Where? I’ve seen pics online of couples dressed as them and posts saying they want to have the kind of love Woody and Jessie have with a romantic partner. They’re acting like they’re inspired by this great love story that never remotely happened.
I also remember telling someone when Toy Story 4 came out that Woody was going to be reunited with his girlfriend, and they thought I meant Jessie.
Just today I saw some posts on Facebook claiming the two are actually siblings, and lots of comments are claiming that makes them incestuous. It’s possible they’re trolling but I doubt every one of them is trolling, it seems there are some people who genuinely remember them as a couple
Where does this come from? The fact that they’re both cowboys? That seems a bit racist, to just assume the two characters with the most superficial thing in common are romantically involved.
These are popular movies, I would have thought the people talking about them would have actually watched them and watched them recently. I can kind of see if these movies are just a hazy memory they haven’t watched since they were kids but the movies are popular enough that surely people are watching them currently. And the fourth movie isn’t very old at this point.
Woody was always, from the first movie, romantically involved with Bo Peep. Though Bo isn’t in the third movie, the fourth and most recent movie freaking revolves around his relationship with Bo. Jessie is romantically involved with Buzz at the end of the second film and throughout the third. Their relationship weirdly isn’t mentioned in the fourth movie, which is one of many problems I have with the fourth movie. Weird they made a whole movie to reunite Woody with Bo and just completely ignored Jessie and Buzz’s relationship.
Anyway, at absolutely no point was there anything romantic between Woody and Jessie. Where does that even come from? Just because they’re both cowboys? Did these people not even watch the films?
The fact that they’re both cowboys? That seems a bit racist…
Wait, cowboys are a race now?
Well what is “type of toy”? There might be an argument to be made that it’s equivalent to “race”.
(Not that I think that would justify insisting two cowboy toys are a couple wtf is this conversation)
I thought it was pretty obvious that Buzz and Jessie were a thing. Especially after he got his language settings switched to Spanish for a while in the 3rd movie. I had a really hard time explaining her reaction to my daughter when she first saw it. I definitely didn’t want to have to explain what “turned on” meant, to a three year old.
I haven’t seen it but “some people really like how Spanish sounds” didn’t do?
Same way people ship Woody and Buzz. Personal preference.
Yeah but this isn’t just shipping, it’s somehow remembering them as a couple when it never happened
Oh that’s just long term memory storage using reasonable inputs for retrieval purposes. We get screwed over by that all the time.
I guess that’s what causes the Mandela effect. I’ve also talked to two seperate people who thought that on MASH, Margaret and Winchester were a couple at some point and I don’t know where that comes from either
On Winchester, that comes from him taking over the position as the show’s nuisance. After replacing Burns and briefly attempting a romance with Margaret (didn’t work out btw), he was set as the figurative cuckoo’s egg in the memory nest. Burns was forgotten as an unimportant detail and most of his attributes were pasted on Winchester.
And unlike his predecessor, Winchester grew as a person.
Also, speaking of MASH, can you still remember and differentiate Hawkeye’s partners in crime?
Hawkeye’s first partner in crime was Trapper and the second one was BJ. both were married. Trapper had two daughters. BJ had a baby daughter. Their personalities were similar but BJ was loyal to his wife, unlike Trapper.
Of course, if you asked me about a specific storyline involving Trapper or BJ, there’s a good chance I might get them mixed up
The first time I only saw episodes whenever i had time, so some were skipped. Which is why when Trapper and BJ swapped, my first thought was where did the guy’s curly hair go. I didn’t realize it was someone else entirely and it took another episode’s intro to make me realize it.
Then of course over time there were plenty of reruns and i managed to see all of them. I also can’t tell the details, but the main points remain. I’d say it’s a matter of attention and repetition to maintain the memories otherwise they fade away or blend into mush.
I think I have better memory than average when it comes to TV continuity
I’ve only seen the first three, and only once, so I didn’t think there were couples among the toys. I was gonna say people ship the character they identify with, with the character they like. So I’d say those fans see themselves as Woody and ship him with Jessie for that reason.
Bo peep wanted Woody to graze in her pasture in the first movie.
Bo needed to adjust her gaydar.
Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead are clearly an old married couple. 😉
Barbie and Ken were love at first sight. But the potatoes heads and Barbie/Ken were built to be couples. Maybe that’s part of where the idea of Woody and Jessie being a couple comes from, people assume cause they’re from the same toy line they were made to be a couple. But besides that, there is absolutely no evidence in any of the movies of them being a couple and they both canonically have other love interests
And even in the first Toy Story, Bo Peep flirts with Woody heavy.
I literally never even got the impression that Woody and Jessie were more than friends by the end of Toy Story 2.
