We Recommend: A Movie Podcast
We Recommend is a movie podcast where every week Jesse and Jason discuss a movie that they love and recommend you to watch and then come back and listen to their podcast!
We Recommend: A Movie Podcast
Toy Story
Toy Story is a timeless film that explores themes of friendship, jealousy, and acceptance through the adventures of Woody and Buzz Lightyear. The episode delves into the significance of the characters’ growth, the groundbreaking animation techniques employed, and the impact Toy Story has had on both audiences and the film industry.
• Exploration of childhood nostalgia and emotional connections
• The dynamic between Woody and Buzz representing rivalry and friendship
• Importance of voice acting in bringing characters to life
• Discussion of thematic elements—acceptance and identity
• Pixar's influence on animation and storytelling
• Cultural impact of Toy Story across generations
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week, we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason, hey, buzz, you're flying.
Speaker 2:This isn't flying, this is falling with style.
Speaker 1:To infinity and beyond Cause. This week we recommend Toy Story.
Speaker 2:Rock hard right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me too. Well, I was going to start the podcast by saying let's do the most family friendly podcast we've ever done. Well, no, I will say that that's what this movie is family friendly.
Speaker 2:The first time I saw this movie and it may come to some surprise that my dad was making dick jokes about Woody's name. No way, the entire movie.
Speaker 1:Your dad sounds cool. No he can't be. Geez hope he doesn't listen to this podcast. He doesn't, he's so mad about Christmas.
Speaker 2:He's mad about it.
Speaker 1:Inside jokes. So like did you watch this as a kid, did you? How old were you when this movie came out in 95?
Speaker 2:So 95, I was 11. Cool yeah, I did not see it in theaters. Yeah me neither Saw it at my dad's.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was like, yeah, dad, his name's Woody. What are you even talking about? You start the movie.
Speaker 1:Your dad just pulls out a piece of paper with a bunch of penis jokes. I'm ready to begin. Let me know when you want to record or watch it.
Speaker 2:You're going to be an adult now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but man, this movie it holds up.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've watched it like.
Speaker 1:I don't know, probably three times this decade. This week I mean it's not like I don't watch this, you know. I mean I do watch it. No, I don't know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Well, it's one of the first Disney movies I own on, like VHS.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now, if you own it, you gotta pay like $500. Because they're like well, if you're gonna buy our movies and you don't want them on streaming, you have to suffer, because I had to watch it with ads. Nice.
Speaker 2:Yay, you don't have.
Speaker 1:Disney Plus. Well, we have Disney Plus, but we don't have the version without ads and they make you watch ads for everything.
Speaker 2:I guess I have the version without ads and I didn't even know it you might, and I'm mad at you for having it Is that because we have Hulu and Disney combined Well we also have that. I don't know man, yeah, it's annoying there are no ads. I guess I'm just better than you. Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 1:You know. So what about when watching it as a child versus watching it now? Like what do you think? Like it's still fucking awesome. You think it's better or worse?
Speaker 2:It's not. I would say it is not better, but it's also not worse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I actually think it's better as an adult because I love all the voice actors in it. Yeah, you're right, like Vern Jim Vern yes, hell yeah, ernest himself. Like Vern Jim Vern yes, hell yeah, Ernest himself. Like, I'm not going to lie, I love Buzz and I love Woody, obviously, obviously. But man like the dinosaur, mr Potato Head and Slinky the dog and Ham, they're like my favorite four characters in the movie. God, they're amazing. And the dinosaur is Rex.
Speaker 2:I don't want to disrespect Wallace Shawn Seeing it now as a full grown man. The scene where Buzz is drunk as fuck off the tea yeah, I really had a good laugh about that. Yeah, I never noticed that as a kid. It's so funny. I just thought he was like in distress, which he was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like yeah, I mean he's like in distress, which he was yeah, but like yeah, I mean he's like like depressed and out of his mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he seemed like super fucked up. Yeah, he had been in an all day bender with Sid's sister, the little sister, hannah, hannah, yeah, so Do you think they're Jewish?
Speaker 1:I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know their last name. I just assume his last name is Vicious because it's Sid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I bet it is. I like Sid, though I like him more and more yeah.
Speaker 1:I know I really relate to him. I was nothing like him as a kid. I was. I mean, he's better than bland-ass Andy Blandy, it's like. Well, I just think I'm just like I look over and like all these little toys in a little perfect little house, look over to sid's house. No, it's so nice mother, but the father just lays in a recliner and drinks and watch tv all day.
Speaker 2:He wasn't drinking, but I just, I can only say he was definitely most likely drinking.
Speaker 1:And then Hannah, sid's sister, gets like some of the alcohol pours it in the tea.
Speaker 2:And the next.
Speaker 1:Thing you know Buzz is drunk out of his mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's drunk as hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What do they put in the tea? It's like, I'm just like dang it, that's sake.
Speaker 1:It's like we got to give Sid a break here, okay, but yeah, like that allows him to put 75 locks on his door.
Speaker 2:And he's like super interested in rocket science.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like once he decides to not be a crazy person, like he might be smart.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But now he's going to live a life of fear. No he's probably a congressman now. He's in one of the other Pixar movies, what I think? Well, I think it's either he's in three or four or maybe it's a different one, and he's what I think.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it's either he's in three or four, or maybe it's a different one and he's like a trash man.
Speaker 1:Trash man, trash man, yeah yeah, nice, um. So what's the movie about? Uh, it's about or what do you think it? What did it mean to you as a kid? And now? What do you think the movie is about as an adult? And now, what do you think the movie?
Speaker 2:is about as an adult man, that's interesting. I think as a kid you're thinking, you're just thinking it's very top level, Like you just think, oh, here's a toy. He's got it his way. Another toy is coming in yeah, the new popular toy and it makes you really look at your toys. You're like I got to play with all you guys like an ocd.
Speaker 2:I got too many toys now I gotta play with all of you now, because you're alive and you have souls I don't want my batman action figure to get mad at me for only playing with my goldberry action figure.
Speaker 2:Yes, and like, and I've seen, like some of some of these reality shows, that there was one in particular. I remember that this movie makes me remember about this woman who had a thousand pairs of shoes. She was obsessed with shoes and she had to put each one of them on every single day, or else she thought they would feel bad. And I'm like, yep, that seems about right Once you figure out that they have souls, like you kind of have to the shoes are like oh God, here we go.
Speaker 1:We actually like not being used.
Speaker 2:It's painful you got that one pair that's like, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, I wish your foot was bigger. That was horrible. Well, somehow we got there. You know, I was thinking I was like man, like as a kid, I was probably just like, oh, toys, it's just about friendship and toys are cool, you know. But now I'm just like, damn, this is about friendship, accepting others.
Speaker 2:It kind of felt like a guy like getting replaced in his job and having to train the new guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, and also it's just like you know, like if you ever had a friend group, and it's like you're like I'm like the cool one, or whatever. And then it's like someone else comes up and it's like whoa, this guy's more handsome, funnier, and he just seems like a cooler guy and I'm like he's got a blinking light. I'm just like who the hell am I then? Oh man.
Speaker 2:I gotta kill this guy.
Speaker 1:It's also, like you know, accepting people for who they are.
Speaker 1:Like about like being at work and it's like, oh, even if you don't like somebody, and it's like or if you think you don't like somebody, it's like, well, maybe get to know them, maybe they'll be cool and you can all be friends. It's just like me and you at work. I remember when you wanted to be a pallet uh, backup palletizer I was like I don't want to train this guy. I hate training. We have to like talk to him. It's gonna be awkward, yeah, and look, years later we have a podcast.
Speaker 2:I was falling asleep standing up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you'd sneeze and almost pass out sometimes.
Speaker 2:And I'm like.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's wrong with this, I was on a lot of heavy medication. I was like who is? This guy. You were falling asleep a lot. I did a few times that was pretty wild.
Speaker 2:I feel like these toys have like a cult mentality. Yeah, it's laying alone in Andy's room, separated from the world. I feel like they like. And then they they were just OK with just throwing Woody to his death.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, they were like we need no trial or anything, it's the guillotine or nothing. And it's like Mr Potato Head and and ham. They're a little too ruthless. That's what I love about them team up a little bit, yeah, because they love each other and hate each other at the same time. I think they hate each other how similar they are. So outside of woody and buzz, which they rule, we all agree, woody the best. Which one's your favorite? What's your favorite second toy, like the secondary character toy, I really like Bo Peep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think she's great.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's not go into any other details about her.
Speaker 2:She really gets it.
Speaker 1:She gets what she wants. It's like dang. It's like man. If that toy fell over, I'm going to get a peek.
Speaker 2:It's like man if that toy fell over. I'm going to get a peek. No, no, a little bit of pee-pee right now.
Speaker 1:Oh no, no no, my favorite is Rex. Oh, rex is great. I love how just timid and scared he is, as a dinosaur. The biggest predator he's got so much anxiety and he's nervous and I'm like I relate. I get it when they're like whose side are you on, rex? He's like, uh, I don't like confrontation.
Speaker 2:I was like cheers Rex this one's for you, buddy. One of the other ones I thought really got undersold was Mr Spell. He has the power, he kind of rules.
Speaker 1:He could be a billboard for anything Like when they say, oh, it's his birthday today, what it's great. Another thing I want to go into I kind of find it funny that Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are in a movie doing voices Tom Hanks, woody, obviously, tim Allen Buzz and they're kind of like a perfect odd couple even in real life. They're both very funny people Tom Hanks, tim Allen, buzz, and they're kind of like a perfect odd couple Even in real life. They're both very funny people. Tom Hanks Tim Allen. Home Improvement.
Speaker 2:Need I say more Hilarious.
Speaker 1:What's the movie? The space movie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's pretending to the movie's fucking badass. Space Quest, something Quest.
