History YMMV / ToyStory2

** Given the recent popularity of customizing standard manufactured dolls into unique art pieces, It is possible that Stinky Pete actually gets a positive re-make. Especially if he feels like a toy nobody wants initially, being made over from a stinky, ugly [[{{SCrappy}} Scrappy]] into a different archetype might help him find a new role.

--> "He's selling himself for 25 cents!" \\

* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/ChuckJones loved the movie so much. He wrote a letter to Lasseter, calling the movie "wonderful" and "beautifully animated", and praised Lasseter for "advancing the cause of classic animation in a new and effective way." Lasseter still has the letter in his house.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Villain Stinky Pete the Prospector has the unambiguously nasty aim of keeping Woody from returning to Andy, whom Woody knows to appreciate him. However, as he's defeated, he screams "Children destroy toys! You'll be ruined! Forgotten! Spending eternity rotting away in some landfill!" It's a perfectly legitimate concern, and Pete had no way of knowing how good an owner Andy is. His foreshadowing almost comes true in the third movie.

* UnintentionallySympathetic:
** Al is meant to be a seen as a skeevy, {{greed}}y crook. However, he stole Woody because it's implied he's been looking for a Woody doll for years to be the centerpiece of his massive collection of Woody's Round-up merchandise, which he wants to sell to a toy museum for what is implied to be a considerable sum.[[note]]The exact amount isn't specified, but having Woody increases the price ''tenfold'', at least.[[/note]] And he only stole Woody after Andy's mom refused to sell him, even though Al offered her $50 dollars and then his watch (he only took Woody out of the box and left behind all of the money inside). Al may be unpleasant and greedy, but realistically the only crime he committed was petty theft, and it was worth the risk considering Woody was worth. When you see him at the end of the film (after, as far as he knows, ''all four'' dolls in the collection were lost at an airport), he's unable to get through his commercial shoot without breaking down into tears over how much he's lost.
** Stinky Pete [[AssholeVictim is meant to be a deserving victim for betraying Woody and his friends]], but we can really sympathize with him as he ''spent a lifetime in his box on a shelf'' watching other toys being sold and never got sold himself and felt like he never been loved. As far as he's concerned, being put in a museum to spend the rest of his existence being admired by visitors is his reward for enduring such isolation and loneliness, and now Woody is going to take it away from him.

* LoveToHate: Stinky Pete and Al {{=McWhiggin=}}, the BigBadDuumvirate of the film. Both of them come off as more sympathetic as they seem, with Al in particular also being laughable and entertaining as a FatSlob.

* LoveToHate: Stinky Pete and Al {=McWhiggin=}, the BigBadDuumvirate of the film. Both of them come off as more sympathetic as they seem, with Al in particular also being laughable and entertaining as a FatSlob.

* LoveToHate: Stinky Pete and Al McWhiggin, the BigBadDuumvirate of the film. Both of them come off as more sympathetic as they seem, with Al in particular also being laughable and entertaining as a FatSlob.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0j1EHF8Y0 "When She Loved Me".]] An utterly heartwrenching song by Jessie that was said to have made both Tim Allen and Tom Hanks tear up during the premier.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GeniusBonus: "What, that's in yen, right? ''DOLLARS''?!" This was done at a time in which not a lot of people in the target audience knew about how Yen worked compared to US/AU/CAN Dollars, which use decimals, unlike Yen. So yes, it really ''was'' expensive for Al to check luggage and ship stuff to Japan.
* HarsherInHindsight

** "I can't believe I have to drive all the way to work on a Saturday. ALL THE WAY TO WORK!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A clip of Al complaining about his "far" drive to work when it's literally right across the street, as he violates about five traffic laws in the process. Became popular when a Twitter account that would automatically tweet this every Saturday gained traction.[[/labelnote]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** The toys are looking for Woody in 'Al's Toy Barn', where early on, Rex picks up a magazine that tells him how to defeat Emperor Zurg in the 'Buzz Lightyear' Video Game, and then afterwards, they get a toy van to explore the toy store's different aisles in, with a 'Tour Guide Barbie' on the wheel. During all this, Rex is spending time looking at his magazine in the back seat.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Rex keeps the big magazine to himself without doing anything to disrupt Tour Guide Barbie while she is at the wheel.\\
'''Instead''': Upon finding something on the magazine that tells him how to defeat Zurg, he -for no good reason- shoves the whole magazine in front of the driver's view, resulting in them accidentally hitting a large tub of bouncy balls, further causing the van to spin out of control and for Rex to have his 'Source of power,' the magazine fly out of his 'little arms' and underneath one of the lower shelves out of his reach. He even almost gets left behind as he tries to catch up with the van that veered off without him.

** Al is a greedy, hostile and occasionally lazy opportunist who steals a woman's possession despite being told it wasn't for sale. Other than that, he doesn't appear to be a dishonest businessman and his trade with the toy museum was implied to be entirely fair. He also has no ideas that the toys are sentient and, therefore, his actions have emotional impact (assuming he wasn't greedy enough to still sell them if he knew). His visible sadness in his final scene is completely understandable, and even rational. WordOfGod even gives him a FreudianExcuse that his obsession with toys as an adult comes from the fact that his parents never let him play with them as a child.

** "Endgame spoilers without context!" became quite popular after the 2019 release of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. This is primarily due to the Buzz vs. Buzz fight being compared to [[spoiler:Captain America vs. Captain America]]--and it's made Main/HilariousInHindsight due to [[spoiler:[[Creator/ChrisEvans Cap himself]] slated to voice Buzz in ''Lightyear'']].

