Pixar Shorts: Difference between revisions

The original, pre-''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' short films, all mainly directed by [[Pixar Regulars|John Lasseter]], are as follows:

* ''The Adventures of Andre and Wally B.'' -- Created back when Pixar was just Lucasfilm's computer graphics division (making it arguable whether it really counts as a Pixar short), this short is about a guy named Andre who tries to trick an annoying bee, and gets stung for it.

* ''Red's Dream'' -- A unicycle in a bike shop dreams about being the star of a circus act, only to wake up and feel just a little bit more depressed.

* ''Tin Toy'' -- A toy tries to escape a terrifying (in more ways than one) baby. It's no coincidence that it has the same "toys are alive" concept as ''Toy Story'', as it led to the creation of that film. It was also the first computer animated film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

A series of "Toy Story Treats" were also made and shown at commercial breaks during the Saturday morning cartoon block on [[ABC]].

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* [[3D Movie]]: ''Tokyo Mater'', ''Partly Cloudy'', ''Day & Night'', and ''Knick Knack'' have all been rendered in stereographic 3D.

* [[An Aesop]]: ''Day & Night'' has one about how "different" doesn't necessarily mean "bad."

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Pretty much everything the magician goes through in ''Presto'', as well as Mike's injuries after getting locked in the engine of his car in ''Mike's New Car''. In ''Partly Cloudy'' the stork suffers various injuries from the animals it must deliver. In ''George and AJ'', it's the ambulance who keeps being "hurt" over and over (gets knocked over three times, gets an oxygen bottle on it, and is ''crushed by Muntz's-now-Carl's zeppelin''!)

* [[And You Were There]]: Mater adds Lightning McQueen's involvement in his stories with this phrase.

* [[Art Shift]]: ''Your Friend the Rat'' has 3D animation, 2D animation, clay animation, and even a scene done in the style of an old arcade game.

** It also has live action (the flea) and a section which is a pastiche of the earliest (silent) movies.

** Parodied in ''Your Friend the Rat'', which ends with a prolonged legalistic crawl warning people that Pixar does not encourage people to have contact with rats. Remy and Emil bitch about the inclusion of this producer-imposed warning (which is [[Completely Missing the Point]] of their presentation) and even push the crawling words aside as best they can.

* [[Fearsome Critters of American Folklore]]: The Jackalope.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In "Jack-Jack Attack", Syndrome mentions how he was going to have the initials for 'baby sitter', but decided not to because it wouldn't do to have 'BS' on his chest.

** Frozone calls attention to ''Mr. Incredible and Pals'''s "crappy animation" in the commentary track.