The Worthless Worldbuilding of Pixar’s Cars

[@linkhateno8738]

He almost calmed down until he remembered the forklifts 😭

[@Hirundo-demersalis]

The existence of boats and human history parallels in cars also implies that in the Cars universe, the Titanic was a sentient ship, she was essentially walking from Britain to New York, and she was fatally wounded and DIED from hitting the iceberg Which also begs the question; did she have a crew at all, or was she self-propelled? Were the crew forklifts or cars or smaller boats (or a combination of all three)? How do you put cars in lifeboats? Etc etc

[@bigcheese0942]

Are the lifeboats sentient????

[@creaturexxii]

I would unironically like to see a movie about a "Cars" version of the Titanic

[@bonkerswonkers22323]

@@bigcheese0942nobody would’ve been on it so probably not maybe like floaty devices in case she went down for herself like an attached life jacket?? Idk

[@ran196]

depending on how you view age in the car universe, whether its from date of start of construction or date of completed construction. Titanic was about 3 years old (start construction) or two weeks old (finished construction) when she struck the iceberg. so in the car universe, they tasked a baby or child to carry a bunch of adults

[@jp-toaster]

@@ran196 cars age, in Cars 1 & 3 there are child cars

[@alex_-yz9to]

i like how the entire video goes by, uses several scenes of that one short... and never once acknowledges that aliens also exist in the cars universe

[@gungle2595]

The alien is also car-like, being a UFO, and drinks motor oil, meaning this is an interplanetary case of convergent evolution where the alien happened to come from a planet with the same temperature, the same gases in the atmosphere and the same energy source (oil).

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Lightning's dream sequence in the first Cars movie had aliens that resembled the Tripods from _War of the Worlds,_ which invaded the city with one of the poor cars got incinerated into ashes. That's until Lightning in his Dinocco form shot the missiles towards said aliens to save the day. (Choopo mentioned that Finn McMissile is a cyborg spy who equipped weapons and gadgets inside his body, but doesn't realized that Dinocco Lightning also had a weapon coming out of his body, so this implied that he's a cyborg too.)

[@bestaround3323]

​@@poweroffriendship2.0But that was a dream, and most likely him thinking of a commercial or even movie

[@theparrishshow9803]

Or the fact that the short ends with Mater fucking flying

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

Either the cars are actually aliens or everything in this universe even the aliens are vehicles.

[@GMMReviews]

I never realised how horrifying the existence of trains is in the Cars Universe...

[@mehowme]

I mean, Thomas the Tank Engine seems reasonably happy even though he faces similar limitations.

[@predatorasap5040]

At least that's better than being a crane on an oil rig

[@InventorZahran]

@@mehowmeTrains in the Thomas universe gain a sense of purpose and fulfillment from carrying passengers/goods and being Really Useful. In a world without humans, trains could still transport cars, smaller vehicles, oil/fuel, and car parts. Maybe some of them dream of life beyond the rails, but most would rather stay on their tracks where they feel secure and comfortable.

[@SMGSpiritRT]

​@@InventorZahranand also in Thomas you keep having humans to repair them and make them to go anywhere. Some quite funny that you always found Sir Thopham Hat scolding for a bad action to a locomotive instead of the engineer which still operates the machine, because also de trains has some will to move in their end, like the train wagons or cargo cabins (because yes, they also have eyes and are sentient). Simply just here follows the logic to entertain kids with great histories with morals.

[@adrianwoods2752]

20th century train crashing as a spectacle in the Cars universe

[@TheRealKingLeopoldII]

5:30 About Celine: one thing I don't see enough people talk about is that she has a steering wheel, while other cars don't seem to have that. The only reason she would have that is if people used to exist in this world and drove her. She is probably one of the earliest "sentient" cars that existed. At first the eyes were put in the place of the headlights because people still needed to see. Once the cars became fully autonomous and sentient, the eyes were put where the front window usually is.

[@hayleyhellbound9513]

I’d like to believe this but the model car she is based on is 16 years newer than Doc is. I’m pretty sure it’s just a cruel joke about street vendors’ stereotypical appearances that has flown under the radar. They say she’s a reference to how they initially were going to design the cars but I think that’s the cover up, I don’t find it plausible they’d decide to create a movie that Chevron could’ve sued for.

[@J-1410]

@@hayleyhellbound9513 Chevron? International Harvester made a Scout commercial in the 70s with a cartoon Scout with a sentient car with the headlights as eyes.

[@TheKingofGods69420]

Or maybe headlight eyes is a genetic Birth defect and those with it are treated as freaks

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

I think the other cars do have steering wheels and that they use their internal organs to steer them.

[@patrikpolda]

​@@hayleyhellbound9513 from what I heard they did this to show people how the cars would look if they had eyes in place of headlights. It was done because generally you think of headlights of a car as of eyes for humans and people kept bugging them about it.

[@InspectorChairLeg]

It always bugged me how there is actual architecture in the world of Cars, you mean these vehicles use stairs?!

[@jianalexander1359]

No they use the wheel chair stairs ♿

[@oliyes406]

Cars 1 had more functionality in their architecture. In the stadium there were ramps instead of stairs.

[@jeffreyquinde6707]

I’ve never seen stairs in any of these movies

[@leithaziz2716]

@@oliyes406 There are some nice examples. They drink oil through straws because they have no hands, wheel locks act as handcuffs, phones don't have any handles and are automatic because they can't hold anything, etc. The world for the most part functioned around its inhabitants. Most of the leaps in logic didn't become problematic until Cars 2 started throwing random lines at every minute that broke continuity.

[@A__random__nerd]

​@@jianalexander1359 Ramps?

[@zacharymccoy7091]

So, did the cars universe have their own version of 9/11? And if so, were the planes themselves the terrorists, or were they hijacked by other cars?

[@leithaziz2716]

Also, with the existence of a Car pope, does that mean Car Jesus exists?

[@remixtheidiot5771]

there was a car hitler, with car nazis and car concentration camps... bruh.

