The Road To
But how did we get here? In August 2020, TikTok user
Emily Jacobsen (@e_jaccs) posted a short song, “Ode to Remy” — a quick soundbite of her musical praise for
Ratatouille’s rodent hero
. Then,
Daniel J. Mertzlufft (@danieljmertzlufft) posted an ensemble version of the song, envisioned as an end-of-Act-II showstopper à la the finale of
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Over the next few months, heaps of videos buoyed the
Ratatouille: The Musical meme. Additional songs came from TikTok users like
RJ Christian (@rjthecomposer) as well as theater performers, such as
Dear Evan Hansen’s
The Prom star