Toy Story 4 is an existential nightmare 

What is GOIN ON, cowbowoody?

"The seven year olds today are just as old as you were when you were 7." Wiser words have never been spoken.

Your fixed ending is a masterpiece.

Your altered Gabby Gabby scene genuinely made me cry. I feel like that kind of story arc and "lesson" for her must have been the intent at some point im development but got lost somewhere along the way.

Andy's dog is named Buster. Bo Peep really isn't a toy, she's a figure on a lamp makes you wonder WHAT is a classified as a toy and what can come to life. Woody mentions in 3, if they go sent to attic they could make friends with the Christmas decorations...you mean like the Santas, Elves, the angels, even the Nativity Scene, they're alive, too? or the phone in 3 who only talks if it you answer it/pick up the receiver.

I have a hypothesis about why Buzz Lightyear toys start out the way they do. The boxes have a big quote on the back and if one Buzz is packed in behind another one, it will be stuck there reading about himself until taken out of the package. Maybe that's somewhat unique compared to other toys that would have more explicit "toy" imagery on their packaging.

I love how in every outro Jeff is like "wow you really watched that whole thing huh? I wasted that much of your time?" like nah man this shit is actually entertaining, keep it up.

The deep horror hinted at in this franchise has bothered me most of my life. I was about 11 when I saw Toy Story 3. The dump scene really hit me. I have had so many nightmares over the years about being a toy that got discarded. The idea of being a conscious entity trapped in confined area, unable to even die, possibly for centuries is horrifying. This is something the show Black Mirror explores with its episodes on making digital copies of human consciousness

my problem with 4 is that in 1 buzz thinks he's a real human being. 2 he meets another buzz who thinks he's a real human being. H 3 he understand his mortality as an object that can be destroyed and reaches for his friends in his final moments 4 he doesn't know what a "conscience" is and is told by woody "it's the voice inside you that tells you what you are thinking". So he starts listening to the BuzzLightyearToTheRescue.WAV file that plays when he presses a button like it's the voice of god giving him instructions. He markedly devolves as a character into something he never was. What real human being that discovers he's a toy doesn't know the concept of conscience. Even Woody knows what that means. It's like if Luke in episode 6 said "Hey Han. I hear you talking about this thing called a space ship. What even is that?" He becomes dumb in a dumb way specifically so the writers can deus ex WAVina Buzz into doing whatever is convenient for the plot. he only finds them because the voice tells him to look up for a meteor shower and coincidentally sees woody jumping across rooves

I think the cat begging for attention really drives the point home.

When I was like 6 I broke a toys voice box by accident and held that guilt with me until seeing toy story 4 in theatres where I cried so hard over it I threw up in the cinema rubbish bin

That fixed ending honestly made me cry multiple times. That was a masterclass of story telling and what you did with Gabby and the stuttering girl was beautiful. Whoever is working on the 5th needs to see this video ❤

I mean, the implication in the first scene is that, being Molly's oldest toy, she took up leadership of Molly's room the same way Woody leads Andy's room. And given that Woody has been her model for leadership for years, it makes sense that she leads like he does.

Omg your change with the girl having a stutter was so perfect, I was already thinking the girl being deaf could've been a clever solution but the stutter works so much better omg

I did NOT use that intermission to take a break i was lost in your eyes bro

I love how your cat is like "fine you wont pet me? I'll just use you to pet myself 😤" lol

I love your video specifically for the "take a health break" intermission. I say while specifically ignoring it and powering through, not because I don't think it important (it is, and constant watching of short form content makes it less likely people will take such breaks). No, I power through because I'm listening to this video while doing household chores.

"Help! I'm a Fish!" Is actually a really, REALLY fun movie, for a kid's action movie. Beautiful animation, amazing voice acting, genuinely pretty funny - I like that movie so much.

I don't know why but buzz saying "im having a fucking panic attack woody" was the most genuine laugh I've had in a minute. Thank you for that sir.

Pixar needs to hire this guy, he made me feel more emotions with his version of the ending than the actual ending of Toy Story 4 did!

My wife and I had a detailed conversation after we finished TS4. They all should have went back to the little girl. Now the gang is separated and it just doesn't seem right. We liked the film but there was an overwhelming sense of disappointment.

