Western Animation / Toy Story Toons

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Barbie and Ken end up in Bonnie's bedroom after a failed attempt to stow away on her trip to Hawaii, so the toys all try to create their own island paradise.

• Comedic Underwear Exposure: When Barbie and Ken are "fishing", Ken accidently rips off his pants when he casts his rod too far back which he doesn't notice until Trixie points it out.
• Company Cross-References: An inside one: as mentioned in the DVD commentary, Chuckles the Clown's luau chant translates to "Bound and rebound", a reference to the Pixar short Boundin'. This trope gets double points because Boundin' was narrated by Bud Luckey, the voice of Chuckles.
• Didn't Think This Through: Ken and Barbie sneak into Bonnie's backpack under the belief she'd take it on vacation with her to Hawaii. They fail to consider the idea that Bonnie was unlikely to take her school backpack with her, which Mr. Potato Head points out to them.
• Edible Theme Clothing: During their Hawaiian vacation experience, Barbie and Ken are given candy necklace leis.
• First Kiss: Barbie admits to the other toys that she’s aware that Ken has been secretly planning their first kiss at Hawaii for months, and Mr. Potato Head finds it absurd that they haven’t kissed already. Mrs. Potato Head responds by nudging him so hard, all of his parts fall off.
• Foot Popping: Gender flipped when Barbie and Ken kiss.
• Furry Confusion: The entire franchise already runs on this trope (in regards to living animal toys behaving like animals, or humans) but it was lampshaded in the scene where Barbie and Ken had their fantasy riding trip - Barbie gets Bullseye (a toy horse that behaves like a horse), who runs like the wind, whilst Ken gets Buttercup (a toy unicorn that behaves like... a human) who tells him to get off his back.
• Let Me Get This Straight...: You thought Bonnie would take a SCHOOL backpack on vacation?
• Medium Blending: Ken and Barbie go scuba diving on an empty fish tank in front of a TV showing live-action fish. As a prank, Hamm changes the channel to a shark, also live-action.
• Mythology Gag: At one point, Barbie wears the black and white one-piece bathing suit she wore when she debuted in 1959.
• Rod-and-Reel Repurposed: Ken doesn’t realize until Trixie tells him that he ripped off his pants with his own fishing hook.
• Tempting Fate: After Barbie and Ken go outside the house to share their first kiss, Mr. Potato Head remarks that they would fall off the edge of the porch. True enough, they end up falling into the snow.
  Hamm: I'll get the shovel.
• Troll: Hamm changes the TV channel to Shark Week just to mess with Barbie and Ken. (It should be noted that Shark Week usually takes place in the middle of summer, and this short takes place in the winter.)
• Unplanned Staycation: Barbie and Ken attempt to stow away on Bonnie's trip to Hawaii, but get left behind in her bedroom instead, resulting in the toys making their own Hawaiian-style resort just for the couple.
• Vertigo Effect: When Ken realizes he's not in Hawaii.
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: Ken sneaks himself and Barbie into Bonnie's backpack to go with her to Hawaii, not realizing she probably wouldn't take her school backpack with her until the other toys point it out.

Buzz is left behind at a fast food restaurant when a kid's meal Buzz decides to replace him. There he encounters a therapy group of discarded kids' meal toys.

