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Fridge Brilliance

  • Woody's right arm rips when pulled against Buzz's left arm—in the previous film, Buzz's left arm falls off, whereas Woody's right arm falls off later in the film.
  • Whenever Woody is shown in the apartment, the blinds on the windows and the bars on the air vent look a lot like prison bars, showing how Woody is essentially trapped in Al's apartment until either (A) his arm is fixed or (B) Buzz and the other toys come for him. When he's in the window with Jessie and she finally breaks his resolve to go home by revealing her past owner, the blinds are pulled aside and the vent is opened, showing that he's now there of his own accord (though it doesn't take much convincing from Buzz to snap him out of it). The bars return when Woody decides to go home and Stinky Pete stops him.
  • When the toys are in the luggage conveyors at the airport, why doesn't Jessie intervene at all in the fight between Woody and Stinky Pete? Because she was having a panic attack being locked up in a closed space with no light. When Woody finds her again, she's in a fetal position and shivering.
  • Why was Stinky Pete the only Woody's Roundup toy that was still in the box? Because Stinky Pete toys were in such low demand that stores had trouble selling them, so it wasn't difficult to find a surplus of Stinky Pete dolls. With his relative ugliness and idiocy, it wouldn't be surprising if he was The Scrappy of the show.
  • A rather subtle theme of character building; in Toy Story 2, Rex is consumed with beating the Buzz Lightyear video game. In Toy Story 3, Trixie gets a message from "Velocistar237" (presumably another dinosaur toy), who is proudly boasting "I made it to the dark fortress!" And in the end credits, Rex and Trixie are seen bonding over playing a video game. Apparently, dinosaur toys are avid gamers.
  • When Woody first meets the Roundup Gang, they treat him almost reverently, Stinky Pete even referring to him as "the prodigal son". It makes sense; Woody's arrival means that they are finally getting out of storage. But think about it further: none of them had ever met a Woody toy before, but judging by their reactions they had all seen Woody's Roundup before. Woody is the main character of the show, referred to in the opening song as "the very best" and always portrayed as the great hero who saved the day (and their characters) in the end. So here we have these three toys, locked away in the dark for years, with the knowledge that when Woody comes everything will change. And their only image of him coming from a show that builds him up as their savior. No wonder they were so excited to see him.
  • In "When She Loved Me", it's odd that Jessie never bothered to slide out from under the bed for Emily to find her. It ultimately wouldn't have mattered: even if Emily found her, or even if she simply got another Jessie doll, she still would have grown out her interest. Even if Emily did find her, Jessie wouldn't be played with again, and would just as be good as gathering dust under the bed like the other discarded Woody's Roundup merchandise. In fact, it's possible Jessie realized this as the days kept going on and on, and suddenly all the Woody's Roundup stuff was there with her, and she finally got the message: she wasn't important anymore.
  • The reason why Emily's face is mostly obscured? It's been decades since Jessie has seen Emily, so she's likely forgotten what Emily looked like.
  • In the airport, Stinky Pete yells, "You will be ruined! Forgotten! Spending eternity rotting in some landfill!" In Toy Story 3, where do they end up?
  • This one's more like Fridge Heartwarming, but here: The whole reason for Stinky Pete's villainy is that no one ever bought or played with him. His final fate, being given away to a little girl that defaces all her toys by drawing on them, is played up in-universe as a Fate Worse than Death. But even if he gets drawn on, he still finally gets to be played with. Supported in side media such as the movie website, which shows Stinky Pete actually enjoys his new owner and has more or less pulled off a Heel–Face Turn.
  • When and how does Stinky Pete foreshadow that he's actually the main antagonist? Shortly after Woody reveals he still has an owner, he tries to explain that he was in a yard sale that he wasn't even supposed to be in, and Stinky Pete interrupts Woody before he can properly explain himself, even using Woody's injured arm to imply that Andy is an abusive owner. By doing this, he is actually discretely showing his distrust for kids by assuming that Andy was just throwing him out.
  • Woody at one point says "I'm not going to any museum!" Jessie replies, "Well, I'm not going back into storage!" Though these are seemingly contradicting fates at the time, in the end, both of these actually end up true. In this respect, Woody and Jessie get what they wish for.
  • When Al is talking about shipping and checking luggage to go to Japan, he is saying, "What? That's in Yen, right? DOLLARS?!" Anyone who understands the currency exchange rate would know how expensive shipping to Japan is, since prices in Yen look huge to people used to conducting business in US dollars, which use decimal points (Yen doesn't - which is why cheap items are sold in increments of hundreds).
  • When Al finds Woody at the yard sale, just before he speaks to Andy's mother, Buster can be heard barking in the background, as the mother tells him to quiet down. It could just some background noise... or Buster might have been trying to warn her that Woody was in danger.
  • Buzz's instant attraction to Jessie makes sense when you consider that in the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command series, he had a lot of Ship Tease with Mira Nova, another redheaded Action Girl. He clearly has a type.
  • Stinky Pete managed to convince Woody to go to the museum by telling him that he'll last forever and be adored by children for generations. Later, Buzz convinces him to come to his senses and return to Andy by pointing out that Woody will be "behind glass and never be loved again". While Buzz's statement appears to contradict Stinky Pete's, both sentiments are true. As Stinky Pete points out, if Woody goes to the museum he will live indefinitely. But, as Buzz points out, while he may be loved for generations by the children visiting the museum, he will be behind glass and will never be played with or truly loved again the same way Andy loved him. Woody has to face the dilemma of either enjoying a short life with his kid or living forever and never again experiencing the same pleasure Andy brought him.

