• supercargo@r.nfOP
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    6 days ago

    I’m whooshing regarding the large, yellow… canister? Thingy? What’s going on?

    It’s a Monsters, Inc. reference.

    spoiler

    In that movie, the eponymous monsters power their civilization by scaring people and harvesting their screams into those canisters.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago
      the real spoiler

      At the end of the film they discover that children laughing generates way more power than screaming does, so the monsters start doing comedy routines instead of trying to be scary