In ‘Monsters at Work,’ the Scary Part Is the New Business Model

“Monsters at Work” begins the day after a pivotal event near the first film’s conclusion, when the Monsters, Inc., staff, which had been harvesting energy from children’s screams, learns that laughter is a superior power source. Now the goal is to become little ones’ comic dreams instead of their worst nightmares. But poor Tylor has trained his whole life to be scary.

“Great stories are told when there’s lots of change,” said Bobs Gannaway, the series’s developer and executive producer, in a phone interview. But he also wanted the series to be character-driven, centered on Tylor’s struggles to adapt after he realizes, “‘I was going to be the quarterback, and now I’m the water boy.’”

Tylor’s relegation to the Monsters, Inc. Facilities Team, or MIFT, is like being assigned to the mailroom — only dangerous. Fans of “Monsters, Inc.” will recall the factory’s rapid conveyor belt of doors that through high-tech mechanics…

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