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Toy Story

We enter a child’s room where a young, brown-haired boy plays with his toys; there are toys all over the room, including a cowboy doll, a space ranger, and an electric car, which we later see running around, and in the corner of the room, the boy’s mother is in the doorway, talking with the boy. He wants to take all his toys to dinner, but his mother says that he can only take one; the scene shifts to the cowboy doll, which seems to be consulting a magic 8 ball and asking if Andy will pick him, but the 8 ball says, ‘Don’t count on it!’. Suddenly, the cowboy doll gets upset and throws the 8 ball down, which causes it to roll off the edge of the desk; suddenly, the cowboy doll starts looking for the space ranger. He’s right in front of him!

 

As the cowboy doll begins to talk with the space ranger, the scene shifts to where the other toys are playing cards, but suddenly they are disrupted by the fast-moving race car; when the space ranger and cowboy doll begin to survey the commotion, the space ranger is knocked off the desk and into the yard below; and it’s off to find the space ranger. But a very important point is brought up: Was it an accident or was the space ranger pushed out the window? The toys seem to think that the cowboy doll deliberately pushed the space ranger because he was jealous of all the attention.

 

As the cowboy doll tries to deny the accusations, he is suddenly swarmed by the green army men who are swarming the cowboy doll; suddenly, the cowboy doll falls off the desk, the child enters, and asks where the space ranger is; the camera shows a close-up of the cowboy doll on the floor; in the background, a drawing can be seen where the space ranger is hung, drawn by Mr. Potato Head. With so much evidence, the cowboy doll’s credibility is beginning to fall.

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