The following episodes of Monsters at Work are listed in the order of their scheduled airing. The series debuted on the streaming service Disney+ on July 7, 2021 with two episodes, "Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated" and "Meet Mift". A second season was announced and it aired on April 5, 2024 on the Disney Channel and May 5, 2024 on Disney+.
Series overview[]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | ||
| 1 | 10 | July 7, 2021 | September 1, 2021 |
| 2 | 10 | April 5, 2024 | May 4, 2024 |
| Total | Series premiere | Series finale | |
| 1-2 | 20 | July 7, 2021 | TBA |
Season One (2021)[]
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Title | Disney + Release Date |
Disney Channel Airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 01 | "Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated" | July 7, 2021 | January 6, 2023 | |
| Monsters University scare graduate Tylor Tuskmon receives a letter of acceptance from Henry J. Waternoose III to be a scarer at Monsters, Incorporated. However, Tylor arrives at the factory the day after Waternoose's arrest by the Child Detection Agency for his plot to kidnap human children. The Board of Directors put Sulley and Mike in charge of the factory and give Roz's old position to her twin sister Roze. Under Sulley and Mike's new management, the company is revamped and needs jokesters instead of scarers. Having studied for a discontinued job, Tylor is transferred to MIFT (Monsters, Incorporated Facilities Team) as a maintenance worker, a position he dislikes and is eager to leave. He runs away from his new co-workers, bluffs his way onto the Laugh Floor and attempts to make a child laugh. Because of his lack of experience, his attempt backfires and results in a major accident. Nevertheless, Sulley believes in him and Tylor reluctantly accepts his position in the facilities crew while Mike decides to teach a comedy class to show scarers how to be funny. | |||||
| 02 | 02 | "Meet Mift" | July 7, 2021 | January 6, 2023 | |
| MIFT puts Tylor through an initiation ceremony, but his lack of enthusiasm and skill makes his future with them seem uncertain. Meanwhile, Mike struggles to keep up with his positions as both a jokester and a comedy teacher, and the energy crisis begins affecting Monsters, Inc. While Mike is making a child laugh, an outage causes the door to deactivate, trapping Mike in the human world. However, Mike is saved after Tylor helps the MIFT crew repair the door station. While celebrating Tylor's first successful repair job, the members of MIFT learn Winchester's actual name when he resigns to be a jokester after impressing Ms. Flint. | |||||
| 03 | 03 | "The Damaged Room" | July 14, 2021 | January 14, 2023 | |
| Phlegm damages a baby girl's bedroom, forcing MIFT to enter and quickly fix it. The child needs to be removed during the repair, so Mike decides to look after her and ends up naming her Snore, due to her snoring. Sulley reveals he got tickets to a baseball game and Mike takes Snore with them to see it. Val tries to remind Tylor of their time together at Monsters University, but he does not recall spending time with her. They manage to fix the room but get trapped when the door is accidentally deactivated. Val admits to Tylor that her time at Monsters University was special because he was the only one who spoke to her. Cutter gets them out of the room and Mike brings Snore back and sings her a lullaby to put her back to sleep. As they leave, Tylor gains a greater appreciation for Val and reveals that he recalls speaking to her at Monsters University. | |||||
| 04 | 04 | "The Big Wazowskis" | July 21, 2021 | January 14, 2023 | |
| At Monsters, Inc's annual bowling tournament, Mike gets into a heated bet against his charismatic rival/doppelganger Gary Gibbs. Taking the opportunity to impress Mike, Tylor offers to assemble MIFT into a bowling team to compete on Mike's behalf. An ecstatic Fritz appoints Tylor the team captain, but Tylor is dismayed when he discovers that he is the only one who can play well. Competing as "The Big Wazowskis", MIFT fumble their way to the top of the tournament by a series of accidents. Duncan, seeing another opportunity to get rid of him, tricks Tylor into misleading MIFT into thinking the match has been cancelled in exchange for a more skilled team. On the day of the match, MIFT confronts Tylor over his lie. Duncan's team abandons Tylor for his selfishness, but Tylor takes responsibility and, to Duncan's dismay, the rest of MIFT -out of loyalty- still compete through Tylor turning their lack of skill into brilliant plays. However, the match ends up being a tie, forcing Mike and Gary to share the grand prize of a dinner for two at Harryhausen's, much to Mike's annoyance. | |||||
