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.

@Itsgamingtime11-co5kp

Ай бұрын

As McQueen is a NASCAR racing car, I think that “torn window” you mentioned is actually a air vent/ engine cooler

@jteam_

Ай бұрын

i have no interesting input to add but i greatly appreciate the sacrifices you made when researching for this video

@bornugly6370

Ай бұрын

This video is why you can’t ask how the sausage is made 😂

@gdbeam

Ай бұрын

Sarge served in WW2, this implies there was a car Hitler

@TheCatzFranzNeko

Ай бұрын

Many people make it both their job and hobby to restore cars from rusty heaps. KZread 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.

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

@JRexRegis

8 ай бұрын

Like, as in mechanical lifeforms, or maybe some kind of spectral/energy being possessing the husk of a car to move around?

@juangal7569

8 ай бұрын

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

@BinglesP

8 ай бұрын

I agree, but I assume the human comparisons are for comprehension, as otherwise it feels too foreign

@themonsterunderyourbed9408

8 ай бұрын

Yup

@DogDogGodFog

8 ай бұрын

​@@juangal7569Ironically, we already eat and need iron.

The window vent is a feature on real race cars, it basically circulates air in the cockpit

@grimmelle

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! But now this opens up so many questions...

@UltraMarine765

9 ай бұрын

@@grimmelle vents are probably just either connected to the lungs, connected to the engine as to not overheat it, or both

@wyattgoralski818

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@johnurbanek1027

9 ай бұрын

It's called a NACA duct.

@doggodoggo3000

9 ай бұрын

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

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.

@Noteturtle90

5 ай бұрын

This made me laugh sooo hard 😂

@Maliniasredmask

5 ай бұрын

i thught they locked their doors becuase they thought he was a murderer of some sort... which would make sense in ur part-

@yashthegamer4250

2 ай бұрын

I almost spit out out my saliva hearing that

@Holisti7800

Ай бұрын

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?

The "Sally is a foot girl" part had me howling, this video is insane and I love that you made it

This was disturbing. Good video. Pixar needs to answer for their crimes of sentient cars not making biological sense.

@TheRealBassFaun36YT1

9 ай бұрын

No this is 27:19 they have ballsacks on their heads

@pn5846

9 ай бұрын

MatPat did a whole video on this years ago bro

@danakanam5

9 ай бұрын

​@@pn5846I stopped watching him after that hellhole of a Subnautica Theory

@amanamemealegend

9 ай бұрын

@@danakanam5yeah most of his theories are good but sometimes I’m watching like wtf you’re wrong.

@kiwimations2053

9 ай бұрын

​@@amanamemealegendfor every ten "the secrets of fnaf security breach" there is a "does Luigi measure up?"

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.

@Satellaview1889

9 ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@roadwarrior114

9 ай бұрын

Steve Austin, a man barley alive... Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.

@oldjeeper9174

9 ай бұрын

Deluxe then is a Wingman)

@Alice-FE

9 ай бұрын

That would make much more sense, since he is unique, even in-universe. All the bad guys just use guns

@joshslater2426

9 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@DraconXCreations

13 күн бұрын

...holy crap dude- I did not know that- The more you know ig-

@mr.2minutes161

6 күн бұрын

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

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 😂

@acgaming007

27 күн бұрын

lol me pretending to know what a cranium and a lachet is: lol.

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.

@CHRF-55457

9 ай бұрын

**Happy Tech Priest Sounds.**

@koraoyadondon5142

9 ай бұрын

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.

@deadgowr8958

8 ай бұрын

No no no you guys have it all wrong, Elon just put too many Teslas on mars and this is the result.

@hrzmann

8 ай бұрын

Evolution might be forced. Remember the daleks?

@chrismayer3919

8 ай бұрын

I do too, although the imagery is EXTREMELY disturbing!!! 🤯

Pixar gave us a mess and said: "Figure this out." And I feel like this explaination works best, honestly

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

9 ай бұрын

Funniest part is how they needlessly overcomplicated it by adding food or lips or humanizing them to the extent they did.

@DropOfMidnightOfficial

8 ай бұрын

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

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

8 ай бұрын

@@DropOfMidnightOfficial It's cuz they came up with a strange set of rules for the cars in the movies

@JC_Cali

8 ай бұрын

The moment she said "crustacean", I bought it honestly

@sphincterSplasher

8 ай бұрын

Well... it is a fun kids animated movie about talking cars so... 🤷‍♀️

This makes SO MUCH SENSE- you know the theory that everything evolves into crabs? Cars are just humans post carcinization....

