In Pixar’s Up (2009) Carl and Ellie break into their Paradise Falls savings jar in order to pay for Carl’s hospital bill, this is actually a clever reference to the fact that the American healthcare system is literal garbage.

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image showing In Pixar’s Up (2009) Carl and Ellie break into their Paradise Falls savings jar in order to pay for Carl’s hospital bill, this is actually a clever reference to the fact that the American healthcare system is literal garbage.

Liamiller on May 19th, 2020 at 03:45 UTC »

That nod was quite subtle

BreatheMyStink on May 19th, 2020 at 05:08 UTC »

Another detail: Ed Asner did not know he was being recorded for a movie. They just presented him with a fat Asian boy and they wrote a script around what he said.

whatup_pips on May 19th, 2020 at 06:03 UTC »

There's a goof later on; however, when Ellie is badly hospitalized, there's no money left in the jar (since Carl compulsively used it on plane tickets), yet Carl isn't shown to be in crippling debt after the fact.