We enjoy sharing these fun movies with our granddaughter and it’s touching to think about the stories of these characters 25 years later with more perspective and gray hair. He, of course, delivers his famous line: “What are you looking at, ya hockey puck?” As toddlers, our kids couldn’t understand why Nancy and I were laughing so hard! We are first introduced to him amidst Andy’s other toys when he encounters a hockey puck. And my perennial favorite, Don Rickles, is hilarious as Mr. Estelle Parsons, George Costanza’s nagging mom on the hit show “Seinfeld,” is wonderfully cast as Mrs. Tim Allen, the macho man of the day, is perfectly cast as Buzz Lightyear. The voice and characterization of Woody is the very popular Tom Hanks, star of our date-night favorite, “Sleepless in Seattle.” John Ratzenberger - Cliff from the “Cheers” sitcom series, playing the piggy bank - maintained his screen persona as the resident know-it-all. Lost to Maci and even her dad is the subtext of humor in the characters.
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With the movie finally playing, we can sit back, relax and relive the clever writing of the “Toy Story” movies, which helped us maintain a shred of parental sanity 25 year ago.
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I hurl my trusty retort, reminding her that she will be completely lost when the satellites go down, her cellphone no longer works and she doesn’t know how to read maps. Our impatient daughter often grabs the remote and gets to the movie in half the time, including the 10 seconds it takes to mock the old man and roll her eyes. It takes me several minutes to negotiate this Rube Goldberg labyrinth of technology. You just don’t have to deal with the blinking clock constantly showing “12:00.” So, you really save no more time than if you went “old school” and got up off the couch, went to the bookcase, picked what you wanted to see, loaded it into the old VHS player and hit play. I’ve counted about 19 clicks to get to a desired program. Several more clicks get me to the correct movie icon, another click to “Play from Start.” Which I now know to mean “Toy Story 3” because there is a scene (spoiler alert) where the toys end up in a recycling plant about to be melted - to be repurposed into universal remotes, no doubt. “All right, Maci, do you want to see ‘Toy Story 1,’ ‘Toy Story 2,’ or ‘Toy Story 3’?” Icons appear for all your purchased movies, which the astute 3-year-old picks over like we used to pick over candy at the Five and Dime. Now you have to find the “Movies” tab and then the “Purchased Movies” tab.
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You need to push the right buttons to get your TV into Apple TV mode.
First, you have to remember where you purchased these movies. Our newly purchased movies are somewhere in the “cloud,” accessed through an electronic gate called a universal remote. Streaming is where it’s at.” So easy for them to find yet more ways to spend our money. “C’mon,” our adult kids exhorted us at the time, “get with it, Dad. I unwisely ditched it when we upgraded our entertainment system several years ago. The only thing is we no longer had was a VHS player. We had all three movies in perfectly working VHS format sitting in a closet that we purchased for Maci’s father and aunt some 25 years ago. No longer able to tolerate “Trolls,” “Frozen,” and “Moana,” we ordered all three “Toy Story” movies for Maci’s entertainment. “Toy Story, Gampa.” It was about the 15th time during a 10-day stay with us that our 3-year-old granddaughter, Maci, had asked to see her now favorite movies.