Hello and welcome to "Development Purgatory."
This is the podcast all about the movies that were never made, the scripts that were never
written, and the ideas that never even made it to the page.
My name is Daniel Kawka, and I'm Lexcee Riley.
You're going to regret giving this to me?
Yes, I did give you a sun board, and I will explain that sun board, and I will regret
that sun board by the end of this episode.
I think halfway through.
So we are here to talk about a beloved movie studio, film studio, production studio, animation
studio, animation studio.
I was like, are we talking straight movie?
Are you going for studio here?
I think studio is part of it because that's kind of the overarching story.
They're both beloved.
The movies beloved, the studios beloved.
Yes, but we are talking about Toy Story, and we are talking about Toy Story 3.
Now you might be thinking of yourself, that movie did get made, and you would be right.
It did.
We are talking about an alternative universe.
How did this alt not get made?
Yes, where Pixar, what would Toy Story 3 look like if Pixar had never been made?
Never been involved.
I don't like that.
I don't think I want other studios, such a dumb statement as I say it, but other studios picking
up what studios are known for, what they're iconic for.
That would be HBO doing snow white.
Although, carry on.
Before we do get into the subject though, I do want to ask your question.
Usually ask the history of a certain subject, but we'll go in a different direction.
We might get a similar answer, but who is your favorite toy?
So I'm going to make the internet incredibly mad.
I wasn't like a Toy Story kid.
That was Disney Princess girl.
So this felt like a boy movie growing up.
I don't know that I have a favorite.
I feel like Bo Peep is like standard generic girl answer, which...
I mean, she got her best representation in Toy Story 4.
I tell you my least favorite toy.
Who's your least?
Jessie.
Poor sweet Jessie.
I've just rewatched a lot of them because obviously.
I really like to race car.
I feel like the race car is so underrated.
And to Penguin.
Penguin is pretty great.
I think Buzz and Woody are mildly annoyed.
Again, the internet is going to hate me.
I'm sure I'm missing a toy.
Oh, no, you know what?
Toy Story 3.
I love the hedgehog.
Mr. like Shurian.
The German?
Yeah.
Well, excuse me.
I'm trying to stay in character.
The hedgehog.
I forgot about the hedgehog.
I really like Big Baby.
What is it?
I mean, there is the baby from Tintoy Christmas.
No, no.
No, no, no.
I only watched one, two, three.
Okay.
And Tower of Terror.
The baby.
In three, the baby.
Big baby.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
It's big baby.
With the weird lazy eye.
Sure.
There's a moment where like...
That's not what it is.
The baby is like looking up at the moon and it's just like one eye is just like...
Just of Penguin in there.
I don't know why, but I really enjoy Big Baby.
It has a really good arc.
Yes.
What's your favorite?
I'm gonna go with ham.
Wow, did not see that coming.
I really like him.
Do you know who voices ham?
It's um...
It's not norm, is it?
It is not norm, but you are in the same...
The guy who did the bar.
He had the end of the bar.
Yeah.
You just passed away, right?
No.
Oh.
Norm passed away.
Norm did pass away.
Yes.
Man with mustache.
John Retson Burger.
Thank you.
I got them flipped away.
From Cheers.
How much do you want for your go with God's spirit?
Oh, this round is on me for Ferdinand with Joey Belly.
Yeah.
Anything part of it is because I've grown older.
Like he has kind of become that character where if parents are watching this with their
kids, like, ham is the one who's giving the jokes that only the parents are going to
get.
I will say, I miss that element.
I do feel like children's movies currently, they're really made for the kids, which is
fair, but I can understand why like our parents or like, like, older people were like, yeah,
I'll go see that too.
Yeah.
They're stuff in there for me.
Yeah.
Like, that's the reason why they would cast someone like Robin Williams and Aladdin or
like, inside out, I think is a good example.
Like that is a movie that spans decades.
Yeah.
So I think for me, yeah, ham is definitely the one.
I rewatched it.
He flips to the channels, right?
Yeah.
He flips through.
He always has an answer for everything, even though he has this confidence about him.
Like, even if he's wrong, he's still pretty confident.
Like when he's flipping through the channel, he's like gone too far.
I got to go around again.
That is such a millennial joke.
Yeah.
I rewatched Toy Story 3 last night and there was a joke that like, I think was the best joke
of the whole movie where Potato Head, he came back from being tortured and he's like,
oh man, I was just in the sandbox.
There's so much sand and linking logs.
I don't think that was linking logs.
I missed that one.
Yeah.
Ham is my favorite.
Oh my God.
I thought you were trying to probably come back as the cucumber and Mrs. Potato Head's like,
you're so tall.
I know I do talk about my history of Toy Story in our last Toy Story episode.
Actually, if you want to do a deep dive into like the history of Pixar, which is fascinating
to learn about.
Like we do talk about it in our Tintoi Christmas episode.
The beginnings of it.
So I'm going to kind of skip over that history.
Where the history ends is basically where this begins and where you're just kind of like
carrying the baton.
So this is part three, just kidding.
Two.
Was that a singular episode?
That was a singular episode.
It was a Christmas special because it was Tintoi Christmas.
Nice.
Yeah.
Good old holiday special.
There's also a pretty good documentary about the origins of Pixar.
Now keep in mind that this was produced by Disney.
I was going to say, isn't this on Disney Plus?
It is on Disney Plus.
I will say that like because it was produced by Disney kind of like when they did the documentary
about Jim Henson, like they do omit a lot of the things where like when Disney did something
wrong, it's like, no one needs to know about that.
Shh.
Don't look there.
No, we're on to brighter days.
Yeah.
So it's all harmonious now.
But it is a really interesting like because they do talk to John Lasseter and they get a really
good insight on that and they do get interviews with Steve Jobs.
I think it was just before he passed away too.
Yeah, we definitely want to.
But they do get an interview with Steve Jobs about his time as CEO of Pixar.
What a weird.
Yeah.
That's not true.
There's so many tech companies making movies now.
Name one.
No thanks.
All right.
Well, if you want to learn more about tech companies and other companies, you can listen
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And welcome back.
Somebody point in the water hall.
We're going to have a lot of fun with the sun board and I will explain, but I'm going
to explain it just before we go into the movies.
What if you never explain it?
I probably won't.
So I'll find ways to hit it.
Don't you worry.
All right.
Well, let's start with what's going on here.
What is going on here in January 2004?
It was reported that Pixar animation studios was fed up with the mouse and wanted to cut
ties with Walt Disney ending a near 20 year relationship between the corporation and the
CGI studio.
They started in the 80s.
I'll explain that in just a bit.
I jumped again.
The Duke cannot agree on a contract and so Pixar packed it up and began looking for a new
distributor.
Meanwhile, where they clause in the previous contract, Disney had the rights to every character
made by Pixar and figured that they can make a toy story picture on their own.
Oh, this is how it's going to happen.
Yeah.
I love when I don't know where it's going.
So Disney and Pixar, they go back as far as 1986.
See, I can do math.
But back when it was a small tech company trying to make special effects for Lucasfilm
and inventing computers, they would actually create computers to generate animation.
Their professional relationship began when Disney first bought their computers to help
color the film's rescuers down under and be in the beast.
Oh, I went to rescue rangers, but rescue is down under was on the light.
Rescue is down under was the first.
And then beauty in the beast was the second film that they used, they used their computers
to help color the film.
After a few proof of concept, short films, Pixar, well, they also won a bunch of Academy
Awards for these short films, Pixar felt that they were ready to finally make their very
first computer animated feature film.
Disney agreed to help finance and distribute Pixar's first three films.
And after the massive success of Toy Story, Disney signed on Pixar for a five-picture deal.
Disney would help finance and distribute the films, but to sweeten the deal for Disney,
they would also get all the rights to all the characters created by Pixar.
And they would get the rights to make their sequels.
Now if you remember from like the Disney Renaissance era, like there were always these direct
to video sequels.
Sure were.
Little mermaid too, melody.
