Now that we've hit one million views, it's time. I'm officially collecting input for a "The Universe of Pixar's Cars" video. Toss your theories and observations about the potential implications of the Cars' world (religion, culture, history, society) into this thread! Edit: Yes I will watch Planes.
Many people make it both their job and hobby to restore cars from rusty heaps. UA-cam has plenty of videos showing people bringing cars back to life from being rusted and abandoned and dead in the mud. This should technically be possible in this universe then, which means potentially car necromancy. Also if Oil is their blood, and also their food, are cars Vampires? What if they absorb the gas and oil inside of them through mucus membranes that line the gas tank and oil tank instead of having intestines, and instead they just have kidneys and liver that filter out bad oil which is then what they excrete, which means I suppose that bad oil they excrete is a urine/bile mix. Which would also mean that the gas is food and the oil is just never ending blood transfusions that also enables vampirism. Cars needing oxygen isn't weird either since engines need air to light. Maybe think of it as an engine made from biological material, where the pipes are veins with the addition of kidneys or some other unique filtering technique while gasoline is just used to keep the engine running.
Finn is sort of a superhuman in a way, but mainly because he’s the most developed of the cars. Along with the other spys, he can use a variety of gadgets that help him with his work and help him function better. I imagine Mater is pretty well evolved too sinc me his toe hook is basically an extra arm.
Something I don’t often see people mentioning when it comes to male vs female cars in this universe is the "eyelashes". It seems to be the only noticeable difference, but it is CONSISTENT. Female cars have dark edges to their upper eyelids, almost like mascara. And I can't think of one that doesn't. I think that's the distinction, aside from what may be different where we CAN'T see it. The 'mascara' is how other cars know if they're talking to a male or a female.
Also it seems like only male cars have front grilles, as like mustaches. The only exception to the eyelashes and grill is misti motokrass, a female piston cup racer, who has both. But her being female was probably an afterthought when they made her diecast.
Ms Fritters is an exception. As is another example someone else said. I think it's probably a cultural thing, like most sex/gender stuff. But yeah, that is a pattern
As I was watching the video, I had the thought that cars are like hermit crabs, in that they choose their shells. They are soft and squishy on the inside, with a customizable outer shell
I get shes trying to make sense of the things that happen in the universe, but she's looking TOO much into comparisons to people rather than cars themselves. For example, the popping/lighting headlight situation could mean different things depending on the scenario. A middle finger to a friend means something completely different to a middle finger to a random stranger. Or like in some countries shaking hands with your right hand is considered disrespectful because people wipe with their right hand, cant really compare our societal norms with literal cars. Simply put, it makes sense to them but not to us and trying to make sense of stuff like that is almost pointless. Also, you can really tell she is not familiar with cars whatsoever, not the movie but actual cars; explaining car aerodynamic physics as "Hacks and cheats" and compares them to humans getting piercings and tattoos. Aerodynamics are a real thing race teams and drivers spend millions, if not billions, of dollars on research and development to even shave a second off lap-times.. just like how a swimmer in the Olympics will shave ALL their hair to reduce drag making the more aerodynamic. Or how a professional athlete will take enhancement "chemicals" to give them more strength and stamina. I tried to be really open minded but you can really tell she is not familiar with real life cars at all and trying WAYY to hard to compare them to our societal norms.
Alright I’m starting a new religion with this one. What happens after we die? We reincarnate as cars to carry people around. I mean do you remember all those time you fallen asleep behind wheels on a highway only wakes up halfway through doing 110 or completely zoned out and don’t even remember how you’d driven the whole thing home? Totally ancestral spirits taking the wheel for ya.
Without one OUNCE of exaggeration, your hermit crab anatomy drawing was THE MOST cursed thing I have EVER SEEN. I was screaming and laughing and REVOLTED and I could not look away. Bless you.
The human thing was viscerally terrifying in a “I have no mouth and I must scream” way, while hermit crab is terrifying in a “I don’t want to be in the same zip code as that” terrifying. They’re both terrifying.
The locking doors thing could be that cars sometimes need to open their doors to allow doctor cars to perform surgery. Which has some horrific implications that the cars locked themselves as if they thought Lightning was gonna steal their organs.
I think that they covered their ears as you'd have noticed they would wear headphones on their side windows, so i think they kind of act like their ears?
Or maybe the equivalent would be flinching away from someone or tightening up their muscles. It’s a habitual reaction that’s not at all proportional to the danger at hand.
@@UltraMarine765 True. Or they're just there as a leftover of the cars' designs resembling that of human technology, like how they have door handles still.
it doesnt have to be to cool the cockpit. there are lots of reasons you might add a vent depending on the powertrain configuration. oil coolers, turbos, electronics cooling. but yea its an air intake. i would have to watch the rest of your video to come up with a theory. but for now to just answer the question of what that is. it is a car thing irl. @@grimmelle
I love the hermit crab theory. A race who became so reliant on machines that their bodies evolved to be reliant entirely on cybernetics to move around or do basically anything.
I didn’t even think of it that way! I was imagining some aliens who had taken over earth and were cosplaying as humans in car shells in their attempts to reconstruct the old civilisation.
A little thing I wanna say about the respirator. A car's engine also needs Air to work so it isn't that weird to put a resperator on a car. People put snorkles on their intake.
@@drewlop the purpose of snorkles is that you can drive a car (technically)up to as deep as where the entrance of the snorkel is. And the engine can still work. In offroading half a meter extra can make a lot of difference
@@drewlopyes, even if the entire car is under water, as long as the snorkel sticks just far enough above the water line without going under it, the car still works. The higher the more water it can wade. Very popular with off-road stuff. Water and cars do not mix, especially with something that can suck in a lot of water like a snorkel.
Quick correction, most "Snokels" are just clean air intakes. They are highly beneficial when driving in dusty conditions. The electronics and such are vulnerable and very few vehicles can actually ford water of that depth
5:50 cars in real life needs oxygen for the engine, it helps to even out the combustion of air and fuel mixture. If water travels into the air intake system and to the cylinders, it can waterlock the engine (seize). In automotive terminology , we refer it as "hydrolocking" Oxygen sensors is crucial for timing the combustion of the engine. They are located in the exhaust system where they sit next to the catalytic converter (typically 2 sensors after and before the catalytic converter) its purpose is to send data to the ECM (Engine control module), it helps the ecm to perfectly calibrate the timing on sending fuel or air to the engine cylinders. (Basically it helps to maximize fuel economy and overall performance)
she somehow found out about oxygen sensor on combustion engine before the "combustion" part, should've ask some friend who's familiar with car and biology for content advice
The eye protection is a welding mask. It's not to protect your eyes from sparks it's to protect it from the uv rays and bright lights that the welders give off. Great video
Yeah. The reason they don't weld while seeing only through their windshields is the same reason we don't use prescription glasses or clear goggles (or even sunglasses) as protection to weld.
And also welding spatter. In case you don't know welder lingo, it looks like sparks on camera, but on a welder, those are actually small molten metal beads that burn wayyy longer or hotter than any spark. The masks help block spatter from hitting you in the face, but ask any welder with a open top mask what happens when spatter lands in your hair.
Another theory is that headlights are simply a feature that isn’t comparable 1:1. They clearly have a practical use which is being able to see at night. The security guard using them to deter cameras makes me believe that they’re some sort of social component. Much like when animals have ridiculously large appendages that are simply there to attract mates. The headlights could be another way of emotional expression which in some context could be meant to be used sexually. The guard example in real life would be like someone throwing their hand up in front of a camera. Arms aren’t inherently sexual, but some people like big arms. I see it like thatc
honestly the whole video got me really frustrated because at absolutely no point it has been suggested that maybe cars ain't a 1:1 of something we know already. It's like trying to fit mushroom features on a platypus, you can't, they are different living species and they do not work the same, do not bear the same features, and do not behave the same way. I was really hoping for it to be the final theory... (not mushrooms, the fact that they are not something we know). A lot of things become way easier to understand like the oil/fuel debate : maybe it's not food, drink, blood, nor pee, but something else we cannot compare it to, a sort of universal fluid system that works differently from what we know. I still liked the video though, I just think it needs a complementary one where we try to understand how it works instead of just trying to find in which of the boxes that we know it could fit.
@@oxymoreproducer yes, this is true. As funny as it is to point out how ridiculous and silly some scenes are when translating them literally to human terms, it’s important to first and foremost consider that a society made up of sentient vehicular organisms would function separately to ours. A very comparable example to this is the transformers. They’re obviously more humanoid in their appearance but at no point does the series try to suggest the idea that cybertronian society is identical to the human one. This is obviously because they are not only far more durable and larger than us, but because of their ability to transform. They have this strange element called energon that they use basically as their blood, but it also powers their weapons and non-living machines. And to them this is completely normal because the comparison of energon to blood ends at both being fluids that circulate through the body. But anyways, I’m getting off topic. My real point is that if you wanted to make a more “””””scientific””””” analysis of the cars you’d have to completely remove yourself from any ideas of human comparisons
I came to thought of it it can mean multiple things, and that there is a societal different reaction to a female car showing her high beams to a male one, like in real life men can go shirtless but women can't, breasts aren't a sexual organ yet it is seen to be obscene/immoral even more so than your butt, so cars also have a sense of "nudity" and it doesn't imply everybody would react the same way... for example when in a boxing match two opponents face reacjk other
I came to thought of it it can mean multiple things, and that there is a societal different reaction to a female car showing her high beams to a male one, like in real life men can go shirtless but women can't, breasts aren't a sexual organ yet it is seen to be obscene/immoral even more so than your butt, so cars also have a sense of "nudity" and it doesn't imply everybody would react the same way... for example when in a boxing match two opponents face reacjk other
Exactly, this vid pissed me off it seems so low effort, I rarely press dislike in any vid but this was just irritating and wasted potential @@oxymoreproducer
Hihi. Car guy here! I got too invested in this. 2:30 Real car thing. It's a window duct. Race cars can have multiple of these. Each one is hooked to a flexible fabric hose that can be used to cool off the driver, electrical systems, heat exchangers, or other things that get hot during operation. The human equivalent would be sweat pores. They're used for temperature regulation 5:50 I'm going to heavily simplify this :D During the combustion cycle there are 4 steps: suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Basic single cylinder engine: you have a cylinder with two valves, a spray bottle nozzle, and a lighter on the outside of it all poking through the top, inward. Inside is a slightly smaller cylinder of it that can slide up and down which is connected to a metal stick below it that can go up and down. The left valve opens, the inner cylinder drops, and it sucks air in as it creates a vacuum like a syringe. The spray bottle also sprays a mist of gas at the same time. The valve closes, the spray stops, and the inner cylinder goes up, squeezing the mixture really really tight. The lighter sparks, igniting the mixture creating a bang, pushing the inner cylinder back down. The right valve then opens up and momentum carries the inner cylinder back up, blowing the exhaust gas out of the outer cylinder. The reason the car would breathe oxygen is your car can't run on gasoline alone. It needs air. Secondly, water doesn't compress. If your car breathes in water as the suck valve opens, the engine is going to stop during the squeeze part as the outer cylinder is now FULL of water. Remember that stick that I said is attached to the inner cylinder? That will bend when this happens. It's the car's equivalent of inhaling water and having a heart attack in a fraction of a second. Horrible way to die :D As for the O2 sensor joke, I giggled. XD I don't know if regular water by itself can foul those, but they are sensitive pieces of equipment and salt water absolutely will ruin them. 6:10 this is also a legit issue that happens with real cars. Oxygen starvation! If a car's computer is trying to hit a target power output, and it needs a certain amount of oxygen and fuel to make it possible, it could falter not having enough oxygen. Easiest fix is a wider bore air intake and a high flow air filter. 6:49 I like how they acknowledge that a car's alternator can keep an engine running and electronics working so long as you don't put it under too much load. Disconnecting the battery during running is strongly not advised with modern cars, but an older car like Luigi and Mater can handle the irregular voltage. 7:53 "Walking on their rims" as the van in this scene has their wheels and tires on the blet and is walking on their wheel hub assemblies (my wallet hurts seeing that). 8:51 The front wing isn't a bumper. It's a dummy expensive aerodynamic bit of carbon fiber. You ain't bumping anything with that. lol 13:26 Theory 2 is the winner. In the irl car community, you have headlights, but make the headlights pop-up headlights and suddenly you activate the neurons of every car guy in a 10 mile radius. Don't ask me why but pop up headlights are * chef kiss * minifique! Going even further, the Twins are Mazda Miatas. Specifically the NA models. The proceeding models are the NB, NC, and ND. Some people like to perform what is called a "face swap" where they take the NA front off the car and put the NB front on with its flush mount headlights like every other car, which is wrong, sacrilegious, and a crime. 15:21 Exposed suspension components. The human equivalent would be an exceptionally fit man who is comfortable being shorts and a tank top. Think stereotypical-male-lifeguard. 17:11 Hearing a sniffer test be called a colonoscopy gives this scene an entirely new horrible meaning. 18:55 The Rust Belt would kill for car bidets. Some car washes up here now have undercarriage sprayers built into touchless wash stations. Road salt in the winter is no joke. I have one of those yard water sprayers that create a fan of water that waves back and forth that I slip under my suspension a few times during the winter to rinse all the road salt off. 20:14 Yup. You got it. License plate just says what the car is, who owns it, where it belongs, and if it's road legal. VIN number however tells you EVERYTHING. The car's components bumper to bumper, where it was built, everywhere it's been registered, who all has owned it, what it was used for, all of its service records, how many wrecks it has been involved in- everything. 20:54 Grey sweatpants era. Mcqueen is done up in primer paint. 21:55 To answer your question here, yes the modifications can more than likely be undone. A lot of land speed cars are purpose built using existing platforms or guts. Tieing back to all the context of building a car, open engine surgery, and so on, i have a running headcannon that if you were to do like Superfast Matt did and take the guts out of a Honda and put it in a land speed car that is half the width and twice the length of a refrigerator, it is still that same Honda, just in a different body. 23:08 To be honest, you have to be at least a little unhinged to be a part of the lemons community. Still, the 24 Hours of Lemons is one of the most entertaining irl races out there. The uber-downforce-Miata still blows me away at how it DESTROYED the competition two years in a row. 24:22 You can put a car into a wall as many times as you want, you can blow up as many engines as you like, you can have as many parts fail over time, but if the unibody or the frame gets broken, it's a write-off. I'm not too sure how this would translate over into the cars universe as open-engine surgery is about as casual as blinking. Maybe windowing the block or spinning a rod bearing would do you in? The frame/unibody rotting through would be the equivalent of your back breaking and your spinal cord getting severed as your wire harness gets stripped out of its sockets. That'd be the only sure-fire way to kill a car. 25:41 It's common practice to start a small fire under exploration trucks in sub-zero climates to warm up the engine bay and differentials. Oil nor diesel are combustible unless subjected to stupidly high levels of heat. McQueen's paint would ripple and bubble long before his internal organs have any chance of catching fire. 25:47 Partially for comedic effect, but if you have a car indoors that isn't moving and running (dyno tests for example) you want a blower fan on them to get clean air blowing over top of the radiator so the radiator fans don't need to work as hard. Sally, however, is rear-engine, and this doesn't apply to her. 26:41 I just pretend they consume distilled water for cooling instead of antifreeze. it's a fine substitute for countries that don't see freezing temperatures, and coolant does burn off over time. Following up with that, if it's implied the elevator is full of blood, and blood is coolant, then does that mean water is also... blood? You're making me do a heckin' think and I don't like this. 33:35 The joke is multi-tiered. Part one is Pixar finally making a car the way the audience has been asking them to for years, and the second part is the French make weird-ass cars that don't conform to current styles or standards. Ever see a Renault Avantime? The Twizy? How about a Citroen DS steering wheel? That's the level of odd they've perfected. I LOVE the hermit crab theory though as it ties in perfectly with the shell-swapping theory, aging, and upgrading as you brought up earlier. It would also give a definitive way for them to die, as in the fleshy bits give up on life before the mechanical components do. Oh MAN, this was a fun thing to hyperfix on for the past two hours!
