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''The Brave Little Toaster'', [[NeverTrustATitle despite its title]] ([[CoversAlwaysLie and its cover]]), has also become notorious as [[{{NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster}} one of the most scary movies Disney ever produced]], with gems like the song "[[FridgeHorror Worthless]]", as you'll see [[NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster here]].
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''The Brave Little Toaster'', [[NeverTrustATitle despite its title]] ([[CoversAlwaysLie and its cover]]), has also become notorious as [[{{NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster}} [[NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster one of the most scary movies Disney ever produced]], with gems like the song "[[FridgeHorror Worthless]]", as you'll see [[NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster here]].
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** ItGotWorse during the "Worthless" scene, set in a junk yard: [[spoiler: there's a huge magnet seeking out the toaster and crew, to throw them all into a compactor - essentially attempting to ''murder'' them as ''they run away from it and hide in fear for their lives''. Meanwhile, it actually ''is'' throwing cars into the compactor.]]
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** ItGotWorse It turns FromBadToWorse during the "Worthless" scene, set in a junk yard: [[spoiler: there's a huge magnet seeking out the toaster and crew, to throw them all into a compactor - essentially attempting to ''murder'' them as ''they run away from it and hide in fear for their lives''. Meanwhile, it actually ''is'' throwing cars into the compactor.]]
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-->'''Personified hearse''': I took a man to a grave yard. I beg your pardon, but it's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have learned.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kirby eventually loses patience with the other appliances and flat out tells them he'd be better off without them. In the next scene [[spoiler: Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, and the Radio fall into the waterfall, leaving Kirby all alone.]]
* BigShutUp: Lampy gets a collective "shut up" after [[RuleOfThree the third time he fails to come up with a good method of transportation.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kirby eventually loses patience with the other appliances and flat out tells them he'd be better off without them. In the next scene [[spoiler: Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, and the Radio fall into the waterfall, leaving Kirby all alone.]]
* BigShutUp: Lampy gets a collective "shut up" after [[RuleOfThree the third time he fails to come up with a good method of transportation.]]
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-->'''Personified hearse''': I took a man to a grave yard.graveyard. I beg your pardon, but it's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have learned.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kirby eventually loses patience with the other appliances and flat out tells them he'd be better off without them. In the next scene [[spoiler: Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, and the Radio fall into the waterfall, leaving Kirby allalone.]]
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* BigShutUp: Lampy gets a collective "shut up" after [[RuleOfThree the third time he fails to come up with a good method oftransportation.]]transportation]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kirby eventually loses patience with the other appliances and flat out tells them he'd be better off without them. In the next scene [[spoiler: Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, and the Radio fall into the waterfall, leaving Kirby all
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* DerangedAnimation: This movie is full of it, appearing in the NightmareSequence, "[[BlackHumor It's a B-Movie]]", "[[DisneyAcidSequence Cutting Edge]]", and the junkyard scene.
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* DerangedAnimation: This movie is full of it, appearing in the NightmareSequence, "[[BlackHumor "[[BlackComedy It's a B-Movie]]", "[[DisneyAcidSequence Cutting Edge]]", and the junkyard scene.
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* OneSceneWonder: Air Conditioner
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
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** In the first movie, Radio almost gets his tube taken out at Elmo's and barely gets saved before that can happen. In ''To The Rescue,'' [[spoiler:it does get taken out. {{He Gets Better}}]]
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** In the first movie, Radio almost gets his tube taken out at Elmo's and barely gets saved before that can happen. In ''To The Rescue,'' [[spoiler:it does get taken out. {{He Gets Better}}]]]]
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** In the first movie, Radio almost gets his tube taken out at Elmo's and barely gets saved before that can happen. In ''To The Rescue,'' [[spoiler:it does get taken out. HeGetsBetter]]
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** In the first movie, Radio almost gets his tube taken out at Elmo's and barely gets saved before that can happen. In ''To The Rescue,'' [[spoiler:it does get taken out. HeGetsBetter]]{{He Gets Better}}]]
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** The last vehicle to be crushed in the song "Worthless." He worked his tires off on a reservation his entire life, and then was abandoned and called worthless by his owner. [[DrivenToSuicide It affects him so much that when the crane comes for him, he instead drives right onto the conveyor belt.]]
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* ArgumentOfContradictions: Blanky accusing Lampy of stepping on him triggers a back-and-forth chorus of "Did not!" "Did too!" between Lampy and the rest of the group. Even Kirby the vacuum cleaner gets in on the action.
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''The Brave Little Toaster'', [[NeverTrustATitle despite its title]] ([[CoversAlwaysLie and its cover]]), has also become notorious as one of the most scary movies Disney ever produced, with gems like the song "[[FridgeHorror Worthless]]", as you'll see [[NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster here]].
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''The Brave Little Toaster'', [[NeverTrustATitle despite its title]] ([[CoversAlwaysLie and its cover]]), has also become notorious as [[{{NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster}} one of the most scary movies Disney ever produced, produced]], with gems like the song "[[FridgeHorror Worthless]]", as you'll see [[NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster here]].
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* {{Zeerust}}: Avarted with the main characters, who are based on contemporary designs of the 50's. Despite their age, they are perfectly functional and have not been made obsolete, even as of 2012 (moslty). These two factors make the main characters somewhat timeless.
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* {{Zeerust}}: Avarted with the main characters, who are based on contemporary designs of the 50's. Despite their age, they are perfectly functional and have not been made obsolete, even as of 2012 (moslty).(mostly). These two factors make the main characters somewhat timeless.
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** If we want to get really specific, it's a "joint venture" between Hyperion and Taiwan's WangFilmProductions. The backgrounds, camera work, ink, paint, and most of the animation was done by WFP. Disney had nothing, zero, to do with the production. Nothing at all. See ExecutiveMeddling.
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** If we want to get really specific, it's a "joint venture" "[[InternationalCoProduction joint venture]]" between Hyperion and Taiwan's WangFilmProductions. The backgrounds, camera work, ink, paint, and most of the animation was done by WFP. Disney had nothing, zero, to do with the production. Nothing at all. See ExecutiveMeddling.
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* OhCrap: Kirby freaks out upon reaching the waterfall.
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* KarmaHoudini: The electromagnetic crane. It shows no compunctions against killing a human just so it can finally eliminate a few very evasive appliances, and suffers visible no consequences for doing so.
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Though it didn't get much of a theatrical release, it's still fondly remembered and has become somewhat of a cult classic by its own right amongst many kids of the late Eighties and Nineties thanks to its airings on the Disney Channel and its home video release. It's proved to be a popular enough film to grant two direct-to-video sequels, and neither of them really sucked. As a side note, some of the people behind this film (such as John Lasseter and Joe Ranft) went on to go work for [[{{Pixar}} another company specializing in heartwarming animated features...]]
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Though it didn't get much of a theatrical release, it's still fondly remembered and has become somewhat of a cult classic by its own right amongst many kids of the late Eighties and Nineties thanks to its airings on the Disney Channel and its home video release. It's proved to be a popular enough film to grant two direct-to-video sequels, and neither of them really sucked. As a side note, some of the people behind this film (such as John Lasseter and Joe Ranft) went on to go work for [[{{Pixar}} another company specializing in heartwarming animated features...]]
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-->'''Radio''': A blow for Richard! A blow for Marion! A blow for Mario, the garbage man! And for Carl and all the boys at the delicatessen! And here's one for the guys on 5th street!
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-->'''Radio''': A blow for Richard! A blow for Marion! A blow for Mario, the garbage man! And for Carl and all the boys at the delicatessen! And here's one for the guys on 5th street! street!
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* {{Fingore}}: The Master almost goes into the compactor hands first.
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* OneMarioLimit: {{Averted|Trope}} with Kirby, who debuted before [[{{Kirby}} the video game character]]. (He's named after the vacuum company, [[CaptainObvious which also debuted before the video game character]].)
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
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* OneMarioLimit: {{Averted|Trope}} with Kirby, who debuted before [[{{Kirby}} [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} the video game character]]. (He's named after the vacuum company, [[CaptainObvious which also debuted before the video game character]].)