| 05 | 05 | "The Cover Up" | July 28, 2021 | January 21, 2023 | |
| When Fritz takes a vacation to the human world, he spins a wheel to decide who will be temporary supervisor in his absence. The wheel lands on Val, but Duncan guilts Val into allowing him to be temporary supervisor. Duncan abuses the position with outrageous demands, particularly of Tylor. When Tylor engages in a prank to get even, however, Duncan retaliates and the pair accidentally cause a citywide blackout. MIFT reluctantly agrees to cover up the incident, but things get tense when an inspector from the Monstropolis Energy Regulatory Commission arrives and discovers the truth. When he confronts the team and threatens Duncan with banishment, he is accidentally knocked unconscious by a canister and Duncan and Tylor throw him through Fritz's vacation door. Two weeks later, Fritz and the inspector emerge and the inspector, having enjoyed his impromptu vacation, decides to let everyone off with a warning. As it all happened on Duncan's watch, Mike and Sulley confront him over his fireable offences but are convinced by Fritz to let it slide when both Tylor and Duncan take responsibility for the accident. | |||||
| 06 | 06 | "The Vending Machine" | August 4, 2021 | January 21, 2023 | |
| Tylor accidentally damages Vendy, the MIFT vending machine. At the same time, profits and morale are down at the company and Fritz is asked to fire one of the team members due to budget cuts, leaving Tylor worried about being fired due to his lack of repair skills. When Mike hears of the situation, he decides to improve company morale by making several outlandish and expensive upgrades to the facility, starting with a new vending machine for MIFT. However, an argument between Duncan and Tylor leads to the new machine being damaged and Duncan's attempts to repair it causes it to severely malfunction. When the machine attacks Duncan, Tylor destroys it to save him. A stressed Fritz announces that, rather than firing someone, he will retire. However, it turns out that Mike's ideas to boost morale have worked, increasing productivity and profits and Fritz stays on. The next day, Tylor surprises the team by revealing that he has repaired the original Vendy. | |||||
| 07 | 07 | "Adorable Returns" | August 11, 2021 | January 28, 2023 | |
| Tylor gets a chance to become an official jokester when Mike summons his comedy class to the Laugh Floor to help generate power during a heatwave. However, Tylor must first help fix the door rails. In his haste, he accidentally gets caught in one and ends up through a banishment door to the Himalayas where he meets Adorable, the Yeti who helped Mike and Sulley to return to the monster world. Val brings Tylor back, but they accidentally bring along Adorable, who reminisces on his past at Monsters, Inc. Everyone is afraid of him due to rumours about why he was banished. Val decides to find out why Adorable was banished, while Tylor opens up to him about wanting to be a jokester. After convincing him to go back through the door, Val informs Tylor that Adorable was banished after discovering a letter from Waternoose regarding plans for his Scream Extractor. Tylor gives up his chance to be a jokester to bring Adorable back to Monstropolis where Mike and Sulley formally un-banish him and make him the official Monsters, Inc. snow cone vendor. | |||||
| 08 | 08 | "Little Monsters" | August 18, 2021 | January 28, 2023 | |
| After several failed jokester auditions, Ms. Flint tells Tylor that he is not funny and will not be offered any more auditions. However, Tylor sees an opportunity to redeem himself during Monsters, Inc's annual 'Mini Monsters Day' when he attempts to impress Ms. Flint's daughter Thalia with his jokes. He briefly gets along with her when MIFT rescues a baby monster from the door shafts. Though she later tells him that he is not funny. While complaining to Val about Ms. Flint, Thalia overhears and says that she will go tell her mother. While chasing after Thalia, Tylor crashes into a coffee cart and inadvertently ends up making others laugh. He admits to Thalia that he wanted to make her laugh in the hope of becoming a jokester. His honesty earns him her respect and she tells MIFT that she enjoyed her day with them and that they are the unsung heroes of Monsters, Inc., including Tylor. Later, she tells her mother that she found Tylor funny. | |||||