And this was kind of their mentality of like, oh, if Toy Story's ours, like we can just
make a second one.
Yeah, I honestly kind of missed those.
Those should be a Disney plus thing.
I don't need live action.
I would love a Snow White 37.
But those were awesome.
Where are the doors at now?
But if you think about like the studios that were behind it, it was never Disney animation,
they always went to like different other studios.
Like there was a studio that I was in France, there was one in Hong Kong, there was one
that was in Australia.
There's still all owned by Disney though, right?
Because it was like, they had like Marvista and Yenavista.
There was, I forget about the Australian one.
Vista something.
Yeah.
If they like commissioned them to do so or if it was owned by them, it's more likely that
they own these studios as well.
City areas.
Yeah.
Disney, they then commissioned Pixar to make Toy Story 2 with the intention that it would
be straight to video, just like the Disney Renaissance era.
But when the executives saw the early renderings of the footage, they knew that this had to
be a theatrical release.
Interesting.
Yeah, they also talked about this in the documentary as well.
Or like John Lasseter, he had been working on Toy Story for so long because this was like
a five year project for him.
And he was like in the middle of vacation and the studio was like, hey, we're making Toy Story
2 for the theaters now and you got to get back here to make a better story for us.
They can't even show for work.
Yeah, I mean he left his family and just like went back to the studio and just kept working.
Yeah.
There is a dark side to this sometimes.
There is.
With this, they actually reworked the story and they in about nine months, they were able
to complete Toy Story 2.
The story.
The whole film.
They were working on it initially and then like they had a nine months turnaround to like
get it done.
I'm just going off of like the first one.
Wasn't it like the Toy chase at the end was like five years to complete or something?
I forget about the Toy chase.
I know that this story went through many iterations.
Like if you look at the early concept of Woody and Buzz, like Woody is supposed to be
kind of like a dummy, like a puppet and he actually had like the lines on his chin.
So like go up and down kind of like a nutcracker and Buzz was supposed to be like a really tiny
little toy.
So some concept of like Woody like towering over Buzz and Buzz is like on a bedpost.
Like the computer aspect of it like because can be like obviously they're lightning fast
now.
But in 1996, is Toy Story?
Or 94 is when the first one came out.
94 is when Toy Story came out?
No.
Really?
Oh, 95.
Sorry.
All right.
Well the difference.
Yeah.
Still.
Yeah.
Toy Story is pre Lion King?
Do I want to do this?
Am I going to feel all of the sudden?
Lion King.
Toy Story is pre-beauty.
Lion King is 94.
Yeah.
Cause I know little or eight is 89.
I'm going through the Disney Renaissance and like trying to see like where this sits.
So it is before Beauty and the Beast.
Beauty and the Beast was 91.
Just gonna, you don't need me anymore on this show.
Wow.
What happened between 95 and 2000?
I'm like, what came out?
Pocahontas.
No.
Pocahontas was earlier, right?
I'm going to hate this.
95.
See what happened between 96 Mulan?
97.
98.
Think about this.
They had 89 was a little mermaid.
91 was Beauty and the Beast.
94 was Lion King.
95 was Pocahontas.
And Toy Story.
Did anyone sleep in that office from 89 to 95?
You can actually see in the documentary John Lasseter, they look at his car and they're like,
wow, you have the best parking spot and it's like, how did you get that parking spot?
And he's like, I never left.
Right.
I've been sleeping in the office.
Yeah.
I mean, especially things were clunky or then.
Sorry, I completely derailed this with them.
It's okay.
I mean, it all worked out for Toy Story 2 because it grossed a whopping $485 million.
I was $100 million above the first Toy Story film.
Really?
What?
And this was what year?
In 1999.
Okay.
However, according to Disney's former CEO, Michael Eisner, Toy Story 2 does not count as one
of the films in the five picture deal because originally they were going to commission them
for a straight to video sequel.
So it doesn't count.
It's just like, loopholes.
Yeah.
And Pixar agreed to make five original features.
Oh, get out.
Yeah.
The CEO of Pixar at the time, Steve Jobs, was not happy with this technical detail when
it was dropped on him.
And from then on, the tension between Disney and Pixar just began to grow.
Pixar completed the end of their deal, producing a bug's life, monster's ink, finding Nemo,
the Incredibles, and cars.
And once cars was in pre-production, Disney wanted to negotiate a new deal with Pixar.
There it is.
Yeah.
Jobs, on the other hand, he wanted to cut ties with Disney, understandable.
And he wanted to do as soon as possible.
And in January 2004, he began shopping around Pixar to a new distributor and even caught the
interest of Warner Bros.
Fox and Sony.
According to Steve Jobs, the distribution deal leaned heavily in Disney's favor.
This is their previous deal.
Disney and Pixar would split the film's profits evenly.
Pixar would then have to pay a 10 to 15% of revenue as a distribution fee.
Good God.
Yeah.
For Jobs, he felt like all the profits should go to Pixar.
And Disney should just get rid of that fee just all entirely.
Wait, so they should split the profit?
I mean, Jobs wanted more out of it, but like he was also pretty ruthless with what he
wanted.
Yeah.
So I feel like there's a happier medium.
I think splitting the profits is definitely the way to go, but like...
But right, the additional fee is not needed.
Yeah, the additional fee, I don't think is needed.
I think Disney had merchandise rights.
They had the rights of the characters.
Merchandising rights are like half the battle.
Yeah.
So that's part of it as well, where like Disney seems to be reaping it in.
And for Pixar, like they were such an early company from the beginning that they're like,
we're going to take any deal.
Whatever it takes, just like make the movie.
And now that these movies are like what's making Disney popular again, it just didn't
seem fair.
For Eisner, he felt like he didn't need Pixar.
He had all the rights of the characters and the sequels.
And he believed that Disney could mimic the Pixar CG animation style in-house.
He figured they could make a bunch of sequels using the established characters from the
seven films and the audience wouldn't know the difference.
And the very first film that they were going to make was Toy Story 3.
Enter Circle 7 Animation.
Have you heard of Circle 7 Animation?
Okay.
This is kind of one of those like black marks on Disney's history that they just kind of wish
you just just just just wash over it.
This is one of those things where they briefly mentioned it in the Disney documentary, but
like I said, like if it doesn't make them look good, they're just going to put it just inside.
So the studio got its name from its location.
Circle 7 Drive in Glendale.
Yeah.
And it's our neighbors here in California.
If you go there right now, the studio is actually K-A-B-C TV.
Oh.
Yeah.
It's going to say, I feel like I know where that is.
You've probably driven by it.
Well there's that like one little chunk of Glendale.
There's like one road that you take and all of a sudden it's like another pocket of Disney
studios or ABC studios.
I think I lived here in decade before I realized that that's where that was.
Yeah.
I didn't realize that first that ABC was Disney.
Oh, that.
Once I figured that out, like I was like, Disney's everywhere.
They own everything.
That merger happened when we were much younger.
Yeah.
We don't need to continuously date ourselves on here.
No, no, we don't.
That happened at some point in our lifetime.
Yes.
The CG animation branch of Disney was launched in 2005.
The studio was led by former head of the defunct Florida based animation studio.
That's where they made Lee Loan stitch.
Oh.
Andrew Milstein.
The studio was tasked with creating at least one sequel a year and they would have to make
each sequel for under a hundred million dollars.
That's not bad.
No, we should take that note nowadays.
Just like how Pixar started with Toy Story Circle 7 was going to do the same.
The plan was to make Toy Story 3 and release it in spring of 2008.
To direct was Bradley Raymond, who directed a few Disney straight to video sequels, including
Pocahontas 2, Journey to a New World.
The hunchback of Notre Dame 2, and this is one of my favorite sequels, The Lion King One
and a Half.
Didn't see it.
Those are three of the sequels that I've never seen.
What?
I remember one and a half being a big deal.
I also remember one and a half being a huge.
Didn't that get released theatrically?
Or at least it had like a re-release later or something?
