History WesternAnimation / ToyStoryTreats

The year is 1996. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' is due for its home video release, and Creator/{{Pixar}} wants to do something to promote it. So, it has decided to make a series of shorts to air on [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] during the commercial breaks of its Saturday morning programming; these segments would become known as ''[[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Toy_Story_Treats Toy Story Treats]]'' (alternatively known as ''Toy Story Shorts'' in some locations). Due to the large amount of shorts being made, rather than wholesale animate new content, it's decided to reuse assets from the original film and cut corners on the animation in order to get them to television in time. As for the content of the shorts themselves, they mainly act as skit comedy, with Woody, Buzz and others involved in various kinds of shenanigans with no real narrative tying everything together.

* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: Lampshaded when the toys watch a dinosaur documentary, with Rex hoping for a happy ending. As Hamm gleefully notes, the asteroid arrives to end the special and the dinosaurs with it.

* DenserAndWackier: And how! There's gags such as Babyface turning Woody's hat into paper art by dancing over it, a ton of aliens coming out of a small wind-up toy car, Woody having a nightmare of a miniature Buzz flying into his nose, Woody somehow ending up with Buzz's shadow and deciding to play around with it, the aliens actually moving chess pieces through telekinesis, the list goes on.

The year is 1996. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' is due for its home video release, and Creator/{{Pixar}} wants to do something to promote it. So, it has decided to make a series of shorts to air on Creator/{{ABC}} during the commercial breaks of its Saturday morning programming; these segments would become known as ''[[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Toy_Story_Treats Toy Story Treats]]'' (alternatively known as ''Toy Story Shorts'' in some locations). Due to the large amount of shorts being made, rather than wholesale animate new content, it's decided to reuse assets from the original film and cut corners on the animation in order to get them to television in time. As for the content of the shorts themselves, they mainly act as skit comedy, with Woody, Buzz and others involved in various kinds of shenanigans with no real narrative tying everything together.

* DenserAndWackier: And how! There's gags such as Babyface turning Woody's hat into paper art by dancing over it, a ton of aliens coming out of a clown car, Woody having a nightmare of a miniature Buzz flying into his nose, Woody somehow ending up with Buzz's shadow and deciding to play around with it, the list goes on.

** Hamm's contribution to Rex's lecture about [[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/The_Age_of_the_Dinosaur the age of the dinosaurs]]? [[KillEmAll "Kaboom!"]]

* AbsenteeActor: Bo Peep, Slinky Dog, and Mr. Potato Head are conspicuously absent from these shorts. This is especially notable since the former's sheep make an appearance in one of the shorts.

The year is 1996. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' is due for its home video release, and Creator/{{Pixar}} wants to do something to promote it. So, it's decided to make a series of shorts to air on Creator/{{ABC}} during the commercial breaks of its Saturday morning programming; these segments would become known as ''[[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Toy_Story_Treats Toy Story Treats]]'' (alternatively known as ''Toy Story Shorts'' in some locations). Due to the large amount of shorts being made, rather than wholesale animate new content, it's decided to reuse assets from the original film and cut corners on the animation in order to get them to television in time. As for the content of the shorts themselves, they mainly act as skit comedy, with Woody, Buzz and others involved in various kinds of shenanigans with no real narrative tying everything together.

-->'''Woody''': There's something to be said for the original.
-->'''Hamm''': And that something is "Yard Sale".

The year is 1996. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' is due for its home video release, and Creator/{{Pixar}} wants to do something to promote it. So, it's decided to make a series of shorts to air on Creator/{{ABC}} during the commercial breaks of its Saturday morning programming; these segments would become known as ''[[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Toy_Story_Treats Toy Story Treats]]'' (alternatively known as ''Toy Story Shorts'' in some locations). Due to the large amount of shorts being made, rather than wholesale animate new content, it's decided to reuse assets from the original film and cut corners on the animation in order to get them to television in time. As for the content of the shorts themselves, they mainly act as skit comedy, with Woody, Buzz and others involved in various kinds of shenanigans with no real narrative tying everything together.

