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Goat
33 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
The contract Will signs with the Thorns bears the film's release date, February 13.
- #002
The film's team logos were designed by Emily Morgan, a graphic designer and fan who spent more than 500 hours on 600 rough drafts sorted across a palette of 7 colors.
- #003
Roar League is a website designed specifically for the film, offering a calendar showing the tournament timeline (similar to a sports network's schedule), a "Player Corner" for Will, Jett and Mane, a Roar League Quiz, a scrolling ticker for "Roarball Roundup" and a video preview of the latest trailer.
- #004
In the first concept drawing of Jett Fillmore, the character was initially designed as a male black leopard named "Buckets" before becoming a female black panther.
- #005
When Will returns to Whiskers Diner with Jett, a cheetah carrying a DoorDash bag appears in the background. That character was used in a commercial spot for both the film and DoorDash; after Modo ate his order as a "pre-game snack," the cheetah had to deliver shoes to Jett.
- #006
Designer Dominique Dawson focuses on the animals' anatomy for their costumes and builds the teams' personalities.
- #007
The official song in the trailer is Skee-Lo's "I Wish" (1995). Among other things, the song is about wanting to be taller to play basketball against stronger and bigger men, just like Will Harris in the film.
- #008
Iggy, the zebra referee, takes his name from the nickname of voice actor and former NBA player Andre Iguodala.
- #009
According to Tyree Dillihay, Modo Olachenko is a tribute to Dennis Rodman.
- #010
Jett calling Will "kid" or "kiddo" is a play not only on the fact that he is young but also on a young goat being called a kid. The way Jett says it also means "you are too young to be here."
- #011
This is the directorial debut of both Tyree Dillihay and Adam Rosette.
- #012
The Thorns' Roarball uniforms and shoes are produced by Under Armour.
- #013
Jennifer Lewis voices a character named Flo, which was also the name of her character in Cars (2006).
- #014
Bill is another name used in place of William, which makes Will the same animal as a Bill or Billy Goat, the animal he plays in the film.
- #015
After previous voice roles in live-action films, Nicola Coughlan voices a character in a fully animated film for the first time.
- #016
To design the film's striking frames, the artists use graphic sports cards to add more shine to the characters.
- #017
This is Wayne Knight's second basketball film after Space Jam (1996).
- #018
Both David Harbor and Caleb McLaughlin appeared side by side in Netflix's Stranger Things. Eduardo Franco is also in Stranger Things but does not share scenes with Harbor and McLaughlin.
- #019
Florence Everson's license plates include the plate BOSSHOG. BOSSHOG is also the plate of Boss Hogg, the main villain of the Dukes of Hazzard series. For those familiar with cinema history, this may foreshadow that Everson was the villain from the start.
- #020
It is easy to miss, but during the Thorns' 10-Minute Retirement, Dennis's box contains Katie Mitchell's wooden deer.
- #021
Goat is the first feature-length animated film to feature a loop group made up entirely of actors with disabilities.
- #022
At the 28:13 mark of the film, a deer in a wheelchair can be seen on the disability sign in the background.
- #023
Will's friends Daryl and Hannah most likely take their names from the actress Daryl Hannah.
- #024
This marks Aaron Pierre's second voice role in a theatrical film, after Mufasa: The Lion King (2024), which was released about two years earlier.
- #025
It was released around the 2026 NBA All-Star weekend.
- #026
Modo Olackenko is based on the Soviet and Russian character Crocodile Gena, but he is Ukrainian.
- #027
Jett drives a Mercedes-Benz on which the company's logo is clearly visible.
- #028
In the Russian dub of the third trailer, the toilet scene was cut.
- #029
This is Patton Oswalt's fourth animated film, after Ratatouille (2007), Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018) and The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019).
- #030
It is Sony Pictures Animation's fourth film with no humans in it, after Surf's Up (2007), The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019). It is also the first film in which the protagonist is not in bird form and in which only three species are featured.
- #031
This is Gabrielle Union's third animated film, after Fearless (2020) and Strange World (2022).
- #032
This is Ayesha Curry's second animated film, after Charming (2018), which was released eight years earlier.
- #033
In the Russian dub of the third trailer, the scene featuring the phone was adapted to advertise the messenger "Max", popular in the CIS countries, saying that it can be reached even underground.
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