I don't know if I had a re-release or a v-ed, even had a theatrical release.
I remember premiering on the Disney channel and that being a big deal.
I remember back in the VH just a day.
There was a trailer.
Oh yeah.
I think I'm little mermaid too.
Yeah, where it's like Timo and Pumba, they have a remote, and they're like, "We're going
to rewind this and be like, 'What about our story?'"
Yeah, yeah.
And that's what it is.
So as for the story, over 40 screenwriters pitched their ideas.
Holy hell.
Circle 7 narrowed it down to two stories and hired six of those writers to help develop
the story and the script.
Now one story that nearly made it came from the married, writing duo Bill and Sherry
Steinkelner.
They wrote for the Jefferson's.
They wrote for Cheers.
Hey.
They wrote for Who's the Boss and they wrote the film Teacher's Pet.
Now what they pitched was a Who-Dunet Mystery, where Woody, Buzz and the Gang would
solve a mystery of disappearing toys in Andy's grandmother's attic.
Okay, I'm Connie here for this story.
This is also straight 90s.
Yep.
And we're going to hear that some Angela Landsbury and the murder she wrote.
She wrote.
Oh, if she played the grandmother, that'd be great.
Yeah.
So and we're going to hear that story after these advertisements.
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What a game for the story.
Now speaking of which, I gave you the soundboard because we're going to play a game.
Okay.
With these scripts, when Pixar took over, they claimed that they never read these scripts before.
They're never going to read these scripts and the ideas that they don't want to be influenced
by any of like what was written before for Circle 7.
Oh, okay.
But if there is an element, oh, that is similar.
They never read these.
Yeah.
So if there is an element of the story where it's like, wait a minute, we've seen this in
Toy Story 3 or in Toy Story Tower of Terror.
And I want you to hit one of the sounds.
Now the sounds that I've given you, the soundboard that I gave you is basically if you had a
woody or a buzz toy in front of you, and you just like pulled the drawstring or you push
one of Buzz's buttons, like that's the noises on the soundboard because I couldn't look
like I could.
I'd like that as an angle though.
Yeah.
I was too having straight lines from the.
Yeah, because humans never heard what these toys had to say.
No.
No, it's only the drawstring and it's only--
And he's coming.
Yes, yes.
Here is the Toy Story 3 script.
It was by Sherry and Bill Steinkelner.
It was revised by David Gianne and Michael Handelman.
And this was submitted December 8, 2004.
Oh right, because it's '99 was Toy Story 2.
Didn't we not get Toy Story 3 till like 24, we were older.
Again, why do I go to like dating myself?
I'm a mysterious woman, I swear.
2010.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
We open in a train car.
It's dark and there's been a murder.
Sheriff?
When you were like, there's dark, I was gonna-- I'm ready.
Okay.
But we do open on a train car.
Just like on a train.
Okay.
Oh, oh.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was like in the Toy Story of Terror and I was like, oh no, Toy Story 3 opens on a
train car.
Yeah, they all blurred together for a second.
So yes, there has been a murder.
Sheriff Woody is on the case.
Ham is the only one who knew who stole the Ruby Red Marble.
But his knowledge is a thing that got him killed.
[GASP]
Woody figures it out.
It was bow peep.
No, Woody reveals that she has the marble, but it's not bow peep.
She rips off her bonnet and her rubber mass and it's actually Mr. Potato Head.
And he says, things aren't always as they appear, Sheriff.
And Woody responds with, you've got that right and pulls off Mr. Potato Head's mass
reveal that it's Rex.
Rex makes a run for it, but is stopped by Woody's partner Buzz Lightyear.
Rex has another trick up his sleeve.
This is girlfriend Jesse is tied to the cow catcher in the front of the train.
That is.
[GASP]
That is 100% the opening.
Yes.
I don't know why I've never heard the term cow catcher before.
Have you heard that before?
No.
That's basically like the grill that's at the front of the train.
[GASP]
That's terrible.
I know.
Yeah.
But that's what it's called.
I don't want to keep smiling at that.
Rex escapes through the trap door in the ceiling.
Buzz goes to rescue Jesse and Woody chases Rex with the help of his trusty steed bulls
eye.
Bulls eye and Woody I galt along the top of the train and come.
[GASP]
Is it just the entire opening of Toy Story 3?
It's pretty close.
And they come face to face with Rex on the caboose.
Rex as Woody has his six shooter pointed at Rex.
Rex reveals the train is about to plummet off the edge of the unfinished bridge.
Oh, come on.
He hit the button.
Yes.
Rex pulls a parachute and gets away.
Woody scramble to lock the brakes in the train car, but the train is still chugging along.
Woody orders the toys to get to the caboose.
He sees in the distance that Buzz holding Jesse running to the back.
The pin holding the car together snaps.
Buzz throws Jesse into the caboose and Buzz jumps off the train and hurdles off the cliff.
Woody reaches out and catches Buzz's hands and they dangle as the train smashes into pieces.
The caboose stops at the edge and it begins to teeter.
Buzz's grip slowly begins to slip.
We are interrupted by Andy's mom yelling that it's breakfast time.
That happens.
Oh.
The blinky light is very fast and very alarming.
She enters the room and takes Andy before he could finish the action-packed adventure, leaving
it on a literal cliffhanger.
Yeah, that's the same opening.
It's so similar.
I know that there were other things where Buzz wants to train crashes to the ground.
He lifts it up and then Jesse is the damsel in distress in this one.
So yeah.
Right.
That is the only thing it was toy story is that the women are either in distress or somehow
a villain.
And there's no one between.
I just called bullshit.
You watched?
You read it.
Yeah.
I thought this was going to be like, I'll hit the button four times.
I have hit the button so many times already that I'm annoyed with myself.
I have a theory.
I think it was the heads of Pixar that they chose not to read the scripts but because they
chose not to read it.
Those who did read the script were just like, they never know.
I got a fresh idea that you guys have never heard of before.
God, that's like just copy paste, changed word.
Yep.
In real life, we see the toys are in a shoebox at the edge of the bed.
The door slams and the toys come back to life.
The other toy is panic, not knowing the end of the story but Woody reassures them that
he and Buzz would never let them down.
Jesse is upset that she's always the damsel in distress.
I get it.
And shows that she's worthy by easily untying herself and flipping Rex.
Rex feels guilty for always having to be the bad guy and Jesse does bring up that Andy
called her Buzz's girlfriend but Buzz chooses to avoid the conversation.
In any of the toy stories, they never call Jesse Buzz's girlfriend.
No.
It's deeply hinted.
Yeah, there seems to be a lot of shipping between Buzz and Jesse.
Well, they're partnered off.
Woody and Bo Peap and then I just want Buzz and Woody.
Yes, we ship that story.
The toys realize the marble is missing and they start accusing each other of stealing
it.
Woody calms everyone down and tells them that Andy must have taken it.
But Buzz points out that Rex accidentally landed on it and it's wedged under his tail.
The marble drops to the ground appearing as if he pooped it out.
I was like, what's with this marble?
Woody tells everyone that there's an announcement to make.
Slinky looks out the window and sees a workman outside the house.
The toys ignore Woody and look out the window.
Woody tells them that this is what the announcement is about.
Woody says that Andy's room is getting redecorated.
Ham says that he saw it coming because of his "careful observation of the evidence."
Plus he heard Andy and his mom talking about it yesterday.
Everyone panics over the redecoration and Woody tries to calm them down.
Some of them are going to stay here and the others are going to get boxed up.
To the attic?
Well, some of them are going to get boxed up.
They're going to be put in the attic and the other toys that are going to be selected
by Andy, if they're going to go with him to Grandma's house.
The toys grown.
Buzz asked about the grandmother.
She explained to him that she's crazy and she has a creepy house.
Woody states that her house is not that creepy.
We smash cut to the exterior of Grandma's house.
Yes!
It's a "riccady Victorian house perched on a lonely hill, ominous clouds swirl above.
It's creepy."
OK, I'm kind of jigging it.