* MinimalistCast: Woody, Buzz, Rex, Hamm, and Lenny are the only of Andy's named toys who appear in the shorts. Bizarrely, the cast is instead rounded out by the Little Green Men and... Sid's toys?

-->'''Buzz''': (dressed as Mrs. Nesbit; clearly embarrassed) If you don't mind, (removes hat) I'd rather not talk about it...
-->'''Voice''': (offscreen; to Woody's confusion) [[AC:I love you.]]

* ProductionForeshadowing:
** Granted, the context is significantly different here, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoUHPZN2eU&t=12s one short]] sees Woody [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 having a]] CatapultNightmare.
** When Rex claims to be a Space Ranger while wearing a fishbowl on his head, Buzz remarks that there's more to it than that, [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 before promptly sticking two suction cup darts to the bowl]].
** "There's something to be said for the original." "And that something is '[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 Yard Sale]]'."
** [[invoked]] "Force Field" sees [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Buzz smash headfirst into a TV]]]].
--->'''Woody''': ''Glass'', Buzz, ''not'' a force field! [[spoiler:It's a television! You watch cartoons on it! [[HarsherInHindsight Unless you break it with your big, thick helmet head!]]]]
** The entirety of "[[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Fast_Food Fast Food]]" is basically a dry run for "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStoryToons Small Fry]]".
*** The short also doubles as an InnocuouslyImportantEpisode due to the fact that the fast food toy Woody claims to be [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 a collectible]].
** "[[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Woody_Imposter Woody Imposter]]" reveals that [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 Woody's badge can come off]]]].
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Downplayed: when ''Toy Story'' was in theaters, Burger King had a set of kiddie meal toys consisting of Woody, Buzz, Hamm and Rex. "[[https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Fast_Food Fast Food]]" is a short more or less involving the actual characters encountering these toys.

** Buzz manages to outclass Woody's simple shadow puppets by ''somehow'' making a bald eagle, an American flag, and a rocket taking off before Woody [[RageQuit shuts off the lamp and leaves in a huff]].
** Somehow, Woody winds up with ''Buzz's'' shadow, and proceeds to pose in front of the lamp, only for it to run off and get replaced with Woody's actual shadow while he's distracted by the Little Green Men.

* ContinuitySnarl: It's better not to consider these shorts in the movie canon due to several things:
** The unexplained presence of Sid's toys at Andy's home. The Davis family was moving away when Woody met them in the first film and they never left Sid's home.
** The unexplained presence of Pizza Planet aliens at Andy's home. That wouldn't happen until ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', which didn't exist at the time.
** Buzz continuing to act like a real space ranger after him and Woody became friends. Although it ''could'' be stipulated that some of the shorts in this case could've conceivably happened in the relatively short timeframe between Andy receiving Buzz as a present and the night he took them with him to Pizza Planet.
** Buzz still has his wrist communicator sticker despite peeling it off during his HeroicBSOD in the first movie.

** "[[LamePun Roadblock!]]" Cue Woody and Buzz uproariously laughing over an audience applauding, doing finger guns and cheeky grins to the camera, and an IrisOut.

** "Force Field" sees [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Buzz smash headfirst into a TV]]]].

* AbsenteeActor: Bo Peep and Mr. Potato Head are conspicuously absent from these shorts. Especially since the former's sheep make an appearance.

--->'''Woody''': (crosses arms; to the camera) I know. It's not funny when clowns do it either.

** Buzz continuing to act like a real space ranger after him and Woody became friends. Although it ''could'' be stipulated that some of the shorts in this case could've conceivably happened in the timeframe between Andy receiving Buzz as a present and the night he took them with him to Pizza Planet.

** Granted, the context is significantly different here, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoUHPZN2eU&t=12s one short]] sees Woody [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 have a]] CatapultNightmare.