# Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. is the fourth feature film of Pixar in British/American 2001 CGI-animated feature film in which, to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think.
    Directed by Pete Docter. Written by Andrew Stanton, and Daniel Gerson, based on a story by Pete Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, and Ralph Eggleston

## James P. Sullivan (Sulley)

* [sadly thinking about accidentally scaring Boo] Did you see the way she looked at me? [puts his hands in his face and sighs in disgrace]
* I'm sorry, Mike. I'm sorry we're stuck out here. I didn't mean for this to happen. But Boo's in trouble. I think there might be a way to save her.

## Henry J. Waternoose III

* There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you! Leave a door open, and a child could walk right into this factory. Right into the monster world!
* Kids these days. They just don't get scared like they used to.
* James, this company has been in my family for three generations. I would do anything to keep it from going under.
* I have no choice! Times have changed! Scaring isn't enough anymore! [Sully: But kidnapping children?!] I'LL KIDNAP A THOUSAND CHILDREN BEFORE I LET THIS COMPANY DIE! AND I'LL SILENCE ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY!
* [as he's being arrested] What are you doing?! Take your hands off me! You can't arrest me! [to Sully] I hope you're happy, Sullivan! You destroyed this company! Monsters, Incorporated is dead! Where will everyone get their scream now?! The energy crisis will only get worse BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!

