Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with

Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking Pixar, the kings of animation.

You got a friend in me. Do do, do, do, do, do, do. You got a friend in me. Ah, those were the dulcet tones of Randy Newman himself. In the studio. The classic Toy Story theme song. What is your history with Pixar, Will? It's the same history as anyone my age. We were kids. We saw the movies.

They were great.

I saw Toy Story in a theater when I was six.

Oh, I was probably eight.

Loved it when I saw it.

Loved it, yeah.

We were also just completely attacked by Toy Story merchandise.

You could not turn the corner without hitting a Buzz Lightyear doll during that period.

I had a Woody.

I had a buzz light year doll during that period i had a woody i had a

buzz you know you did yeah well a fucking rich kid over here i had none of those toys i think i had a little

like macdonald's buzz and that was all i had well i had the woody who when you pulled the

there's a snake in my boot exactly you pulled the string and he said it's you love to listen to those

warm dulcet tones of gregg hanks tom hanks's brother boot. Exactly. You pulled the string and he said it is. You love to listen to those, uh, warm,

dulcet tones of Greg Hanks, Tom Hanks's brother. Is that true? Yes, he does all the woody voices, video games, toys. Well, anyway, we're here to talk about Pixar because not only did

Pixar loom large in our childhoods, they're still around, but, I would say they loomed large for a period over

film culture itself, because I think more than anyone, more than Miyazaki, more than the Looney Tunes,

more than anything, they popularized the idea that adults can enjoy cartoons too. You know,

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