History Recap / MonstersAtWorkS1E10ItsLaughterTheyreAfter

-->'''Fritz:''' ''[[TheStinger It's over? Sad sigh... Anybody know if there's a season two?]]''

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Roz informs Mike and Sulley that their lack of proper energy production will lead to the company's shutdown, she gives them a day to generate 1 million gigawatts to prove her wrong. She then gives them an extra day to come up with an idea to double their output.

* Retcon: In the recreation of the ending of the first movie, George Sanderson is shown to still be shaved, even though in the movie his hair has grown back, though justified given the finale is set about a month after Waternoose was arrested, thus George hair would've not grown back yet.

* WorthyOpponent: When MIFT is celebrating Tylor's promotion with a party for him and everyone is saying something nice about him, the only "nice" thing Duncan can bring himself to say (after reputedly being [[BewareTheNiceOnes ordered to by Val]]) is "thank you for being a worthy, ''stupid'' adversary".

* SequelHook: In TheStinger, [[EndOfSeriesAwareness Fritz can be heard lamenting the end of the series]], asking if there's a possibility of a second season. Sure enough, a second season was indeed announced not long after -- by Creator/HenryWinkler, no less!

* SequelHook: In TheStinger, [[EndOfSeriesAwareness Fritz can be heard lamenting the end of the series]], asking if there's a possibility of a second season. Sure enough, a second season was indeed announced not long after.

* SequelHook: In TheStinger, Fritz can be heard lamenting the end of the series, asking if there's a possibility of a second season. Sure enough, a second season was indeed announced not long after.

* SequelHook: In TheStinger, Fritz can be heard lamenting the end of the series, asking if there's a possibility of a second season.

Tylor is finally promoted to Jokester but is torn between accepting his promotion and leaving his newfound friends. Meanwhile, Mike and Sulley are confronted with a task to generate one million "gigglewatts" and a threat of being shut down if they fail.

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* HeelRealization: Sulley discusses this with Tylor. When Tylor expresses how he wishes they could go back to Scream Power because it is what both of them are good at, Sulley explains the fear he saw in Boo's eyes when she was scared and didn't like it, or what he saw in himself. So even if Laugh Power isn't as easy as Scream Power, it is still the right thing to do.

Tylor achieves his dream and is promoted to Jokester… but he feels torn on leaving MIFT. Meanwhile, Laugh Power is threatened when Mike and Sulley are given an ultimatum: generate more power or be shut down.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** While laugh power is ten times more powerful than scare power, since it's harder to obtain M.E.R.C. believes that laugh power isn't reliable as scare power, like how solar power is more difficult to obtain than electricity, and plans to transfer all power needs for the city to Fear Co. since they still use scare power, so Mike and Sulley need to generate a million gigglewatts in one day in order to save laugh power and meet quotas.
** Because laugh power is much more powerful than scare power (ten times in fact), Monsters Inc. needs a new larger laugh canister that can contain more energy, to prevent more loading and unloading time, ensuring a more efficient Laugh Floor; luckily MIFT is able to do the job.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After struggling with trying to keep Monsters Inc. in business for ten episodes, Mike and Sulley prove themselves and their company they're capable of powering Monstropolis with childrens' laughter, though anyone who watched the original film [[ForegoneConclusion would already know they would succeed in doing so, with the company rolling in a surplus of electrical power]]. For Tylor, he's finally achieved his new aspiration of being a comedian after having to put up with the antics of his MIFT team and unsuccessfully trying to be hilarious, thanks to his [[TheKlutz klutzy]] nature.

** While laugh power is ten times more powerful than scare power, since it's harder to obtain M.E.R.C believes that laugh power isn't reliable as scare power, like how solar power is more difficult to obtain than electricity, and plans to transfer all power needs for the city to Fear Co. since they still use scare power, so Mike and Sulley need to generate a million gigglewatts in one day in order to save laugh power and meet quotas.

-->'''Fritz:''' ''[[TheStinger It's over? Sad sigh... Anybody know if there's a season two?]]''

* BigDamnHeroes: The canisters run out before the Monsters meet their goal. Then Cutter brings the canister that Tylor asked her to make earlier in the episode.

** When Tylor asks whether Sulley misses being the top Scarer, he mentions that he is unwilling to go back to that after seeing Boo's reaction to him accidentally frighten her.

* InTheStyleOf: Unlike previous instances, the end credits in this episode use the full version of the show's accapella theme.

* SynchronousEpisodes: The final scene takes place exactly during the final scene of the first film with Sulley about to see Boo's fixed door. And as this [[https://youtu.be/gRdrhWlCmus video]] shows, Tylor and Sulley even open their respective doors at the same time.