Charles Perrault laid the foundations for a new literary genre: the fairy tale. His best known tales include Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), and La Belle au bois Dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).

Unlike most Disney villains, who sport fiery personalities and desire power and the spotlight, Lady Tremaine possesses a more cunning, subtle, passive-aggressive personality with a shrewd intelligence and ability for manipulation, particularly towards her daughters.

Cinderella finds a gown that belonged to her mother and decides to refashion it for the ball, but her stepfamily interferes by giving her extra chores.

Major the horse expects he will pull Cinderella's carriage, but instead he is turned into a coachman by the Fairy Godmother.

CINDERELLA: [to the clocktower chiming] Oh, that clock! Old killjoy. I hear you. "Come on, get up," you say, "Time to start another day." Even he orders me around.

Cinderella leaving behind one of her glass slippers on the castle stairs is the second of three times she drops her footwear in the original film.

Lady Tremaine answers the door herself and introduces her daughters Drizella and Anastasia, with no mention of Cinderella.

ANASTASIA: Oh, and look, that's my sash! Wearing my sash, she can't!

When Cinderella rescues Gus, she names him "Octavius" and calls him "Gus" for short. This was an inside joke among the writers. Gus is actually short for Augustus. In ancient Rome, Octavius was renamed Augustus when he became Caesar.

The Fairy Godmother sings this song as she transforms an orange pumpkin into Cinderella's carriage.