Toy Story 2 Hidden Details: The Airport Fight, Jerry's Game Cameo and Tom Hanks' Lincoln Link

Toy Story 2 has a handful of small background details that are easy to miss on a normal watch, and three of them stand out enough to explain here: a scuffle between two kids at the airport, the identity of the man who repairs Woody, and a line from Jessie that ties back to Tom Hanks' real family history.

These are the kind of details that reward fans who pause and rewatch, which is exactly why they are worth pointing out for anyone who thought they already knew every corner of this film.

The Airport Scene Reportedly Shows a Brother Punching His Sister, and Many Fans Believe It Is Sid

In the airport scene, there is a brother and sister shown fighting in the background. Watching closely, the brother is seen looking over before he actually punches her in the face, then ducks right behind a chair to hide what he did. It is a quick, blink and you will miss it moment tucked into a busy crowd scene.

Many people believe this brother and sister are actually Sid and his sister, the destructive neighbor kid from the first Toy Story. That is a belief held by fans rather than something confirmed by Pixar, so it remains an interpretation of the scene rather than a stated fact.

The Man Who Fixes Woody Is Jerry From the Pixar Short Jerry's Game

In the scene where Woody is being repaired, the man doing the fixing is Jerry, the character from Pixar's short film Jerry's Game. There is also a brief, split second shot of chess pieces in a drawer during that same sequence, another small nod tucked into the background.

The reasoning for reusing this character is practical: it was actually easier for Pixar to reuse Jerry from Jerry's Game and just change his character a little bit than it was to build an entirely new character from scratch with animation. That is why a familiar face turns up in this repair scene rather than an original character.

For anyone who does not recognize the name or has never seen the short, Jerry's Game is the Pixar short film where the character originates, and that is the reference point for who he is.

Jessie's Line About Abraham Lincoln Connects to a Real Tom Hanks Family Tie

When Jessie first meets Woody, she says, "sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln." That line is tied to a real detail about Tom Hanks, who voices Woody: Hanks is actually related to Abraham Lincoln through blood, specifically as his third cousin four times removed.

This may have just been a coincidence, so there is no claim that the line was written deliberately because of Hanks' real family tree. Even framed as a possible coincidence rather than a confirmed intentional joke, it is "pretty awesome" that the line and the real bloodline connection line up the way they do.

What did you notice in Toy Story 2 that turned out to have a hidden story behind it?