot of smaller composers who got their start on TikTok as well. As with the Hamilton video this was super well-edited, your laughter is incredibly contagious, and I'm glad I subscribed so I could catch this one early!

There’s a HUGE difference between a theater kid and a TikTok theater kid 💀

This whole thing was cringe, but in such an enjoyable way during an awful time. I think of my mom who worked long hours at the hospital and knew nothing of tiktok, but this whole musical was something that made her so happy. It has such a good place in my heart. We have the playbill they sold framed in her house LOL. Excellent video of this whole covid moment.

I watched the ratatouilliscal and honestly? I think there would be something magical w a real stage adaptation that would only happen if puppetry and thought as to what the book is (structure changes need to happen SEVERELY)

previously, the only experience i had with this musical was my friends saying on new year’s day 2021 “they made the tiktok ratatouille musical real,” which was very confusing to me, as someone who had never seen the tiktok trend once. i expected it to be a dumpster fire, but this video has made me hope that they’ll make it a real thing one day !! remy deserves a musical if he wants one

I watched Ratatouille The Musical live when it came out. It was definitely an experience…Like I LOVED it but not because it was the most amazing thing ever but because it was actually insane. Me and my best friend were watching it together laughing our asses off at it, it’s like a good thing to watch ironically from time to time

the ratatouille musical was such a time to be alive, i loved seeing people getting creative and working on a communal project, and i loved the songs. this is what was missing from when those girls made the bridgerton musical, while they had a more concise vision, they were clearly not doing this for a communal purpose, it was to launch themselves and using bridgerton was just the means to it

This musical was such a fever dream and I’m still not convinced it wasn’t just a delusion I made up in my head after months and months of isolation

I actually love what Something Rotten does, as it feels more like a self aware comedy than a tiktok musical. It has a bunch of fun references but also has it's own good music in addition. I don't get the same thing from this show. the segway-less references were super offputting.

I had a friend tell me casually, "Oh yea they made Ratatouille a musical. " And I was BAFFLED. Now that I look at it, the music is pretty good it just doesnt have *flair* If they were to make an actual musical irl then that would be AWSOME

I remember being in TikTok around this time and constantly hearing “remy the ratatouille” and it DRIVING ME UP A WALL because he’s NOT a ratatouille, he’s a RAT and I know it’s supposed to be wordplay but it just never say right with me

28:55 I respectfully have to challenge/disagree with the idea that the easy idea was chosen or because TikTok is such a quick platform that’s why people forgot it. As someone who watched and followed a lot of people during the time, I agree most apart the trend were excited about the Live Show and saw that as the high point. But also most didn’t want to possibly put the project in development hell or have any semi successful attempts at a musical be taken down by Disney copyright. There was a general consensus that even if not ever aspect of the trend or creator’s song was highlighted in the live show, it was generally better to leave it off with the light heart charity bang then to have future “maybe” projects be in that development hell.

This show was literally the most fun every in covid, i remember paying for a ticket. The roles were absolutely amazing, the cast was insanely stacked and the songs were so freaking good!!

I got a mild panic attack when you said Emilee's song was "straight out of Rent" because I thought that I had be getting Adam Pascal's name wrong for years.

i remember literally setting an alarm so i got onto tiktok in time to actually watch the live stream of the full show and i skipped dinner so i didn't have to search for the ending 💀💀😭

that falsettos reference was so well made edit: i just scrolled through all the comments looking for other people talking about it and im glad there are so many falsettos fans here

And idea I have for when the critic is eating the Ratatouille is to have a double sided set, the critic is on one side, and his childhood home is on the other side and when he eats the Ratatouille, the light switch from the restaurant to his childhood home.

How I think they’d do Remy in the hat is by having Remy on a platform. There would stairs that connect the area, and then there could be a projection of the hat in the background. He could run down the stairs to transition from in the hat to out of the hat

no joke, i bought a ticket for this and had a watch party with my friends. january 2021 me loved it. me currently, i’m realizing how like stupid and weird this idea was, but it had so much love and care put into it. (pretty low quality care but eh who cares) also andrew as lightning mcqueen? i hope josh gad is mater.

I can’t lie, almost every single time Titus came on screen I laughed. He was absolutely perfect for this role.