## Dialogue

    Computerized Voice: Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated.
    [Work lights flash on, flooding the room with light]
    Ms. Flint: [reveals that the monster in the closet is named Thaddeus "Phlegm" Bile] All right, Mr. Bile, is it?
    Bile: Uh, my friends call me Phlegm.
    Ms. Flint: Uh-huh. Mr. Bile, can you tell me what you did wrong?
    Bile: I fell down?
    Ms. Flint: No, no, before that. Can anyone tell me Mr. Bile's big mistake? Anyone?
    [Next point of views shows three pathetic-looking monsters taking notes, Judging from their looks. they don't seem to know much about proper scaring. First monster coughs]
    Ms. Flint: [groans in frustration] Let's take a look at the tape. Here we go.
    [Ms. Flint rewinds the tape. Thaddeus Bile enters the bedroom, leaving the door wide open]
    Ms. Flint: Right... p-p-p-p-p- Ah! See? The door! You left it wide open.
    Bile and Pupils Monsters: Oooh.
    Ms. Flint: And leaving a door open is the worst mistake any employee can make because...?
    Bile: Um... it could... let in a draft?
    Henry J. Waternoose III: [first words offscreen] It could let in [onscreen] a child!
    [Henry J. Waternoose III a large gray Crab and the CEO of Monsters Inc., appears from the shadows, frightening everyone a bit]
    Ms. Flint: Oh! Mr. Waternoose!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you! Leave a door open, and a child could walk right into this factory. Right into the monster world!
    Mike Wazowski: I'm telling you, Big Daddy, you're gonna be seeing this face on TV a lot more often.
    Sulley: Yeah, like on Monstropolis' Most Wanted?
    Mike Wazowski: Ha-ha-ha. You've been jealous of my good looks since the fourth grade, pal.
    [Sulley has insisted on walking to work]
    Mike Wazowski: You wanna know why I bought the car, Sulley?
    Sulley: Not really.
    Mike Wazowski: To drive it! You know, like on the street, with the honk-honk and the vroom-vroom, and the no walking involved?
    Sulley: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Give it a rest, will you butterball? Come on, you could use the exercise.
    Mike Wazowski: I could use the exercise? Look at you! You have your own climate.
    Sulley: Oh hey Celia Welia. [clears throat] Happy birthday.
    Celia Mae: Thanks. So, uh... are we going anywhere special tonight?
    Mike Wazowski: I just got us into a little place called, um...Harryhausen's.
    Celia Mae: Harryhausen's?! But it's impossible to get a reservation there.
    Mike Wazowski: Not for Googlie Bear. I will see you at quitting time, and not a minute later.
    Celia Mae: Okay, sweetheart.
    Mike Wazowski: Think romantical thoughts. [singing] You and me, me and you, both of us togetheeeeeeer.
    Sulley: I'm gonna head home, work out some more.
    Mike Wazowski: Again? You know, there's more life than scaring. [sniffs armpit] Whew. Hey, can I borrow odorant?
    Sulley: Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.
    Mike Wazowski: You got, uh, low tide?
    Sulley: No.
    Mike Wazowski: How about wet dog?
    Sulley: Yep. [tosses can to Mike] Stink it up.
    Mike Wazowski: [to Sulley] Y'know, sometimes I feel so romantic, I think I should just marry myself!
    Sulley: Give me a break, Mike...
    Mike Wazowski: What a night of romance I've got ahead of me! Tonight is about me and Celia! Hoo-hoo, the loveboat is about to set sail! [mimics steamboat horn] I'm telling ya, pal, I see her face and it makes my heart go-- [finds himself face-to-face with Roz] YIKES!!!
    Roz: [sternly] Hello, Wazowski. Fun-filled evening planned for tonight?
    Mike Wazowski: Well, as a matter of fact--
    Roz: And I'm sure you filed your paperwork correctly...for once! [silence] Your stunned silence is very reassuring. [leaves]
    Mike Wazowski: Oh no, my scare reports! I left them on my desk! If I'm not at the restaurant in five minutes, they're gonna give our table away, what am I gonna tell--?! [Celia comes up to Mike] Schmoopsie-Pooh.
    Celia Mae: Hey Googly-Bear, wanna get going?
    Mike Wazowski: Do I ever? It's just that... Uh...
    Celia Mae: What?
    Mike Wazowski: There's a small--
    Celia Mae: I don't understand.
    Sulley: It's just I forgot about some paperwork I was supposed to file. Mike, was reminding me. Thanks, buddy.
    Mike Wazowski: I was? I mean, I was! Yeah, I was.
    Celia Mae: Okay, let's go then.
    Mike Wazowski: We're going! [whispering to Sulley] On my desk, Sulley. The pink copies go to accounting, the fuchsia ones go to purchasing, and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. [Celia pulls him away; he comes back] Leave the puce! [gets pulled away again]
