Ugly Sonic?! A Guide to All the Wild Cameos in ‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a Who’s Who cavalcade of cameos. It’s a cartoon and animation fan’s Wonderland.

If Bugs Bunny interacting with Mickey Mouse in Who Framed Roger Rabbit warped your fragile little mind as a kid, Rescue Rangers will detonate your brain faster than you can say “Ugly Sonic.” (Oh, he’s there…) From old school ’80s cartoons to modern characters, chances are the movie will have you pausing your television and screaming, “HIM!? IN A DISNEY FLICK!?”

Thankfully, the movie is streaming on Disney+, so you can pause to bask in every glorious cameo the film has to offer. Most of them are window dressing, so if you blink at the wrong moment, chances are you might miss some big faces.

To the best of my abilities, here’s a list of cameos you can find in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Happy hunting! (Warning: Spoilers lie ahead!)

Autobot Blaster - Transformers

In the film’s opening, Dale (voiced by Andy Samberg) narrates the origin of his friendship and creative partnership with Chip (voiced by John Mulaney). As they headline their school’s talent show, you can spot the Autobot Blaster from Transformers in the audience. Did he go to high school with Chip and Dale? Was he a parent supporting his Transformer son in the talent show? Can Autobots reproduce? God, I hope not...

Akiva Schaffer - Director

During the opening montage, the cast of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers finish filming an episode of the show. Once the cameras stop rolling, the film’s director Akiva Schaffer makes an appearance…..as a director of the series. How meta?!

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MC Skat Kat/Paula Abdul

Nothing screams ’90s nostalgia more than Paula Abdul and her cool animated collaborator MC Skat Kat. These opposites who attract, make a brief appearance as DJs during the cast wrap party. During that scene you also see…

Roger Rabbit - Who Framed Roger Rabbit

…Roger Rabbit doing the “Roger Rabbit” with Chip and Dale. “What a party!,” he exclaims to the two, who are dancing on top of Disney’s Three Little Pigs. The original voice actor Charles Fleischer reprises his voice for the first time since the 1993 short Trail Mix Up. Good to see the king of live-action/animation hybrids looking spry as ever.

Baloo - The Jungle Book and Talespin

In the present, Dale (now with a CG surgery done) is doing the LA convention circuit to make ends meet. Baloo from The Jungle Book, but more importantly to millennials, Talespin, is introduced. He’s joined by a band to sing a laid-back jazz version of “The Bare Necessities.” He retains his design from the 2016 CG remake of the film and is voiced by singer Steven Curtis Chapman. Chapman portrayed him once in The Jungle Book: Rhythm 'n Groove video game from 2000. It may not be John Goodman or Bill Murray, who have both voiced previous iterations of the character. But once a Baloo, always a Baloo.

Lumière - Beauty and the Beast and Tigra - Avengers (United They Stand)

Dale isn’t the only one down on his luck. He's booth mates with fellow ’90s stars Tigra (voiced by Shaffer’s wife Liz Cackowski) from the short-lived 90s series The Avengers: United They Stand and Lumière (voiced by Jeff Bennett) from Beauty and the Beast. You know times are rough when someone like Lumière is in a rough patch. Thank God he’s in his original design, because that humanoid live action design is still a vision of nightmares. Speaking of things of nightmares…

Ugly Sonic

The biggest cameo of the Rescue Rangers is the one and only Sonic the Hedgehog. No, not the one you see in the Paramount movies. It’s the original design that the internet crucified. The response was so vicious that Sonic was completely redesigned. Well, now the prodigal son returns as Ugly Sonic, working the convention circuit. Instead of Ben Schwartz, Tim Robinson voices the ugliest thing alive and makes pretty funny meta jokes about how the internet got him out of a job. Surprisingly, Ugly Sonic makes many appearances throughout the movie, as he’s a legitimate character who's integral to the plot.

Wynnchel and Duncan - Wreck-It Ralph

Once their best friend Monterey Jack (voiced by Eric Bana) is kidnapped from his home, Chip and Dale return to the scene of the crime. In a blink-or-you’ll-miss-it cameo, the Sugar Rush cops from the Wreck-It Ralph movies, Wynnchel and Duncan appear as….well, you guessed it, cops!

Linda Flynn-Fletcher - Phineas and Ferb

In their investigation, Chip and Dale explore a crime-ridden black market area called Main Street, where toons lead a double life. On this street full of criminals is Phineas and Ferb’s mom Linda Flynn-Fletcher. What kind of crimes is she up to? What kind of crimes would she be up to? Let’s hope she doesn’t get BUSTED anytime soon.

Mr. Natural

Out of all the Robert Crumb characters to integrate into the Chip 'n Dale world, we never expected a deep cut like Mr. Natural to appear. He also appears on Main Street in the Black Market world, coming out of a wig shop where Dale sells his fur from time to time. This is the first instance in the movie where an adult-based cartoon character appears in the film. If it wasn’t gonna be someone as prolific as Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural will do. Also, this marks Mr. Natural’s first animated appearance in just about anything, as he’s specifically a comic book character. A very NSFW one, at that.

Randy Marsh - South Park

To continue NSFW properties, RANDY FRIGGIN’ MARSH from South Park. SOUTH PARK, the biggest NSFW animated series there is on television, appears in this movie. Isn’t this a Disney film?! In a scene where the chipmunks are doing detective work in a Russian spa, they come across Randy Marsh sitting by two Pigs (who are discussing child custody?!??!) in a sauna. Randy is just straight chilling while getting his steam on. He’s simply window dressing, but it begs the question of how in the hell the Mouse House allowed the Tegridy Farms weed business owner to appear in their movie, especially with all the endless shit they talk about the company in the show?