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John Goodman and Billy Crystal sometimes recorded their lines in the same room together, an unusual [...]	D
Pete Docter called this movie a metaphor for his own family life at the time - his first child was b [...]	D
When Sulley wakes up, his clock-radio changes to 6:05 and we hear the weather news -- a reference to [...]	D
The idea for the film was first conceived over a lunch between John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew St [...]	D
The initial entrance into Monsters, Inc. bears a resemblance to MIB headquarters.	D
The ingredient list on the cereal that Sulley feeds Boo is as follows: Tentacles (includes suckers), [...]	D
In the first scene, one of the toys on the boy's bedroom shelf is the toy plane that hung from the c [...]	D
When Sulley and Mike are walking to work and pass "Tony's Grossery", the items on sale include Mangl [...]	D
Frank Oz's first animated flim.	D
Sulley's full name is James P. Sullivan, named as an homage to Pat Sullivan the famous animator resp [...]	D
In the ending sequence when the monsters make children laugh instead of scream, one monster on the f [...]	D
About 3:26 into the movie, when the simulation is ended and the monster reaches for a knob on the co [...]	D
The Abominable Snowman describes the children in the Himalayan village as "Tough kids, sissy kids, k [...]	D
This is the fourth time Randy Newman has composed for a Pixar film.	D
A sequel to the movie was originally planned by Circle 7 Animation, titled Monsters Inc 2: Lost In S [...]	D
The movie takes place in the summer of 1999. This is confirmed earlier in the movie when the camera [...]	D
The second Pixar film to tease Pixar's next film in a way, by having some sort of cameo based off it [...]	D
Towards the end of the movie, Mike opens a package with a magazine featuring Sulley and Mike on the [...]	D
This is the fourth sound design on Gary Rydstom on Pixar.	D
Pixar Animation Studios' 4th feature film. As well as the first Pixar film to be released in the 21s [...]	D
During the film's chase sequence, one of the places Mike, Sulley, Boo and Randall end up in on Earth [...]	D
Pete's Barber Shop is named for director Pete Docter.	D
The scoreboard at the scaring contest consists of names of Pixar staff members.	D
Mike's paperwork as he says to Sully "The pink copies go to Accounting, the fuchshia ones go to Purc [...]	D
A first teaser was presented in the Deluxe DVD edition of Toy Story - Il mondo dei giocattoli (1995) [...]	D
Near the end of the movie a joke can be seen on the scare floor screen that says, "The doctor says t [...]	D
Sully's original working name shifted in early drafts from Hob and Johnson before finally landing on [...]	D
Disney executives asked the production team to tone down the scariest element of the movie -they did [...]	D
According to the film's credits, no monsters were harmed in the making of the film.	D
Unlike previous Pixar productions, each of the main characters were assigned their own individual an [...]	D
Old Disneyland posters adorn the walls of the children' bedrooms.	D
In July 2021, the script of the cancelled Circle 7 sequel, Lost In Scaradise, was uploaded on YouTub [...]	D
This is the first Pixar feature film to have the "Created and Produced at Pixar Animation Studios, E [...]	D
Pete Docter's directorial debut.	D
The abstract "Mumbo" poster on the wall in Sulley's bedroom mimics the style of 1950s artist and alb [...]	D
All of Boo's drawings in the film were authentic kid drawings that were then scanned into the comput [...]	D
According to the commentary, when Mike is on the run from Randall, he hides in a room but relinquish [...]	D
The story was originally built around a 32-year-old computer programmer whose life becomes incredibl [...]	D
At Harryhausen's Sushi Restaurant, employees shout, "Get a paper bag!" whenever somebody walks throu [...]	D
The music when Sulley leaves Boo is the same music in Toy Story 3 - La grande fuga (2010) when Andy [...]	D
The second of the three Pixar films where Joe Ranft voices a character where he's simply listed unde [...]	D
To get Mary Gibbs to laugh on cue, Peter Docter would entertain her with sock puppets in the recordi [...]	D
Sully is carved into a log in Brave (2012).	D
EASTER EGG: The Human World that Randall is tossed into in has used the same set from "A Bug's Life [...]	D
It is constantly debated about whether Randall or Mr. Waternoose is the main antagonist. However, th [...]	D
Bill Murray was considered and tested for the role of Sulley, but the director, Pete Docter, said th [...]	D
During voice recordings, the script changed from time to time so one week Pete Docter would tell Joh [...]	D
Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Jack Black, and Drew Carey were among the few actors considered for th [...]	D
At timestamp 8:52, there is a poster in the left window for 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea at Disneyla [...]	D
The restaurant that Mike and Celia are at is called Harryhausen's. This is an homage to Ray Harryhau [...]	D
This is the Pixar's original full-length feature film of the 2000s.	D
According to the director's commentary, the massive door vault warehouse is taller than the Empire S [...]	D
