Eat and Bathroom

[SheriffHudson]

Do cars in the movie, either Eat or go to the restroom like humans? Like in the begining of the movie, you see the line to the women's bathroom, how can they go to the bathroom? And do they eat? Or they just drink oil or anything liquid? This was puzzing me.

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

I imagine they need to use the bathroom to drain the oil they are constantly drinking. Just like how a car needs an oil change every once in a while in the human world.

[foreignconcepts]

mm, what Reiji says makes sense, but the more I think about this, the more I think that this could be the one aspect of Cars that Pixar did not actually think out fully. It seems like a partially deployed idea to me - sure, there's the washroom gag at the beginning of the movie, but there doesn't appear to be facilities in any ther location in the film where there normally would be in real life (ie - hotels, which are places where cars would stay, eating establishments or gas pumps where cars would drink oil, etc). The only other reference would be Mater's "he did WHAT in his cup" and that seemned to be more a play on words than anything else...

Sarah

[foreignconcepts]

forgot to address the eating issue. this one seems straightforward to me. Gasoline = food. Cars burn gas like we burn calories for energy, and when they run out (read:get hungry) they need more of it, just like humans need more food.

[themuffinator3]

the bathroom thing has been bothering for the longest while. eventually I settled with the oil change thing...
and here's a thought: cars in our world require fluids other than oil and gasoline...like antifreeze...

[ebonyviper]

I kinda thought that anti-freeze was the equivalent of stomach acids in the human body...

[pookydoc]

doesn't ant-freeze taste sweet?

[ebonyviper]

I've heard of anti-freeze pops in the RPs. Hmmm... I guess like oil and gas, it's kinda recycleable or something...

[taiomega]

cars do have a large aray of things they could leak.. xD.... and if you ever look you can tell which people run thier AC.. that could be a cars water system... they would need to take in large amonts to keep them selfs cooler in weather like in RS....

also gets yah thinking that the average body temp for a car would be 200 to 220....

[Amethyst]

Ame once ate a Calzone pizza in an rp O.o

[darkdemonwithin]

I make my cars eat food all the time...like french fries and good stuff like that. But I think they eat...I mean, why would they have teeth if the didn't eat? Teeth would be kinda pointless...all they need were their gums XD

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

They need their teeth to speak as well. Otherwise they'd sound rather odd while making the "s" sound.

[pookydoc]

i dunno..they could probably speak differently from humans...
to me..cars probably sound just like another animal if we were to try to communicate with them..and vice versa..it woudl be kinda wierd for us to both speak the same type of communication..well..yeah XD
i'm like you too darkdemon..my cars can eat solid food..though perhaps gasoline is like water to them..they need it..it's important..though i think they can drink water to perhaps keep them cool..hmm.. *is confusing myself XD* i also think they crap/pee XD...

[dodgesuperbee]

If they are like our cars, they'd be able to take in gas frequently and "burn it off," needing a bathroom for only the occasional oil change or fluid "leak"...but I think they'd need to wee since they probably take in a larger amount of fluid than our cars, not to mention there's solid foods referenced in the movie like Gaskitts (spelling?) so they probably do need bathrooms!

For what it's worth, the Mack Trailer playset has a little bathroom area complete with sink, shower/carwash and *squee* tiny wall-mounted toothbrush, but no potty.

[foreignconcepts]

interesting observation...