History Fridge / Cars

* The setting for Cars and Planes takes place in a distant future, where AI's defeated and exterminated humanity. After the war, the machines remade the world into a semi-image of our "modern" times. That's why there are no humans, yet things like the United States and Japan exist, not to mention production models of vehicles from Earth. This happy, bright colored Pixar Disney world is built on the crushed bones of a dead and forgotten mankind. The machines, perhaps to spite their creators, refuse to our "humanoid shape" as bodies and use the forms of cars, ships, and planes instead!

* The setting for Cars and Planes takes place in a distant future, where AI's defeated and exterminated humanity. After the war, the machines remade the world into a semi-image of our "modern" times. That's why there are no humans, yet things like the United States and Japan exist, not to mention production models of vehicles from Earth. This happy, bright colored Pixar Disney world is built on the crushed bones of a dead and forgotten mankind.

* The setting for Cars and Planes take place in a distant future, where AI's defeated and exterminated humanity. After the war, the machines remade the world into a semi-image of our "modern" times. That's why there are no humans, yet things like the United States and Japan exist, not to mention production models of vehicles from Earth. This happy, bright colored Pixar Disney world is built on the crushed bones of a dead and forgotten mankind.

* FridgeBrilliance: Mater being interested in the French market not only because there's interesting stuff, but since it's his job to tow stuff around he'd probably like to see all the stuff and learn about it to increase his knowledge...if you call it that.

* FridgeHorror: #4 in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15070_the-10-best-animated-movies-traumatizing-kids.html?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=flashback this]] {{Website/Cracked}} article.
* FridgeHorror: The BigBad manipulating the lemon mobs can carry out conversations while in the middle of what could be considered open-heart surgery. ''Repetitive'' open-heart surgery. How much anaesthetic would ''that'' take?!

** However, it does sort of mitigate the above bit of Fridge Horror. If the car's "brain" is its engine and can be switched out, then there's the chance of change for any of them.

** Not necessarily, they probably get to move around in the water/air/rails just like the cars get to do on road. In fact cars probably need to cart around boats on land.

* Pixar's [[{{Cars}} Cars 2]] shows that many of the cars have weapons mounted underneath panels. So does that mean they basically have to be "surgically" altered for certain jobs?

** Or the humans just aren't and never were there.

* FridgeHorror: #4 in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15070_the-10-best-animated-movies-traumatizing-kids.html?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=flashback this]] {{Cracked}} article.

* In one of the rejected ideas for the movie, [=McQueen=]'s engine is taken out of his body and put in the machine that paves roads. And the engine of the machine that paves roads is put into [=McQueen=]'s body, and runs off to live [=McQueen=]'s life. The whole concept is just rife with fridge horror, imagine a human equivalent.

* When we see Stephenson the bullet train take Mater, Finn McMissile, and Holly Shiftwell from Paris to Italy so they can infiltrate the Lemons' casino, pay very close attention to Stephenson's caboose (it only appears for a split-second) after emerging from the tunnel leading to Italy.

* In one of the rejected ideas for the movie, McQueen's engine is taken out of his body and put in the machine that paves roads. And the engine of the machine that paves roads is put into McQueen's body, and runs off to live McQueen's life. The whole concept is just rife with fridge horror, imagine a human equivalent.

* In Cars 2 the discussion about dinosaurs and fossil fuels are brought, chiefly that fossil fuels such as gasoline are derived from dead dinosaurs in a manner analogous if not identical to fossil fuels for us humans. So think about that for a second: gasoline serves as the main sustenance for cars in this universe and gasoline, a fossil fuel, is derived from dead dinosaurs. But in the Cars universe, everything is a car or at least some sort of vehicle, thus dinosaurs can be assumed to be cars as well. This means that when a car in Cars drinks gasoline, they are in fact eating their long dead ancestors. [[IncrediblyLamePun Carlton Heston]] [[SoylentGreen was right]].

* During the first race of the film, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red-ones-go-faster2_1730.jpg as seen in this still frame here]], the entire audience in the background is composed of either red or blue spots, and no obvious green spots. This means that every car there is supporting either McQueen or King, and not as many obvious supporters of Chick. It certainly makes a bit more obvious why [[GreenEyedMonster Chick is so jealous]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Mater being interested in the French market not only because there's interesting stuff, but since it's his job to tow stuff around he'd probably like to see what type of stuff to increase his knowledge...if you call it that.

* So if Cars are mechanical life forms, they were probably built somewhere, not born. We know that automotive companies exist, and Lightning refers to himself as a precision machine, implying he was designed. This means that cars are created to have certain capacities and deficiencies by design. The Lemons, for example, were all designed to be kind of crappy, and Mater, being a tow truck, was designed to tow cars. And of course, if cars are built in factories, there's probably some kind of assembly line system at work. Now, imagine that in human terms. People are being made on an assembly line, specifically designed to be better or worse than others and given qualities that will determine their entire life, practically from birth. The Car society is just a few doses of Soma away from being BraveNewWorld. The society in Brave New World was even based on the example of ''Henry Ford''.

* So if Cars are mechanical life forms, they were probably built somewhere, not born. We know that automotive companies exist, and Lightning refers to himself as a precision machine, implying he was designed. This means that cars are created to have certain capacities and deficiencies by design. The Lemons, for example, were all designed to be kind of crappy, and Mater, being a tow truck, was designed to tow cars. And of course, if cars are built in factories, there's probably some kind of assembly line system at work. Now, imagine that in human terms. People are being made on an assembly line, specifically designed to be better or worse than others and given qualities that will determine their entire life, practically from birth. The Car society is just a few doses of Soma away from being BraveNewWorld. The society in Brave New World was even based on the example of ''Henry Ford''.

** Could that be elaborated on for people without the DVD?

* When we see Stephenson the bullet train take Mater, Finn McMissile, and Holly Shiftwell from Paris to Italy so they can infiltrate the Lemons' casino, pay very close attention to Stephenson's caboose (it only appears for a split-second) after emerging from the tunnel leading to Italy.

* What if [[spoiler: Miles Axlerod]] didn't leak oil onto the carpet at the party?