| 09 | 09 | "Bad Hair Day" | August 25, 2021 | Febraury 4, 2023 | |
| Due to his previous failed auditions, Tylor believes that he will never become a jokester and decides to instead focus on being a perfect MIFT member. The other MIFT members are celebrating the anniversary of former employee David who was sucked into a shredder shaft and killed, aside from a lock of hair that they keep in a jar to honor him. To prove himself, Tylor offers to do tasks for the other MIFT members while they are out of the office. However, things go wrong when Duncan's pet Roto eats David's hair. Tylor eventually goes to the shredder shaft to find more of David's hair, and accidentally turns the shredder on. He manages to stop the shredder, but gets knocked out and dreams that he meets David. When he awakens, Tylor returns to the office and ends up admitting what happened. The others commend Tylor for his honesty and assure him that he is a good MIFT member, and it is revealed that they have a bag of David's hair to replace it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "It's Laughter They're After" | September 1, 2021 | February 4, 2023 | |
| Mike and Sulley are told by Roz that the Monstropolis Energy Regulatory Commission had found that Monsters, Inc. is not generating enough power. Unless the factory can generate one million gigglewatts in one day, laugh power will be considered unreliable and the factory will be shut down, with power needs transferring to their business rival Fear Co. Since laughs provide ten times more power than screams, Tylor reasons that they need to make larger canisters. While Cutter works on a prototype, Tylor is summoned to Ms. Flint's office where she tells him that his humor comes from physical comedy. Mike then makes Tylor a jokester-in-training to help the factory generate enough power. As he begins on the Laugh Floor, MIFT arrives to cheer him on. The power deadline is almost not met, until Cutter brings in the larger prototype canister and attaches it to Mike's door. After Monsters, Inc. is saved from shutting down, Tylor is transferred to the Laugh Floor as an official jokester. | |||||
Season Two (2024)[]
| No. in Series | No. in Season | Title | Disney + Release Date |
Disney Channel Airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 01 | "A Monstrous Homecoming" | May 5, 2024 | April 5, 2024 | |
| As the citizens of Monstropolis struggle to accept the newly discovered laugh power, Tylor's new job as a jokester ends up hitting a snag when he is unable to fill a single laugh canister in one day due to most children growing weary of his comedy routine of throwing doughnuts onto his horns. Soon, he goes to a homecoming celebration at Monsters University during a football game with Val and the rest of MIFT attending for moral support. Tylor ends up embarrassing himself by trying to explain to the crowd that he is now a jokester. After getting words of encouragement by fellow M.U. alumni and the head of Fear Co., Johnny Worthington III, Tylor attempts to fill his canister late at night, but accidentally makes a kid scream, causing the canister to mix with laugh and scream power. | |||||
| 12 | 02 | "The C.R.E.E.P. Show" | May 5, 2024 | April 5, 2024 | |
| Tylor and Val visit their MIFT friends to find that they have a new employee named Roger Rogers. Mike, Sulley, Tylor, Val, Fritz, Cutter, Duncan, Smitty, and Needleman then attend the Convention for Reliable Energy, Efficiency and Power (C.R.E.E.P.) on behalf of Monsters, Inc. However, the company has been demoted to a half-size booth near the restroom in the convention's alternative energy section for switching to laugh power. As Tylor walks around the convention floor lamenting his struggles as a jokester, he gets mocked by a trio of monsters for his embarrassing speech at the football game, causing him to angrily prove his scariness in FearCo.'s scare simulator, breaking it with his powerful roar. As Mike and Sulley hold a presentation proving that laugh power is more powerful than scream power, Tylor discovers that his canister's laugh and scream power mixture is volatile and is about to explode. Just after Mike and Sulley successfully prove laugh power's efficiency, Tylor takes away the canister and brings it to the restroom, allowing it to explode safely away from others in a stall. At the end of the convention, Johnny, impressed by Tylor's scaring ability from earlier, hands his Fear Co. business card to Tylor, telling him to "stay in touch". | |||||
| 13 | 03 | "Setting the Table" | May 5, 2024 | April 13, 2024 | |