My hypothesis on the flashing of headlights is that it’s a complex social signal that can mean different things depending on the context. The twins were using it to emphasize sexual signals but the headlights aren’t inherently sexual.
@@miguelguthridge probably like that, the same way that giving someone an "o" with your thumb and index finger means its OK but putting your other index finger through that "o" indicates something sexual
That's what I came on here to say! They're not sexual organs, and turning your headlights on or flashing them once at someone isn't sexual, but two twins coming up and basically catcalling/woof whistling at him? I feel like that's why he was looking at them both like that.
14:42 KJB Highlights suggested that Lighting has a specific high beams fetish making them sexual for him only (like taking your shoes and socks off for a celebrity with a foot fetish). An additional aspect might be the 95 decals on the headlights, and he's so full of himself at this point in the film that seeing other cars mark their bodies for him is what causes the satisfcation we see in that scene (sexual or otherwise)
I love overanalyzing this franchise, it's absolutely nightmarish. Something I like to take into account is that Planes takes place in the same world. At one point in the first movie, Skipper says "Do I look like I was built yesterday?" suggesting that the cars and other vehicles are built and not born. Edit: Forgot about the fact that in Planes FaR, when Dusty and the firefighters enter the lodge and there are cars getting off the train, a pair are shown taking about a steam spa that "takes off 50,000 miles easy." Maybe this is similar to treatments that are supposed to make one look younger, thus hinting at mileage being an aging thing.
It makes sense, because there are a lot of older cars today that have low mileage from sitting in a garage and being well-kept that would be considered “mint condition” while there are newer cars that are used a lot that are considered older and worn.
"Cars" is from Pixar. "Planes" is a spin-off, but from Disneytoon. So I would not read too much into it. (for what little consistency there is anyways)
@@felipetolentino4876 I think that at one point Sally asks McQueen if he believes in "recycling", and the context of the scene makes it clear it would be their equivalent of reincarnation
They probably have protection on their eyes, but the reason that they put glasses on when getting out the welders at 4:50 is because the brightness of a welder can severely damage your retinas, or go as far as make you blind. Also the rear view window slots on McQueen are usually for looks, but scoops on other parts of the car can be for aerodynamics or cooling the engine or brakes.
@@santosmedina4248 Those window ducts are usually there to cool the driver. but i thought they didnt have drivers, THEN WHATS THE WINDOW DUCT FOR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Those aren't welders, they are torches. Likely oxy-acetylene torches being that they are the torch most often used to cut metal. Eye protection for brightness isn't really needed for torches, more for just protection from flying sparks. The reason eye protection is needed for welding is due to the arc between the welding rod or welding wire and the material being welded. The electrical arc in that gap produces very intense UV light that can give your eyes essentially sunburns of a very high degree, but you will not know you've had that sunburn in your eyes until hours later, even the next day. You are basically blind for a couple of days while your eyes literally go through the sunburn process your skin does while healing. Ask me how I know...
It's pretty horrific to imagine what a human would hypothetically look like if they had a body that was so heavily specialized to run as fast as possible that they can't even turn around.
@@Jr837_ No what I mean is that the qu created something similar that was in the comment a human that "had a body that was so heavily specialized to run as fast as possible that they can't even turn around." We've seen the Qu make purposed versions of Humanity like the Mantelopes and Colonials, so what if they made a living vehicle version of Humans.
One thing I'd like to point out is that cars in the cars univers, do IN FACT eat food. Not just gasoline. In cars 2, we see literal food in that one scene where Mater tries that wasabi that he thought was pistachio flavored icecream. Not only do we see the wasabi, but for a few seconds when Mater drives up to the sushi bar, we actually see both sushi and all the other foods that they use for it. Even for the viewers who didn't see it, Mater says pistachio icecream, which already confirms that pistachios and icecream exsist as food in their world, and in that sushi bar scene, there is MEAT seen in the glass cases that the bar employees work behind, which also confirms that cars eat meat in this universe. We could asume that the meat comes from the other vehicles in this world that represent certain animals, and if thats the case, then that also confirms that all the other vehicles that are people in this world also have meat inside of them, which are their organs.
The 'torn'part of his rear window is a vent its use on real racing cars to provide air in to the cab and to the driver or something similar to that yes its very much real and its odd that he has it lol
I always assumed Lightnings reaction of "Oh, I love being me" was in response to the fact that the Twin cars had gotten his number on their headlights. Sort of a tattoo on their "chests" showing their devotion to McQueen.
I believe this is probably the more correct answer to the headlights debate. They are not sexual, but 100% functional. The body guards function are similar to real body guards where they are able to let the fans get close to the star, but have only limited time to interact with them because they are so busy. The star wants to spend more time with the reporters and fans, but the body guards also double duty act as time keepers, to get the star to their next appointment. This is why the guards only react after the twins flash their devotion to Lightning, because he was getting too involved with his fans and losing track of time, and he had to hit the road right away to get to the next race track.
Headlight Theory: Headlights are neutral by default and are only "suggestive" when presented as such. Like how hands, necks, and backs can sometimes be suggestive IRL depending on context and presentation.
Notice how Mia and Tia are both 1st generation Mazda Miatas, they both have pop up headlights and they only get kicked out after they pop the headlights. So normal headlights aren’t suggestive but pop up headlights are. They use their front facing blinkers as normal headlights.
@@oldjeeper9174, Cars of models considered inferior would be sent to the scrap heap, so the streets would have cars of better models, and obviously there would be cars that would not comply with this.
My favorite part of this video is the part where the whole thing slowly goes from a messed up anatomy study about animated vehicles to a borderline nervous breakdown every 30 seconds
@@Sipwipbip Yeah but she did the deep dive on it. It's one thing to momentarily entertain a notion. But doing something like this is taking the path of madness.
Ima put on my own headlight theory 4: Its a car-cultural thing, and has no direct human equivalent and slashing the lights in such a context is considered flirty, while flashing the light at cars in general is counted as a visual equivalent to shouting for someones attention.
Exactly my thought! Like a physical equivalent to cat-calling (from the twins) versus shouting (from the police car). Just a shocking/attention gabbing gesture that can mean different things!
I mean it could just be a gendered thing like, a guy puffing his chest and yelling has a very different connotation culturally than a woman bringing attention to her chest and cheering.
If the writers of this movies had any sort of creativity then one wouldnt be able to summary every one of them by comparing them to another movie adding "but with cars", which im conviced is all the thought proccess behind the production of this movies.
So in the Piston Cup, there is a sponsor company called Tow Cap, which manufactures a product called a hitch protector. On the bumper of Rusty Cornfuel, the Tow Cap racer from the first movie, is text that reads “for that one night hitch.” This indicates that hitch protectors are basically condoms, which of course the cars would only need if they could reproduce.
or they can spread STDs/STIs like rust or something, who knows, trying to over explain one off jokes is fun but at a point you've gotta just shrug it off.
My theory is that headlights are like a peacocks tail. While they can be used for courtship, they are also used for other things such as dominance displays (eg the security guards) or seeing.
I believe McQueen is shocked by the twins' headlights because: 1) they had his number "95" engraved onto them. (Or maybe it's just a decal who knows) The human equivalent would be a facial tattoo I think. 2) it's an homage to that one scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", where Indiana Jones's student wrote "LOVE YOU" across her eyelids then kept blinking seductively at him.
'headlights' is an old euphemism for breasts. When they were making the old transformers cartoon someone obliviously considered naming a transformer 'headlights' -- the manager had to take a guy aside and explain why that was inappropriate. And this was the 80's, when corporations weren't even slightly sensitive about such things.
@@tsm688 yeah but the decisions in universe can be diffrentiated fromthose made by the writers. Of course no one denies that this is clearly suppose to be a flashing joke but I think in universe the explanation could be more what the original commenter suggested
A lot of the oddities can probably be chalked up to just how their culture works. Rather than trying to think of everything as having some kind of 1 to 1 counterpart with human cultures, it might be more accurate to think of it more like an extraterrestrial civilization that just happens to be vaguely humanlike. For instance, the specific example of pop up headlights getting treated similarly to women flashing their breasts could just be that kind of thing culturally in that specific context of use, kind of like how various different hand signs only mean certain things to certain people under certain contexts. It's not that headlights of any kind are inherently a 1 to 1 comparison to breasts or nipples, but rather that this specific usage of them is culturally treated similarly to how we would treat such a thing as flashing breasts. It's basically like the twin cars in question were flashing a hand sign that is seen in their culture as sexy and inappropriate. Basically, the point that I'm making is that their behavior towards certain things doesn't necessarily point towards certain things as being perfect comparisons to human anatomy. Rather than thinking about things like headlights as nipples or breasts, think of them as headlights that are sometimes culturally treated like how we would treat nipples or breasts but only under specific contexts that have to do with how they formed their culture. As for their anatomy itself, I'm increasingly convinced that they don't have any consistent anatomy. Rather than being mechanical or biological creatures, they are something that could not exist in our universe that exhibit traits of both but in ways that can not possibly make complete sense to us.
It feels a little like a cheap cop-out but I fully agree with the "it's just what it means in this context" interpretation and was surprised that the entire approach wasn't considered more in the video, like cars leaking oil due to injury vs "old age". I like how you used hand gestures as an example, it illustrates just how weird mannerisms conveying meaning can be.
The "tiny window" at 2:30 is called a NACA Duct and it's used to ventilate the cabin. Since they're race cars, they have perspex (polycarbonate) windows which makes this an easy bolt-on part.
I've also seen similar ducts that send air to a rear engine, similar idea to bonet/hood scoops. Someone else suggested they could also provide cooling to the brakes.
Second this original comment. It'd sure be nice if youtube had a comment search feature so I could easily find replies that already said what I was going to say, instead of having to scroll down indefinitely.
I have an answer for the fire just after 25:36. The fire is used to keep the cars from freezing. Coolant in the engines can freeze and crack the engine, completely destroying it. The fire also keeps oil flowing as it likes to stop when it gets cold, causing extreme wear and tear for engines with oil that is not meant to flow in the cold. I have had to light a fire under a car in order to warm up the engine enough to turn over and start. Hope this info helps a bit.
In the first movie, when Mac first finds Lightning in Radiator Springs, he says "Thank the Manufacturer!" I think this implies some kind of deific figure or organization in car society responsible for the creation of the cars. How this "manufacturer" fits into the picture would tell us a lot about how the car society works, and would even give us hints as to how the cars themselves function. My first thought is that it refers to the AI from the Pixar Theory, but there could be any number of explanations for what Mac was referring to in this one line. This could be nothing, but I think exploring the origins of the cars would be very helpful in figuring out their anatomy.
There was I think it was a behind the scene thing where some of the creators of the first movie was discussing one of the scenes. And if I remember correctly, one of them mentioned something along the lines of "we can't have Lightning open his door because that's where his brain would be." It's not something that was ever elaborate on in official media, but thought it was worth sharing.
On a similar note, there's a deleted scene from Cars 1 where McQueen has his engine removed and placed in a steam roller so he can perform community service. He reacts in a horrified manner, and later Mater has his engine put into McQueen's body and messes around with it. It's then revealed that this was a nightmare, and the empty steamroller was never touched. This would imply that engines act as the human equivalent of the brain, but I can understand why it wasn't mentioned in the video, since it never made it into the final film or was acknowledged in other media, essentially being non-canon. In fact, the existence of cartoonishly large brains in Cars on the Road seems to disprove the engine being the brain.
Mattpat was on the right track, but I think you REALLY nailed it with the hermitcrab theory. The diagram was the cherry on top of this horrific think piece. I planned on using this to draw with, but I ended up watching the whole thing!
She stole from mattpat. She just changed the species, she didnt solve anything cuz exoskeleton was already proven with mattpat. She just changed the species, not solving nothing but stealing
@@Butterscotch_96"There are trans-accepting people in the Cars universe" and "there are ableist people in the Cars universe" are not mutually exclusive states of being. They're not even mutually exclusive states of being in our own universe. To be fair, I assume that the movie you're referring to is Cars 2, since that's the movie where the ableism is touched upon. And if you're simply making the statement that Cars 2 makes no sense when you think about it, I'd find it hard to disagree with you.
@@isavenewspapers8890 Tho as a Car Guy it does make the ableist subplot even more fun to think about because the AMC Gremlin and Pacer were very well liked cars at the time and them being considered Lemons now points to a revisionist history caused by another manufacturer smearing their names, in my mind it's GM, Ford, and/or Mopar because the Gremlin X was a total sleeper, 0 to 60 of 8.5 seconds, Not much sure even back then it's not beating top of the line pony cars, but it's beater the majority of pony cars.
24:51 this is actually true. In the Cars spinoff movies, Planes and Planes: Fire & Rescue, we learn there are manufacturers that build parts for the vehicles, and these parts can become discontinued. Dusty's gearbox gets damaged and is forced to spend the rest of the film not being able to redline because he can destory his engine, and he can't get his gearbox fixed because no one is making it and no one owns it (he does get it repaired though)
Seems kinda dumb that even though a model is discontinued that parts aren't made. Wouldn't there be other planes of the same model flying around that need parts?
@twistedyogert I thought the same, but then again even in our world, things designed that are needed for some humans to survive can become discontinued. While most people with polio don't need it, Iron Lung's are no longer manufactured, so the very few that are still alive and left to die unless they find someone who has parts lying around or knows how to fix them (like Maru does in Planes: Fire & Rescue). Other stuff like medication can also be discontinued or not sold to pharmacies, like my mother's meds. She needs them to live but the pharmacies near us stopped carrying them, now we gotta go out of state to find them, so the idea that manufacturers discontinuing items needed for vehicles to survive in the World of Cars does has logical sense to it when applying real world knowledge
@Dawg347 oh yeah, Cars 2. I try to forget that even exists, and this is coming for a kid born in the year Cars released, could name most car brands when they could barely speak, and had their great abuelo's final words be to me be "carro", Spanish word for Car. As you can tell, quite the Cars fanatic, and even I force myself to forget about that abomination of a film
Simply amazing, being a car guy made me notice a few inacuracies, but all-in-all this was an amazing video. Your hermit crab theory illustrations, the idea of nipples that can glow at will, and the thing that McQueen is in actuality thick is gonna keep me up in bed, thank you for that. The editing was top-notch and I couldn't breathe at times from laughing so much. Definitely earned a sub.
