One podcast season to rule them all.

This week, Jeff and Josue close out Season 4 — our Year of Trilogies — by skipping straight to the end of one of our favorite trilogies ever: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).

It’s our season finale, our milestone 75th episode, and the end of WDYT?! in its current format… so naturally, we picked the movie famous for having about eight endings.

We talk Middle-earth scale, Gandalf’s skin routine, Denethor’s tomato crimes, Sam and Frodo’s friendship, and whether Return of the King still feels as epic as it did the first time.

Plus: we open with One Quiz to Rule Them All — a Tolkien trivia game full of ancient beings, confusing family trees, and Middle-earth senior discounts.

Special thanks to Middle Earth Art Store for letting us use a few questions from one of their Tolkien trivia quizzes! Play their full quiz at Instagram.com/middleearthartstore.

🎙 This Week on WDYT?!:

00:00 Welcome to the Season 4 Finale

07:26 One Quiz to Rule Them All 🧙‍♂️

31:32 Return of the King Memories & Movie Context

41:54 Jumping Into Part 3 with Quotable Quotes

56:44 Aragorn, The Paths of the Dead & The Siege of Gondor

1:07:22 Sam, Frodo, Mount Doom & the Many Endings

1:15:42 Final Verdict: Does Return of the King Still Hold Up?

1:22:10 What’s Next for WDYT?!

1:26:20 Sailing to the Undying Lands

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You’ve reached After the Credits — where we dig into the extra trivia, weird details, and leftover thoughts from Toy Story 3.

Jeff & Josue stick around for one last trip to Sunnyside with behind-the-scenes facts, animation breakthroughs, and a few classic rabbit trails that somehow take us from Pixar… to Avatar… to Titanic (yes, really).

From Tom Hanks and Tim Allen recording together to boost Woody & Buzz’s chemistry, to early Lotso concepts hidden in Toy Story, to the surprisingly difficult challenge of animating… trash bags — there’s a lot more going on in this movie than you might expect.

Plus:

• A few “wait… how does THAT work?” Toy Story logic debates
• Creepy Toy Story moments we didn’t talk about enough 👀
• Pixar pulling inspiration from prison movies for Sunnyside
• And a real-time debate about what we should watch for our final episode of the season
  

It’s a relaxed, slightly nerdy cooldown for anyone who isn’t quite ready to leave Andy’s room just yet.

🎙 Chapters:

00:00 After the Credits Begins… (with a quick tangent)

06:05 Toy Story Trivia & Behind-the-Scenes

22:27 Tech Talk Tangent

26:34 Choosing Our Season Finale Movie

🎬 Companion to Ep. 74 — Toy Story 3 (2010)

If you haven’t listened to the full episode yet, we recommend starting there first.

🎧 Listener Question:

What’s a movie detail, plot hole, or “wait… HOW did that happen?” moment you can’t stop thinking about?

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Pixar did it again.

They lured us in with new toys, fresh adventure, and… Spanish Buzz? Then they pulled the rug out and gave us moments of real reflection about growing up and letting go.

This week, Jeff and Josue revisit Toy Story 3 (2010)—the movie that sends Andy to college, drops the toys into Sunnyside Daycare, and somehow turns into a prison break story with one of Pixar’s most emotional endings.

Is this the end… or just the beginning?

We talk Lotso’s arc, Pixar’s evolution, that near-death moment, and whether this was the ending the franchise should have stopped on—especially with Toy Story 4 and 5 now in the mix.

🎙 This Week on WDYT?!:

00:00 Childhood Toys & Growing Up

03:52 QUIZ: Pixar Movies Poorly Explained

13:41 Quick Facts & Pixar’s Run

26:17 Quotable Quotes: Story Walkthrough

36:21 Meet the New Toys (and Voices)

42:08 Lotso, Spanish Buzz & Toy Prison

51:34 Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Incinerator

1:02:43 Final Verdict: Hold Up or Pure Nostalgia?

1:09:16 Closing the Loop

1:14:01 What’s Next for WDYT?!

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Was Toy Story 3 the perfect ending?

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