Imagine asking your parents where children came from and they said they ordered you off of amazon.

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.

@ivan-sin-compania5710

9 ай бұрын

Yeah. But what about children and reproduction?

@athrixxs

9 ай бұрын

@@ivan-sin-compania5710 its like build-a-bear

@ozzymand1as

9 ай бұрын

I think it's like whales, with the males having prehensile members and the young gestate in and are delivered from the trunk

@Lunar_Capital

9 ай бұрын

@@athrixxs DEAR GOD

@Whydoiexisthere-

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@ivan-sin-compania5710 probably like fancy nanotechnology that makes the cyborg parts able to be passed on their children

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.

@sickoslater

9 ай бұрын

I was gonna say yeah, that's one of the only actual consistent differences

@ryanwarners4341

9 ай бұрын

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.

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

9 ай бұрын

​@@ryanwarners4341Trans man that's deadnamed? Genderfluid?

@ryanwarners4341

9 ай бұрын

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 never thought about it like that, that's a nice idea

@rianantony

9 ай бұрын

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

Your video just makes me realize that you're giving more creativity and questions about the Cars universe than the actual writers.

@pedrovallefin8406

Ай бұрын

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.

That's a really good/disturbing explanation. If they are truly hermit crabs, why would they need trailers? It'd be like wearing two layers of clothes but you can't move in one. As a car guy, cars need oxygen to run their engines at all. The cooling duct on the side is present on many sports/race cars; either for cooling of the car's engine or for the driver/crab inside. (See the Lamborghini Aventador for an example) Fans are used to keep a race car's hot engine from seizing after hard use. Heaters (fire) would be used to warm up a car's components before engine startup from cold. French cars are/have been seen as unorthodox or strange. See the Citroen Ami, Renault Twizy, Citroen CX (it was actually asymmetric), Peugeot 205 T16. The French have always had the balls to try new things and their cars are often looked at as curios. This may explain the strange French car; it's a failed innovation, despite the fact that the car itself (Panhard Dyna 24CT or an Alfa Duetto Spider) is not at all innovative, and if it's an Alfa, not even French. I think that the reason there are two ways to put oil/petrol into the cars is that the mouth is for the driver; the gas tank is for the engine. This would mean that the engine and driver would be separate entities, which makes more sense as to why the cars are in the cabin and not in the engine compartment. This makes the frequent engine tune-ups and Mater's exposed engine much more logical and less disturbing. Another thing is there are multiple kinds of oil; motor oil/engine oil, vegetable oil, petroleum oil, etc. Maybe the edible oil is required diet for the cars? The weird Alfa/Panhard car may not have an engine at all. They may be either unable to move, have an engine someplace else, or the entity inside physically turns the wheels with muscles. The "engine someplace else" idea may not work, as Sally does not use headlights as lights. The other possibility is that the car was one (partially developed) half of a pair of conjoined twins, the larger of whom sat in the cabin and the smaller in front of the engine, and the larger one bit the dust first. A thing that no one so far has pointed out is that all cars are four wheel drive and four wheel steer but primarily use the fronts. This may be similar to how we have four usable limbs but prefer to grasp things (suspension arms) with our two front limbs (hands). On the topic of gender and reproduction, I think the entities exit the cars at least partially to reproduce. This means that baby entities must reside somewhere in the car until a new body can be discovered. (Maybe the Alfa/Panhard is a child that inhabited its parent's vehicle after it died prematurely and, as the engine was in the way, may not have been able to get access to the cabin, and eventually outgrew the small opening it could exit from.) The cars' bodies may be old cars used by humans (the Alfa has a full interior), or they may be synthetically created (the VW Bugs may be insects inside of die-cast model cars, or simply mimic their surroundings and hide amongst the die cast cars). In case you can't tell, I came up with half of this while writing. Wow that was a brain dump.

@jimmy_os

2 ай бұрын

Did you not know that racecars in real life travel in trailers?

@BarkingPenguin-jt3br

2 ай бұрын

@@jimmy_os I did.. which part were you referring to?

@jimmy_os

2 ай бұрын

@@BarkingPenguin-jt3br You said “why do they need trailers”. Racecars need trailers for safety to get to the race so basically it would apply in the Pixar Cars universe too.

