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''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 around five appliances - the titular Toaster, Lampy (a lamp), Kirby (a vacuum), Radio (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 by many kids of the late '80s and the '90s, thanks to its airings on the Disney Channel and its home video release, and 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...]]

'''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:

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not everyone remembers the book this was based on.
* AmbiguousGender: The Toaster. [[{{Spookybishop}} This Troper]] believes that Toaster is actually a girl, though [[YourMileageMayVary some would disagree]].
* BerserkButton: "'Cause you're stuck in the wall!"
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At one point the movie successfully pulls off a BLAM ''within'' a BLAM.
* ConveyorBeltODoom
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Kirby leaping off a cliff straight into a waterfall in order to save the other appliances from drowning.
**[[spoiler: Lampy's and later Toaster's HeroicSacrifice]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Radio quoting Moby Dick.
-->'''Radio:''' Damn thee, thou accursed whale, from the depths of Hell, I stab at thee!
-->'''Kirby:''' Climb on, you idiot!
* 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...
* 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.
* DisneyAcidSequence: "The Cutting Edge (More More More)"
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: The Toaster]]
** This might also apply to [[spoiler: Lampy and the air conditioner.]]
*EarnYourHappyEnding: And how.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Both the "B-Movie Show" and "Worthless" numbers. And in a particularly {{Nightmare Fuel}}errific scene, [[spoiler:Rob ''just'' misses being added to this list.]]
*** Let's not forget the air conditioner, who more or less gets worked up to the point of aneurysm, and dies...''on camera.''
**** [[IGotBetter He got better.]]
* TheEighties: Especially with the new appliances and electronics that appear in the movie.
* FiveManBand
**TheHero: Toaster
**TheLancer: Lampy
**TheBigGuy: Kirby
**TheSmartGuy: Radio
**TheChick: Blanky
*** If you're watching the German version, Lampy is TheChick, probably.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one scene, the TV, playing up his InsaneProprietor act, pulls some pictures out of a cabinet. They're pictures of a topless woman, with stars over her breasts, but they're only visible for a second.
** Also in the song "Worthless", the beach car originally sings the line "there were bikinis and buns filled with weenies". While it could just be reading too much into it, in the official soundtrack the line is changed to "there were bikinis and [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment hot dogs and weenies]]", so apparently someone higher up caught on to the {{Double Entendre}}.
*** This troper thought that [[RefugeInVulgarity they put that in]] specifically ''because'' of the redundancy making the line slightly more obvious, while [[ExactWords doing exactly what the executives told them.]]
**The radio says "damn" and "hell".
***That's because he was quoting ''Moby Dick.'' For some reason, it's [[DoubleStandard not supposed to count.]]
** One of the sequels gave us [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq2g-z6fiNw this scene.]] They even managed to sneak in a few seconds of {{Sexophone}}.
* GossipyHens: The sewing machine
* GrumpyBear: Kirby
* {{Hammerspace}}: The appliances' cords tend to disappear when they aren't being used
* 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.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Thurl Ravenscroft (Tony The Tiger and "Mr. Grinch" singer) as Kirby.
** And Jon Lovitz is Radio.
* InsaneProprietor - Done by the TV to get the Master to go to the junkyard.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kirby
* LargeHam: Radio. And, ''how''.
** Heh... [[IncrediblyLamePun Ham Radio]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: Each character has their own theme, making the film's underscore one of this troper's favorites.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Like recharge a battery.
* LivingToys: More like living appliances, actually...
* MonsterClown: One shows up in the Toaster's brief [[NightmareDreams Nightmare Dream]].
* MotorMouth: The radio.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Literally. The "cutting edge" appliances try to off the main characters.
* NightmareFuel: This movie is ''packed full'' of nightmarish scenes. These include the air conditioner's blow out, the various [[NightmareDreams nightmares]], the deeply unnerving and upsetting flower scene, the various [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Family Unfriendly Deaths]], etc. In fact was haunted by this movie when he was five, and he first saw it
** The MonsterClown in Toaster's dream is particularly notable; this troper doesn't have a fear of clowns, but after watching that scene he can understand why some people do. Despite not having watched the movie in years, just thinking about that clown and its SlasherSmile sends shivers down the spine.
** The magnet. Oh, god, the ''magnet''.
*** Forget the magnet, how about ''the Toaster's graphic mutilation in the inner workings of the trash compactor!?'' This troper saw the movie around age five and was unable to watch it again until about fifteen years later because of that scene.
*** Even Kirby's aforementioned CrowningMomentOfAwesome is pretty terrifying (at least to this troper at four years old). He jumps off a waterfall!!
*** OneWord, literally: "...''Run''..."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The air conditioner (a Jack Nicholson soundalike) and the hanging lamp (a Peter Lorre soundalike). Of course, what did you expect, what with impressionist extraordinaire Phil Hartman doing their voices?
* RippedFromThePhoneBook.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The song "Cutting Edge" is a pretty blantant StealthParody of the consumer culture of the 1980's. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Given the kind of people that particular avenue spawned...]]
**In the ''novel'' version of ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars,'' the main villain was an ancient hearing aid created by [[spoiler: Albert Einstein,]] who went insane after being used by a Nazi party member, then escaped to Mars, inhabited a giant refridgerator, and amassed an army of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Populux"]] appliances, with the goal of returning to Earth and killing all the humans in revenge for planned obselesence schemes. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Seriously.]]
* StaggeredZoom
* TearJerker: If the flower scene does not tug a few heartstrings, than you probably have none.
* ThankTheMaker
* ViewerGenderConfusion: The Toaster. Just...the Toaster. [[CrossDressingVoices Deanna Oliver voiced]] ''him''.
** In the Latin Dub, that applies to Blanky too.
** JUST the Latin (American?) dub? I STILL don't know what Blanky is supposed to be.
*** ''He'' was voiced by a 7-year-old boy.
** For the record, [[http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/2008/02/27/from-the-archives-sexual-ambiguity-in-the-brave-little-toaster/ we are not the first to wonder about this.]] And yes, we will admit that debating the gender of ''machines'' is a bit silly.
**This is actually brought up in the original book. The Toaster specifically claims to be genderless, when asked by squirrels. The appliances were referred to in neuter gender ("it").
* VillainSong: Both of which are CrowningMomentsOfAwesome:
** 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.
* VindicatedByCable
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Don't. Get us. '''Started.'''
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