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
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* ShoutOut: Radio suggests going NorthByNorthwest while trying to find the city.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Watch ''The Brave Little Toaster'', then watch ''ToyStory 3''.
** Lampy and Radio could be the lost older siblings of [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo]]!
** Lampy and Radio could be the lost older siblings of [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo]]!
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Watch ''The Brave Little Toaster'', then watch ''ToyStory ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 3''.
** Lampy and Radio could be the lost older siblings of[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo]]!
** Lampy and Radio could be the lost older siblings of
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* UnbuiltTrope: As mentioned under OlderThanTheyThink in the YMMV tab, this film was already [[AscendedFridgeHorror taking apart]] the concept of living inanimate objects well before ''[[ToyStory Toy Story 3]]''.
* UncleTomfoolery: Plugsy. Oh so very, '''very''' much. He may be a [[FantasticRacism Talking Purple Lamp]], but its still applicable. His voice, his facial features, his mannerisms... if Uncle Tom were a real character, [[FantasticRacism and that character was a lamp]], that lamp would be Plugsy.
* UncleTomfoolery: Plugsy. Oh so very, '''very''' much. He may be a [[FantasticRacism Talking Purple Lamp]], but its still applicable. His voice, his facial features, his mannerisms... if Uncle Tom were a real character, [[FantasticRacism and that character was a lamp]], that lamp would be Plugsy.
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* UnbuiltTrope: As mentioned under OlderThanTheyThink in the YMMV tab, this film was already [[AscendedFridgeHorror taking apart]] the concept of living inanimate objects well before ''[[ToyStory ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Story 3]]''.
* UncleTomfoolery: Plugsy. Oh so very, '''very''' much. He may be a [[FantasticRacism Talking Purple Lamp]], but its still applicable. His voice, his facial features, his mannerisms... if Uncle Tom were a real character, [[FantasticRacism and that character was a lamp]], that lamp would be Plugsy.
* UncleTomfoolery: Plugsy. Oh so very, '''very''' much. He may be a [[FantasticRacism Talking Purple Lamp]], but its still applicable. His voice, his facial features, his mannerisms... if Uncle Tom were a real character, [[FantasticRacism and that character was a lamp]], that lamp would be Plugsy.
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Can be observed with Lampy. Near the beginning of the film, he explains his ideas of how they can travel before they're implemented, with hilarious (but failed) results. When they're trying to come up with a plan to save Radio from having his tube taken out, he simply says he has a plan -- which then works.
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Can be observed with Lampy. Near the beginning of the film, he explains his ideas of how they can travel before they're implemented, with hilarious (but failed) results. When they're trying to come up with a plan to save Radio from having his tube taken out, he simply says he has a plan -- which then works.
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* YellowPeril: Look closely at the blue boombox during "Cutting Edge" and '''tell me you don't see it'''. All its missing is is a Sony or Panasonic logo! It even has slanted eyes! Well, [[FantasticRacism slanted, notches on its knobs, which are implied to be its eyes]].
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* YellowPeril: Look closely at the blue boombox during "Cutting Edge" and '''tell me you don't see it'''. All its missing is is a Sony or Panasonic logo! It even has slanted eyes! Well, [[FantasticRacism slanted, notches on its knobs, which are implied to be its eyes]].
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* UnbuiltTrope: As mentioned under OlderThanTheyThink in the YMMV tab, this film was already [[AscendedFridgeHorror taking apart]] the concept of living inanimate objects well before ''[[ToyStory Toy Story 3]]''.
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** The partly disassembled appliances and their [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] VillainSong.
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* ShesAManInJapan: Lampy is female in some versions, such as the German, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs.
** [[TomboyandGirlyGirl Tomboy in Brazil, Girly Girl in Germany and Somewhere in Between in Poland]].
** [[TomboyandGirlyGirl Tomboy in Brazil, Girly Girl in Germany and Somewhere in Between in Poland]].
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* TeamMom: Toaster, although it has an {{ambiguous gender}}, often falls into this role, especially once the others start to argue.
** And taking care of clingy, crying [[CryingLittleKid Blanky]].
** And taking care of clingy, crying [[CryingLittleKid Blanky]].
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Lampy and Radio, Type 2.
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* WithOrWithoutYou
-->'''Toaster''': Well, I'm going, with or without you.
-->'''Toaster''': Well, I'm going, with or without you.
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* BerserkButton: Don't remind the Air Conditioner that he's stuck in the wall. The results will not be pretty.
* {{Big Damn Hero|es}}: Kirby during the waterfall scene.
* {{Big Damn Hero|es}}: Kirby during the waterfall scene.
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* TheBlank: Radio
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* ConspiracyTheorist: The Air Conditioner, due to the preferential treatment the other appliances received, developed wild theories about them which are revealed during his rather disturbing death scene.
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* CryingLittleKid: Blankey.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Kirby and the Air Conditioner.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Sometimes Lampy speaks a little like this sometimes.
-->'''Lampy:''' All of a sudden, you're being so darn nice to him all of a sudden.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Sometimes Lampy speaks a little like this sometimes.
-->'''Lampy:''' All of a sudden, you're being so darn nice to him all of a sudden.
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* HeroicBSOD: Poor Kirby.
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* IWasJustPassingThrough: Kirby tries to pull this as an excuse for rescuing the others from the waterfall ("I just slipped and fell in, that's all!") None of them buy it.
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* LargeHam: The Radio.
** Heh... [[AWorldwidePunomenon Ham Radio]].
*** Kinda comes with the territory, since Radio's character is a mixture of the news broadcaster and the radio dramatist.
** No love for TV?
* LeastIsFirst: Blanky, the youngest and weakest of the group, is the first to join Toaster to find the Master
** Heh... [[AWorldwidePunomenon Ham Radio]].
*** Kinda comes with the territory, since Radio's character is a mixture of the news broadcaster and the radio dramatist.
** No love for TV?
* LeastIsFirst: Blanky, the youngest and weakest of the group, is the first to join Toaster to find the Master
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* MotorMouth: The radio.
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* NotSoStoic: When Kirby is finally all alone. He doesn't handle it well, to say the least.
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* OneSceneWonder: The air conditioner.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: [[{{Pixar}} A113]] is on an apartment door.
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The original film was followed by two sequels. The first sequel was ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars''. The second sequel, ''The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue'', actually takes place between the other two films, making it a sequel and a prequel simultaneously.
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** The partly disassembled appliances and their [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] VillainSong.
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*** Actually, Disney does get credit in the movie for handling the main title and the opticals.
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** The can opener/lamp/shaver is an obvious Joan Rivers sound-alike, so it's only appropriate that it makes a self-deprecating quip.
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* NonSingingVoice: JimCummings subs for Alan King as the Supreme Commander in "Goes to Mars"' "Fight Right" song.
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** Lampy and Radio could be the lost older siblings of [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo]]!
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* [[TomboyandGirlyGirl Tomboy in Brazil, Girly Girl in Germany and Somewhere in Between in Poland]].
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* FirstTimeInThesun: When the appliances first leave the cabin.
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[[caption-width:230:[[CoversAlwaysLie The film is not quite as cheery as this picture.]] [[hottip:*:[[ComicallyMissingThePoint The vacuum isn't pink.]]]]
'''''The Brave Little Toaster''''' is a 1987 animated film produced by Hyperion Pictures, distributed by Disney, and based on a children's novel by Thomas M. Disch.
The film centers on five appliances -- the eponymous Toaster, Lampy (a lamp), Kirby ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_Company a vacuum]]), Radio ([[ADogNamedDog guess]]), and Blanky (an electric blanket) -- who live in a old cabin out in the woods. The appliances have been left behind by their Master, a young boy, and have been waiting for him to return for years. When the cabin is put up for sale, the appliances determine to go find the Master (who, unknown to them, is now a young man getting ready for college) by making a journey to the city.
