Who Is Andy’s Mom in the “Toy Story” Movies?

But for Negroni, this is more than just the work of animators trying to leave an individual stamp on a mass-produced medium. It’s evidence that the Pixar movies form a continuous timeline, one in which, among other things, animals evolve from brute beasts to sentient creatures and eventually take over from the human race. The reason there’s so little evidence of human existence in “A Bug’s Life” is because humanity has all but died out, and a fleeting glimpse of a wood carving resembling Sully from “Monsters Inc.” in “Brave” is proof that, as Rust Cohle might have it, the Pixarverse is a flat circle.

Right, and “The Shining” is Stanley Kubrick’s confession that he faked the moon landing. But Negroni’s latest investigation is a little more convincing. Through close comparison of the cowboy hats worn by Andy in “Toy Story” and Jessie the cowgirl in “Toy Story 2,” Negroni puts forth the theory that Jessie’s former owner and Andy’s mother are, in fact, the same person. Click through for the full arguments, which involves a combination of close reading and (semi-)plausible speculation.Eeven if you don’t buy how Negroni connects all the dots, the connections point to the thematic richness and consistency of the Pixar canon. (Matt Singer argued on this very blog that every Pixar movie is essentially about the same thing.) Now watch the “When Somebody Loved Me” scene from “Toy Story 2” and have a good cry.