    [Later]
    Sulley: [to himself] So the pink copies go to purchasing, and the fuchsia ones go to Roz. No, the fuchsia ones go to purchasing and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. Man, I have no idea what puce is... [looks at some reddish-brown files] Oh, that's puce.
    Celia Mae: Oh, Michael, I've had a lot of birthdays - well, not a lot of birthdays, but this is the best birthday ever. What are you looking at?
    Mike Wazowski: I was just thinking about the first time I laid eye on you, how pretty you looked.
    Celia Mae: Stop it.
    Mike Wazowski: Your hair was shorter then.
    Celia Mae: Mm-hmm. I'm thinking about getting it cut. [the snakes in her hair look worried]
    Mike Wazowski: No-no, I like it this length. [the snakes sigh in relief] I like everything about you. Just the other day someone asked me who I thought the most beautiful monster was in all of Monstropolis. You know what I said?
    Celia Mae: What did you say?
    Mike Wazowski: I said-- [sees Sulley trying to get his attention] Sulley?
    Celia Mae: Sulley?!
    [Mike is running in the hallway]
    Mike Wazowski: Breathe... keep breathing...
    [He continues running, until he stops next to the portrait of Waternoose. Randall appears visible, Mike sighs.]
    Mike Wazowski: YIKES!
    Randall Boggs: [pushes Mike against the wall] Where's the kid?!
    Mike Wazowski: Kid? What kid?
    Randall Boggs: It's here in the factory, isn't it?
    Mike Wazowski: You're not pinning this on me. It never would have gotten out, if you hadn't been cheating last night!
    Randall Boggs: Cheating?! I-- [a plan hatching in his mind] Cheating. Right. Okay, I think I know how to make this all go away. What happens when the whistle blows in 5 minutes?
    Mike Wazowski: I get a time out?
    Randall Boggs: Everyone goes to lunch! [calming down] Which means, the scare floor will be...?
    Mike Wazowski: Painted?
    Randall Boggs: [loses it] EMPTY! IT'LL BE EMPTY, YOU IDIOT! [point to the clock] You see that clock? When the big hand is pointing up, [twists Mike's arm up] and the little hand is pointing up, [twists Mike's arm up] the kid's door will be in my station. But when the big hand points down, [twists Mike's arm down around his left arm] the door will be gone. You have until then to put the kid back. Get the picture?
    [Mike nods in pain]
    Randall Boggs: Wazowski! Where is it, you little one-eyed crettin?!
    Mike Wazowski: Okay. First of all, it's cretin. If you're gonna threaten me, do it properly. Second of all, you're nuts if you think kidnapping me is gonna help you cheat your way to the top!
    Randall Boggs: [chuckles nastily] You still think this is about that stupid scare record?
    Mike Wazowski: Well... I did. Right up until you... chuckled like that... and now I'm thinking I should just get out of here.
    Randall Boggs: I am about to revolutionize the scaring industry, and when I do, even the great James P. Sullivan is gonna be working for me.
    Mike: Well, somebody's certainly been a busy bee.
    Randall Boggs: First I need to know where the kid is. And you're gonna tell me.
    Mike: I don't know anything.
    Randall Boggs: Uh-huh, sure.
    [Sulley enters the scare simulator room with Mike and Boo in her disguise, willing to ask for help which can send Boo home, forgetting Waternoose had been expecting him]
    Waternoose: It's all about presence! About how you enter the room!
    Sulley: [barges in] Mr. Waternoose!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: James! Perfect timing.
    Sulley: No, no! No, sir, you don't understand.
    Henry J. Waternoose III: Show these monster how it's done.
    Sulley: No I can't sir, you have to listen to me.
    Henry J. Waternoose III: Pay attention, everyone. You're about to see the best in the business. Reset the simulator.
    [Mike picks up Boo and walks away]
    Sulley: But, sir... [The lights goes out, as if it's nighttime, and a robot kid goes to sleep]
    Mary: [excited to watch Sulley] Kitty!
    Mike Wazowski: No, Boo. No!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: Now, give us a big loud roar.
    Sulley: Mr. Waternoose, there's no time for this...
    Henry J. Waternoose III: Come on, come on, what are you waitin' for? Roar!
    Sulley: But, sir!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: ROAR! [Sulley without choices, lunges out at the simulation child and let us out a loud roars, causes it to screams, unaware that Boo is stands closes by James P. Sullivan, frightens and applauds] Well done. Well done, James!
    Sulley: Boo?