Though it didn't get much of a theatrical release, it's still fondly remembered and has become somewhat of a cult classic by its own right amongst many kids of the late Eighties and Nineties thanks to its airings on the Disney Channel and its home video release. It's proved to be a popular enough film to grant two direct-to-video sequels, and neither of them really sucked. As a side note, some of the people behind this film (such as John Lasseter and Joe Ranft) went on to go work for [[{{Pixar}} another company specializing in heartwarming animated features...]]
''The Brave Little Toaster'', [[NeverTrustATitle despite its title]] ([[CoversAlwaysLie and its cover]]), has also become notorious as one of the most scary movies Disney ever produced, with gems like the song "[[FridgeHorror Worthless]]", as you'll see [[NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster here]].
'''WARNING:''' If you plan on seeing this film, please make sure you're not going to be replacing or throwing out any old appliances in the near future. You ''will'' regret it.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, the new appliances that Toaster and the others meet in Rob's apartment aren't nearly as mean as they are in the movie. They are actually quite helpful, aiding the old appliances in finding a new owner, and even a little guilty about their part in the replacement of the old appliances.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The balloons in Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars seemed like a giant BigLippedAlligatorMoment, right? In the book, they actually served a purpose: The balloons helped push the laundry-basket spacecraft to Mars, and one mylar balloon, who became friends with Toaster because they were both reflective, decided to accompany the group to Mars and proved to be a reasonably competent navigator.
* {{Adorkable}}: Rob and Lampy both fit this description to a tee!
* AllAnimationIsDisney: ''Distributed'' by Disney. ''Actually'' made by Hyperion Pictures.
** If we want to get really specific, it's a "joint venture" between Hyperion and Taiwan's WangFilmProductions. The backgrounds, camera work, ink, paint, and most of the animation was done by WFP. Disney had nothing, zero, to do with the production. Nothing at all. See ExecutiveMeddling.
*** Fox also financed some of the film (in exchange for the foreign rights). Disney and Fox later became rivals in animation.
** The sequels however, were by Disney.
* TheAllegedCar: "Worthless"
* AmbiguousGender: The Toaster. In the book Toaster is explicitly without gender, in films one could get into minutia but really there is no clear indication either way. Aggravating as this may be to some, the movie's target audience either doesn't notice or doesn't care.
** Director Jerry Rees and Toaster's own voice actress, Deanna Oliver, refer to Toaster as "she" and "her" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZzjeAejsg here starting at 53:30]]. Can we say updated WordOfGod declares Toaster is female?
** In ''Goes to Mars'', it's referred to as "him" during the "Humans" song. Perhaps his/her gender will forever be a mystery.
** Kirby refers to Toaster and Blanky as "boys" and in "It's A B-Movie" one of the appliances in the shop clearly says, "You must be the new boys in town."
** When Toaster is lost in the river after the failed waterfall crossing:
-->'''Kirby''': Where's Toaster?\\
'''Lampy''': He sank!
* AndThatsTerrible: Mack in ''To The Rescue'', who even states he's "so bad".
* AndThisIsFor: Played for laughs by Radio:
-->'''Lampy''': Hey, come over here. I'm gonna...
-->'''Radio''': Why, do you dare to cross foils with the greatest Saxon swordsman in the land? Haven't you the slightest idea who you're dealing with?
-->'''Lampy''': [[TakeThat Precisely - a total idiot!]]
-->'''Radio''': If your sabre wags as loosely as your Norman tongue, you'll be run through in an instant. Defend yourself, Sir Lampy of Locksley!
-->''[Radio continually whacks Lampy with his antenna, Blanky falls on them]''
-->'''Radio''': A blow for Richard! A blow for Marion! A blow for Mario, the garbage man! And for Carl and all the boys at the delicatessen! And here's one for the guys on 5th street!
* AnimateInanimateObject: Type 1.
* ArtEvolution: The sequels look somewhat different to the original. Switching over to [[MorningSun another studio from Wang]] also made this noticeable.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: The idea of anthropomorphic electronics sharing a world with humans is {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed with themes of materialism and abandonment.
** ItGetsWorse during the "Worthless" scene, set in a junk yard: [[spoiler: there's a huge magnet seeking out the toaster and crew, to throw them all into a compactor - essentially attempting to ''murder'' them as ''they run away from it and hide in fear for their lives''. Meanwhile, it actually ''is'' throwing cars into the compactor.]]
*** To make ''that'' even worse, [[spoiler: the cars are singing a song about how helpless and worthless they feel. Some attempt to escape the magnet, which is pretty horrifying in itself, but even more disturbing is others ''convey that they want to die'' and fully understand the concept of death, even though they are objects.]]
-->'''Personified hearse''': I took a man to a grave yard. I beg your pardon, but it's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have learned.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kirby eventually loses patience with the other appliances and flat out tells them he'd be better off without them. In the next scene [[spoiler: Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, and the Radio fall into the waterfall, leaving Kirby all alone.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't remind the Air Conditioner that he's stuck in the wall. The results will not be pretty.
* BigDamnHero: Kirby during the waterfall scene.
* BigShutUp: Lampy gets a collective "shut up" after [[RuleOfThree the third time he fails to come up with a good method of transportation.]]
-->'''Radio:''' Shut up! Shut up!
-->'''Toaster, Kirby, and Blanky:''' SHUT UP!
* BlackComedy: How the appliances at Elmo St. Peter's shop have chosen to deal with their situation, and the basic idea behind the "B-Movie" song.
* TheBlank: Radio
* CaptainObvious[=/=]SarcasmBlind: Lampy, when Air Conditioner denies laughing at them.
-->'''Lampy:''' I think he was laughing at us.
-->'''AC:''' [[SarcasmMode You know something, you're a real bright little lamp.]]
-->'''Lampy:''' Oh thanks! ({{Beat}}) "Heeeeeyy...."
* CoolCar: The red car (people are split as to whether its a Corvette or a Plymouth Superbird that's been rear-ended) during "Worthless".
* CompanionCube: This film is based around this trope.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The Air Conditioner, due to the preferential treatment the other appliances received, developed wild theories about them which are revealed during his rather disturbing death scene.
* ContemptibleCover: As mentioned by the caption above, the cover art depicts this movie as a light-hearted family flick. The actual film is a ''far cry''.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: Which leads to a crusher that mashes you into a cube.
* CorruptHick: The toaster oven during "Cutting Edge". She has a southern accent, and offers a bit of back-handed "[[SacredHospitality Southern Hospitality]]" to Toaster in the form of some muffins, while flaunting how much more advanced she is and zaps him a second later.
* CoversAlwaysLie: '''Do. They. Ever.''' If you think the one above is bad, another cover for the DVD shows the main five characters and the younger master skipping down a [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz yellow road]] surrounded by twinkling stars.
* CrapsaccharineWorld
* CryingLittleKid: Blankey.
* CulturalTranslation: During the "Worthless" song, the Indy 500 car instead mentions running the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring Nürburgring]] in the German dub.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The appliances in Elmo Saint Peter's parts shop may be broken, tinkered with, and twisted by the events they have seen, but they are by no means evil. You COULD say that they're resigned to their fate in a fairly unhealthy, EXTREMELY macabre way, however...
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film has a significantly darker tone than the book, which is an interesting inversion to what [[{{Disneyfication}} usually happens]] to animated adaptations of books.
** Also in comparison to the sequels.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirby and the Air Conditioner.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Sometimes Lampy speaks a little like this sometimes.
-->'''Lampy:''' All of a sudden, you're being so darn nice to him all of a sudden.
* {{Determinator}}: The magnet crane is a ''terrifying'' example of this.
* DerangedAnimation: This movie is full of it, appearing in the NightmareSequence, "[[BlackHumor It's a B-Movie]]", "[[DisneyAcidSequence Cutting Edge]]", and the junkyard scene.
* DespairEventHorizon: The appliances of Elmo Saint Peter's parts shop have been convinced that being able to escape is all a joke. As for the cars of "Worthless," however, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name says it all]].
* DisneyAcidSequence: "Cutting Edge (More More More)".
