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#1

One thing I LOVE about the people at Pixar is the way they like to poke fun at

themselves and intertwine movie themes.

We’ve all seen inside jokes like the boy reading the Mr.

Incredible comic in the dentist’s waiting room in Finding Nemo, Andy’s cloud wallpaper in Randall’s camouflage

prep for a day of scaring, and the Lightyear tires donned by Lightning McQueen. I only listed a few of my

favorites, but there are numerous gags inserted into each movie by the good folks at Pixar to give fans an extra

thrill.

Here’s a thread for pointing out such things, even stuff that some of us might not have been able

to spot. :wink:

~~=oP

#2

I loved that scene in Cars where we catch a glimpse of the birds from “For the Birds” sitting on a

telephone wire… :mrgreen:

A really obvious one but all the jokes at the end of cars… hahah… the

Mike Car was cute…

#3

"We’re banished, genius! Stuck out in the wasteland without

chains!"

It’s not really a reference to other Pixar stuff, but I always found it funny that the bug

bar in A Bug’s Life is a can for “Fat-Free Lard,” if I remember correctly. :smiley: And just to make a sad

attempt at tying it in to Pixar in-jokes I’ll mention the Pizza Planet cup that’s lying on top of the bar and

falls off when it starts rolling.

#4

If you

look at the degrees and awards on the walls of the dentist’s office, you can see that he attended Pixar

University. There’s also the way that Syndrome walks that is patterned after John Walker’s(?) gait…

#5

There’s also lots of references to Emeryville, CA…

the location of Pixar Studios. (Too lazy to look them all up…).

#6

I know of two . . .

in Cars, where we see the town Welcoming Sign, and in the The Incredibles, where Helen presses the button on the

Homing Device . . . the little map points to Emeryville, and not Nomanisan.

#7

I think that the homing map points to Emeryville when E’s

showing Helen the device. Otherwise, Helen would just think that Bob was back at home, instead of cavorting

around a remote jungle island.

#8

I’m not

sure about the homing device, but aren’t the streets on Bob’s GPA system at the beginning all around

Emeryville?

I love the little toy Nemo Jack-Jack has in all the promotional pictures, even though it

wasn’t in the film, and Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s cameos.

#9

Oh!

That reminds me of the scenes in Boo’s bedroom in Monster’s Inc. where Boo is showing Sulley all her toys

including the Luxo ball, Jessie from TS, and a little Nemo I believe.

#10

You know what?? I

bet you’re right . . . I remembered it was SOME map!

Besides those, I also love the books "Tin

Toy," “Red’s Dream,” “Knick Knack,” & “A Bug’s Life” in Toy Story &

Toy Story 2!

Don’t forget the commercials we see in TS2 as well!!

#11

I noticed there is always a Toy

Story item in each Pixar movie.

#12

That’s because Toy Story has an especially

special place in the hearts of the Pixar animators/workers since it was the first… and such an amazing

achievement. There’s also some dates scattered around here and there… like McQueen’s '95… release date of

TS.

#13

I don’t remember ever seeing any toy Nemo,

although I do remember him having a Nemo bib in promotional pictures… I guess I’ll have to go look for that!

:smiley:

I know there are a fair amount of references to the Hidden City Caf?. The main one, of course, is the

restaurant of the same name in Monsters, Inc., but there are also at least two license plates on random cars in

Toy Story 2 that say HDNCTY or HIDNCTY or HDNCITY or some variation along those lines. I wouldn’t be surprised

if there are some other references elsewhere.

#14

Oops, that might be me getting confused! XD Late night! :wink:

#15

Here is a list i compiled at Upcoming Pixar of all the

references in Cars.

The Pizza Planet truck in the second Piston Cup race at the end of the movie near

the camera when the guys talk

The For The Birds birds on a powerline in the Life is a Highway Scene

Flo

has a sticker on her rear end ‘Motorama 1957’. Motorama being Pixar’s own car show. ANd '57 being John

Lasseter’s birth year

Photos on the wall in Sally’s Cozy Cone of features on Route 66.