[@hypersonicrush]

they were HIJACKED BY THE FORKLIFTS

[@DeVideoMakr]

@@remixtheidiot5771Car-centration camps

[@thetrashman5811]

​​​@@leithaziz2716 He does. In a post-credits scene in the first movie, one character says "For the love of Chrysler, can we please ask someone for directions?!" Jesus Chrysler is canon!

[@JDF4EVER93]

Choopo: None of it matters! Also Choopo: makes a huge rant about the importance of the forklifts

[@mm123gchannel9]

Because he’s forklift certified!

[@tonywebert8326]

I mean, 2 things can be true

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

Wait until he realizes that forklifts don’t actually have hands. And that all the objects they pick up have holes in them that they insert their arms into.

[@key-tg1ih]

“Forklifters of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” - Car Marx

[@Thermonuclear_Waifuisation]

Yes, because naturally the car mechanics needed to seize the means of reproduction

[@1overjay]

this made me laugh thank you

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Say what you want about _Cars 2,_ but the scene where Rod Redline literally died from the torture by getting blasted with a laser is one of the most brutal Pixar death scene ever, let alone the fact that it's still G-Rated. Things just went from 0 to 100 percent real quick.

[@frankierandomnumbers7525]

HE went from 0 to 100 real quick...

[@cosmicdunsparce]

Lots of people actually die in Cars 2 and it's wild

[@Otherface]

And I'm still saying that if the Cars franchise was about humans instead of actual cars, then Cars 2 wouldn't even be approved to begin with. The large dead count it has makes me think Pixar was lucky that they managed to get away with all of that

[@theoguncleslappy9150]

They literally have guns in Cars 2

[@ohnori]

@@theoguncleslappy9150 good ol murica

[@leithaziz2716]

I honestly think if Cars 2 didn't happen, people wouldn't get caught up in questioning every minor detail about how things in the world of Cars functions. Cars 1 did a decent job trying to make the setting feasable for its inhabitants. They drink oil through straws because they have no hands, wheel locks act as handcuffs, phones don't have any handles and are automatic because they can't hold anything, etc.

[@benmalsky9834]

Doesn’t it ever occur to people that it’s a cartoon and we see these movies to have fun?

[@abbycantrell1369]

​@@benmalsky9834 Picking at everything is part of the fun!

[@remixtheidiot5771]

you must be the equivalent of boring then for telling people how to have fun.​@@benmalsky9834

[@joshslater2426]

If Cars 2 didn’t happen, I would’ve lost interest in the series at a young age and not cared for Cars 3. The Cars 2 game was also one of my first video games, so I owe it that too. That’s why the second one holds such a special place in my heart.

[@jefferyandbob3137]

@@benmalsky9834 still lots of cartoons made by Pixar back then did make sense and it made them all the better

[@arthursimao8814]

friendly reminder that Pixar made World War 2 canon in this universe, HE existed

[@Cubeytheawesome]

HOW?

[@YataTheFifteenth]

def a Volkswagen

[@J-1410]

@@YataTheFifteenth Those are flies and insects in the world though.

[@MayconMLG]

​@@J-1410Only beetles are flies

[@PunishedKrab]

@@MayconMLGI also imagine that the members of The Beatles in their universe are also beetles

[@beardlessdragon]

I will never stop enjoying people's descent into madness as they unravel the Cars universe

[@legokid1902]

Missed opportunity for a Jesus Chrysler joke

[@ItsCosmoTewulf]

Cars itself actually made a Jesus Chrysler joke in the post-credits scene in the first movie.

[@Sonofdonn]

He was car-cified for our sins

[@themediaangel7413]

I think the hood is a lot more like a nose than a rib cage. It’s right under the eyes and above the mouth, when Mater puts his hood back on his voice gets all nasally, and when he sneezes it falls off.

[@makinyoumad9498]

The hood is a hood

[@gungle2595]

So Mater is less exposed organs and more voldemort?

[@kevingluys3063]

​@@gungle2595like a fallout ghoul

[@syndrette]

Also that means they slowly grow, since his hood is slightly smaller

[@too_blatant]

i personally think of being hoodless as being shirtless

[@surreal_nihilist]

The cars TSA implies a cars 911 happened at some point.

[@Cubeytheawesome]

And since the planes are also sentient, that means the planes were either radicalized into the attack or the car terrorists hijacked them or damage their organs.

[@hitune]

@@CubeytheawesomeCar Muslims confirmed

[@Mewdo45]

How tf would 911 happen if the planes themselves are sentient

[@Shinigintz]

@@hituneCarosoma Binladen

[@hitune]

@@Mewdo45 did you ask the same question about the suicide bomber pilots irl

[@Esmail2.0]

I never understood why Bessie was the only machine who wasn't alive

[@mihaih119]

Cause it's a trailer. It doesn't have an engine.

[@AlissonFrança-e6i]

​so the soul is stored at the engine. Got it!

[@thanos8914]

@@AlissonFrança-e6iif you watch the movie soul we get a little understanding of how souls work in the Pixar universe

[@skyhisurvivor4724]

Bessie was a reanimated corpse to be used for repaving roads.

[@brannonkirkhuang]

Is it possible that the world of Cars is actually just our world but from the POV of our cars? Imagine a Herbie-like scenario, where every car is sentient like Herbie, and in their view, it’s just them driving themselves around and doing things as cars, but in reality there are people doing all the driving and all the people things, etc, we just don’t see them, because we’re seeing the Car POV?

[@tiggerforhim]

This is probably the best explanation for this I've ever seen. The cars always think of the things they do through the lens of 'I am the one actually on the road,' so they often forget about their human drivers. The whole series could very well be this colored perception of the cars looking back at all of the events and drama that happened to their human drivers, with themselves in the human's place. That could be the thing that solves all of the inconsistencies in the series, that the cars are putting themselves in the place of their drivers in flashbacks/memories!

[@shakinspider]

0:51 Because it’s nascar. Chick takes a lot of inspiration from aggressive drivers like dale earnhardt and other 80’s drivers like him. Dale is known for wrecking countless people and yet nascar never did anything about it.