I like the hermit crab idea. Partly because it means that the various types of intelligent being, cars, planes, boats, are all the same species, and they just have different habits. Presumably they can cross-breed, but can't easily change shells once adapted a particular type. (I wonder if they have insults based on unlikely mixed parentage? "Yo' daddy was a dinghy and yo' momma was a dirigible!") However, the scale of things is off in the drawing. They don't need giant brains, just human- or dolphin-sized would be enough. The eyes are way too big for diurnal beings that use lights in the dark, so potentially what we are seeing as giant eyeballs are actually mostly decorative features used for communication and the light-sensitive parts are much smaller, perhaps a bit larger than human eyes. In that case the decorative feature could be fairly thin and flat, possibly with some muscle or even just photochromic cells (like octopus skin). In that case the choice of the weird positioning of the eyes in the headlight position for that one car could be explained by the lack of glass (the resident didn't want to expose sensitive parts of itself to the environment, and maybe just liked creeping out other cars by being freaky) and the reactions to that weird position could come partly from a simple 'WTF' reaction to the odd placement, and maybe partly from the repulsion of seeing someone with their eye-membrane split in half (like the first time a human sees someone with a split tongue). That doesn't explain the necessity of giant glasses for vision correction. I think things like that, and like neck pillows, are purely style choices. That leads us toward a deep, weird rabbit-hole about the psychology of these creatures and their pathological need to emulate human-like behaviors and artifacts that I'm just not prepared to explore. They would need some fairly large and powerful features for moving heavy wheels and lifting the whole car body with them, but possibly these are operated with biological hydraulics, which could explain the need for large quantities of oil, the need to excrete used oil (it might become contaminated or mixed with metabolic waste products), and the embarrassment of leaking fluids. The bulk of their biological component might be some big, thick muscular sacks that hold oil that they use both to remove biological waste and to drive hydraulic actuators (possibly some actuators are fully biological, and some are mechanical extensions). This would explain why they need both food and gasoline engines (the engines would be just regular engines that they use to provide extra power). Genitalia could be internal, but accessed from below and near the rear, which would explain the slight embarrassment associated with unplanned underside views. Those who want to show off their undersides, like whats-his-name the lowrider in the first movie, would probably just have no exposed biological parts under there, so it's not really a big deal. Like seeing someone in a cheerleaders skirt maybe. That would also explain the lack of obvious external gender markers other than shading above the eyes. It might also explain the pain they sometimes experience. I'd react too if I got my bits stuck in a cactus. However, they also might grow thin membrane over their shells to provide sensation. That could help to explain why crunching a fender would be painful, but not particularly life-threatening, and also why they might need medicated ointments to treat rusty panels. Perhaps the rust irritates the membrane, and the medication helps with that, rather than the actual rust. Presumably most cars go about with no underpants for utilitarian reasons. Maybe it's hard to remove a cover to pee, so they only cover up if they are showing off their undersides frequently. This raises questions about mating behavior. Since their shells are evidently fairly tightly tied to their identities, it seems unlikely that they extract themselves to go mate. More likely they are external fertilizers, one of them lays an egg and the other inseminates it.
Thank you so much for acknowledging that the movie Robots (2005) is the same version of the Cars franchise, and how the Robots movie also put WAY more thought into how the anatomy of Robots works
I feel like robots was a lot more open and explanatory with their anatomy, like there are scenes specifically about thier anatomy so it's not nearly as painful to think about.
For the headlights, it could just be a thing where different social cues cause headlights to mean different things in different contexts. Flashing highbeams too close to someone while being aggressive obviously means "fuck off", whereas lowbeams while excited and/or intimate could mean "fuck me"
Or its kinda like humans and female nipples can be seen as suggestive but male are completely fine except these are headlights so they are used for lighting up stuff untill that specific gender uses them in a context and if females do it then its sexual but for males its not because there is nothing sexual about male nipples then how the fuck is gender determined is it the voice or what is it?..
I love the final take, reminds me of classic fantasy Mimics. Organisms that grew to fill the shape of a vehicle, to prey upon that which would use it - humans.
dear car god, what a horrifying idea. Like the cars we see in the movies are the descendants of Mimic-like creatures that inhabited a mostly empty, abundant object that humans interacted with on the regular. Creatures that preyed on humans until there were none left. Long after hunting their prey to extinction, they still inhabit the shells they used to lure and catch them, their original reason for using them now but a long forgotten memory, yet they remain.
The husband and wife van couple from the first cars movie that 'locked their doors'; I never took it as locking the doors, I took it as the inherent ability some couples have to communicate without saying anything. It was more of a consensus of 'this guy is crazy, let's go'. But great video, horrific breakdown, and from another artist, wicked art :D
This is the most disturbing yet interesting theory I have yet seen. This theory makes so much sense, you did a pretty good job on explaining one of the most confusing anatomies in the fictional world
I like how giving the theoretical anatomy an empty back half also implies how it can still work for semi-trailer and pickup trucks that lack a "back seat."
Well the part that crazy is the cars all have full interiors as the headlight scene when they were in Tokyo one car had there eyes in the headlights and you can see seats a rearview mirror and seats like a regular car
older pixar films were usually praised for their coherent and creative worldbuilding of creatures and objects having their own human like society, but Cars makes so little sense we are still debating over how this all works almost 20 years after it came out. Insane.
2:31 Real racecars have those scoops for cooling purposes. They are spotted mostly on the hoods or quarter panels to let air inside the car for cooling down the engine or electronics. It is definetly not an error and its what we car enthusiasts like myself would call it such things like 'aerodynamics', 'cosmetic modifications', or 'aftermarket parts'. :)
I always thought the headlights and flashing people kind of worked like a cultural thing, like how in the past ankles were seen as attractive or even sexual despite not actually truly working to serve that purpose. So like flashing other cars can( depending on the context, type of car, job, etc) kind of works like a catcall or like showing off to a partner to get their attention like birds shaking their tail feathers. So even though for cars their purpose is clearly more of a survival thing and or expressing emotions or info to others, it culturally can be seen as a flex or like heavy flirting if you flash your headlights at someone of interest in the right context.
I’ve always thought of the cars anatomy as being an wierd offshoot of transformers. Where they have human like qualities and needs even though it normally wouldn’t make sense to be that way outside an magic cube that makes soda machines suddenly sentient and evil. But the idea of them being crabs is equally cool, funny, and disturbing. Especially with the fact that everything seems to eventually evolve into an crabs.
I'm not a professional mechanic, but I've had a few project cars and done a lot of restoration work, and I have a few thoughts on the death and disease section. The racecars crashing and still being able to be repaired makes sense because most racecars have a tube frame chassis, basically a skeleton that body panels are bolted on to. Body panels can easily be replaced and the tube frame can be bent back into place, or have sections entirely replaced. The best comparison I can think of to having the tube frame repaired would be like treating a broken bone. The older racecar (I forget his name) would most likely have a body on frame chassis similar to a truck, the structural part of the vehicle (the frame) and the body are two entirely separate parts. The frame is kind of like a ladder laying flat with the body mounted on top of it. The frame could be repaired or replaced and the body panels could be replaced but it would be more complicated than repairing a tube frame. More like a hip replacement rather than fixing a broken bone. New cars use a unibody chassis combining the frame and body into one unit. Repairing these vehicles after a serious accident is a lot of work and can be very complicated, requiring damaged sections to be cut out and welded back in. Mechanics that can do this well are often masters of their craft or dedicated hobbyists and would be the equivalent or neurosurgeons in the 'cars universe'. New cars are usually "written off" after a bad accident due to the time and cost needed to repair them.
I always liked to just imagine that the Cars are regular car except secretly alive like in Toy Story except they have a warped perception of reality where they don't see or acknowledge all the people. So basically cars living in a fantasy world while humans go about their lives. And maybe the personalities are an extension of their driver's personality. This is probably not the right answer but it involves probably the least amount of body horror out of any explanation, so I like it.
Good theory, but thinking about it, if someone sells their car to other person, does the car suddenly changes personality? Like if a Honda Civic was originally from a conservative family man and it's sold to a person who tunes and races it around, does it goes all hardcore all of sudden? No car in the series has sudden and fixed personality changes, so their personalities being based on the driver theory goes haywire. It can be the theory with the least body horror, but the psychologic horror possibilities are endless now. Think about the mind of a rental car.
Your theorys illustration genuinely made me gasp in a way I have never before. It genuinely took my breath away, and shocked me. Like holy, that is so much more horrific than the original cars anatomy that goes around.
That French “car” with odd look is actually a reference to what the characters in Cars was going to look like, but got scrapped. Cars was also going to be a lot more darker too.
I have an official concept art book and it shows the cars having eyes in the windshield in even their earliest stages. I think it was poking fun at people who asked why Pixar put them in the windshield instead of the headlights which is more traditional. Also it may have even been poking fun at Chevron and maybe even the Little Cars rip off. They may have also been trying to disprove that they had organs but they didn't do a good job at that if that's what they were going for since we don't see much of her interior.
Yep. There was some making-of Cars material that explained that early-on in the visual design for Cars the artists did not like the long snake-like look that headlight eyes gave the car characters in some much older (1950s?) animated cartoon material they were reviewing that had car characters with the headlight-eyes design. They liked the much more friendly, big-eyes appearance of windshield-eyes.
Its amazing how almost none of these theories would probably exist if Pixar had decided to include the full interiors with the seats and dashboard, or just included humans and regular animals to co-exist with the living vehicles and give some explanation like "they use magic oil" or something
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 but it would've lost its charm and it would been a stupid plot. Even a child would find it stupid like why us "magic oil" just drive it, personally I like the sentient cars cuz they are more fun to look at and feel more attached
@@SleekHeroo I doubt OP was saying that's the plot they should've gone with, just that they could've avoided the weird implications of these movies by making the cars less human and even having humans exist with them.
I think it makes the most sense if the oil they drink is the equivalent of water. So it would hydrate, lubricate, their bodies. While gasoline is what gives them energy similar to food. The oil they discard is old and dirty, the same way that urine is just water with all the impurities being things our bodies don't need.
It’s not an “us” problem - the filmmakers decided to include every detail shown in this video. We are simply uncovering the abominations hidden in the implications.
its most likely that how the wheels actually work is that the rims are like socks and the tires are like shoes, with the cars just being able to control the suspension and control arms themselves, like legs and arms, while their feet are the stuff you attach the rim onto like the brakes and stuff
This may be a neurodivergent thing, but I think the flashing of high beams could be a general overstimulation issue. Given how large their eyes are, they could be getting a massive amount of information from their eyes, and thus something like high beams at close range will either be uncomfortably blinding, or could be arousing depending on the person receiving it, and the person that is sending out the high beam.
No no no, you're onto something. Maybe because it's irritating to the eyes, the cars society evolved behaviourally to make the gesture simultaneously an act of deliberate attention grabbing AND something like a middle finger, depending on the context.
The torn window is actually a duct that’s connected to the rear brakes. It helps cool the rear brakes. Yes the welding face guard helps with physical protection, but it’s mainly to protect the eyes against the bright light of the welding arc. 😊
I actually own a book titled “Funny! Twenty-Five Years of Laughter from the Pixar Story Room” which is a compilation of various doodles of cut gags from a variety of films (the canonicity of which, is… debatable). One of these sections is cars, and it has a variety of very concerning concepts, lore wise. There’s “Car junk food” with visuals of various mechanical parts being served like food, like “rusty nut kabob” or “greasy lug nuts” or, worst of all “Hot Sludge (served in funnel)” while, on the same page, there is an image of a car getting fuel from a pump labeled “Espresso low 40”. Furthermore, there’s an image of a car looking confused at a set of footprints(!), a concept of a “nude car beach” where it’s literally just the wheel chassis with an engine and eyes, on a towel. There’s another where a car is doing the stereotypical guy-with-trenchcoat-pedalling-wares-by-opening-said-trenchcoat, where he opens his DOOR, to sell hood ornaments. But, there is two that I find the most horrifying. There are two gags that are concepts for the origins of cars. One is mostly normal, yet kind of concerning: a colossal factory with eyes, with streams of cars driving out of it, labeled “Mother of All CARS”. The other is far, far worse. It’s shown like an equation, entirely visually. I’ll try my best to describe it. “Human with bowtie + regular, non alive car + nuclear explosion = sentient car with bowtie.” This… terrifies me. I’ll leave this here. I’ve owned this book for a while, and no one seems to talk about it. It scares me.
I had no idea about that book, sounds interesting, I like the nuclear/apocalyptic theory that cars just took over after humans were wiped out. Relating to the factory thing though, in the first movie there is a picture on the wall inside the courthouse of a factory bathed in a kind of "holy light" with cars driving out of it, so that part must be canon, the factory is their creator and "god", but then you gotta wonder who built the factory? It also didn't have eyes, it's just a regular looking factory. Was a bit surprised it wasn't mentioned at all in the video.
They eye protection they used in that particular clip of them welding is so they don’t ruin their vision. Like starring into the sun, you need special protection for that. You can also damage glass while welding.
@@tommytomthms5 Welding is so much brighter than the sun, my grandpas was welder his whole life and has one eyes has a huge blackspot in his fov like a dead pixel on a camera. You can stare at the sun and be fine but dont stare at someone welding cus you will damage your retinas permanently. Its no joke
@@tommytomthms5 arc eye will literally be some of the worst pain you can have for days just by looking at a welding arc you can destroy your vision whereas looking at the sun will just hurt a bit and go away later.
My views on a few things like attraction are a little different. The fact sally was into the open wheels shows attraction to engineering, also shown with the hydraulics being a sudo engineering advancement for a car. I think the cars are not crabs or people but they are in a universe where life is just cars. Drinking and leaking oil seems kinda normal when you look at it as just how life is for them. As for how they age i think its a combo of miles, time, and upkeep. Growing and birth i think you described great with the robots reference, its just at certain points to become an adult car you need to leave your teenage bodykit behind so you can fit in the adult infrastructure. One thing you didnt look at is the infrastructure of the world. Seeing as a younger car wouldnt fit well in most places we see adult cars it just fits with the theme. Also the parents might not get to choose gender, it may be up to the first engine start like if it starts and keeps going or needs to start again to stay running. Oil and gas are like food and drinks i guess but very basic ones, some cars even try to spice it up by making it a certain way. It might be an old tradition while the human foods are just pleasure like candy. The fact that planes and boats exist show that parents could go to a factory and have an altered child probably for a heavy price. That or after leaving their first body kit they can choose where they want to go to. After figuring out flight and water travel i can imagine a lot of young cars wanting to leave the ground and be different. The speed mod cars are probably just like gym junkies who need that extra pump getting steroids to the point they cant wipe themselves. Id love to expand on anything i said cause i dont have the best grasp on all these ideas, they are just thoughts i had that COULD explain away a few things here
if cars could chose their body kit it would imply that they are either extremely expensive and reserved for the rich, perhaps like expensive designer clothing, or simply impossible, i say this because in the 3rd movie it wouldn't make sense why cruz ramirez wouldn't just change her body kit to become more like a race car to improve her speeds.