-->'''Wheezy:''' What's the point in prolonging the inevitable?

-->Red: "HEY! HE WAS TALKING TO ''ME!''" \\
Blue: "NO, HE WAS TALKING TO ''ME!''" \\

** "Endgame spoilers without context!" became quite popular after the 2019 release of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. This is primarily due to the Buzz vs. Buzz fight being compared to [[spoiler:Captain America vs. Captain America]]--and it's made even more hilarious due to [[spoiler:[[Creator/ChrisEvans Cap himself]] slated to voice Buzz in ''Lightyear'']].

** "Endgame spoilers without context!" became quite popular after the 2019 release of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. This is primarily due to the Buzz vs. Buzz fight being compared to [[spoiler:Captain America vs. Captain America]].

** Al is meant to be a seen as a skeevy, {{greed}}y crook. However, he stole Woody because it's implied he's been looking for a Woody doll for years to be the centerpiece of his massive collection of Woody's Round-up merchandise, which he wants to sell to a toy museum for what is implied to be a considerable sum.[[note]]The exact amount isn't specified, but having Woody increases the price ''tenfold'', at least.[[/note]] And he only stole Woody after Andy's mom refused to sell him, even though Al offered her $50 dollars and then his watch. Al may be unpleasant and greedy, but realistically the only crime he committed was petty theft, and it was worth the risk considering Woody was worth. When you see him at the end of the film (after, as far as he knows, ''all four'' dolls in the collection were lost at an airport), he's unable to get through his commercial shoot without breaking down into tears over how much he's lost.

** After ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/700879-frozen you can almost hear Emily recite those infamous words]] at the end of the ''When She Loved Me'' sequence. For another Disney example, the ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime has an episode showing Stitch going through a similar experience of being left behind by Lilo, running contrary to the franchise motto of 'ohana: "Nobody gets left behind or forgotten." (Although in that case, it was a misunderstanding.)
** When watching Al's tapes of their old show, Jessie mournfully shuts off the TV before the conclusion of "Woody's Finest Hour" because, as Pete claims, the show was canceled before it could air. However, during the scene when Woody rejects Buzz and co.'s rescue, you can hear the conclusion playing in the background. This means Pete has been [[ManipulativeBastard lying to Jessie and using her abandonment issues for who-knows-how-long]] to secure his own fate.
** Prospector [[JerkassHasAPoint accurately predicts]] the events of the third film - the toys ''are'' forgotten and ''do'' get sent to a landfill in an experience that they almost don't survive. Thankfully, the toys' ultimate fate is resolved in a happy manner, subverting Prospector's predictions, and he was wrong about Andy not wanting to take Woody with him to college.
** Jessie's backstory (being lost by the girl who loved her so much, and believing herself to be abandoned) is even more depressing when it turns out that's basically [[StartOfDarkness what happened to Lotso]] in the following movie.

** During the blooper reel, Flik and Heimlich appear on scene and are under the impression that the film they're in is a sequel to ''A Bug's Life'', before Heimlich breaks the bad news to Flik. Pixar's most overlooked film, ''A Bug's Life'' has never been considered for a sequel treatment, being the only pre-Disney era Pixar film with this distinction. Now that a good chunk of its actors are dead, and it still isn't all that well-loved, it probably never will.

** Al of Al's Toy Barn resembles another [[WebVideo/JeepersMedia real-life toy maniac]]...

** In the end-of-movie outtakes, Stinky Pete tells the Barbies about ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' and getting them a part in said film. In RealLife the Barbie played a substantial role.

** Buzz's [[SomethingElseAlsoRises wings popping out when he sees]] Jesse being an ActionGirl is hilarious now that [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic another fandom has coined the term "wingboner"]].
** When the toys arrive at the apartment building, Rex suggests [[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} using balloons to float up to the top.]] The other toys quickly dismiss this suggestion. Apparently Pixar didn't...

** Creator/KelseyGrammer plays a BigBad of an even-numbered sequel who is a WellIntentionedExtremist and expresses FantasticRacism towards "space toys". Over a decade later, Grammer would later play another WellIntentionedExtremist BigBad in another even-numbered sequel known as ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' who would bear FantasticRacism towards the Transformers, who in RealLife are based on the Hasbro toyline that would qualify as a "space toy" brand due to their alien origin.

** While reading his guide, Rex comments on the scheme of video game developers making the games so that [[MoneyDearBoy the player]] ''[[MoneyDearBoy had]]'' [[MoneyDearBoy to buy the book to beat them]]. Andrew Stanton later revealed that the guide joke came from [[WriteWhatYouKnow having to read video game guides to his son as bedtime stories]]. Now who do you think [[TakeThat paid for those guides]]?
*** On the subject of Rex and video games, the system that Rex is shown to be playing the video game on [[ProductPlacement very much looks like a]] [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]. Nearly two decades later, [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Nintendo's latest system]] saw the release of [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 a now popular JRPG]], whereas the protagonist's [[NamesTheSame name is also Rex.]]

** Wayne Knight would later go on to voice Zurg in the Buzz Lightyear [[WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand animated series]].

* ItWasHisSled: Stinky Pete's villainy was never indicated in any marketing material until the movie's release. Nowadays the twist isn't so shocking anymore.

* EvenBetterSequel: This movie is not only considered to be one one of the best Pixar films, but also considered by critics to be one of the rare sequels to be better than its predecessor with praise being directed towards the improved animation, deeper characterization from the cast particularly Woody and Jessie with their fear of abandonment, and memorable heart-wrenching scenes like Jessie's backstory.