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--> (movie is ending)
--> '''Mr. Pricklepants''': Group laughter. A sure sign that the worst is behind us and the movie is just about over.
--> '''Rex''': So, this is the ending?
--> ''Mr. Pricklepants''': Um, yes, I'd say they'd be running the credits about now.
--> (credits roll)
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** The name on the tombstone that Betsy runs into in the opening horror movie bears the name Simon J. Palladino, the civilian name of Gazerbeam in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. The epitaph even says "A public servant with a unique vision".

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** The name on the tombstone that Betsy runs into in the opening horror movie bears the name Simon J. Palladino, the civilian name of Gazerbeam in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. The epitaph even says "A public servant with [[{{Pun}} a unique vision".vision]]".

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* AbsenteeActor: Hamm and Slinky Dog.

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* AbsenteeActor: Hamm and Hamm, Slinky Dog.Dog, and Mrs. Potato Head.


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** The person who ordered Woody on eBid? None other than [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 Al McWhiggin.]]


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* ShoutOut: Even in a half-hour special, Pixar found places to put references to their other films.
** The name on the tombstone that Betsy runs into in the opening horror movie bears the name Simon J. Palladino, the civilian name of Gazerbeam in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. The epitaph even says "A public servant with a unique vision".
** The famous Pizza Planet truck appears in a blink-and-you-miss-it shot on a flyer in Ron's office. Additionally, Bonnie's mom has an "I brake for Pizza Planet" license plate holder on her car.
** DJ Blue-Jay from ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Toy Story Toons: Small Fry]]'' appears on Bonnie's shirt.
** A sticker on the front door of the Sleep-Well Motel shows that they accept [[WesternAnimation/WallE Buy'n'Large]] credit cards.
** The Luxo ball has a blink-and-you-miss-it sighting as an engraving on the underside of the bathroom sink.
** The paintings above the beds in Bonnie's hotel room are art from ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur''.
** In a non-Pixar related example, two of the other members of Pocketeer's group include [[Film/TheRocketeer The Pocketeer]] and [[Anime/SpeedRacer Speed Lacer]].
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* AbsenteeActor: Hamm and Slinky Dog.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]]. [[spoilers: It's actually drool from Mr. Jones, the pet iguana.]]

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]]. [[spoilers: [[spoiler: It's actually drool from Mr. Jones, the pet iguana.]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]].

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]]. [[spoilers: It's actually drool from Mr. Jones, the pet iguana.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Jesse.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Jesse.Jessie.



** Jesse gets cornered by the "monster" behind [[Film/{{Psycho}} a shower curtain]].

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** Jesse Jessie gets cornered by the "monster" behind [[Film/{{Psycho}} a shower curtain]].



** Jesse's fear of being boxed up is also established in ''ToyStory2''.

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** Jesse's Jessie's fear of being boxed up is also established in ''ToyStory2''.



* GenreSavvy: Mr. Prickle Pants

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* GenreSavvy: Mr. Prickle PantsPricklePants.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Mr. Prickle Pants keeps pointing out all the horror movie tropes as they happen.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Mr. Prickle Pants Pricklepants keeps pointing out all the horror movie tropes as they happen.



* SurvivalMantra: "Jesse never gives up! Jesse finds a way!"

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* SurvivalMantra: "Jesse "Jessie never gives up! Jesse Jessie finds a way!"



* ThisIsReality: Mr. Potato Head has enough of Mr. Prickle Pants' {{Lampshading}} and snaps back "Can it, Pants! Life ain't a movie!"

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* ThisIsReality: Mr. Potato Head has enough of Mr. Prickle Pants' Pricklepants' {{Lampshading}} and snaps back "Can it, Pants! Life ain't a movie!"
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The manager attempts to steal a police car...and crashes into the hotel sign.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The hotel manager attempts to steal a police car...and accidentally bumps into a lamppost, on both figurative and literal levels crushing his chance of escaping. By all indications, the police catch him afterward.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The hotel manager attempts to steal a police car...and accidentally bumps into a lamppost. By all indications, the police catch him afterward.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: The hotel manager attempts to steal a police car...and accidentally bumps into a lamppost.lamppost, on both figurative and literal levels crushing his chance of escaping. By all indications, the police catch him afterward.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The hotel manager attempts to steal a police car...and accidentally bumps into a lamppost. By all indications, the police catch him afterward.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Jesse.


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* ThisIsReality: Mr. Potato Head has enough of Mr. Prickle Pants' {{Lampshading}} and snaps back "Can it, Pants! Life ain't a movie!"
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* StealthPun: The older sounding toy clock is an "old timer".
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Spoofed when Pezcat vomits a pez after it looks like Mr. Jones swallowed Jessie.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Spoofed when Pezcat vomits a pez after it looks like Mr. Jones swallowed Jessie.Jessie.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Andrew Stanton's tweet, the appearance of Al was cut for time.
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* HellHotel: The motel is this through the toy's point of view.

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* HellHotel: The motel is this through the toy's toys' point of view.
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**Jesse gets cornered by the "monster" behind [[Film/{{Psycho}} a shower curtain]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]].

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]].