I've always thought of the headlights thing as an "exclamation point" kind of thing. They flash them to get a point across, similar to how humans raise their voice. The cop car flashes their high beams to say, "I really mean it, back off!" And the girl cars do it to say,"I REALLY want to get down and dirty!"
6:17 for the point on breathing underwater, an internal combustion engine can’t work without a fuel/air mix which means that if you submerge a car in real life it would actually “drown” too. On the point of panting, again, cars need a certain amount of air for their engines to work optimally (usually a 12:1 ratio, so 12 parts air and 1 part fuel in the combustion chamber) so if McQueen isn’t getting enough air (for whatever reason) it does make sense he would pant to try to get the optimal ratio.
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention either of the Planes movies in this. I seem to recall seeing Dusty somehow look at his own dashboard/avionics while flying. That seems relevant to this.
Not to mention Planes adding being born and also the existence of orphans. Drugs. In Planes Fire and Rescue they go inside of Dusty to show you his mechanics chipping. Dusty’s sprayer being removed being the equivalent to castration.
4:22 The protection here is not to protect against debris or other objects getting in their eyes, it's to protect their retinas from the super bright light of the welding torches.
Always loved this movie as a kid, and the amount of work that went into this video is insane, but i would never like to see the image of a car without its shell ever again at 32:38
The hermit crab theory makes sense but that would mean all the old rusty cars choose to stay in the old shells in the second movie. So I think it is closer to shedding their exoskeleton/shell/skin
I think that after a certain point making any major changes to their parts (the shell) is going to cause issues since they've stopped growing by that point. Their insides have already settled in a certain shape and making any major changes to their model would cause serious health issues. Plus any replacement parts also need to fit together with the old parts as well.
@@snailymitchits kinda like how some medical procedures are too risky to perform on someone past a certain age. The body isn't in good enough shape to adapt and heal from major change or trauma
Perhaps becoming intoxicated and watching this video was a bad idea... the image of car innards according to your theory makes me feel more fear than anything ever has. Keep up the good work *thumbs up emoji*
I think actually they'd want the more vulnerable parts of their body squished to the back as much as possible. Real cars have long noses do so because they function as crumple zones to protect their passengers after all. So I think they likely have essentially a big airbag or other movement-dampener around the interior and especially thick in the front to prevent jiggle-damage.
I had been putting off watching this vid for a while now knowing what would come but decided " how bad can it be?" The entire video from almost the beginning I wanted to click off but the narration was so good that I couldn't and was screaming at the very thought of some of these ideas thrown out let alone the visual aid almost as if I was tied down being forced to watch this! You have successfully ruined my fondest childhood memories which instead of nostalgia I now look apon with horror... so my take away from this experience? Great video! 10 outta 10
I think that you're the closest with your headlight theory with option #3; but I think that a big thing for that one scene could be the fact that they have special "95" (McQueen's number) headlights + high beams, not just a generic white beam or other Outside of that whole... thing I think that Sally is into shoulders ? As for the oil / blood; personally I think that gas is indeed their somach contents. The bit about the vampire cars that Mater makes, makes sense as gas is what actually makes them mobile. A non-moving car is as good as dead (without a tow), so if an in-universe writer wanted to make horror, they'd make it suck your gas, since it'd be horrifying to be effectively restrained bc you can't move. For drinking oil regularly and excrement, I assume that being living cars, they like to get fresher oil regularly, rather than getting it replaced every couple thousand miles like we do in real life; them going to the bathroom at all suggests that they have a second oil pan to drain like a bladder for old oil. In real life, cars leaking oil is indeed common for aging cars, or cars that have problems. It's a sign of age or malfunction, which could be seen as a point of ridicule? As for the bidet, there is actually a good reason! The undercarrige of a car getting mud stuck to it is the most common source of rust. Cleaning out the wheel wells with pressurised water to clear it out is actually preventative maintaince.
Having seen and heard what can happen to a car engine when you run it without oil for an extended period of time, I'd think it'd be similarly horrifying.
As a med student and a hobbyist mechanic this video ia great. There are something in which I'm not sure if I 100% agree but I really appreciate the great amount of research you put into this.
I think this kind of analysis says a lot about how we view sentience. This isn’t the first time people have questions about “body horror” in cartoons, a very good example is the skin theory in SpongeBob. I’m personally not very disturbed by these concepts, but I’m very interested in the fact that they cause disturbance in so many people. We directly associate sentience with humanity, therefore a sentient car taking it’s wheels off is equivalent of a human taking their arms and legs off. But they aren’t humans. We only find that disturbing because we compare how their bodies function to how our bodies function on the mere basis that they’re sentient and share a few physical characteristics with us, since they’re cartoon characters. We try to apply our logic to worlds where it’s impossible to apply. I don’t know what to think of this phenomenon exactly, I just think it’s interesting. Why don’t we apply the same logic with cartoon physics and slapstick? So many cartoon characters go through deadly situations and stay alive and well, and we don’t question it. However, when live-action media uses cartoon physics, I’ve seen a lot of people questioning it, because it’s so visually close to us. It’s kind of beautiful even, really shows how evolution made us relate to our own humanity and others’ on a deep level.
This is the best comment on this video. Every time someone questions Cars or the Robots movie they mentioned in this video, they inevitably bring up analogies to human anatomy, which I don't think is fair for the analysis. It reminds me of people in space exploration and astronomy fields searching for life in the universe by trying to find Earth-like planets, when it's possible that there could be life even within our solar system that simply doesn't need an Earth-like environment to survive. But like you said, empathy is in our nature; we search for ourselves within things alien to us in order to find common ground and understanding. If we hadn't, the human race wouldn't've survived this long
I was thinking about this as well. I love the in-depth analysis of how this car universe could rationally work, but I think that applying human-based logic is not the best way to do it, because as a result it gets confusing that things don't work like an actual biological animal would. Like for the question, "Why do they need both oil and gas? Which one is food and which one is blood?", I think the answer is just that neither is blood nor food. They just need both, because its the logic of their universe. Similarly to how cartoon physics work, as you pointed out, it's just a different logic. Ultimately, everyone knows these are just cartoon characters and that none of these scientifc reasoning were intented by the creators. It's still fun to do however, but I think that we should reason with in-universe explanations and just accept things for how they are sometimes.
@@group555_ Oh god, that's a brilliant analogy, I love it. I think it makes things pretty clear. The thing is, we don't have nerves on our hair, we can cut our hair. So if a different species compared us to how they work, they would only be empathizing with their experience instead of separating themselves, like we do with media analysis. Thanks for the input, I'm gonna think about this a lot now lol
@@snaildad193 On the topic of "aliens needing to be humanlike", you should prolly check out spec-evo worldbuilding projects. I specially recommend the "Birrin Project". I love how the creatures are so clearly not human at all, yet they behave in very human-like ways. It really puts into question our biases surrounding sentience. The creator puts a lot of effort to make the world as believable as possible. I also love how, even though the Birrin are alien beings, they are not intentionally gross or weird like how aliens are usually portrayed in media. They actually look like real normal creatures that would evolve naturally, rather than gross homunculus.
Now that we've hit one million views, it's time. I'm officially collecting input for a "The Universe of Pixar's Cars" video. Toss your theories and observations about the potential implications of the Cars' world (religion, culture, history, society) into this thread! Edit: Yes I will watch Planes.
As McQueen is a NASCAR racing car, I think that “torn window” you mentioned is actually a air vent/ engine cooler
i have no interesting input to add but i greatly appreciate the sacrifices you made when researching for this video
This video is why you can’t ask how the sausage is made 😂
Sarge served in WW2, this implies there was a car Hitler
Many people make it both their job and hobby to restore cars from rusty heaps. UA-cam has plenty of videos showing people bringing cars back to life from being rusted and abandoned and dead in the mud. This should technically be possible in this universe then, which means potentially car necromancy.
Also if Oil is their blood, and also their food, are cars Vampires? What if they absorb the gas and oil inside of them through mucus membranes that line the gas tank and oil tank instead of having intestines, and instead they just have kidneys and liver that filter out bad oil which is then what they excrete, which means I suppose that bad oil they excrete is a urine/bile mix. Which would also mean that the gas is food and the oil is just never ending blood transfusions that also enables vampirism. Cars needing oxygen isn't weird either since engines need air to light. Maybe think of it as an engine made from biological material, where the pipes are veins with the addition of kidneys or some other unique filtering technique while gasoline is just used to keep the engine running.
Okay new rule: Finn McMissile is essentially inspector gadget. All his gadgets are built into his limbs. He is a cyborg in the car's universe.
Brilliant!
Steve Austin, a man barley alive... Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
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That would make much more sense, since he is unique, even in-universe. All the bad guys just use guns
Finn is sort of a superhuman in a way, but mainly because he’s the most developed of the cars. Along with the other spys, he can use a variety of gadgets that help him with his work and help him function better.
I imagine Mater is pretty well evolved too sinc me his toe hook is basically an extra arm.
Something I don’t often see people mentioning when it comes to male vs female cars in this universe is the "eyelashes". It seems to be the only noticeable difference, but it is CONSISTENT. Female cars have dark edges to their upper eyelids, almost like mascara. And I can't think of one that doesn't. I think that's the distinction, aside from what may be different where we CAN'T see it. The 'mascara' is how other cars know if they're talking to a male or a female.
I was gonna say yeah, that's one of the only actual consistent differences
Also it seems like only male cars have front grilles, as like mustaches. The only exception to the eyelashes and grill is misti motokrass, a female piston cup racer, who has both. But her being female was probably an afterthought when they made her diecast.
@@ryanwarners4341Trans man that's deadnamed? Genderfluid?
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 never thought about it like that, that's a nice idea
Ms Fritters is an exception. As is another example someone else said. I think it's probably a cultural thing, like most sex/gender stuff. But yeah, that is a pattern
This was disturbing. Good video. Pixar needs to answer for their crimes of sentient cars not making biological sense.
No this is 27:19
they have ballsacks on their heads
MatPat did a whole video on this years ago bro
@@pn5846I stopped watching him after that hellhole of a Subnautica Theory
@@danakanam5yeah most of his theories are good but sometimes I’m watching like wtf you’re wrong.
@@amanamemealegendfor every ten "the secrets of fnaf security breach" there is a "does Luigi measure up?"
This makes SO MUCH SENSE- you know the theory that everything evolves into crabs? Cars are just humans post carcinization....
The word "car" could be an abbreviation of "carcinized human"
As I was watching the video, I had the thought that cars are like hermit crabs, in that they choose their shells. They are soft and squishy on the inside, with a customizable outer shell
I get shes trying to make sense of the things that happen in the universe, but she's looking TOO much into comparisons to people rather than cars themselves. For example, the popping/lighting headlight situation could mean different things depending on the scenario. A middle finger to a friend means something completely different to a middle finger to a random stranger. Or like in some countries shaking hands with your right hand is considered disrespectful because people wipe with their right hand, cant really compare our societal norms with literal cars. Simply put, it makes sense to them but not to us and trying to make sense of stuff like that is almost pointless.
Also, you can really tell she is not familiar with cars whatsoever, not the movie but actual cars; explaining car aerodynamic physics as "Hacks and cheats" and compares them to humans getting piercings and tattoos. Aerodynamics are a real thing race teams and drivers spend millions, if not billions, of dollars on research and development to even shave a second off lap-times.. just like how a swimmer in the Olympics will shave ALL their hair to reduce drag making the more aerodynamic. Or how a professional athlete will take enhancement "chemicals" to give them more strength and stamina.
I tried to be really open minded but you can really tell she is not familiar with real life cars at all and trying WAYY to hard to compare them to our societal norms.
Alright I’m starting a new religion with this one. What happens after we die? We reincarnate as cars to carry people around. I mean do you remember all those time you fallen asleep behind wheels on a highway only wakes up halfway through doing 110 or completely zoned out and don’t even remember how you’d driven the whole thing home? Totally ancestral spirits taking the wheel for ya.
Without one OUNCE of exaggeration, your hermit crab anatomy drawing was THE MOST cursed thing I have EVER SEEN. I was screaming and laughing and REVOLTED and I could not look away. Bless you.
The human thing was viscerally terrifying in a “I have no mouth and I must scream” way, while hermit crab is terrifying in a “I don’t want to be in the same zip code as that” terrifying.
They’re both terrifying.
And it’s just McQueen… I imagine the forklifts or boats or planes to be way more terrifying💀
The part where McQueens “shell” was placed on his brain and beating heart was too much.
32:38
Oh yea because the GOLLUM ATTACHED BY PIPES TO A CAR wasn't more insane than regular biology in a shell.
The locking doors thing could be that cars sometimes need to open their doors to allow doctor cars to perform surgery. Which has some horrific implications that the cars locked themselves as if they thought Lightning was gonna steal their organs.
This made me laugh sooo hard 😂
i thught they locked their doors becuase they thought he was a murderer of some sort... which would make sense in ur part-
I almost spit out out my saliva hearing that
I think that they covered their ears as you'd have noticed they would wear headphones on their side windows, so i think they kind of act like their ears?
Or maybe the equivalent would be flinching away from someone or tightening up their muscles. It’s a habitual reaction that’s not at all proportional to the danger at hand.
Pixar gave us a mess and said: "Figure this out." And I feel like this explaination works best, honestly
Funniest part is how they needlessly overcomplicated it by adding food or lips or humanizing them to the extent they did.
honestly it’s probably more like they gave us this mess and said “please don’t look into this, we just wanna sell toys” LMAO
@@DropOfMidnightOfficial It's cuz they came up with a strange set of rules for the cars in the movies
The moment she said "crustacean", I bought it honestly
Well... it is a fun kids animated movie about talking cars so... 🤷♀️
The "Sally is a foot girl" part had me howling, this video is insane and I love that you made it
The window vent is a feature on real race cars, it basically circulates air in the cockpit
Thank you! But now this opens up so many questions...
@@grimmelle vents are probably just either connected to the lungs, connected to the engine as to not overheat it, or both
@@UltraMarine765 True. Or they're just there as a leftover of the cars' designs resembling that of human technology, like how they have door handles still.
It's called a NACA duct.
it doesnt have to be to cool the cockpit. there are lots of reasons you might add a vent depending on the powertrain configuration. oil coolers, turbos, electronics cooling. but yea its an air intake.
i would have to watch the rest of your video to come up with a theory. but for now to just answer the question of what that is. it is a car thing irl. @@grimmelle
I love the hermit crab theory. A race who became so reliant on machines that their bodies evolved to be reliant entirely on cybernetics to move around or do basically anything.
