Barnyard

The film's reels were shipped to theaters under the code name "Tipping."

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It is generally adapted from George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm."

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At roughly forty-three minutes, when the farmer faints, Otis gives him a copy of E. B. White's book Charlotte's Web (2006), the basis for the next Nickelodeon Movies film.

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Although it was Nickelodeon Movies' last animated film until Rango (2011), it is Nickelodeon Movies' last animated film released in theaters during the 2000s.

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The cow Daisy has a daisy-shaped mark on her belly, which is where her name comes from.

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It is currently Nickelodeon Movies' only feature-length animated film written and directed by a single person.

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It is Kevin James's second animated film; the first was Monster House (2006).

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John Powell was offered the job of composing the film's score, but he turned it down for unknown reasons. Randy Newman was then assigned as the film's composer, but he also turned it down, so the film was instead scored by John Debney.

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It is Nickelodeon Movies' first computer-animated film to be rated PG by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

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It is Lloyd Sherr's first animated film released in theaters. He would later voice Fillmore in subsequent films of the Cars series from 2011 onward (the character had once been voiced by George Carlin in the first Cars film) and would voice the Spanish DJ in Turbo (2013).

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It is Danny Glover's third animated film after Antz (1998) and The Prince of Egypt (1998), and also his first film not from DreamWorks Animation.

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This is Daisy's only appearance. Since Daisy could no longer appear, she is replaced in Back at the Barnyard (2007) by a more tomboyish girl cow named Abby.

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While Otis tries to figure out what made the farmer faint, he tries to make it look as if an apple fell on his head. This relates to Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered gravity.

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Otis is one of several animated protagonists who have a mouse as a friend. Another is Horton the Elephant from Horton Hears a Who! (2008) and Dumbo from Dumbo (1941).

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During the film, Otis's phone rings with Motorola's "Hello Moto" ringtone, interrupting a conversation spoken by a character in the film.

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After its release, the film became an internet meme.

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It is Tino Insana's second animated film after Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992). It was also his last before his death in 2017.

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The octagonal 'NG' emblem on the car Otis uses in the film is an imitation of the emblem of the real-life British/Chinese car brand MG (which is also octagonal).

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Barnyard is the only animated film in Kevin James's filmography in which he does not voice a character voiced by Steve Buscemi.

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This is David Koechner's second family-friendly Nickelodeon Movies film, the first being Yours, Mine & Ours (2005).

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This is the first and only Nickelodeon Movies film featuring Wanda Sykes, who would not work on another Nickelodeon film for 18 years, until Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024).

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Maurice LaMarche and Fred Tatasciore had previously appeared in Team America: World Police (2004). LaMarche voiced Alec Baldwin, while Tatasciore voiced Samuel L. Jackson.

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As in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Rob Paulsen and Jeff Garcia are not the only members of this film's cast; both are close friends of the main protagonist, and alongside regulars of Fox's animated sitcom Futurama (1999), the cast also includes voice actors who appeared in the animated feature films Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) and The Prince of Egypt (1998).

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In this film, Maria Bamford (Nora Beady) stars alongside Courteney Cox (Daisy The Cow), known for her role as Monica Gellar-Bing in Friends (1994). Fifteen years later, Bamford would star in HouseBroken (2021) alongside Lisa Kudrow, known for the role of Phoebe Buffay in the aforementioned series. Kudrow would voice Honey The Poodle, and Bamford would voice Honey's therapist owner Jill.

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This is the first and only time actress Jill Talley worked on an animated Nickelodeon Movies film that had nothing to do with SpongeBob SquarePants (1999). This would not happen again until The Loud House Movie (2021) was released 15 years later.

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The scene in which Otis distracts a mailman became a popular internet meme.

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Two of the film's veteran voice actors, Rob Paulsen (Peck) and Cam Clarke (Freddie), each voiced one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the franchise's first animated version, as Raphael and Leonardo respectively. Interestingly enough, Nickelodeon's owner Viacom would later buy the TMNT franchise from Mirage Studios in 2009, and in one of its many incarnations Paulsen would voice another of the turtles.

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Although this was S. Scott Bullock's first Nickelodeon Movies film, he had appeared in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), the series this film was meant to pilot.

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This was Nickelodeon Movies' last film before Paramount Animation, and it would be based on a Nicktoons show and feature veteran voice actors among its listed cast beyond additional voices (excluding the live-action films The Last Airbender (2010) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), which are set in different continuities from the Nicktoons shows they are based on).

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The DVD premiered in Mexico in January 2007.

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Among the film's entire cast, Cam Clarke, Rob Paulsen, S. Scott Bullock, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Fred Tatasciore and Katie Leigh are the only non-famous talents.

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The production of Barnyard (2006) was done back to back with The Ant Bully (2006); both were made by members of the team that worked on Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001). One of the films, like Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), was made to pilot an upcoming Nicktoons show and featured quite a few genuine voice actors in its cast, while the other was made as an independent project by a rival distributor and did not feature many genuine voice actors among its cast.

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