• Air-Vent Passageway: Buzz tries to escape from the restaurant using an air vent and ends up at a support group for discarded Fun Meal toys. He escapes from the support group using Gary Grappling Hook to lift him back up to the air vent; he succeeds.
• Amateur Therapist: Buzz finds a support group for abandoned kid's meal toys. The leader of the group is a toy mermaid. While she obviously isn't licensed, she does an excellent job of leading the therapy group and is very supportive to all of its members, later accepting the miniature Buzz Lightyear toy without hesitation.
• Brand X: "Poultry Palace" is all about chicken-based meals, like Kentucky Fried Chicken. The kid's meals and associated toys look more like McDonald's meanwhile, while its name and theming are a riff on White Castle and the signage and color scheme are based on Taco Bell's.
• Burger Fool: It's incredibly obvious how much the Poultry Palace cashier doesn't like his job.
• Company Cross-References: One of the discarded kid's meal toys is based on Condorman. On top of the obvious Disney shout out, there's a probably unintentional twist here in that this live-action hero was played by Michael Crawford — whose work in Hello, Dolly! proves important in WALL•E.
• Easy Impersonation: Parodied. No one buys that Fun Meal Buzz, who is much smaller and smells like chicken fingers, is the real Buzz; except for Rex, who buys Fun Meal Buzz's story that he shrank in the ball pit.
  Rex: Guys, I'm telling you! This is the real Buzz!
  Woody: Rex, he's like three inches tall.
• Elevator Escape: A variation; Buzz uses Gary Grappling Hook to escape from the support group.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you pause at the right time when Buzz stacks the tartar sauce boxes before making his escape, you might notice the contents are practically inedible, since its ingredients includes "molted feather extract" and "distilled chicken perspiration".
• Kids' Meal Toy: invoked Bonnie goes to Poultry Palace, where the Fun Meal promotion at the time is for Buzz Lightyear toys. Bonnie wants a Mini Buzz figure, but the only one Poultry Palace has is for display. The Mini Buzz figure on display manages to escape and swap himself out with Bonnie's Buzz, who gets mistaken for a Fun Meal toy and taken to a support group for discarded Fun Meal toys from years past. Buzz tries to escape while Bonnie's toys try to get the Mini Buzz back to Poultry Palace.
• Our Vampires Are Different: One of the discarded fun meal toys is a vampire engineer named Vlad. He was discarded because no one would board the Vampire Express.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: Fun Meal Buzz sings a short snippet of "Camptown Races" while skating around Bonnie's room.
  Fun Meal Buzz: Playtime's coming super soon, doo-dah, doo-dah! Playtime's coming super soon, oh playtime day!
• Punny Name: Pretty much all the Fun Meal toys have a pun-based name.
• Recalled Media: In-Universe, one of the Fun Meal toys, Roxy Boxy, claims to be recalled because her arm can pop out and hurt people.
• Recycled Premise: Buzz Lightyear meeting a fast food kids' meal toy version of himself already happened in Toy Story Treats. Plus Woody commenting on the toy's greasy fast food smell.
• Shout-Out: The rejected Ninja Clown toy could be a reference to a certain old arcade game with the same name.

When Rex finds himself left behind in the bathroom, he puts his limbs to use by getting a bath going for a bunch of new toy friends.

• Baths Are Fun: The bath toys really love to have fun, but sadly lament they only get no more than 15 minutes a day of playtime. Rex helps some toys to get a party going in the bath. The part before this in which Bonnie is having imaginative fun with the toys counts too.
• Company Cross-References: The fuzzy toilet seat cover is Sulley's fur.
• A Day in the Limelight: Rex has always been a supporting character. He is the main protagonist this time around.
• Here We Go Again!: At the end, the pool toys ask for Rex's help.
• Man-Made House Flood: Or rather, toy-made house flood. Rex can't turn off the faucet, causing the bathroom, and eventually the whole house, to flood.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: The friendly but shy Rex is used as a sea monster in Bonnie's imagination.
• Opening the Flood Gates: Rex ends up flooding the bathroom, so when the other toys go in after him...
• Police Are Useless: When a police car toy arrives at the bath party, Rex initially believes he's there to stop the party, but in actuality, he just wants to join in on the fun.
• Scenery Censor: Done in an interesting way with Bonnie when she's taking a bath, she's never shown bare-chested. When she's playing with Rex in the tub she's coated in bubbles, and when she gets out of the bath, she's wearing a hooded towel.
• Shout-Out:
  • During Bonnie's imaginative bath game, Rex pops out of the ocean and roars just like Godzilla.
  • When the bath toys are lamenting how they can't play after bath time due to a lack of arms, Chuck E. Duck cries out in anguish, "No more tears!".
• Sideways Pool Diving Sequence: Several of the bath toys dive off the edge of the bathtub one after the other a la Berkeley. This isn't followed by synchronized swimming.
• Stress-Induced Mental Voices: Whenever Rex is worried about the party getting out of hand, he hears Mr. Potato Head calling him "Party-Pooper Rex" earlier and doubles down.