**Happy Tech Priest Sounds.**
I didn’t even think of it that way! I was imagining some aliens who had taken over earth and were cosplaying as humans in car shells in their attempts to reconstruct the old civilisation.
No no no you guys have it all wrong, Elon just put too many Teslas on mars and this is the result.
Evolution might be forced. Remember the daleks?
I do too, although the imagery is EXTREMELY disturbing!!! 🤯
A little thing I wanna say about the respirator. A car's engine also needs Air to work so it isn't that weird to put a resperator on a car. People put snorkles on their intake.
Huh, weird. So they can drive through shallow water if need be? What's the purpose?
Nice profile pic of Kotori.
@@drewlop the purpose of snorkles is that you can drive a car (technically)up to as deep as where the entrance of the snorkel is. And the engine can still work. In offroading half a meter extra can make a lot of difference
@@drewlopyes, even if the entire car is under water, as long as the snorkel sticks just far enough above the water line without going under it, the car still works. The higher the more water it can wade. Very popular with off-road stuff. Water and cars do not mix, especially with something that can suck in a lot of water like a snorkel.
Quick correction, most "Snokels" are just clean air intakes. They are highly beneficial when driving in dusty conditions. The electronics and such are vulnerable and very few vehicles can actually ford water of that depth
5:50 cars in real life needs oxygen for the engine, it helps to even out the combustion of air and fuel mixture. If water travels into the air intake system and to the cylinders, it can waterlock the engine (seize). In automotive terminology , we refer it as "hydrolocking"
Oxygen sensors is crucial for timing the combustion of the engine. They are located in the exhaust system where they sit next to the catalytic converter (typically 2 sensors after and before the catalytic converter) its purpose is to send data to the ECM (Engine control module), it helps the ecm to perfectly calibrate the timing on sending fuel or air to the engine cylinders. (Basically it helps to maximize fuel economy and overall performance)
...holy crap dude- I did not know that- The more you know ig-
she somehow found out about oxygen sensor on combustion engine before the "combustion" part, should've ask some friend who's familiar with car and biology for content advice
@@DraconXCreationshehe, another gearhead converted😈
The eye protection is a welding mask. It's not to protect your eyes from sparks it's to protect it from the uv rays and bright lights that the welders give off. Great video
was gonna say this, but you summed it up pretty well
You also can't see very well through them
Yeah. The reason they don't weld while seeing only through their windshields is the same reason we don't use prescription glasses or clear goggles (or even sunglasses) as protection to weld.
And also welding spatter. In case you don't know welder lingo, it looks like sparks on camera, but on a welder, those are actually small molten metal beads that burn wayyy longer or hotter than any spark. The masks help block spatter from hitting you in the face, but ask any welder with a open top mask what happens when spatter lands in your hair.
that's what I was thinking
Another theory is that headlights are simply a feature that isn’t comparable 1:1. They clearly have a practical use which is being able to see at night. The security guard using them to deter cameras makes me believe that they’re some sort of social component. Much like when animals have ridiculously large appendages that are simply there to attract mates. The headlights could be another way of emotional expression which in some context could be meant to be used sexually. The guard example in real life would be like someone throwing their hand up in front of a camera. Arms aren’t inherently sexual, but some people like big arms. I see it like thatc
honestly the whole video got me really frustrated because at absolutely no point it has been suggested that maybe cars ain't a 1:1 of something we know already. It's like trying to fit mushroom features on a platypus, you can't, they are different living species and they do not work the same, do not bear the same features, and do not behave the same way. I was really hoping for it to be the final theory... (not mushrooms, the fact that they are not something we know). A lot of things become way easier to understand like the oil/fuel debate : maybe it's not food, drink, blood, nor pee, but something else we cannot compare it to, a sort of universal fluid system that works differently from what we know.
I still liked the video though, I just think it needs a complementary one where we try to understand how it works instead of just trying to find in which of the boxes that we know it could fit.
@@oxymoreproducer yes, this is true. As funny as it is to point out how ridiculous and silly some scenes are when translating them literally to human terms, it’s important to first and foremost consider that a society made up of sentient vehicular organisms would function separately to ours. A very comparable example to this is the transformers. They’re obviously more humanoid in their appearance but at no point does the series try to suggest the idea that cybertronian society is identical to the human one. This is obviously because they are not only far more durable and larger than us, but because of their ability to transform. They have this strange element called energon that they use basically as their blood, but it also powers their weapons and non-living machines. And to them this is completely normal because the comparison of energon to blood ends at both being fluids that circulate through the body. But anyways, I’m getting off topic. My real point is that if you wanted to make a more “””””scientific””””” analysis of the cars you’d have to completely remove yourself from any ideas of human comparisons
I came to thought of it it can mean multiple things, and that there is a societal different reaction to a female car showing her high beams to a male one, like in real life men can go shirtless but women can't, breasts aren't a sexual organ yet it is seen to be obscene/immoral even more so than your butt, so cars also have a sense of "nudity" and it doesn't imply everybody would react the same way... for example when in a boxing match two opponents face reacjk other
I came to thought of it it can mean multiple things, and that there is a societal different reaction to a female car showing her high beams to a male one, like in real life men can go shirtless but women can't, breasts aren't a sexual organ yet it is seen to be obscene/immoral even more so than your butt, so cars also have a sense of "nudity" and it doesn't imply everybody would react the same way... for example when in a boxing match two opponents face reacjk other
Exactly, this vid pissed me off it seems so low effort, I rarely press dislike in any vid but this was just irritating and wasted potential
@@oxymoreproducer
Hihi. Car guy here! I got too invested in this.
2:30 Real car thing. It's a window duct. Race cars can have multiple of these. Each one is hooked to a flexible fabric hose that can be used to cool off the driver, electrical systems, heat exchangers, or other things that get hot during operation. The human equivalent would be sweat pores. They're used for temperature regulation
5:50 I'm going to heavily simplify this :D
During the combustion cycle there are 4 steps: suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Basic single cylinder engine: you have a cylinder with two valves, a spray bottle nozzle, and a lighter on the outside of it all poking through the top, inward. Inside is a slightly smaller cylinder of it that can slide up and down which is connected to a metal stick below it that can go up and down.
The left valve opens, the inner cylinder drops, and it sucks air in as it creates a vacuum like a syringe. The spray bottle also sprays a mist of gas at the same time. The valve closes, the spray stops, and the inner cylinder goes up, squeezing the mixture really really tight. The lighter sparks, igniting the mixture creating a bang, pushing the inner cylinder back down. The right valve then opens up and momentum carries the inner cylinder back up, blowing the exhaust gas out of the outer cylinder.
The reason the car would breathe oxygen is your car can't run on gasoline alone. It needs air. Secondly, water doesn't compress. If your car breathes in water as the suck valve opens, the engine is going to stop during the squeeze part as the outer cylinder is now FULL of water. Remember that stick that I said is attached to the inner cylinder? That will bend when this happens. It's the car's equivalent of inhaling water and having a heart attack in a fraction of a second. Horrible way to die :D
As for the O2 sensor joke, I giggled. XD
I don't know if regular water by itself can foul those, but they are sensitive pieces of equipment and salt water absolutely will ruin them.
6:10 this is also a legit issue that happens with real cars. Oxygen starvation! If a car's computer is trying to hit a target power output, and it needs a certain amount of oxygen and fuel to make it possible, it could falter not having enough oxygen. Easiest fix is a wider bore air intake and a high flow air filter.
6:49 I like how they acknowledge that a car's alternator can keep an engine running and electronics working so long as you don't put it under too much load. Disconnecting the battery during running is strongly not advised with modern cars, but an older car like Luigi and Mater can handle the irregular voltage.
7:53 "Walking on their rims" as the van in this scene has their wheels and tires on the blet and is walking on their wheel hub assemblies (my wallet hurts seeing that).
8:51 The front wing isn't a bumper. It's a dummy expensive aerodynamic bit of carbon fiber. You ain't bumping anything with that. lol
13:26 Theory 2 is the winner. In the irl car community, you have headlights, but make the headlights pop-up headlights and suddenly you activate the neurons of every car guy in a 10 mile radius. Don't ask me why but pop up headlights are * chef kiss * minifique! Going even further, the Twins are Mazda Miatas. Specifically the NA models. The proceeding models are the NB, NC, and ND. Some people like to perform what is called a "face swap" where they take the NA front off the car and put the NB front on with its flush mount headlights like every other car, which is wrong, sacrilegious, and a crime.
15:21 Exposed suspension components. The human equivalent would be an exceptionally fit man who is comfortable being shorts and a tank top. Think stereotypical-male-lifeguard.
17:11 Hearing a sniffer test be called a colonoscopy gives this scene an entirely new horrible meaning.
18:55 The Rust Belt would kill for car bidets. Some car washes up here now have undercarriage sprayers built into touchless wash stations. Road salt in the winter is no joke. I have one of those yard water sprayers that create a fan of water that waves back and forth that I slip under my suspension a few times during the winter to rinse all the road salt off.
20:14 Yup. You got it. License plate just says what the car is, who owns it, where it belongs, and if it's road legal. VIN number however tells you EVERYTHING. The car's components bumper to bumper, where it was built, everywhere it's been registered, who all has owned it, what it was used for, all of its service records, how many wrecks it has been involved in- everything.
20:54 Grey sweatpants era. Mcqueen is done up in primer paint.
21:55 To answer your question here, yes the modifications can more than likely be undone. A lot of land speed cars are purpose built using existing platforms or guts. Tieing back to all the context of building a car, open engine surgery, and so on, i have a running headcannon that if you were to do like Superfast Matt did and take the guts out of a Honda and put it in a land speed car that is half the width and twice the length of a refrigerator, it is still that same Honda, just in a different body.
23:08 To be honest, you have to be at least a little unhinged to be a part of the lemons community. Still, the 24 Hours of Lemons is one of the most entertaining irl races out there. The uber-downforce-Miata still blows me away at how it DESTROYED the competition two years in a row.
24:22 You can put a car into a wall as many times as you want, you can blow up as many engines as you like, you can have as many parts fail over time, but if the unibody or the frame gets broken, it's a write-off.
I'm not too sure how this would translate over into the cars universe as open-engine surgery is about as casual as blinking. Maybe windowing the block or spinning a rod bearing would do you in? The frame/unibody rotting through would be the equivalent of your back breaking and your spinal cord getting severed as your wire harness gets stripped out of its sockets. That'd be the only sure-fire way to kill a car.
25:41 It's common practice to start a small fire under exploration trucks in sub-zero climates to warm up the engine bay and differentials. Oil nor diesel are combustible unless subjected to stupidly high levels of heat. McQueen's paint would ripple and bubble long before his internal organs have any chance of catching fire.
25:47 Partially for comedic effect, but if you have a car indoors that isn't moving and running (dyno tests for example) you want a blower fan on them to get clean air blowing over top of the radiator so the radiator fans don't need to work as hard. Sally, however, is rear-engine, and this doesn't apply to her.
26:41 I just pretend they consume distilled water for cooling instead of antifreeze. it's a fine substitute for countries that don't see freezing temperatures, and coolant does burn off over time. Following up with that, if it's implied the elevator is full of blood, and blood is coolant, then does that mean water is also... blood? You're making me do a heckin' think and I don't like this.
33:35 The joke is multi-tiered. Part one is Pixar finally making a car the way the audience has been asking them to for years, and the second part is the French make weird-ass cars that don't conform to current styles or standards. Ever see a Renault Avantime? The Twizy? How about a Citroen DS steering wheel? That's the level of odd they've perfected. I LOVE the hermit crab theory though as it ties in perfectly with the shell-swapping theory, aging, and upgrading as you brought up earlier. It would also give a definitive way for them to die, as in the fleshy bits give up on life before the mechanical components do.
Oh MAN, this was a fun thing to hyperfix on for the past two hours!
Your explanation made this video even better, thanks for the write-up!
Fellow car guy here! Thanks for typing this out so I don't have to, now I can relax and watch the video! BTW: What do you drive?
this comment alone is going to make me a car person, thank you for your service
in love with ur in depth explanation! I no nothing abt cars but this was fun to read
So in a way, the gray lighting McQueen is an emo version of him.
The way deeper she reads about the cars, the more terrified her voice gets 😭😭
Perhaps not comparing them with humans as a living biological thing , but instead seeing them as their own kind and species is the best option
Like, as in mechanical lifeforms, or maybe some kind of spectral/energy being possessing the husk of a car to move around?
That's what I thought as well, a unique lifeform, like if we have a universe where say we like eating metal, why, designed differently
I agree, but I assume the human comparisons are for comprehension, as otherwise it feels too foreign
Yup
@@juangal7569Ironically, we already eat and need iron.
My hypothesis on the flashing of headlights is that it’s a complex social signal that can mean different things depending on the context. The twins were using it to emphasize sexual signals but the headlights aren’t inherently sexual.
Ah so it's like hand gestures
@@miguelguthridge probably like that, the same way that giving someone an "o" with your thumb and index finger means its OK but putting your other index finger through that "o" indicates something sexual
That's what I came on here to say! They're not sexual organs, and turning your headlights on or flashing them once at someone isn't sexual, but two twins coming up and basically catcalling/woof whistling at him? I feel like that's why he was looking at them both like that.
I personally realised that in this case the lights were Pop-Up, but that wouldnt make sense since few cars have those
@@oltsu1234 Unless it's some weird specific thing that IS sexual but only some cars have, like big boobs or something.
14:42 KJB Highlights suggested that Lighting has a specific high beams fetish making them sexual for him only (like taking your shoes and socks off for a celebrity with a foot fetish). An additional aspect might be the 95 decals on the headlights, and he's so full of himself at this point in the film that seeing other cars mark their bodies for him is what causes the satisfcation we see in that scene (sexual or otherwise)
This is horrible. Thank you very much 👍
Thanks for tainting 10 seconds of my life
…So High Beams is the equivalent to the Foot Fetish… It does make some sense even if its cursed
Welp, childhood ruined. 😊
This comment gave me a fetish for ceasing to exist
25:15
Soul-Mater opening his door to get back into himself is the equivalent of opening your cranium on a lachet and hopping into your skull 😂
lol
me pretending to know what a cranium and a lachet is: lol.
I love overanalyzing this franchise, it's absolutely nightmarish. Something I like to take into account is that Planes takes place in the same world. At one point in the first movie, Skipper says "Do I look like I was built yesterday?" suggesting that the cars and other vehicles are built and not born. Edit: Forgot about the fact that in Planes FaR, when Dusty and the firefighters enter the lodge and there are cars getting off the train, a pair are shown taking about a steam spa that "takes off 50,000 miles easy." Maybe this is similar to treatments that are supposed to make one look younger, thus hinting at mileage being an aging thing.
I think when they say that, they mean their exterior bodies were built - their anatomics were probably grown. possibly in a lab.
