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Pixar: Toy Story 5 Just Revived Pixar's Biggest Theory

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by Shopify - Go to http://shopify.com/SCB to sign up for your $1-per-month trial period.  Y’ALL The final trailer for Toy Story 5 just dropped, and it may have just revealed the return of one of the most important characters in Pixar history: EMILY. While she only appears briefly in Toy Story 2's iconic "When She Loved Me" sequence, Emily's decision to abandon Jessie shaped the entire future of the character—and arguably changed Pixar forever. Now, thanks to some hidden clues throughout the final Toy Story 5 trailer, it looks like Jessie may finally get the closure she (and we) have been waiting for FOR decades! Plus, if Emily really is returning... could Pixar finally be revisiting one of the oldest Toy Story theories of all time?  Is Emily actually Andy's Mom? #Pixar #ToyStory #ToyStory5 🎟️ Through the Griffin Door LIVE Tour:: https://supercarlinbrothers.com/events/  Sept. 10 - Boston, MA Sept. 11 - Hartford, CT Sept. 13 - New York City, NY Sept. 15 - Philadelphia, PA Sept. 16 - Washington DC Sept. 17 - Richmond, VA #supercarlinbrothers 🦆☕ Ducks go in cups. Submit your own duck-in-a-cup video right here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IWgf1dl2EkFnkg9K130FbZ-205Bl38Li?usp=drive_link  (Please read the rules first) Written by: J & Ben Carlin Edited by: Isybelle Christley

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0:00.0

Emily is so back, you guys. Hey, brother. Oh, man, you guys, the final trailer for Toy Story

0:06.5

5 has dropped and it has got us hype because it looks very much like the original Pixar

0:13.1

tearjerker herself, Emily, who abandoned Jesse on the side of the road way back in Toy Story 2

0:19.6

is poised to re-enter the chat.

0:23.4

And this is big because while Emily herself is hardly on screen and we barely even see her

0:28.3

face, her legacy looms large over the entire Pixar landscape and Jesse's past.

0:36.4

Because while Toistory 1 and a Bug's life were great,

0:39.3

neither exactly sent you out of the room, you know, sobbing.

0:43.3

I mean, Buzz realizing you can't fly, that was sad for sure, but like, like, I don't know if I cried.

0:52.3

But it's a rock. It is a rock.

0:56.0

It's more than a rock.

0:58.0

It's a metaphor, dot.

1:00.0

But it wasn't really until Toy Story 2 when Jesse's song showed up and changed the course of Pixar forever.

1:08.0

Opening the tear duck-shaped floodgates on faces across America as movie after

1:14.2

movie after movie punched us all in our emotional guts.

1:20.2

Oh, remember the funny movie where the dog dies? Despite that, however, Emily's worst victim,

1:26.9

by far is Jesse, who she left with traumatic

1:31.0

abandonment issues and caused her to be stored in a closed dark box for years on end, creating

1:37.3

an entire second phobia of closed spaces.

1:41.2

And while Jesse actually had an entire short dedicated to overcoming her claustrophobia,

1:47.1

I'm not sure she ever really got true closure on Emily. Because when we first meet her,

1:53.9

she wants to go live in the museum specifically so she could never be abandoned again, but she

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