History Trivia / MonstersInc

*** German Mike is Timon, too! Must be Lane and Crystal's voice similarities...

* ThrowItIn: All of Boo's lines. It was too hard to get Mary Gibbs to sit still and record lines, so the team set her loose and followed her around the studios, recording her lines. You can actually tell that she must have been in the Franchise/WinnieThePooh department, because listen and some of her lines include "Tigger" and "Kitty".

** Another involved a Sully-prototype protagonist teaming up with a human child and becoming Scarers together.

* AllStarCast: Par for the course with {{Pixar}}.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Billy Crystal accepted the role of Mike because he felt bad for turning down the role of Buzz Lightyear on the first ''ToyStory'' movie.
* ThrowItIn: All of Boo's lines. It was too hard to get Mary Gibbs to sit still and record lines, so the team set her loose and followed her around the studios, recording her lines. You can actually tell that she must have been in the WinnieThePooh department, because listen and some of her lines include "Tigger" and "Kitty".

* ThrowItIn: All of Boo's lines, as the producers just followed a two-year-old around with a mic to capture her performance.

** Another involved a Sully-prototype protagonist teaming up with a human child and becoming Scarers together.
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** The fact that it was ''[[Film/TheBigLebowski Walter Sobchak]]'' and ''[[Film/TheBigLebowski Donny Kerabatsos]]'' is also amusing.

** It's something of an AllStarCast, so there's plenty of this HeyItsThatVoice to go around.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Randall is ''[[Film/ReservoirDogs Mr. Pink]]''/''[[Film/ConAir Garland Greene]]''. Possibly a source of retrospective horror.

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** Early drafts had Mike as Randall's scaring assistance and Sully as a non-Scarer factory worker.

* WhatWouldHaveBeen:

** The fact that it was ''[[Film/TheBigLebowski Walter Sobchak]]'' and ''[[TheBigLebowski Donny Kerabatsos]]'' is also amusing.

** The Norwegian Mike is also [[Disney/TheLionKing Timon]], [[{{Mulan}} Mushu]] and [[IceAge Buck]].

** Fungus is [[TheMuppets Miss Piggy]], [[SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] and [[StarWars Yoda]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: Randall is ''[[Film/ReservoirDogs Mr. Pink]]''/''[[Film/ConAir Garland Greene]]''. Possibly a source of retrospective horror. Imagine Randall's locker room stories that start with "One girl, I..."

** The norwegian Mike is also [[Disney/TheLionKing Timon]], [[{{Mulan}} Mushu]] and [[IceAge Buck]].

* JumpedAtTheCall: In real-life. Billy Crystal, who did the voice of Mike, was initially given the role of [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]]. He refused the role, a move he later regretted doing. So, when he was asked by Pixar again to fill in the role of another one of their characters, he immediately accepted.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Randall is ''[[Film/ReservoirDogs Mr. Pink]]''/''[[Film/ConAir Garland Greene]]''. Possibly a source of retrospective NightmareFuel. Imagine Randall's locker room stories that start with "One girl, I..."

** CarlosAlazraqui is Mike in the video games.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Randall is ''[[ReservoirDogs Mr. Pink]]''/''[[ConAir Garland Greene]]''. Possibly a source of retrospective NightmareFuel. Imagine Randall's locker room stories that start with "One girl, I..."
** The fact that it was ''[[TheBigLebowski Walter Sobchak]]'' and ''[[TheBigLebowski Donny Kerabatsos]]'' is also amusing.

** The norwegian Mike is also [[TheLionKing Timon]], [[{{Mulan}} Mushu]] and [[IceAge Buck]].

** The norwegian Mike is also [[TheLionKing Timon]], [[{{Mulan}}Mushu]] and [[IceAge Buck]].

* JumpedAtTheCall: In real-life. Billy Crystal, who did the voice of Mike, was initially given the role of [[ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]]. He refused the role, a move he later regretted doing. So, when he was asked by Pixar again to fill in the role of another one of their characters, he immediately accepted.

** CarlozAlazraqui is Mike in the video games.