It makes sense, because there are a lot of older cars today that have low mileage from sitting in a garage and being well-kept that would be considered “mint condition” while there are newer cars that are used a lot that are considered older and worn.
"Cars" is from Pixar.
"Planes" is a spin-off, but from Disneytoon.
So I would not read too much into it. (for what little consistency there is anyways)
I dont remember in which movie and which character says, but a "Fabricator" like kind of god is mentioned
@@felipetolentino4876 I think that at one point Sally asks McQueen if he believes in "recycling", and the context of the scene makes it clear it would be their equivalent of reincarnation
They probably have protection on their eyes, but the reason that they put glasses on when getting out the welders at 4:50 is because the brightness of a welder can severely damage your retinas, or go as far as make you blind. Also the rear view window slots on McQueen are usually for looks, but scoops on other parts of the car can be for aerodynamics or cooling the engine or brakes.
What? No, McQueens dents are NACA ducts, probably used as some sort of intake or cooling
The vents could be for show, cooling brakes, feeding air into a rear engine, or any other miriad of reasons. All are likely, to my mind.
@@dafoex His engine is in the front... He's a Corvette..
@@santosmedina4248 Those window ducts are usually there to cool the driver. but i thought they didnt have drivers, THEN WHATS THE WINDOW DUCT FOR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Those aren't welders, they are torches. Likely oxy-acetylene torches being that they are the torch most often used to cut metal. Eye protection for brightness isn't really needed for torches, more for just protection from flying sparks. The reason eye protection is needed for welding is due to the arc between the welding rod or welding wire and the material being welded. The electrical arc in that gap produces very intense UV light that can give your eyes essentially sunburns of a very high degree, but you will not know you've had that sunburn in your eyes until hours later, even the next day. You are basically blind for a couple of days while your eyes literally go through the sunburn process your skin does while healing. Ask me how I know...
It's much better to think of cars as cyborgs - most of their parts are mechanical and replacable, but they still have some biological parts.
Yeah. But what about children and reproduction?
@@ivan-sin-compania5710 its like build-a-bear
I think it's like whales, with the males having prehensile members and the young gestate in and are delivered from the trunk
@@athrixxs
DEAR GOD
@@ivan-sin-compania5710 probably like fancy nanotechnology that makes the cyborg parts able to be passed on their children
"lightning mcqueen transitioned by getting headlights" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd have to consider but here we are
It's pretty horrific to imagine what a human would hypothetically look like if they had a body that was so heavily specialized to run as fast as possible that they can't even turn around.
Look up M.C. Escher's Curl-Ups. Not human per se but...
The qu probably made that
@@the_blue_jay_raptor nice reference
@@the_blue_jay_raptor omg are cars from Cars actually creations of the qu???
@@Jr837_
No what I mean is that the qu created something similar that was in the comment
a human that "had a body that was so heavily specialized to run as fast as possible that they can't even turn around."
We've seen the Qu make purposed versions of Humanity like the Mantelopes and Colonials, so what if they made a living vehicle version of Humans.
One thing I'd like to point out is that cars in the cars univers, do IN FACT eat food. Not just gasoline. In cars 2, we see literal food in that one scene where Mater tries that wasabi that he thought was pistachio flavored icecream. Not only do we see the wasabi, but for a few seconds when Mater drives up to the sushi bar, we actually see both sushi and all the other foods that they use for it. Even for the viewers who didn't see it, Mater says pistachio icecream, which already confirms that pistachios and icecream exsist as food in their world, and in that sushi bar scene, there is MEAT seen in the glass cases that the bar employees work behind, which also confirms that cars eat meat in this universe. We could asume that the meat comes from the other vehicles in this world that represent certain animals, and if thats the case, then that also confirms that all the other vehicles that are people in this world also have meat inside of them, which are their organs.
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The meat are the cow tractor
The 'torn'part of his rear window is a vent its use on real racing cars to provide air in to the cab and to the driver or something similar to that yes its very much real and its odd that he has it lol
@@ssuuss539bro is 12 years old
@@ssuuss539go outside kiddo
I always assumed Lightnings reaction of "Oh, I love being me" was in response to the fact that the Twin cars had gotten his number on their headlights. Sort of a tattoo on their "chests" showing their devotion to McQueen.
I believe this is probably the more correct answer to the headlights debate. They are not sexual, but 100% functional. The body guards function are similar to real body guards where they are able to let the fans get close to the star, but have only limited time to interact with them because they are so busy. The star wants to spend more time with the reporters and fans, but the body guards also double duty act as time keepers, to get the star to their next appointment. This is why the guards only react after the twins flash their devotion to Lightning, because he was getting too involved with his fans and losing track of time, and he had to hit the road right away to get to the next race track.
Thought the same
@@Wh33led0neYeah, the guards just protecting from the simps
It is just a visual joke on the English expression "to flash".
It is lost in other languages.
@@musaran2 of course, and even "to flash your high beams" is a euphemism for showing your breasts. But that's not overthinking enough!
This entire video self-inflicted psychic damage, and is exactly what I was hoping for when I clicked
Headlight Theory: Headlights are neutral by default and are only "suggestive" when presented as such. Like how hands, necks, and backs can sometimes be suggestive IRL depending on context and presentation.
Notice how Mia and Tia are both 1st generation Mazda Miatas, they both have pop up headlights and they only get kicked out after they pop the headlights. So normal headlights aren’t suggestive but pop up headlights are.
They use their front facing blinkers as normal headlights.
also feet
So they were basically doing this gesture
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Or something worse to McQueen
Pixar: _"we just wanted a wholesome story with anthropromorphic cars"_
The Film Theorists around the globe: *_N O_*
"What were the cars doing between 1939 and 1945?"
@@roadwarrior114 hmm, how does the cars genocide looks like?
@@oldjeeper9174 Cash for clunkers/scrappage schemes?
@@oldjeeper9174,
Cars of models considered inferior would be sent to the scrap heap, so the streets would have cars of better models, and obviously there would be cars that would not comply with this.
As someone who has never seen a cars movie, the gender and reproduction section was wild.
I don’t even want to imagine what the fan art she mentioned looks like 😨
@@LuckyTheCat256 car whale peepee :(
@@Limelaz23 🤢
I've seen it on accident, you don't want to know
You’ve NEVER seen a Cars movie?! Are you even living?!
“Assigned Female at Assembly” had me dying 😂
My favorite part of this video is the part where the whole thing slowly goes from a messed up anatomy study about animated vehicles to a borderline nervous breakdown every 30 seconds
You’re doing what no one else had the courage to do, thank you
She stole the concept
@@Sipwipbip Yeah but she did the deep dive on it. It's one thing to momentarily entertain a notion. But doing something like this is taking the path of madness.
Bro hasn’t heard of film theory
Ima put on my own headlight theory 4: Its a car-cultural thing, and has no direct human equivalent and slashing the lights in such a context is considered flirty, while flashing the light at cars in general is counted as a visual equivalent to shouting for someones attention.
Exactly my thought! Like a physical equivalent to cat-calling (from the twins) versus shouting (from the police car). Just a shocking/attention gabbing gesture that can mean different things!
I mean it could just be a gendered thing like, a guy puffing his chest and yelling has a very different connotation culturally than a woman bringing attention to her chest and cheering.
Your video just makes me realize that you're giving more creativity and questions about the Cars universe than the actual writers.
If the writers of this movies had any sort of creativity then one wouldnt be able to summary every one of them by comparing them to another movie adding "but with cars", which im conviced is all the thought proccess behind the production of this movies.
The buildup and payoff to your theory made me smile so hard. Absolutely bonkers but it makes more sense than anything else
She stole the video mattpat made same video 7 years ago
@@adityas9377 dude was probably too busy spamming that comment under every reply thread
So in the Piston Cup, there is a sponsor company called Tow Cap, which manufactures a product called a hitch protector. On the bumper of Rusty Cornfuel, the Tow Cap racer from the first movie, is text that reads “for that one night hitch.” This indicates that hitch protectors are basically condoms, which of course the cars would only need if they could reproduce.
Well hitch protectors exist irl too but not exactly like the tow cap
Yeah, fuck this.
That doesn't even make any sense though, it's definitely an innuendo but most cars we see lack tow caps.
or they can spread STDs/STIs like rust or something, who knows, trying to over explain one off jokes is fun but at a point you've gotta just shrug it off.
Maybe it refers to needing a tow for nights you just end up in a ditch?
To note, when you mentioned welding masks, irl they're because sparks and light generated from welding is bright enough to cause permanent eye damage.
My theory is that headlights are like a peacocks tail. While they can be used for courtship, they are also used for other things such as dominance displays (eg the security guards) or seeing.
I believe McQueen is shocked by the twins' headlights because:
1) they had his number "95" engraved onto them. (Or maybe it's just a decal who knows)
The human equivalent would be a facial tattoo I think.
2) it's an homage to that one scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", where Indiana Jones's student wrote "LOVE YOU" across her eyelids then kept blinking seductively at him.
Yes this would make alot of sense in the universe and would make the weird headlight theories obsolete
They are, in a literal sense, flashing for him
'headlights' is an old euphemism for breasts. When they were making the old transformers cartoon someone obliviously considered naming a transformer 'headlights' -- the manager had to take a guy aside and explain why that was inappropriate. And this was the 80's, when corporations weren't even slightly sensitive about such things.
@@tsm688 yeah but the decisions in universe can be diffrentiated fromthose made by the writers. Of course no one denies that this is clearly suppose to be a flashing joke but I think in universe the explanation could be more what the original commenter suggested
@@phandavidzimmermann1095 I don't, because they fn wrote it. things they left vague have room to be filled in. Things they didn't, don't
A lot of the oddities can probably be chalked up to just how their culture works. Rather than trying to think of everything as having some kind of 1 to 1 counterpart with human cultures, it might be more accurate to think of it more like an extraterrestrial civilization that just happens to be vaguely humanlike. For instance, the specific example of pop up headlights getting treated similarly to women flashing their breasts could just be that kind of thing culturally in that specific context of use, kind of like how various different hand signs only mean certain things to certain people under certain contexts. It's not that headlights of any kind are inherently a 1 to 1 comparison to breasts or nipples, but rather that this specific usage of them is culturally treated similarly to how we would treat such a thing as flashing breasts. It's basically like the twin cars in question were flashing a hand sign that is seen in their culture as sexy and inappropriate.
Basically, the point that I'm making is that their behavior towards certain things doesn't necessarily point towards certain things as being perfect comparisons to human anatomy. Rather than thinking about things like headlights as nipples or breasts, think of them as headlights that are sometimes culturally treated like how we would treat nipples or breasts but only under specific contexts that have to do with how they formed their culture.
As for their anatomy itself, I'm increasingly convinced that they don't have any consistent anatomy. Rather than being mechanical or biological creatures, they are something that could not exist in our universe that exhibit traits of both but in ways that can not possibly make complete sense to us.
It feels a little like a cheap cop-out but I fully agree with the "it's just what it means in this context" interpretation and was surprised that the entire approach wasn't considered more in the video, like cars leaking oil due to injury vs "old age". I like how you used hand gestures as an example, it illustrates just how weird mannerisms conveying meaning can be.
I second this
I was looking for someone to say this
I third this
The "tiny window" at 2:30 is called a NACA Duct and it's used to ventilate the cabin. Since they're race cars, they have perspex (polycarbonate) windows which makes this an easy bolt-on part.
Thanks! I was looking for this answer
I've also seen similar ducts that send air to a rear engine, similar idea to bonet/hood scoops. Someone else suggested they could also provide cooling to the brakes.
Second this original comment.
It'd sure be nice if youtube had a comment search feature so I could easily find replies that already said what I was going to say, instead of having to scroll down indefinitely.
@@IstasPumaNevada Ctrl+F
But yeah you still have to scroll to use it since if only the "first page" of comments is loaded you can only search there.
Came to see if someone had already posted it, comment for better visibility.
I have an answer for the fire just after 25:36. The fire is used to keep the cars from freezing. Coolant in the engines can freeze and crack the engine, completely destroying it. The fire also keeps oil flowing as it likes to stop when it gets cold, causing extreme wear and tear for engines with oil that is not meant to flow in the cold. I have had to light a fire under a car in order to warm up the engine enough to turn over and start. Hope this info helps a bit.
In the first movie, when Mac first finds Lightning in Radiator Springs, he says "Thank the Manufacturer!" I think this implies some kind of deific figure or organization in car society responsible for the creation of the cars. How this "manufacturer" fits into the picture would tell us a lot about how the car society works, and would even give us hints as to how the cars themselves function. My first thought is that it refers to the AI from the Pixar Theory, but there could be any number of explanations for what Mac was referring to in this one line. This could be nothing, but I think exploring the origins of the cars would be very helpful in figuring out their anatomy.
imagine car jesus died of a car cross to save the cars souls from car hell
I imagine the manufacturer is just the parents of each car.
@snedsolos Unlikely, because we don’t call our parents “God”.
Now I want to know if there is ancient car civilizations like ancient Egyptians.
well, is it common to say thank god or thank my mother and father?@@pizzainc.1465
There was I think it was a behind the scene thing where some of the creators of the first movie was discussing one of the scenes. And if I remember correctly, one of them mentioned something along the lines of "we can't have Lightning open his door because that's where his brain would be." It's not something that was ever elaborate on in official media, but thought it was worth sharing.
On a similar note, there's a deleted scene from Cars 1 where McQueen has his engine removed and placed in a steam roller so he can perform community service. He reacts in a horrified manner, and later Mater has his engine put into McQueen's body and messes around with it. It's then revealed that this was a nightmare, and the empty steamroller was never touched. This would imply that engines act as the human equivalent of the brain, but I can understand why it wasn't mentioned in the video, since it never made it into the final film or was acknowledged in other media, essentially being non-canon. In fact, the existence of cartoonishly large brains in Cars on the Road seems to disprove the engine being the brain.
@@randocommando7945The engine need not be a brain equivalent for the thought of transplanting a major organ group to be horrifying.
Mattpat was on the right track, but I think you REALLY nailed it with the hermitcrab theory. The diagram was the cherry on top of this horrific think piece. I planned on using this to draw with, but I ended up watching the whole thing!
She stole from mattpat. She just changed the species, she didnt solve anything cuz exoskeleton was already proven with mattpat. She just changed the species, not solving nothing but stealing
Yeah
Using a good theory to get a great theory in return.
12:36 transfem lightning mcqueen is actually SO FUNNY im adopting that as a headcanon now
Same here. So the cars universe is trans accepting but is ableist at the same time? This movie makes no sense when you think about it.
As a trans woman, this is truly epic.
@@Butterscotch_96"There are trans-accepting people in the Cars universe" and "there are ableist people in the Cars universe" are not mutually exclusive states of being. They're not even mutually exclusive states of being in our own universe.
To be fair, I assume that the movie you're referring to is Cars 2, since that's the movie where the ableism is touched upon. And if you're simply making the statement that Cars 2 makes no sense when you think about it, I'd find it hard to disagree with you.
