Time Travel Mater

For the book, see Time Travel Mater (book).
thumb|right|335pxTime Travel Mater is the eleventh episode of the Cars Toons series. It officially aired on June 15, 2012.
==Plot==
Taking place after Cars 2, Lightning McQueen and Mater were in front of the Courthouse when Lizzie drives by. She says good morning to Lightning in a friendly way and to Mater in a very rude way, but she says it in a nicer way to the statue of Stanley. Lightning McQueen asks Mater how Lizzie and Stanley met. Mater replies by telling one of his stories, which "all started last week!"
The story starts with him putting up a new town sign with a clock on it. The sign falls on Mater, and the clock ends up on his nose. Mater sneezes, and then disappears.
He ends up inside the Tail Light Caverns. When he exits the caverns, he can't find the town, but he does see a car at a nearby spring. When Mater gets closer to the car, he discovers Stanley, the would-be creator of Radiator Springs. Stanley asks Mater if he needs a radiator cap. When Mater declines, Stanley leaves for California in search of customers. Mater soon realized he has effectively erased the town's existence. He goes to the present with the other Mater watching, gets McQueen, and they both go back to the past, where Mater removes McQueen's radiator cap and calls out to Stanley, saying that there's a car (McQueen) that needs a radiator cap. So, Stanley gives McQueen a new radiator cap. Two cars that also need radiator caps enter the scene, and Stanley leads them to the spring, where the cars get a drink. Mater suggests that Stanley build a town right next to "this here radiator spring!" Stanley likes the idea and says that he's "on the trolley!" and even comes up with a name for the town right then and there: Radiator Springs. While Stanley was planning how to build the town, Mater and McQueen travel to the future to speed things up a bit.
Mater and McQueen then travel to 1927, where Stanley takes note of a Model T (which turns out to be Lizzie) that arrives in town. Lizzie breaks down, so Mater helps her out. Lizzie sees McQueen and appears to be falling in love with him, and Mater realizes that if Lizzie falls in love with McQueen, then she won't fall in love with Stanley, and then Stanley will leave town, and there'd be no Radiator Springs! But then Lizzie asks McQueen to get out of the way, revealing that she had her eye on Stanley, not McQueen, as Mater thought. McQueen introduces Lizzie and Stanley. Stanley took Lizzie to his spring so that she could get a drink. Then he took her to get a new radiator cap. Then, McQueen and Mater leave.
They reappear in Radiator Springs at the time that Lizzie and Stanley get married. After getting married, they went honeymooning at Comfy Caverns. Then, Mater and McQueen leave, and Mater finishes his story.
McQueen says that there's no such thing as time travel, but then Lizzie comes and thanks McQueen for introducing her to Stanley. Mater says, "And that's how you make history." at the end.
==Characters==
*Mater
*Stanley
*Lightning McQueen
*Lizzie
*Travelers (a few of them cameo)
==Home Media==
===DVD and Blu-ray===
*Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
==Gallery==
LightningMcQueenTimeTravelMater.jpg|“McQueen, you’ve gotta help me!”
441991897 1126432571918113 5289332443799319262 n.jpg|Stanley flushes engine moisture from radiator
Stanley Mater.jpg|Mater meets Stanley.
Stanley (TTM).png|Stanley asks Mater if he needs a radiator cap
441897883 1603244487140055 1523776255340467139 n.jpg|Mater found Stanley a new client: Lightning McQueen
447514615 951512886773455 8687870082521069356 n.jpg|Stanley comes to take a look at the radiator cover of Lightning McQueen, a customer that Mater found for him.