I know.
Andy and Andy's mom, which by the way, they never give Andy's mom a name.
No.
Nope.
Andy and Andy's mom pull up in the car.
In the back seat with Andy, we see Woody, Buzz, Ham, Rex, Mr. Potato Head, Jesse, Slinky,
and Bullseye.
Those are our main characters.
We get a POV shot from the attic of an unknown character.
Oh!
Andy's mom and Andy's step into the house.
They call out...
It's going to be a big pink bear that smells like a strawberry.
Oh, I wish.
They call out for Grandma, but she's not around.
Her cat, Perry Winkle, is asleep on the windowsill.
We hear the wind causing the house to creak and the ominous tiktok of a grandfather clock.
Grandma scares Andy and his mom when she appears out of the closet.
She says she's in there listening to the pipes.
She thinks that there's mice in the house and she's set out hundreds of mouse traps.
Grandma was hanging out in the closet because she's listening.
She's like, "There's mice."
But pops out of the closet?
There's like things walking around the house and she doesn't know what it is.
I'm sure, but sticking Grandma in a closet...
Yep.
A statement.
"Grandma sure is her daughter that everything will be okay and Andy's mom leaves."
Sure, mom.
You're hanging out in a closet and hearing things.
I'm going to leave my son with you.
Yep.
We cut to later that night.
It's now thunderstorming.
Grandma is finishing up a scary story that she's telling to Andy.
We're in the foyer.
"Foyay?"
"Foyay."
In the foyer, the toys are hanging out.
Rex says that this house reminds him of a movie.
He thinks it's called "Dath House" or "House of Death" or "Deadly House of Death."
I don't know.
Ham suspects that the house was built on an Indian burial ground.
Poltergeist.
Woody stops the conversation and says the house is not haunted.
And Jess says he says it, "A ghostly hum can be heard through the pipes."
Yeah.
Thunder crashes and the power goes out.
Andy makes his way up the stairs with a backpack full of all of his toys in a flesh-lating
hand.
He passes by a spare room with all of the furniture covered in a ghostly white sheet.
Perfect.
We catch a glimpse of something scaring away.
Was it a periwinkle?
Was it something else?
It was Dracula.
Andy makes his way into the room he's sleeping in.
He sits on the bed and unknowingly un periwinkle, who YELPS and dashes out of the room.
Grandma tells Andy "Goodnight."
And as long as he stays under the blankets, the ghost can't get him.
Thanks, Grandma.
I feel like they needed an explanation as to why Andy wouldn't just get up and be like,
"What are those weird noises around and see his toys alive?"
Because there's always an excuse in Toy Story as to why the humans are gone.
So, Andy goes to camp or something.
Andy is asleep, but the toys are still awake.
Rex goes on about the death house movie that he watched saying that everyone starts disappearing
one by one.
I am Buzz Lightyear, like coming peace.
So, in Toy Story of Terror, that's definitely how it goes is like-
That's the plot.
There are posse just like investigating weird noises and then just like toys are getting
picked off one by one.
Yep.
It ghostly hum echoes through the heating vents.
Mr. Potato Head realizes he lost something.
He was Mrs. Potato Head's lips to keep him company.
What he says that he can get them in the morning, but Mr. Potato Head is afraid he won't
give another chance.
So Buzz steps in and says he'll get them with the help of Woody.
Rex warns them not to split up the party.
Because this is what happened in the movie.
So they all decide to go down and get the lips together.
That's a little inappropriate for children.
The lips?
Yeah, he can't go to sleep.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It could have been any part of like maybe her ears because she couldn't hear the critters.
But neither the lips.
Yeah, I don't know like that.
So they make their way through the creepy house and down to the foyer.
The fire in the fireplace illuminates the room.
Mr. Potato Head finds the lips and kisses them repeatedly.
Something scurries in the shadows.
A stack of firewood comes tumbling down towards Woody.
Buzz pushes him out of the way and the logs knock him into the fire.
He tries to get out but his leg is pinned under a log.
Woody with the help of Bullseye, last was Buzz, to pull him out of the fire.
But then realizes he accidentally lassoed a burning log.
The gang quickly stomps it out.
From off screen we hear a brave strong voice in an English accent say looks like we're in
a sticky situation.
Is this our hedgehog friend?
No, it isn't.
But he says it as if it's like a catch phrase and out of nowhere appears a sock monkey.
So the sock monkey he heroically uses a yo-yo, a candle labra and a fire poker to free
Buzz and rescue him.
A what a fire poker, a candle labra and a yo-yo.
A yo-yo is kind of like that's his weapon of choice.
I just didn't want to have to explain like the elaborate actions he goes through.
I for a second thought it was a beauty of the beast reference.
Oh no, yeah.
The toys applaud the sock monkey and he introduces himself.
Jack challengers the name where there's adventure you'll find me.
He in hooks the yo-yo and proceeds to do a series of yo-yo tricks and the toys continue
to applaud.
That's amazing.
We hear a loud thunk sound echoes through the house as the electricity turns back on.
The other toys poke fun at Woody for rescuing the stick.
Jack hears the name Woody and something flickers across just face.
Recognition?
Hatred?
But it passes.
Woody asks if he knows Jack from somewhere and Jack says no.
Woody doesn't believe him.
I don't believe him either.
The gang smells something awful like Jim Sox and moldy cheese he does too.
Yeah.
Enter gladiola.
Is this the grandma?
No.
This is another sock monkey.
Oh.
Quote from the script gladiola is the geekiest lumpy body and ugly handbag slung over her
shoulders like a massive backpack.
Okay.
Why another female character and they're just I've got a bone to pick.
Knitted eyeglasses no nose.
She speaks with perpetually stuffed up sinuses.
Root.
Yeah.
That was rude.
Really?
Fucking rude.
Do you know what that's from?
Death becomes her.
Yeah.
The musical.
Yeah.
You need to emphasize the musical.
Yeah.
You haven't seen a movie.
I have seen.
Paws.
No, I know you.
Oh, yeah.
I love that movie.
What are you doing listening to this?
Chiola introduces herself and explains that the smell is from when she fell into the cat's
bowl of milk.
Ew.
Why?
And since she's made out of a hundred percent wool, she's pretty absorbent.
She was made by grandma.
We flash back to grandma using the sewing machine.
She looks at the poorly made sock puppet that nose falls off and she puts it in the closet
knowing that this wouldn't make a good Christmas present.
In the closet, we see Gladiolla making accessories for herself using scrapped craft supplies.
That's so sad.
She also dances to music played from a walkman, which she has strapped to her back.
That's cute.
Jack challenger found Gladiolla, but he was not made.
He claims that he was purchased from Sotheby's.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay.
What a tidbit.
Jack claims that Jack has been around the world.
Jack states that he's even been shot by Nazis.
Yeah.
Okay.
Jack tells the toys in a laboratory about how he saved an Indian prince and the blue diamond
from a plane and the evil Dr. Belbizarre.
The toys are captivated by his story.
What he tries to one up Jack by saying that he and Jesse were on a plane but Buzz shoots
him down saying that they were trying to actually get off the plane and not get on it.
That's pretty great.
Jack asked if he can ride a bullseye and Woody says no.
But bullseye insists that he gets a ride and the toys are impressed and Buzz even says
that he rides better than Woody.
Root.
Yeah.
We're starting to get like that.
Like from the first movie, like you get that jealousy from Woody.
Yeah.
There's a lot of, and you have the cat is, you know, it's of a dog.
There's the cat.
Yeah.
There's a lot of first movie similarities.
Woody tells the toys that they should get back to Andy.
Jesse wishes that Jack and Gladiolla would come back with them.
Woody doesn't want this, but Buzz suggests that if they place them somewhere, that Andy
could see, maybe he'd want to take them with him.
As they walk back, Gladiolla is chatty with Woody, but Woody seems to shrug it off, and
he's only glaring at Jack.