| Tylor plans to meet Johnny for dinner at a restaurant after work, though he discovers that MIFT, Mike, Sulley and a few Monsters, Inc employees have come to the same restaurant to commemorate Fritz when he decides to make a big announcement. Tylor goes back and forth to be both at Fritz's party in a back room and at Johnny's table. In the midst of all this, Johnny reveals that he wants to hire Tylor as a scarer at FearCo., much to Tylor's shock. Fritz reveals that his big announcement is that he is cutting back on his favorite soft drink, much to Duncan's disappointment as he thought Fritz was going to retire. Johnny ends up finding out that Mike and Sulley are at the restaurant, and he apologizes to them for a television interview from that morning which made laugh power look bad. After everyone else leaves the restaurant, Tylor and Val stay behind and Tylor reveals to Val about Johnny's offer, and he finds that Johnny has left behind a scare card of his father Jack on the seat. | |||||
| 14 | 04 | "Opening Doors" | May 5, 2024 | April 13, 2024 | |
| Tylor plans to visit FearCo. during lunch to return Johnny's scare card of his father and decline his job offer. However, Johnny takes him on an impromptu tour of FearCo. and Tylor finds himself impressed with the factory. He soon meets a drop-out jokester-turned-scarer Rosie who tells Tylor she took the FearCo. job because she felt that she was meant to be a scarer. Tylor ultimately declines Johnny's job offer. Johnny respects the decision and Tylor leaves when he finds out he stayed way past lunchtime. During Tylor's absence, Val has to cover for him in order to avoid rousing suspicion and manages to fill a canister can of laughs by befriending a human child. This gets Mike's attention and offers her a position as jokester, to her surprise. Meanwhile, the rest of MIFT are visited by a canister inspector named Sunny, who accuses Cutter of causing the canisters to leak, so the MIFT crew alongside Smitty and Needleman spend the day trying to find the source, but cannot find any leaks. Later that night, Duncan finds Tylor's discarded coffee cup with the FearCo. logo on it. | |||||
| 15 | 05 | "It's Coming From Inside the House!" | May 5, 2024 | April 20, 2024 | |
| Mike and Sulley witness Val make the robotic child in the simulator room laugh. Val soon leaves and goes to Tylor's home, where his family is having a stoop sale and he is reluctant to part with his prized possessions, so Val trys to help him get rid of them. The other members of MIFT come to the sale as customers (though Duncan is investigating on whether or not Tylor is responsible for the canister leaks and in the process, cozies up to Tylor's grandmother for information). Tylor is soon persuaded to part with his things when he learns from an argument between his father and grandmother that their family is struggling financially. That night, Tylor's grandmother reveals that she was once a scarer but had to retire to raise Tylor's father. Tylor begins second-guessing his decision to turn down Johnny Worthington's offer to be a scarer at FearCo. Duncan's investigation ends up short, despite gathering some circumstantial information. | |||||
| 16 | 06 | "Field of Screams" | May 5, 2024 | April 20, 2024 | |
| Monsters, Inc. and Fear Co. compete against each other at a softball game. During all of this, Tylor's anxiety about everything that has been happening causes him to reconsider turning down Johnny's offer to be a scarer. Mike and Sully offer Val a job as a jokester and she struggles to tell Tylor about it. Tylor soon learns from Johnny that the latter gave the scarer position to another monster named Skylar, much to his frustration. Eventually, Val tells Tylor about the job offer, to his shock. Soon, Tylor accidentally knocks out Skylar and Johnny asks him to pitch for FearCo. in his stead and Val becomes the hitter which soon results in him making his final throw for her to hit, but he catches the ball, costing Monsters, Inc. the game. As the monsters board the bus back to the company, Tylor finds his friendship with Val strained. | |||||
| 17 | 07 | "Monsters in the Dark" | May 5, 2024 | April 27, 2024 | |
