With nearly two decades of Toy Story touching kids over the years to breaking records with animated winter musical Frozen, it’s no question that Disney Pixar has become one of the most successful and most beloved movie-making companies that the entertainment industry has ever seen. But even for the Disney lovers who adore nothing but the magical words created for them, a lot of Disney’s characters and movie scenes have become only more and more relatable as life goes on.
Whether your favorite Pixar movie is a Disney classic or a princess film, here are 10 hilarious Pixar memes only true fans will understand.
WHAT IF FEELINGS HAD FEELINGS
From bugs to toys to cars, Disney Pixar has undoubtedly made it known of their brilliant talent to make inanimate objects - or otherwise, objects that we wouldn’t normally think of having emotions and storylines and love interests - come to life.
However, in 2015 Disney Pixar’s Inside Out was released to theaters, and it got the internet laughing at the fact that after having exhausted every object out there, the only thing to make a movie on now was a movie about FEELINGS themselves!
Inside Out saw great box office success and was popular among families in 2015, moving both children and their parents to tears.
“The Customer’s Always Right”
In one of the last scenes of Disney Pixar’s summer 2016 release Finding Dory, which follows Dory’s solo journey across the ocean, seals Rudder and Fluke are seen yelling at their friend Gerald. This movie scene brings out a ton of laughs between audiences, and has also, consequently, just served the internet with a brand new meme.
Gerald’s lost face and blatantly ignorant reaction to being yelled at by his friends have been equated many times to taking on discipline or receiving hard news in real life – the joke is that the only response possible, is Gerald’s cluelessness.
A live-action Ratatouille
In recent years, Disney has gotten the ball rolling in the playing field of the “live-action remake.” By taking its old animated films like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Alice In Wonderland, and casting them with real-life actors and building imaginary worlds on studio sets and then releasing them to movie theaters, they’ve brought these classic stories to new generations.
With The Little Mermaid, The Lady and the Tramp, and other live-action Disney films right around the corner, However, one movie that the internet isn’t sure they want to see is a live-remake of Ratatouille. We’re not sure how well that would do at the box office.
Violet for your only four moods
Disney first released The Incredibles film in November of 2004, telling the story of a family of superheroes, long before Marvel’s The Avengers ever hit theaters. Many lovers of the 2004 Pixar classic had to wait fourteen years to see the sequel.
By the time Incredibles 2 came out, many of the movie’s previous target audience were not kids who had graduated from high school and even started college in that time. One thing that didn’t change over the years though was everyone’s relatability to Violet at the dinner table.
“Sorry, Dude”
First released in 2003, Finding Nemo told the story of sea creatures and the lives they lived in the ocean. Though all fiction, many of Disney Pixar’s animated scenes underwater were actually inspired by sea life and plant life of The Great Barrier Reef.
Crush the sea turtle, who is also a huge fan favorite of the film is a laid back, hippie kind of character who echoes the typical characteristics of a surfer dude. His chill attitude and casual looks have led to a ton of funny internet jokes including this one.
The older I get, the more I understand Scar
When you watch Disney Pixar films as a child, naturally what you want to do is identify with the protagonist and root for them. Your childhood innocence blinds you from even trying to understand where any type of villains come from.
Scar in The Lion King is one of Disney audience’s most hated villains, but as the internet points out, his remarks in the film aren’t at all that far off from things adults say in their everyday lives today. Many people find themselves identifying with the cynicism of Disney’s villains as they get older. Do you relate?
Idiots, Idiots everywhere
In November of 1995, Disney Pixar released Toy Story which shook the world of animation for good. Setting up the groundwork for the way Pixar approaches their storyboard and real-life looking animations today, Toy Story is known as one of the most influential animated movies ever made.
However, that doesn’t mean the internet still can’t joke about it. Applied to any situation where there’s too many of one thing in a certain place that leads to an overwhelming feeling of annoyance, this meme of Buzz telling Woody, “Idiots, idiots everywhere,” is one that people on Twitter love to use when a topic goes to the top of the trending list.
Put that thing back where it came from!
While this may have a little bit of a sad undertone to it for those who are fans of both Disney’s Marvel and the Avengers films, this meme has blown up on the internet over the last few days.
In light of the news that Spiderman is no longer part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, many MCU and Spidey fans have taken to the internet to express their sadness at the character and universe separation. Other fans, however, turned to Disney’s Monster Inc., to let Mike Wazowski let them know how they felt.
Talking on the phone
In the world of texting and tweeting and posting, nobody ever really wants to talk on the phone anymore, right? The popularity of this meme of Ilsa from Frozen has become one of the most relatable things on the internet.
Released back in 2013, Disney’s Frozen broke records when it achieved the title for the highest-grossing animated film at the box office ever, passing up Disney’s own Toy Story 3. Despite the fact that its songs, its heroine driven story, and its comedic brilliance for families and kids, its popularity did make the film a little bit of a joke on the internet, but it’s relatable, so it makes sense.
Oh, look at that.
Despite being a small character in the film, Olaf from Disney’s Frozen has won the hearts of people of all ages. Voiced by Josh Gad, Olaf serves as the comic relief in the movie and his happy-go-lucky charm has been made the basis of countless internet jokes about masking real-life problems or pain with a jaded look at his optimism.
In the movie, the scene shown in the photo above actually has Olaf saying, “Oh look! I’ve been impaled!” in reaction to an icicle going through his snowman body. The internet takes this and applies it things that feel threatening to comfort like unwelcome feelings and anything other than happy thoughts. At least Olaf lets us know we’re not alone!