[@sleepyslowhyrax]

Weirdly, wheels are the equivalent to feet, so that means that when Sally says she likes Francesco's open wheels...

[@RainbyFIN]

I think shoes. If they're feet, then in the TSA bit someone had their feet temporarily amputated just for a safety check Edit: No wait, that is actually somehow reasonable in the Cars universe since replacing parts is normal nvm. Let me give yall something else cursed. What's the Cars equivelant of WikiFeet called? WikiWheels?

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

@@RainbyFIN The shoes are like the tires in the Cars Universe, hence why Luigi and Guido owned a tire shop.

[@mr.monkey354]

Oh wow, most common fetish in the world demonized again

[@pikminman13]

@@poweroffriendship2.0 they owned a shoe store the entire time, unbelievable.

[@confusedbakugo1373]

No, no, no think of it more like arms and legs with the car body being clothes. Sally is saying she likes his exposed arms and legs, i.e his muscles. Francesco is implied to be an attractive italian celebrity.

[@Arcade_Cat_]

There's a storyboarded deleted scene from the first Cars movie where McQueen gets his engine removed from his body and placed in Bessie, the machine used to pave the road, and that's implied to be a sort of brain transplant? McQueen's consciousness was inside the paver and he looks upon his lifeless race car corpse IT'S REALLY MESSED UP

[@tux1468]

good lord that would have made things even worse than they already are

[@kauanjos3199]

Head transplant are theoretically possible in real life too, we just don't have the technology

[@staydetermined6717]

Apparently that was a DREAM BUT STILL AUGHHH I REGRET WATCHING IT AUGH 😭

[@capngrimm3684]

Little kid me did not find that disturbing but amusing! I remember thinking it would have had a better plot than what we got 5 year old me was wild

[@beatricegurrobat7846]

Dear god I just saw the deleted scene what in the actual fuck

[@Dalt1n999]

What makes us question the Cars universe more than other fictional universes is the fact that the Cars universe doesn't seem to be built with cars in mind, being a 1:1 copy of our world but with cars as the living beings will make us question everything bc we can see it's a world clearly made by and for humans, but inhabited by cars

[@rojo7917]

imagine being a Taxi in a world populated by cars

[@Sonofdonn]

Vore

[@stickjustastick628]

​@@Sonofdonn its spring guys calm down

[@RoyalFish7]

There are no taxi cars in this universe

[@matthsewsmith]

Seals be like: 9:03

[@lukesanderson21751]

Something i just noticed at 7:53 is that behind Arnold Schwarzenegger, theres a California flag, WITH A REAL NON-CAR BEAR ON IT

[@talullah1065]

They have non car animals??? Fireflies are Volkswagen Beetles though??????

[@Lulo-jw5mk]

What happened to the non car animals then? Maybe they just went extinct thanks to being outcompeted by car animals

[@espvp]

@@Lulo-jw5mkor maybe they went extinct after all the CO2 emitted by all the cars in the cars universe

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

Maybe they just thought a bear with weird looking wheels would look cool.

[@nicojoojos5883]

I think a flag with a non-car bear in the cars universe is equivalent as the wales flag with a dragon in our universe

[@Red-jl1qr]

I think the reason people get hung up on the cars movies is because pixar is usually decent to incredible at world building, but this frachise has just the worst worldbuilding of all time. Thankfully most of the cars movies have good characters and stories to distract you from that

[@electricfeverx976]

It was mainly Cars 2 that opened this rabbit hole. Before that, the universe wasn't too thought on as everything bar some things were designed explicitly with cars in mind, & to pay tribute to Americana & nascar. The moment they introduced the sushi, commercial planes, airports, etc. is when people seriously started getting confused.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

The Cars world building is just as complicated as the FNAF lore and Kingdom Hearts timeline combined.

[@Red-jl1qr]

@@poweroffriendship2.0 none of which are good 💀

[@jootersblaccat]

@@Red-jl1qr Kingdom Hearts is pretty good

[@justineberlein5916]

Yeah, Pixar worldbuilding questions are typically things like "Why are Riley's emotions different genders, but her parents' aren't?" or "So... are the toys immortal?" They aren't typically core to your understanding of the world, like everything to do with Cars

[@nexusgalaxy9249]

No crazy, unhinged multiverses or alternate timeline where Lightning McQueen tells you to floss your skin?

[@nightmareriddenlibrarian2924]

The alternate universe

[@makinyoumad9498]

What is bro talking about?

[@nexusgalaxy9249]

​@@makinyoumad9498 I'm drowning in the sauce

[@CiphersVII]

@@makinyoumad9498 what if lightning mcqueen was named lightning freakqueen

[@LucasDiblasio]

“Pull off your skin”

[@TaccRaccoon]

2:54 imagine being born as a train, that must stink, only going where the tracks take you

[@Alright281]

🎶 "goin off the rails on a crazy train" 🎶

[@thorscape3879]

In defence of hitting other cars in NASCAR, the racing Cars is based on, hitting other drivers is explicitly allowed and somewhat encouraged.

[@isolated_illust]

I love how when people ask logical questions about any other movie, the automatic response is "it doesn't matter, enjoy the movie."... EXCEPT for the Cars movies, and I'm glad Choopo actually addresses this lol

[@makinyoumad9498]

How does cars movie stand out? It doesn’t matter Choopo being stupid here

[@sillybeanthing]

​@@makinyoumad9498I'm curious, why are you here making a ton of comments if it "doesn't matter?"

[@BabyBird6]

​@@makinyoumad94989:09

[@ludwigvonkoopa4998]

It's because in others movie, the universe is somewhat coherent. Like it's just another universe but with different laws of physics. For exemple the Monster Inc lore is its own universe and everything make sense according to the laws the movies sets themselves. It's just another universe in which the physics are in a way that makes interdimensional travel possible through doors and that human emotions can be harvested into energy. It's just different laws of physics that doenst exist in our reality. From that, you can expend on the universe by making tons of supposition of this universe history and organisations. The problem in the cars movie is that the universe doesn't make any sense and keeps on contradicting itself and nothing seems to be coherent. You can't expend the lore beyond the stories in the movies because there isnt any consistency keeping the lore together.