@BarkingPenguin-jt3br

2 ай бұрын

@@jimmy_os Ah yes, sorry. Can't find it in my rant, but you're correct

@jimmy_os

2 ай бұрын

@@BarkingPenguin-jt3br It’s fine

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

9 ай бұрын

Huh, weird. So they can drive through shallow water if need be? What's the purpose?

@kommandantgalileo

9 ай бұрын

Nice profile pic of Kotori.

@yeephyphyra8265

9 ай бұрын

@@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

@readmyusernamecauseitssoreally

9 ай бұрын

​​@@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.

@everettstormy

9 ай бұрын

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

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.

@mackenziebeeney3764

9 ай бұрын

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.

@todesgabel1952

9 ай бұрын

And it’s just McQueen… I imagine the forklifts or boats or planes to be way more terrifying💀

@Anth-pg1hu

7 ай бұрын

The part where McQueens “shell” was placed on his brain and beating heart was too much.

This entire video self-inflicted psychic damage, and is exactly what I was hoping for when I clicked

The way deeper she reads about the cars, the more terrified her voice gets 😭😭

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!

@ikschrijflangenamen

8 ай бұрын

Your explanation made this video even better, thanks for the write-up!

@omary5439

8 ай бұрын

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?

@tiaengel8131

8 ай бұрын

this comment alone is going to make me a car person, thank you for your service

@ellam1452

8 ай бұрын

in love with ur in depth explanation! I no nothing abt cars but this was fun to read

@Blue1_-di2kz

8 ай бұрын

So in a way, the gray lighting McQueen is an emo version of him.

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.

@Wh33led0ne

9 ай бұрын

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.

@Shrek_es_mi_pastor

9 ай бұрын

Thought the same

@narrativeless404

9 ай бұрын

​@@Wh33led0neYeah, the guards just protecting from the simps

@musaran2

9 ай бұрын

It is just a visual joke on the English expression "to flash". It is lost in other languages.

@renakunisaki

9 ай бұрын

@@musaran2 of course, and even "to flash your high beams" is a euphemism for showing your breasts. But that's not overthinking enough!

I like the theory. My guess is that they are a separate species in an alternate universe that coincidentally evolved to have society that is very similar to that of humans, kind of like Planet 51. The thing is that prior to 1885 in the Cars universe, there would be no cars. Boats maybe, but that is a truly impressive amount of evolution for 121 years (Cars came out in 2006).

@arkle519

7 ай бұрын

The existence of the Popemobile and the appearance of Mount Rushmore in the credits of Cars 2 say otherwise though.

@ExternalDialogue

3 ай бұрын

It does seem that the biological part of them can create rotation for the wheels on its own as many times in the first movie cars will slowly drive around without making any revving sounds, with some scenes showing them starting up their engines for when they wanna go faster. I think their engines are like an augmentation that interfaces with their biology to make them faster but isn't needed. So the pre industrial cars would just be like wagons. Of course the beetles, plane-birds and the tractors throw a wrench into the entire hermit crab theory as they seem to have just be like that naturally somehow.

You didn't mention that cracking the engine block is the only way to die. This was a major plot point in Cars 2 if I remember correctly.

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.

@DaBoomDude

9 ай бұрын

I think when they say that, they mean their exterior bodies were built - their anatomics were probably grown. possibly in a lab.

@arcosprey4811

9 ай бұрын

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.

@musaran2

9 ай бұрын

"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

9 ай бұрын

I dont remember in which movie and which character says, but a "Fabricator" like kind of god is mentioned

@mangodelmal9753

9 ай бұрын

​@@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

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

9 ай бұрын

Ah so it's like hand gestures

@therranolleo468

9 ай бұрын

@@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

@plazy._.8094

9 ай бұрын

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.

@oltsu1234

9 ай бұрын

I personally realised that in this case the lights were Pop-Up, but that wouldnt make sense since few cars have those

Being car inclined or mechanically inclined would have helped A LOT to understand how the cars adapt to their world. There are many many points that could be solved by just knowing a bit more about cars or vehicles in general.

@hybridkoala

4 ай бұрын

Waiting for you to drop your response video

@ProximaCentauri97

25 күн бұрын

true

@Al.j.Vasquez

24 күн бұрын

@@hybridkoala This video is not misinformative, so it doesn't deserve a video response, and even if i did it, no one is gonna watch it.

