 Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated
(This episode, along with the remainder of season 1 takes place between the last 2 scenes of Monsters Inc., with the episode taking a place a day after the former.)
It's Laughter They're After
(This episode leads up to the final scene of Monsters, Inc.)
| A Monstrous Homecoming
(This episode takes place 3 months after the film.)
Inside Jokes
- Boo's collection of toys includes a doll of Jessie from Toy Story 2 and a squeak toy resembling Nemo from Finding Nemo (which had yet to be released).
- The scene where Sulley watches as he thinks Boo is being crushed into a garbage cube is based on a similar scene from Chuck Jones' 1952 short Feed the Kitty.
- The restaurant Mike and Celia go to, Harryhausen's, is named after stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen who was responsible for creating the now famous creatures and monsters in films such as "Mighty Joe Young", "The 7th Voyage of Sindbad", and "Jason and the Argonauts".
- In addition to the inside joke above, the sushi chef (the one that looks like an octopus) has only six tentacles, is a reference to the octopus created by Ray Harryhausen for the film " It Came from Beneath the Sea" which only had six tentacles due to budgetary restrictions.
- Some of the scarers (monsters) are named after members of the Pixar crew (some examples being Theodore "Ted" Pauley being named after production designer Bob Pauley, Josh Rivera being named after art department manager Jonas Rivera, and Harry "Bud" Luckey being named after story artist Bud Luckey).
Trivia
- The idea for the film first came up in 1994 during a lunch between John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft before production on "Toy Story" came to an end, with development beginning in 1996 under the name of "Hidden City" (named after director Pete Docter's avorite restaurant in Point Richmond, CA) and a treatment drafted by Pete Docter, Harley Jessup, Jill Culton, and Jeff Pidgeon in early February 1997 that was pitched to Disney with some initial artwork on February 4th that same year. A refined version was pitched to Disney months later on May 30th where longtime Disney animator Joe Grant suggested the title should be "Monsters, Inc." (which was a play on the title of the gangster film "Murder, Inc."), which stuck.
- Feature film debut of director Pete Docter (which would also be the first Pixar film not to be (co-)directed by John Lasseter).
- The Hidden City Café is named after a real restaurant in Point Richmond, CA which is director's Pete Docter's favorite along with other Pixar crew members.
- One of the wallpapers Randall tests his camouflage ability on is the infamous blue sky with clouds wallpaper seen in Andy's room in "Toy Story".
- Sully's fur contains 2,320, 413 hair strands. Because of this, it took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley! The use of moving "attractor/repeller" particles was used as part of the animation process that functioned like virtual magnets or fans that would attract or repel the hairs proportionally over distance. Then, they would provide a natural effect on the hair by moving the particles along virtual paths.
- Among some of the early ideas for the characters in the film, Sully originally had brown fur and tentacles and was named John, Mike only had legs and no arms (some concept art even had him don a goatee), and Celia had two heads with the other head being her twin named Welia.
- Another early idea for Sully was that he was going to wear glasses, but was scrapped so the audience could be able to see the eye expressions more clearly.
- Bill Murray was considered for and even tested for the role as Sully. Pete Docter and the filmmakers decided to offer it to him, but when they were unable to make contact with him, Bill took it as a "no".
- Among the actors who auditioned for Mike were Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Jack Black, and Drew Carey.
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Technical Specifications
- Running Time: 92:15
- MPAA No.: 38501
- MPAA Rating: G
- Animation Type: Computer Animation (CGI)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Format: Digital Intermediate (2K)
- Color Type: Color
- Negative Type: Digital
- Original Country: United States
- Original Language: English
- Print Type: 35mm
- Sound Type: SDDS
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