447577221 1515298349335010 1484466499962952769 n.jpg|Stanley takes out a stall full of radiator caps
442705762 479379467860249 2916570575312311805 n.jpg|Stanley operates this stall
441988676 7610847252342891 1244077899120721751 n.jpg|Stanley operates this stall
435946403 1777371699453072 941797029006771432 n.jpg|Two Travelers
447535190 960038659237680 8312131424816039137 n.jpg|Two overheated Travelers broke down
436014873 2484737975045865 3177829940764494652 n.jpg|Travelers rehydrate
Cars toon time traveler mater h.jpg|Mater receives a clock on his "nose", which transforms him into a time travel machine.
Time travel mater hoehle.jpg|Mater inside Tail Light Caverns.
441968323 339412608971996 4436445386176991277 n.jpg|Mater and Lightning McQueen arrive at Radiator Springs in 1927
Time travel mater love.jpg|Lizzie as a young girl
442445532 1481831466059917 3929550610306429524 n.jpg|Stanley and Lizzie meet
Cars toon time traveler h.jpg|Stanley and Lizzie.
Stanleylizzie.jpg|Stanley and Lizzie get married.
Time travel mater wedding.jpg
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Time Travel Mater.PNG|Mater realizes he has erased the future and Radiator Springs would no longer exist.
==Titles in other languages== 
* Hungarian: Időutazó Matuka
*Polish: Złomek i wehikuł czasu
*Ukrainian: Сирник-часогонщик
==Trivia==
*This episode was the first, and so far, only short with Lizzie in it. It is also the first episode without any pitties and without Mia and Tia in it. This may be due to the fact that being modernized cars, they weren't even built/born yet.
*This is the first Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode with Lightning McQueen in his World Grand Prix paint job. It's also the first time it's shown McQueen's hood opened showing his motor.
*Tail Light Caverns, Stanley's early settlement, and Comfy Caverns, all places which had never been seen before, are sets that come from Cars Land. Their appearance in the short enables to establish them as canon, and perhaps to promote the attraction.
*The short could have been based on the popular movie Back to the Future.
*This is the first episode not to have Mater say something similar to his line, "Don't you remember? You was there too!"
* This is the second Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode that has Mater's story in black and white. The first one is Mater Private Eye. However, in this episode, it's not Mater's whole story that's in black and white. After Mater drives out of the Tail Light Caverns, everything was in sepia tones. (A common color tone used in Flashback sequences). When he and McQueen time travel to when Stanley's early settlement was made, everything was in black and white. When Mater and McQueen time travel to when Lizzie and Stanley get married, everything had more color.
* The alternating color schemes used in this story seem to be an homage to how photographs of each particular time period looked. This gave each era that Mater visits its own unique visual identity. It was likely implemented to avoid confusion.
*When Mater puts the sign with the clock up, it then leans towards him and falls on him. This is a reference to in the first film when he tries to put his sign upright, but it leans to the other side; and in Cars 2 during the end credits when he puts the Leaning Tower of Pisa upright, but it then leans to the other side.
* Also, the clock on Mater's nose is a reference to in Cars 2 when the Lemons planted a bomb on his nose.
*The story of Radiator Springs seen in Time Travel Mater was used before the movie Cars.
*Mater's "Whoa!" phrase when he notices he's in Tail Light Caverns is exactly the same "Whoa!' he says when he sees the moon for the first time in Moon Mater.
*Mater screaming, "Whaaaaah!" when he sees that there would be no town in the future if Stanley doesn't stay is exactly the same scream he makes when he first sees the I-Screamer in Monster Truck Mater. 
*This episode shares a lot of similarities with the deleted Cars Toons episode, Backwards to the Forwards.
**Mater gets the ability to time travel, but in different ways.
**At one point in both shorts, Lightning tells Mater that there was no way he could time travel, but then a second Mater appears. Lightning freaks out by the second Mater in both of them, but Mater got freaked out only in Backwards to the Forwards.
**Mater inspires Stanley to name the town Radiator Springs in both shorts. He does it purposefully in Time Travel Mater, but by accident in Backwards to the Forwards.
== Quotes==
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pl:Złomek i wehikuł czasu
pt-br:Mate, O Viajante do Tempo