[@cholanrajendran1207]

It's because Cars is boring af so people's minds naturally gravitate towards these otherwise pointless questions

[@board-qu9iu]

The whole Lemon car thing is honestly confusing. Like the governments just stopped making their parts (why? Never brought up) and instead of idk privately making their own parts they do wide scale terrorism for no reason.

[@vanzeralltheway8638]

Planned eradication? I mean, can cars die of natural cause? If a sickly cars were to be sustained, and their failed parts are changed... cant they live forever?

[@Graknorke]

I think there's meant to be a class issue going on with the social murder but also they're a cabal of supervillains that can pull the strings behind the scenes to get whatever they want so unless intellectual property laws are enforced stronger than killing people I'm not sure what's stopping them.

[@SunYat-sen]

very realistic tbh

[@Graknorke]

@@board-qu9iu it would make sense if there was a class element to it but if they're a secret cabal of supervillains who can do all the stuff they do you'd think they could manufacture some spare parts on a small scale. maybe intellectual property laws are really strong in cars

[@simpleviewer1334]

The youtuber Schaffrillas does actually bring this up, he had 2 easier options 1. Manufacture the parts himself because he rich 2. Convert all the lemons' parts to modern ones since we know you can change a lemon to an electric car He said the only way the terrorist villain works is if he wasn't rich, too bad he is

[@yourcollegedebt8384]

The world building of Cars begins and ends with "There is a world where people are vehicles"

[@Verflextundzugenatzt]

„Why is oil simultaneously piss and blood“ took me out 😂 bros in why to deep 💀

[@qtxcat]

😹😹😹😹🧶🧶🧶

[@kyleyuen245]

12:01 I always wondered how that phone worked. Like cars and forklifts have limbs that are way too big to operate a phone with buttons that small

[@dmmalicoat]

Literally thinking the same thing lol

[@ko71k52]

Imagine how logical it would be for phones to have rotary dials, then cars can enter numbers with their wheels

[@Lin_Nascimento]

As I got older I started to question the cars universe, and one of the main things is, luxury cars like ferrari and bugatti are consider to be "hot/sexy/high status cars", but you'd assume they were born that brand, so they literally were born with privilege?

[@lamechannelboring4008]

Basically in a way they really just do what ever. I mean just look at how most cars look at Mater when people see him they just see him as a nobody but once they get to know him more they respect him.

[@TurtleKwitty]

So... the main problem you have with cars is it's one success, to show off wacky born in privilege shit in the real word?

[@LucasDiblasio]

Being born privileged is pretty accurate to real life.

[@fullmetalbleachnote]

Pretty privilege is real and I'm sorry if that truth hurts

[@benmalsky9834]

If you grew up with it AND retain your sense of wonder and innocence into adulthood like I have, you STILL don’t question it. The movies are so entertaining and fun that you just go along with it.

[@jennitolbert2768]

My theory is that cars is a VR game played by the humans from wall e. It makes the most sense and it helps me sleep at night

[@thenewguymusic]

Wait a minute...

[@gungle2595]

Great, now I'm imagining the humans from wall-e on all fours crawling around and saying "vroom vroom" in vr headsets, thanks for that >:(

[@TheIce_Demon]

wait, then what does that mean for the cars using VR headsets in Cars 3?

[@turboyarag]

@@TheIce_Demon A game within a game, like how you can play the og wolfenstein in the newer games

[@gennybaratta2460]

This explains so much

[@Vixarox]

The biggest take away I got from this video is that Planes has a sequel

[@pedrovallefin8406]

Think most people got that take away too. It also came as a surprise to me, mainly because i barely remenbered that Planes was a thing that happened, so its hard to believe it happened twice.

[@shiny1urantis628]

@@pedrovallefin8406 Planes 2 came out not even a year after the first.

[@vanzeralltheway8638]

I guess Plane is just sooo weird that nobody didnt bother looking if it got a sequel or not. I mean, at least in cars everyone and everything are doing things that we expected them to do (police car being police, race car racing, tow truck towing, you name it) but in planes, a damn cropduster was trying to be a global racing planes !!! I understand the meaning and the value it tries to teach us but this universe in particular is NOT the place to do it. Its just... as weird as Cars, if not worse... (although the scenes are pretty good, tho)

[@pedrovallefin8406]

@@shiny1urantis628 Why though? How? Were they made back to back? Was there such a demand for a Planes sequel? Everything regarding the Cars franchise is so bizarre.

[@TheSilvershadow200]

​@@pedrovallefin8406From what I understand, fan demand has no bearing on Planes 2. The movie starts with a huge thanks to all our firefighters and that the movie's a tribute to them. It honestly does convey the brutality of fire surprisingly well too. To me, it seems to have been made solely to bring attention, not because of any community reason.

[@giosue_222]

9:30 because It’s just fun, I guess

[@VoidedBunnie]

I genuinely sat down n thought about it.. I think the reason that cars is the movie people are so quick to question, the movie people can’t suspend their disbelief for.. is because it’s a weak concept. Thats not me saying the movie or the idea are bad. Im saying the world itself shatters so quickly, it is physically weak all because you immediately see something that makes no sense as soon as you look at the dvd cover… and thats a car with teeth n a tongue. And thats just so uncanny it instantly makes you go “wait a minute- how does- why??” And you just cant keep the happy fiction lens on for long because its instantly a question maker…. Thank you for coming to my ted talk-

[@Bardia006plus1]

the biggest question is:HOW THE HELL THE CARS IN THIS UNIVERS ARE GETTING BORN??!!!

[@SageArdor]

Are they born, or are they made? And do they grow? If so how?