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)

@grimmelle

9 ай бұрын

This is horrible. Thank you very much 👍

@ebty4969

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for tainting 10 seconds of my life

@j.corbygaming

9 ай бұрын

…So High Beams is the equivalent to the Foot Fetish… It does make some sense even if its cursed

@nevaehhamilton3493

9 ай бұрын

Welp, childhood ruined. 😊

@Journey_Awaits

9 ай бұрын

This comment gave me a fetish for ceasing to exist

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.

@ssuuss539

9 ай бұрын

🤓

@Neozixxs

9 ай бұрын

The meat are the cow tractor

@kaidare4701

9 ай бұрын

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

@Jotenks

9 ай бұрын

@@ssuuss539bro is 12 years old

@Jiub_SN

9 ай бұрын

@@ssuuss539go outside kiddo

The boom sound effect to accentuate jokes is such a subtle yet hilarious addition. I love it so much.

@banan9432

Ай бұрын

You mean the vine boom? That's a common sound people use to accentuate jokes and audibly highlight strange moments.

I do think that they would need some sort of reproduction beyond just construction, because like you said, they do have an organic component and you can't just assemble that, so I would assume they do some sort of "activity" and then assemble their shell around the organics or they are organically the shell.

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

@wyldstealer

9 ай бұрын

was gonna say this, but you summed it up pretty well

@michaelfixedsys7463

9 ай бұрын

You also can't see very well through them

@Mick_92

9 ай бұрын

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.

@TacticalPhoenixYT

9 ай бұрын

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.

@liamoliverdarroch6482

9 ай бұрын

that's what I was thinking

I think the problem is that we are viewing them too much like humans and not like their own thing.

@DoctorPhileasFragg

8 ай бұрын

We keep viewing them like humans because they keep acting like humans.

@gabrielv.4358

7 ай бұрын

YES! They CANNNOT be logical!

@alexrod9271

7 ай бұрын

a human heart = a car engine

@LAV-III

7 ай бұрын

@@alexrod9271 a car engine could also be a stomach as far as we know Or hell both at the same time

@dymaxion3988

7 ай бұрын

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.

I think you’re onto something here. Closer than any other theory I’ve seen to explaining it!

I just love how the constant fleeting puns in the films like ‘flashing’ are taken as elements of a thought-out sci-fi universe. I enjoyed this deep level of speculation 😂

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.

@areit99

9 ай бұрын

Look up M.C. Escher's Curl-Ups. Not human per se but...

@the_blue_jay_raptor

8 ай бұрын

The qu probably made that

@nitrorock1023

8 ай бұрын

@@the_blue_jay_raptor nice reference

@Jr837_

8 ай бұрын

@@the_blue_jay_raptor omg are cars from Cars actually creations of the qu???

@the_blue_jay_raptor

8 ай бұрын

@@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.

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

@oxymore13

9 ай бұрын

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.

@forkliftman3240

9 ай бұрын

@@oxymore13 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

@Victorsandergamer

9 ай бұрын

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

@Victorsandergamer

9 ай бұрын

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

@maya_void3923

9 ай бұрын

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 @@oxymore13

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.

Assigned Female at Assembly knocked me OUT ☠️ 11:40 ish

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

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.

@MouldyCheez

9 ай бұрын

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.

@games_on_phone89

9 ай бұрын

also feet

@Alice-FE

9 ай бұрын

So they were basically doing this gesture 👉👌 Or something worse to McQueen

I personally think that the Cars... *cars* changing their paint is more comparable to getting your hair dyed. As they're both processes that you can technically do whenever, is painless, looks cool and that you'd preferably get done professionally (like at 20:32) At the end of the day though, i think the cars themselves don't have any anatomy, and are purely just an abstraction of humans as cars, with all of the weirdness being a result of human *things* being translated into car logic. That'd also be the reason for the inconsistencies like in the headlights dilemma. These things are created on the spot and are not used next time something human is translated into car logic. However, thinking like that is boring and thinking of the series as having a consistent, but never fully explained and elusive logic is way more fun to theorize about. And this video is a fantastic attempt at doing just that :) Well done!