The third highest-grossing film of 2001.	D
Randy Newman's song "If I Didn't Have You" finally netted the composer an Academy Award after 16 nom [...]	D
In early drafts, the character of Boo was written to be six years old. The writers decided to make B [...]	D
The controls for the Monsters Inc. door mechanisms include a button that starts the process labeled [...]	D
The J is backwards on the border in the test room.	D
Whenever the CDA arrives, Roz tends to pull down the shutter to her office, likely to hide the fact [...]	D
When Boo raises her arms, her armpits would sometimes be exposed through her short sleeves.	D
Pete Docter is the first animator to direct a Pixar movie solo other than John Lasseter.	D
During Billy Crystal's Hollywood Chinese Theatre Hand/footprint ceremony in April 2019, a small foot [...]	D
Jim Carrey was considered for the role of Randall.	D
This is the fourth movie to feature both John Goodman and Steve Buscemi and is the first of the four [...]	D
The movie was in pre-production for close to two years before it was officially started. And started [...]	D
The famous computer graphic of "The Teapot" can be seen on the table in Boo's room.	D
One of the filmmakers' biggest challenges was to come up with a reason for the monsters to scare kid [...]	D
All of the digital displays in Monstropolis (Sulley's clock radio, scare station consoles, "Days Wit [...]	D
Pixar moved its base to Emeryville in the middle of production.	D
In 2007, a Monsters Inc. attraction called the Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor opened at Walt Disney Worl [...]	D
When the yeti offers Sulley and Mike a snowcone he mentions that it is lemon a common joke that ofte [...]	D
Development for the film began in 1996. At that time, it went under the name of "Hidden City".	D
Danny DeVito was considered to voice Sulley.	D
There are retro Disneyland posters in the Monstropolis travel store and some of the children's bedro [...]	D
Patrick Stewart was considered for the voice of Mr. Waternoose.	D
The fancy restaurant that Mike takes Celia to, Harryhausen's, is reference to Ray Harryhausen one of [...]	D
John Goodman pushed for Steve Buscemi to voice Randall.	D
The company play at the end of the film features Mike singing "she's out of our hair" whilst sitting [...]	D
This is the only Disney/Pixar film not to have a paperboard slipcover with its DVD/VHS release.	D
Director Pete Docter had all of his directorial efforts produced at 1.85:1.	D
The animators considered giving Sulley tentacles instead of legs at one point, and glasses at anothe [...]	D
The first Pixar movie to have a prequel. Monsters University (2013) was released 12 years later.	D
Randall Boggs is last seen in the trailer home from A Bug's Life - Megaminimondo (1998), next to the [...]	D
Disney/Pixar prepared a special trailer for Monsters Inc. to show before Harry Potter e la pietra fi [...]	D
The original concept featured a 30-year-old man coming to terms with his childhood fears.	D
Jennifer Tilly, who plays Celia Mae, was married to Sam Simon who was one of the creators of I Simps [...]	D
Mary Gibbs was so young that it proved difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio and act [...]	D
At the beginning when Sulley and Mike are walking to work, Mike says, "You've been jealous of my goo [...]	D
John Goodman and Billy Crystal who voiced Mike and Sulley previously starred in Le avventure di Rock [...]	D
As of January 2016, this is Pete Docter's only directorial effort to be rated G. His other films, Up [...]	D
News leaked in early fall of 2001 that this movie would feature the first teaser for Star Wars: Epis [...]	D
Not only is the Pizza Planet truck by the trailer where Randall is getting beat up, but also the tra [...]	D
The sequence where Sulley thinks that Boo has gone through the trash compactor is an almost shot-for [...]	D
The first Pixar feature flim release not to be directed by John Lasseter.	D
Steve Buscemi voiced two revolutionary CGI films in one year - Final Fantasy (2001) (first photoreal [...]	D
It normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley because of his 2.3 million indivi [...]	D
At timestamp 8:23, in the Hidden City CafÃ© on the right side, there is a poster for the Storybook [...]	D
Mr. Waternoose was James Coburn's only role in an animated movie. He reprised him in both video game [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
James Coburn's last film before his death 1 year later.	D
On the scare floor leader board, the name immediately below Sullivan and Randall is Ranft, a referen [...]	D
An original story idea for Celia Mae was to give her the ability to turn people into stone, a nod to [...]	D
The first Pixar film directed by Pete Docter not composed by Michael Giacchino, who later composed U [...]	D
Computing power is measured in rendermarks. Toy Story 2 - Woody & Buzz alla riscossa (1999) required [...]	D
In the original draft of the script, Sulley was not to be a scarer but a worker named Johnson with b [...]	D
The only Pixar film of the 2000s to have bloopers.	D
Sully's fur contained 2,320, 413 hairs,	D
The spin off short film La nuova macchina di Mike (2002) was originally planned as a scene in the fi [...]	D