Speaker 2:Galaxy Quest Galaxy Quest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, galaxy Quest. That movie, Space Quest, something Quest, galaxy Quest, galaxy Quest, yeah, galaxy Quest. Like that movie's so funny and so great and he's amazing, alan Rickman, oh damn, I need to rewatch this movie. Oh, that's going to be Woo. We going to do this soon bro.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, man, I love that movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's amazing. But, and Because you also have, like Tom Hanks very Democrat, tim Allen very Republican, and it's like they're just such even, just like the actors are such odd couples, and I think it comes out in their performances and I think it's like, oh, this movie should be played before every debate or every election. So it'd be like look, we're all people Just forcing Congress people to access their inner child.
Speaker 1:And then it's like the two people running for presidency has to walk up in front of everybody and shake hands and say to infinity yes.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love this new democracy and I think the world would be a better place because of it.
Speaker 1:Fucking would be. I just think it's kind of. I was just thinking about that while watching it. I was like this movie's kind of beautiful. I'm like wait a second. This movie movie good, who knew?
Speaker 2:They'd give health care to toys before they give it to us. That's true. They'd be like the doctor shopping.
Speaker 1:Every month they just send you a free pack of super glue Like some paint so you can repaint them Like cool. Well, I have cancer.
Speaker 2:But you know, that's fine, let's take care of the story.
Speaker 1:Just paint your tumors a little happy face yeah, all right, bro, let's run into some freaking facts. So, um so. Obviously this was like a huge, um, you know, like milestone for Pixar and animation. So this was Pixar's first film, but it was also the first feature length film that was completely computer animated. So like CG and stuff, very first one changed everything, that's why, every movie after this was not hand drawn anymore.
Speaker 1:The film wait, this was hand drawn. No, it wasn't hand drawn. Oh okay, the film was a huge success, becoming the highest grossing film of 1995 and getting nominated for three Academy Awards. Toy Story may not have won any of the categories it was nominated for, but John Lasseter received a Special Achievement Award for the development of the technology used to create the film. So I got to ask hand-drawn or CG animation, which one do you prefer?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I feel like both have. You know the qualities. I do like hand-drawn movies. A lot of the Studio Ghibli movies, even the new ones, they look hand-drawn. Yeah, they have like CG in it, a little bit Like starting with Princess.
Speaker 1:Mononoke was cg in it a little bit maybe like starting with princess mononoke was the first one with a little bit of cg, like the worm hell yeah, dude, that worm is, I think, man it's. When I go back and like watch aladdin or something like, hell yeah, love this animation, but then you know you watch something new, like from pixar, and it's like I ain't going back to them. This rips, it's beautiful, it's great. So I kind of like I have issues like picking one or the other because I'm like I don't know it's like one is. They're both great, but also does it matter?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't think it matters, as long as the writing is good yeah, and I think that now most animated movies are so good it's insane and it's like, oh yeah, it's like I don't know, as long as it's a good movie.
Speaker 2:Sometimes they can have really great animation and super bad writing. Or even if it's like a foreign film and it's all animated, it's just like bad dubbing or something Like we don't. There's some, there's some barrier that prevents us from like seeing the whole picture. Yeah, but I do love this, this type of animation yeah it's fucking awesome yeah, it's really fun.
Speaker 1:It's very rough in this one, but it still worked I mean it's like rough in terms of it was the first one. Sometimes their faces scare me, so Josh Joss Whedon saved the script.
Speaker 1:No, get him out of here. What is he doing? So you know he's been like a guy who's come in on so many different movies that we've covered at this point. So he wrote for Toy Story and even saved the script in a book called Joss Whedon Conversations written by Cynthia Burkhead. Whedon explained they sent me the script and it was in shambles, but he went on to call Lasseter concept of toys coming to life gold. Toy Story was based on the Pixar short Tiny Toy, but in the book Joss Whedon, the biography, the script for Toy Story was considered unwatchable since the lead characters came off as too sarcastic. Needless to say, if it wasn't for Whedon, toy Story was considered unwatchable since the lead characters came off as too sarcastic. Needless to say, if it wasn't for Whedon, toy Story could have been very different and likely wouldn't have gotten three sequels, let alone one.
Speaker 2:Once again, what's your favorite Toy Story? Is it this one?
Speaker 1:That's tough, because I was never a big on Toy Story 2 and I love Toy Story 3. Just me and the boys went to go watch it. Yeah, when it came out in theaters, we're all four crying at the end, just like we have to hold each other.
Speaker 2:Wait, is that the one where they went to the guy that abducted the-.
Speaker 1:It's the one where they go to, like the toy store or whatever the toy store. You got the big fluffy bear.
Speaker 2:Like the bear guy, that was the third one. That was the third one yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:The second one is the collector guy. The collector Wants him. And the fourth one is Forky.
Speaker 2:Forky was fucking awesome, one of the best boys in town. I fucking love Forky. Yeah, we used to have a little Forky. It's just like character that wants to die or what, or just calls himself trash, it's like that.
Speaker 1:That little star from the mario brothers movie yeah, it's like you're accepting her death all the time. Yeah, it's so good, it's like my favorite part of that movie. So originally buzz and woody looked very different. So, but slight year and woody have instantly recognizable. But they almost look very different. Initially, woody was actually the villain of Toy Story and was a vindictive ventriloquist dummy like in 4. Fuck, yeah, instead of a stuffed drawstring cowboy doll. But Buzz also wasn't originally part of the film but was instead going to be tiny from the tiny toy. Short After it was decided that a tiny toy wouldn't have been more desirable than Woody to a child, the astronaut idea came to be. He was named Lunar Larry, then Tempest from Morph and finally Buzz Lightyear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 1:Thankfully they figured it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm glad that they waited until the third movie to make it scary. Woody is the villain still. He definitely tries to kill.
Speaker 1:Buzz, he's his own enemy in this movie. Well, he just wanted him to fall between the.
Speaker 2:To fall in line.
Speaker 1:He just wanted him to fall in the crack he's like the toy Hitler. If you don't look like me, you don't get to be in this house. That's my fucking spot, asshole. So at first Tim Allen wasn't going to be the first choice for Buzz Lightyear. They went with. They wanted to get Billy Crystal and for animating like the characters, for like tests and stuff, they use lines from Billy Crystal's movie when Harry met Sally oh wow, I hope they did the orgasm scene that toy is having.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Um, barbie and GI Joe were almost in toy story, but they decided not to. They ended up in toy story three. Oh yeah, yeah, they ended up in Toy Story 3. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were all fucked up in that movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were wild.
Speaker 2:I love the Barbie part of the movie, though they're always just driving around in their car and a thousand outfits, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I guess Tom Hanks ad-libbed the whole, the arm waving when he like has his arm.
Speaker 2:That was one of the best parts of the whole movie.
Speaker 1:It really is. It's like the funniest part. But it's all ad-libbed by Tom Hanks and they kind of animated around it. That's awesome, yeah, and so this one goes. So there's a reason why Andy's dad isn't around in the movie. Too expensive to animate another human, yeah. So they're like screw it. Everybody has andy's face just slightly a little bit different, except for all his friends. It's like five andy's running around.
Speaker 1:I didn't notice that yeah yeah, like all the kids look like andy. I mean sid is just like andy with the teeth very slightly different and all like the hannah, the little girl I'm like that's Andy with a wig on, essentially, yeah, it really is, and a dirty face that felt so bad for Sid's family. I know, I wish we saw a mom. She seems like a nice lady. She made him Pop-Tarts.
Speaker 2:She did After he was eating a bowl of cereal. It's like that's so much sugar.
Speaker 1:No wonder this kid's amped up. He's got to blow things up. He don't know where to put all the sugar and they're letting him order explosives online yeah or whatever through the mail.
Speaker 2:I don't know if there wasn't really a whole lot of internet back then, but yeah, oh man this movie rolls dude, how much like the.
Speaker 1:Something that I think about a lot is the army men movie. Yeah, man, so cool there are. They're fucking awesome, so great. Maybe I'm gonna get army men have you been to?
Speaker 2:does you've been to disney world?
Speaker 1:no, I've been universal.
Speaker 2:Okay, disney world, disney world's way too expensive yeah it, it super sucks, but like the Toy Story land area is awesome, oh God, I know. So they have the army men march through and they've got snare drums and shit and they're marching and they even got the little feet things. Yeah, they're not connected so they can actually walk, yeah, but like they do have like like they look like plastic around their feet, yeah, and they're just like playing the drums and they sound amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I do have to go to Disney just for Toy Story Land.
Speaker 2:It's great and they got this one ride. It's like Jesse's shootout. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And classic, my shootout oh yeah Right.
Speaker 2:No, my shootout, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Get bit no it's so much fun because you get in a little car and it takes you to a bunch of screens and you have a little. It's like it's your gun that you use to shoot, yeah, and you're trying to score and make the high score right, uh-huh. So you just pull this little knob and you're like shooting things out of at the screen. It's amazing it's so much fun like the slinky dog ride is amazing. I love Toy.
Speaker 2:Story we just got rid of a slinky dog that we bought for my son when we first went to Disney World and it like lights up in the middle, all his slinkies light up. That's awesome. Slinky dog is such a good boy. Alright, before we hop into the when we first went to Disney World and it like lights up in the middle, all his slinkies light up, that's awesome. Yeah, it's super cute.
Speaker 1:Slinky Dog's such a good boy. All right, Before we hop into the plot we're going to, I'm just going to run down like the the main top build characters. So you got. Tom Hanks is Woody, Classic Tim Allen, Buzz Lightyear, oh, Don Rickles. Rip Mr Potato Head. Originally he didn't want to do this movie. He's like I don't do voice acting or voiceovers, I'm in movies. And then he's like OK, I'll do it.
Speaker 2:OK, 10 million. I don't know how much you get paid.
Speaker 1:Probably a lot. Jim Varney, Slinky the Dog, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Varney yeah, I love it. Oh, like if we ever needed a dog that smokes. It's Slinky, oh Slinky.
