A113

The door of Room A113 c. 2005

A113 (sometimes A-113, A-1-13, A1-13 or A11-3) is an inside joke and Easter egg in media developed by alumni of California Institute of the Arts, referring to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students including John Lasseter, Tim Burton, Michael Peraza, and Brad Bird. Bird first used it for a license plate number in the "Family Dog" episode of Amazing Stories. It has appeared in other Disney movies and almost every Pixar movie.

Bird said, "I put it into every single one of my films, including my Simpsons episodes—it's sort of my version of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld's 'Nina'."

Classroom A113 is currently the first-year graphic design studio.

A113 appearances

Television series

• Amazing Stories – "Family Dog" (season 2, episode 16): It is on the license plate of the red van, and also on the top of the clipboard the cop holds.
• American Dad!:
  • "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man" (season 1, episode 7): Stan's neighbor's license plate when he pulls into church.
  • "Love, American Dad Style" (season 9, episode 1): It is the license plate of the yellow 'Hummer' car.
  • "Permanent Record Wrecker" (season 9, episode 18): Seen on a boxcar rode by a hobo/former co-worker of Stan's.
• Bobby's World – "The Visit to Aunt Ruth's" (season 1, episode 1): The number on the card of Bobby's imaginary mugshot.
• BoJack Horseman – "Downer Ending" (season 1, episode 11): During BoJack's drug trip, the number is seen on a classroom door.
• Rugrats – "Little Dude" (season 1, episode 4B): The room number of the Home Economics class.
• The Simpsons:
  • "Krusty Gets Busted" (season 1, episode 12): Krusty the Clown's prison uniform number.
  • "Cape Feare" (season 5, episode 2): Sideshow Bob's mugshot number.
  • "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" (season 7, episode 9): Sideshow Bob's prison uniform number.
  • "Do the Bartman": The number on Bart's mugshot.
• Doctor Who – "Flatline" (series 8, episode 9): The first train carries the headcode A113.
• Tiny Toon Adventures, "How I Spent My Vacation": When Plucky and Hamton arrive at Happy World Land, a license plate reads "A-113" on one of the cars in the parking lot.
• The Zeta Project – "Remote Control" (season 1, episode 3): Bucky has a rocket ship labeled A113 in his room.

Pixar movies

• Toy Story series:
  • License plate number on Andy's mom's cars (a minivan in Toy Story and Toy Story 2, and a crossover in Toy Story 3).
  • Monsters University: The lecture hall where Mike and Sulley have their first class has this number on the door.
• Finding Nemo: The model number of the underwater camera used by the scuba diver.
• The Incredibles: The trap conference room number in Syndrome's lair (not seen but mentioned by Mirage). The prison level and cell where Mr. Incredible is held is "Level A1" in Cell #13 (A1 & 13). The power level control room monitors "Level A1", section "13", which is where the rocket is located. The office number of superhero costume designer Edna Mode. (The building she is in is the entranceway to CalArts.)
• Cars franchise:
  • Cars: It is the number on Trev Diesel, the freight train that Lightning McQueen outruns before he first arrives at the town of Radiator Springs. Trev Diesel was also made as a carrying case for the die-cast line and has A113 on it.
  • Cars 3: The number is used as a room number placed on the sliding door of Sterling's office.
• Ratatouille – Git, the lab rat, has a tag on his left ear that reads "A113". Also, when Linguini is asleep in front of the TV, A113 appears on a train behind the love couple.
• WALL-E – The code for the directive given to AUTO to never return to Earth, the first (and currently, only) time A113 had any real significance to a Pixar film's plot. It also seems to spell out part of WALL-E's name, WA11-3 (partial Leet). Also, when EVE and WALL-E arrive on the Axiom, as they leave the docking bay, the doors are marked Deck A-224 — 1 added to each digit of the reference.
• Up – The number of the courtroom that Carl goes to after he accidentally hits a construction worker to protect his mailbox.
• Brave – Written in Roman numerals (ACXIII) above the interior of the witch's cottage door.
• Inside Out – When Riley heads to her new school in San Francisco, she is put in room A113. Later, when Riley is heading towards the bus, she stops to see who is calling her. A building in the background has "a113" written in graffiti.

Other films

Disney

• The Brave Little Toaster (1987) – The apartment number where "The Master" lives.
• Lilo & Stitch (2002) – License plate number on all vehicles, including Cobra Bubbles' rental car, Captain Gantu's spaceship, Nani's car, fire truck, tanker truck and license plate in Lilo's room (used in Stitch's model of San Francisco). Also in television film Leroy & Stitch (2006).
• Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) – The license plate number of the carriage that has Mickey held as captive.
• The Princess and the Frog (2009) – A trolley is labeled number A113.
• The Avengers (2012) – A113 can be seen in the top left corner of all news clips near the end of the film, when the world reacts to the revelation of the Avengers. Also seen in the bottom right hand corner of Nick Fury's Helicarrier Glass Screens.
• Big Hero 6 (2014) – Appears as a part number on the schematics for Wasabi's energy blades as Hiro builds it.
• Avengers: Endgame (2019) - Appears on holographic screen during the Avengers's preparations to time travel.

Various

• The Iron Giant (1999) – License plate on car partially eaten by the Giant; the 3 is bitten off. Also in Dean's house there is a painting which has A113 on it.
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) – Hanaway's weaponized "class ring" has A113 emblazoned on the side. It is Ethan Hunt's extraction access code given over the phone and is on the plate of a car in front of the Kremlin during the big explosion, time at which the bomb's deactivation button is pushed "1.13 seconds".
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) – At the bottom right corner of the monitor when President Coriolanus Snow is watching Katniss Everdeen decide whether to kill someone in the arena.

Video games

• In Destiny, it is the name of an unknown area on the Dead Orbit Ghost fragment Grimoire card.
• In Fallout 4, it can be seen on one of the gas station signs in the gameplay demo and in the Brotherhood of Steel Cambridge computer logs.
• In Lego The Incredibles, it can be seen on numerous buildings fronts both in Municiberg and New Urbem, as well as on the side of the ship where the Anchor-Man is hiding.
• In War Thunder, it was included as a decal with certain event vehicles.

See also

• List of Pixar film references
• List of filmmaker's signatures
• 42 – The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, first used by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, often used as an in-joke
• Goroawase, a common Japanese language stylistic recourse in which numerical codes representing words are created with syllables that can be used to pronounce each numeral.

External links

• Media related to A113 at Wikimedia Commons
• Pixar Did You Know: A113 | Disney•Pixar