History WesternAnimation / MonstersAtWork

** [[spoiler:Johnny ends up being one for Waternoose, both are corrupt owners of energy companies, both hire Randall, and both put up a front of being kind and reasonable before revealing their true colors. The two end up sharing a jail cell at the end of season 2.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Roze is this for Roz. Justified in that they're sisters, so their similarities are deliberate. Played with in that Mike is convinced that Roze is actually Roz in disguise.

The official trailer for the series can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsh5RVYnoY here]]. Cast member Creator/HenryWinkler, the voice of MIFT foreman Fritz, tweeted that [[https://twitter.com/hwinkler4real/status/1433548385772990477 a second season is currently under development]]. This was confirmed on June 15, 2022, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAURj7jmWbE an announcement video]] on the official Disney+ [=YouTube=] channel. The season premiered on April 5, 2024, on Disney Channel, and it will become available on Disney+ on May 5. Season two sees Tylor being pulled between his friends at Monsters, Inc. and a job offer from rival energy company Fear Co., now run by Johnny Worthington III (Creator/NathanFillion), which still harvests scream energy.

''Monsters at Work'' is a television series based on characters created by Creator/{{Pixar}} Animation Studios and is a continuation of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1''. It premiered on July 7, 2021 on Creator/DisneyPlus. It's the second TV series based on their properties, with ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' being the first, and the first that Pixar themselves have produced (Though it should be noted that that it is co-produced by Disney Television Animation).

''Monsters at Work'' is a television series based on characters created by Creator/{{Pixar}} Animation Studios and is a continuation of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1''. It premiered on July 7, 2021 on Creator/DisneyPlus. It's the second TV series based on their properties, with ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' being the first, and the first that Pixar themselves have produced.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The trailer introduces Roz's twin sister Roze, who takes over Roz's position at M.I. She looks almost exactly like Roz, save for a darker shirt, brighter hair, and no glasses and no mole on her chin, but still has that same gravely, deadpan voice. Like with Roz, Mike also is horrified to have Roze on the job. Roz returns in the last episode, and once the current crisis is solved, Mike directly accuses Roz and Roze of being the same person with dyed hair and a different vest, mainly because he refuses to believe that both of them can have identical-smelling bad breath.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: In Season 2, Tylor is torn between staying at Monsters Inc., where he's struggling as a Jokester, or take a more lucrative offer from Scare Co., where his natural abilties as a Scarer could be put to better use. [[spoiler:He declines the Scare Co. offer, only to reconsider when he learns his family is having financial difficulties, but by then the Scarer position had been filled.]]

* FurryReminder: The monsters occasionally make comments that highlight how, despite their world mirroring the human one, their tastes, likes and biology are not always the same as humans. Mike and Sulley eat 'Rotdogs' in episode 3, Duncan comments that the air in the Monster World is stale, and Mike comments that he hasn't passed something he ate [[NobodyPoops 7 months ago]] when realising how fast Snore digested and passed her food. And then there's the gags in "Bad Hair Day" about monsters needing [[ToiletHumor to go]] number three, number four, number five, and possibly even a number six.

* {{Interquel}}: The show takes place between Waternoose's arrest and the time skip from the first movie's epilogue, meaning Boo is absent. The show's main premise explores how the Scarers now have to adjust to a new work policy, and Mike and Sulley's struggles as the new [=CEOs=] of ''Monsters Inc.''. [[spoiler: As of the first season finale, this is no longer the case, and it's now a full-fledged {{sequel}}]].

** The camera ''still'' cannot seem to get a full still photograph of Mike as seen on a slide in one of Mike's classes.

** The ending of ''Monsters University'' indicates that there are other companies aside from Monsters Inc., such as Fear Co. and Scream Industries, that still use Scream Energy after Monsters Inc. switched to Laugh Energy. In Season 1, Tylor is disheartened to learn that Monsters Inc. no longer hires Scarers, but the other Scream companies are never even mentioned as alternative employments. [[{{Subverted|Trope However]], this would eventually be addressed in the second season, with its main plot revolving around Tylor being tempted to get a new job at Fear Co.

