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List of Pixar Self-references

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Recognize that fish in Monster’s Inc.?

Jim Hill “tries to put together a definitive list of the in-jokes & self references in Pixar’s feature films & shorts.”

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/ Ward

    Gah! If Jim says “Which is why…” one more time, I’m gonna puke.

    Good stuff here, but there’s plenty more in-jokes in those movies that most outside the animation world will probably never really get. One thing that bothers me is how Jim makes the assessment that Brad Bird “didn’t automatically buy into all of Pixar’s oddball traditions,” when he first came to Pixar. Quite the opposite. If you notice in all of Bird’s films, he drops the obligatory “A-113″ somewhere. In “The Iron Giant”, it’s in one of Dean’s paintings in his junk yard apartment. A-113 was originally an animation classroom number at CalArts, Bird’s alma mater. You can find A-113 in practically every Pixar film — why doesn’t Jim mention this? Is he trying to create some kind of drama for this entry? Who knows, who cares. It’s just a lot of fun trying to find all this out. (A-113 has is own Wikipedia entry, by the way.)

  • http://wardomatic.blogspot.com Ward

    Gah! If Jim says “Which is why…” one more time, I’m gonna puke.

    Good stuff here, but there’s plenty more in-jokes in those movies that most outside the animation world will probably never really get. One thing that bothers me is how Jim makes the assessment that Brad Bird “didn’t automatically buy into all of Pixar’s oddball traditions,” when he first came to Pixar. Quite the opposite. If you notice in all of Bird’s films, he drops the obligatory “A-113″ somewhere. In “The Iron Giant”, it’s in one of Dean’s paintings in his junk yard apartment. A-113 was originally an animation classroom number at CalArts, Bird’s alma mater. You can find A-113 in practically every Pixar film — why doesn’t Jim mention this? Is he trying to create some kind of drama for this entry? Who knows, who cares. It’s just a lot of fun trying to find all this out. (A-113 has is own Wikipedia entry, by the way.)