The Eiffel

Tower picture in Lightning McQueen’s cozy cone a possible reference to Ratatouille?

Stanley (The founder of

Radiator Springs) is the car from Boundin’.

An Apple Racing Car

As Mack passes the sleeping trucks

just after the ‘Life is a Highway’ scene, you can see the Incredibles symbol on the side of a truck.

On a

car are the numbers: 23-19, a reference to the code of the Child Detection Agency in Monsters, Inc.

The

King’s sponser is Dinoco. Dinoco is the name of the gas station in Toy Story.

Lightning McQueen has

Lightyear Buzzard tires, which are both a parody of Goodyear tires, and a reference to Buzz Lightyear.

Lightning McQueen’s number is 95, the year Toy Story was released

Chick Hicks number is 86, the year the

short Luxo Jr was released

The King’s (Strip Weathers) number is 43, is Richard Petty’s (the voice of The

King) number from when he was a NASCAR racer.

‘McQueen’ is a tribute to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator

who died in 2002; and also Steve McQueen, a racing legend turned actor

Before the 2nd Piston Cup race, when

they are showing that parts of the city closed, one of the signs says ‘City Of Emeryville’, Emeryville being

where Pixar is located

In the ad for ‘Rust-Eze’ at the beginning of the movie, the rusty car has on his

number plate, ‘EVILLE’, being Emeryville, the location of Pixar in San Fran

Fillmores license plate number

is George Carlin’s, the voice of Fillmore’s, birthday

The train that Lightning McQueen jumps in front of,

it’s number is A113, a reference to the room at CalArts

Maters number plate is A113, again from

CalArts

At the beginning of the movie You can see the Jackalope from Boundin, he’s hiding on the back of a

motor home.

Also I saw if you look into the sky you can see the Airplanes exhause trails look like tire

tracks.

The flowers are made of cars fins and tailgates, and the ceiling fan in the courthouse are actually

engine fans

When Lightning McQueen dreams of him being sponsered by Dinoco, the big spark plug tripods

resemble the tripods from Spielbergs adaption of ‘War of the Worlds’

In the teaser trailer for Cars, there

is a symbol on one of the tires that says JLP, standing for John Lasseter Production?

There is a motor home

at the second Piston Cup race that is surround by a pool and flamingos in reference to the Pixar short, Knick

Knack.

#16

If you count that one then you have to count in the scene where Lightning is

first being chased by Sheriff at night and he thinks he’s being shot at, the line "Serpantine!

Serpantine!" is a refference to the movie “The In-laws.”

#17

Watch The Incredibles. During the final battle with

the Omnidroid, while Mr. Incredible is holding the claw after its jet has activated, as he shouts

“Honey!” to Elastigirl, a non-anthropomorphized Doc Hudson can be seen in the background.

Next

to the Trailer in A Bug’s Life, the Pizza Planet Truck is parked.

The trailer Randal gets sent to in

Monster’s Inc. is the same one as in A Bug’s Life. The PP Truck is still there.

A113 Watch:

TS -

Registration of Andy’s Mom’s Car
ABL - Bar code on ceral box as Flik enters the ‘city’.
TS2 - "Now

boarding, LassetAir Flight A113"
MI - Seen in background when Sulley thinks Boo has gone down the garbage

chute.
Finding Nemo - Model of the camera the dentist takes a picture of Marlin of.
Incredibles - Room Mr.

Incredible is ambushed by the Omnidroid in. Also, Mr. Incredible is held in Cell block A1, Unit 13
Cars -

Mater’s Licence Plate, also the model of the Train Lightning races to a level crossing.

In the very last

scene of Finding Nemo before the credits, when the tank fish have escaped, a car that looks a lot like Luigi can

be seen speeding by.

#18

Don’t forget Mike Wazowski in the FN credtis . . .

guess he just fishing, or trying to get us to see an underwater rendition of "Put that Thing Where it Came

From, or so Help Me!"

#19

Lighting’s

tires are called “Lightyear Tires”

#20

To be more precise, their called

Lightyear Buzzard Tires, to make MORE fun out of the Goodyear Eagle Tires & Buzz Lightyear!