That would make a bangin movie. Kinda like sausage party but more on the dark esoteric existentialism side.

I don't think the pencils would be alone in that view. Erasers, markers, glue, staplers (though they can be refilled) would all come back with some small part of them having been depleted. Individual paperclips may never return, but they're so numerous maybe they have like a hivemind.

I think the greatest honor would be the sheet of paper that gets transformed into a paper football. You have transcended your original purpose and form, chosen of the giant hands not for their labor, but for their leisure.

Do the paper planes look down on the footballs?

In the physical sense, absolutely. But if they're honest with themselves, their new form is much more fragile and fleeting, and will almost certainly end with them in a bin soon enough, whereas the football may at least have a chance to rejoin the desk and tell the others of its deeds.

I should not be awake this early contemplating the potential existential crises of paper airplanes.

Fortune tellers look down on both.

I mean it was in Toy Story, sort of, where the squeeze toy aliens got selected by the claw and said "I go on to a better place!"

So...like Sausage Party...

Aight so I got a third grader (don't worry, he's mine, or so I'm told)...I'll tell him Ops story, then watch Sausage Party with him, then get his critique of both.

For the 3rd graders sake, are you ending before the food orgy end credits?

Nah, he was red-shirted (in the collegiate sense, not the Star Trek sense), he's just about ready for the talk.

"When a hotdog and a bun tolerate each other just enough..."

Individual staples anticipate a future of sudden mutilation by a chomping death machine and having their corpses ornament a book report.

The Claw Comes For Us All!

I understood that reference.

Oh my god Toy Story is 31 years old.

Oh my god Toy Story is older than Episode 1.

Oh my god Toy Story is older than the last Labour government.

Just resetting quite a lot of the references I will use on my site from now on. Because apparently I may lose a lot of people due to being incredibly old.

Erasers

I wanted to talk about rubbers but couldn't remember the less ambiguous term for it. I mean, a third grader probably wouldn't have the other meaning in their desk (and I should hope it doesn't come back used), but I'm also not sure everyone would recognise this meaning.

I assume a small part being depleted in their mission is acceptable. Pencils get shorn off with violence though. That's gonna be more traumatic. Or maybe they're just the ones defying the mainstream dogma?

It's older than me.

I've been born, grown to adulthood, I took forever to get my degree, but now I have a stable job, a wife and my life mostly together, ready to face my thirties.

All in the time since it came out.

You're not necessarily old, but you're allowed to feel that way.

You can say most of that about Toy Story for me :)

Ooh, me me

Back in my day we all call it rubber. I guess as western culture seeped its way eventually especially with more internet access in my country, as well as proper education, kids nowadays may call it eraser now. Idk I don't talk to kids

Me personally I know the other rubber meaning well after I am legal aged and mentally (debatable)

Oh my god Toy Story is 31 years old.

Hey you can't say that; that's illegal!

Jokes aside, for me that grew up with Toy Story (my mom bought me a bootleg VHS back then and I watched that on repeat a lot. Along with Alladin and Lion King and learned to rewind tapes), Toy Story ended at 3, just as I was also going to college like Andy.

That's 3, right?

I think rubber used to be the British term? I learned it like that, and I think our primary school English material was all rather UK oriented. The internet has ruined me, however, and now my English is a scuffed mess.

I think so.

I'd been to university and finished university and got a job by the time Part 1 was released, so...... yeah. I watched them but kind of lost track after Part 1.

NZ here resonating with that theory.

Eraser is extremely American to my mind (and the early memories I have)

My country was a British colony before, so that makes sense.