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious, sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious, mysterious [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor.floor]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious sticky clear substance on the motel room floor.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious sticky mysterious, sticky, clear substance on the motel room floor.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious sticky white substance on the motel room floor.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious sticky white clear substance on the motel room floor.
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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Parodied. Buzz tastes the mysterious substance they find on the floor and the only thing he can determine from it is that it's disgusting.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The toys find a mysterious sticky white substance on the motel room floor.
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* CatScare: In the classic horror movie that the toys watch in the car. The heroine is alone in a spooky castle after being chased by a vampire, and the suspenseful scene builds up to the surprise appearance of a cat. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by [[GenreSavvy Mr. Pricklepants]], of course.
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* [[invoked]]SpecialEffectFailure: In the classic horror movie that the toys watch at the beginning, the vampire bat is very obviously held up by a string.
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* TheDanza: Carl Weathers as Combat Carl.
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* FakeOpening: The special starts with a woman being chased by a vampire in a graveyard, which turns out to be a movie the toys are watching.

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* FakeOpening: FakeOutOpening: The special starts with a woman being chased by a vampire in a graveyard, which turns out to be a movie the toys are watching.



* ThereIsNoBInMovie: The toys watch an old [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black-and-white]] horror movie.

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* ThereIsNoBInMovie: TheresNoBInMovie: The toys watch an old [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black-and-white]] horror movie.

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* ContinuityNod: Both Woody and Jessie fetch a large sum on eBid because they are valuable collectibles as seen in ''ToyStory2''

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* ContinuityNod: Both Woody and Jessie fetch a large sum on eBid because they are valuable collectibles as seen in ''ToyStory2''''ToyStory2''.
** Jesse's fear of being boxed up is also established in ''ToyStory2''.
** Combat Carl was introduced in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', although he appears to be a newer model here.



* FakeOpening: The special starts with a woman being chased by a vampire in a graveyard, which turns out to be a movie the toys are watching.



* HellHotel: The motel is this through the toy's point of view.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Mr. Prickle Pants keeps pointing out all the horror movie tropes as they happen.



-->'''Jessie:''' Ohhh! Jessie never gives up! Jessie finds away!

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-->'''Jessie:''' Ohhh! Jessie never gives up! Jessie finds away!a way!
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Played with. Mr. Jones is definitely the villain to the toys, but his behavior is more dog-like than reptilian, and clearly has no malicious intent.


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* SurvivalMantra: "Jesse never gives up! Jesse finds a way!"


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* ThereIsNoBInMovie: The toys watch an old [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black-and-white]] horror movie.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Spoofed when Pezcat vomits a pea after it looks like Mr. Jones swallowed Jessie.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Spoofed when Pezcat vomits a pea pez after it looks like Mr. Jones swallowed Jessie.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2013-05-15-toy_story_of_terror_9570.jpg]]

{{Creator/Pixar}}-produced half hour ''ToyStory'' HalloweenSpecial written and directed by Angus [=MacLane=] that first aired in primetime on ABC on October 16, 2013. Featuring the voices of TomHanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, DonRickles, Timothy Dalton, Wendy Schaal, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ken Marino, Kate [=McKinnon=] and Carl Weathers.

What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate.

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!!Tropes in ''Toy Story Of Terror'':

* ActorAllusion: Combat Carl is voiced by Carl Weathers who played a soldier who loses his arm in ''{{Film/Predator}}''.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Mr. Jones the iguana has a collar and acts like a dog.
* AffectionateParody: Of a SlasherMovie.
* BadassMustache: Combat Carl.
* ContinuityNod: Both Woody and Jessie fetch a large sum on eBid because they are valuable collectibles as seen in ''ToyStory2''
* TheDragon: Literally Mr. Jones, Ron the motel manager's iguana.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Lampshaded by Pricklepants.
* FaceYourFears: Jesse confronts her claustrophobia to rescue Woody.
* FinalGirl: As in a SlasherMovie Jessie is the last to be taken by the "monster", but the others aren't dead.
* FunSize: Combat Carl's 1/3 scale counterpart Combat Carl Jr.
* GenreSavvy: Mr. Prickle Pants
* GroinAttack: Jessie kicks Mr. Jones in the groin, which causes him to spit out Combat Carl's missing hand.
* HumongousMecha: Transitron, who is big compared to the other toys. He is also a CombiningMecha.
* LastOfHisKind: The Pocketeer, who is the remaining member of the "Fastener Four" who wasn't sold.
* NonverbalMiscommunication: Buzz and Woody both misinterpret Mr. Potato's arm, thinking it's trying to say "one" while Jessie correctly guesses it's actually pointing up.
* OhMyGods: Transitron has "By Golobatron's Ghost you shall be remembered!"
* RaceLift: In the first ToyStory, Combat Carl was white. Here he's black, possibly an "InUniverse" change.
* RepeatAfterMe: Combat Carl tries to give Jessie a pep talk:
-->'''Combat Carl''': When Combat Carl gets stuck in a jam he says to himself "Combat Carl never gives up. Combat Carl finds a way." Now say it!
-->'''Jessie:''' Combat Carl never gives up-
-->'''Combat Carl:''' You're not Combat Carl!
-->'''Jessie:''' Ohhh! Jessie never gives up! Jessie finds away!
* RousingSpeech: Combat Carl gives one to Jessie to get her to get in a box to rescue Woody.
* TheTag: The remaining stolen motel toys escape and the police come to arrest the motel manager who sneaks out, steals the police car, crashes in reverse into a lamp post and runs away.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Combat Carl talks this way.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Spoofed when Pezcat vomits a pea after it looks like Mr. Jones swallowed Jessie.

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