* DisneyDeath:
** [[spoiler: The Toaster.]] This might also apply to [[spoiler: Lampy]] and [[spoiler: the air conditioner]].
** In the first sequel, [[spoiler: Radio]].
** In the second sequel, [[spoiler: Tinselena]].
* {{Dissimile}}:
--> '''Radio''': We're trapped here like rats! Small, little rats [[{{Metaphorgotten}} with no hair and one leg]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The Air Conditioner in the first movie.
** In ''Goes to Mars'', Tinselena becomes this [[spoiler: after her HeroicSacrifice]], and decides to throw herself into the garbage can. [[spoiler: She is ultimately saved when Chris finds her and decides to give her a makeover.]]
** There is a ''literal'' example in the original where a green truck drives himself onto the ConveyorBeltOfDoom instead of letting the magnet crane get him.
* DyingAlone: There is one scene when the poor little flower realizes that it was loving its own reflection on Toaster after he runs away, and as he peeks into the bushes, he notices that the flower is losing its petals as it dies emotionally alone and brokenhearted. So disturbing... [[TearJerker and heart-breaking]]!
* EarnYourHappyEnding: And how.
* TheEighties: Especially with the new appliances and electronics that appear in the movie.
* ElectrifiedBathtub: Naturally, how Toaster's horrific dream ends.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding
* EvilBrit: The ridiculously large [[NoNameGiven projector/stereo/mainframe/entertainment-system/generic high-tech device]] (possibly a BeepingComputer) seen in the apartment and "Cutting Edge" has a somewhat vague British accent, but like all the "Cutting Edge" appliances he is definitely an evil JerkAss.
* EvilLaugh: The clown in Toaster's dream puts all other evil laughs to shame. Arguably, the laugh done to start "It's a B-Movie," though not done by anyone evil.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** Both the "It's a B-Movie" and "Worthless" numbers. And in a particularly horrific scene, Rob ''just'' misses being added to this list.
** The air conditioner getting worked up to the point of aneurysm, and dying... ''on camera.''
--->'''Blanky:''' Poor Air Conditioner...
--->'''Toaster:''' I didn't think he'd take it so hard.
--->'''Kirby:''' Eh, he was a jerk anyways.
*** He got better.
* FatBastard: Mack in ''To The Rescue''.
* {{Fingore}}: The Master almost goes into the compactor hands first.
* FirstTimeInThesun: When the appliances first leave the cabin.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Toaster
** TheLancer: Lampy
** TheSmartGuy: Radio
** TheBigGuy: Kirby
** TheChick: Blanky (and if you're watching the German version, Lampy.)
** Kind of ironic seeing how in the books Kirby was the alleged leader and Toaster was just [[RousingSpeech the thing that kept them moving.]]
* ForcedToWatch: The most logical reason for why the lamp, the only appliance in the junk shop not clearly abused/reassembled, is as insane as the rest. He got to ''help'' with most or all of the other ones. And he's a ''light'', so he had a good view...
* FreezeFrameBonus: [[{{Pixar}} A113]] is on an apartment door.
%%Getting Crap Past the Radar already has its own page. Do not list it here.
* FrenchJerk: The food processor in "Cutting Edge". Also, implied to be a SupremeChef.
** Would also be EverythingSoundsSexierinFrench, if it weren't JustAStupidAccent.
* GilliganCut: When making travel plans, Radio takes over from Lampy in finding a mode of transport on the grounds that he has a better idea. Cut to Radio trying to turn Blanky into a magic carpet.
** While Toaster & Kirby are clearly annoyed, Lampy has a look of excitement on his face, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments as if he's expecting Blanket to lift off at any second.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: In ''To the Rescue'' when Sebastian shows what the animal testers did to his arm.
* GossipyHens: The [[MultipleHeadCase sewing machine]].
* GrumpyBear: Kirby.
* {{Hammerspace}}: The appliances' cords tend to disappear when they aren't being used.
* HappinessInSlavery: Not truly slavery per se. The appliances know that some day they will wear out, but they will go with the knowledge that they were useful and loved.
** Though, the Master is determined to rebuild his appliances so they'll last extra longer.
* HeroicBSOD: Poor Kirby.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Hey, there's a reason this movie's called the ''Brave'' Little Toaster....]]
** Again, [[spoiler: Lampy]] gets one of these too.
** [[spoiler: Radio]] gets one in one of the sequels.
** [[spoiler: Tinselena in ''Goes to Mars''.]]
* TheHomewardJourney
* HopeSpot: The song "City of Light." Things go [[ItGotWorse pretty downhill for a while]] after that.
* HuddleShot
* HumansAreSpecial / HumansAreBastards: One of the main themes throughout the films. Some humans use machines well and treat them kindly, but others are willing to toss out faithful ones in pursuit of newer models. Comes to a head in ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars''.
* HypocriticalHumor: In the third movie, when arguing about what the hearing aid is useful for, this exchange occurs:
--> '''Lampy''': Yeah, none of us needs a hearing aid.
--> '''Kirby''': What did you say?
--> '''Lampy''': ''I said none of us needs a hearing aid!''
* IncrediblyLamePun: Lampy has watts of 'em!
* InsaneProprietor: Done by the TV to get the Master to go to the junkyard.
* {{Irony}} / IronicEcho: Tons. Examples:
** Elmo St. Peters, after the blender hides, says something along the lines of "It couldn't have just got up and walked away."
*** When Radio hides, he said "What did it do? Just get up and walk away?"
** HUGE situational irony. After the appliances' journey, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Rob/The Master actually ''was'' coming back for them]].
*** Also, [[spoiler:Kirby suggested that they just stay in the cottage. Only that someone will buy the cottage and have a new master]].
** It is ironic that Lampy, who is physically bright, is not that bright mentally.
*** And yet it is he [[spoiler: who figures out a way to save Radio's life.]]
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Kirby tries to pull this as an excuse for rescuing the others from the waterfall ("I just slipped and fell in, that's all!") None of them buy it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kirby.
** Ratso the rat in the sequels.
* KillEmAll: The aforementioned cars in the song "Worthless." All of them are crushed, and one even [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide by driving himself into the crusher.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The Supreme Commander in ''Goes to Mars'' thinks that he should be voted for simply because he is bigger than everyone else.
* LargeHam: The Radio.
** Heh... [[AWorldwidePunomenon Ham Radio]].
*** Kinda comes with the territory, since Radio's character is a mixture of the news broadcaster and the radio dramatist.
** No love for TV?
* LeastIsFirst: Blanky, the youngest and weakest of the group, is the first to join Toaster to find the Master
* {{Leitmotif}}: Each character has their own theme.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Like recharge a battery.
* LighterAndSofter: The sequels.
* LiteralMinded: From ''Goes to Mars'':
--> '''Balloon''': Howdy y'all! Where ya headed?
--> '''Toaster''': Mars!
--> '''Balloon''': (Laughing) You're pulling my string!
--> '''Blanky''': No we're not, we're way over here, and you're way over there.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain [=/=] TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Supreme Commander in the third movie turns out to be the hearing aid's long lost brother.]]
* MeaningfulName: The appliance shop owner is named Elmo St. Peters--as in "Saint Peter", as in "the guy you see shortly after your death". Fitting for a man who runs a store where everything's on its last legs, and alluded to in "B Movie Show" ("You just tell St. Pete/That you got cold feet").
** Also, "St. Elmo's fire" is an electrical aura that sometimes appears around pointed objects (like ships' masts) in stormy weather. So "Elmo" is a meaningful name for an electrician.
* MonsterClown: One shows up in the Toaster's brief NightmareSequence.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdZh8a4ZvE Run!]]
* MoodWhiplash / ShooOutTheClowns: From silly animal antics to a Narcissus flower dying of a broken heart in a heartbeat...until one of the [[MonsterClown clowns returns]].
* MotorMouth: The radio.
* NeverTrustATrailer: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Td3WCwNYVs The VHS trailer]] for the movie didn't do too much better than [[CoversAlwaysLie the cover]] on making it look like it was a very [[DarkerAndEdgier Dark and Edgy]] movie.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Literally. The "cutting edge" appliances try to off the main characters.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The air conditioner (a Jack Nicholson sound-alike) and the hanging lamp (a Peter Lorre sound-alike). Of course, what did you expect, what with impressionist extraordinaire Phil Hartman doing their voices?