I like these kinds of videos! I keep coming back to the Hamilton one at 3am and it’s always so fun 😭😭💀💀

8:02 It took me a second to figure out where I recognized “flair, and passion. And passion and flare” from, incredible Falsettos reference lol

"How would they do think on stage?" I've seen a suggestion that they put like a remote control light into the hat and then like a little rat doll in there, and then when Remy speaks or sings, you light up the hat to see Remy's silhouette. I think it would be really cute and it plays with the hat as a physical prop.

Love the fallsettos reference. 8:04 Such an underrated musical

i was SO into the ratatouille musical, since ratatouille is my favourite movie and i almost majored in musical theatre. i loved it a lot but its definitely a fever dream musical in the best way. idk how well it could be translated into a full stage production, but if it is, id KILL to play linguini. i really loved wayne bradys performance the most (but i also just love wayne brady), and while i agree the costumes were a bit lacklustre, i thought it made sense in some aspects. i wish the rats had ears, but the rest of their costumes looked great. especially wayne brady, he looks like he just crawled out of a dumpster in the best way possible, since thats how the rats live in the movie/musical. overall i think if this was brought to the stage, id want to see the original movie plot fleshed out more instead of just explained to us, i feel like we could get some more good songs out of the scenes that were glossed over (maybe even le festin at some point?? idk i was hoping to hear it during the musical), i feel like this show could benefit from a full ensemble and large props to make everything more immersive than tiktok effects

i fucking love titus, he was incredible in the unbreakable kimmy schmidt, he defo puts his own self into everything he's in and i adore him as an actor, hes just so funny he deserved that star spot, my king

Ratatouille the musical carried out during the dark times is an absolute MASTERPIECE! The poor quality sound, backgrounds, and editing but combined with the insane passion of broadway actors and tiktokers is a fever dream that I keep coming back to. It’s the strangest yet most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

THIS is the content we need, I'm excited for the next video. Also, my hypothesis on why Ratatouille hasn't gone anywhere is simply that it had so many people participating in it's creation. The main composers were recognized but from a legal sense you can't conceivably find and sign on every person who contributed, which makes producing the show for any amount of money a legal nightmare. It could only be done because they were doing it for charity.

Before Kevin Chamberlin was in Jessie and stuff, he was Horton in the Broadway cast of Seussical

i was one of the people who saw it on the actual release and it brought me so much joy during the height of the pandemic, i wish they made a soundtrack.

Oh my god, I was thinking about this musical and specifically the song "The Rat's Way of Life" just yesterday, and wondering what came of this. Who better to hear it from than the Illegal Hamilton youtuber!

"Remy, if you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead!" - Gusteau Chamberlain

The six moment slayed

the ratatouille musical is an amazing thing that exists but I also have some oddly specific beef with it and that is that nobody thought to make a song (or it wasn't included) for the scene where remy eats some cheese and strawberry and stuff like... it's so obvious! In the original film it's this moment which illustrates Remy's passion and ability for food, and it's REPRESENTED VIA MUSIC. like literally what other scene would be more fitting for a musical number... maybe they could also have Anton Ego eating the food and being transported to his childhood represented via a reprise of that song... yknow... think about it

THE PASSION AND FLARE REFERENCE FROM FALSETTOS ALONE MADE ME SUBSCRIBE, SINGLE HANDEDLY MADE MY WHOLE WEEK🥹💗

Nonono not me watching this video while wearing my Something Rotten shirt- I’M BEING CALLED OUT (Though being in that musical was so fucking awesome, it was really smart even though so many musicals after just kept throwing references into their songs)

You know, I wouldn't mind an actual theater release of the musical. Extend the Production so it had a steadier pacing, cut down on the monologues, get some interesting props and some clean choreography and this could polish up quite nicely. It won't be the next lion king, but I could defiantly be something to cherish.

okay but i actually bought a ticket when it came out, connected my laptop to the big TV and made my family watch this with me...i was the only one who enjoyed it

I remember watching compilations of videos about people talking about how they would do things for the musical, it's fun to see people express their creativity and passion in such a way together. It could be fun to see animatics for some songs but I had no idea there was a properish musical made?

