History WesternAnimation / ToyStoryOfTerror

* AnAesop: It's important to face your fears when you have to help your friends.

''Toy Story of Terror!'' is a Creator/{{Pixar}}-produced half hour ''Franchise/ToyStory'' HalloweenSpecial written and directed by Angus [=MacLane=] that first aired in primetime on Creator/{{ABC}} on October 16, 2013. The voice cast includes Creator/TomHanks, Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/DonRickles, Creator/TimothyDalton, Creator/KristenSchaal, Creator/StephenTobolowsky, Ken Marino, Creator/KateMcKinnon and Creator/CarlWeathers.

* PetTheDog: Ron may steal toys from kids, but he runs a legitimate business with his roadside motel and clearly cares for his pet iguana.
* PilferingProprietor: Ron Tompkins is a motel owner who trains his pet iguana to steal toys from guests, so he can sell them online.

* TheTag: The remaining stolen motel toys escape and the police come to arrest the motel manager who sneaks out, steals the police car, crashes in reverse into a lamp post and runs away.

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Paper Clip]]

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Spoofed when Pezcat vomits a pez after it looks like Mr. Jones swallowed Jessie.

* BlandNameProduct: Ron puts his acquisitions up for sale on [[Website/{{Ebay}} eBid]] ([[LampshadeHanging "The #2 Auction Website!"]])

* FakeOutOpening: The special starts with a woman being chased by a vampire in a graveyard, which turns out to be a movie the toys are watching.

* PanFromTheSkyBeginning: After the title, the camera pans down from a black and white sky with clouds shaped like the ones on Andy's wallpaper to the gravestone where the classic horror movie the toys watch takes place.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Pay close attention to the packages for Jessie and Woody when Ron the Manager gets them ready. Woody's box contains an address marked for [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 Al's Toy Barn]], while Jessie's box has a note inside thanking Al for his purchase. Evidently, Al still hasn't given up on collecting the Woody's Roundup line.

* {{Jerkass}}: The motel owner has trained his iguana to raid the rooms for toys, which he then sells online with no regard for how the children who owned the toys might feel. He also allows kids to stay free, which probably brought many an unsuspecting parent to his hotel.

* PetTheDog: Ron may steal toys from kids, but he runs a legitimate business with his motel and clearly cares for his pet iguana.

* PanFromTheSkyBeginning: The special starts with the camera panning down from a black and white sky with clouds shaped like the ones on Andy's wallpaper to the gravestone where the classic horror movie the toys watch takes place.

* AbsenteeActor: Hamm, Slinky Dog, Barbie, and Mrs. Potato Head. Justified in that Bonnie can't realistically bring ''all'' her toys with her for the trip.

* AbsenteeActor: Hamm, Slinky Dog, Barbie, and Mrs. Potato Head. The third example is due to Creator/{{Sony}} Pictures having acquired the film rights to the ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' franchise. Justified in that Bonnie can't realistically bring ''all'' her toys with her for the trip.

''Toy Story of Terror!'' is a Creator/{{Pixar}}-produced half hour ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' HalloweenSpecial written and directed by Angus [=MacLane=] that first aired in primetime on Creator/{{ABC}} on October 16, 2013. The voice cast includes Creator/TomHanks, Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/DonRickles, Creator/TimothyDalton, Creator/KristenSchaal, Creator/StephenTobolowsky, Ken Marino, Creator/KateMcKinnon and Creator/CarlWeathers.

** Combat Carl was introduced in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' as the army toy Sid blew up in his introductory scene, although he appears to be a newer model here.

* RaceLift: In the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Combat Carl was white. Here, he's black. Since Combat Carl is an {{expy}} of Franchise/GIJoe, it's likely that Carls come in different races like Joes do.

* RaceLift: In the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Combat Carl was white. Here he's black, possibly an "InUniverse" change.
** It is possible he comes in different races since he's a [[Main/BlandNameProduct generic soldier]] [[Main/OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope GI Joe]].

* MediumBlending: The [[SpecialEffectFailure bats on strings]] in the in-universe horror movie are real props that were filmed and composited into the footage. This is because it was surprisingly difficult to animate simulated bats on strings. [[invoked]]

* ActorAllusion: Combat Carl is voiced by Carl Weathers who played a soldier who loses his arm in ''{{Film/Predator}}''. His missing arm looks to be the exact same spot Dillon's arm was blown off by the Predator, his combat fatigues virtually mirrors his outfit in that movie, and his owner's name is Billy, one of Dillon's squadmates.

* AffectionateParody: Of a SlasherMovie.
** Jessie gets cornered by the "monster" behind [[Film/{{Psycho}} a shower curtain]].

* ContinuityNod: Both Woody and Jessie fetch a large sum on eBid because they are valuable collectibles as seen in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''.
** Jessie's fear of being boxed up is also established in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''.

* FinalGirl: As in a SlasherMovie, Jessie is the last to be taken by the "monster", but the others aren't dead.

* {{Jerkass}}: The motel owner has trained his iguana to raid the rooms for toys, which he then sells online with no regard for how the children who owned the toys might feel.
** He also allows kids to stay free, which probably brought many an unsuspecting parent to his hotel.

* ProductPlacement: One of the characters, Pezcat, is a Pez dispenser.

* {{Shapeshifting}}: The LEGO Bunny can do so, being made entirely of LEGO and can therefore rebuild itself into whatever it pleases. Pity it only demonstrates such in a [[OneSceneWonder single]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter scene]].

** The paintings above the beds in Bonnie's hotel room are art from ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur''.

* SpitTake: Ron does this when he sees the offer he got on [=eBid=] for an old cowboy doll.
* StealthPun: The older sounding toy clock is an "old timer."
* StealingFromTheHotel: This is why Mr. Potato Head leaves the backpack, to take some of the motel's "free stuff" back with him.

''Toy Story of Terror!'' is a Creator/{{Pixar}}-produced half hour ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' HalloweenSpecial written and directed by Angus [=MacLane=] that first aired in primetime on Creator/{{ABC}} on October 16, 2013. Featuring the voices of Creator/TomHanks, Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/DonRickles, Creator/TimothyDalton, Creator/KristenSchaal, Creator/StephenTobolowsky, Ken Marino, Creator/KateMcKinnon and Creator/CarlWeathers.

->''"I'm just saying [[GenreSavvy it's quite common in these types of films]] for unsuspecting characters to wander off and vanish."

* BadassMustache: Combat Carl.

--> '''Mr. Pricklepants''': Group laughter. A sure sign that the worst is is behind us and the movie is just about over.

* ActorAllusion: Combat Carl is voiced by Carl Weathers who played a soldier who loses his arm in ''{{Film/Predator}}''.
** In fact, his missing arm looks to be the exact same spot Dillon's arm was blown off by the Predator and his combat fatigues virtually mirrors his outfit in that movie.