[@ron_sr1218]

“The manufacturer”

[@makinyoumad9498]

Ain’t even a big question. It’s been stated that they get built in factories

[@genericusername3518]

If I had a nickel for every franchise where the existence of child cars implies the existence of car sex, I'd have 2 nickels

[@ajaythecreeper9513]

Then get birthed through the exhaustion pipe Duh

[@KBY30]

I think the primary reason people don’t suspend their disbelief for Cars is because every other Pixar series has humans in it to some extent. Toy Story has humans, Bug’s Life has humans, Monsters, Inc. has humans, Finding Nemo has humans. Incredibles: humans Ratatouille: humans WALL-E: humans Up: humans Brave: humans I could go on. The point is there are and have never been humans in Cars, and that’s why nothing makes sense.

[@TheDr502]

I agree. In fact, it's not even just that there are no humans in Cars because it could've just had anthro furry characters. Animals are products of Nature. Meanwhile, cars are consumer products. They're built by humans, for human use. Yet, the movies star cars without a human in sight. What is the use of a car when there're no humans to buy and use them? The cars themselves are proof that humans existed in this setting. There are even real-life car brands such as Ford, Lincoln, Chevrolet, Maserati, Subaru, Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Ferrari, Toyota, etc, so then it raises the question of what the hell happened to mankind? I was still able to enjoy Cars 1 despite this absurdity, but they took the anthropomorphism so far in the second movie that it destroyed the whole film. Cars 2 would've definitely been much better being a brand-new movie that starred humans.

[@jp-toaster]

@@TheDr502 its revealed in a feature that the Cars evolved from nature (starting off as tires), and in the series "Cars on the Road" it's confirmed that pre-historic cars exist. the Whole concept of cars is basically "What if indtead of humans, there were Cars?", among the fact we have the tractors which acts like cows

[@tux1468]

and also, the fact that them being sentient cars cant be handwaved away by saying "oh its just cool!" or "oh cuz its funny!" because its neither cool nor funny

[@OutsiderLabs]

​@@tux1468it's both of those things. The movie was a huge hit for a reason

[@incognitoburrito6020]

I'd agree with a lot of other people that it's because of Cars 2. In Cars 1, it's very easy to suspend your disbelief and just Go With It. The references to the established real life world and real life history are kept pretty general. You don't learn all that much about the wider car-world. Sure, you can ask questions about how the buildings got built or where the cars come from, but it's all secondary to the story and vibe of the movie. Cars 2, meanwhile, _constantly_ references _extremely_ real life concepts, history, and events. The nations of England, Italy, and Japan exist; there's a car Pope who gets driven around in a car Popemobile; the cars shoot human weapons at each other; there existence of environmentally-friendly fuel implies that there's car global warming, etc. The movie doesn't feature a plot to assassinate the vague monarch of a sort of british country, it features a plot to assassinate The Queen Of England. It's much, much harder to ignore how all the real-world stuff is supposed to fit into the car world, because it's all very specific and actually part of the plot

[@PeterGriffin11]

8:23 There was actually a cancelled Disney film called Metro that would’ve been about Trains and some of those questions regarding trains being stuck to a rail could’ve been addressed.

[@BraydenBunch58]

There also would’ve been a Planes 3, But that didn’t happen cause DisneyToons (The movie studio that animated planes) shut down

[@osiand9328]

So basically Thomas the Tank

[@wrldunknown]

​@@osiand9328if a bombing happened during some point in the film would it be called metro boomin

[@Somerandomperson-hl1kt]

Was it meant to be set in 2033, I wonder? *Wink wink*

[@gryphonbotha1880]

​@@Somerandomperson-hl1kt The most amazing Pixar film of all time.

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

The easiest way to make this universe work is go the Lego Movie route, make it clear that this is a little boy’s toys.

[@seaweeb2258]

Except the Lego Movie has good world building. Toy's aside, it's pretty good at making their world, their world.

[@IcarusTyler]

The inherent caste-system of Cars: The Servitors (forklifts) at the bottom, then -> Cars -> Planes -> Spacecraft. Unsure where the trains fit in, or cars that can contains other cars, or ships. In Planes a car tries to become a plane (through modifications), and is shunned and made fun of. Breaking the caste system is immediately punished.

[@moxxym]

welp never have I ever had the feeling of wanting to be a forklift in the Cars universe *takes shot*

[@crazypnut9260]

Possum

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

After all the technological hardwork that most other vehicles cannot do, the Forklifts deserves a raise for giving them a hand.

[@georgedavies5042]

Near the beginning of the film, when you get the little intro to the cars at radiator springs there’s a bit where sarge says to the hippie Volkswagen camper “the 60’s weren’t kind to you were they?” strongly implying if not out right confirming that there are car drugs

[@jamesestrella5911]

Nitrous oxide is one.

[@TheSilvershadow200]

I thought that was a very obvious portrayal of Fillmore.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

"It's a conspiracy man!" *~ Fillmore*

[@limesodagod]

@@jamesestrella5911 nitrous oxide is basically caffeine in that world

[@aidanmccarthy5441]

Id say more like steroids ​@@limesodagod

[@Rdoodler17]

As a Cars fan, Id like to answer some of these. First of all, In one of the Videogames (which aren't entirely canon) There are construction vehicles that do most of the building. Next is that the Cars can actually pick things up with their tires. Not sure how that works but I think its some spiderman type stuff where their tires just stick to the things. A final one im gonna answer is the relation between Mater and his Sister. Although they look like they have no relation, in the first cars movie we see that mater actually used to be blue like his sister, which is probably enough to relate them. I could asnwer a bunch more but im too lazy to just have those.

[@potatlerr]

9:12 if you pause at the right time choopo disappears and reappears, implying that he may have, in that singular frame, travelled through the multiverse to fact-check his script, which has SERIOUS lore implications.

[@hector4818]

One thing I always found pretty cool is that in Toy Story, when Buzz and Woody get stranded at a petrol station there is the Dinoco logo, which is pretty neat as it has a link to cars

[@FunFactsWithJax]

I can't bielieve someone actually rembered planes. Oh btw his name is Dusty

[@poenpotzu2865]

Wait is that the movie that showed ww2?

[@FunFactsWithJax]

@@poenpotzu2865 yep.

[@johngr1747]

Same!!!!! No one ever talks about that movie and I remember when it was advertised!