"And if this gave them a little bit of hope in a dark time, who cares how cringe it is" -Maxwell Greene, May 1 2023

They missed the opportunity to have a sad instrumental "anyone can cook" reprise when remy finds out Gusteau is dead

I didnt even have tiktok at the time but i remember following the development of this closely. I bought a ticket, watched the pre show live stream and eventually watched it with my mom lmao. Should have gotten a playbill -- If I recall correctly, Rats Life For Us was supposed to be the beginning scene before Remy gets separated from his colony, not when Remy started stealing food

for the hat idea- love the silhouette in hat worn by linguini actor idea, but I think for remy, a smaller platform above the stage, like on a higher level, that lights up the remy actor standing inside an enormous hat (cut in half so we see inside it)

“Listen up let me tell you a story” is from Six! Typically displayed with that purple background haha. I think it’s also the way he sang it doesn’t sound quite like the melody from the source material 😅

I LEARNED ABOUT THIS IN DRAMA CLASS LAST YEAR! We watched the whole thing its genuinely so good

The Falsettos reference was amazing

8:03 FQLSETTOS REFERENCE :DDDD If you don't know in the musical 'Falsettos' during 'Everything will be alright, Whizzers line is 'Play it raw, don't play tizzy, s3x and games in new York City have got to be played with flare, with passion, with passion and flare!"

excellent video, but the something rotten slander was UNCALLED FOR 😤

Im curious if you've ever heard of "Musical Without a Cool Acronym", which is a Phineas and Ferb fan musical made by a similar group of people to the TikTok musical.

I remember buying my ticket and tuning in to this live it was amazing I laughed the whole way through. Not exactly what I expected but I think it came out just perfect for what it was.

“What Something Rotten has done to musical theatre is not talked about enough.” ACCURATE AF

The ratatouille musical has so much middle school production vibes

The way you described tiktok in 2020 was so accurate I didn't know I needed it put into words like that

i love the they might be giants posters

Ratatouille the Musical is just crack treated seriously and I love it

I always hated the remy the ratatouille song cause obviously nobody knew what ratatouille actually is…cause he’s not A RATATOUILLE like it bothered me so much 😂 it’s still annoying lol

The title brought me in but the Falsettoland lyric kept me

Honestly, I could see Ratatouille being an actual musical? Like, I can close my eyes and see this on stage. It’s really weird, but I think it would be really good. Maybe some of the lines should be changed because it was very direct? And definitely make it longer, but besides that I think this would be a good musical!

8:02 AND PASSION AND FLAIRRRRRRr

If you guys ever are interested in virtual musicals that are well organized, I recommend Nightmare Time by Starkid! You have to watch The Guy who Didn't Like Musicals and Black Friday first, but then you watch the full first and second season and finish with Nerdy Prudes Must Die. It's all so good, the first few NT episodes are a bit glitchy since it was done through Zoom, but the editing and quality ramps up quickly.

Honestly giving the amount of artist that exist, it would be so easy to imagine people making an animatic to the musical so that the limitations can be pushed to the max of potential

i had no idea they actually made a musical- last i checked it was just a joke

8:03 A falsettos reference in my ratatouille musical video essay?

This is so funny lmao I love when the internet gets together and does silly shit. Nice editing as always. I recommend Pablo David Laucerica for more fun original music tiktoks

the six reference at 'listen up let me tell you a story' is so funny. u r actually so real 4 that

My sister made me and my entire family sit down and watch this live and my parents litteraly were so dissapointed in us singing the whole damn time

FLAIR AND PASSION AND PASSION AND FLAIR

I had not watched the Ratatouile musical before and I'm so charmed. What a creation of the internet.

this musical feels like a bunch of really long self-tape auditions cut together to try and tell a coherent story

This is kind of Tiktok's version of Tumblr's All or Nothing bi/ace show, except it actually got made

The Falsettos reference and then the dig Something Rotten- these r my ppl

I love it when you make the theater videos, thank you for this one

HAHAHAH got sent this by a mate and enjoyed your analysis! 😂 Thanks for the laugh and the walk down memory lane 🥹

WITH FLAIR AND PASSION AND PASSIONATE FLAIRRR

I can’t believe Andre de Shields is in this but it sorta makes sense