Beauty And The Beast: 20 Fiendishly Clever Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

Creator cameos aren't exactly a new thing in Disney-affiliated film-making, what with Disney acquiring Marvel (and already putting Stan Lee in Big Hero Six, of course), but it's far more rare in the animated classics.

But even with limited opportunity to put directors or animators into scenes (they sometimes do it themselves as one Hercules animator cheekily did), Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise have somewhat cornered the market. The directing pair have so far appeared in The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and they started their road to cameo stardom back in Beauty And The Beast.

The pair appear in caricature form just after Belle is given her new book and sing the line "Look, there she goes, the girl who's so peculiar. I wonder if she's feeling well."