40 Fun Facts About Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

In the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, what is the town where meals fall from the sky called?

Chewandswallow gets every meal as weather, until the portions grow so large that the people have to abandon the town for good.

In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Flint Lockwood's FLDSMDFR machine turns which everyday substance into food?

Water goes in and dinner comes out: after the machine rockets into the sky it feeds on clouds, turning the island's forecast into a menu.

Which food is the first to rain on Flint Lockwood's island in the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Cheeseburgers fall first, while Flint is at the harbor with a visiting TV intern, proving his lost machine is alive and working in the stratosphere.

In the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which relative tells the food-weather tale as a bedtime story?

Grandpa spins the whole tale for his two grandchildren after a mishap at breakfast, and they fall asleep soon after it ends.

What is Flint Lockwood's pet monkey, who talks via a thought translator, called in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Steve is a vervet monkey and Flint's best friend, and the translator Flint built for him gives him only a very small vocabulary.

Which fish is the only local food on Flint Lockwood's island when the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs begins?

Sardines are the island's whole economy, and once the rest of the world decides they are unsavory, the islanders are left to consume the entire catch themselves.

What are the living food creatures, such as the Cheespider, called in the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Foodimals are what Flint's surviving machine starts producing, and even the fearsome Cheespider turns out to attack only people in the villain's company gear.

In the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which thick food forms the fog that settles over the town?

Pea soup rolls in as fog when the food weather takes a turn for the worse, one of the first signs that the town's free meals are getting out of hand.

What does greedy Mayor Shelbourne do to his own escape boat at the end of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Mayor Shelbourne eats it and is left lost at sea, a fitting end for the leader who brushed off Flint's warning that the machine was failing.

Which American author and art teacher wrote the 1978 picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Judi Barrett wrote the story and her former husband Ron drew it; the pair had already made Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing together.

In the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a mishap with which breakfast food inspires the bedtime story?

Pancakes start it all: one goes flying at breakfast, and that night the storyteller dreams up a town where every meal falls from the sky.

Which food tangles up the traffic in the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs once the weather turns bad?

Spaghetti snarls the roads as the food weather worsens, and soon giant portions are crushing homes and forcing the townspeople to leave.

In the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the townspeople escape by sailing away on which giant food?

Sandwiches become sailboats for the whole town, which crosses the sea to a new home where the sky delivers nothing but ordinary weather.

At the end of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a snowy hill at sunrise reminds the book's children of which dish?

Mashed potatoes topped with butter is what the snow-covered hill and rising sun look like to them the morning after the bedtime story.

Which building shuts for good in the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as the falling food grows too big?

The school closes permanently and oversized food crushes houses, which convinces the townspeople they have no choice but to leave.

After fleeing in the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, where must the people get food in their new home?

A supermarket is the strange new source of meals: after a lifetime of food from the sky, the people have to get used to buying it.

What does Ralph's restaurant lack in the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, where food drops from the sky?

A roof would only block the food: the place is named Ralph's Roofless Restaurant, and the illustrator drew one diner there in Groucho glasses as a private joke.

Which 1997 sequel to the picture book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs returns to the ruined food town in a dream?

Pickles to Pittsburgh has the children dream of helping rebuild the town and send its mountains of leftover food to people in need around the world.

Which planet is hit by daily pie storms in Planet of the Pies, the third Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs book?

Mars receives the story's first crewed expedition, which finds the planet's society overrun by pies; the book came out 35 years after the original.

Which actor voices both inventor Flint Lockwood and his food machine in the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Bill Hader voices Flint and the FLDSMDFR itself, and he came back to play both the inventor and his creation in the 2013 sequel.

Which actress voices Sam Sparks, the New York intern who hides her intelligence, in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Anna Faris returned as Sam in the 2013 sequel, where the character grows suspicious of Flint's new boss before Flint does.

Which star voices police officer Earl Devereaux in the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs but skipped the sequel?

Mr. T plays Earl in the first film only: he was asked back for the sequel but declined, so the part went to another actor.

What is Flint Lockwood's island hometown called in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs before its food-tourism rebrand?

Swallow Falls is rechristened once the food weather makes it a tourist destination, taking the name used for the town in the original picture book.

Which Flint Lockwood invention finally jams and destroys his food machine in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Spray-on Shoes is his last resort: the kill code his father sent turns out to be the wrong file, so Flint jams the machine with the formula instead.

Which sweet triggers Sam Sparks's allergic reaction inside the giant meatball in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Peanut brittle sends her into anaphylactic shock after an accidental touch, so Sam has to retreat with Brent while Flint goes on to the machine alone.

Sam Sparks arrives on Flint Lockwood's island in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as an intern in which profession?

Meteorologist Sam Sparks is sent from New York for her big break, which is ruined when Flint's runaway machine causes chaos in the town.

Which studio put Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on its very first slate of animated films, announced in 2003?

Sony Pictures Animation named the film a year after the studio was founded, but it took six more years and a change of directors to reach cinemas.

Which duo made their feature directing debut with the animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were fired from the project after a year, rehired in 2006, and rewrote the whole script before it became their debut.

The directors of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs called it a homage to, and parody of, which film genre?

Disaster movies were the target: the directors named Twister and Armageddon as models, and the studio released its own straight-faced example, 2012, about two months later.

Which actor voices Flint Lockwood's translator-wearing pet monkey in both Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films?

Neil Patrick Harris came back for the sequel, in which the monkey publicly humiliates Flint by accidentally setting off his Celebrationator invention.

Which Devo co-founder composed the score for the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and its sequel?

Mark Mothersbaugh first wrote a main theme called No Place Like Home, swapped it for a new one, and later put the unused song on a Devo album.

Who is revealed as the villain of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 after hiring Flint Lockwood at his company?

Chester V is Flint's childhood idol, and the shutdown gadget he hands over is really a device for seizing control of the food machine.

Which company, run by Flint Lockwood's childhood idol, hires him in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Live Corp gives itself away: read backwards, the first word of its name spells evil, which is how Flint's friends work out what the company is up to.

Barb, the lipstick-wearing assistant with a human brain in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, is which kind of ape?

An orangutan voiced by Kristen Schaal, Barb grows fed up with her boss's abuse and switches sides, stealing the food machine back from him.

Which actor took over as the voice of police officer Earl Devereaux in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Terry Crews stepped in when the original Earl declined to return, joining a sequel in which most of the other main voices reprised their roles.

To which invented California city are Flint Lockwood's neighbors relocated in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

San Franjose, a mash-up of two real Bay Area city names, houses the islanders while a tech company claims to be cleaning up their home.

What does Sam Sparks name the living strawberry, voiced by a co-director, in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Barry, a pun on berry, is voiced by Cody Cameron, who directed the sequel with Kris Pearn after working as a story artist on the first film.

Which US channel premiered the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs TV series about a teenage Flint Lockwood?

Cartoon Network launched the prequel series in March 2017, and within a year it had moved to Boomerang's streaming service.

Which actor voices townsman Joe Towne in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and then the villain of its sequel?

Will Forte moved up from a bit part as a local in the first film to the sequel's antagonist, the celebrity inventor Flint grew up idolising.

Which actor voices Tim Lockwood, Flint Lockwood's widowed father, in both Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films?

James Caan plays a character who began as a tackle shop extra and was promoted to Flint's father when the studio head asked for an anchoring relationship.