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Dirk Libbey

Hoppers’ Writer Explains How One Of The Movie's Best Jokes Came To Be, And The Story Is Just As Funny

Beaver being grabbed by a bear in Hoppers.

Pixar’s Hoppers is getting near-universal praise and for a number of very good reasons. One of the things that many critics and fans have noted about the film is that it’s one of the funniest Pixar movies we’ve ever seen. And one of the movie's best jokes… is barely a joke at all, and somehow still hilarious.

Jesse Andrews wrote the screenplay for Hoppers, and in a recent post on Twitter told the story of how one of the moments that gets the biggest laughs in the theater came about. It’s a single line delivered by a spider who, in response to a question from another spider, drops the exasperated line, “It’s an arrow, Ted.”

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