- “Chalooby, baby.”
- ―Mike greeting Chalooby[src]
Chalooby is a character featured in the 2001 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Monsters, Inc..
Background[]
Personality[]
Chalooby serves as a factory janitor at Monsters, Inc. with his dialogues only consisting of nonverbal pig-like grunts. During his duty as a cleaner, he thoroughly works hard at cleaning up any slime trails in the corridors. However, he sometimes feels guilty of leaving his own slime trail, despite his hard work.[1]
Physical appearance[]
Chalooby is a pale yellow slug-like monster with five eyes located on his head. He is shown to have two arms on both sides of his body and has no legs. The slime trail that Chalooby leaves is usually teal green in color.
Appearances[]
Monsters, Inc.[]
Chalooby is first seen using a mop to sweep the floor, leaving a trail of slime behind. As Mike is on his way to talk to Roz, he greets him with a cool gesture, which Chalooby replies to Mike with a grunt. After leaving, Chalooby notices that he left the trail of slime, causing him to mop the floor again, despite his hard work. He later appears at the end of the film with several other employees of Monsters, Inc. witnessing Waternoose being arrested by the CDA.
Monsters at Work[]
Chalooby appears in the first episode "Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated", where he is first seen sweeping the floor with his mop. As Tylor was talking with Celia, Chalooby approaches him and Tylor unawarely sees him. He asks him where he would be if he were to enter Ms. Flint's office, which he replies to Tylor with a nonverbal grunt by pointing him to the direction where Ms. Flint would be.
Chalooby also appears in the eighth episode of the animated series "Little Monsters". He appears when Tylor tries to catch up with Thalia - unaware that Chalooby is leaving the slime trail behind which Tylor drives on the slime which Chalooby accidentally left, causing him to react in shock and then crash into the coffee cart with donuts and unawarely making Thalia laugh.
Trivia[]
- A witness who is interviewed during the newsflash scene has a striking resemblance to Chalooby, where he comments that his interaction with a human child caused him to "shake like a doll". However, it could be a random incidental character and not Chalooby. Unlike Chalooby whose dialogues only consist of pig-like grunts, the witness resembling Chalooby speaks.
- Chalooby holds the record for the longest time between his first appearance in the original Monsters, Inc. film and the first season of the Monsters at Work television series with nearly twenty years of absence in the franchise.
References[]
- ↑ Pixarpedia (pg. 120)