** The can opener/lamp/shaver is an obvious Joan Rivers sound-alike, so it's only appropriate that it makes a self-deprecating quip.
* NoNameGiven: The radio's name is never revealed nor is he addressed by any name in the first movie. However, in the sequels, he has been addressed by the other appliances as "Radio".
* NothingIsScarier: During the "Its a B-Movie" sequence, there are disembodied cords that drag characters away into the darkness.
* NotSoStoic: When Kirby is finally all alone. He doesn't handle it well, to say the least.
* OneMarioLimit: {{Averted|Trope}} with Kirby, who debuted before [[{{Kirby}} the video game character]]. (He's named after the vacuum company, [[CaptainObvious which also debuted before the video game character]].)
* OneSceneWonder: The air conditioner.
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
* PunchClockVillain: The magnet and the mechanic are both just doing their jobs.
** While that does apply to the mechanic (in his defense, he's unaware that the appliances he takes apart are alive), the magnet is still pretty evil, calmly dropping a human onto the ConveyorBeltODoom and all.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Air Conditioner: "IT'S MY FUNCTION!!!!!"
* PutOnABus: A very LiteralMinded example of this is the green pickup truck in the "Worthless" scene. He has literally been PutOnABus (as in ''literally'' sitting on top of a bus) and left to rot, even though he is still in perfect working order (his engine is already running when the magnet comes for him, and he drives himself away, [[spoiler:only for the camera to cut to him sitting on the ConveyorBeltODoom, not even trying to struggle despite being perfectly capable of out-running the magnet, implying he committed suicide]], averting the trope, but still implying it).
* QuicksandSucks: Mud in a swamp works just as well.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* RippedFromThePhoneBook
* RousingSpeech: In the first book Toaster gives one of these to the rest of its TrueCompanions.
* SayMyName: "TOASTER!!!" "BLANKY!!!"
* SettingOffSong: "City of Light."
* ShesAManInJapan: Lampy is female in some versions, such as the German, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs.
* ShoutOut: Radio suggests going NorthByNorthwest while trying to find the city.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Expected in ''The Brave Little Toaster [[RecycledINSPACE Goes to Mars]]''. But then it's a kids' movie, and they ''are'' appliances.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Watch ''The Brave Little Toaster'', then watch ''ToyStory 3''.
* StaggeredZoom
* StealthPun: There is a talking faucet in ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.'' See "HeyItsThatVoice" on the Trivia tab.
* SssssnakeTalk: Murgatroyd from ''To the Rescue''.
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:Air conditioner after the Master fixed him. AC recognized the Master and realized he was wrong about him and really does care.]]
** Some viewers thought that those were regretful tears for [[spoiler: doubting the Master to begin with]].
*** And others always thought they were a reference to the beginning of the film, where we see AC's anger at never being "played with" by the Master (what with being stuck in the wall and the Master being too short to reach). Yet now the Master is all grown up and can not only reach him, but resurrect him.
*** It's probably all of the above.
* TeamMom: Toaster, although it has an {{ambiguous gender}}, often falls into this role, especially once the others start to argue.
** And taking care of clingy, crying [[CryingLittleKid Blanky]].
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The computers, telephones, ''etc''. that brag about their features now sound horribly dated a decade-and-a-half later. Yet the main characters who are demeaned as 'outdated' would still all be fairly useful today.
** FridgeBrilliance: Wasn't that the whole point?
** The new appliances' song 'Cutting Edge' also has the lyric: ''From [=LEDs=] to [=CRTs=], Woofers, '''tweeters''', antenna trees...''. There must have been something else called Tweeters...
*** Woofers and tweeters are speakers.
* ThankTheMaker
* ThatPoorPlant: The saddest example of this trope ever done.
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: The Air Conditioner becomes hot-tempered literally and figuratively, as he irately turns red after the other appliances offend him with mentioning that he's incapable of mobility unlike the others, and he becomes so heated he breaks down.
** The Giant Magnet from the junkyard turns gold (or yellow) with fury rather than the normal red, trying to attract and collect the appliances.
* TruckDriversGearChange: All of the songs contain at least one instance.
* UncleTomfoolery: Plugsy. Oh so very, '''very''' much. He may be a [[FantasticRacism Talking Purple Lamp]], but its still applicable. His voice, his facial features, his mannerisms... if Uncle Tom were a real character, [[FantasticRacism and that character was a lamp]], that lamp would be Plugsy.
** Could be any number of things from innocent but UnfortunateImplications to GettingCrapPastTheRadar, hard to tell since he only has about 2 minutes of total screen time, and most of that is during a musical number.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Can be observed with Lampy. Near the beginning of the film, he explains his ideas of how they can travel before they're implemented, with hilarious (but failed) results. When they're trying to come up with a plan to save Radio from having his tube taken out, he simply says he has a plan -- which then works.
** Earlier, due to the group being distracted, Lampy didn't tell anyone he was going to [[spoiler: use himself as a lightning rod]]. He just did it. And it worked.
* VillainSong: Both of which are [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]]:
** While they aren't exactly ''villains'', the insane machines in "Like A Movie" (aka "It's a B-Movie") do a wonderful job of showing the horror of waiting to be taken apart for spares. And they aren't bad shadow puppeteers either.
** A more directly evil example is "Cutting Edge", where the new appliances sing an egotistic preview of their superiority to the main characters.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Lampy and Radio, Type 2.
* WasntThatFun: Kirby throws out a sarcastic quip as the entire party is sinking helplessly into a mud puddle, with him being the first to go.
-->'''Kirby:''' "Oh, this is ''great fun!'' Let's make these outings a regular thing!"
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler: If the appliances had simply stayed at the cottage, the Master would've have come back to get them for college.]] They never learn that though.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Don't. Get us. '''Started.'''
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Elmo St. Peters is really not evil or anything. He's a regular guy [[DesignatedVillain who takes apart appliances and sells the parts]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The appliances have a fear of water, Kirby and Toaster more than the others. Understandably, since they're electric.
* WithOrWithoutYou
-->'''Toaster''': Well, I'm going, with or without you.
* YellowPeril: Look closely at the blue boombox during "Cutting Edge" and '''tell me you don't see it'''. All its missing is is a Sony or Panasonic logo! It even has slanted eyes! Well, [[FantasticRacism slanted, notches on its knobs, which are implied to be its eyes]].
* YoureJustJealous: The air conditioner ridicules Toaster and the others for their optimism that their Master/Rob will come back one day. Toaster thinks its just a defense mechanism to hid the fact he's jealous of them because the Master never gave him much love as them. At first he denies it, but when Kirby points out he's stuck in a wall, his repressed rage kills him. ([[spoiler:He's repaired later in the movie, though.]])
** His ''real'' repressed rage was that The Master never played with him because he was too high on the wall. [[FauxSymbolism What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic?]]
* {{Zeerust}}: Avarted with the main characters, who are based on contemporary designs of the 50's. Despite their age, they are perfectly functional and have not been made obsolete, even as of 2012 (moslty). These two factors make the main characters somewhat timeless.
** Played straight with the appliances in the appartment Rob lives in. Though some of them are functionaly timeless, their 1980's designs have a more zeerust feel by modern standards. They are currently in the uncanny valley of design, essentially. It doesn't help their case that they chant about being on the [[HilariousInHindsight cutting-edge]]. In song, no less!
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Seeing as the movie is all about things being obsolete]], one could say [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWUgioSvsE Cutting Edge]] ages like fine wine.
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[[caption-width:230:[[CoversAlwaysLie The film is not quite as cheery as this picture.]] [[hottip:*:[[ComicallyMissingThePoint The vacuum isn't pink.]]]]
'''''The Brave Little Toaster''''' is a 1987 animated film produced by Hyperion Pictures, distributed by Disney, and based on a children's novel by Thomas M. Disch.
