But wasn’t that supposed to be the funny part? I mean, the audience already
knows Mike had his tail tucked between his legs during the whole ordeal, and he ends up portraying his actions
completely differently in his play! He’s such a little liar.
I thought that was
hilarious.
Nexas is the only one who
sees it. ;3
DoubleLatte- I found it more annoying than funny, since he, Sulley, Randall,
Waternoose and Boo (and Fungus and Celia too, I guess) were the only ones to really experience what happened, so
what Mike is telling everyone is just a bunch of lies. He’s even lying to his own mother. It just seems a
bit…much. I mean, if it was about a little thing that happened, like the company advert, for example, with Mike
saying how great he is, that is funny because he interprets things the way he wants to and, in these small cases,
it doesn’t really matter. But when it comes to something as big as what happened with Waternoose and Randall and
the SE, especially since people’s lives were potentially at stake, twisting the story is a step too far.
Anhywho, that’s just how I see it.
We already
know Mike is telling us a bunch of lies. That’s what made it funny to whoever has seen MI for the first time and
is willing to stop at that without further analyzing it, or HAS analyzed it and still finds it comical. 
Twisting stories is Mike’s specialty, and I’m sure he already has a reputation settled for him at the workplace
about his tendency to do so.
If you want to go a step further, then yeah, what Mike (and Sullivan) did
greatly jeopardized someone’s safety and possibly his life as well; but you can’t put the blame
entirely on Mike. For all we know, it was more or less the lack of integrity on
Fungus’ part as well for not having stepped up and at least questioned a vastly different version of the events
when someone he worked for never returned. Fungus might have been left in the dark about Randall’s whereabouts
after he chased Sulley and Mike into the door vault, but he must have known exactly
what kind of trouble Randall had gotten himself into. Absolutely no one even wondered where one MI employee had
gone off to, despite him having been very well known for a temper and an attitude. You can’t just not notice
that someone with such an intimidating presence is missing. It could be argued that Fungus might just as easily
have bought Mike’s version of the truth; but what could Mike have possibly made up that made no one question
Randall’s sudden disappearance?
I don’t think it’s entirely improbable that they decided to go ahead
and stick to the true version (with a few modifications at Mike’s request of maybe him being the one who
rendered Randall helpless) of throwing Randall out a door and into the human world in the play. From an
over-analytical POV anyway, the Monster world’s law system appears to be obscenely faulty if someone like Sulley
becomes the CEO of a company with no questions asked. Mike’s and Sullivan’s actions might have been viewed as
acts of heroism, while in our world, you get cuffed and frisked merely for being a
suspect.
So, yeah. All I’m saying is this: the focus is waaay too much on how Wazowski was the king of
cowards and lied his little butt off while Randall was out in a trailer in the bayou, possibly dying of a
concussion, while Fungus apparently gets off the hook. I’m not a Mike fan, but I really DO think he’s getting
dumped on far more than anyone else who had a much more direct impact in Randall’s life and the future of his
well-being, including Fungus and Sullivan, who was the one who HAD Randall completely immobilized and therefore
completely harmless. All Mike did was talk and lie and really would have had very little to do with Randall’s
outcome considering how weak he was…
DoubleLatte- Yeah, I do see that Mike wasn’t really affecting the final outcome of
what was to happen to Randall, and that others, such as Fungus, could’ve tried harder to change things, but I
wasn’t really mentioning any of the other monsters. I wasn’t blaming Mike entirely- I was just saying that
twisting the story to such an extent that he did seems morally wrong. It does pale in comparison to what Sulley
did, technically, and what Fungus lacked in doing, but I was only talking about the company play, not the whole
film itself, and I was only mentioning how Mike is quite happy to decieve people that are meant to be close to
him. The other stuff is a little OT.
Well I always laugh out loud
whenever Mike yells in pain- When Roz slams the gate down on his fingers, when that kid monster bites his hand,
when boo sneezes and he sprays disinfectant in his eye. It’s just the way Billy Crystal did that that made it
hilarious! But my fav part is the whole ‘rehearsing a scene from the musical’ bit. I love it! Mike starts
singing and prancing around. "Put that thing back where it came from or so help meeeee. So help me! So help
me! and cut!"
Then stop
looking and start thinking instead.
DoubleLatte
Well Wazowski doesn’t
consider himself a liar or coward, so it’s only natural he’d assume the same from everyone else.
