Hamm

Hamm’s Personality and Story Role

Hamm has always been the toy most likely to say out loud what everyone else is thinking. Dry, quick, and perpetually skeptical, he serves as the group’s resident realist, cutting through optimism with a raised eyebrow and a well-timed quip. In Toy Story 5, the toys must reckon with Lilypad, a frog-shaped smart tablet that has become Bonnie’s new obsession, and Hamm’s no-nonsense outlook makes him a natural voice for the group’s collective anxiety. His tech-savviness, a trait established as far back as his channel-surfing marathon in Toy Story 2, gives him a unique angle on a conflict that is less about a rival toy and more about the slow obsolescence of play itself.

Who Voices Hamm in Toy Story 5?

John Ratzenberger reprises the role he has held since Pixar’s very first feature in 1995. A cornerstone of the franchise, Ratzenberger brings the same dry wit that made Cliff Clavin, his Emmy-nominated role on the long-running NBC sitcom Cheers, an icon of American television comedy. Beyond Cheers and the Toy Story series, Ratzenberger has lent his voice to nearly every Pixar production over three decades, including The Underminer in The Incredibles and Mack in the Cars franchise.