Also horrifying if you think that, only total and complete destruction can possibly end a toy's existence... Because, if all it takes is the act of being created with purpose, and played with, to breathe the spark of self awareness into the object, then that implies there's toys which were made in prehistoric times. Maybe, some of those still exist. Toys which literally existed around the same time of wolves being domesticated to dogs. Toys from actual ice ages. --- And surely, toys from antiquity. Toys which saw the rise of fall of empires. Perhaps even toys which had direct access to the family members of leaders which changed the course of their societies. There must be a wealth of immortal knowledge that, even if they themselves don't understand it's significance, we, would... The value to historians and scientists could not be given a price ... But, it's all walled off because they have a silly rule about not appearing animate in front of humans, oh well lol

Toy Story 3 absolutely fucking broke me as a child. I remember feeling ill watching the scene when they first meet the toddlers, breaking down in tears over the “She don’t love you no more!” part and the end scene. It may have been because I saw that movie during one of the worst parts of my life but every time I see it again now I don’t look back on it fondly. I don’t mean that I hate it though, I just mean that it’s…..oddly traumatising.

You are so humble. The "little outro segment" as you call it being the most banger fan fiction ending to toy story is everything more than just that.

25:05 and THIS, THIS RIGHT HERE, is why i will personally never accept TS4 as canon. also, PET THAT FLOOFER edit: ahhhh fuck your fixed ending has made me cry and is now my new canon. the bit with Gabby's voice matching the kid's stutter is absolutely masterful.

If woody went to Japan in toy story 2, it would end happily. Probably would end up in a scenario like night in the museum

Ya know, the video "Mustached man speaks of the Toy Story-franchise for an unreasonable amount of time, attempting to make sense of his own thoughts, sharing mad bibs-style free association-esque observations, with no guarantee of reaching any kind of satisfying conclusion" really reminds me of Hbomberguy, in the best way. Keep it up man, this shit is really good.

I've never wanted to pretend a film doesn't exist as much as I did Toy Story 4. You've captured everything that's wrong with it so well, but what's most incredible about this video are your changes to the ending. I genuinely will think of them, aka mentally replace them with that whole film, whenever I think about Toy Story. Thank you.

I absolutely love your ability to remain totally deadpan and to keep up this really lofty analysis while your cat is literally smothering you. 😂 Now that I've watched the video: you have an intensely uncanny ability to speak directly to the heart of your audience and are able to make these wonderfully insightful, at times delightfully unhinged, synopsis of unexpected but nostalgic media. The dichotomies and the fun you have while making these videos really shows. I don't understand how it's possible that you haven't EXPLODED w content like this. I'm gonna have to spam creators I like who would love you and this. A collaboration between you and Love from H3 would be super cool, since you're both Swedish, creative, masters of deadpan and irony, and super online. ❤

My god. Your rant at the end made me have a MASSIVE panic attack. I was not expecting that. I was eating an ice cream cone and that should be the pinnacle of happiness but instead, it was me crying into said ice cream cone and hyperventilating. The fixed ending to the movie though was flawless! 10/10 :D

🖐️ Also teared up at the fixed Gabby Gabby scene. Honestly INSANE an entire studio of people couldn't come up with that, it's so perfect.

35:30 you have no idea how much this speech hit me. I'm currently 1 month and a couple days out of a break-up and hearing this made me stop and think. I won't get too far into the details, I just want to say thank you for including this. It's really making me think about my own life.

45:16 Toy Story 4 bothers me, but not nearly much as this specific fever dream. I always assumed that the bizarre third act was just the producers having future designs on a Toy Story Cinematic Universe.

Going into your final thoughts, it's crazy how much your analysis reminded me of Dark Souls. You, a toy, have the dark sign, cursed with undeath in an uncaring world. In the end, there are only two options: you can "link the fire", give yourself up [to a child], repeat the cycle, and rekindle the illusion the gods have abandoned. Or you can take the Lordvessel for yourself and become the new ruler over your grim reality (by becoming a 'lost toy'). The only other choice is not to choose; to become Hollowed out, resolved to be a shell of unmotivated, unfulfilled rubbish. ...I can't believe I'm comparing a Pixar film to a Fromsoft game, yet here we are 😂

