# Finding Nemo pet peeve (pointless nickpicking) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898 "2003-06-24T00:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/21 "2003-06-27T02:20:40Z")
So, the accents bothered you, but the fact that all these fish speak English wasn’t a problem? Nemo and Marlin didn’t have American accents, they had clownfish accents. Pixar just happened to use American actors to voice them. Incidentally, are we sure the dentist got them off the Great Barrier reef? I thought he was supposed to be on vacation, and Marlin seemed to go quite a distance to get him back. He’s a small fish, so it’s all relative, but it seemed a _lot_ further than just the reef to the shore. ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/22 "2003-06-27T02:40:58Z")
Ironically, clownfish are one of the few saltwater fish which breed readily in captivity. Unlike nearly every other aquarium fish, these days nearly all of them are captive-raised rather than wild-caught. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/23 "2003-06-27T02:59:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by singular1 \* > \*\*If you look real close in Boo’s room in **Monsters Inc.** , you’ll se a little stuffed Nemo! \*\* You don’t have to look close. Monster’s Inc. spoiler to follow. Boo picks it up and gives it to Sulley and then Sulley gives it a squeeze and it squeaks. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/24 "2003-06-27T08:23:27Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > If you look real close in Boo’s room in Monsters Inc., you’ll se a little stuffed Nemo! > > You don’t have to look close. Ah, but did you find the _second_ Nemo appearance in **Monsters Inc.**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/25 "2003-06-27T10:07:32Z")
If you lived in Australia, you’d know that about 50% of the people you’d encounter also do not have Australian accents. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/26 "2003-06-27T10:11:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LeeshaJoy \* > \*\*Here’s what gets me: I recognized Dory’s coloring from one of my old science books. I looked it up and discovered that she’s an “Atlantic Blue Tang.” That’s right– **Atlantic.** What she’s doing off the coast of Australia, I have no idea. But then again, neither does she. 😉 \*\* I recently visited the Sydney Aquarium. In neighbouring tanks, representing local tropical fish, you will find the Clownfish (playing hide and seek in some anemones or coral or whatever that stuff is) and the Blue Tang, and they looked EXACTLY like their Pixar counterparts. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/27 "2003-06-27T11:37:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*You don’t have to look close. Ah, but did you find the _second_ Nemo appearance in **Monsters Inc.**? 😉 \*\* [/QUOTE] _annoyed grunt_ ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/28 "2003-06-27T11:38:51Z")
I have to say I never heard of the Blue Tang being referred to as an _Atlantic_ Blue Tang before. I’ve been diving in both the Atlantic and the Pacific and seen them in both places. It may be a particular branch of the blue tang family is indigenous to one ocean or another, but I honestly didn’t know there was a difference. They all had short-term memory loss, too. OK, **Fern Forest** , I give-where is the second appearance? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/29 "2003-06-27T12:38:10Z")
There’s something seriously screwy with the way rjung made post 3623651. First off it was myself who said “You don’t have to look close” and then rjung said “Ah, but did you find the second Nemo appearance in Monsters Inc.? ;)” And then I said _annoyed grunt_ Very strange. So in short I don’t know where his second appearance was. As soon as I saw him I was satisfied and stopped looking. Although his wink makes me thing he might have appeared only once. Actually on second thought it probably wasn’t Nemo anyway. Probbly Marlin. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/30 "2003-06-27T13:49:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by metroshane \* > \*\*How come shrimp are always french? \*\* Because the S car was gone? [rimshot] ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/31 "2003-06-27T13:53:46Z")
LOL ---
**Author:** ![Copper\_moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@Copper\_moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Copper_moon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/32 "2003-06-27T14:52:25Z")
Completely missed Nemo in Monsters Inc, probably because I didn’t know about Nemo the last time I saw MI, but did anyone catch that there was a Jesse cowgirl doll that Boo hands to Sulley? Something that struck me about the movie is the place where the sharks hang out. Are those old (what are they . . . bombs?) really accurate, do they float like that and go off with the smallest hit? ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/33 "2003-06-27T15:51:12Z")
I don’t know about the old bombs, but I did catch a Toy Story ref in Finding Nemo. There is a shot of the dentist’s office and in one corner is a toychest containing none other than a Buzz Lightyear doll! IDBB ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/34 "2003-06-27T15:53:21Z")
If you really want to nitpick the movie, then how about the sharks? Bruce proudly announces that he hasn’t eaten a fish in three weeks. So what in the world (or sea) was a vegetarian shark eating? Sea cucumbers? For that matter, what were the fish eating during their days long voyage? They went so far to keep the poor little kiddies from having to think about the food chain that they went way too far in the other direction. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/35 "2003-06-27T16:01:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Copper\_moon \* > \*\*Completely missed Nemo in Monsters Inc, probably because I didn’t know about Nemo the last time I saw MI, but did anyone catch that there was a Jesse cowgirl doll that Boo hands to Sulley? > > Something that struck me about the movie is the place where the sharks hang out. Are those old (what are they . . . bombs?) really accurate, do they float like that and go off with the smallest hit? \*\* They’re mines, and depending upon how they’re designed, they can go off like that. Don’t forget, that was a pretty massive submarine that hit 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/36 "2003-06-27T16:18:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*They’re mines, and depending upon how they’re designed, they can go off like that. Don’t forget, that was a pretty massive submarine that hit 'em. \*\* Pretty massive **torpedo** , anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/37 "2003-06-27T20:04:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > They went so far to keep the poor little kiddies from having to think about the food chain that they went way too far in the other direction. Sooooooooooooooooooooooo… talking fish are okay, but vegetarian sharks aren’t? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/38 "2003-06-27T20:21:14Z")
People ask if they find Nemo at the end, and I tell them yeah, he’s at Long John Silvers with a side of hush puppies. It annoys me when I’m trying to clean the damn theatre and parents are waiting around with their kids for the outtakes. There are none! OTH there is a pretty cool little thing with a lamp fish and the jittery little fish who was at the Nice Sharks Meeting. Also, I heard Pixar has one more film with Disney then they’re on their own. Think they’ll be doin adult remakes of their old stuff? Vibrating Toy Story? Finding Porno? ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/39 "2003-06-27T21:11:54Z")
I thought the silent “curtain call” during the credits was far better than any possible outtakes could have been, actually. The whole outtakes gag was becoming pretty stale, and I was glad that Pixar thought of something just as entertaining to replace it for _Finding Nemo_. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898/40 "2003-06-27T21:47:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BlueMit11 \* > It annoys me when I’m trying to clean the damn theatre and parents are waiting around with their kids for the outtakes. There are none! OTH there is a pretty cool little thing with a lamp fish and the jittery little fish who was at the Nice Sharks Meeting. Hey, that’s worth sticking around the credits for, too. That and the “production babies” (list of babies born to Pixar staff during the making of the movie). Still would like to see outtakes, though. > [@](#): > > Also, I heard Pixar has one more film with Disney then they’re on their own. Think they’ll be doin adult remakes of their old stuff? Not a chance; they’ve stated repeatedly that they want to make family movies, stuff that you can take the entire family to see. Which is, really, the secret of their success, since most adults don’t leave **Finding Nemo** and felt like they wasted two hours of their lives (as opposed to **Rugrats Go Wild** ). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-pet-peeve-pointless-nickpicking/183898.md?page=3)