@pedrovallefin8406

Ай бұрын

Yeah, of course thats the real explanation for all this. It goes without saying. Theres a reason why Cars is considered the most childrish of pixar movies, because their world is inconsistent and absurd (consider the likes of Finding Nemo or Toy Story, where the world building is solid enough they actually gave an explanation to how toys are "born" in Toy Story 4 and it make logical sense with everything previously established). Its obvious theres no world building to be found here, but people will theorize otherwise because the real explanation is boring as you said. So, though i personally dont get people on the internet facination with finding explanations for things that werent mean to have any, I apreciate it when it brings forth fun and bizarre videos like this one.

@IceFlower22

Ай бұрын

@@pedrovallefin8406 Well said! It's been a while since i saw this video, but it's fun remembering it and everything i thought about it back then. Thanks :)

This was absolutely amazing. Thank you for taking the time to make a video about it!

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

9 ай бұрын

What? No, McQueens dents are NACA ducts, probably used as some sort of intake or cooling

@jameswalker199

9 ай бұрын

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.

@marcusthegamer348

9 ай бұрын

@@jameswalker199 His engine is in the front... He's a Corvette..

@kimjunguny

9 ай бұрын

​@@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

@Dappersworth

8 ай бұрын

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...

Pixar: _"we just wanted a wholesome story with anthropromorphic cars"_ The Film Theorists around the globe: *_N O_*

@roadwarrior114

9 ай бұрын

"What were the cars doing between 1939 and 1945?"

@oldjeeper9174

9 ай бұрын

@@roadwarrior114 hmm, how does the cars genocide looks like?

@mfbfreak

9 ай бұрын

@@oldjeeper9174 Cash for clunkers/scrappage schemes?

@brunnomenxa

5 ай бұрын

​@@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.

This is exactly the video I needed in my life! Thank u so much for putting all this time & effort into it!

This was amazing. I never had any thoughts about the anatomy of Cars until I saw this video in my recommended videos. Thank you for making this .

As someone who has never seen a cars movie, the gender and reproduction section was wild.

@LuckyTheCat256

9 ай бұрын

I don’t even want to imagine what the fan art she mentioned looks like 😨

@Limelaz23

9 ай бұрын

​@@LuckyTheCat256 car whale peepee :(

@LuckyTheCat256

9 ай бұрын

@@Limelaz23 🤢

@danakanam5

9 ай бұрын

I've seen it on accident, you don't want to know

@kingMT514

9 ай бұрын

You’ve NEVER seen a Cars movie?! Are you even living?!

You’re doing what no one else had the courage to do, thank you

@Sipwipbip

9 ай бұрын

She stole the concept

@4saken404

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@skyy_raider8994

9 ай бұрын

Bro hasn’t heard of film theory

“Assigned Female at Assembly” had me dying 😂

WAIT DID I JUST SPEND ALMOST AN HOUR WATCHING THIS!? Fuck- Well, I guess now I know more about Cars anatomy than human anatomy

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.

@prodigy-hu6dy

9 ай бұрын

Well hitch protectors exist irl too but not exactly like the tow cap

@Arceusmemesidk-zk7tm

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, fuck this.

@mattwolf7698

9 ай бұрын

That doesn't even make any sense though, it's definitely an innuendo but most cars we see lack tow caps.

@appalachiabrauchfrau

9 ай бұрын

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.

@jjbarajas5341

9 ай бұрын

Maybe it refers to needing a tow for nights you just end up in a ditch?

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"

@pandoratheclay

8 ай бұрын

Those twins are flashing headlights in a simp way

@Max_McGamer

8 ай бұрын

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

@fleggy5050

8 ай бұрын

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?..

@rokkraljkolesa9317

8 ай бұрын

@@fleggy5050 conclusion: applying logic to something not made with logic gets messy

@fleggy5050

8 ай бұрын

@@rokkraljkolesa9317 it's fun tho lol

this godforsaken hell-scape of a video (and topic) is one of my favorite things ive seen all day. well done.

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.

@phandavidzimmermann1095

7 ай бұрын

Yes this would make alot of sense in the universe and would make the weird headlight theories obsolete

@HandsomeLoki

7 ай бұрын

They are, in a literal sense, flashing for him

@tsm688

7 ай бұрын

'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.

@phandavidzimmermann1095

7 ай бұрын

@@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

@tsm688

7 ай бұрын

@@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

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.

@socksok

4 ай бұрын

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!

@ExternalDialogue

3 ай бұрын

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.

