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Cars Toons
Genre	Miniseries
Created by	John Lasseter
Developed by	Disney/Pixar
Directed by	John Lasseter, Rob Gibbs, Victor Navone
Starring	Larry the Cable Guy Keith Ferguson
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	5 (2 unaired) (list of episodes)
Production
Producer	Kori Rae
Running time	2-3 mins.
Production company	Pixar
Original release
Network	Toon Disney (2008) Disney XD (2009-)
Release	October 27, 2008 (2008-10-27) – present

A Cars Toon: Mater's Tall Tales (A Cars Toon for short) is an animated short series by Pixar featuring the characters Mater and Lightning McQueen from the film Cars. The shorts' episodes air on Disney Channel, Disney XD, ABC Family, and formerly on Toon Disney, and their first broadcast was on October 27, 2008. Not exclusive to television, they have also premiered as theatrical shorts, such as with the 2008 film Bolt.

Plot

All of the Cars Toons follow the same tall tale formula: Mater tells a story of something he has done in the past. In the story, Mater finds himself in an inescapable predicament. When McQueen questions Mater over whether the events in the story actually occurred, Mater responds, "Don't you remember? You was there too!", and continues the story including McQueen's sudden participation. The cartoons end with Mater leaving the scene, often followed by characters or references to the story that was being told, putting up a possibility that the story might be real. Each story includes Mater, Lightning McQueen, Mia and Tia (the two red cars that adore Lightning McQueen), and various pit crew cars.

Characters

See also: List of Cars characters

Main characters

• Mater (Larry the Cable Guy): The titular character and protagonist of the short series. He has careers on his pastime, and always tells McQueen about what he used to be.
• Lightning McQueen (Keith Ferguson): One of the main characters of the short series. He is Mater's best friend, but does not believe him about his career life in each episode.

Secondary characters

• Mia and Tia (Lindsey Collins and Elissa Knight): Lightning's biggest fans who adore him.
• Fillmore (George Carlin): Sarge's roommate and a hippie car.
• Sally Carrera (Bonnie Hunt): Lightning's girlfriend who first appears in Season 3.

Production

Tokyo Mater premiered in theaters in the US with Bolt on December 12, 2008. The short is the first Disney-Pixar production presented in Disney Digital 3-D. Mike and Sulley from Monsters Inc. (who are seen at the end of Cars) make cameo appearances in Tokyo Mater. There is an advertisement for Buy and Large from Wall-e Popular trance artist BT provided the full soundtrack; his logo appears as a lit sign in Tokyo. Tokyo Mater is also accompanying the UK release. The episode is basically a parody of the 2006 Universal Studios film The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Merchandising

It was announced that Cars Toons were to be released as part of the Disney-Pixar Cars Die-Cast Line, in mid-2009. In October 2009, they released several diecasts. They released all of the Rescue Squad Mater and Mater the Greater diecasts, and are currently working on El Materdor diecasts.

Episodes

Main article: List of Cars Toons episodes

Seasons		Episodes	First airdate	Last airdate
	1	3	October 27, 2008	October 29, 2008
	2	4	November 20, 2009	TBA

See also

• Tall tales

External links

Watch the short films at the official Cars web site:

• Rescue Squad Mater
• Mater the Greater
• El Materdor
• mater Tokyo Mater
• Unidentified Flying Mater

IMDb pages:

• Rescue Squad Mater
• Mater the Greater
• El Materdor
• Tokyo Mater

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