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Celia: "So, uh, are we going anywhere special tonight?"
Mike: "I...I just got us into a little place called, um, Harryhausen's."
Celia: "Harryhausen's? But it's impossible to get a reservation there."
Mike: "Not for Googley Bear.
Celia and Mike

Harryhausen's (pronounced HAIR-ree-HOW-zinz) is a Japanese restaurant in Monstropolis in the 2001 Disney/Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc.. Difficult to get a reservation at, it is where Mike Wazowski takes Celia Mae out to for a date on her birthday.

Appearances[]

Monsters, Inc.[]

Harryhausen's is the restaurant where Mike takes his girlfriend Celia to for her birthday dinner in Monsters, Inc.. The greeting shouted when visitors arrive is: "Get a paper bag!"

During Mike's dinner with Celia, Sulley shows up to tell Mike about Boo, the human girl who somehow got into the monster world. However, she breaks away from Sulley and makes her presence known to all the patrons, causing mass panic in the restaurant. The Sushi Chef calls the CDA for help, and they arrive at the restaurant and round up everybody inside for decontamination. Mike and Sulley manage to escape with Boo, but Celia is caught. The entire restaurant is then closed off from the city in a green force field. It was after the incident in the restaurant that all of Monstropolis became aware of Boo's presence in the monster world.

The restaurant scene is also featured in Mike's company play Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me, where Mr. Bile participates as the Sushi Chef in this play.

Monsters at Work[]

In the first episode, Mike says that since he and Sulley caused the incident at Harryhausen's, they've been banned for life. However, in the fourth episode, it is revealed their ban was lifted after their promotion, proven in the end when Mike goes there with Gary Gibbs, sharing the "dinner for two" grand prize.

Trivia[]

  • The restaurant is named after the famous stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. Such noticeable examples of Harryhausen's work include films like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Valley of Gwangi (1969), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), and Clash of the Titans (1981).
  • In both the storybook version and storyboards of Monsters, Inc., the CDA destroyed the restaurant by blowing it up, but because of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, it was changed to the restaurant being quarantined under a force field in the finalized version of the film in order to show respect to the victims.
    • A remnant of the original scene can be seen in the final film when the CDA show Waternoose the bag Boo was in, in which viewers can see burn marks on it.
  • Marlin from the next film Finding Nemo is shown on the wall behind the Sushi Chef in the restaurant. On an interesting note, Finding Nemo was released a year and a half later.
  • A billboard of the restaurant makes a cameo in Cars 2.
  • The overall design of the restaurant resembles a Japanese sushi restaurant.
  • In the Russian dub of the film, Harryhausen's sushi restaurant is named Godzilla's.
  • The restaurant also made a brief cameo in the short Tokyo Mater, complete with car-ified versions of Mike and Sulley that appeared earlier in a Cars version of Monsters, Inc. (Monster Trucks, Inc.) that was among the Cars versions of other Pixar films shown during the credits of Cars.
  • The fact that the monster employees yell, "Get a paper bag!" whenever someone enters the restaurant may be a reference to the fact that Japanese employees at restaurants and other stores yell, "Irasshaimase!" whenever someone enters. A similar Japanese saying and interpretation shows up in Toy Story 2 when Al, while talking with Mr. Koneishi, says, "Don't touch my mustache!", a mnemonic of the Japanese term for "You're welcome."
  • According to the directors in the audio commentary for the original film, Mike was supposed to propose marriage to Celia at the restaurant, but it was scrapped because, according to Dan Gerson, they realized that it already showed that Mike was going to have a split with Sulley, and thus they felt that it would clash with Sulley becoming attached to Boo, as that was what they wanted to cause the split.
  • A piece of trash containing a logo that very closely resembles the Harryhausen's sign can be seen in Toy Story 3.
  • In the Monsters at Work pilot episode "Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated", Mike mentions that he and Sulley got banned from Harryhausen's for life because of Boo. However, by the fourth episode "The Big Wazowskis", Mike mentions that thanks to his and Sulley's promotion, their ban from Harryhausen's has been lifted. This is proven at the end of the episode when Mike has to take his bowling rival Gary Gibbs to the restaurant after both of their bowling teams tied (the grand prize was a dinner for two at Harryhausen's).

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Films and Television: Monsters, Inc. (video/soundtrack) • Monsters University (video/soundtrack) • Mike's New CarParty CentralMonsters at Work (soundtrack)

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Entertainment: "A Whole New World" A Magical Disney SongbookDisney's Showtime SpectacularPixar Playtime PalsTOGETHER: a Pixar Musical Adventure
Restaurants: Adorable Snowman Frosted Treats
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Characters
Monsters, Inc.: James P. SullivanMike WazowskiBooHenry J. Waternoose IIIRandall BoggsFungusRozCelia MaeNeedleman and SmittyFlintThaddeus BileJerryGeorge SandersonCharlie ProctorChild Detection AgencySushi ChefTonyJosh RiveraPete WardWaxfordTheodore PauleyLanky SchmidtYeti

Monsters University: Karen GravesFrank McCayArtTerri and Terry PerryScott SquibblesDon CarltonJohnny Worthington IIIChet AlexanderJavier RiosCarrie WilliamsDean HardscrabbleProfessor KnightSheri SquibblesClaire WheelerBrock PearsonArchie the Scare PigRosie LevinCarla BenitezMargaret GesnerSlug Monster Student
Monsters At Work: Tylor TuskmonMillie TuskmonBernard TuskmonMr. CrummyhamVal LittleFritzCutterDuncan P. AndersonRotoRozeBanana BreadOtisSnoreMariaGary GibbsArgus BlinksInspection EyesThalia FlintDavid

Episodes
Season One: "Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated" • "Meet Mift" • "The Damaged Room" • "The Big Wazowskis" • "The Cover Up" • "The Vending Machine" • "Adorable Returns" • "Little Monsters" • "Bad Hair Day" • "It's Laughter They're After"

Season Two: "A Monstrous Homecoming" • "The C.R.E.E.P. Show" • "Setting the Table" • "Opening Doors" • "It's Coming From Inside the House!" • "Field of Screams" • "Monsters in the Dark" • "Lights! Camera! Chaos!"

Songs
If I Didn't Have YouPut That Thing Back Where It Came From or So Help MeThe Scare FloorMonsters UniversityComedy Can Be DangerousI'm Not Gonna Sing You a Song
Locations
Paris, FranceMonstropolisMonsters, Inc.Harryhausen'sHimalayasBoo's RoomTrailer FolkMonsters UniversityFear TechThe Boiler Room (Monster's Inc.)
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Scarer's LeaderboardScream CanisterDoorScream ExtractorLittle MikeyPixar BallA113Pizza Planet Truck
See Also
Monsters, Inc.: Laugh FactoryThe Art of Monsters, Inc.Monsters (Original Treatment)Monsters, Inc. 2 (Circle 7 Screenplay)The Art of Monsters UniversityThe Science Behind PixarPixar in a BoxOozma KappaRoar Omega RoarJaws Theta ChiSlugma Slugma KappaEta Hiss HissPython Nu KappaScare Games
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