212: A MacGyver in the Making

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2014

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Wind the frog and acquire more monkeys! It’s time for us to discuss the very first computer-animated feature film, 1995’s “Toy Story.” We ponder the rules of when toys can reveal themselves to people, question the physics of the Pizza Planet claw, and speak in defense of Sid (but not of Randy Newman). Also: Is this the end of Slinky Dog?

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0:00.0	Is the specimen ready for cleaning?
0:02.1	Wine the frog.
0:06.9	The incomparable number 212, September 2014.
0:14.3	Welcome back to The Incomparable Podcast.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:17.5	We are picking up our continuing coverage of classic animated movies. And at some
0:24.7	point I decided we probably could just walk right through the Pixar canon as we're doing
0:29.4	sort of with the Miyazaki canon. And I decided to start at the beginning. We've done some episodes
0:34.7	since Pixar movies have been released since we've been on the air, but we haven't gone back to the classics yet.
0:39.6	We did a Pixar episode, but I wanted to take these films apart one by one.
0:45.3	So we're going to be talking about Toy Story, and I'd like to introduce the original Toy Story, just the first movie, because this is not an eight-hour-long podcast.
0:52.7	It's only like a five-hour-long
0:54.4	podcast. Let me introduce the people who are going to be talking about Pixar's first feature film
1:00.5	with me tonight. David Laura's here, as almost always. Hello. Howdy, partner? It's good to have
1:06.4	you here. Steve Lutz is here. Hi, Steve. Hello, Jason. How are you this evening?
1:12.0	I am doing just fine. That's magnificent.
1:15.3	Andy Anatoko joins us as well. Hi, Andy.
1:18.3	I'm going to need a minute here. I've got a snake in my boot.
1:22.1	John Syracusa is also here. Hi, John.
1:25.3	Wind the frog, Jason.
1:27.0	Wind the frog. Oh, boy. There we go. Wind the frog, Jason. Wind the frog.
1:28.4	Oh, boy.
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