I love how instead of thanking us for watching the video, you instead apologize for us watching the video😭

just land on this video, genuinely a great one. Looking forward to future projects!

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.

@gigahtz1590

9 ай бұрын

imagine car jesus died of a car cross to save the cars souls from car hell

@snedsolos

9 ай бұрын

I imagine the manufacturer is just the parents of each car.

@pizzainc.1465

9 ай бұрын

@snedsolos Unlikely, because we don’t call our parents “God”.

@prestonseymour1387

9 ай бұрын

Now I want to know if there is ancient car civilizations like ancient Egyptians.

@gigahtz1590

9 ай бұрын

well, is it common to say thank god or thank my mother and father?@@pizzainc.1465

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!

@Sipwipbip

9 ай бұрын

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

@kadenhill4495

9 ай бұрын

Yeah

@noahrhebb4759

9 ай бұрын

Using a good theory to get a great theory in return.

The diagram you made gave me chills.

Dude I love your videos so much and love your commentary! You are honestly so funny and great at articulating your points, I’m so jealous! I wish I could be your friend! You are so funny!😂

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.

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)

@Rust-eze_official_

9 ай бұрын

Do you know if he has an actual point like heart defects, when children at birth?

@Dawg347

9 ай бұрын

And like the whole of cars 2 supports it too just sayin’

@twistedyogert

9 ай бұрын

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?

@marvel_dc_basedyt69420

9 ай бұрын

@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

@marvel_dc_basedyt69420

9 ай бұрын

@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

the only information i retained after 34 minutes is "pixar cars are hermit crabs" and i honestly don't know how to feel about these 34 minutes. good job

You trying to figure all of this out with logic by human standards where there creators probably just never thought about certain things is wildly funny to me. Thanks for the great video!

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.

@songvevo123

9 ай бұрын

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.

@darthhunter69

9 ай бұрын

I second this

@wow1417

9 ай бұрын

I was looking for someone to say this

@sophisticatedblob3820

9 ай бұрын

I third this

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.

@kaggykarr

7 ай бұрын

That Formula car, with its eyes placed exactly where the driver should be, brought me to the same conclusion.

@leroysanchino

7 ай бұрын

Best theory

@pedrotorresboreli9708

7 ай бұрын

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.

@TheREPPIX

6 ай бұрын

I feel like this opens up a hole new can of worms that hurt my brain even more than it already is

@Echoe-14

5 ай бұрын

@@pedrotorresboreli9708Maybe it is only the personality of the original owner, or maybe it takes some time to change personalities?

for the love of god give this girl a raise she deserves more idk why it took me so long to see this video, i just kept scrolling pass it with no reason xd keep it up, your content is so good :)

this might be my favorite youtube video now

The buildup and payoff to your theory made me smile so hard. Absolutely bonkers but it makes more sense than anything else

@Sipwipbip

9 ай бұрын

She stole the video mattpat made same video 7 years ago

@adityas9377

9 ай бұрын

@@Sipwipbip Did you even watch the video? She acknowledges the Matpat video and opposes the theories in his video

@SDSypher

9 ай бұрын

@@adityas9377 dude was probably too busy spamming that comment under every reply thread

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.

@2012TheAndromeda

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I was looking for this answer

@jameswalker199

9 ай бұрын

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.

@IstasPumaNevada

9 ай бұрын

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.

@enderblazex2718

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@theakbars98

9 ай бұрын

Came to see if someone had already posted it, comment for better visibility.

This video delighted and distributed me in equal parts, excellent job! Also, the feature you noted in Lightning's window early on is a NACA duct, which is common on various types of race cars.

Y'know, I really never thought of this. Thank you for pumping these questions into my brain.

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.

@jameswalker199

9 ай бұрын

Your mother was a hamster ball and your father smelled of burned clutch!

@the_blue_jay_raptor

8 ай бұрын

What the f*ck, I'm just gonna say they're robots. Also you are overthinking about funni cars.

@jonsnow9659

8 ай бұрын

I don't even know... car breeding is too dark a place to visit

@IgnatRemizov

8 ай бұрын

Incredible. My thoughts exactly

@Vocaloidfan39

8 ай бұрын

Bro wrote a whole essay about cars 💀

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.

@randocommando7945

9 ай бұрын

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.

@JuulietPod

9 ай бұрын

​@@randocommando7945The engine need not be a brain equivalent for the thought of transplanting a major organ group to be horrifying.

