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[Note: Since Patreon has a file size limit per upload, from now on we'll be uploading these super-size episodes of What A Cartoon Movie! in two segments in order to give you the best audio quality possible. So if you haven't listened to this history segment first, please do that now!]

Hey howdy hey, it's time for May's episode of What A Cartoon Movie! And the winner of this month's Pixar sequel poll is—unsurprisingly—the fantastic Toy Story 2. It's an amazing follow-up that quite honestly shouldn't be thanks to the extremely small window of time Pixar had to rescue and finish it, and we go into Toy Story 2's surprisingly rich history—including some big facts most folks (even us) get wrong! And, as always, we give a full, scene-by-scene breakdown of the entire film, with lots of fun trivia, clips, and jokes about your favorite molded plastic characters. Now ride like the wind and get ready for another great podcast!

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Frank Grimes

Out the quadrilogy, this one's still my favorite

Jo Quigley

Bob... I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but your spec script is basically the plot of Sausage Party. You accidentally came up with the plot of Sausage Party. P.S. I hope you do Ratatouille one day as the whole thing is basically a big metaphor for Pixar and Disney's relationship. Including a short villain who resells classic beloved food directly to people's homes.

Frank Grimes

I personally prefer the Buzz ride over TS madness, only because TS madness makes my arms tired, since you gotta constantly pull the string to shoot, whereas the Buzz is just a laser gun. Only thing really fun about TS madness is the talking Mr. Potato head, since it's interactive.

Ashley Treacy

2 is my favourite, I don't like 4, too photo realistic and bland , loses its charm, would have been better as just a forky short and Woodys animation is not a patch on 3 when he runs around

Colton

Just wanted to say that The New Adventures of Winnie Pooh cartoon *is* on Disney Plus (what Henry mistakenly referred to as "The Many Adventures of Winnie Pooh" lol). It was one of the first things I searched for after subbing, but I do wish the Aladdin show was available!

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Hi, guys. Loved the podcast. I'm a huge fan of the Toy Story movies but 2 is still my favourite. One piece of trivia that I thought you might find slightly interesting concerns British TV presenter Andrew "Andi" Peters. Andi was a famous kids show presenter who went on to do bigger things (although he's pretty off-the-radar these days - maybe I should look into that). In any case, he was a huge part of my childhood and when he presented a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Toy Story 2, I vividly remember a scene where John Lasseter surprised Andi by inviting him to be a voice in the film! Everything seemed to be going well as Andi recorded his line and finished his tour of the studio. However, it turned out his working visa prevented him from performing in the movie so he had to re-record it once he got back to the UK at the very last minute. With everything else going on at PIXAR, this generous offer/publicity stunt for a single line of dialogue must have been an extra headache. I wish I could find the footage to watch it again. So the next time you hear that baggage handler say "Hold it, there's a couple more bags coming from the terminal!", just remember this was yet another small part of the Toy Story 2 development hell saga. ^_^ Thanks for all the hard work. Looking forward to Toy Story 3 some day.

Dan Vincent

Hey guys, thanks for keeping us audio quality nerds in mind with the split! I really appreciate it, at least. Keep up the great work on the show.

KaiserBeamz

This film will hold a special place in my heart because it was the last film I saw in my old 8-screen multiplex that I saw most of the films of my early childhood in. A 16-screen theater opened up across town and the old one clinged on as a second-run theater for a year before going bust.

Bennett Billard

The Riders in the Sky TV show can best be described as "What if Cowboy Curtis had a spin-off?" It was the Gene Autry schtick by way of Pee-Wee postmodernism. Yes, I watched a lot of this as a kid and loved it.

nina matsumoto

I’d never seen a single minute of a Toy Story film until Bob showed me 1, 2, and 3 within the past... 6 months? Anyway I was very impressed by 1, but not as much by 2 (though it’s still good!) and 3.... I barely remember 3 even though I just watched it last week. 1 is without question the best film to me and the other two don’t come close at all.

Harry Thornton

The Star Wars connection goes even deeper: the film's sound was mixed AT Skywalker Sound, so i'd imagine they obviously have easy access to Star Wars sound effects. A crazy discovery I found: Randy Newman's score for that cleaning scene, played at the beginning of this podcast, sounds very close to the beginning of this section in Gustav Mahler's Symphony no. 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76h4U-7kUc Randy Newman has cited Mahler as an influence, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is where it came from. Toys in this universe being unable to "live" in a post-smartphone and security camera world's always stuck with me too. TS4 has a ridiculous amount of close calls with humans almost discovering the truth. Good on Bob: I love going to toy stores as well, and was a HUGE Lego kid. The cleaning Woody clip has gone viral labeled as the "most satisfying video ever", and oh yes I love those videos of things getting cleaned and restored. Rex talking about games being so hard they need strategy guides as extortion did sorta happen back in the heyday of adventure games, where it was often rumored that they were made so hard that you'd NEED to buy hintbooks or call up phone lines for them to get extra money. Lee Unkrich is the one pointing out the Six Million Dollar Man reference, and it's also referenced in TS3 (which he directed) during the furnace scene: Woody is holding onto a SMDM lunchbox, which was Lee 's favourite growing up.

Boomer Spacely

Estelle Harris is alive and kicking, but your explicit mentioning "Mrs. Costanza" without worrying about Mr. Costanza. And you also casually mentioned Fred Willard in passing. Talking Simpsons network adds two more celebrities to its heap. Also, I don't buy the dead dad theory. Why would Andy put HIS name on the foot if he had been part of the family for presumably another generation? I don't buy it. Anyway, thanks for killing off Jerry Stiller, ya jackasses. I look forward to your toy story games for retronauts. Make sure you do SNES and not Genesis