    Henry J. Waternoose III: All right, gentlemen. I hope you've all learnt a valuable lesson...
    [Sulley notices a frightened Boo run off from his roar]
    Sulley: Boo? Boo? Boo, it's me.
    Henry J. Waternoose III: [gasps] The child!
    Mike Wazowski: Sir, she isn't toxic. I know it sounds crazy but trust me.
    Sulley: Boo. No, no, no, It's okay. I was just- [she whimpers in fear] No, don't be scared. It wasn't real. It's just a… I was just… [he looks up at images captured dures his roars and stares at them in sadness, realizing he truly frightens Boo] Boo.
    Mike: ? [Boo is sad and runs aways and turns us arounds]
    Sulley: Boo?!
    Mike: But, he's try to kill us!? Someone's Randall's fault!?
    Sulley: [is fighting the invisible Randall when he is hit with a snowball] Mike?
    Mike Wazowski: Look, it's not that I don't care about the kid.
    Sulley: Mike, you don't understand.
    Mike Wazowski: Yes, I do. I was just mad, that's all. I needed some time to think, but you shouldn't have left me out there.
    Sulley: [Randall pins him to the wall] I'm being attacked!
    Mike Wazowski: No, I'm not attacking you. I'm trying to be honest, just hear me out. You and I are a team. Nothing is more important than our friendship. [Boo approaches Mike, frightened] I-I know, kid. He's too sensitive. [Sulley is beings strangled.] Come on, pal. If you start crying, I'm gonna cry, and I'll never get through this. I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, but I am now. [annoyed] Hey, Sulley, I am barin’ my soul here. The least you can do is pay attention! [he throws a snowball; it hits Randall, making him visible enough for Sulley to knock him out] Hey, look at that, it's Randall. It's... Oh.
    Sulley: [picks up Mike and Boo] Come on!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: [to Randall] Get up! There can't be any witnesses!
    Randall Boggs: There won't be.
    [After Sulley and Mike rescue Boo from the scream extracting room]
    Sulley: I'm glad you came back, Mike.
    Mike Wazowski: Somebody's gotta take care of ya, ya big hairball.
    [A horrible scream gets Mike's attention. It's Celia, who leaps through the air and tackles him to the ground.]
    Mike Wazowski: Schmoopsie-Poo, I really can't talk.
    Sulley: [drags Mike away] Come on!
    Celia Mae: [grabs Mike's leg, and so is dragged after him] Michael, if you don't tell me what's going on right now, we are through! Do you hear me?! Through!
    Mike Wazowski: Okay, here's the truth! You know that kid that they're lookin' for? Sulley let her in! We tried to send her back, but Waternoose had this secret plot, and now Randall's right behind us, and he's trying to kill us!?
    Celia Mae: YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT PACK OF LIES, MIKE WAZOWSKI?!
    Mary: [pops up from behind Sulley's shoulder] Mike Wazowski!
    [Celia shrieks in terror and lets go of Mike's leg.]
    Mike Wazowski: [calling back] I love you, Schmoopsie-Poo!
    [Then Celia sees Randall and Fungus come running down the hall, crashing after Sulley and Mike. They trip over a slow monster pushing a scream cart.]
    Randall Boggs: Will you move it?! Look out, you... idiots!!!
    [Celia's eye widens, then narrows in determination.]
    Mike Wazowski: Are you out of your… (screams) …MIIIIIIIND!!!!!
    Sulley and Mike: Aaaaaahhhh!!
    Mike Wazowski: Whoaaaaa! Wowww!
    Sulley: Don't look down!
    Mike Wazowski: Aaaaaaah! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!! Oh-oh, whoa-a! AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!
    Sulley: GET IT OPEN!!!!
    Mike Wazowski: I'M TRYING!!!!
    Sulley: OPEN THE DOOR!!!
    Mike Wazowski: COME ON, GET IN HERE!!!!!!!!
    Sulley: Bwaaah!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: Sullivan!
    [Boo screams and braces herself in fear.]
    Mary: Aaaah!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: Don't do it!
    [Sulley pushes a button on the door station keypad, picks Mary up and runs inside.]
    Sulley: Come on.
    Henry J. Waternoose III: Don't go in that room!
    [Sulley shuts the closet door behind him, Waternoose yells beats against the Simulation Room door. Mary tucks in bed.]
    Sulley: I think we stopped him, Boo. You're safe now. You be a good girl, okay?
    [Waternoose catches Sulley trying to defend Mary.]
    Henry J. Waternoose III: This has gone far enough, James!
    Sulley: She's home now! Just leave her alone!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: I can't do that! She's seen too much! You both have!
    Sulley: (Waternoose, look!) It doesn't have to be this way!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: I have no choice! Times have changed! Scaring isn't enough anymore!