@@isavenewspapers8890 Tho as a Car Guy it does make the ableist subplot even more fun to think about because the AMC Gremlin and Pacer were very well liked cars at the time and them being considered Lemons now points to a revisionist history caused by another manufacturer smearing their names, in my mind it's GM, Ford, and/or Mopar because the Gremlin X was a total sleeper, 0 to 60 of 8.5 seconds, Not much sure even back then it's not beating top of the line pony cars, but it's beater the majority of pony cars.
24:51 this is actually true. In the Cars spinoff movies, Planes and Planes: Fire & Rescue, we learn there are manufacturers that build parts for the vehicles, and these parts can become discontinued. Dusty's gearbox gets damaged and is forced to spend the rest of the film not being able to redline because he can destory his engine, and he can't get his gearbox fixed because no one is making it and no one owns it (he does get it repaired though)
Do you know if he has an actual point like heart defects, when children at birth?
And like the whole of cars 2 supports it too just sayin’
Seems kinda dumb that even though a model is discontinued that parts aren't made. Wouldn't there be other planes of the same model flying around that need parts?
@twistedyogert I thought the same, but then again even in our world, things designed that are needed for some humans to survive can become discontinued. While most people with polio don't need it, Iron Lung's are no longer manufactured, so the very few that are still alive and left to die unless they find someone who has parts lying around or knows how to fix them (like Maru does in Planes: Fire & Rescue). Other stuff like medication can also be discontinued or not sold to pharmacies, like my mother's meds. She needs them to live but the pharmacies near us stopped carrying them, now we gotta go out of state to find them, so the idea that manufacturers discontinuing items needed for vehicles to survive in the World of Cars does has logical sense to it when applying real world knowledge
@Dawg347 oh yeah, Cars 2. I try to forget that even exists, and this is coming for a kid born in the year Cars released, could name most car brands when they could barely speak, and had their great abuelo's final words be to me be "carro", Spanish word for Car. As you can tell, quite the Cars fanatic, and even I force myself to forget about that abomination of a film
Simply amazing, being a car guy made me notice a few inacuracies, but all-in-all this was an amazing video. Your hermit crab theory illustrations, the idea of nipples that can glow at will, and the thing that McQueen is in actuality thick is gonna keep me up in bed, thank you for that. The editing was top-notch and I couldn't breathe at times from laughing so much. Definitely earned a sub.
I like the hermit crab idea. Partly because it means that the various types of intelligent being, cars, planes, boats, are all the same species, and they just have different habits. Presumably they can cross-breed, but can't easily change shells once adapted a particular type. (I wonder if they have insults based on unlikely mixed parentage? "Yo' daddy was a dinghy and yo' momma was a dirigible!")
However, the scale of things is off in the drawing. They don't need giant brains, just human- or dolphin-sized would be enough. The eyes are way too big for diurnal beings that use lights in the dark, so potentially what we are seeing as giant eyeballs are actually mostly decorative features used for communication and the light-sensitive parts are much smaller, perhaps a bit larger than human eyes. In that case the decorative feature could be fairly thin and flat, possibly with some muscle or even just photochromic cells (like octopus skin). In that case the choice of the weird positioning of the eyes in the headlight position for that one car could be explained by the lack of glass (the resident didn't want to expose sensitive parts of itself to the environment, and maybe just liked creeping out other cars by being freaky) and the reactions to that weird position could come partly from a simple 'WTF' reaction to the odd placement, and maybe partly from the repulsion of seeing someone with their eye-membrane split in half (like the first time a human sees someone with a split tongue).
That doesn't explain the necessity of giant glasses for vision correction. I think things like that, and like neck pillows, are purely style choices. That leads us toward a deep, weird rabbit-hole about the psychology of these creatures and their pathological need to emulate human-like behaviors and artifacts that I'm just not prepared to explore.
They would need some fairly large and powerful features for moving heavy wheels and lifting the whole car body with them, but possibly these are operated with biological hydraulics, which could explain the need for large quantities of oil, the need to excrete used oil (it might become contaminated or mixed with metabolic waste products), and the embarrassment of leaking fluids. The bulk of their biological component might be some big, thick muscular sacks that hold oil that they use both to remove biological waste and to drive hydraulic actuators (possibly some actuators are fully biological, and some are mechanical extensions). This would explain why they need both food and gasoline engines (the engines would be just regular engines that they use to provide extra power).
Genitalia could be internal, but accessed from below and near the rear, which would explain the slight embarrassment associated with unplanned underside views. Those who want to show off their undersides, like whats-his-name the lowrider in the first movie, would probably just have no exposed biological parts under there, so it's not really a big deal. Like seeing someone in a cheerleaders skirt maybe.
That would also explain the lack of obvious external gender markers other than shading above the eyes. It might also explain the pain they sometimes experience. I'd react too if I got my bits stuck in a cactus. However, they also might grow thin membrane over their shells to provide sensation. That could help to explain why crunching a fender would be painful, but not particularly life-threatening, and also why they might need medicated ointments to treat rusty panels. Perhaps the rust irritates the membrane, and the medication helps with that, rather than the actual rust.
Presumably most cars go about with no underpants for utilitarian reasons. Maybe it's hard to remove a cover to pee, so they only cover up if they are showing off their undersides frequently.
This raises questions about mating behavior. Since their shells are evidently fairly tightly tied to their identities, it seems unlikely that they extract themselves to go mate. More likely they are external fertilizers, one of them lays an egg and the other inseminates it.
Your mother was a hamster ball and your father smelled of burned clutch!
What the f*ck, I'm just gonna say they're robots.
Also you are overthinking about funni cars.
I don't even know... car breeding is too dark a place to visit
Incredible. My thoughts exactly
Bro wrote a whole essay about cars 💀
Non car enthusiast looses mind over car enthusiast references. Love it
Thank you so much for acknowledging that the movie Robots (2005) is the same version of the Cars franchise, and how the Robots movie also put WAY more thought into how the anatomy of Robots works
Right? Ok but Robots was a genuinely cute movie. I've always liked the baby idea they had.
I feel like robots was a lot more open and explanatory with their anatomy, like there are scenes specifically about thier anatomy so it's not nearly as painful to think about.
For the headlights, it could just be a thing where different social cues cause headlights to mean different things in different contexts. Flashing highbeams too close to someone while being aggressive obviously means "fuck off", whereas lowbeams while excited and/or intimate could mean "fuck me"
Those twins are flashing headlights in a simp way
I was thinking the twins were doing the equivalent of fluttering their eyelashes, they were also doing that with their actual eyes though so idk
Or its kinda like humans and female nipples can be seen as suggestive but male are completely fine except these are headlights so they are used for lighting up stuff untill that specific gender uses them in a context and if females do it then its sexual but for males its not because there is nothing sexual about male nipples then how the fuck is gender determined is it the voice or what is it?..
@@fleggy5050 conclusion: applying logic to something not made with logic gets messy
@@rokkraljkolesa9317 it's fun tho lol
I love the final take, reminds me of classic fantasy Mimics. Organisms that grew to fill the shape of a vehicle, to prey upon that which would use it - humans.
Oooooh yes
dear car god, what a horrifying idea.
Like the cars we see in the movies are the descendants of Mimic-like creatures that inhabited a mostly empty, abundant object that humans interacted with on the regular. Creatures that preyed on humans until there were none left. Long after hunting their prey to extinction, they still inhabit the shells they used to lure and catch them, their original reason for using them now but a long forgotten memory, yet they remain.
That's fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love how half of the time youre confused about everything yourself because nothing makes sense in the cars universe when you start to think about it
The husband and wife van couple from the first cars movie that 'locked their doors'; I never took it as locking the doors, I took it as the inherent ability some couples have to communicate without saying anything. It was more of a consensus of 'this guy is crazy, let's go'.
But great video, horrific breakdown, and from another artist, wicked art :D
This is the most disturbing yet interesting theory I have yet seen. This theory makes so much sense, you did a pretty good job on explaining one of the most confusing anatomies in the fictional world
I like how giving the theoretical anatomy an empty back half also implies how it can still work for semi-trailer and pickup trucks that lack a "back seat."
I feel like mack is forced to be a truck which mean he doesn’t really have a choice to carry McQueen,
and the clown car with cars in its butt
No because semi-trailers are seperate from the actual truck
Well the part that crazy is the cars all have full interiors as the headlight scene when they were in Tokyo one car had there eyes in the headlights and you can see seats a rearview mirror and seats like a regular car
@@AlexanderLindo-je5oz You mean at the Marché Aux Pièces in Paris?
older pixar films were usually praised for their coherent and creative worldbuilding of creatures and objects having their own human like society, but Cars makes so little sense we are still debating over how this all works almost 20 years after it came out. Insane.
2:31 Real racecars have those scoops for cooling purposes. They are spotted mostly on the hoods or quarter panels to let air inside the car for cooling down the engine or electronics. It is definetly not an error and its what we car enthusiasts like myself would call it such things like 'aerodynamics', 'cosmetic modifications', or 'aftermarket parts'. :)
Yes, I agree it is to promote aerodynamics with the body
They are called Naca Ducts
on stock cars those are usually on the hood or something, i think the weird partis that its on the window which kinda promots air conditioning
Its the fuel door!
I've seen the rear quarter windows feed into tubes going through the floor. Maybe a diff cooler?
I always thought the headlights and flashing people kind of worked like a cultural thing, like how in the past ankles were seen as attractive or even sexual despite not actually truly working to serve that purpose. So like flashing other cars can( depending on the context, type of car, job, etc) kind of works like a catcall or like showing off to a partner to get their attention like birds shaking their tail feathers. So even though for cars their purpose is clearly more of a survival thing and or expressing emotions or info to others, it culturally can be seen as a flex or like heavy flirting if you flash your headlights at someone of interest in the right context.
Yeah like your fingers the things you do with them are interpreted differently depending on how you are using them
I stopped watching when that leftist propaganda came on
stop perpetuating this myth, ankles were never "sexual"
@on_spikes6867 OK just replace ankles with shoulders or legs or even breasts
@@on_spikes6867In Japan necks are sexual though.
I’ve always thought of the cars anatomy as being an wierd offshoot of transformers. Where they have human like qualities and needs even though it normally wouldn’t make sense to be that way outside an magic cube that makes soda machines suddenly sentient and evil.
But the idea of them being crabs is equally cool, funny, and disturbing. Especially with the fact that everything seems to eventually evolve into an crabs.
I'm not a professional mechanic, but I've had a few project cars and done a lot of restoration work, and I have a few thoughts on the death and disease section.
The racecars crashing and still being able to be repaired makes sense because most racecars have a tube frame chassis, basically a skeleton that body panels are bolted on to. Body panels can easily be replaced and the tube frame can be bent back into place, or have sections entirely replaced. The best comparison I can think of to having the tube frame repaired would be like treating a broken bone.
The older racecar (I forget his name) would most likely have a body on frame chassis similar to a truck, the structural part of the vehicle (the frame) and the body are two entirely separate parts. The frame is kind of like a ladder laying flat with the body mounted on top of it. The frame could be repaired or replaced and the body panels could be replaced but it would be more complicated than repairing a tube frame. More like a hip replacement rather than fixing a broken bone.
New cars use a unibody chassis combining the frame and body into one unit. Repairing these vehicles after a serious accident is a lot of work and can be very complicated, requiring damaged sections to be cut out and welded back in. Mechanics that can do this well are often masters of their craft or dedicated hobbyists and would be the equivalent or neurosurgeons in the 'cars universe'. New cars are usually "written off" after a bad accident due to the time and cost needed to repair them.
I always liked to just imagine that the Cars are regular car except secretly alive like in Toy Story except they have a warped perception of reality where they don't see or acknowledge all the people. So basically cars living in a fantasy world while humans go about their lives. And maybe the personalities are an extension of their driver's personality.
This is probably not the right answer but it involves probably the least amount of body horror out of any explanation, so I like it.
That Formula car, with its eyes placed exactly where the driver should be, brought me to the same conclusion.
Best theory
Good theory, but thinking about it, if someone sells their car to other person, does the car suddenly changes personality? Like if a Honda Civic was originally from a conservative family man and it's sold to a person who tunes and races it around, does it goes all hardcore all of sudden? No car in the series has sudden and fixed personality changes, so their personalities being based on the driver theory goes haywire.
It can be the theory with the least body horror, but the psychologic horror possibilities are endless now. Think about the mind of a rental car.
I feel like this opens up a hole new can of worms that hurt my brain even more than it already is
@@pedrotorresboreli9708Maybe it is only the personality of the original owner, or maybe it takes some time to change personalities?
Your theorys illustration genuinely made me gasp in a way I have never before. It genuinely took my breath away, and shocked me. Like holy, that is so much more horrific than the original cars anatomy that goes around.
I'm surprised you didn’t question how these cars who don't have hands or thumbs could build all this technology and architecture.
Damn I didn't think about that aswell 😂
Simple, the forklifts are the slaves
@@supreme_xenon They should make a car spinoff movie called "12 years a forklift.""
@@supreme_xenonfunniest thing one could think of
Mack is also a slave
That French “car” with odd look is actually a reference to what the characters in Cars was going to look like, but got scrapped. Cars was also going to be a lot more darker too.
I have an official concept art book and it shows the cars having eyes in the windshield in even their earliest stages. I think it was poking fun at people who asked why Pixar put them in the windshield instead of the headlights which is more traditional. Also it may have even been poking fun at Chevron and maybe even the Little Cars rip off.
They may have also been trying to disprove that they had organs but they didn't do a good job at that if that's what they were going for since we don't see much of her interior.
I thought it was a jab at the knockoff cars movies
Yep. There was some making-of Cars material that explained that early-on in the visual design for Cars the artists did not like the long snake-like look that headlight eyes gave the car characters in some much older (1950s?) animated cartoon material they were reviewing that had car characters with the headlight-eyes design. They liked the much more friendly, big-eyes appearance of windshield-eyes.
Its amazing how almost none of these theories would probably exist if Pixar had decided to include the full interiors with the seats and dashboard, or just included humans and regular animals to co-exist with the living vehicles and give some explanation like "they use magic oil" or something
yeah but that wouldn't be as fun wouldn't it
Would've fit better than a world solely made of sentient cars
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 but it would've lost its charm and it would been a stupid plot. Even a child would find it stupid like why us "magic oil" just drive it, personally I like the sentient cars cuz they are more fun to look at and feel more attached
@@SleekHeroo I doubt OP was saying that's the plot they should've gone with, just that they could've avoided the weird implications of these movies by making the cars less human and even having humans exist with them.
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 yeah I know that he isn't implying but even from a story point there would be no point in having humans in this universe
I admire the sacrifice of one’s sanity to give such innovative and world changing info about sentient Cars. 💀
by this logic, semi-trucks are hexapods, and bendy buses are centipedes
Let's just say, you put way more effort in this than Pixar ever did
litteraly. It just a kids movie
Pixar did try with the Cars movies. It’s just the audience who didn’t try hard enough to like them.