The film centers on five appliances -- the eponymous Toaster, Lampy (a lamp), Kirby ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_Company a vacuum]]), Radio ([[ADogNamedDog guess]]), and Blanky (an electric blanket) -- who live in a old cabin out in the woods. The appliances have been left behind by their Master, a young boy, and have been waiting for him to return for years. When the cabin is put up for sale, the appliances determine to go find the Master (who, unknown to them, is now a young man getting ready for college) by making a journey to the city.
Though it didn't get much of a theatrical release, it's still fondly remembered and has become somewhat of a cult classic by its own right amongst many kids of the late Eighties and Nineties thanks to its airings on the Disney Channel and its home video release. It's proved to be a popular enough film to grant two direct-to-video sequels, and neither of them really sucked. As a side note, some of the people behind this film (such as John Lasseter and Joe Ranft) went on to go work for [[{{Pixar}} another company specializing in heartwarming animated features...]]
''The Brave Little Toaster'', [[NeverTrustATitle despite its title]] ([[CoversAlwaysLie and its cover]]), has also become notorious as one of the most scary movies Disney ever produced, with gems like the song "[[FridgeHorror Worthless]]", as you'll see [[NightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster here]].
'''WARNING:''' If you plan on seeing this film, please make sure you're not going to be replacing or throwing out any old appliances in the near future. You ''will'' regret it.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, the new appliances that Toaster and the others meet in Rob's apartment aren't nearly as mean as they are in the movie. They are actually quite helpful, aiding the old appliances in finding a new owner, and even a little guilty about their part in the replacement of the old appliances.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The balloons in Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars seemed like a giant BigLippedAlligatorMoment, right? In the book, they actually served a purpose: The balloons helped push the laundry-basket spacecraft to Mars, and one mylar balloon, who became friends with Toaster because they were both reflective, decided to accompany the group to Mars and proved to be a reasonably competent navigator.
* {{Adorkable}}: Rob and Lampy both fit this description to a tee!
* AllAnimationIsDisney: ''Distributed'' by Disney. ''Actually'' made by Hyperion Pictures.
** If we want to get really specific, it's a "joint venture" between Hyperion and Taiwan's WangFilmProductions. The backgrounds, camera work, ink, paint, and most of the animation was done by WFP. Disney had nothing, zero, to do with the production. Nothing at all. See ExecutiveMeddling.
*** Fox also financed some of the film (in exchange for the foreign rights). Disney and Fox later became rivals in animation.
** The sequels however, were by Disney.
* TheAllegedCar: "Worthless"
* AmbiguousGender: The Toaster. In the book Toaster is explicitly without gender, in films one could get into minutia but really there is no clear indication either way. Aggravating as this may be to some, the movie's target audience either doesn't notice or doesn't care.
** Director Jerry Rees and Toaster's own voice actress, Deanna Oliver, refer to Toaster as "she" and "her" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZzjeAejsg here starting at 53:30]]. Can we say updated WordOfGod declares Toaster is female?
** In ''Goes to Mars'', it's referred to as "him" during the "Humans" song. Perhaps his/her gender will forever be a mystery.
** Kirby refers to Toaster and Blanky as "boys" and in "It's A B-Movie" one of the appliances in the shop clearly says, "You must be the new boys in town."
** When Toaster is lost in the river after the failed waterfall crossing:
-->'''Kirby''': Where's Toaster?\\
'''Lampy''': He sank!
* AndThatsTerrible: Mack in ''To The Rescue'', who even states he's "so bad".
* AndThisIsFor: Played for laughs by Radio:
-->'''Lampy''': Hey, come over here. I'm gonna...
-->'''Radio''': Why, do you dare to cross foils with the greatest Saxon swordsman in the land? Haven't you the slightest idea who you're dealing with?
-->'''Lampy''': [[TakeThat Precisely - a total idiot!]]
-->'''Radio''': If your sabre wags as loosely as your Norman tongue, you'll be run through in an instant. Defend yourself, Sir Lampy of Locksley!
-->''[Radio continually whacks Lampy with his antenna, Blanky falls on them]''
-->'''Radio''': A blow for Richard! A blow for Marion! A blow for Mario, the garbage man! And for Carl and all the boys at the delicatessen! And here's one for the guys on 5th street!
* AnimateInanimateObject: Type 1.
* ArtEvolution: The sequels look somewhat different to the original. Switching over to [[MorningSun another studio from Wang]] also made this noticeable.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: The idea of anthropomorphic electronics sharing a world with humans is {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed with themes of materialism and abandonment.
** ItGetsWorse during the "Worthless" scene, set in a junk yard: [[spoiler: there's a huge magnet seeking out the toaster and crew, to throw them all into a compactor - essentially attempting to ''murder'' them as ''they run away from it and hide in fear for their lives''. Meanwhile, it actually ''is'' throwing cars into the compactor.]]
*** To make ''that'' even worse, [[spoiler: the cars are singing a song about how helpless and worthless they feel. Some attempt to escape the magnet, which is pretty horrifying in itself, but even more disturbing is others ''convey that they want to die'' and fully understand the concept of death, even though they are objects.]]
-->'''Personified hearse''': I took a man to a grave yard. I beg your pardon, but it's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have learned.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kirby eventually loses patience with the other appliances and flat out tells them he'd be better off without them. In the next scene [[spoiler: Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, and the Radio fall into the waterfall, leaving Kirby all alone.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't remind the Air Conditioner that he's stuck in the wall. The results will not be pretty.
* BigDamnHero: Kirby during the waterfall scene.
* BigShutUp: Lampy gets a collective "shut up" after [[RuleOfThree the third time he fails to come up with a good method of transportation.]]
-->'''Radio:''' Shut up! Shut up!
-->'''Toaster, Kirby, and Blanky:''' SHUT UP!
* BlackComedy: How the appliances at Elmo St. Peter's shop have chosen to deal with their situation, and the basic idea behind the "B-Movie" song.
* TheBlank: Radio
* CaptainObvious[=/=]SarcasmBlind: Lampy, when Air Conditioner denies laughing at them.
-->'''Lampy:''' I think he was laughing at us.
-->'''AC:''' [[SarcasmMode You know something, you're a real bright little lamp.]]
-->'''Lampy:''' Oh thanks! ({{Beat}}) "Heeeeeyy...."
* CoolCar: The red car (people are split as to whether its a Corvette or a Plymouth Superbird that's been rear-ended) during "Worthless".
* CompanionCube: This film is based around this trope.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The Air Conditioner, due to the preferential treatment the other appliances received, developed wild theories about them which are revealed during his rather disturbing death scene.
* ContemptibleCover: As mentioned by the caption above, the cover art depicts this movie as a light-hearted family flick. The actual film is a ''far cry''.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: Which leads to a crusher that mashes you into a cube.
* CorruptHick: The toaster oven during "Cutting Edge". She has a southern accent, and offers a bit of back-handed "[[SacredHospitality Southern Hospitality]]" to Toaster in the form of some muffins, while flaunting how much more advanced she is and zaps him a second later.
* CoversAlwaysLie: '''Do. They. Ever.''' If you think the one above is bad, another cover for the DVD shows the main five characters and the younger master skipping down a [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz yellow road]] surrounded by twinkling stars.
* CrapsaccharineWorld
* CryingLittleKid: Blankey.
* CulturalTranslation: During the "Worthless" song, the Indy 500 car instead mentions running the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring Nürburgring]] in the German dub.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The appliances in Elmo Saint Peter's parts shop may be broken, tinkered with, and twisted by the events they have seen, but they are by no means evil. You COULD say that they're resigned to their fate in a fairly unhealthy, EXTREMELY macabre way, however...
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film has a significantly darker tone than the book, which is an interesting inversion to what [[{{Disneyfication}} usually happens]] to animated adaptations of books.
** Also in comparison to the sequels.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirby and the Air Conditioner.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Sometimes Lampy speaks a little like this sometimes.
-->'''Lampy:''' All of a sudden, you're being so darn nice to him all of a sudden.
* {{Determinator}}: The magnet crane is a ''terrifying'' example of this.
* DerangedAnimation: This movie is full of it, appearing in the NightmareSequence, "[[BlackHumor It's a B-Movie]]", "[[DisneyAcidSequence Cutting Edge]]", and the junkyard scene.