Jack shares more stories with Buzz and Woody pulls Buzz aside for a private conversation
and seeing that he doesn't have a good feeling about the sock monkey.
Buzz says that it's okay to feel jealous, and that's how Woody felt when they first met.
Woody says that he's seen him somewhere before, but he can't place it.
I like that angle.
Yeah.
Bullseye falls behind the group.
He passes by the laundry room, and he hears the drip of a leaky faucet and sees something
dark by.
He looks around and sees grandma's bloomers hanging on a line.
Okay.
Suddenly, something dashes that Bullseye, and he's gone.
The toys get back to the room, and Jesse realizes that Bullseye is missing.
They run back into the hallway and find Bullseye's stirrups.
Woody and Buzz look around in the bathroom, and there's scrabble tiles scattered all over
the floor.
They seem to make out some kind of word, but they can't necessarily tell what it says.
And then Perry Winkle appears from behind a shower curtain and cheeks is buzzing, Woody
into the hallway.
The other toys run with them down the stairs and into the dining room.
The toys climb on top of a credenza where they find a display of porcelain eggs.
The cat continues to chase after them, creating chaos and breaking many of the eggs.
Mr. Potato Head begins singing "Memory" from cats, and Perry Winkle is intrigued.
And...
What a hard left that took.
Yeah.
But then takes a swipe at him and causes more chaos and things fly everywhere.
Buzz uses his laser and the cat begins to chase it.
Okay, that's great.
That we should have kept.
Yes.
Jack takes a cake topper and drops it on Perry Winkle, trapping the cat.
Jack is praised, and he thinks Buzz is for being a great partner.
They look around and realize, "Slinky is gone."
Yeah, this is Toy Story of Terror.
Yes, yes it is.
Woody finds "Slinky's collar" and tells Buzz he thinks this wasn't an accident and then
lightning crashes.
Rex says that this is like the movie.
Rex then slips on somewhat in tiles.
This must have been the clue with a message.
Ham says that he's great at this and he can piece it together and he spells out "Limp Nylon
Towel."
And then he tries it again and he's like, "Nope, it's Lentil Plough."
Nope, tin melon.
Nope.
Tan clown and then finally Ham spells out "Pink Eye Mel."
Ham is my favorite.
That's amazing.
Buzz leads the gang back into Andy's room and Jack is bringing up the rear by request of
Woody.
Gladiolla tells Woody that she has popsicle sticks and Elmer's glue just in case they
need it.
We gladiolla.
Woody thinks her but in a dismissive way.
They get to Andy's door and Woody insists that only Andy's toys should go in.
Buzz disagrees because Jack saved his life and if they don't go he doesn't go either.
Jack is not happy with Woody.
Woody takes Buzz aside to talk.
Woody angrily points towards Andy's room and accidentally shuts it.
Buzz tries the door knob but it's locked.
So they're essentially locked out of the room.
Right.
I was waiting for Buzz to jump up and pull it like garbage.
I'm guessing it's one that's like--
Right, an actual knob and a handle.
And knobby knob.
Circular.
The toys enter the music room where we see an organ in old photos of grandma in her younger
years playing an organ in a choir.
Gladiolla reveals that she overheard grandma and Andy's mom talking over the phone and
that after the remodel Andy would only have room for two toys.
How does that work?
I don't know.
The toys eyes go wide as each dramatic organ chord is played.
It's revealed that Jack is actually playing the organ.
I was hoping it was Perry Winkle like crashing on the keys.
Woody asks why she's revealing this now and she thought that everyone already knew.
She concludes that the two surviving toys will be the ones that'll go back with Andy.
In the background, Jack continues to play ominous chords until Woody yells at him to stop.
That's pretty funny.
The toys hear a door creaking in the hallway and they investigate.
It's an ominous shadow walking down the hallway.
The toys quickly hide in the bureau drawer but there's no room for wrecks.
So he climbs to the top of the bureau and freezes amongst the other knick knacks as a shadowy
figure passes by.
It's grandma with a demonic grin carrying a bundle of something wrapped in a hanker
chief.
They theorize that grandma is the one that's supposedly getting rid of the toys and that
slinky and bullseye they have to be in the hanker chief.
Buzz and Jack take off to rescue the lost toys and Buzz invites Woody, almost forgetting
him.
He heads into the kitchen and out the back door, Buzz dives through the cat door first.
Jack and Woody have their moment and Jack says to Woody in a sinister way, be careful
out there.
Accidents happen to those who least expect them and they both hop through the cat door.
The three follow grandma across the lawn and into the rose garden.
Buzz starts to sing "You've got a friend in me, softly to himself" and Jack joins in.
This part confused me because that song was not organically in the movie.
It was...
No.
Also, I don't know why I am lately associate that with Woody.
To me that's Woody's.
It's not.
It's just where the credits roll.
But it's like, how would you know that song?
I guess that's the creepy part?
Maybe.
They broke my brain when you said it.
Yeah, it was very forthwhile breaking for no reason whatsoever.
Other toys are also staring dead in the camera.
Yeah, it's the part of Gremlins too where all the Gremlins are in the theater and Hulk
Hulkelgans give us our movie back because they didn't need to be there.
Woody, under his breath, he says, "You wouldn't even notice me if I disappeared."
And he calls out to Buzz calling him partner, but there's no response.
For some reason this is making me think of Toy Story 4.
Yeah, we're kind of lost in the...
Doesn't Woody have a "You wouldn't even miss me?"
I think so.
I haven't seen that one in a long time.
Because he kind of goes on his own solo adventure.
So Buzz realizes Woody is gone and goes back to find him.
He orders Jack to keep trailing grandma.
Woody notices what might be a tale of a sock monkey in the shadows.
He feels something on his back and it's a spider.
He flails around until it jumps off.
Woody grabs a stick to protect himself.
Buzz finds a tool shed and stands near the door and calls out for Woody.
A strong breeze closes the door, knocking Buzz to the ground.
Caught in his head to pop off.
Buzz?
Buzz's head...
Right off.
I didn't know that it could do that either.
I also don't know why Woody's head made more sense to me to pop off, but...
Yeah, but Buzz's head just like he gets hit by the tool shed door, hits the ground.
Obviously, this is a darker, toned movie anyway.
But the animators have a pretty sick or the story people have a very...
This is a couple though, right?
Yeah.
No!
Like the lips, the head popping off.
It's the adult humor that wasn't 90s Disney movies that doesn't, like that we didn't
need anymore.
This is like Jeffrey Katzenberg's dream script because this is part of like why he got
fired from Disney is because when he was a story editor for Disney Animation, he was
constantly pushing for like toy story to be, it needs to be edgier.
It needs to be geared more towards adults and not children, which kind of makes sense why
the first CG animated movie he makes that he's in charge of is Shrek.
Yeah.
Or I was like way too old to realize that one of Sid's toys was a hooker.
Yep.
Buzz's head...
Popped off.
Right off.
Buzz, he's then calling out for his body to help find him.
Woody, then he hears Buzz and then runs towards the shed.
Buzz's body manages to finally pick up the head, but when he puts it on, he puts it on backwards
because this is a trope that we've seen in a million different movies.
Yep.
Yeah.
What full-fac-re banks?
Yeah, he puts it on backwards.
He quickly twists his head and he's in the right direction.
He walks to the door and comes face to face with Woody who accidentally hits him with a stick.
Woody is suddenly tied up with a yoyo and is hit multiple times by Jack with his pillowy
soft hands, but he yells at him to stop and Woody explains that hitting Buzz was an accident.
Jack entice Woody and he leads away to grandma.
Grandma is inside her greenhouse.
The three can't believe what they're seeing.
It's the middle of the night still, yeah?
Grandma is doing the tango with Victor, the 70-year-old gardener.
Okay.
Hi left field.
Grandma removes the hankerchief to reveal it's a bananas flambé that she made for Victor.
They're in love.
Why is Victor hanging out in the greenhouse at night?
Because it's a forbidden love.
He might be married.
Carry out.
Very curious as you were those going.