1:05:35 movies don’t make me cry very often but toy story 4 DID make me cry…BUT FOR THE WRONG REASONS. You see, Woody is one of my major comfort characters throughout my whole life, a HUGE part of my identity up to this point was about how much I loved Pixar movies, ESPECIALLY Toy Story (and Monsters Inc., as well) and so Woody was a character who was VERY important to me, and a main source of comfort for the nearly 20 years I had been alive at the point when the 4th film came out. And then I went to the film, excited because not only was it a new Toy Story film, but I would get to see it with my best friend of 6 years who I was finally meeting in person for the first time-and then I ended up watching what essentially was the character assassination of one of my all-time favorite fictional characters. A character who was ever present in my life, a character I had actually even *crushed on* previously, a character who I thought I knew as well as the back of my hand, could pinpoint little aspects of his personality and describe them in detail, a character who was the basis of my very beliefs about loyalty in regards to friendships-and turned him into a complete stranger. If it wasn’t for the presence of all the other characters who I knew well (but not as well as Woody), I would wonder “is this even the same Sheriff Woody we’ve been following through all of these films?”. I felt betrayed. I felt hurt. Who was this man I spent nearly 2 hours watching on screen-because I didn’t know him. And when the credits began to roll…I cried. Like a little baby. Hell, because of this I’ve had a hard time revisiting the previous films-films that were some of my absolute favorites, because all I can think is “Well, what’s the point of that? He abandons them all in the end anyways.” I felt like Billy Joel at one of his concerts singing a love song about his ex-wife, when he finished the song, and slams out a discordant note, with an exasperated “but what do I know? We got divorced.” Because…what do I know? He left everyone behind in the end.

It's my lunch time and I'm sitting in my car watching and listening and openly weeping as you describe your Toy Story 4 ending. Thank you for that. Thank you for "rambling on" for an hour before getting to the movie itself. You're genuine. Based on the explosion of subscribers, I'd say I'm not the only person who appreciates it.

i couldn't focus AT ALL around the 26m mark because your cat is so goddamn cute. They love you very much 🥹🥹🥹

Hi there! I came here from your jazz skull/skull trumpet video (Excellent work by the way!) so it's only the second one I've seen from you, and I'm commenting before finishing- but I just have to tell you after seeing your admission to your rather extreme alteration of your dinosaur toy and self-comparison to Sid; I recently watched a documentary about the making of the first toy story film and one of the animators themselves (I believe it might have been the lead animator?) said that Sid was the more relatable character for most of the animators making the film and that he was "the type of boy who will go on to become an animator", and I just couldn't believe how much you yourself reflect that statement since you used an animated avatar in your newer video and are just a creative content creator in general. Very interesting and charming, and something I felt you would enjoy knowing (if you hadn't seen that documentary already). Cheers! Keep on keeping on brother!

One thing not a lot of people talk about concerning toy conciseness is the dinosaur people toys from the christmas special. Why were they like programmed to be part of a whole contained society with unique customs right out of the box

"somehow you tortuous existence will just work itself out" ye that's kinda been how i've lived my life for my 34 years here

Your end little downward spiral was genuinely amazing????? Just really well acted?

also, i dislike how buzz is so dumb in the 4th movie, the inner voice thing feels so different from how his personality was on the other movies, and also he always was a great leader, and now he feels unsure of how to do that? maybe it's just me great video!

Of all the many times I've noticed "Gymnopedie" after being introduced to it as Kraehe's theme in _Princess Tutu,_ this might be the most elevated use of it, hitting me outta left field in the _Toy Story 3_ recap. Aside, that scene really was wild! Not since the interminably long cut to black in _Happy Feet_ did I think a kid's movie was actually _going there._

My favorite bit of this video was getting to the Final Thoughts monolog wherein our beloved narrator begs for that sweet embrace of death, and on the final impassioned "kill me"... RU-vid hits me with one of those fuckawful Temu ads. The raw unpredictability of how that hit honestly makes this an unprecedented masterpiece and elevates it in ways I don't know how to articulate. An utterly fantastic video made unimpeachably timeless.

I wasn't ready to cry at the end. Brillantly done. Both in the analysis and the end 'fixing'.

Toystory 1 is anti Bionicle propaganda

Dude you’re channel is blowing up and you deserve it. You’ve inspired me I’m gonna dip my toes into doing what you do. It’s fucking awesome

something I like about the Toy Story franchise is how each movie explores new areas of thee world of toys. first movie: two different kinds of children's bedrooms, and a restaurant/arcade with toy prizes, second movie: toy store and collector's apartment, third movie: daycare centre, garbage dump, fourth movie: carnival, antique store

I have to assume toys not understanding they're toys is a kind of neurodivergence.

Got recommended your videos while at my job (janitorial) and ive been binging your videos since i clocked out (5 hours now). THIS is some high quality work, it seriously astonished me to see the view counts you get considering the sheer quality that you put in. Seriously, I’ve never been more invested in a patreon ad read, or for SMASHING the subscribe button. Instant sub, I’ll likely binge your work for eternity

I wasn’t expecting to cry when I pressed on this video, but your tangent about breakups at the end of Toy Story 3 was beautifully written and spoken, and genuinely brought me to tears. Bravo man

that ending was the sweetest thing I've seen in a bit. Gabby having a stutter and the kid with the stutter finding each other, the proper goodbye, the continuation of the "toy story message", I would've absolutely have loved to see this in the actual film, it was so sweet and beautiful in a way. So thanks for that. :)

1:11:54 This Gabby Gabby re-write was so sweet and perfect that it actually made me tear up. Wish this is the kind ending we got to the story in the film!

