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Bette Midler sang another version of ‘God Help the Outcasts’ for the soundtrack release. Various words are changed in this (such as instead of ‘gypsy’ the word ‘humble’ is used), in addition to these changes the parts sung by the people in the church are not in this version and the song is also much longer. 

While Quasimodo is singing ‘Out There’, the camera pans over Paris and zooms in on a street. In this scene, Belle from Beauty and the Beast (1991) is seen walking and reading her book (walks out the bottom of the screen, to the right of the well), Pumba from The Lion King (1994) is being carried on a pole by two men (carried out of the bottom of the screen, but left of the well), and another man (in a gray blue tunic) is shaking out the Carpet from Aladdin (1992).

Phoebus’ anthropomorphic horse is named Achilles. At one point, Phoebus commands, “Achilles, heel!” - and the horse promptly sits down. The line is a double joke: first, it assumes (correctly, in this case) that the war horse will obey a command normally used for a trained dog. Second, the line is a pun on the phrase “Achilles’ heel”, a term for a person’s weakness (which itself derives from Achilles in Greek mythology, who was invulnerable except for one heel; the Achilles tendon in the ankle is also named for this). 

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