The three toys get yanked off the window by Angus, a garden gnome that speaks in--
Oh, I was like, who the hell?
So Angus, he is a garden gnome that speaks in a thick Irish accent.
William Buzz tried to explain that this is all a misunderstanding and Angus is trying to
give them some privacy because Victor is his friend.
Oh, he don't need.
Jack steps in and Angus recognizes him.
Says he saw the old lady making him and Jack corrects him and he says that he was purchased
at Sotheby's.
Gladiolla appears and she's out of breath from running.
She tells them that Jesse, she's now missing.
He all run back to the house as Angus mutters to himself.
I'm not mistaken.
It was ye.
Oh, my God.
They arrived to the pantry where Jesse was and they can't figure out how she disappeared.
There's only one entryway.
Buzz knocks on the wall and hears that it's empty.
There must be a hidden chamber on the other side.
Jack uses his yoyo to hook onto a latch and opens the door to a dumb waiter.
Hold up.
Yes.
He used the yoyo to open that door.
Why doesn't Jack just open the door to go back to Andy's room?
Because story.
Oh, no, because bulls eye is missing.
They had to go back for bulls eye.
Sure.
They open the latch and they open the dumb waiter.
The other toys are impressed.
They all climb into the dumb waiter.
No.
Really knowing what it is and Rex is messing around and he actually pulls the lever and suddenly
they're moving up.
The door opens into the attic.
Yeah.
The attic is a thing in 32.
Yeah.
It's more so like they don't want to be in the attic.
Nobody plays with the noise in the attic.
Yeah.
And then after what they've experienced at the daycare, they're just like, "You know, the
attic seems pretty great."
Yeah.
Woody jumps out first showing that he needs to be the leader and he lands in trips and his
nose nearly missing one of the mouse traps.
He warns the others about the mouse traps.
Just as he says it, a cloud moves and the moonlight fills the attic revealing hundreds
of loaded mouse traps.
Sure.
Woody takes a step back and snap.
And all hell breaks loose and every mouse trap goes off and the scene is like mouse hunt,
you know, with Leavins, Nathan Lane.
Yep.
After all the traps go off, the rest of the toys hop onto the floor and we see Woody
just covered and snapped mouse traps.
He achly gets up and he stands up and then another trap snaps on his foot.
What on earth?
Just slabs to a quamer, you know.
They search for Jesse but she's not there.
But they do find her hat and scrabble tiles that read, "No one will take my place."
The toys sit in a circle.
Woody goes over the facts that they know but Buzz concludes that this has to be one of
us.
Everyone is suspicious of each other.
They begin accusing each other in tensions escalate.
He's always suspicious because he knew about the renovations before anyone else.
Rex is suspicious because he's always the villain.
Yeah, well, he said that if we make it to the night, it was like a quote that he said earlier.
Also, he was the one that watched the movie.
Oh right.
Mr. Potato Head is suspicious because he left, quote unquote, left Mrs. Potato Head's lips
downstairs forcing everyone to leave.
Woody squashes their arguments because they all trust each other.
Woody says that he's with Woody but he accuses Gladiolla.
We cut to Gladiolla with her head stuck between slats at the end of the table and Woody
cracks him and says it's got to be Jack.
Jack turns it around on Woody and accuses him of being a murderer.
Ham chimes in with the time Woody pushed Buzz out the window and he got him trapped in
that homicidal neighbor kid's house.
Woody states that he doesn't have a motive and that's because Andy is a man.
Obviously, gonna choose him and Buzz and that's when everyone is like what?
I knew that that was coming.
Now everyone is in create.
Woody and Buzz steps between Woody and the rest of the toys.
Everyone stands down.
Buzz says that they should all just stay here until the morning.
They all sit in silence, eyeing each other.
Watching for anyone to make a move.
Rex is asleep until ham wakes him up and then Rex goes right back into eye and everyone
else.
Mr. Potato Head gets up to leave and everyone asks where he's going and he says if I'm
gonna stay here, I'm just gonna get something to read.
Also we've established that I'm not a threat.
So they agree to let him go and Mr. Potato Head he goes into the library.
He opens a book and says that's weird.
The power goes out again.
Mr. Potato Head sees who's been snatching up the toys and he says I don't believe it.
He quickly writes something in the dust on the floor.
The shadow looms over him and he's gone.
The lights come back on and we see the remainder of the toys in the attic.
Sans Jack.
From the hallway we hear Jack call for Buzz.
Woody and Buzz head into the hallway.
Jack calls for Buzz again but Woody is concerned about Mr. Potato Head and they split up.
Buzz chases after Jack and Woody is looking for Mr. Potato Head.
Jack in the attic, ham, Rex and Gladiole remain.
Just as Rex proclaims that as long as they sit together they'll be safe.
Ham is yanked off the screen and Rex and Gladiole panic.
Rex is suddenly taken to.
So now we just pour Gladiole by yourself?
Gladiole, Jack, Woody and Buzz all that remain.
But the three of them were just hanging out so poor Gladiole is...
By yourself, yeah.
Woody enters the library and notices an open heating duct.
He spots Potato Head's mustache and next to it in the dust it reads, "I know who did it.
It was and then it cuts up."
No name is revealed.
Buzz enters and points out the fact that he shouldn't have written "I know who did it."
Gladiole rushes in and tells the two that Ham and Rex were taken.
Jack enters.
Woody asks where he was and Jack replies that he tried to follow someone when the lights
went out but he lost them.
Buzz looks down at the heating duct and Jack says that the shafts lead to the furnace.
Jack goes on with another one of his stories from his past.
One about a deadly volcano, Mount Geronimo.
As he tells the tale Woody notices a book.
The same book Mr. Potato Head was reading.
He picks it up and starts reading.
He reads out loud the same exact story that Jack is saying on his own.
All the stories Jack have been spewing out.
"Oh, from this book!"
He's been ripped from the book "Safaria Fear" a Jack Challenger adventure.
And the other Jack Challenger adventure books.
Gladiole can't believe she was lied to.
Jack claims that his real name is "He-He."
And he's not from Sotheby's and his British accent is fake.
Oh my god.
Something that's in the script that I chose to leave out just because I would have messed
with this reveal is that whenever Jack speaks in the script it says "He-He" as the character.
Oh yeah.
And then he speaks under it.
Yeah.
See that's always a thing in screenwriting that I'm like if you want to keep your reader
along you never name the character "He-He."
So I had to like while putting together the snopsis whenever it said "He-He" did something
right.
But whatever I would have to on purpose change it to Jack.
That's fun for me.
Not so fun for you.
But the thing is like I had to go through all of this until the twist and I'm just like
"Ugh, I have to go back to the beginning."
We were right a bunch of stuff.
We flash back to when Grandma made "He-He."
After she finished him he placed him on the shelf next to Woody.
Oh.
They were supposed to be gifts for Andy.
In a bottle of glue accidentally spills on "He-He's Head" and Grandma tries to restore
him.
Woody washes off the glue and puts him outside on a clothesline.
But Winter was coming and "He-He" was frozen solid.
Oh my God.
To throw him Grandma put him in the microwave.
And through the microwave door "He-He" watched Andy open up his Christmas gift.
Grandma then puts "He-He" in the dryer and that's when "He-He" sees Andy playing with
Woody.
Just spinning around and Woody catches a glimpse of "He-He."
Woody thought he was taller.
But he explains that the dryer is what shrank him.
He-He spent days in the library and with all that time he read books and practices yo-yo.
When he was moved to the closet with Gladiolla he didn't want to admit that he was just another
toy like her.
So he told her about the Jack Challenger stories as if they were his own.
"He-He" is broken.
Woody took everything from him.
He even took his fabricated stories.
Woody is relieved because "He-He" could never replace him and "He-He" was getting
rid of everyone so that it would only be Buzz in him.
He then accuses "He-He" as the murderer and "He-He" corrects Woody and he says "I'm
no murderer.
I'm just a fraud."