Fridge Horror

  • How long did Jessie have to wait under Emily's bed before she was donated to charity? Considering how psychedelic the posters in Emily's room were, it's possible that Emily grew up in the the 1960s. If that's the case, Jessie's been missing her for decades. Ouch!
  • How many people were hurt or worse in the car accidents the toys caused while crossing the road? From what we see, most of the collisions appear to be of the 'fender bender' variety, but there is that large concrete cylinder that rolls off the back of the truck...
  • The baggage handlers at the airport don't care about their job one bit. For one, they casually toss a box that says "FRAGILE" in big words (followed by the sound of shattering glass), and decide to put the final set of bags onto the next flight. Imagine how unhappy and/or stressed the poor people will be when they land at Narita Airport and find their bags didn't make it onto the aircraft.
    Heck, imagine the negative press and lawsuits this airport will get upon finding out that four toys, a camera set, and several golf balls have disappeared, glass has been shattered, and some luggage have been placed on a different flight. And didn't Woody and Jessie open up a hatch as the plane was about to take off? We never see it being closed. And thus, more damage, negative press and lawsuits ensue.
  • If Al and Stinky Pete's plans had succeeded, then Woody, Jessie, Bullseye and Stinky Pete would have been stuck in the toy museum surrounded by security cameras, meaning they would have to stay completely motionless FOREVER.
  • Didn't Buzz knock down a display of toys to escape Al's Toy Barn, causing Zurg to escape? Did more disillusioned toys escape? Would Al return from Japan to find out that his store was apparently robbed? And what would become of his employees who failed to notice that at least two toys have disappeared?
  • At the beginning of the film, Woody's to-do list to Buzz mentions, "Oh, and make sure everyone attends Mr Spell's seminar on what to do if you or a part of you is swallowed". This is an extremely disturbing concept - how many toys have gone through a person's system after being swallowed or have accidentally killed someome after getting stuck in their throat, helpless to stop them from choking on themselves?
  • Jessie is excited about going to the toy museum, but considering her claustrophobia, being stuck in a glass case for eternity would basically be And I Must Scream for her.
  • At the end of the movie, when Andy returns from camp, he comes back to find all his toys (now including Jessie and Bullseye) on his bed with a “welcome back” message, to which Andy shouts his thanks to his mom. Now, imagine being Andy’s mom. Your son just thanked you for getting him new toys; new toys that you never even knew existed. Toys that were positioned in your son’s room to welcome him back home. At best? She might attribute it to something she did while intoxicated. At worst? She might believe she is losing her mind, or, more terrifying to consider, SOMEONE has not only been watching her home and knew her son left for summer camp, but also BROKE IN to their home in order to deposit new toys in Andy’s room. What an ending.
  • Given how much Jessie hates being in storage, why didn't she try to escape through the vents when she had the chance (as Woody almost did once his arm was fixed)? Given how Stinky Pete talked about how fragile Woody was and how dangerous the outside world is, what are the odds that he's actively gaslit her into refusing to leave the same way he tried to for Woody?

Fridge Logic

  • While going over his own memorabilia, Woody finds a small boot that shoots out a toy snake ("I get it, 'there's a snake in my boot!'"). Question; why isn't the toy snake alive the same way Woody and the Roundup Gang is? In fact, why aren't any of the other toys Woody looks over alive like they are?

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