[@BraydenBunch58]

I actually loved planes (THE MOVIE) growing up, Now that I think about it……. *what happens when a plane wrecks in a race*

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

@@poenpotzu2865 It implied that Car Adolf exists in this universe. In this universe, he should be Mercedes-Benz 770 (since that's his car in real life).

[@Skeewompus-Spam]

“Car Jesus died for car sins” LMFAO WHAT 💀💀💀

[@GideonHannsz-ht3qm]

What would sins be? Drunk driving? Breaking the speed limit? Using leaded oil? I DONT NEED SPEEP, I NEED ANSWERS

[@pedrovallefin8406]

@@GideonHannsz-ht3qm Im sure someone could paint you a picture of car sodoma and gomorra, but im not sure if its a picture you would want to see. Not if you wish to keep your sanity intact.

[@GideonHannsz-ht3qm]

@@pedrovallefin8406 Probably had a whole lot of aggresive drivers......

[@kenneth465]

@@pedrovallefin8406Car Sex and Car Homosexuality?? Lol. But how would it even work?

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

​@@pedrovallefin8406 Lot got assaulted by his own daughters is canon in the Cars universe.

[@pikminman13]

were there ever wooden boats in the car universe? were they sentient? how did car america get founded? (or any other nation founded as a result of car europe exploring places overseas?) did they hit up their ancestor car submarines? who was car henry ford? did he exist? are there car factories for cars? who discovered oil in the first place? did they think it was a giant car sacrifice pit of blood? are they burning blood or lubricating themselves with it? this is what happens when you try too hard with worldbuilding and leave too many open questions.

[@pedrovallefin8406]

Its actually the oposite of trying too hard, its prety clear the writers of the Cars movies didnt try at all with their worldbuilding. No thought was put into it beyond the shallow "what would be the car counterpart for this?" question. Its quite lliteraly a car replica of our world. A product made for kids cause kids are the only ones that wouldnt question it. It worked exactly as intended. You see Cars being super popular with its target audience while everyone else stares baffled at the bizarre, nonsensical world they created.

[@pikminman13]

@@pedrovallefin8406 i think we can meet in the middle here. there's an upside down bell curve as to how hard trying will pay off and they sit right at the bottom in the middle. if they put less effort in, we wouldnt have so many stupid things to point out. if they put more effort in, the world would be better, and the things we are pointing out would not be stupid. either would help.

[@trekkie1701e]

The court room in cars 1 had a quasi religious mural of a factory, implying that there was an original factory in the same vein as the garden of Eden.

[@donpollo3154]

What if cars is like brave new world where they worship henry Ford and productivity

[@tombraiderstrums09]

If Henry Ford was a car, does that mean he invented himself?

[@MrSirWivd]

i remember when i first had the shower thought of mia and tia flashing mcqueen, but then i realized mater only has 1 headlight (meaning hes missing a nipple?) and then i remembered the shopkeeper from cars 2, and the thought of eyeball nipples was enough to break my brain 😅

[@darkvulpes4826]

They wanted to make a funny movie about cars, instead they gave people almost endless material for a crippling existential crisis.

[@andreibaciu7518]

The Cars Universe is an SCP that mimics Earth's history but replaces living things with motor vehicles. Whenever it is observed the history "moves" to be analogous to present day.

[@nohintshere]

this implies that there is a cars parallel to skibidi toilet

[@embraer175]

imagine being a commercial plane. it's bad enough that they can probably feel the passengers, but imagine the idea of going to work and having other people work in you. do they have lavatories onboard? can they leave the airport? are they able to leave their jobs? do they choose their airlines and have job interviews? are they owned by the airlines? were they born just to carry other people? also, thinking about the deleted scene where Lightning has his motor transplanted into another vehicle, planes get replacement engines kind of often (and larger jets have at least 2 engines for thrust and one smaller auxiliary engine for power generation) so how does that work? do their bodies work fundamentally differently than other vehicles? are they different species? much to think about.

[@salam-peace5519]

Maybe the planes carrying passengers is more like carrying them in a backpack or piggyback, since only the cockpit and maybe the engines etc. are alive while the cabin isn't, just like how Macks trailer in which McQueen was transported wasn't alive.

[@axrx7569]

5:44 Relating to this concept, I wanna direct people to “THE WORST CAR COLLISIONS IN HISTORY,” a fan mockumentary which goes over Cars world history from the beginning of life on Cars Earth to the War on Terror for the sake of car puns. There should be a reupload on KZbin.

[@WhenTheTucker]

The downfall of Lord Bung is crazy

[@Something.............]

4:33 Jesus Chrysler died for our sins🙏

[@neverseenbeforenow]

No.....😅

[@m8u701]

6:21 bruh I instantly reached my mouse to skip World of Warplanes ad

[@Cosmic0616]

The real question arises when you take into account on how the cars in this universe reproduce.

[@Appletank8]

Apparently Mater implies a factory, and yet the universe also implies cars coming out of the ocean, evolution??? Also, if cars are running the factories, why are they putting in places for a hypothetical person to sit inside?

[@jp-toaster]

@@Appletank8 Tow Cap is a sponsor that exists, when you look into it, it's clear cars reproduce

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

I think they are born as plastic ride on toys and they come out of their mother’s back seat doors. And that they are magical and no science is needed.

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

@@Appletank8I think the factories make the parts like the hood ornament or engine.

[@SpammingY]

There exists a car Hitler, and that bothers me almost as much as Celine.

[@citrus_sweet]

Looking at Celine makes me think Cars was trying to weirdly integrate the Chevron mascots (they're also cars) into their franchise, I think.

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

Why?

[@skyhisurvivor4724]

You think he was the first Volkswagen?

[@amateural]

The whole hermit crab idea is genuinely horrifying

[@pedrovallefin8406]

Yet makes too much sense. Of the theories of humanoids entities being inside the cars, that one is the only one that works, horrifying as it may be (all those theories are horrifying really)

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

This reminds me of that one meme where that pink ginormous living tissue crawled towards the shell, which is frame of a car, and becomes Lightning McQueen. I guess this makes the hermit crab theory seems plausible.