    Sulley: But kidnapping children?!
    Henry J. Waternoose III: (rasing his voice into a higher tone of rage, making Sulley react horror in alarm) I'LL KIDNAP A THOUSAND CHILDREN BEFORE I LET THIS COMPANY DIE! AND I'LL SILENCE ANYONE, WHO GETS IN MY WAY!
    [knocks Sulley aside.]
    Sulley: NO!!!
    [Waternoose lunges at the bed, only to find the simulator kid.]
    Boy: Good night, mom.
    Mother: Good night, sweetheart.
    Boy: Good night, mom. Good night, mom.
    Computerized Voice: Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated.
    Henry J. Waternoose III: [confused] What, what is this?! What? Who? Huh?
    [the lights come on and it's revealed that Boo's room is really the simulation room; Mike and several CDA agents are standing behind the console.]
    Mike Wazowski: Well, I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I spotted several big mistakes.
    Henry J. Waternoose III: (stammering, puzzled) B-but…H-How did you?
    Mike Wazowski: You know what? Let's watch my favorite part again, shall we?
    [replays the tape of Waternoose over and over.]
    Henry J. Waternoose III: (on tape, repeating) I'LL KIDNAP A THOUSAND CHILDREN BEFORE I LET THIS COMPANY DIE! (3x)
    [Boo pokes her head out from behind the bed]
    Sulley: Shh, shh, shh, shh!
    Mary: Shh! [she creeps back into her hiding spot]
    CDA Agent #1: I'll take him.
    CDA Agent #2: All right, sir. Come with us.
    Henry J. Waternoose III: [last words; while getting arrested] What are you doing?! Take your hands off of me! You can't arrest me! I hope you're happy, Sullivan! You destroyed this company, Monsters, Incorporated is dead! Where will everyone get their scream, now! THE ENERGY CRISIS WILL ONLY GET WORSE… BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!
    [The simulation room door slams shut.]
    CDA Agent: Stay where you are. #1 wants to talk to you. Attention!
    [The CDAs enter the scene, then Roz.]
    Roz: Hello, boys!
    Sulley and Mike Wazowski: Roz?!
    Roz: Two and a half years of undercover work were almost wasted when you intercepted that child, Mr. Sullivan. Of course, without your help, I never would've known that this went all the way up to Waternoose. [Boo comes out of hiding, and scampers to Sulley] Now, about the girl...
    Sulley: I just wanna send her home.
    Roz: Very good. [into wrist communicator] Bring me a door shredder.
    Sulley: What? You mean... You mean I can't see her again?
    Roz: That's the way it has to be. I'll give you five minutes.
    [The CDA agents shut a defeated Waternoose into the back of the van.]
    CDA Agent: Take him away.
    [The CDA's van drives away, the monsters mutter about what's gonna happen.]
    Smitty: I bet we get the rest of the day off.
    Needleman: YOU IDIOT! They're gonna shut down the factory!
    [All monsters gasps at Smitty and Needleman's words, Sulley and Mike walk out into the evening light.]
    Mike Wazowski: I'm telling ya, pal, when that wall went up, you should've seen the look on Waternoose's face. Hoo-hoo! I hope we get a copy of that tape. [sees Sulley sad] Hey, you all right? Come on, pal, cheer up, we did it. We got Boo home. Ah, sure we put the factory in the toilet, and... gee, hundreds of people will be outta work now. Not to mention the angry mob that'll come after us when there's no more power. But hey, at least we had some laughs, right?
    [As Mike continues walking, Sulley slowly comes to a stop, an idea forming in his mind.]
    Sulley: Laughs.

## Taglines

* Monsters, Inc.: We Scare Because We Care
* You Won't Believe Your Eye.
* We Think They Are Scary, But Really We Scare Them!
* Since the very first bedtime, all around the world, children have known that once their mothers and fathers tuck them in, and shut off the light, MONSTERS are hiding in their closets, waiting to emerge! What they don't know is: it's nothing personal. It's just their job.

## Cast

* John Goodman — James P. "Sulley" Sullivan
* Billy Crystal — Michael "Mike" Wazowski
* Mary Gibbs — Boo
* Steve Buscemi — Randall Boggs
* James Coburn — Henry Waternoose III
* Jennifer Tilly — Celia Mae
* Bob Peterson — Roz
* John Ratzenberger — Yeti
* Frank Oz — Jeffrey Fungus
* Daniel Gerson — Needleman and Smitty
* Steven Robert Susskind — Jerry the Floor Manager
* Bonnie Hunt — Ms. Flint
* Jeff Pidgeon — Thaddeus "Phlegm" Bile
* Sam Black — George Sanderson

## See also

* Monsters University

## External links

* Monsters, Inc. quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Official Pixar site
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