20 Things You Somehow Missed In Toy Story

6. The Origins Of "To Infinity & Beyond!"

Toy Story Hamm Mr Potato Head
Pixar

No single line of dialogue in the Toy Story franchise is more iconic or meaning-filled than Buzz Lightyear's immortal quip, "To infinity and beyond!"

The quote actually originates from Pixar's favourite filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick, namely his sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The film's delirious final sequence is introduced with the intertitle, "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," which evidently served as the influence for what has become one of the most popular movie quotes of the last 25 years.

Sidebar: do you think Kubrick ever saw Toy Story before he died? What would he have made of it?

2001: A Space Odyssey
MGM
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