[@DrSpaceman42]

watch a man lose his mind for 13 minutes over a children’s movie from almost two decades ago. This is why youtube exists.

[@Jak-O-Lantern99]

I am now convinced that forklifts are an oppressed species, held down by the majority of the quadrupedal cars. They fear their endless potential and capabilities

[@GoogleAids]

You just have to imagine mater showing up to a wreck and acting as a coroner. You show up to your sons accident and larry the cable guy has to tell you he didn't make it.

[@DrSpaceman42]

"your son didn't gitterdunnn"

[@GoogleAids]

@@DrSpaceman42 lmao

[@patrickiamonfire965]

If I remember in Cars 3 McQueen can change engines. Basically organ transplants. And Cars 2 shown attachments such as guns. So I assume they can change their body completely or use attachments or use soul transfer. This means there are more headaches.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

In the deleted scene of the first Cars movie (Community Service), Lightning's engine aka his brain transported on to a steamroller and Mater stole Lightning's body as he wished he wanted to be a racecar. That deleted scene is an implication of body horror. Let's not forget about Mater living in a junkyard, which it's full of metal scraps and car parts. Imagine entering someone's house and there are bodies scattering on the ground.

[@lamechannelboring4008]

​@@poweroffriendship2.0wait so you're telling me Mater live in a graveyard.

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

Great. Now I have the neural connection between cars and Soulkiller from Cyberpunk.

[@torna2508]

I think they can ADD stuff to their bodies but they cannot remove anything

[@vanzeralltheway8638]

​@@lamechannelboring4008Worse, he lived where limbs, torso, and ribs were lying around out in the open...

[@mackenzy.mp4]

I feel like the absence of world building in cars is what makes it unique, but in its place is fantastic looking characters that are highly expressive and interesting to look at.

[@do3807]

Goes from funny and goofy, to unsettling when you think about it...

[@SrPequen0]

the most important question to be asked is HOW THE CARS EXIST, I mean, how are they even born?? If they are born in factories, then those who control the factories can decide exactly what your life will be like? Luxury cars are priviliged and the factory owners can decide who whill be priviliged and who will be the opressed forklifts, there's so much wrong. This is LITERALLY BRAVE NEW WORLD

[@MelvinUsesMicrowaves]

I just noticed that the California flag that appears at 7:52 depicts a normal earth bear instead of some vehicle equivalent. Thus meaning bears are the only form of true biological life in the cars universe.

[@salvatoremutuale9751]

Actually there are birds too, but they are an Easter egg to a pixar short

[@salam-peace5519]

The Dinoco company in the first movie also had a non-carified dinosaur in its logo.

[@KepleroGT]

I mean are plants not life?

[@MelvinUsesMicrowaves]

@@KepleroGT honestly, plant life is least of my concern. The geological structures like plateaus and hills are shaped like cars. And in the movie Planes, we see that meteorological phenomena such as clouds are actively shaped like cars or air planes.

[@flask223]

Maybe the flag existed before bears went extinct and the cars took over

[@NutEater47]

Cars 9/11 is crazy

[@gabrielv.4358]

Cardolf Hitl😂r

[@PunishedKrab]

@@gabrielv.4358Benito Lamborghini

[@caesario9]

12:24 9/11 happened in the cars universe

[@MilkshakeIsCool]

Sarge’s model was used in ww2 ….

[@SunYat-sen]

filmore is a hippie, implying the vietnam war happened

[@Kowalski_at-Bayern]

WHICH MEANS MIND CONTROL EXISTS BECAUSE THE PLANES ARE SENTIENT

[@hobosanta7297]

I’m the guy who emailed you choopo, I’m sorry to send you down this maddening rabbit hole

[@deathbypingpongball566]

5:40 it also means that Lightning McQueen has no nipples and has sticker/tattoo nipples on since he is a race car with no headlights. The Eugenics of the cars world is insane. They can mod themselves too, so lightning can get nipples surgically added. Also trains, tram and trolleys have it rough they have to stay on the tracks :(

[@theawemazingcrew9702]

Low-key one of the funniest rants anyone has ever gone on at the end there. I do be chucklin' over here

[@crona1794]

Do the cars have their destinies predetermined for them upon being manufactured? Or can they choose to be whatever they want? Like is Lightning a racer because he genuinely wants to race, or is it just because that’s what he was designed to be? Who’s manufacturing the cars anyway? Autonomous factories? Other cars?

[@vanzeralltheway8638]

At least in cars, everyone did what they are designed to do and nobody ever question it. Now Planes is weird because a crop duster dreams of becoming a race plane. I dont know, i dont understand anymore.

[@jp-toaster]

Cars are born, and in the "Cars Finder" guide found on the first films, a couple of racers became racers even after having a different job

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

Cars aren’t manufactured. They are born. And also, in Cars On The Road Mater was going through some upgrades. From being a circus truck to a fire truck. So it means that some cars can change their body to whatever they desire.

[@mollyencrypted2488]

The Cars franchise is a very distant section of the Transformers multiverse where T-Cogs don't exist but Functionism does /j

[@draner3343]

After graduating basic training for the Airforce I’ve lost my sense of self. After months of feeling lobotomized. Watching this video has brought me back to humanity. Thank you🙌🏽

[@CalvinNoire]

Homie got a epiphany from cars lore.

[@letsnotgothere6242]

The Arnold Schwarzenegger scene says “Live from Sacramento,” implying a Sacramental view within at least one branch of Christianity

[@c420blastin]

The slow decent into madness gives me joy

[@brawlstar1748]

Objects in Choopo’s Library: -Chutes and Ladders Ladder to the upstairs -The entire Space Chimps trilogy series -A Scribblenauts lookin action figure with a knife -The Magic Conch and the Golden Spatula -Cobwebs surrounding Choopo’s overdue tax paperwork -Purple smoking pipe -“Reading for DUMMIES” Lemme know if I missed anything.

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

The shelf, you missed that.