Production briefly shut down following the September 11 attacks.	D
The first Pixar film to win an Oscar for Best Original Song. It was nominated for 3 others, Best Ani [...]	D
The original teaser (where Mike and Sulley enter a room in "Outer Magnolia" instead of Outer Mongoli [...]	D
The green shield that the CDA uses to decontaminate the restaurant Harryhausen's is similar to the M [...]	D
Boo's teddy bear is the same bear as the one seen on the shelf in the simulator bedroom.	D
Near the end of the movie, a poster can be seen at Mike and Sulley's laugh floor work station with t [...]	D
Sully says that laughter is ten times more powerful than scream. This is represented by the size of [...]	D
In the German dubbing of the film, the Abominable Snowman speaks the Swabian dialect, which is mostl [...]	D
The only Pixar film directed by Pete Docter not produced by Jonas Rivera.	D
When animating Sulley's fur in situations where he would run, it proved to be a difficult task. You [...]	D
One of the 3 Pixar Films where Joe Ranft voices someone to have Ranft simply listed in the Additiona [...]	D
At the end of the training simulation, on the control panel the numbers 510:752:3000 appear - that w [...]	D
Sulley went through some monster-sized changes as the story developed: from a janitor to a down-on-h [...]	D
In the background where the blob monster falls into a sidewalk grate, there is an art store called " [...]	D
After Sulley says goodbye to Boo, he closes the closet door. When Boo jumps out of bed, she has grow [...]	D
The Monster's Inc. logo is intentionally the name of the company. In the opening sequence they intro [...]	D
When Sulley meets Mike in the sushi restaurant and tries to draw his attention to the bag, he first [...]	D
The yeti also made a cameo in Monsters University (2013) as Mike and Sulley's supervisor in the mail [...]	D
Phil Hartman was considered to voice Mike.	D
The Luxo Jr. ball is on the floor when Sulley goes through Boo's door for the first time.	D
Pete Docter's only directorial effort to be released on VHS, Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Soul [...]	D
When Boo pulls on the stacked DVDs in Sullivan's apartment and they all come falling down, the DVD s [...]	D
The animated short La nuova macchina di Mike (2002) was originally going to be the end of the film b [...]	D
When the Abominable Snowman is describing different types of kids, he is actually reciting part of t [...]	D
Near the end of the movie, a poster can be seen at Mike and Sulley's laugh floor work station with t [...]	D
According to the original character design sketches found on the DVD, Fungus' first name is Jeff and [...]	D
The last half of Chuck Jones' 1952 classic Feed the Kitty (1952) short cartoon is included scene-for [...]	D
Highest-grossing animated film released to its date.	D
On the DVD bonus features, the three ads at the end of the company play, "Put That Thing Back Where [...]	D
The "Hidden City CafÃ©" is the name of a real restaurant in Point Richmind, California which had b [...]	D
Bob Peterson, the movie's story supervisor, provided the temporary voice of Roz, the green secretary [...]	D
Bonnie Hunt's role as the training monster Flint was originally much larger. Unfortunately for Hunt' [...]	D
Pixar's only film where the logos are shortened at the start of the film, where they appear as seen [...]	D
When Fungus, overjoyed of no longer having to work for Randall, puts the mustache glasses on at the [...]	D
Pete Docter's only directorial effort until Soul (2020) to not have any characters voiced by John Cy [...]	D
The sequence where Mike is waking up Sulley he was supposed to blow an air horn and yell at Sulley b [...]	D
Baby Smitty is voiced by Joe Ranft's daughter Sophia Ranft.	D
A113 can be seen listed on the walls of where the doors go to, simply as "A13".	D
In the movie, there are several hidden Easter eggs referencing to what was their next film, Finding [...]	D
Originally, the restaurant where Sulley and Mike escape with Boo was originally going to be blown up [...]	D
Sulley's big armchair in his apartment has a hole in the back to let his tail through.	D
The first and only Pixar film where during the introduction the lamp Luxo Jr doesn't bounce around a [...]	D
When Sulley greets Ted (the monster so big we only see the lower half of his body), Ted was original [...]	D
This is Pete Docters only Disney/Pixar film that didn't win an Academy Award for Best Animated Featu [...]	D
The marketing for this film differed dramatically from other Pixar movies in that it prominently fea [...]	D
Boo's real name is Mary, as shown briefly on one of the crayon drawings she shows to Sulley in the s [...]	D
The last Pixar film to not be worked on by Peter Sohn, Josh Cooley, Bradford Lewis, Mark Andrews, Br [...]	D
At one point, when Sulley got his final design, he was going to wear glasses. But the glasses were t [...]	D
Mike Wazowski appears as a small figure in Frozen (2013).	D
Originally intended in release on Thanksgiving in 2001 like the previous 3 Pixar Films, but was push [...]	D
Billy Crystal was originally offered the role of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story - Il mondo dei giocatto [...]	D

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