* DespairEventHorizon: The appliances of Elmo Saint Peter's parts shop have been convinced that being able to escape is all a joke. As for the cars of "Worthless," however, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name says it all]].
* DisneyAcidSequence: "Cutting Edge (More More More)".
* DisneyDeath:
** [[spoiler: The Toaster.]] This might also apply to [[spoiler: Lampy]] and [[spoiler: the air conditioner]].
** In the first sequel, [[spoiler: Radio]].
** In the second sequel, [[spoiler: Tinselena]].
* {{Dissimile}}:
--> '''Radio''': We're trapped here like rats! Small, little rats [[{{Metaphorgotten}} with no hair and one leg]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The Air Conditioner in the first movie.
** In ''Goes to Mars'', Tinselena becomes this [[spoiler: after her HeroicSacrifice]], and decides to throw herself into the garbage can. [[spoiler: She is ultimately saved when Chris finds her and decides to give her a makeover.]]
** There is a ''literal'' example in the original where a green truck drives himself onto the ConveyorBeltOfDoom instead of letting the magnet crane get him.
* DyingAlone: There is one scene when the poor little flower realizes that it was loving its own reflection on Toaster after he runs away, and as he peeks into the bushes, he notices that the flower is losing its petals as it dies emotionally alone and brokenhearted. So disturbing... [[TearJerker and heart-breaking]]!
* EarnYourHappyEnding: And how.
* TheEighties: Especially with the new appliances and electronics that appear in the movie.
* ElectrifiedBathtub: Naturally, how Toaster's horrific dream ends.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding
* EvilBrit: The ridiculously large [[NoNameGiven projector/stereo/mainframe/entertainment-system/generic high-tech device]] (possibly a BeepingComputer) seen in the apartment and "Cutting Edge" has a somewhat vague British accent, but like all the "Cutting Edge" appliances he is definitely an evil JerkAss.
* EvilLaugh: The clown in Toaster's dream puts all other evil laughs to shame. Arguably, the laugh done to start "It's a B-Movie," though not done by anyone evil.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** Both the "It's a B-Movie" and "Worthless" numbers. And in a particularly horrific scene, Rob ''just'' misses being added to this list.
** The air conditioner getting worked up to the point of aneurysm, and dying... ''on camera.''
--->'''Blanky:''' Poor Air Conditioner...
--->'''Toaster:''' I didn't think he'd take it so hard.
--->'''Kirby:''' Eh, he was a jerk anyways.
*** He got better.
* FatBastard: Mack in ''To The Rescue''.
* {{Fingore}}: The Master almost goes into the compactor hands first.
* FirstTimeInThesun: When the appliances first leave the cabin.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Toaster
** TheLancer: Lampy
** TheSmartGuy: Radio
** TheBigGuy: Kirby
** TheChick: Blanky (and if you're watching the German version, Lampy.)
** Kind of ironic seeing how in the books Kirby was the alleged leader and Toaster was just [[RousingSpeech the thing that kept them moving.]]
* ForcedToWatch: The most logical reason for why the lamp, the only appliance in the junk shop not clearly abused/reassembled, is as insane as the rest. He got to ''help'' with most or all of the other ones. And he's a ''light'', so he had a good view...
* FreezeFrameBonus: [[{{Pixar}} A113]] is on an apartment door.
%%Getting Crap Past the Radar already has its own page. Do not list it here.
* FrenchJerk: The food processor in "Cutting Edge". Also, implied to be a SupremeChef.
** Would also be EverythingSoundsSexierinFrench, if it weren't JustAStupidAccent.
* GilliganCut: When making travel plans, Radio takes over from Lampy in finding a mode of transport on the grounds that he has a better idea. Cut to Radio trying to turn Blanky into a magic carpet.
** While Toaster & Kirby are clearly annoyed, Lampy has a look of excitement on his face, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments as if he's expecting Blanket to lift off at any second.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: In ''To the Rescue'' when Sebastian shows what the animal testers did to his arm.
* GossipyHens: The [[MultipleHeadCase sewing machine]].
* GrumpyBear: Kirby.
* {{Hammerspace}}: The appliances' cords tend to disappear when they aren't being used.
* HappinessInSlavery: Not truly slavery per se. The appliances know that some day they will wear out, but they will go with the knowledge that they were useful and loved.
** Though, the Master is determined to rebuild his appliances so they'll last extra longer.
* HeroicBSOD: Poor Kirby.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Hey, there's a reason this movie's called the ''Brave'' Little Toaster....]]
** Again, [[spoiler: Lampy]] gets one of these too.
** [[spoiler: Radio]] gets one in one of the sequels.
** [[spoiler: Tinselena in ''Goes to Mars''.]]
* TheHomewardJourney
* HopeSpot: The song "City of Light." Things go [[ItGotWorse pretty downhill for a while]] after that.
* HuddleShot
* HumansAreSpecial / HumansAreBastards: One of the main themes throughout the films. Some humans use machines well and treat them kindly, but others are willing to toss out faithful ones in pursuit of newer models. Comes to a head in ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars''.
* HypocriticalHumor: In the third movie, when arguing about what the hearing aid is useful for, this exchange occurs:
--> '''Lampy''': Yeah, none of us needs a hearing aid.
--> '''Kirby''': What did you say?
--> '''Lampy''': ''I said none of us needs a hearing aid!''
* IncrediblyLamePun: Lampy has watts of 'em!
* InsaneProprietor: Done by the TV to get the Master to go to the junkyard.
* {{Irony}} / IronicEcho: Tons. Examples:
** Elmo St. Peters, after the blender hides, says something along the lines of "It couldn't have just got up and walked away."
*** When Radio hides, he said "What did it do? Just get up and walk away?"
** HUGE situational irony. After the appliances' journey, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Rob/The Master actually ''was'' coming back for them]].
*** Also, [[spoiler:Kirby suggested that they just stay in the cottage. Only that someone will buy the cottage and have a new master]].
** It is ironic that Lampy, who is physically bright, is not that bright mentally.
*** And yet it is he [[spoiler: who figures out a way to save Radio's life.]]
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Kirby tries to pull this as an excuse for rescuing the others from the waterfall ("I just slipped and fell in, that's all!") None of them buy it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kirby.
** Ratso the rat in the sequels.
* KillEmAll: The aforementioned cars in the song "Worthless." All of them are crushed, and one even [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide by driving himself into the crusher.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The Supreme Commander in ''Goes to Mars'' thinks that he should be voted for simply because he is bigger than everyone else.
* LargeHam: The Radio.
** Heh... [[AWorldwidePunomenon Ham Radio]].
*** Kinda comes with the territory, since Radio's character is a mixture of the news broadcaster and the radio dramatist.
** No love for TV?
* LeastIsFirst: Blanky, the youngest and weakest of the group, is the first to join Toaster to find the Master
* {{Leitmotif}}: Each character has their own theme.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Like recharge a battery.
* LighterAndSofter: The sequels.
* LiteralMinded: From ''Goes to Mars'':
--> '''Balloon''': Howdy y'all! Where ya headed?
--> '''Toaster''': Mars!
--> '''Balloon''': (Laughing) You're pulling my string!
--> '''Blanky''': No we're not, we're way over here, and you're way over there.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain [=/=] TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Supreme Commander in the third movie turns out to be the hearing aid's long lost brother.]]
* MeaningfulName: The appliance shop owner is named Elmo St. Peters--as in "Saint Peter", as in "the guy you see shortly after your death". Fitting for a man who runs a store where everything's on its last legs, and alluded to in "B Movie Show" ("You just tell St. Pete/That you got cold feet").
** Also, "St. Elmo's fire" is an electrical aura that sometimes appears around pointed objects (like ships' masts) in stormy weather. So "Elmo" is a meaningful name for an electrician.
* MonsterClown: One shows up in the Toaster's brief NightmareSequence.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdZh8a4ZvE Run!]]
* MoodWhiplash / ShooOutTheClowns: From silly animal antics to a Narcissus flower dying of a broken heart in a heartbeat...until one of the [[MonsterClown clowns returns]].