Speaker 1:Wallace Shawn is Rex. Hell, yeah, john Rattenberger Rattsonberger, as you probably have heard his voice in everything, since this movie is Ham, yeah, I mean he's in so much shit. Yeah.
Speaker 2:He's in so much shit. Yeah, he's like in everything and Pixar does now I hope he's still alive.
Speaker 1:Annie Pops, bo Peet, john Morris is Andy, eric Von Denton is Sid and Laurie Metcalf is Andy's mother. And then, of course, arlie Army is Sergeant RIP. Oh wow, I didn't know that. That's cool, it sounds it's if anytime they needed somebody with military experience after Full Metal Jacket.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I thought he was dead before this guy, no, he died like this, I think like a few years ago.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Let's get a good run man, let's find out. Oh 2018.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, dude, the movie is directed by John Lasseter. Just think about what he's done. He's done Toy Story, bugs Life, toy Story 2, cars and Cars 2. So you know, it kind of fell off for a minute and then it was written by Pete Docter. He did like Soul Inside Out Up Monsters Inc. Awesome. And Andrew Stanton also co-directed or co-wrote. He did. He started with Bugs Life as a co-directed or co-wrote. He did. He started with a bug's life as a co-director. He did finding nemo wally, john carter, finding door dory and, yeah, he did some other non-cartoon bugs.
Speaker 2:Life was fucking amazing. I felt bad for john carter I need to watch.
Speaker 1:I hear it's good. Is this like three fucking hours? It was long, it cost so much money. And people were like, oh, this is this is one of those stories that John George Lucas was like oh, I read it, I'm going to make my own movie about it. And everybody's like they watch the movie and like it's Star Wars. So why are we doing this? We already got nine of the same movies over and over.
Speaker 2:We already got nine of the same movies over and over again. The only thing I remember about John Carter was I couldn't finish it because I wasn't interested, but I was also like 22. So nothing really interested me, except for other stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wonder what those could be, but since this is a family-friendly, episode.
Speaker 2:It is not we're going to hop into the plot and not talk about it. I, since this is a family friendly episode, it is not we're going to hop into the plot and not talk about it. I just don't want to say it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, man, let's hop into it. Toy story baby A boy called Andy Davis really said that really weird Uses his toys to act out a bank robbery. The bank is a cardboard box, the robber is Mr Potato Head, assisted by Slinky Dog, that son of a bitch, and the bystanders include Bo Peep and her sheep. The day is saved by cowboy doll Woody playing the sheriff, with help from Rex the Dinosaur. And then, of course, you get some of his lines Reach for the sky. You're my favorite deputy.
Speaker 2:Do you think Mr Potato Head is supposed to be ethnic? Do not know, that's just the way those look Okay All right.
Speaker 1:I was like you know, I actually thought about watching, Like I'm sure he won't ask that question. Well, there was a point where I was like man, there's no. Like it's like all these, all these dolls are white and I was like I bet Jason's going to ask whether Mr Potato Head is white or not. Got it, you called him and I called it. We've been friends for eight years, I know him. So during the opening credits you get the banger of all bangers. You got a friend. How do you feel about this man, randy Newman? I kind of I don't really know that much about him, but he's got some bangers after um seeing snl make fun of him.
Speaker 2:I get mad tv, mad tv. Yes, you're right, you're correct.
Speaker 1:Yes, so good, that's what all I think about now that I hear it. Well, I know when, uh, me and richard, we grew up and when we were growing up, I think you know, we watched mad tv and, of course, all the toy stories. And then we started listening to randy newman's and I'm like he's got some weird songs you just kind of forget, like oh yeah, some of these people lived through the 70s and 60s and it's like it kind of sounds drunk all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah he, he really does.
Speaker 1:It's got a song called Short People. Have you ever heard it? You should listen to it. It's a wild song, oh my God.
Speaker 1:But while you've got, a friend in me, yeah, while you've got a friend in me is playing and he takes Woody downstairs to find his mother decorating the dining room for his birthday party. His mother decorating the dining room for his birthday party. Um, but like this is like a whole montage essentially, kind of, and like I love he gives mr potato head to like the baby that sleeps in the same room as him, which has to be super annoying as a child and the baby's just demolishing mr potato head.
Speaker 1:It's so good, it's like. And then a little later he's like. I wasn't. I didn't know, I was supposed to be babysitting. But yeah, he finds his mother downstairs decorating the room for the birthday party. He asked if they can leave the decorations up until they move and his mom agrees. She says the guests will arrive soon and sends them back upstairs to get his baby sister. His crib is in his room and as soon as Andy leaves the room, what? He sits up and expresses surprise that the birthday party is today.
Speaker 2:The other toys come to life. How beautiful is this party.
Speaker 1:Everybody starts moving. Hell yeah, it's awesome. It's like no matter how many times I watch it, I'm still like oh Magic, I'm so glad my toys never came to life as a kid.
Speaker 2:Did you ever see the sex toy story on MADtv?
Speaker 1:I don't think I saw that one.
Speaker 2:It's a stop motion animation and it's like all the sex toys have like faces and voices. Buzz Lightyear is a dildo. Woody is like a doll that has like leather straps and shit on it.
Speaker 1:I have not seen that. I should look, look this up. I gotta look this up. All right, oh dang, we had no shot about. So woody calls a staff meeting and tells slinky dog to spread the word within a few minutes. Um, during which all this bokeete makes a date with Woody for that evening. I wonder if the sheep watch.
Speaker 2:They definitely do.
Speaker 1:All those toys assemble. Woody starts by reminding them all to find a moving buddy so they don't get lost. I love it. They're like I completely forgot to find a moving buddy. What?
Speaker 2:else do y'all do. You don't have a lot going on.
Speaker 1:You stay in one room mostly, but yeah, they don't want to get lost when they move to their new house, which will happen in a week. Then he tries to downplay the news that Andy's birthday party is happening today. Everybody's like what. Rex worries that someone will give Andy another dinosaur. Another dinosaur, and many of the toys have similar concerns. Oh man.
Speaker 2:Tracy the dinosaur is the best. Tracy the dinosaur. Yeah, I think it's the third one they introduced. I think she's a triceratops Shit.
Speaker 1:Ooh, maybe I'll just watch all the toys today.
Speaker 2:She's so good Anyway.
Speaker 1:We should do that. I should do that. I love that. Like Mr Potato Head's like oh, fuck you, woody. And Slinky Dog's like he's all like oh, what are you talking about? Woody knows what he's doing, he'll steer us in the right way. And Mr Potato Head takes his lips off and starts touching his butt with it, kissing his ass.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, let's go. Mr Potato Head, one of the best guys. He's got all the best gags. Yeah, this movie is still very sarcastic. Josh Whedon might have come in to tone down the sarcasm, but it's still very sarcastic, that is for sure. So Woody tries to calm them down. He's interrupted when Ham, the piggy bank stationed near the window, announces that the guests are arriving. The toys rush to the window to see the presents the kids are bringing. The bigger boxes make them especially nervous.
Speaker 2:They're freaking out. It's so funny when that kid turns sideways and it's huge.
Speaker 1:Ham's like we're next month's garage sale fodder for sure. And then Woody says send out the troops. Yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:So I had a video game, yeah I played it A Toy Story video game, and it's like you do, all the army men stuff, but you're like fighting with real weapons, was it?
Speaker 1:sega or was it playstation? Uh, I don't remember. I think it was sega genesis that I had it on, but, like you would, I think the 64 had it. Oh yeah, I didn't have a c, so it's probably genesis, because that's kind of like the one-to-one I think comparison or was genesis more of a super, I don't care um, but like you could play it whenever you're hiding as the cup. So you'd like move and you'd have to stop and not get caught, oh no.
Speaker 2:I was thinking of. There was one game on the 64 that was you were just the army dudes, oh, in the, in the Toy Story world, and it was just like a war all the time, yes, and you had like mortars and stuff that you could fire. Yeah, I had that game on PlayStation. You just kill the shit out of each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that game. I've actually tried to find that game because I really wanted to play it, my brother gave all the games to somebody and I'm like, oh lame, there was also this like dope tank game that we had.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You could do melt. Yeah, it was so cool, so brutal. I gotta look that up. These guys have a rough life. Yeah, for real.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love my army man though setting them up so fine. I felt so. I felt so like uh, seen when the mom steps on the army man she's like what the fuck god, dang it andy.
Speaker 1:After this I'm grounding you for my new, the new toy you just got as soon as this party is over, like imagine if it would have been a Lego.
Speaker 2:She would have probably dropped the cake and thrown it across the room or something yeah so I'm surprised there weren't Legos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I might not just have the rights to use them. I guess you can't give them souls. Potentially they're just building material. Yeah, you can Lego.
Speaker 2:Maybe building material, yeah you can Lego maybe One of the best, but not the individual Legos. Yeah, they don't have to have voices, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 1:Maybe, once you like, put them together. That's when they come to life. Oh yeah, oh yeah. So they send out the troops, which means little green plastic soldiers come out, they lower a baby monitor to the first floor and hide it within a plotted plant where they can observe the opening of the gifts and report back to Toys Andy's room. At first, the presents seem non-threatening. He gets a lunchbox, bed sheets. Who?
Speaker 2:invited that guy.
Speaker 1:A battleship game. But Andy's mom pulls and everybody's like, oh, we made it. And then Andy's mom pulls a surprise present from the closet. That bitch. Before they hear what it is, rex knocks the speaker off the table and batteries fall out.
Speaker 2:Potato Head's, just like smashing them into the back of it.
Speaker 1:So great. Sarge warns that the kids are headed upstairs but the toys barely have time to resume their previous positions before the stampede thunders in, like all of the same character animations coming in at once. But what I love about this scene is you get the. They all go hide and it's like you get the perspective of the toys and they're so low to the ground and it's just like as a kid. It's like what if I was a toy? You just see all these. It's actually terrifying and gives me anxiety watching it as an adult, like when you're like they're under the bed and you see this beat and I'm like God it suck as a toy.