"He-He" runs out of the room and Buzz tells Woody that he owes "He-He" an apology.
Woody still believes that "He's the murderer" and Buzz explains that he can't be the murderer
because he saved his life.
He may not be Jack Challenger but he's a hero.
Woody has had enough and he tells Buzz to go off with his new best friend.
Woody's always a jerk.
Yeah.
God!
He's always been a jerk even from the first movie.
It's fair, right?
Just.
Gladiolla goes to find "He-He" in the cellar.
We see the furnace in the corner and two knitted needles loom in front of her.
Woody hears Gladiolla scream and he runs to the cellar.
In the cellar we find a pile of Gladiolla colored yarn and a pair of knitting needles.
Buzz appears at the top of the stairs and sees Woody and the pile of Gladiolla's yarn.
He-He appears in both Woody and "He-He" yell "You" accusing each other of Gladiolla's
fate.
The two of them pick up the knitting needles and use them to sword fight each other.
They fence across the floor and up the stairs and Woody's needle accidentally hits Buzz
and knocks him off the stairs and onto the floor.
The fight continues into the kitchen.
Oh but this time his head doesn't pop off?
Yeah it doesn't.
Woody runs into the library and stands in front of the open heating duct.
He flings his yoyo towards Woody and wraps around him.
Woody grabs the string and he yanks it and causing he-he to fly past him and he falls into
the open heating duct.
Yes, we're going to the furnace.
It's gonna look like trash can.
Buzz stands in the doorway and he sees wood tiles fall from Woody's pant legs.
Buzz is definitely not convinced that Woody is innocent.
Woody says he was going to use them to frame he-he because he's definitely the murderer.
Buzz is really convinced that Woody is now the murderer.
Woody runs and chases it after Buzz.
Woody is cornered in the bathroom upstairs but in desperation he jumps out the window
and climbs up the drain pipe onto the roof.
Buzz continues to chase him and the two climb to the top of the roof.
Rain pours down on them.
Buzz and Woody have a standoff.
Behind Buzz is a weather vane and it spins in the wind.
Yeah.
Woody he warns Buzz to look out but Buzz thinks he's lying.
The weather vane then hits Buzz and sends him down the roof.
Woody jumps and slides after him.
Buzz clings onto the gutter and Woody reaches out his hand to save him but Buzz refuses.
The gutter starts to break off the edge of the roof.
Woody tries again.
Looks Buzz into the eyes and simply says, "Trust me."
Buzz has a change of heart and grabs his hand.
Woody's feet slip and they both plummet three stories off of the roof.
Oh my god.
They crash through a tree hitting every branch on the way down but they're still holding
hands.
Oh my god.
Who's the water hole?
What part is this?
They're all holding hands.
Oh yeah.
They're still holding hands.
There's always the holding of the hands and it's always the thing in all of the.
They get snagged on one of the branches just long enough to see if they're okay and then
that branch snaps.
They hit a branch and they're just like they finally get a time to stop and they're like,
"Are you okay?"
I'm like, "Yes."
"I'm okay."
And then that branch snaps and they continue to fall to the ground.
And finally enough, once they hit the ground, Buzz, guess what happened to Buzz?
Pops off?
Is that Pops off again?
What on earth?
Woody screams at the site and Buzz has had yells to Woody and they laugh about the situation.
They put Buzz together and Buzz apologized to Woody and he says he let that sock monkey
pull the wool over his eye.
And Woody suddenly remembers what Gladiole had said earlier that she was 100% wool and
that ball of yarn that he felt was more acrylic.
Hmm, a net of yarn falls on Woody and Buzz and they are yanked up in a trap.
Gladiole appears unscathed.
She's either in distress or she is the villain and there is no in between.
She gives a villain monologue explaining that she did this because she was in love with Jack
Challenger.
She recalls the first time they met-
When she was placed in the closet next to her.
When she saw the toys arriving from the attic, Jack was excited to finally meet new toys
but Gladiole wanted him all to herself.
In a flashback we see her push a log that knocks Buzz into the fire.
She was hoping just to scare them away but when that failed, she used her crafting skills
to get rid of the toys one by one.
She also made up the story of Andy having to only choose two toys in that way they would
turn on each other.
But since Buzz and Woody caused him to go down into the heat vent, now she is angry.
They got rid of her only love.
Now we are going to get him out of the heat.
It's now morning and Gladiole is dragging Woody and Buzz across the lawn and throws him
into the trash can.
This trash day and the garbage truck is making its way down to Grandma's house.
Yep.
It's always trash day.
There's always the looming garbage truck going down the road.
In the can are all the other toys, all tied up in yarn and half buried in garbage.
Jesse rubs her hands on an old butter wrapper and slips out of the yarn.
She unties the other toys.
They're about to escape but it's too late.
The garbage man peeks inside and he swears that he heard someone talking.
The other garbage man says that this job will play tricks on your mind.
And he pulls out the bag and he heaves it into the truck.
They're trying to break out of the bag but it's too strong.
Rex uses teeth to tear open one of the bags and they're about to jump out of the truck
but then they get hit with more garbage.
The garbage man announces that this is the last stop and now it's off to the dump.
The other...
The other garbage man hits the trash compactor button and the toys are trapped in the truck
as the walls are closing in.
Yep, yep.
The camera zooms out of the truck and flies into grandma's house into the library down
to the heating vent where we find jack, bracing himself against the edges of the vents and
he's right above the red hot coals.
He uses his yo-yo, Indiana Jones style to swing out of the furnace and barely synging
himself on the coals.
He runs out the cat door and comes face to face with Gladiolla.
They're both shocked to see each other alive.
Gladiolla admits that she had done a bad thing.
Jack puts it together that the other toys are in the garbage truck.
He chases after the truck and he leaps for it and misses.
He uses his trusty yo-yo to hook onto the back of the truck and he's able to climb his
way onto the truck that way.
A very toy story of one of you.
The garbage man sees Jack in the rear of your mirror and now he thinks he's really using
it.
Inside, the toys use a mop handle to stop the walls, but it snaps.
They look up to see an opening that they can go through, but they can't climb up there.
They find a ready-wit bottle and Buzz has an idea.
When everyone hangs on to Buzz and he says the signature for catchphrase, he hits the
valve and the can sprays a whip cream all over the toys and they go nowhere.
From the top, we hear enough catchphrase.
Looks like we're in a bit of a sticky situation.
It's Jack and Jack lowers his yo-yo to the toy so that they can climb out before they
get crushed.
On top of the garbage truck, they reunite.
Woody and Jack are actually happy to see each other and they make amends.
But just then, Jesse points out they're about to get on the highway and Mr. Potato Head
falls off the truck and catches the compactor lever, releasing garbage all over the road.
Cars are honking and swerving off the road.
The toys create a chain of themselves to get Mr. Potato Head.
Next to the truck is a farm truck full of pigs.
The pigs see Mr. Potato Head and get close enough to start licking him.
The toys manage to rescue Mr. Potato Head before he gets eaten.
They find a pizza planet, pizza box, and they use it to get off the truck so they kind of
like sort onto the ground.
They jump, but Jack is stuck to a piece of yarn and doesn't go with him.
The toys on the pizza box skid to a stop and Woody is off to rescue Jack.
He uses his pull string to lasso onto the pig truck and he and the other toys are dragged
along the pavement while still on the box.
Jack gets free and sees Woody as the farmer pulls alongside the garbage truck.
Jack jumps and Woody catches him.
The farmer in the truck sees the toys in the rear view mirror and stops the truck immediately.
Him is then flung over the truck and lands on the windshield.
The farmer screams and he peels out.
He's buzzing the back of the truck to open up and the pigs spill out all over the road.
I mean that's kind of funny.
A toy pig lands on his windshield.
Yep.
And then him falls onto the ground right next to where all the toys are.
Very convenient.
Very.
Moments later we see pigs scattered all over the road, blocking traffic with police and
the farmer trying to wrangle them up.
In a drainage ditch we see the toys are safe hidden from the humans on the road.
