9 Horrifying Questions About Toy Story That Should Really Bother You
4. How Do The Potato Heads Work?
Well, if you abide by the “head-is-in-control” theory of the previous question, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head open up a whole new can of worms. All of their body parts can be removed and jumbled up on their own bodies, but what’s even stranger is that they can be added onto another, inanimate object, and they can then use that object as their own body! We see this in Toy Story 3, where Mr. Potato Head attaches his body parts to a piece of pita bread and to a pickle.
Each of Mr. Potato Head’s body parts can presumably move on its own, so does this mean that each body part has sentience? We saw in Toy Story 2 that the gang uses Mrs. Potato Head’s disembodied eye to see, and she has to cover her other eye to tell what’s going on. This means that she could potentially see two different things at once.
Trying to think about what she’d see if she uncovered her eye makes my brain hurt.
Furthermore, are there limits to what they can attach their body parts to? If Mr. Potato Head puts his eyes on the front of a truck and his arms and legs on the sides, can he now control that truck? Can Mr. Potato Head attach himself to an animate object, such as a human, and control that human’s actions? Is Mr. Potato Head potentially the most powerful toy in the universe?
And finally, if both of their eyes can see different things, what’s the deal with their alternate eyes that they keep in their butt flap? Are they also constantly seeing the inner pouch where other alternate body parts are kept? And if you put one set of eyes on one potato and an alternate set of eyes on a different one, are both potatoes being controlled by the same Mr. Potato Head?