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  • The title "Aristocats" is a play on words, combining "aristocrat" and "cat".
  • A big question fans have been asking is where is the father of the kittens, it is never confirmed but it is possible that he passed away.
  • This is the last movie to end with "A Walt Disney Production", and the first of the Walt Disney Animated Classics to open with "Walt Disney Productions Presents". This would continue up until The Fox and the Hound in 1981.
  • Robie Lester, who had done Duchess's singing voice in the film, would also later narrate the Read-Along version of the film.
  • The Aristocats, more specifically "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat", was later briefly shown in the live-action remake of 101 Dalmatians, which the puppies ended up watching before switching to Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
  • A deleted scene shows that when the train comes on the bridge, the train derails, and with Marie nearly drowning.
  • Scat Cat was originally written with Louie Armstrong in mind, with his original name being Satchmo Cat. Unfortunately, illness kept Louie from being able to play the character and the character was recast with Scatman Crothers and given the "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" song replacing the one the Sherman Brothers wrote for Armstrong, "Le Jazz Hot".
  • The car that Georges drives resembles a 1913 Mercer 35J Raceabout.
  • Shun Gon has caused some controversy in recent years due to his appearance as a Chinese racial stereotype.
  • The number of sleeping pills Edgar put in the milk for the cats would likely have killed them in real life.
  • Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse have an Uncle Antoine that only appears in the books, but not in the movie.
  • Almost all Aristocats characters appear in House of Mouse, the kittens are the only ones that don't appear in the show.
  • The song "She Never Felt Alone" is supposed to be part of this movie, but it's a deleted song that never happened. However, part of it was recited as spoken dialogue.
  • There are no end credits at the end of the movie, but there are beginning credits where the movie begins.
  • Roquefort is the narrator narrating in Disneyland Records about the movie.
  • In Disneyland Records, some of the main characters namely Roquefort, Napoleon, and Lafayette got their own voices from the movie, but Duchess and her kittens Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse don't have their original voices. Marie doesn't have her own voice Liz English, Berlioz doesn't have his own voice Dean Clark, Toulouse doesn't have his own voice Gary Dubin, and Duchess doesn't have her old voice Eva Gabor.
  • Abigail and Amelia mention the French countryside is so beautiful, and say it's like their own countryside in England, they could've been referring to the English countryside from 101 Dalmatians.
  • Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse don't have any kitten friends their ages.
  • Toulouse was originally named "Dopey" (almost named after one of the dwarves from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) seen on one of the early storyboards until his name got changed.
  • Marie is named after Marie Antoinette, Berlioz is named after Hector Berlioz, Toulouse is named after  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the French city Toulouse.
  • As of 2020, the only surviving voice cast left from the original film are Liz "Louise" English (Marie), Monica Evans (Abigail Gabble), Roddy Maude-Roxby (Edgar), Ruth Buzzi (Frou-Frou's singing voice), and Dean Clark (Berlioz). Toulouse's voice actor Gary Dubin passed away on October 8, 2016 of bone cancer.
  • Berlioz gets jealous saying "sissy stuff" to Marie after saying "how romantic", this follows Skippy saying the same thing in Robin Hood.
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