Toy Story 3 has the greatest use of Chekov's Gun in film history.

The rewrite you did for the ending is actually perfect. Literally made me cry, you should make movies if you don’t already.

That stuttring edit at the end actually made me tear up, that's fucking beautiful.

Your alternate scenes and ending made my heart swell with emotions. I could just imagine how much more positively people would talk about TS4 if it were anything similar. It sucks how often movies arent fully polished because with projects like that, theres so many moving parts as 100s of people are pouring in their labor to make a movie. With tight deadlines and even tighter budgets, a lot of studios cant just rewrite whole stories and throw in new scenes 3/4th into production. Not to mention how many great ideas get shot down by executives, producers, and other higher ups who sometimes aren't fully invested into the movie's story, theme, characters, world, etc etc

I love this channel, after finding it on the jazz Skelton video, I have been looking through your channel like a kid digging through a treasure chest finding cooler and cooler things. Thank you Mr. Sweden man

I audibly gasped when you added the stutter plot to the ending. It is as devastating as it is beautiful.

I guess, I am the only one who never asked about "Why only Buzz toys didn't know they were toys?". Maybe because I thought that all "newborn" toys who recently became sentient think they are the real character, and realisation kicks in some time later, and everyone just lives on after that? Also, toys aren't alive at first, but then they "magically" become alive at some point as it was demonstrated with Buzz and Zorg in TS2? I dunno, my brain just made an explanation for this thing and I never questioned it =\

That rare deleted scene was so REAL and NOT MADE UP so I will take the REAL FOOTAGE to heart and do what it said.

God, I even cried when you were reading your fixed ending. In fact, I cried both times, for both endings - GabiGabi's and the main ending. It's so brilliant, and I'm not even a Toy Story fan, just decided to watch a couple of your videos after the Trumpeting Skull one. I guess that video really blew up your channel... I'll watch a couple more and subscribe, I think. Your videos are great, I'm glad that the Algorithm finally noticed you

Dude write a book. Your ability to weave in emotional build up and break it, only to build it back up is simply amazing.

In reguards to the whole thing about toys successfully keeping the secret that they are alive. I also loved these movies as a kid, I had toy story 2 on vhs and I watched it all the time. I also read the The Doll People books, specifically The Meanest Doll in the World (I did at some point find out that that is the second book, and read the first one). These books take a very similar "WHAT IS DOLLS WERE aLiVe?!?!?", but something in their cannon is that they have to stop moving when humans are around because if they get caught moving they get stuck in a frozen "doll state" for 24 hours. If they do something particularly "incriminating" (ty wiki) they become frozen forever and get stuck in a "permenant doll state". Even though that is most likely not cannon in toy story, I always just assumed it was something like that

I don't think there is a single other Pixar Movie that has as little of a business existing as Toy Story 4. ...and I am saying this confidently knowing that "Finding Dory" and "Monsters University" are a thing. It just took a satisfying ending, completely burned it in front of our eyes and added nothing of importance in it's place.

I'm not crying, you are!!! Really loved this video. Completely agree on the character growth (or lack there of) for BoPeep (but Disney has had many recent movies where they depend on your familiarity with the characters and not have any growth. I'm looking at you live action adaptations.) Your ending was beautiful, and will now be my personal ending. Better than the ending to 3, in my opinion.

your fixed ending actually made me cry dude wth its so good

That rant with the music had me going through so many emotions in 30 seconds

Hey, I'll update this comment when I'm done with this video. Bur i wantws to throw in my own unwanted sentiment. The scene that always made me cry in Toy Story 3 (so much to the point where it is my least favorite + I refuse to watch the scene) was the scene where Lotso crushes the baby dolls heart. I dont remember it a lot (because, again, I refuse to watch it) but something about that was always gut wrenching to me. I dont know, just felt like crushing someone’s hopes, dreams, and heart. But, could be wrong since I barely remember Edit: Just finished the video. The stutter and GabbyGabby made me SOB and the after credit scene is just *chefs kiss*. You did absolutely perfect!

man why i gotta cry toy story 3 is one of the very FEW works of film that genuinely made me cry