Speaker 1:You could get smashed. So that's how it changed a little bit.
Speaker 2:You were just more afraid, yeah, just more.
Speaker 1:It's like I'm just like man, I should probably get some meds or something. I I'm just like man. I should probably get on some meds or something. I get way too anxious. Stupid stuff makes me anxious, it's all right. Oh, one of the kids sweeps Woody off the bed, saying make space, he's like fuck you bitch, and he just backhands him, Just like Woody's. Like well, fuck me, I guess I'll just lay down here. They put something down where Woody was and Andy's mom calls them back to play the games. And suddenly the room is again.
Speaker 1:Andy's mom Give him time. Yeah, dude.
Speaker 2:They just got up there.
Speaker 1:How about also take her toy downstairs? The the toys creep out of their hiding places to see the new toy, pausing in surprise when Woody crawls out from under the bed. Because why would he ever throw Woody down on the ground? He's done with his Woody. The new toy has taken Woody's place on the bed, which stresses Woody out. Actually, it stresses everybody out, and it's Buzz Lightyear baby.
Speaker 1:Space Ranger Universe Protection Unit Starkman Buzz believes he's crash landed on a strange planet on the way to Sectors 12. And his ship is damaged and will take weeks to repair. Woody welcomes Buzz to Andy's room and tries to explain that Buzz has landed in Woody's usual spot. So something I love about the two dynamics of the characters Woody is smart and acts like a child. Yeah, Buzz has the intelligence of a kid but acts like an adult. And it works so well, yeah.
Speaker 2:Just the idea that, like you, don't know what you really are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you think you're something way better, yeah, oh man, but like it's, if you just think of, like most comedies I mean, this is, this is the recipe for it yeah, right you always have. Like it's amazing you kind of have to have the two opposites like that, like I just think about, like Superbad and Pineapple Express.
Speaker 2:Like even Pineapple Express, like even that movie, not Step Brothers, because they're both idiots Step Brothers.
Speaker 1:But you know it's just got like someone who acts like a child surrounded by people who act like adults. There's got to be like the one-to-one version here. Yeah, I see what you're saying. So the other toys climb up on the bed to meet Buzz and ask him about the buttons and gadgets on his spacesuit. They're impressed with Buzz's voice recordings. A quality sound system, not like Woody's pull-string activated voice.
Speaker 2:Sounds like he got run over by a truck.
Speaker 1:Buzz takes exception to being called a toy. And when Woody says he can't fly, buzz climbs the bedpost, shouts INFINITY TO BEYOND.
Speaker 2:And dies. Excuse me, infinity. And BEYOND no TO INFINITY, said it doesn't matter. I'm not going to get into Toy Story semantics.
Speaker 1:He's such a Woody, I'm such a cool ass buzz he bounces off a rubber ball does a loop de loop on the racetrack and gets stuck for a few rotations on a toy plane tethered to the ceiling.
Speaker 2:And his eyes are closed the whole time. Yep, nope.
Speaker 1:And then he why would you do that? He flips out and lands neatly back on the bed. All the toys are dazzled, except Woody who says that wasn't flying, that was falling in style yeah, but he's willfully ignorant of what he just did. Yeah, he doesn't understand. He's like, wow, that really worked out.
Speaker 2:I just flew around the room with my eyes closed. It's something that and.
Speaker 1:I'm totally fine, it's what he has. More of confidence Woody doesn't have. I guess Woody's very unconfident right now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. So he's stressing out, yeah.
Speaker 1:And like, when you get all this confidence, sometimes you can just do stuff. That's why they you just do it with confidence, you'll most likely get it right and do it, unless you're just bad at everything, just know your limits, yeah.
Speaker 2:Which yet Buzz does not know yet. In that case, don't have confidence. Have confidence in what you can do.
Speaker 1:And if it's something small and dumb, just have confidence and do it. Just do it. So I do want to know. Are you Woody or are you Buzz Me? Do it, so I do want to know are you Woody or are you Buzz? Which one do you prefer? Which one did you prefer as a kid? Which one do you prefer now?
Speaker 2:god damn, that's a deep question, man. I think I'd be more of a Woody.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, like, what did you like when you were a kid? Did you prefer Woody or did you prefer Buzz? And what do you?
Speaker 2:prefer. Now that's, that's weird. I prefer probably.
Speaker 1:Buzz, like now or like in previously as well, I don't remember. You know well, I know as a kid I like, felt bad for woody, I like buzz more. As a kid, you know, I had like toys and stuff of them, had this like dope, sure, toy of buzz.
Speaker 2:But now I like woody the most yeah, yeah, I think I was a little indifferent. We got my son a Buzz. Yeah, that was awesome and all the bells and whistles Got your son.
Speaker 1:Buzz. I also think the movies prefer Woody over Buzz because as the movies go on it seems like Buzz, especially in I can't remember Toy Story 4 that much with the Buzz plot, and I think that just shows how much they kind of had more interest with dealing with Woody more than Buzz. Also might be based on the actors, that's all. And Tim Allen, you know, I don't know. I've heard that he's difficult to work with but I'm not sure if that's true or not.
Speaker 1:So I don't want to. I don't want to do that. So in the montage that follows, Randy Newman's strange things are happening to me Another banger, Carlos. Randy Newman's strange things are happening to me Another banger. Andy has Buzz shoot Woody then puts on a cardboard replica of Buzz's helmet and wings. A Western-themed poster in Andy's room is replaced by two Buzz Lightyear posters and drawings of Woody on the bulletin board are covered with drawings of Buzz. The Western-style bed sheet disappears. The new one is replaced by a new one with Buzz's image and a name. In the final indignity, Andy takes Buzz to bed and leaves Woody in the covered wagon toy chest.
Speaker 2:God damn Super sad. That's cold, Andy yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the next morning Andy wrote his name on Buzz's shoe and this makes With permanent ink Woody, nonetheless Very upset.
Speaker 2:Yeah, permanent ink Woody, nonetheless Very upset. Yeah, pissed too, man. He's like I'm fucked. He's like he's going to be sent to the toy chest yeah, where the shark lives by himself.
Speaker 1:It's like, have you ever had that moment that Andy had, where he picked up two toys and looked at them? He's like shit, which one do I pick? Obviously you're going to pick the new one up. Here's the thing. I think like he well, I mean I guess he did, but like you know, your new toy is always the one you play with the most.
Speaker 2:But then you know if it's not as and I've been doing that ever- since.
Speaker 1:So some noises draw the toys to the open window where they can see the neighbor kid Sid, who's about to blow up a combat. Carl action figure. How depressing is Sid's situation. How depressing is the mom situation over at the house. She's keeping this place together. She's probably outside washing dishes Looking out the window like my kid's gonna kill somebody one day. I've given him all the Pop-tarts I can.
Speaker 2:And then he's like mom, where are the matches? She's like right next to my cigarettes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right next to my 9 millimeter and dad's switchblade.
Speaker 2:It's in the liquor cabinet, yeah.
Speaker 1:Make sure, whatever you're about to torch you pour some of my liquor on it.
Speaker 2:I feel like this movie would have benefited. Maybe like if everything's bright and shiny and wonderful inside andy's house, but outside everything it's like they live in the coal mining town like a tim burton like yeah, sleepy hollow like today's weather actually it's hot town um we also meet sid's dog scud long bull terriers.
Speaker 1:They look so weird. They look so fucking weird.
Speaker 2:I know I love them you ever had the big dog shirts that had the bull terriers on them?
Speaker 1:Mm-mm.
Speaker 2:That was huge when I was growing up.
Speaker 1:It's that target dog, though I always wanted to go to Target as a kid because of that dog. They've got the weirdest face I know they have. Like what is wrong with them? They got a nose that could destroy still beings.
Speaker 2:It just won't quit it's good it could.
Speaker 1:It could do what a jet uh jet, jet plane uh oil couldn't do.
Speaker 2:Uh feel like there is sid's dad is like a retired army veteran with a lot of problems because the dog named scud he's probably a navy veteran, oh really I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm just gonna go ahead and explain my joke. I'm gonna cut it out. But I was gonna say, you know, cause Jet Fuel Can't melt steel beams, but Bull Terrier, as a dog, could. So the dog Did 9-11. That was the joke that I couldn't get out. You know what? I'm gonna leave it there. What Jet Fuel Can't melt steel? I don't know. That's like a conspiracy thing, oh okay. That's what I've always heard.
Speaker 2:That's what I haven't really Because there's a big like the fuel that the military uses is called JP8. And it's a lot different from gasoline, because you have to have like high pressure and high heat to make it burn and it's made so they won't just like catch on fire, you know. Yeah, with anything.
Speaker 1:But could it melt steel beams? I don't know, and the mystery is still. Let's find out. Who did 9-11? We still don't know. Maybe that's what Sid went to do in his corner. Do you think the people that listen to this are like I know this is the episode they bring 9-11 into. Yeah, this is the one. I know that's what it is.
Speaker 2:It's going to be. All it's all going to be because of the dog.
Speaker 1:He's just knocking them down, god, wow, did y'all hear that squeak earlier? Or that squeal that was me hitting the brakes on this podcast, making it come to a complete?
Speaker 2:stop here, damn. I think I was wearing my seatbelt.
Speaker 1:So Buzz thinks Sid who's laughing maniacally is a happy child. They're like that is not a happy child.
Speaker 2:You mean that happy child? Yeah, laughing maniacally.
Speaker 1:The others explain that he tortures toys. Buzz wants to help the doomed toy soldier, but Sid lies to fuse in Andy's toy's duck as Debris goes flying. When they look again, there is no sign of Carl.
Speaker 2:So you're saying you never taped like 20 bottle rockets to an elf figurine and set them off?
Speaker 1:Yes, I've blown up toys.