| Mike and Sulley call in Tylor. MIFT and some of the other subordinates in a deep basement for a meeting in hopes to boost morale after the softball incident, with Tylor and Val's friendship still strained. After Fritz tells the story of a monster called Karlov "The Shrieker" who despises laughter. Soon, Mike and Sulley go missing, and Tylor, Val, and Roger go to search for them. During this, Tylor and Val finally unleash their frustrations with each other following the softball incident and they soon find some mysterious claw marks on the floor. Going back to the gang, they hatch a plan to use an old banishment door powered up by an outdated generator. When Val fails to release the door due to the lever getting stuck, Tylor is forced to improvise and pull the door down when "The Shrieker" arrives when Val has the monsters lure him out with laughter. However, "The Shrieker" is revealed to be a disguised Mike and Sulley, who put on the whole act in order for the monsters to work together. Val soon tells Tylor that she will take Mike and Sulley's offer as a jokester. | |||||
| 18 | 08 | "Lights! Camera! Chaos!" | May 5, 2024 | April 27, 2024 | |
| News anchors Jack and Jill visit Monsters, Inc. with Mike and Sulley hoping to boost Laugh Power's potential. As Tylor and MIFT celebrate, Celia calls them to the Laugh Floor as it has been vandalized and has MIFT clean up the place before Jack and Jill see it. However, Tylor and Val notice that Roger is acting suspicious and their investigation soon leads to them reading up on his file in Fritz's office. Mike and Sulley become aware of the damage and try to stall Jack and Jill before they see the Laugh Floor. When MIFT is unable to clean the vandalism, they use the discarded doors to hide it just as the news anchors arrive. However, Mike accidentally causes a chain reaction that exposes the vandalism and Tylor exacerbates the situation by revealing that Roger is actually Waternoose's son. In Mike and Sulley's office, they explain that they are well aware of Roger's familial connection and that he actually approves of Monsters, Inc. trading Scare Power for Laugh Power. Things get worse for Tylor when Duncan reveals some stolen items found in Tylor's locker and accuses Tylor of being a saboteur sent by FearCo., causing Tylor to reveal Worthington's job offer, but Val is hesitant to defend him on account of his lack of support. Frustrated, Tylor leaves and calls up Worthington to ask for a job while Val get assigned to be a jokester. | |||||
| 19 | 09 | "Descent into Fear" | May 5, 2024 | May 4, 2024 | |
| Tylor and Val begin their first days as a Scarer at FearCo. and a jokester at Monsters, Inc. respectively, all while they’re still dealing with the fallout from the previous episode. Tylor finds that the scorers at FearCo. are fiercely competitive with each other, with the top scarer Joy being the worst. Soon enough, Tylor is tasked with scaring Ben, the kid he used to perform for, but after scaring him to tears, Tylor begins rethinking his stance on being a scarer. At M.I., there is a shortage of laugh canisters, forcing the jokesters to work overtime in order to provide power to the city. At a FearCo. press conference, Johnny announces that the company is creating a machine that exchanges scream energy just as a blackout happens and Johnny seems Monsters, Inc. the responsible party. He then brings Tylor to a secret room where he reveals that he’s been stealing laugh canisters from M.I. with help from the villain from the first film, Randall Boggs. | |||||
| 20 | 10 | "Powerless" | May 5, 2024 | May 4, 2024 | |
| Randall explains that he’s been stealing laugh energy from Monsters, Inc. and delivering them to FearCo. and was responsible for other mishaps that befell M.I., including making Tylor the fall guy. Tylor learns that Johnny is mixing laugh and scream power which he knows will cause the building to explode. Desperate to stop Johnny when he plans to unveil the ‘Scream Enhancer’ later that night, Tylor goes to MIFT just as M.I. is being closed off by M.E.R.C. and tells them what’s happening. Despite the bad blood between them, they agree to help Tylor by remaking Waternoose’s old scream extractor to separate the scream power. They go to FearCo.’s receiving station to put their plan into motion while Tylor and Val try to distract Johnny from activating the machine. Randall tries to stop MIFT and after a battle, the plug for the scream extractor is broken by a falling stalactite, but Chet, revealing to be an agent of M.E.R.C., uses his tail as a substitute plug, saving Monstropolis. Tylor and Val then expose Johnny’s actions on live TV and Johnny is arrested by M.E.R.C. To prove laugh power’s merit, Tylor and Val bring the news crew to Ben’s door. With Val at his side, the monster duo manage to make Ben laugh in front of Monstropolis. Tylor goes back to M.I. and both he and Val begin making kids laugh together. | |||||
