Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 14 segments
Dyl and Raf build their own Pixar Top Fours - with locks, bubbles, cuts, and a few painful omissions along the way. They get into Pixar’s best eras, the movies that aged the best, the ones nostalgia…
Um, yeah, Pixar, just defining studio of, of really our coming-of-age life.
I had to do some, some prep to watch some of the more recent films, but, like, the surprising thing to me was actually having to, to kind of formulate a list of, like, my four favorites or, you know, what, what's gonna be on the bubble was actually maybe one of the most difficult things we've done in, like, since we started this podcast.
... just because Pixar kind of taught this whole generation, you know, to take animation seriously and that you can have, you know, quote unquote "kids movies" that are still adult favorites and deal with adult themes like, you know, midlife crisis in, in The Incredibles and, like, environmental collapse and, and stuff like that.
I was gonna say, and they always do it in s- when you're talking about the themes, they do it in such a more in-depth way than I feel like another animation studio would do.
... a different animated movie would easily give you a movie that's about, oh yeah, the importance of family and putting family before, you know, your other ambitions.
They're exploring the sibling dynamics and what it means to be a good sibling.
They explore the, the-- how difficult it can be to have a relationship between parents and kids.
They explore the difference between, like, men and women in a relationship raising families, and they, they just manage to get all this stuff in there without beating you over the head with it, and it's just...
It feels like a really rich experience when Pixar's at their best compared to-
Um, yeah, Pixar, just defining studio of, of really our coming-of-age life.
I had to do some, some prep to watch some of the more recent films, but, like, the surprising thing to me was actually having to, to kind of formulate a list of, like, my four favorites or, you know, what, what's gonna be on the bubble was actually maybe one of the most difficult things we've done in, like, since we started this podcast.
... just because Pixar kind of taught this whole generation, you know, to take animation seriously and that you can have, you know, quote unquote "kids movies" that are still adult favorites and deal with adult themes like, you know, midlife crisis in, in The Incredibles and, like, environmental collapse and, and stuff like that.
I was gonna say, and they always do it in s- when you're talking about the themes, they do it in such a more in-depth way than I feel like another animation studio would do.
... a different animated movie would easily give you a movie that's about, oh yeah, the importance of family and putting family before, you know, your other ambitions.
They're exploring the sibling dynamics and what it means to be a good sibling.
They explore the, the-- how difficult it can be to have a relationship between parents and kids.
They explore the difference between, like, men and women in a relationship raising families, and they, they just manage to get all this stuff in there without beating you over the head with it, and it's just...
It feels like a really rich experience when Pixar's at their best compared to-
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