This was one of the best videos I have seen this year.

Welding eye protection isn't just a peice of glass to prevent stuff from getting into the eye. It protects against the light from the torch which if you look directly into, it is basically like staring at the sun.

I'm surprised you didn’t question how these cars who don't have hands or thumbs could build all this technology and architecture.

@tatendamuwori7098

5 ай бұрын

Damn I didn't think about that aswell 😂

@supreme_xenon

5 ай бұрын

Simple, the forklifts are the slaves

@fullmetaltheorist

5 ай бұрын

@@supreme_xenon They should make a car spinoff movie called "12 years a forklift.""

@forgivem4h781

5 ай бұрын

@@supreme_xenonfunniest thing one could think of

@M60A3

5 ай бұрын

Mack is also a slave

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

@games_on_phone89

9 ай бұрын

yeah but that wouldn't be as fun wouldn't it

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

9 ай бұрын

Would've fit better than a world solely made of sentient cars

@SleekHeroo

9 ай бұрын

@@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

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@SleekHeroo

9 ай бұрын

@@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

Awesome video! I won't be able to sleep tonight!

as for me, the concept of humanization of transport (which was created specifically for humans) from the very beginning is already doomed to an endless number of inconsistencies and plot holes, but you are great for trying to at least slightly expand this keyhole, behind which lies the truth

@zackakai5173

6 ай бұрын

"and plot holes" I don't think you know what a plot hole is. It isn't "any minor detail in a movie that doesn't make sense but doesn't ultimately affect the story in a meaningful way."

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.

@Mqmn

8 ай бұрын

Yeah like your fingers the things you do with them are interpreted differently depending on how you are using them

@MikehMike01

8 ай бұрын

I stopped watching when that leftist propaganda came on

@on_spikes6867

8 ай бұрын

stop perpetuating this myth, ankles were never "sexual"

@lou9511

8 ай бұрын

​@on_spikes6867 OK just replace ankles with shoulders or legs or even breasts

@DogDogGodFog

8 ай бұрын

​@@on_spikes6867In Japan necks are sexual though.

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."

@M60A3

5 ай бұрын

I feel like mack is forced to be a truck which mean he doesn’t really have a choice to carry McQueen,

@runningwithscissors7715

4 ай бұрын

and the clown car with cars in its butt

@jimmy_os

3 ай бұрын

No because semi-trailers are seperate from the actual truck

@AlexanderLindo-je5oz

2 ай бұрын

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

@jimmy_os

2 ай бұрын

@@AlexanderLindo-je5oz You mean at the Marché Aux Pièces in Paris?

I love cursed videos like these of all the questions I’ve had as a child trying to rationalize cartoons

I love this 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

6 ай бұрын

isn't it quite literally like staring into the sun? as in, same perceived brightness?

@crantzdorf5929

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@DatBoiGloomy

5 ай бұрын

@@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

@mmmdawe

5 ай бұрын

It's not welders but gas cutters

@mazdarx-8rotary.97

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

Let's just say, you put way more effort in this than Pixar ever did

@Max-cs6my

9 ай бұрын

litteraly. It just a kids movie

@joshslater2426

9 ай бұрын

Pixar did try with the Cars movies. It’s just the audience who didn’t try hard enough to like them.

i loved this so much :) thank you ❤

The original, unedited fanart in the thumbnail is actually super creative and interesting A living machine is so sickening yet so fascinating at the same time, it's brilliant

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

@cloed0ll

7 ай бұрын

Right? Ok but Robots was a genuinely cute movie. I've always liked the baby idea they had.

@TheREPPIX

6 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@egg_bun_

9 ай бұрын

Oooooh yes

@EMLtheViewer

9 ай бұрын

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.

@deltap6967

9 ай бұрын

That's fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

i love your imagination. and concise theories

The "torn" window, its a thing on real race cars. It has a tube that goes into the drivers cockpit and it circulates air

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.

@standard-carrier-wo-chan

9 ай бұрын

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.

@egg_bun_

9 ай бұрын

Holy shit?? This is a genius theory, fucking thank you. (Also neurodivergent)

@JoshRiolu

9 ай бұрын

It's also a pun. Literally 'flashing' their high beams like one would 'flash' a pair of dobonahonkeros

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.

imagine showing this documentary to a small victorian child

This bothered me so much. Please dont stop.