Speaker 2:We've all got a little sit inside of us. We've always done this.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's just like Andy's going to get there. He's just got to grow up a little bit. Yeah, I think he's just gotta grow up a little bit. Yeah, I think he's gonna be alright. I mean, you saw what he did to Andy on that bed, or Woody on that bed threw him off oh, no, nothing wait that was him that like flung him off.
Speaker 2:I thought so, you only see a hand. Would they invite Sid to his birthday party? No, andy Andy flung Woody off earlier maybe. Oh, woody off earlier, maybe. Oh my God, sorry, all right, I'm falling.
Speaker 1:I'm falling. Just an abrupt stop here. It's my dumb 9-11 thing. I'm just kidding. 9-11 ruins everything it does, so Andy's mom, suggests dinner at Pizza Planet. Oh, I wish I had one, and tells Andy. He can only bring one toy, doubting that Andy will choose him unless Buzz is unavailable, woody plans to trap Buzz in the gap behind Andy's desk. Yes, pizza plant, though.
Speaker 2:Rad right, yeah, there used to be one at Disney World and now it's changed Like Ratatouille.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like Bistro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's right next to Mamma Mia's, which is like the best fucking restaurant there. That's like reasonably priced, so fucking good.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't know, maybe one day I will do it just need to win the lottery to go so the plan backfires and Buzz falls out of the window into the bushes because I don't know. He decided to use an RC car to knock him off. It seems he probably should have planned it a little better yeah, I mean, I don't, I think this guy, just he, just wherever he's like he's got the control he's like oh, here we go. Oh fuck, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2:yeah, what is? What are you gonna make me do now?
Speaker 1:yeah so the other toys, accuse woody of pushing buzz out the window, um, out of jealousy. But but as they are about to punish him, andy returns. Thank god, because, um, and when Andy returns, it's all quiet and on the edge of sketch, is it?
Speaker 2:Mr Potato Head or.
Speaker 1:Ham Like peeks over and they draw like a noose. Golly, it's like the Salem Witch Trials up in this place. But Andy returned, failing to find Buzz. He grabs Woody and the family drives off, but not before Buzz crawls out of his bush and climbs on the back of a minivan. What do you think?
Speaker 2:buzz is what's thinking in that moment like well, he's like he just wants revenge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just wants revenge now he's like oh, I can't believe you've done this to me. Um, what, like what? Did you carry toys with you to go to other places all the time?
Speaker 2:I don't't remember, but I know my.
Speaker 1:I feel like Andy's a little old to do that right. My kid's like Seems like 10.
Speaker 2:My youngest does, does it?
Speaker 1:She wants to.
Speaker 2:I didn't know my oldest did too. For a long time she had her favorite one. Yeah, it was a stuffed llama.
Speaker 1:It was the softest thing ever.
Speaker 1:I don, I'd want to take it with me too. His name was Poofy Well, and it's even cuter. So while Andy's mother refuels the car at Dinoco station, woody wonders how he can convince the other toys that Buzz fall was an accident. Suddenly, buzz appears. Woody is very relieved by this. He's like Buzz, thank God. But Buzz is pissed. The two fight and roll out of the car, which drives off and leaves them stranded. Buzz explains his mission. Oh yeah, because they're underneath a truck at this point and Buzz is explaining his mission. It's like out there at the ends of the universe there's Zorg and I have to go there and defeat him Because I'm the only one with the knowledge to do that.
Speaker 1:Woody flips out. You are a toy T-O-Y. I love when Tom Hanks just flips out. It's the best. He does it in the burbs a lot and it's the best. And then it's my favorite. It's kind of like my favorite part of the movie just because of these lines. And then Buzz, you are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity, which I feel like is an alien reference. Oh shit, which is great.
Speaker 2:Like is an alien reference. Oh shit, which is great. Yeah, do you think Zurg is referenced to Zorg from the fifth element?
Speaker 1:Dude, probably I don't know when the fifth element came out. I can't remember. But yes, I'm just going to say yes, yeah me too, yeah. So luckily Woody sees another vehicle heading for Pizza Planet and knows that they can meet Andy there. He tricks Buzz into coming with him by saying he found a spaceship. Buzz insists on riding in the cockpit so he can wear a seat belt when he climbs into the back and gets thrown about by the drivers he's like the cockpit is safer than the back here and he just gets thrown like crazy and what's?
Speaker 2:I love it because it's so cute, because buzz like buckles, the seat belt and then pats it and I'm like, oh, he's a little man, he's just inhaling all the weed smoke from the delivery driver.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they reach Pizza Planet and hide in discarded food packaging so they can sneak through the front door. So great Woody quickly spots Andy and them. But Buzz climbs into a claw crane, a machine shaped like a spaceship, thinking it's the ship's home, what he promised him, roar.
Speaker 2:The claw.
Speaker 1:Who's in charge here? It's so funny, it's so good. The machine is filled with three-eyed green aliens who believe the claw is a god. Woody climbs in to get Buzz out, but Woody and Buzz are captured by Sid, along with one of the little aliens. Because like Woody's trying to help Buzz, like pull Buzz out, but then, like the claws got him and the other aliens pull him in, he's like leave me alone.
Speaker 2:You zealots.
Speaker 1:So funny. I fucking hate claw machines so much. I was actually pretty good at them as a god damn man. I wasn't, I have they're. At pizza hut they had like a bunch of random toys and I wonder if I still have it, but I had like this stuffed. They had like presidents in there, oh what, I got a stuffed. Bill clinton, oh, it's so. This was like my like high school years biggest head right yeah, it's a huge head. I got another one, I can't remember what.
Speaker 1:The second president was jimmy carter or something bro, we had so much fun with that bill clinton obviously a lot of great if they had every president in there.
Speaker 2:yeah, like you get the grover, grover Cleland, they had more in there.
Speaker 1:It's just like those were the only two I could get Lincoln with his big hat.
Speaker 2:I bet he was a popular one. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1:Because I'd like talk as him, Like anytime. Someone said something, it's like I did not have sex with that movie Everybody's like shut up.
Speaker 2:I only ever won one thing out of a claw machine. It was a little stuffed parrot out of Kroger and I kept it forever.
Speaker 1:You have to if you get it.
Speaker 2:I know it's the only thing I've ever won out of one of the things I gotta go back to my mom's house so I can find this Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1:Yeah, alright, so back to the movie. Sid takes them back to his house and immediately gives the three eyed alien to Scud. Then Sid takes a doll away from his little sister, hannah, and runs upstairs to operate on her. Oh geez, no one's ever attempted a double bypass brain transplant before. Why do they have all this stuff in this little kid's room? Did the parents not know? Did he like sneak?
Speaker 2:this stuff in. I think he's just unhinged and I can't control him.
Speaker 1:Like I like to think that they try to discipline Sid but then, like he like hits him and they're just scared of him. The dad's given up so long ago yes, the mom's cheating on the mom stole away, andy's mom, andy's dad, dad, that's what I like to think. And then they got divorced.
Speaker 2:Do we ever learn what happened to Andy's dad?
Speaker 1:No, I'm assuming he probably died. So Woody and Buzz sit back back, look on in horror as Sid replaces the doll's head with the head of a toy. He's burying Sid's head back. Yeah, that's where the rocket launch is at. And then so he does the. That's where the the rocket launch is at, um, um. And then so he does the switcheroo with the heads and gleefully gives it back to Hannah, who shrieks for her mother and runs away. Sid follows. She's lying. Whatever she says is not true. It's like, dude, you have a pterodactyl head on the dog and you're the only one with the tools in the house.
Speaker 1:I'm not a surgeon. Yeah, it's like it's definitely you. Son Woody tries to get out of Sid's room, but the door is locked. He's frightened by Sid's nightmarish mutant toys.
Speaker 2:God, I love these toys which.
Speaker 1:Sid has butchered in Reconstruction.
Speaker 2:They're fucking awesome man. If Sid was able, he's got to be an engineer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think if Woody did not scare him, I think he would have grown up, probably settled down a little bit and probably would have become an engineer or like an architect or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely. Or like an evil scientist. That'd be a great fourth film.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, Jack in the Box, whose Jack has been replaced by a green rubber hand, A sexy-ass fishing pole with some long legs that go all the way down to the floor baby, Look at those getaway sticks Goes down to the floor, up to the rod. And there's more. One of my favorites is like the muscle man that like kind of jumps around and has the duck head. Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1:Sid's so creative, yeah it just needs an outlet and then, like buzz, thinks they're all cannibals. Because they like, take some of the other dolls and drag them underneath.
Speaker 2:They're cannibals, it's like they can't talk, so you know they can't say no, we're not cannibals yeah, but it's like it's beautiful when they he figures out that they're just helping each other survive. Yeah, it's just like.
Speaker 1:this is what they have to do In this Mad Max world of toys. They've seen so much horror that they can't speak anymore.
Speaker 2:No, they're traumatized forever.
Speaker 1:So meanwhile Andy's toys are searching for Buzz from Andy's window. I love it. There's like a cat Buzz. Is that you? Because the bush rattles. And it's like a cat Whiskers get out of here. I love Rex, I love his voice. They have to stop when the car pulls into the driveway. Andy can't find Woody and many of the toys think he ran away, which they interpret as evidence of his guilt. But Bo Peep hopes he's OK. And then next morning Cid interrogates Woody about the location of a rebel base. When Woody remains silent, Cid uses a magnifying glass to concentrate the sunlight on a spot between Woody's eyebrows, Ouch, which starts to smoke. Yeah, Just setting up. A little bit later, though.
Speaker 2:That was me. I had my, I got my magnifying glass and I would just set anything on fire and melt things.
Speaker 1:Man, I've tried it. I just I did not have the patience as a child to sit there.
Speaker 2:Because you realize that the goal is ultimate destruction of this thing and you're like gotta see it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I gotta see what that looks like. I wasn't as much of a pyromaniac as you, I guess, but yeah, so Woody is say. When Sid is called away, buzz compliments Woody for not succumbing to torture. My man, you didn't speak. Woody notices that Sid has left the door open, but before he and Buzz get out, the mutant toys blocked away, buzz tries his laser on them and it's like why is this not working?