Jack and Woody think each other for saving their lives and how this adventure would be better
than anything.
Jack read in a book.
Rex does ask how are they going to get back and Woody has an idea and we see the toys
on top of the pig as Woody dangles Mr. Potato Head on a stick in front of his face staring
him back to the house.
Isn't that the, do you something with a dog too like that?
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
They get back to grandma's front yard and they come across claddeola.
The toys put up their guard but claddeola says that she's not there to hurt them.
She's just in love.
But instead she apologizes and to wrap up this movie in under 90 minutes the toys forgive
her.
Claddeola admits that she loves Jack and he admits that he knew all along and that he loves
her too.
Oh my god.
What a jerk.
He knew and didn't.
Yeah.
The two dance to an orchestral version of Let's Get Physical.
So when she had her walkman like that was the song that was just kind of like on repeat
over and over again is Let's Get Physical and she would dance to that.
So all the toys they say they're goodbyes.
In back at Andy's house Andy tells his mom about grandma's house and how creepy it was and
she told him a scary story.
Grandma also told him about the sock monkey toys that she has and sometimes she sees them
walking around the house.
Andy's mom dismisses the story and says that's grandma for years.
Andy goes into his new room and his mom shows him all of his new shelves to help store all
of his toys and more toys in the future.
He throws his toys onto his bed.
Mom takes a whiff at them and he's like those definitely need to be washed.
They leave and the toys wake up reuniting after quite an adventure.
Bo Peep whispers something to Woody and Woody informs Buzz that he's going to go on a walk
with Bo Peep.
Buzz is left alone and notices his utility belt is missing.
Jesse has taken it and starts teasing Buzz.
The two of them wrestle over the stolen item and they tumble off the bed.
Buzz's visor flips up and Jesse gives them a kiss.
The two of them kiss and that's the end of the movie.
They don't kiss in three but the visor flip up is.
Yeah, the shipping of the two of them are like pretty strong.
It's copy paste.
That's the thing that I like this movie and its darkness which is why I also liked Toy Story
of Terror but I think the like lot so just being an evil bear and it not being a romance
is kind of nice.
Yeah.
You get his backstory where you're just like I get it.
I understand how you're cynical.
I like that thing.
You never lived in precedent at times either.
Unfortunately or fortunately, however you look at this, this was not the draft that
was picked by Circle of Seven Animation.
And that will be the end of Toy Story 3 part one.
Yeah.
So we're going to come back for part two.
We're going to go over the recall script and you'll better understand that when you listen
to the next episode.
Part two.
We are going to wrap things up here.
Before we go, we do want to give our recommendations of movies or TV shows that we've watched recently
that we would like you to watch.
Lexcee, do you have anything that you would recommend to our audience?
I mean, I feel like the whole world is like obsessions and back rooms and obsessions and
back rooms and hacks.
Listen, hacks is wonderful and I don't know why you brought it up.
I'm in mourning.
Listen, if you haven't seen the final season of hacks, I don't know what you're doing with
your entire life, it's beautiful and brilliant and hacks is just the greatest show in the
last decade.
But beyond the obsessions and back rooms and hacks, I saw I love boosters.
I think Booth's Riley gets better with every film.
The blend of color and comedy with some real world issue discussions is strong suit and we
are in a very wonderfully creative time since I think the last time we had a show air.
So...
Did I watch, sorry to bother you, in our really love that movie and it very much is in line
with that where it is dealing with the surreal but also at the same time it does hit a lot
of like real life issues and the financial insecurities and the inequalities that are out there
like Booth Riley does a really really good job of just like laying that out in front of
the audience and just be like, do you see this?
Because I see this every day and I need you to see it too.
And you haven't seen it yet?
I've not.
There are some camera tricks in there that I know are going to be like, "Ooh, I love camera
tricks."
Awesome.
My recommendation, kind of that field for me but I really enjoyed the movie, that was really
cute.
It was remarkably bright creatures.
It's so good!
It's really good, it has Sally field in it and it has the little Pullman in it.
I mean, listen.
Sibble steals it every time.
But yeah, I mean Lewis Pullman is his name, Bill Pullman's son.
Baby Pullman.
And there are shots in there where you're just like, "Oh my God, you are your dad."
Yes.
You see it and you're just like, "This is my Independence Day."
And like the creature work, it clearly is.
It's CG and it's not the most realistic octopus I've ever seen but it's not jar.
It's just well done where I was like, "This is cute."
You made an octopus feel realistic and like sweet but also voiced by Doc Ock.
Yeah.
Well done.
Alfred Molina, Doc Ock is voicing an octopus.
You like, yeah.
Marcelus is a grouchy old man.
Whoever the casting director, there's only one man that can fulfill this role.
If we don't get him, I'm gonna be mad.
I will say that book was on my reading list and then they announced the casting and I was
like, "Never in my wildest dreams did I think Doc Ock for the octopus."
But it works.
It works really well.
He does a really good job.
The other two are so sweet and charming that you kind of need that balance or it would
be too, like if it was a sweet voice, it becomes too saccharine.
But I agree that I feel like it came out and went under the radar and needs more attention.
Well done.
Good suggestion.
Yeah.
It's on Netflix.
It is on Netflix.
But that is my recommendation.
Is there anything else you'd like to say to our audience before ending part one?
Go see a movie.
Everyone go see a movie.
Go see a movie.
We're starting to edge out of franchises and IP a little bit and that's not to say that
those are not great.
A24 is having a summer.
I will say.
A24 is.
But also, I saw I love boosters two or three weeks after it came out.
It was still packed.
I cannot remember the last time and people were laughing and having a good time.
The other thing that I am so thankful for that I have seen more and more of is people sitting
through the credits and going, look how many people it took to make this or like that's
my friend or this is cool.
As a kid, I feel like the credits started rolling and everybody's parents are like, all right,
let's go back to the car.
So it's kind of beautiful to see people at least taking a minute and appreciating the industry
and I'm hoping that that's because it did feel like it was dying and now everyone's
like, oh, I should cherish this thing.
While it's here, but also look at this cool thing and all these people.
We might be on an upturn.
Yeah.
Ever so slightly, there's still lots of issues, but it feels more optimistic than it has
in a while.
It does.
It feels good.
So normally I would go through all the plugs for the show.
Here's the thing.
We changed the name of the show to development purgatory.
Don't sound so sad about it.
The name change for the podcast I felt like is needed to better fit.
What is it that we're presenting?
And when it came to how did this not get made, it felt like we were made to solely focus
on like just the stuff that didn't get made when so much of the research dives into the
history of the IP, a person's career, it dives deeper into more than just hey, this thing
didn't get made.
And I think development purgatory better reflects like the overall content rather than a fraction
of what we discuss.
Right.
And there's not as everyone will know how frustrated I get that I can find this fun thing
that didn't get made, but then there's no script.
There are like people and storylines and company like there are so many components about
this industry that don't happen.
I think you've said it multiple.
I mean, a bunch of people have said it multiple times, it's the miracle that movies get made.
And so this does allow us to stay in a lane, but also explore things further.
Yeah.
So all this to say all of our social media handles have changed.
And I don't know what they are going to be or what they are exactly from when we're
recorded it to when this is out now, but I will say that the handles have changed.
The some form of development purgatory.
Yes.
So back into the old episodes and change those that is there to like capture the moment in
which I made the show and what I felt was the right title at that moment, not knowing what
the podcast would eventually evolve into.
And I think the name now better reflects what has turned into everything has changed.
Don't worry.
We're still delivering the same show.
We're the same.
Everything else has changed.
Everything, the label, the front end is just changed and that's that's pretty much it.
Times change and so we must change with them.
Yeah.
And if you're already following us on social media, you don't have to do anything.
Just our handles are going to change.
The follows were not.
Nope.
No.
Okay.
Yep.
So, yep.
We'll see you in part two of our story.
Part three for the recall script.
Somebody's poison the water hole.
infinity and beyond.