[@gungle2595]

You missed choopo, you fool

[@Venom-Boiii]

The first Cars movie is the textbook definition of nostalgia to me

[@benmalsky9834]

Me too!

[@trevortuominen8233]

Same, since I've loved NASCAR since diapers.

[@kenneth465]

Same! I had my whole room decorated as Cars when I was younger! I saw it in theaters when I was 10 and it was an awesome experience! Wish I can go back!

[@CometTheSecurityBot]

“A series of two and a half movies” Pft- true, true…

[@rentertainment2769]

Here goes the Cars 2 hate train again

[@CosmizEve]

@@rentertainment2769*hate car

[@Mustideer]

@@CosmizEvethere are sentient trains in the Cars universe

[@DaRealBruner]

@@rentertainment2769 reasonably though. even die hard fans of cars will admit the second film shouldn't have happened lol

[@makinyoumad9498]

How is it true

[@HappySourPuppy14]

Pixar should make a Cars spinoff called 12 Years a Forklift

[@ourochroma]

Witnessing Choopo loosing his sanity made me want to subscribe wait until he knows about the unapproved movie "metro"

[@luiginumber1549]

Call it an Easter egg or whatever, but another groundbreaking aspect of the cars world is in the 1st movie. In a blink and you'll miss it scene, the birds from pixar short "for the birds" can be seen. Not car birds, just straight up birds. Now, for no particular reason, birds are the only organic non-mechanical entities in the cars universe.

[@benmalsky9834]

It’s just an easter egg. For fun. Pixar’s movies are FULL of them, where they are just meant for the amusement factor that has nothing to do with anything else.

[@salam-peace5519]

There was also the Dinoco logo which was a non-car dinosaur. And for the first movie there was a teaser that showed a non-car bumblebee getting stuck on Maters windshield.

[@gizmo835]

If in the Cars world birds are organic, then it means in our world birds are not organic! And they called the "Birds Are Goverment Drones" people conspiracy theorists...

[@benmalsky9834]

@@gizmo835 Dude, it’s best not to think about it so seriously.

[@benmalsky9834]

@@gizmo835 The birds in our world ARE organic!

[@SamwichYT]

11:36 I shat my pants at that graphic 😭

[@punkysnarks]

4:30 Hold the phone. That is a tractor among the ghost-cars in that shot. Is this to imply that even the equivalent of COWS in this world can have unfinished buisiness after death??????

[@RBRT02]

We said it wrong all this time. Cars takes place in the Forklift Universe.

[@thetechnocrat4979]

To everyone here, you don't have to look at this that deeply. The worldbuilding of Cars is loose at best, non-existent at worse. Just enjoy the stories as metaphors. The cars are an interesting way to tell an otherwise human story.

[@mupymoopthemup7146]

Love the fact we get a video on how the Cars universe work. The timeline is so messed up

[@dr.slayer8711]

9:08 I can’t believe we’re watching choopo crash out over the car series

[@thecluckster3908]

9:47 i think the reason for this is because 2 things, 1. It’s a lot easier to rationalize how a toy lives than a car with a fleshy tongue and 2. Cars is the only movie that has no narrative reason for living cars existing.

[@pedrovallefin8406]

The main reason goes hand in hand with the second point. All those other worlds funtions like our own. They have humans in it (except Bugs i think, but still seems like our world from a diferent perspective). The narrative in all this movies is to show us something we dont see in a world that could be our own. While the Cars world is completely separated from ours, no humans to be seen, yet way too similar in every other way. Thats what leaves people thinking. While the concepts of movies like Toy Story and Inside Out are so simple to understand that we dont even need to conciously think about it, we know implicitly that Inside Out is purely metaphoric and Toy Story quite literally works though the magic of make-believe (something canonised by the explanation of how toys come to live), the concept of Cars is so thoughtless that peope cant help but question it. If it made any sort of sense beyond its basic premise, "our world but with cars instead of people", then it wouldnt be so facinating to try and find some logic in the madness.

[@Appletank8]

When you make your characters non-human, you either have to find a way to slot them onto the real world, or create a universe for them to exist in. Bluey, the characters are functionally human with a coat of paint, so you can roughly assume human technology and history maps onto their world. Robots, non human, but exist with their own culture, aesthetic, and history, if in a narrow view because the movie isn't going to turn into an alt universe history lesson. Cars ... they are non-human, have no real human analogue in terms of physical capability or biology (outside of tongues?) and yet they still somehow exist in a world that looks like humans lived inside.

[@goedzooi9063]

Well, it is good to know that I wasn't the only one thinking about Forklift oppresion in the cars universe.

[@Trailmixxed]

I kinda think of the Cars universe as an alternate reality of this one where everyone is cars. So everything works the same, everything is “the same” timeline wise, it’s just every living think is vehicle shaped. I’d go so far as to say they aren’t even vehicles, just shaped like vehicles. There are several types of bugs with exoskeletons that can’t just swap whenever they want, so I think they have some sort of fleshy inside with an exoskeleton, meaning they can still drink “cow milk” and eat cows and drink water and taste spicy stuff.

[@GODISGOODBRO]

Worthless?? Without Cars we wouldn't have such amazing lines like "Kachigga!!!"

[@not_a_cheter]

the only good part of the franchise

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

"Kachigga! Kachigga! Kachigga chigga chigga chigga!"

[@BraydenBunch58]

@@not_a_cheterYou didn’t just forget…. HE DID WHAT IN HIS CUP???

[@aturchomicz821]

Also Big Bentley is real😢

[@moisieiev7124]

My Little Pony world building is more logical than the one in Cars

[@danitho]

I knew the car oppression was coming and I still cackled when he said it

[@evan]

The pilotwings SNES song kicking in when you were talking about planes brought such a smile to my face

[@TheSpooncer]

same

[@jason-kingz958]

Saying planes feel vehicles inside them and that brief silence 5:09 👌

[@Scuplin1]

V O R E

[@josefarias5216]

As someone who is forklift certified I have to confirm that a forklift is the superior work vehicle