Scream Canister

Scream Canisters are objects in the films, Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University. Their purpose is to store up the scream energy of human kids that the Scarers collect. Each Scream Canister would be taken to a different room in the factory, where the screams would be extracted and refined into energy. Later, when the company additionally began collecting children's laughs, bigger Laugh Canisters were created.

A notable scream canister belonged to Dr. Abigail Hardscrabble, the Dean of the School of Scaring at Monsters University. This canister contained the scream Hardscrabble collected, during her old career as a Scarer, that broke the All-Time Scare Record. However, it was accidentally knocked over from its pedestal by Sulley when he and Mike were trying to scare each other. The canister clattered on the ground, lossening its containment-lock, and unleashing the scream inside, causing it to fly about the Scaring School's lecture hall until the scream ran out and it broke.