Adult Humor

The *Toy Story* movies are made for family audiences, and are meant to entertain adults just as much as children. As such, the movies contain a number of adult-oriented jokes meant to fly over kids' heads. This aspect is arguably what makes the series stand out from other animated films.

## *Toy Story*

* When Bo Peep asks Woody, "What do you say I get someone else to watch the sheep tonight?", it is implied that Bo wants to spend the night with Woody.
	+ Additionally, some viewers mishear Woody's response as "Hell yeah.”, while actually being “Oh yeah.”
* When Slinky stands up for Woody, Mr. Potato Head points to Slinky, removes his lips, and makes them kiss his own butt, causing Mr. Spell, Snake, and one of the Troikas to laugh, as he is calling Slinky a butt kisser.
* When the other toys marvel at Buzz, he says to Woody, "I think the word you're searching for is 'Space Ranger.'" An annoyed Woody replies, "The word I'm searching for I can't say because there are preschool toys present," implying that he wanted to call Buzz a profane word.
* When Woody is irritated that the other toys are in awe of Buzz's laser, Mr. Potato Head accuses him of having "laser envy", a reference to the Freudian concept of penis envy (despite said concept pertaining to females only).
* After Buzz tells Woody that he can fly around Andy's room with his eyes closed, Woody calls Buzz "Mr. Lite-Beer", referring to the fact that if Buzz were really flying around the room with his eyes closed, he would likely be drunk. It also references the alcoholic beverage Bud Light Beer.
* While Andy starts looking around his room for Buzz, Mr. Potato Head quietly gets Woody's attention by having Etch draw a hangman's noose, meaning he is intending to hang Woody.
* Legs, one of Sid's toys, is a fishing rod with Barbie legs who is supposed to be a "hooker", as she is a toy who can hook things. The word is also a double entendre, referring to a hooker (prostitute).
* During the Mrs. Nesbitt scene, Buzz is concussed from his bad fall a few minutes before, making him appear "drunk" on imaginary Darjeeling (tea), causing Woody to later reply, "I think you've had enough tea for today."
* When Woody shows the other toys Buzz's detached arm and claims that he's all right, Rex, thinking Woody killed Buzz, turns his head away and makes a vomiting sound.
* When the soldiers report that Molly got a Mrs. Potato Head as a Christmas gift, Mr. Spell types: "HUBBA HUBBA!" when cheering on Mr. Potato Head for getting what he wanted, a reference to a common expression for viewing someone as sexually attractive.
* Not in the film itself, but in an original draft for the film, when Barbie saves Woody and Buzz à la Sarah Connor, Woody remarks at one point that he wished he was "anatomically correct".
* Another moment from an original draft that didn't make it into the final film had one toy refer to Shakes the Rattle as "the best damn rattle I ever worked with" before telling how Shakes disappeared into Sid's house, never to return.