* MotorMouth: The radio.
* NeverTrustATrailer: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Td3WCwNYVs The VHS trailer]] for the movie didn't do too much better than [[CoversAlwaysLie the cover]] on making it look like it was a very [[DarkerAndEdgier Dark and Edgy]] movie.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Literally. The "cutting edge" appliances try to off the main characters.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The air conditioner (a Jack Nicholson sound-alike) and the hanging lamp (a Peter Lorre sound-alike). Of course, what did you expect, what with impressionist extraordinaire Phil Hartman doing their voices?
** The can opener/lamp/shaver is an obvious Joan Rivers sound-alike, so it's only appropriate that it makes a self-deprecating quip.
* NoNameGiven: The radio's name is never revealed nor is he addressed by any name in the first movie. However, in the sequels, he has been addressed by the other appliances as "Radio".
* NothingIsScarier: During the "Its a B-Movie" sequence, there are disembodied cords that drag characters away into the darkness.
* NotSoStoic: When Kirby is finally all alone. He doesn't handle it well, to say the least.
* OneMarioLimit: {{Averted|Trope}} with Kirby, who debuted before [[{{Kirby}} the video game character]]. (He's named after the vacuum company, [[CaptainObvious which also debuted before the video game character]].)
* OneSceneWonder: The air conditioner.
** Technically a TWO Scene Wonder where the Master fixes him up.
* PunchClockVillain: The magnet and the mechanic are both just doing their jobs.
** While that does apply to the mechanic (in his defense, he's unaware that the appliances he takes apart are alive), the magnet is still pretty evil, calmly dropping a human onto the ConveyorBeltODoom and all.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Air Conditioner: "IT'S MY FUNCTION!!!!!"
* PutOnABus: A very LiteralMinded example of this is the green pickup truck in the "Worthless" scene. He has literally been PutOnABus (as in ''literally'' sitting on top of a bus) and left to rot, even though he is still in perfect working order (his engine is already running when the magnet comes for him, and he drives himself away, [[spoiler:only for the camera to cut to him sitting on the ConveyorBeltODoom, not even trying to struggle despite being perfectly capable of out-running the magnet, implying he committed suicide]], averting the trope, but still implying it).
* QuicksandSucks: Mud in a swamp works just as well.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* RippedFromThePhoneBook
* RousingSpeech: In the first book Toaster gives one of these to the rest of its TrueCompanions.
* SayMyName: "TOASTER!!!" "BLANKY!!!"
* SettingOffSong: "City of Light."
* ShesAManInJapan: Lampy is female in some versions, such as the German, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs.
* ShoutOut: Radio suggests going NorthByNorthwest while trying to find the city.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Expected in ''The Brave Little Toaster [[RecycledINSPACE Goes to Mars]]''. But then it's a kids' movie, and they ''are'' appliances.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Watch ''The Brave Little Toaster'', then watch ''ToyStory 3''.
* StaggeredZoom
* StealthPun: There is a talking faucet in ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.'' See "HeyItsThatVoice" on the Trivia tab.
* SssssnakeTalk: Murgatroyd from ''To the Rescue''.
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:Air conditioner after the Master fixed him. AC recognized the Master and realized he was wrong about him and really does care.]]
** Some viewers thought that those were regretful tears for [[spoiler: doubting the Master to begin with]].
*** And others always thought they were a reference to the beginning of the film, where we see AC's anger at never being "played with" by the Master (what with being stuck in the wall and the Master being too short to reach). Yet now the Master is all grown up and can not only reach him, but resurrect him.
*** It's probably all of the above.
* TeamMom: Toaster, although it has an {{ambiguous gender}}, often falls into this role, especially once the others start to argue.
** And taking care of clingy, crying [[CryingLittleKid Blanky]].
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The computers, telephones, ''etc''. that brag about their features now sound horribly dated a decade-and-a-half later. Yet the main characters who are demeaned as 'outdated' would still all be fairly useful today.
** FridgeBrilliance: Wasn't that the whole point?
** The new appliances' song 'Cutting Edge' also has the lyric: ''From [=LEDs=] to [=CRTs=], Woofers, '''tweeters''', antenna trees...''. There must have been something else called Tweeters...
*** Woofers and tweeters are speakers.
* ThankTheMaker
* ThatPoorPlant: The saddest example of this trope ever done.
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: The Air Conditioner becomes hot-tempered literally and figuratively, as he irately turns red after the other appliances offend him with mentioning that he's incapable of mobility unlike the others, and he becomes so heated he breaks down.
** The Giant Magnet from the junkyard turns gold (or yellow) with fury rather than the normal red, trying to attract and collect the appliances.
* TruckDriversGearChange: All of the songs contain at least one instance.
* UncleTomfoolery: Plugsy. Oh so very, '''very''' much. He may be a [[FantasticRacism Talking Purple Lamp]], but its still applicable. His voice, his facial features, his mannerisms... if Uncle Tom were a real character, [[FantasticRacism and that character was a lamp]], that lamp would be Plugsy.
** Could be any number of things from innocent but UnfortunateImplications to GettingCrapPastTheRadar, hard to tell since he only has about 2 minutes of total screen time, and most of that is during a musical number.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Can be observed with Lampy. Near the beginning of the film, he explains his ideas of how they can travel before they're implemented, with hilarious (but failed) results. When they're trying to come up with a plan to save Radio from having his tube taken out, he simply says he has a plan -- which then works.
** Earlier, due to the group being distracted, Lampy didn't tell anyone he was going to [[spoiler: use himself as a lightning rod]]. He just did it. And it worked.
* VillainSong: Both of which are [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]]:
** While they aren't exactly ''villains'', the insane machines in "Like A Movie" (aka "It's a B-Movie") do a wonderful job of showing the horror of waiting to be taken apart for spares. And they aren't bad shadow puppeteers either.
** A more directly evil example is "Cutting Edge", where the new appliances sing an egotistic preview of their superiority to the main characters.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Lampy and Radio, Type 2.
* WasntThatFun: Kirby throws out a sarcastic quip as the entire party is sinking helplessly into a mud puddle, with him being the first to go.
-->'''Kirby:''' "Oh, this is ''great fun!'' Let's make these outings a regular thing!"
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler: If the appliances had simply stayed at the cottage, the Master would've have come back to get them for college.]] They never learn that though.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Don't. Get us. '''Started.'''
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Elmo St. Peters is really not evil or anything. He's a regular guy [[DesignatedVillain who takes apart appliances and sells the parts]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The appliances have a fear of water, Kirby and Toaster more than the others. Understandably, since they're electric.
* WithOrWithoutYou
-->'''Toaster''': Well, I'm going, with or without you.
* YellowPeril: Look closely at the blue boombox during "Cutting Edge" and '''tell me you don't see it'''. All its missing is is a Sony or Panasonic logo! It even has slanted eyes! Well, [[FantasticRacism slanted, notches on its knobs, which are implied to be its eyes]].
* YoureJustJealous: The air conditioner ridicules Toaster and the others for their optimism that their Master/Rob will come back one day. Toaster thinks its just a defense mechanism to hid the fact he's jealous of them because the Master never gave him much love as them. At first he denies it, but when Kirby points out he's stuck in a wall, his repressed rage kills him. ([[spoiler:He's repaired later in the movie, though.]])
** His ''real'' repressed rage was that The Master never played with him because he was too high on the wall. [[FauxSymbolism What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic?]]
* {{Zeerust}}: Avarted with the main characters, who are based on contemporary designs of the 50's. Despite their age, they are perfectly functional and have not been made obsolete, even as of 2012 (moslty). These two factors make the main characters somewhat timeless.
** Played straight with the appliances in the appartment Rob lives in. Though some of them are functionaly timeless, their 1980's designs have a more zeerust feel by modern standards. They are currently in the uncanny valley of design, essentially. It doesn't help their case that they chant about being on the [[HilariousInHindsight cutting-edge]]. In song, no less!
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Seeing as the movie is all about things being obsolete]], one could say [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWUgioSvsE Cutting Edge]] ages like fine wine.
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