20 Things You Somehow Missed In Toy Story

5. How Woody Knows Morse Code

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In Sid's room, Woody and Buzz meet the various toys he's tortured and mutilated, including Babyface, who is comprised of a baby doll's head - presumably belonging to Sid's sister - attached to a spider-like metal body.

At one point, Babyface taps a message to the other toys, who then emerge to gather around Woody. But how would Woody, a cowboy toy, have any idea what's going on?

Well, there's a perfect answer earlier in the film, when we see a poster in Andy's room which contains a Buzz Lightyear-branded Morse code alphabet. Genius foreshadowing, there.

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