Speaker 1:It's like you are a toy, you idiot this is the real life, yeah, and then what he takes and it's like, don't use that, use your your credit shop action, just like press this button.
Speaker 2:It's like what the hell are you doing? How is this happening?
Speaker 1:and they make it past the toys. Uh, woody drops buzz as soon as they reach the door and runs down the stairs On the landing, though, he finds Scud. He backs up, then Buzz grabs him and leads him down the hall, past the head of the stairs man.
Speaker 2:could you imagine if Disney World had a ride that was all about Sid's toys?
Speaker 1:Dude oh man. Halloween Horror Nights at Disney.
Speaker 2:That'd be incredible.
Speaker 1:That'd be great. That'd be so terrifying. Hey, if you can have all these like movies on Hulu now that are like raunchy and stuff or like because Hulu's over on Disney+, if you can have all that stuff on there, why can't we get a Horror Nights?
Speaker 2:I know, I want to see, I want to know their story. I want zombie toy story. It's basically like Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Yeah, hell, yeah.
Speaker 1:God, I gotta rewatch this. But while going past the head of the stairs, the ring on Woody's pull string catches the stair railing and he says involuntary Yeehaw, giddy up, partner, we got this wagon train a-moving. And the dog wakes up and comes to investigate. Buzz says split up and runs through an open door. Woody pulls another door closed behind him. Buzz sees someone asleep in a recliner and notices that the television is on A voice saying come in, buzz Lightyear, this is Star Command. At first Buzz thinks Star Command is really trying to reach him because he's an idiot and fiddles with the radio on his suit. But as the commercial explains his features and adds a disclaimer that Buzz is not a flying toy, buzz begins to believe that he really is, as Woody keeps telling him only a toy.
Speaker 2:He's like oh fuck, oh, I'm fucked yeah.
Speaker 1:My life's ruined. Yeah, my three days of existence is over.
Speaker 2:You think if he was like a feudal japanese toy, he would have committed seppuku, but it just would have squeaked yeah or just like pushed in instead of actually going through.
Speaker 1:He's's like God dang it, I'm not totally he puts his laser up to his head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's like oh man.
Speaker 1:Come on, let me go, let me die. It's like man on fire.
Speaker 2:Laser always tells the truth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, buzz now depressed, or Buzz, he's very despondent. Then he spots an open window in the stairwell and tries to prove himself wrong by flying through it. He bounces off the stairs and lands in the hall, losing an arm in this process. While Randy Newman sings, I will go sailing no more, goddamn, oh, randy. But Hannah picks up Buzz and carries him off to a room where Woody finds him playing the part of Mrs Nesbitt at the tea party.
Speaker 2:What a lovely hat, mrs Nesbitt, it goes quite well with your head. What a bright ray of sunshine.
Speaker 1:Oh, mrs Nesbitt, so good. I love Hannah.
Speaker 2:She's the one hope for this family.
Speaker 1:She's going to grow up and change this family. It's going to be one of those things she has like a perfect life and like, oh, like the mom comes over and like they have a good relationship. The dad comes, it gets a little stressful, but it's okay. And then the brother comes and he's just ruins the holidays.
Speaker 2:He's out of he's out of.
Speaker 1:He just got out of prison. He's got tattoos it's like his third time going to rehab. He's kind of all jittery, so you don't know if that's just like how he's acting because he's clean or if that's because he's on something and it's just like it's a problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah damn we're getting into it on this 9-11 rehab oh god.
Speaker 1:So Woody imitates Hannah's mother's voice to lure Hannah out. Mother's voice to learn hang out of the room so he can rescue buzz. Buzz is is depressed, but when he wells that he can't even fly out the window. It gives Woody an idea.
Speaker 2:I just love how he's so. He's so fucked up, drunk from the tea.
Speaker 1:I think you've had enough of this.
Speaker 2:What is this girl drinking? I know right.
Speaker 1:Nothing. They can't drink, jason he does. He's doing this because he wants to do it. So woody opens the window in sid's room and calls over to andy's room, where ham is beating mr potato head at battleship. Most of the toys seem glad to see him. He tosses a string of christmas lights across and tells them to tie them to something. But Mr Potato Head says how about we don't?
Speaker 2:It's a good-ass throw, though it had to be like 50, 60 feet of Christmas lights?
Speaker 1:Do they have muscles or is this the power of imagination that makes it across?
Speaker 2:I guess Satan yeah, mr.
Speaker 1:Potato Head tries to convince the other toys that they should leave Woody where he is. Woody tells him Buzz is with him, but Buzz won't come to the window where the toys in any rooms can see, though he does throw his detached arm. That was the funniest shit Can you give me a hand, Throws him the arm. He's like ah, I see.
Speaker 1:A real funny Buzz. Even Woody's like, okay, that was a good one. I'm not going to give you the satisfaction, but that was a good one. So Woody uses the arm to make the toys think Buzz is standing next to him, but eventually slips up and they see that the arm isn't attached to Buzz. He's like oh my God, like they're reacting in horror, like it's an actual horror movie, like if someone's arm got ripped off so great it's. It's like guys, you can just put them back in. Mr potato head, this should be nothing for you.
Speaker 2:I don't know, man, like if you ever had like gi joes and like their little, their arms came loose and like trying to get them reattached was a tough mission. Yeah, that's true, like getting the rubber band to like go exactly the way it's supposed to go. You just kind of have to give up at some point I don't really know if I had gi joseph oh no, yeah, I totally did I totally.
Speaker 1:I broke many of those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, because they're just attached by a rubber band and they come across. They come out so easily when you're torturing them. Yeah, who did not love it?
Speaker 1:all right, I gotta get off that. So they let go of the string lights which falls to the ground. When Woody begs them to listen, they leave the window, except for Slink who closes the blind and Woody cries because of Slinky the dog Slink was his.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was his road dog. It's his boy, it's his number one dog.
Speaker 1:Down on the floor. Sid's mutant toys have surrounded Buzz. When Woody tries to drive them off, the baby-headed spider comes at him and takes away Buzz's arms. Woody can't break through the group around Buzz. The crowd of toys breaks up and reveals Buzz with his arm reattached.
Speaker 1:But they're cannibals, woody says we saw them eat those other toys Like no, you didn't. Then he looks at Sid's toys again and notices that Hannah's doll and the pterodactyl have their own heads back, realizing he's misjudged him. He's trying to apologize when they all disappear into the bed and sid comes back.
Speaker 2:God, it's so creepy how they all crawl around on their little legs. Yeah, it's so good. And the guy the guy that's at the upper half of his body attached to the skateboard he's just dragging himself. Oh Jesus.
Speaker 1:And then Sid the psychopath, sid comes in and let's just be real. His parents should be finding out what he's getting delivered to his house, because now he has a rocket.
Speaker 2:They work probably really hard.
Speaker 1:I mean they, just don't have time. They just don't have time. His first thought is to use it on Woody, but Woody's hiding, so he picks up Buzz instead. I've always wanted to put a spaceman into orbit.
Speaker 2:A rainstorm forces him to delay the rocket launch until morning, though Next door. I love how he maniacally sets an alarm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just staring at it. Next door it's Andy's bedtime and he's mourning the loss of his two favorite toys. His mom comes in and says she's looked everywhere. Andy's mom reassures him that they'll find Woody and Buzz before they move out tomorrow. He gives them his little Woody hat.
Speaker 2:No, it's like aw, I don't think Andy's mom really gives a shit. I don't think she does. I think, if she knew that these toys had, she probably saw Sid playing in the backyard. Yeah, she's like we got to get the fuck out of here, kid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, we're in the bad neighborhood. So that night Woody convinces Bud that even if he's not a space ranger, life as Andy's toy is still worth living, Though Woody himself despairs that he'll never be Andy's favorite toy again.
Speaker 2:So do you ever think that? Because we find out in the second movie that Woody was made in like the 30s, something like that? Yeah, do you think? Does he not have any memory before? Andy?
Speaker 1:Well, I always thought, until Toy Story 3 came out. I always thought that until they're taking well, I guess Toy Story 2, until they come out of the package Package that they're taking, well, I guess Toy Story 2. Until they come out of the package Package, that they're fine. But then in Toy Story 2, they have the guy in the box yeah, he's totally self-aware, yeah. So I don't know, I guess maybe.
Speaker 2:He just tries to block out all the atrocities. Yeah, maybe they have like short.
Speaker 1:From the World War I and II.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Maybe like every decade, their memory resets. You got to hit that little button on the back with a pen Nah.
Speaker 1:Maybe Woody got reset so Buzz regains his spirit in time to see the moving truck pull up to Andy's house. But before they can escape, sid wakes up and takes Buzz, still strapped to the rocket, out into the backyard. He starts working on something ominous with a big empty water jug. I don't know what his fucking contraption is. Woody pleads with the mutant toys to help him rescue Buzz and they hesitantly join him. He tells them they will have to break a few rules, which, when you watch his kids, like what rules? And it's like oh yeah, they have rules. They can't allow the humans to see them.
Speaker 2:They still abide by them yeah, even though they're atrocities, it's built into their. These, these toys remind me. If you, you need to watch furiosa, because I do there's these, these little, these people that live underground, yeah, and like they come out every once in a while and that's what these feet, these toys, remind me of.
Speaker 1:They're horrible they're horrifying and terrible. Oh, it's so good. It really is kind of like a very scary scene. It's like they're all zombies coming out to life um.