Whether
you choose to believe truth is up to you. And no I am not the only one who sees it. I am the only one who sees it
clearly.
Lizardgirl
Think of it this way. They could not tell the TRUE
story. The C.D.A. were there to ensure that. Seeing as how SOMEONE wanted a play on what events happened,
Sullivan and Wazowski had to change things so what could NOT be said would be told to the public. And we all know
who made the changes in the play I assure that.
DoubleLatte
Not really
comical…
Fungus is relatively a coward geek who takes…well I won’t go there yet.
I wouldn’t
put it past Wazowski to think something up. He’s got a lie for everything.
So you finally go with
Reptilian Racism…bravo.
There Sullivan…a year or so…no training seemingly and he’s a CEO simply due
to Laugh Energy…kinda generous no?
Ha ha…heroism…such a…flimsy word.
Ha ha! Blame the person or
the gun ha hah…
Fungus was merely a lackey…one who yes took a but of pleasure in Ran’s upset
mood…though his worry of Randall in terms of where he was he could probably care less…being seen probably as
a pawn in what went on he probably got away with sympathy.
As for Sullivan…whether his idea or Wazowskis,
which popularity chooses it was him, Sullivan WAS the one to commit the act of tossing him in. And going further
to destroy the door and realish the moment…some
hero.
Lizardgirl
There are lies all around us. From the simple "I
didn’t do it" to “it doesn’t exist”…
OT or not, making a good point is good enough to
me.
“Kitty!”.
switch, Monsters Inc is there."
the barcode is covering Mike’s face and he goes "Oh my god! … I’m on the front cover of a
magazine!" LOL
I agree. Those scene are probably the most popular scenes
of all Monster’s Inc, according to the people I know.
(Haha) I’m glad you brought up the Mike and the Magazine part, that and the
Monsters Inc icon covering up his face on the commercial gotta be some of the
funniest parts! 
Oh and Celia’s like: “Oh, Googly Bear!” when Mike sees his
“face”! That is just great!
I don’t know if this
has been mentioned before, but I love that bit where they’re interviewing monsters just after Harryhausen’s had
been blown up, and one of the monsters says something like, 'I tried to get away from it, but it picked me up
with its mind powers and shook me like a doll!', and another monster who has like a billion eyes says, 'It’s
true! I saw the whole thing!’
lizardgirl - Pff – oh man, I was laughing so hard at that part. I love how Pixar
pulled off the whole thing to make it actually look like a news report/commercial.
Mitch- "…Now is the
time…to…PANIC!"
This may sound weird to you, but my favorite part is when Boo gets the Little Mikey bear and when Mike takes it away, she starts screaming. I thought it was funny how Mike named a teddy bear after him. Also, when she starts screaming, and Sully tries to cheer her up, then that whole “AHH! SHE TOUCHED ME!” and “SULLY the bear!” and Mike makes her laugh.
I found that part real cute.
LG: XD Yes! 
The greatest part in my quite humble opinion was when monster-i-fied Boo started hanging out with the monster children, and when asked her name, she replied “MIKE WAZOWSKI!!” and all the children repeated her.
Hmm… what a run on sentence…
With regards to that scene, MY favorite part there is when Boo starts screaming, and Sulley makes the mistake of trying to use adult logic on a two-year-old(a technique which is proven to be highly ineffective), by telling her, “he’s(the Teddy bear) not crying, so neither should YOU!” That never worked for my grandmother, who used to try it with me when I was a little kid, so it’s no wonder it failed miserably with Boo!
pitbulllady
I love that bit too, Pixelated! And the next scene when Sulley’s getting all upset about Boo having been supposedly crushed in the rubbish thing, and he says that he can still hear her little voice. When Mike agrees (because the little kids are all running around and shouting ‘Mike Wazowski!’) and asks how many kids he’s got in there, I always laugh.
Haha, yeah LG…
Wait… does a double take
Piexelated? You can’t even spell my own name?! You must not like me… 
I’m not sure I can pick a favorite part. I liked the company play pun though. Also, the scene in the house with Boo was kinda cool. I hearted the whole movie though.
Oh noes! Typo! 
And on PixarPlanetdA, I really struggled to type out iPixelated correctly. I don’t know why- perhaps it’s the lower case ‘i’?
I like you really!