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Plot twist: They didn't have a falling out, he didn't lose his rat....he lost his hair, he went bald and had no good way of translating rat-to-human interaction anymore

The rats didn't leave Gusteau, his HAIR left him. He went bald and then the rats had nothing to control him with.

Just for the first point.
As a scientist, I can state, that when comparing DNA fragments, as in a parentage test; that if a sample was bad and I had to rerun a test. I’d have to rerun it with all samples at the same time. Comparing samples from different runs is possible, but not good, specially for legal purposes. So yes, one bad sample = need both samples again.

He has to send "them" back because the samples get destroyed when they test them so to ensure a proper test they have to have both samples tested again to ensure accuracy.

I love the theory but gusteau had a cooking show where he himself is narrating how he is preparing each dish. He knew what he was doing without a rat. I also believe the theory that the house remy learned to cook in is the critic’s mother’s. You see it in the flashback. His mother’s recipe was gusteau’s recipe.

An alternate theory to Gusteau's decline rather than the rats dying out:
* Remmy controls Linguini by pulling his hair.
* Gusteau went bald
* Once bald, he could no longer be puppeted.

"I have to send them back." Both samples. And then is followed by, "It came back rodent." Singular sample cane back as rodent.
And then let me nerd out on how human labs wouldn't run this way.

Isnt Guesteu bald? Maybe thats all that happened to lose the rats😂

Tie two Theories together:
That was Gusteau's families house.
The rat did indeed learn the recipes there, for a reason....

Imagine, years of experience, skills, blood, sweat, and then being accused of being controlled by a rat just because you failed on one food critic with ego.

Another idea is Gusteau could cook, as in follow a recipe. He just couldn't invent new things, due to lack of taste, smell or what ever creative restrictions he had. If his rat helpers just taste tested his food, gave suggestions on which ingredients to use and didn't fully control him it wouldn't be as hard to pull off. Which makes him hiding said secret for years more reasonable.

My only pushback is Skinner WAS concerned about cleanliness. He just saw a rat roaming about the kitchen, while LeClaire, the food critic is there. If word got out about a rat, the health inspector would shut them down for good.

Skinner tells Linguine to take the rat away and then dispose of it.

I always took the fact that Skinner is now seeing the Rat everywhere like Edgar Allen Poe's "The Telltale Heart". Skinner is superstitious and thinks he is somehow being haunted because he told the boy to kill the rat. Now he's seeing the rodent everywhere he turns, like the Man in the Edgar Allen Poe tale hearing the beating of the Old Man's hideous heart.

You even point out the scene in this video when Skinner learns that he isn't crazy; he is indeed seeing a rat hanging out with Linguine. But more than that, the Rat IS the chef, not the boy. "The RAT is the Chef..." he mumbles to himself on the roof.

Why would he be surprised by this knowledge if he already suspected his former colleague of being in cahoots with a rodent?

Bro calling that dish a crime scene 😭
Most real thing ever

If we're paying THIS close attention to exact wording, then we also need to acknowledge that Talon followed that first statement where he used "them" up with just using "it."

"I had to send them back to the lab."
"Because the first time IT came back identified as rodent hair."

He didn't say that "they" came back with rodent hair. If we're nitpicking wording, then only one of the two samples came back as rodent hair. You can't just pick and choose what you apply your logic to.

3:46 although it’s wrong to say “them” could refer to both samples being rat hair, there’s a small possibility that the sample that had rat hair WAS actually from the hat. Very small

"I had to send them [both samples] back to the lab [...] because the first time, it [Linguini's sample] came back identified as rodent hair."

Not only language doesn't support you, but you physically see the sample of Gusteau hair the lawyer is taking and it's too long for a rodent.

"Skinner was right all along"
"Skinner did nothing wrong"

12:19 I was literally at work like a week ago thinking about that. His reaction was not natural enough.