Speaker 1:So woody outlines a plan and assigns tasks to each toy. Ducky and legs go into the heating ducts to avoid scud, who saw woody trying to follow sid and is still glowing outside of the bedroom Growling outside of the bedroom Sorry, I accidentally typed in glowing. I was like what the hell Ducky and Legs get outside. They ring the doorbell. When he hears the doorbell, woody releases a wind-up frog from Sid's room. The frog scoots under Scud and zooms down the hall. Scud gives chase and follows the frog outside where hannah's answering the door. The frog goes out, ducky grabs it and they both uh, they're both reeled up by legs who's, you know, part fishing pole, which is awesome. Before scud catches up, hannah, exasperated, shuts the door, leaving scud outside. Just kind of sucks. Scud went back inside and the whole third part of this movie would have been much easier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they didn't have a dog chasing them yeah, I feel like Scud is a nuisance to the neighborhood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know he's like, honestly though, Scud, if I had a dog and my toys started coming to life, I'd be like, okay, keeping my dogs in here, just in case these toys decide to start dealing with the dude Sid, he'd be so paranoid, all the time, just chewing the shit out of everything to make sure it's dead. So Woody and the group of toys come downstairs, roll through the kitchen, exit through the cat flap in the back door, Dog doggy door.
Speaker 2:Cat flap.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, it's because our cats use the doggy door. I like cat flap better, it's way better. So they land in the bushes where they have a good view of the launch site. Sid himself is out of sight, rummaging around in the shed looking for matches. Ducky legs in the windup frog pop out of a downspout. As Sid appears to start the countdown, love that. Buzz and his rocket are still standing on a dartboard on a milk crate. Nearby is an orange-striped traffic horse with a rake leaning on it and the empty water jug propped underneath. The jug is connected with vacuum cleaner hose to a red funnel which is aimed at Buzz's feet. So I'm assuming he's going to suck up all the smoke and stuff. I don't know. Like he doesn't get caught doing this, I'm like oh, what smoke? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:and he goes in a jar jug, or is he gonna like tie the water jug to his sister and like tape it to her so she's like you know dies from fumes.
Speaker 2:I like it's gotta be something nefarious, it's gonna be like the beginning of he's just making a gas chamber.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was just the side project so I just I was looking at the contraption, I was like what the hell?
Speaker 2:is this.
Speaker 1:Why all this? You're just shooting a rocket, you don't need all this. So what? He approaches bud, who's happy to see him, and asks for help getting loose. What he says everything's under control and falls to the ground in the manner of a toy expecting a human on the scene. Sure enough, sid comes out of the shed and then notices Woody. He tosses Woody on the charcoal grill and says you and I can have a cookout later. He puts a match in Woody's holster Clever and fun and turns back to his rocket launch where he lights another match and starts counting down from 10.
Speaker 1:While he's focused on this, toys are taking up positions all around the yard. But before Sid can light, buzz his fuse, woody voice recording start playing one after another. Reach for the sky. This town ain't big enough for the two of us. Some bones poison the water hole. So good. Sid is distracted and comes over to pick up Woody off the grill. His string hasn't been pulled. He says it's busted. Who are you calling Busted? Buster? Says Woody. That's right, I'm talking to you, sid Phillips. We don't like being blown up, sid.
Speaker 1:Sid's like what the fuck. Or blowing up Sid Sid's like what the fuck what? The fuck or smashed or ripped apart. A ragdoll climbs out of the sandbox and walks across the yard saying Mama oh. Mama. A large toy pickup truck emerges from a pile of sand, while a couple of partially dismembered action figures rise out of a puddle.
Speaker 2:Fuck, yeah, it's like Night of the Living Dead. Yeah, out of a puddle.
Speaker 1:Fuck. Yeah, it's like Night of the Living Dead. Yeah, they all advance on Sid, who backs away and jumps when the three-eyed alien from Pizza Planet pops out from under Scud's red water bowl. Sid backs towards the clothesline and the baby-headed spider drops down on his head.
Speaker 2:He shrieks and shakes it off.
Speaker 1:But the toys have him surrounded. Woody says you Take good care of your toys, because if you don't, we'll find out. Sid, we toys can see everything His head spins like an exorcist, so play nice.
Speaker 2:I feel like I want to see what happens to Sid after this moment.
Speaker 1:It changed his life forever. Think he got pimples. Was the nervous kid in class. No one talked to him.
Speaker 2:He just started collecting dolls like crazy and treating them really nice really dived into music.
Speaker 1:He really likes music. It's the only thing that doesn't hurt him and he never watched chucky or the puppet master or whatever. So he screams, throws woody in the air, runs into the house where he tells hannah the toys are alive, she starts like waving it into her face.
Speaker 2:Nice toy.
Speaker 1:Nice toy and then, like, screams and runs up. She chases him. It's like hell. Yeah, now you're going to be tortured by Hannah.
Speaker 2:It's like the butterfly effect, whether they change the brother, the like asshole brother, every time. Yeah, man, that movie's wild. Yeah, it's fucking crazy.
Speaker 1:So outside Woody and other toys are celebrating. We did it as Buzz thanks Woody. They hear a honk from next door and Andy Mom tells the kids to say goodbye to their old house. Woody and Buzz rush over and Woody climbs on the back of the car. Buzz, still burdened with his rocket, can't get through the fence. He tells Woody to catch up, but Woody comes back because they're friends. They manage to get back to the moving van but Scud runs after them and gets a hold of Woody's leg. Woody can't hold onto the truck and tells Buzz to take care of Andy for him. But then Buzz jumps on Scud's face. Woody's able to climb up in the truck, gets the cargo door open. They get stopped at a stoplight. Um, so we see the van open. Right. Yeah, like five boxes in there. It's just giant u-haul. There's like no beds or anything.
Speaker 1:It's like they just, they're just gonna put this in the back of your car. I mean, just lay down your third row. It's like that's just like this is and andy's riding in the front seat.
Speaker 2:Yeah it, it's like. What are we doing here? So they only brought Andy's toys? Yeah, mom, she's like I'm leaving this, she's like Andy's toys miscellaneous, and dishes that's the kid, yeah, and he's small.
Speaker 1:It's like I never want to see any of this stuff again, not after my husband cheated on me with a neighbor's wife. Maybe that is Sid's dad, that might be. Maybe Andy and Sid they're related.
Speaker 2:They're brothers.
Speaker 1:God they look the same. So Woody pulls out RC, the remote-controlled car, and sends him to get Buzz, who's under a parked car where Scud can't reach him. The toys in the van think Woody is murdering another toy and trying to stop him.
Speaker 2:He's back at it again.
Speaker 1:He's going to kill us all. They try to stop him and it's a problem because Woody's controlling the RC. The angry toys pick up Woody and Rocky the strong man spins him around, which causes the RC to drive in circles around Scud.
Speaker 2:I love when they jump on him the car flies in the air.
Speaker 1:I'm like that's not how this is working, just so. Does rc have no autonomy at all? That I don't know. I think he doesn't like he does, because he moves in the movie without anybody look like he.
Speaker 2:It seems like he can't move um, but I mean obviously maybe he can, but someone's controlling him right, but whenever they're tortured they're on on the RC and they're racing toward the van. He's about to run into the tire, but Woody has to move it to make him avoid total destruction. True.
Speaker 1:Maybe once the controller's turned on, he has no control. Sad Feel, bad for RC, the things RC has been made to do. And let's be real, that car lasted a month or two and then it broke, because that's what all RC cars ever did.
Speaker 2:Man. I had an RC car. I had to charge it for eight hours to make it go for 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:I know it pissed me off. We should get RC cars, let's just do it. So they throw Woody against the box. Rc path straightens out. Ham jumps on Woody. Rc, with Buzz still aboard, approaches a busy intersection. Rc scoots under a moving car but five other cars crash into each other to avoid Scud and which takes Scud out of the picture. On the truck Woody tries to tell the toys that Buzz is out there and they have to save him. Mr Potato Head is like toss that bitch overboard. I am king here. I roll with an iron fist. I lead this and we kill whoever I want.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's the only one with a mustache.
Speaker 1:You got to listen to him, so they throw him out, but he's still holding the RC controller. Rc sweeps Woody off his feet and Woody turns RC up to turbo so they can catch up to the moving truck.
Speaker 2:They're going like five miles an hour. It's like the equivalent of action movies, where they shift into the highest gear to go the fastest.
Speaker 1:It's like in Fast and the Furious when they hit the NOS it turns into light speed. I need to watch that first movie again. We should do Fast and the Furious. When they hit the NOS, it turns into light speed. I need to watch that first movie again. We should do Fast and the Furious soon. Yeah, we should, after no Country that would be fun.
Speaker 1:So Lenny the binoculars notices Arcee and his passengers gaining and alerts the other toys. Bo Peep confirms that Buzz is there. Woody was telling the truth. Um, and then how bad do they all feel, all the toys. What have we done? Mainly rex, yeah. Bo peep tells rocky to lower the truck's cargo ramp. Slink stretches out and woody's able to grab his paw just as rc's batteries begin to lose strength. No, in uh andy's car they're listening to hakuna matata. Molly can see rc in the side mirror and but she can't talk. So no one else notices. Rc is swerving dangerously, slinks stretched past his limits, loses his grip and RC coughs to a stop in the middle of the road as the moving van disappears in the distance. Then Buzz remembers he still has got a rocket strapped to his back and Woody remembers he still has a match.
Speaker 2:So I guess RC's just gone forever now.
Speaker 1:I think he makes it back into the truck, right, yeah, yeah think he makes it back into the truck, right, yeah, yeah, he makes it back to the truck Because they're still lying, because they carry it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right. He strikes it and is about to light Buzz's fuse when a wind of a passing car puts it out. But then Andy hands starts to smoke because Buzz is all depressed and he uses Buzz's helmet to magnify the fuse lighting the rocket. See, thanks to Sid, yeah. And then the rocket catches fire and they're going really fast. As they go by, woody drops RCU, lands in the truck. Buzz and Woody go straight up with the rocket. Buzz is like or Woody's like this thing's going to explode. Buzz is like nah, dog Opens his wing and he starts to fly and he's clutching Woody. He says Buzz, you're flying, this isn't flying, this is flying. And Woody, saying to infinity and beyond Makes me feel so good about myself. They pass the truck again and fall through the minivan. Sunroof, landing neatly in the box next to Andy, finds him and gleefully tells his mom they're in the car the whole time.