## *Toy Story 2*

* When Bo is about to kiss Woody, he says embarrassedly, "Bo, not in front of Buzz!".
* When Woody uses Buster to go to the yard sale to rescue Wheezy, Rex yells: "Don't do it, Woody! We love you!", implying that he thought Woody was committing suicide (by sending himself into the yard sale).
* When Bo tells Buzz to give Woody a kiss when he finds him, Buzz replies, "All right, but I don't think it'll mean the same coming from me," implying that Buzz didn't want Woody to think he was gay.
* When the toys make it to their first location, Hamm trips and his cork falls out. He then says, "All right, nobody look till I get my cork back in!", meaning he doesn't want to be seen fully exposed.
* When the toys first encounter the many Barbie dolls in Al's Toy Barn, they all jaw-drop and look at them as if they are attracted. Later, when meeting Tour Guide Barbie, Mr. Potato Head reminds himself repeatedly under his breath that he's a married spud, meaning he doesn't want Mrs. Potato Head to think he is cheating on her. Hamm vouches for Potato Head by moving between him and Tour Guide Barbie, saying, "Then make room for the single fellas."
* During the opening of *Woody's Roundup*, TV Stinky Pete is seen with a pickaxe stuck in his rear end as he inquires, "Has anyone seen my pick?" Later in the show, TV Prospector, at one point, attempts to smother the flame on a stick of dynamite by sitting on it, only to burn his buttocks and yell, "Yow, my biscuits are burning!"
* During the scene where Woody attempts to retrieve his detached arm from a sleeping Al, when he wakes up after the TV turns on, he pleads, "No, officer, I swear!", suggesting his dream involved criminal activity.
* If viewers look very closely at the *Woody's Roundup* merchandise, a track on one of the records is titled: "Dam it all" (a pun on the phrase "Damn it all!").
* When Woody tries to mimic his TV self by telling Bullseye to "ride like the wind", only to fall off him with the saddle, Bullseye looks down and then walks away bashfully while covering his crotch area.
* When Mr. Potato Head sees the complex baggage conveyor belts at the airport, he becomes shocked and drops a load of pieces out of his compartment on the back.
* After Jessie springs into action to help Buster out of Andy's room for some "private time", Buzz's lovestruck reaction causes his wings to pop out. This is presumably a reference to what happens to men who get "too excited".
* In one of the outtakes, Slinky, after doing one scene, hears John Lasseter say, "All right, cut! Good take." Slinky is then complimenting his bottom half and starts petting it while his bottom half's foot starts to tap with pleasure. While he does this, Rex walks away in discomfort.
	+ In another outtake, Stinky Pete is seen chatting with the Barbie twins about getting them a part in *Toy Story 3*, a reference to Hollywood's infamous casting couch. In the 2019 release, this outtake was removed to avoid such controversy, particularly with the #MeToo movement.

## *Toy Story 3*

* When Woody introduces himself to the toys at Bonnie's house, Dolly asks him, "Woody, huh? You're gonna stick with that?", a joke about how "woody" is also a vulgar slang term for an erect penis.
* When Barbie first meets Ken, she tells him, "Nice ascot." It is sometimes mistaken as a comment towards Ken's ass (butt), when, in fact, an ascot is a kind of scarf men usually wear.
* As the toys go the next room and pass through the bathroom, Lotso says, "Watch out for puddles," implying they were urine. (He said this when he noticed Mr. Potato Head slipping on a puddle.)
* After Mr. Potato Head is brought back after a night in the box, he mutters he was surrounded by "sand and Lincoln Logs," to which Hamm replies, "I don't think those were Lincoln Logs," implying they were feces.
* When Barbie, dressed in Ken's astronaut suit, gets Buzz's instruction manual from the Bookworm, he notices Barbie's high heels and sighs disgustedly. (This hints that he believed Ken had begun cross-dressing.)
* In one scene, Mr. Potato Head uses a cucumber for a body; the combination of the cucumber, hat, and shoes appear to make a phallic shape.
* After Slinky tells Woody to have fun at college, Hamm slyly adds, "But not too much fun." He is telling Woody not to get too drunk (which would be physically impossible, since toys cannot drink alcohol).
* In the end credits, Mr. Potato Head, in one scene, tells the Peas-in-a-Pod after they come out of his rear end, "I told you kids to stay out of my butt!"
	+ Also in the end credits, when Bonnie's toys get a letter from Sunnyside, the end of the letter reads: "Hugs and kisses to everyone." Buzz thinks that Barbie wrote it, but Jessie points out it was actually Ken who did. When they find out, Woody, Jessie, and Buzz look at each other disgustedly, revealing that Ken is effeminate.

## *Toy Story 4*

* A running gag in the movie is Forky wanting to throw himself in the garbage, which is treated in a manner similar to suicide idealization.
* Upon seeing the RV with a flat tire, Mr. Anderson begins to stutter, with Mrs. Anderson telling Bonnie that, "He's gonna need some words," implying that he wanted to curse, but he couldn't since their daughter is present.