I really love your alternative ending, especially the part where the doll with the broken sound box meets the stuttering kid. It's beautiful! Thank you for that! I Now I wish we could have gotten this ending.

your fix-it at the end had me legit tearing up. Great video man

one nitpicky thing i never really considered is what was woody up to in the 40something years between being produced and being given to andy given his arcs throughout the series i really doubt he had any kid before andy but if he was just kept in the box i imagine he would’ve been more sympathetic to the prospector there’s just a big Backstory Hole there

Your revised ending literally brought tears to my eyes. Stuttering Gabi and the little girl is perfection 💕

The scary part is that the toys have been aware of all of this since the beginning. Woody mentions a "plastic corrosion awareness" meeting in the first movie, presumably about how slowly plastic corrodes and the curse of near immortality all plastic toys bear.

Hooooly shit that altered ending just hit me out of nowhere, I had no idea what kind of tiny change you could've made that would improve it so much, and given you prefaced the whole thing by saying you would barely even touch it, I didn't know what to expect. But the moment you delivered the stuttering line by the child, it all came crashing home and my eyes welled up instantly. GOD that would be SUCH a beautiful, subtle, thematically uplifting and emotionally satisfying way to affirm all the right things instead of leaving this backwards ableist implication that actually made it into the movie that "You need to be fixed to be loved". It's such a shame that that's all it would've taken to completely transform that character's conclusion, but I'm so glad I saw it done right here.

9:49 I’m happy I’m taking part of this 1 hour yapping session

That ending - Your fixed ending got me ... 😢 😮 Beautifully done.

during the intermission you mention how pixar films often have universes based on the idea "what if [thing] was alive?" and i thought to myself "wow that's so right, so many are like that. elemental, toy story, cars, monsters inc, inside out, a bug's life" and i had to stop myself because , bugs already are alive. i recently rewatched the first movie in english (i'm norwegian) and damn you're right, the swedish "jag skall aldrig flyga igen" part hits harder than the original

That Toy Story 3 incinerator scene makes me emotional every time. It's so frickin sad.

Wake up babe new jeffiot

Your kitty cat loves you so much, it's nice to see

Your epilogue made me cry more than the actual movie. It was amazing.

Thanks for the intermission, my cat came inside with a dead mouse during it and I was able to throw it back outside before the intermission ended

You have an incredible talent to make me cry. Grated, it doesn't take much, but dudeeee that ending. Jesus Christ, I wish you wrote it.

"How to unpack in just a few sentences" a 'few'must mean something different than I thought it did... but I'm here for your rants.

I’m so glad your video on the trumpet skull guy is blowing up, I’m currently binge watching your channel and I hope that that video is just the first of many more successes for you. This channel is a hidden gem.

Thank you for that intermission, and thank you for an awesome video! Enjoyed it immensly, and picking it up after I actually had some good sleep was just what I needed. And the ending with Gabby Gabby having a stutter like the kid that finda her, and the interaction between Buzz and Wood is just... Yeah that would've been an amazing ending

The fixed ending was actually a tearjerker. I don't usually like fan fiction, but I reject the ending they gave us for this as canon. I'd say this movie represents the start of the long, slow, slide disney studios has been on for the last few years.

As a fellow old man, every point in this video hits home. Amazing work my guy, keep up the good work.

"Help! I'm a fish" was one of my favorite animated movies when I was younger. I think it still holds up today, some of the animation definitely didn't age well but if someone decided to remake it with modern animation I'd be in theaters opening day

I genuinely teared up the moment you started stuttering as the little girl. Bravo.

an absolute delight as usual jeffo

you deserve 100x the amount of subs you have

What i find exceptionally bad about the toys being immortal is that in many cases like with toys that are severely broken they'll just stay like that forever and probably not be able to find a child to take them again. Like, if a toy were to fall into a fire, it wouldn't die but just stay ruined forever and have even worse chances of finding an owner. So not only will they be eternally abandoned and find new people again and again, they will also slowly loose their chances of actually finding someone to care for them.

This video and the ending of this movie is a masterpiece

S tier patreon ad would subscribe if not poor. Brings me back to the YTP days.

The script fix with Gabby Gabby at the end during the patreon credits actually made me start crying. I loved the first three Toy Story movies but never watched 4, and I wasn't even watching the video. I was playing Ratchet and Clank while listening. but here I am in tears typing this comment. I don't know if that says more about me then your writing.

Legitimately your rewritten ending got me to tear up with the stuttering kid, that was an absolute stroke of genius.

Jeffiot: one of the best content creators to ever exist