* PlotHole: ''Monsters University'' indicates that there are other companies aside from Monsters Inc., such as Fear Co. and Scream Industries, that still use Scream Energy after Monsters Inc. switched to Laugh Energy. Tylor is disheartened to learn that Monsters Inc. no longer hires Scarers, but the other Scream companies are never even mentioned as alternative employments. Though it is quite possible that the other companies would shift to laughter powers too given how it's much more powerful than scream powers. Perhaps, it'll be explored in future episodes.
** Episode 7 reveals Fear Co. is still active and using Scream Power, which initially makes them a major competitor to Monsters Inc., still struggling to process laugh energy as a newer and better power source and keep up production levels for the city. The demand for energy is so high Mike has to recruit the Jokesters-in-Training to ensure Monsters Inc can keep up with their rival's power production in the middle of a heatwave. This implies that Tylor had other reasons to choose to work at Monsters Inc. specifically, rather than any other company still applicable with his current skillset. Supporting this, the season finale has Tylor discuss the possibility of Monsters, Inc. switching back to Scream Power when he's getting nervous about [[spoiler:being promoted to an official Jokester]], but never even raises the possibility of himself simply transferring to another company that still uses Scream [[spoiler:until season two, at least according to the official trailer for that season]].

* PutOnABus: Boo does not appear in the series, as it takes place before Sulley reunited with her in the first film's epilogue.

* TheStinger: At the end of the credits in season one, one of the characters is heard saying something funny. {{Averted|Trope}} for season two, however, likely due to the ChannelHop to Disney Channel.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: In Season 2, Tylor is torn between staying at Monsters Inc., where he's struggling as a Jokester, or take a more lucrative offer as a Scarer from Scare Co. [[spoiler:He declines the Scare Co. offer, only to reconsider when he learns his family is having financial difficulties, but by then the scarer position had been filled.]]

* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Mike and Celia immediately ace their new positions as SCPOMICE-VDADOCREM and laugh floor supervisor without skipping a beat. The former is not only running the company, but he's also teaching comedy classes ''and'' serving as a jokester on top of it all. The latter, meanwhile, shows her efficiency by quickly handling two crisis situations within two days of one another.

* ArtEvolution: The animation has drastically changed since the original film. Notice that Sulley's hair is much more realistic and moves more naturally, Mike's skin and Celia's dress are more detailed and stand out more, and reflections are very prominent.

** In "Little Monsters", Fritz hits the vending machine with what he calls "the ol' Fritzarelli Touch". Fritz's voice actor, Creator/HenryWinkler, is best known for his role on Series/HappyDays as Arthur "the Fonz" Fonzarelli, who was known to fix a jukebox with the same PercussiveMaintenance.

''Monsters at Work'' is a television series based on characters created by Creator/{{Pixar}} Animation Studios and is a continuation of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1''. It premiered on July 7, 2021 on Creator/DisneyPlus, running for one ten-episode season so far. It's the second TV series based on their properties, with ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' being the first, and the first that Pixar themselves have produced.

Set immediately after the events of the original movie (technically an {{Interquel}}, as it precedes the original film's final scene), the power plant at its center now harvests the laughter of children to fuel the city of Monstropolis. Tylor Tuskmon (Creator/BenFeldman), an eager and talented mechanic on the Monsters, Inc. Facilities Team, dreams of working on the Scare Floor (now the Laugh Floor) alongside Mike (Creator/BillyCrystal) and Sulley (Creator/JohnGoodman). The problem is that Tylor, who graduated from Monsters University, was originally brought on as a scarer, only to join right as the switch from scream to laugh occurred. Now, if he wants to be on the Laugh Floor, he's going to need to find his inner funny.

The official trailer for the series can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsh5RVYnoY here]]. Cast member Creator/HenryWinkler, the voice of MIFT foreman Fritz, tweeted that [[https://twitter.com/hwinkler4real/status/1433548385772990477 a second season is currently under development]]. This was confirmed on June 15, 2022, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAURj7jmWbE an announcement video]] on the official Disney+ [=YouTube=] channel. The season premiered on April 5, 2024, on Disney Channel, and it will become available on Disney+ on May 5. Season two sees Tylor being pulled between his friends at Monsters Inc. and a job offer from rival energy company Fear Co., now run by Johnny Worthington III (Creator/NathanFillion), which still harvests scream energy.