Speaker 2:But the mom's not like what the fuck? What are you talking about? She's just oblivious. She's just so hopped up on painkillers. She doesn't know what's happening?
Speaker 1:around her at any time she's got like a bunch of Xanax Taking a ride to Xanax. So then we cut to Christmas Eve at the new house, andy, molly and their mom are gathered around the Christmas tree. The army men are hiding in the tree with the baby monitor. The other toys are in Andy's room gathered around the speaker. Bo Peep pulls Woody under some mistletoe held by the sheep and kisses him. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:They watch Woody's got a Woody.
Speaker 1:They watch, they watch. Andy's bed is still Andy's bed, still sports a Buzz Lightyear bedspread, but one of the pillowcases in the comforter at the foot of the bed are Western style. Fuck yeah, drawings of Woody are again prominent on the bulletin board. There are two Buzz Lightyear posters and also a cowboy poster. Everything is right with the world. All the toys seem happy and relaxed, instead of fretting that Andy might get another dinosaur Rex hopes for a leaf eater, so he can play the dominant predator.
Speaker 1:The first report comes in. Sarge says Molly's first present is a Mrs Potato Head. We're going to get a new attachment for Mr.
Speaker 2:Potato Head. All right, he says he's got a shave Yanks off his mustache.
Speaker 1:It's so good. Woody, covered in lipstick, and woozy joins Buzz on Andy's bed. They're still friends.
Speaker 1:He's singing that song I just had sex, yeah, and then Sarge is giving reports, woody's asked Buzz if he's worried about if he's worried and Buzz denies it, then says are you? Woody says now Buzz, what could Andy Lee possibly get? That's worse than you. Then they hear a bark downstairs and Andy's joyous cry of wow, a puppy. And they exchange nervous smiles and then credits roll with you got a friend in me, you got a friend in me, alright, yeah, so we're gonna hit our first categories the first category is the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine.
Speaker 1:That's where we discuss the good of the film, something we like, the bad, something we didn't. The ugly, something that didn't age well, to find something that did what he got for the good.
Speaker 2:The good was that um seeing this seeing toys come alive was just awesome.
Speaker 1:It's magic man yeah, it's fucking great, it's like it's something just you just even growing up, you just don't. It kind of blows your mind, you're like fuck.
Speaker 2:can you look your mind? You're like fuck. When you look at your toys, you're like.
Speaker 1:It's very nostalgic, Could they? Could they be? It's like my toys are vape now They've all got bad fucking, hey Jesse how about you come over here and play with?
Speaker 2:this toy. Yeah, that's leaky After a few more years.
Speaker 1:It was four packpack and I have it. But yeah, my good was essentially the wonder of being a kid again. For sure, it's what this movie gives you and all the toy stories give you, and it's great and unlimited penis jokes with a character named Woody.
Speaker 2:That's true, that's true, it's the best thing that ever happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, also named woody, that's true. That's true, it's the best, best thing ever happened. Yeah, also, I put uh the songs randy newman guy goes hard in this movie, I know, but like mad tv ruined it for you it, damn it will sasso, you did it again yes will say, but I thank him.
Speaker 2:I thank him for that, for opening my eyes so far.
Speaker 1:How hilarious his voice like him is randy Kenny, it's Randy Newman and it's Kenny Rogers man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm Kenny Rogers.
Speaker 1:He just downs a fifth of Jack, he starts beating people up with a bat. Oh, it's so good. All right man, what do you got for the bad?
Speaker 2:The bad. I don't really have anything for the bad, you know, it's just such a.
Speaker 1:It's a fucking good movie yeah, I didn't have anything either bad about.
Speaker 2:The only ugly thing I would say is that they kind of it sucked for sid like in order. The only way that they could make him like seem like a bad kid was like he was just poor. Yeah, you know like that.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't think they were poor, though they had a pretty big house. He made it look poor.
Speaker 2:I know, but like they looked because, just because everything was so unkempt in their yard and like they were just dirty, like the daughter was like had dirt on her face. That's true.
Speaker 1:For no reason. You know what I mean. Were they poor, yeah. Like it seemed like they just it's a big house, though their house is poor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was that's what got to me. It was like like the only thing that made them bad was like that. They were like kind of poor and dirty.
Speaker 1:Yeah, obviously it just kind of sucked Me and Jason. We did not grow in a wealthy household, so Like, yeah, like it makes us feel bad, it does dude it, Like hey, we just had fun the only way we could. Yeah, and I think he's probably like a weirdo at school and nobody liked him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, but yeah, I bet he got bullied.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it sucks, or like the parents were like we're not going to drive you to kids' places, or like they had the daughter and like all they wanted was a daughter.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or like the mom wanted a daughter, the dad wanted a son and then he got this. He got this son and was like I gotta start drinking. Yeah, dude, it sucks.
Speaker 2:We should do Toy Story 5, the revenge of Sid, yes that would be amazing, but his revenge is just being super good and like happy and fun and not scary and weird.
Speaker 1:And we learn. Like Sid is the one, sid's family is the one that discontinued the Woody dolls. All right, so what do you got for the ugly, since I don't have a bad either.
Speaker 2:Well, that was my, that was my, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Mine was just kind of a little bit of the jankiness for this new technology that they got OK Back in the day. It looked great of course, but now that you watch a Pixar film now and it's like holy shit, this looks real star film now and it's like holy shit, this looks real. Yeah, I almost threw my tv out this morning when I watched toy story. What is this bullshit? This looks like trash.
Speaker 2:So now my tv is trash all right, threw it in my neighbor's yard so you could blow it up.
Speaker 1:Here you go do what you will, all right. What do you got for the fine? Something that aged well, not randy newman for me andy newman did not age well, for I put pixar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they've they're the kings yeah, they're fucking awesome man, they come a long way.
Speaker 1:They perfected it. The storytelling, the animation, they've just they got it down definitely and like this being their first movie yeah, it fucking kills.
Speaker 2:They're obviously running come a long way, they perfected it, the storytelling, the animation, they've just they got it down pat, definitely, and, like this being their first movie, it fucking kills.
Speaker 1:They're obviously running out of ideas, though I feel like Never. I feel like the last great one was Coco, maybe. Oh, was that Pixar? Yeah, oh, cool, yeah I never really.
Speaker 2:I thought it was okay. I was like, damn dude, this is too much for me.
Speaker 1:Coco made me Jesus Christ. The ending.
Speaker 2:I loved Coco. I thought it was fucking sweet. I cried.
Speaker 1:With all the skeletons and stuff. I cried in, like all the Pixar movies, except for Toy Story 1 and 2. I did cry in the the third one. That's rough.
Speaker 2:Was the fourth one with Bo Peep, Like that was kind of her story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a lot of Bo Peep stuff. She was like Furiosa of Toy Story, it's like the ventriloquist stuff and that thing. So yeah, All right, we're going to hit our last category double feature. So we recommend a movie to go along with this movie. You know we're getting a little wacky with ours, All right. So I chose Small Soldiers baby, the live action version of this movie. I have three of the toys from this movie.
Speaker 2:We have one of them. We have the alien guy Like the main alien.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the main alien. Yeah, I had that one too.
Speaker 2:We've got them on our shelf.
Speaker 1:He always wrestled with the wrestlers I had. I think I had the soldier bad guy and I had like the one that. I think that spins a lot. I don't remember. I'm watching the trailer. Hell yeah, this movie fucking looks bad.
Speaker 2:I'm sure no it is.
Speaker 1:It looks great.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a fun thing to watch.
Speaker 1:Directed by Joe Dante, though. Oh wow. So if you're a friend of Gremlins, you might be a fan of this movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right up his alley, adam Rifkin Hell yeah. My choice was Toys with Robin Williams.
Speaker 1:Toys. What a wild movie.
Speaker 2:It is insane, but I thought it was really. It's also very deep, yeah, but I thought it was really. It's also very deep, yeah, and crazy, and like I've never seen it. It's wild man, it's, it's a trip.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like I don't even let me read the description. When Lieutenant General Leland Zevo inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys Forever God, this movie looks crazy.
Speaker 2:It is crazy, but it's got some amazing shots in it. Yeah, I was looking at it. The use of color is so cool. Like him in the field.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the field it's got Jamie Foxx, Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, LL Cool J.
Speaker 2:It's a good watch, jack.
Speaker 1:Warden hell yeah, he's one of the old men in uh, while You're Sleeping, love that movie. Um, that's Toy Story, baby, hell yeah, ending strong right there. Oh, I hope you enjoyed the episode and make sure to join us next week as we will be covering Men in Black baby. So join us next week as we cover that movie and in Black baby. So join us next week as we cover that movie. And if you want to send us an email or fan mail or whatever, top of the description we have a little link you can click to send us some. The bottom of the description. We have our email. We recommend mailbag at gmailcom. I would like to thank Joey Prosser, that handsome son of a bitch for doing our intro and outro music.
Speaker 1:You can follow him on X at Mr Joey Prosser. Also, leave us some reviews and some likes and, you know, give us five stars wherever you're listening to. We'd love to hear from you and we'd love to get reviews and stuff Starting to get some followers. It's starting to get fun. Hell, fucking. Yeah, we had 75 downloads one day, which is the most. Someone obviously listened to us and thought, hey, that sounds good, I'll download all of their episodes or maybe something else, something else. Or it's like ai downloading our stuff.
Speaker 2:It's one of those torture chambers where they make them listen to the same thing over and over.
Speaker 1:It's like clock.
Speaker 2:Clockwork Orange Instead of holding eyes.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, same page, same page, all right. Hell yeah, this has been the we Recommend podcast. I've been Jesse, I'm Jason and you know just this podcast. It's going to infinity and beyond. Play with your toys.
Speaker 2:Bye.
