Andy’s Mom Abandoned Jessie
We’re now crossing over into the realms of fan theory, but, to be honest, this one is so clear once you’ve pulled all the pieces of the puzzle together that it’s more like a hidden detail within the films themselves.
Everyone knows the tragedy of how Jessie the cowgirl was abandoned by her former owner Emily (no, don’t start blubbing in the middle of the sentence – keep it together, man), but it’s less immediately obvious that we’ve actually met Emily in the Toy Story movies. Yup, it’s Andy’s mom.
You see, there are many hints that Andy inherited his love of cowboys from her – his signature red stetson is near-identical to the one worn by Emily in Jessie’s flashbacks and she once calls Woody “an old family toy.” To top it all off, Emily swaps her Jessie posters for disco ones, suggesting this was the 1970s – which would make sense, considering Andy is a child in the 1990s.
Though no Pixar personnel have confirmed this, it just has to be the truth. Whether Jessie knows that she’s kind of been reunited with her Emily, we don’t know. Maybe Pixar are keeping quiet because they plan to make this reveal canon in the upcoming Toy Story 4?