I think it makes the most sense if the oil they drink is the equivalent of water. So it would hydrate, lubricate, their bodies. While gasoline is what gives them energy similar to food. The oil they discard is old and dirty, the same way that urine is just water with all the impurities being things our bodies don't need.
I think the problem is that we are viewing them too much like humans and not like their own thing.
We keep viewing them like humans because they keep acting like humans.
YES! They CANNNOT be logical!
a human heart = a car engine
@@alexrod9271 a car engine could also be a stomach as far as we know
Or hell both at the same time
It’s not an “us” problem - the filmmakers decided to include every detail shown in this video. We are simply uncovering the abominations hidden in the implications.
its most likely that how the wheels actually work is that the rims are like socks and the tires are like shoes, with the cars just being able to control the suspension and control arms themselves, like legs and arms, while their feet are the stuff you attach the rim onto like the brakes and stuff
This may be a neurodivergent thing, but I think the flashing of high beams could be a general overstimulation issue. Given how large their eyes are, they could be getting a massive amount of information from their eyes, and thus something like high beams at close range will either be uncomfortably blinding, or could be arousing depending on the person receiving it, and the person that is sending out the high beam.
No no no, you're onto something. Maybe because it's irritating to the eyes, the cars society evolved behaviourally to make the gesture simultaneously an act of deliberate attention grabbing AND something like a middle finger, depending on the context.
Holy shit?? This is a genius theory, fucking thank you. (Also neurodivergent)
It's also a pun. Literally 'flashing' their high beams like one would 'flash' a pair of dobonahonkeros
The torn window is actually a duct that’s connected to the rear brakes. It helps cool the rear brakes.
Yes the welding face guard helps with physical protection, but it’s mainly to protect the eyes against the bright light of the welding arc. 😊
I actually own a book titled “Funny! Twenty-Five Years of Laughter from the Pixar Story Room” which is a compilation of various doodles of cut gags from a variety of films (the canonicity of which, is… debatable). One of these sections is cars, and it has a variety of very concerning concepts, lore wise.
There’s “Car junk food” with visuals of various mechanical parts being served like food, like “rusty nut kabob” or “greasy lug nuts” or, worst of all “Hot Sludge (served in funnel)” while, on the same page, there is an image of a car getting fuel from a pump labeled “Espresso low 40”. Furthermore, there’s an image of a car looking confused at a set of footprints(!), a concept of a “nude car beach” where it’s literally just the wheel chassis with an engine and eyes, on a towel. There’s another where a car is doing the stereotypical guy-with-trenchcoat-pedalling-wares-by-opening-said-trenchcoat, where he opens his DOOR, to sell hood ornaments. But, there is two that I find the most horrifying. There are two gags that are concepts for the origins of cars. One is mostly normal, yet kind of concerning: a colossal factory with eyes, with streams of cars driving out of it, labeled “Mother of All CARS”. The other is far, far worse. It’s shown like an equation, entirely visually. I’ll try my best to describe it. “Human with bowtie + regular, non alive car + nuclear explosion = sentient car with bowtie.” This… terrifies me. I’ll leave this here. I’ve owned this book for a while, and no one seems to talk about it. It scares me.
Some of those concepts are kind of terrifying. I need this book now
I had no idea about that book, sounds interesting, I like the nuclear/apocalyptic theory that cars just took over after humans were wiped out. Relating to the factory thing though, in the first movie there is a picture on the wall inside the courthouse of a factory bathed in a kind of "holy light" with cars driving out of it, so that part must be canon, the factory is their creator and "god", but then you gotta wonder who built the factory? It also didn't have eyes, it's just a regular looking factory. Was a bit surprised it wasn't mentioned at all in the video.
Well, in the series it’s said cars evolved from submarines so we can rest easy knowing this isn’t true.
"I hate that I have to make this a section" (proceeds to make the gender section the longest one in the video)
They eye protection they used in that particular clip of them welding is so they don’t ruin their vision. Like starring into the sun, you need special protection for that. You can also damage glass while welding.
isn't it quite literally like staring into the sun? as in, same perceived brightness?
@@tommytomthms5not sure but that sounds about right. You can get a “sun” burn on your skin too if you don’t cover up while welding.
@@tommytomthms5 Welding is so much brighter than the sun, my grandpas was welder his whole life and has one eyes has a huge blackspot in his fov like a dead pixel on a camera. You can stare at the sun and be fine but dont stare at someone welding cus you will damage your retinas permanently. Its no joke
It's not welders but gas cutters
@@tommytomthms5 arc eye will literally be some of the worst pain you can have for days just by looking at a welding arc you can destroy your vision whereas looking at the sun will just hurt a bit and go away later.
My views on a few things like attraction are a little different. The fact sally was into the open wheels shows attraction to engineering, also shown with the hydraulics being a sudo engineering advancement for a car. I think the cars are not crabs or people but they are in a universe where life is just cars. Drinking and leaking oil seems kinda normal when you look at it as just how life is for them. As for how they age i think its a combo of miles, time, and upkeep. Growing and birth i think you described great with the robots reference, its just at certain points to become an adult car you need to leave your teenage bodykit behind so you can fit in the adult infrastructure. One thing you didnt look at is the infrastructure of the world. Seeing as a younger car wouldnt fit well in most places we see adult cars it just fits with the theme. Also the parents might not get to choose gender, it may be up to the first engine start like if it starts and keeps going or needs to start again to stay running. Oil and gas are like food and drinks i guess but very basic ones, some cars even try to spice it up by making it a certain way. It might be an old tradition while the human foods are just pleasure like candy. The fact that planes and boats exist show that parents could go to a factory and have an altered child probably for a heavy price. That or after leaving their first body kit they can choose where they want to go to. After figuring out flight and water travel i can imagine a lot of young cars wanting to leave the ground and be different. The speed mod cars are probably just like gym junkies who need that extra pump getting steroids to the point they cant wipe themselves. Id love to expand on anything i said cause i dont have the best grasp on all these ideas, they are just thoughts i had that COULD explain away a few things here
Love this input
if cars could chose their body kit it would imply that they are either extremely expensive and reserved for the rich, perhaps like expensive designer clothing, or simply impossible, i say this because in the 3rd movie it wouldn't make sense why cruz ramirez wouldn't just change her body kit to become more like a race car to improve her speeds.
it was cuz her cussy was massive
or perhaps the boats and planes are just recessive genes that occasionally pop up, explaining why there are singnificantly fewer of them
I've always thought of the headlights thing as an "exclamation point" kind of thing. They flash them to get a point across, similar to how humans raise their voice. The cop car flashes their high beams to say, "I really mean it, back off!" And the girl cars do it to say,"I REALLY want to get down and dirty!"
nice
this godforsaken hell-scape of a video (and topic) is one of my favorite things ive seen all day. well done.
I hate that you made this captivating enough to watch, and that you've made me see what McQueen Monster you created.
Truly Cursed.
Great work.
6:17 for the point on breathing underwater, an internal combustion engine can’t work without a fuel/air mix which means that if you submerge a car in real life it would actually “drown” too. On the point of panting, again, cars need a certain amount of air for their engines to work optimally (usually a 12:1 ratio, so 12 parts air and 1 part fuel in the combustion chamber) so if McQueen isn’t getting enough air (for whatever reason) it does make sense he would pant to try to get the optimal ratio.
The idel ratio is 17:1 but close enough
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention either of the Planes movies in this. I seem to recall seeing Dusty somehow look at his own dashboard/avionics while flying.
That seems relevant to this.
you never tried looking at your nose by looking down center of eye view.
@@mightyx5441 I don't quite see how that tracks.
sometimes i look through my eyes and see my eyes
Not to mention Planes adding being born and also the existence of orphans. Drugs. In Planes Fire and Rescue they go inside of Dusty to show you his mechanics chipping. Dusty’s sprayer being removed being the equivalent to castration.
The gauge cluster on Dusty's character model is on the back of his air scoop, right in front of the windscreen. So like, an inch in front of his eyes.
I love how instead of thanking us for watching the video, you instead apologize for us watching the video😭
4:22 The protection here is not to protect against debris or other objects getting in their eyes, it's to protect their retinas from the super bright light of the welding torches.
Always loved this movie as a kid, and the amount of work that went into this video is insane, but i would never like to see the image of a car without its shell ever again at 32:38
The hermit crab theory makes sense but that would mean all the old rusty cars choose to stay in the old shells in the second movie. So I think it is closer to shedding their exoskeleton/shell/skin
I think that after a certain point making any major changes to their parts (the shell) is going to cause issues since they've stopped growing by that point. Their insides have already settled in a certain shape and making any major changes to their model would cause serious health issues. Plus any replacement parts also need to fit together with the old parts as well.
@@snailymitchits kinda like how some medical procedures are too risky to perform on someone past a certain age. The body isn't in good enough shape to adapt and heal from major change or trauma
@@snailymitch then just recreate a exact copy of the old "shell"
@@robertharris6092 you can but theyre vintage parts by this point, that gets expensive real fast, same deal as trying to repair old cars
Perhaps becoming intoxicated and watching this video was a bad idea... the image of car innards according to your theory makes me feel more fear than anything ever has. Keep up the good work *thumbs up emoji*
This is the kind of extensive overthinking of something that was never meant to be thought about that I appreciate. :)
Very nicely done.
I think actually they'd want the more vulnerable parts of their body squished to the back as much as possible. Real cars have long noses do so because they function as crumple zones to protect their passengers after all. So I think they likely have essentially a big airbag or other movement-dampener around the interior and especially thick in the front to prevent jiggle-damage.
18:00 that scene is just the spy guy having diarrhea on the floor and the car chasing him slipping on it.
I had been putting off watching this vid for a while now knowing what would come but decided " how bad can it be?" The entire video from almost the beginning I wanted to click off but the narration was so good that I couldn't and was screaming at the very thought of some of these ideas thrown out let alone the visual aid almost as if I was tied down being forced to watch this! You have successfully ruined my fondest childhood memories which instead of nostalgia I now look apon with horror... so my take away from this experience? Great video! 10 outta 10
I think that you're the closest with your headlight theory with option #3; but I think that a big thing for that one scene could be the fact that they have special "95" (McQueen's number) headlights + high beams, not just a generic white beam or other
Outside of that whole... thing I think that Sally is into shoulders ?
As for the oil / blood; personally I think that gas is indeed their somach contents. The bit about the vampire cars that Mater makes, makes sense as gas is what actually makes them mobile. A non-moving car is as good as dead (without a tow), so if an in-universe writer wanted to make horror, they'd make it suck your gas, since it'd be horrifying to be effectively restrained bc you can't move.
For drinking oil regularly and excrement, I assume that being living cars, they like to get fresher oil regularly, rather than getting it replaced every couple thousand miles like we do in real life; them going to the bathroom at all suggests that they have a second oil pan to drain like a bladder for old oil.
In real life, cars leaking oil is indeed common for aging cars, or cars that have problems. It's a sign of age or malfunction, which could be seen as a point of ridicule?
As for the bidet, there is actually a good reason! The undercarrige of a car getting mud stuck to it is the most common source of rust. Cleaning out the wheel wells with pressurised water to clear it out is actually preventative maintaince.
Having seen and heard what can happen to a car engine when you run it without oil for an extended period of time, I'd think it'd be similarly horrifying.
i think the 95s on the headlights might be some sort of piercing? tattoo? kind of situation
@@ric4455i think something more akin to nipple pasties
As a med student and a hobbyist mechanic this video ia great. There are something in which I'm not sure if I 100% agree but I really appreciate the great amount of research you put into this.
Please don't circumclse any of your underage patients.
@@gregorymalchuk272 No can do. I have a quota to meet.
@@gregorymalchuk272what
@@gregorymalchuk272 cussy
I think this kind of analysis says a lot about how we view sentience. This isn’t the first time people have questions about “body horror” in cartoons, a very good example is the skin theory in SpongeBob.
I’m personally not very disturbed by these concepts, but I’m very interested in the fact that they cause disturbance in so many people. We directly associate sentience with humanity, therefore a sentient car taking it’s wheels off is equivalent of a human taking their arms and legs off. But they aren’t humans. We only find that disturbing because we compare how their bodies function to how our bodies function on the mere basis that they’re sentient and share a few physical characteristics with us, since they’re cartoon characters. We try to apply our logic to worlds where it’s impossible to apply. I don’t know what to think of this phenomenon exactly, I just think it’s interesting.
Why don’t we apply the same logic with cartoon physics and slapstick? So many cartoon characters go through deadly situations and stay alive and well, and we don’t question it. However, when live-action media uses cartoon physics, I’ve seen a lot of people questioning it, because it’s so visually close to us. It’s kind of beautiful even, really shows how evolution made us relate to our own humanity and others’ on a deep level.
This is the best comment on this video. Every time someone questions Cars or the Robots movie they mentioned in this video, they inevitably bring up analogies to human anatomy, which I don't think is fair for the analysis. It reminds me of people in space exploration and astronomy fields searching for life in the universe by trying to find Earth-like planets, when it's possible that there could be life even within our solar system that simply doesn't need an Earth-like environment to survive.
But like you said, empathy is in our nature; we search for ourselves within things alien to us in order to find common ground and understanding. If we hadn't, the human race wouldn't've survived this long
I was thinking about this as well. I love the in-depth analysis of how this car universe could rationally work, but I think that applying human-based logic is not the best way to do it, because as a result it gets confusing that things don't work like an actual biological animal would. Like for the question, "Why do they need both oil and gas? Which one is food and which one is blood?", I think the answer is just that neither is blood nor food. They just need both, because its the logic of their universe. Similarly to how cartoon physics work, as you pointed out, it's just a different logic.
Ultimately, everyone knows these are just cartoon characters and that none of these scientifc reasoning were intented by the creators. It's still fun to do however, but I think that we should reason with in-universe explanations and just accept things for how they are sometimes.
Imagine a species that has tendrils with nerve end where we have our hair and them seeing us casually get a haircut.
@@group555_ Oh god, that's a brilliant analogy, I love it.
I think it makes things pretty clear. The thing is, we don't have nerves on our hair, we can cut our hair. So if a different species compared us to how they work, they would only be empathizing with their experience instead of separating themselves, like we do with media analysis. Thanks for the input, I'm gonna think about this a lot now lol
@@snaildad193 On the topic of "aliens needing to be humanlike", you should prolly check out spec-evo worldbuilding projects. I specially recommend the "Birrin Project". I love how the creatures are so clearly not human at all, yet they behave in very human-like ways. It really puts into question our biases surrounding sentience. The creator puts a lot of effort to make the world as believable as possible.
I also love how, even though the Birrin are alien beings, they are not intentionally gross or weird like how aliens are usually portrayed in media. They actually look like real normal creatures that would evolve naturally, rather than gross homunculus.
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mcqueen didn't strip to bare metal, he's wearing a primer coat. so yeah he's in his gray sweatpants era