Andy's Room Changing Decor / "Strange Things" Scene (Toy Story)

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Andy's Room Changing Decor or the "Strange Things" Scene is a clip from the 1995 animated film Toy Story in which Woody watches Andy's room change from being themed around him to being themed around Buzz Lightyear, including the posters on his wall and his bed sheets fading from Woody to Buzz imagery. The scene, which is set to the song "Strange Things" by Randy Newman, became the subject of memes on X / Twitter as early as January 2024, in which it's used to visualize something changing in a drastic way.

Origin

In the 1995 Disney Pixar animated film Toy Story, Andy's favorite toy, Woody, is overcome by jealousy when Andy starts to favor a Buzz Lightyear toy over him. In one scene, a musical montage set to Randy Newman's "Strange Things," Woody watches as Buzz becomes increasingly popular not only with Andy but with the other toys. The scene includes several fades in which the posters in Andy's room change from Woody- to Buzz-themed and the bed sheets also change in the same way (shown below).

On January 10th, 2024, X^[1] user @hayasaka_aryan posted the scene under the caption, "Jews watching Holocaust museums getting a Palestine genocide section," garnering over 21,000 likes and 2,000 reposts in six months (shown below). This is the earliest known example of the meme.

Spread

The meme gained viral spread over the following months on X. On April 25th, 2024, X^[2] user @Kartbro48 posted a version captioned, "Seeing your moots change their pfp, header and profile from one fandom to another," garnering over 61,000 likes in three months (shown below, left).

On June 1st, X^[3] user @AntwonGhetto posted a version about Smiling Friends bongs replacing Rick and Morty bongs, garnering over 128,000 likes in a month (shown below, right).

On June 4th, 2024, X^[4] user @AltHistCody posted a version of the meme captioned, "New Jersey residents in the 1880s when the Italians arrived," garnering over 10,000 likes in a month. On July 8th, X^[5] user @funnygamedev posted a version of the meme reading, "the skinhead who just got out prison learning white nationalism is only ran by a gay latinos now," garnering over 30,000 likes in four days (shown below).

On September 22nd, 2024, Twitter / X user jazzylouis4^[6] posted a video recreating the scene using Sackboy from Little Big Planet and the room decor changing to an Astro Bot theme. The video (shown below) received over 100,000 likes over over 16,000 reposts in two days.

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