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• Executive Meddling: Minimal, but meddling did make John Lasseter walk off the project.
  • To be more precise: The film was supposed to have a proper theatrical release, and was the first animated film ever at Sundance, where it received rave reviews. It was destined to be a box office film for the Summer of 1987. when Disney bought the film, and intended to use it for their newly created Disney Channel. It was buried by the channel, and made it ineligible for Oscar nominations such as Best Original Score or Best Song. It then hobbled around the festival circuit, unable to find a distributor (thanks, Disney!), but it never found an audience til it was released on VHS, uncut and un-Bowdlerised. Lasseter remembers being thoroughly angry at the film's lack of a theatrical release.
  • In the documentary 'The Pixar Story', Lasseter states that this movie was intended to use some early form of computer animation, but because executives at the time could not see the purpose(if it neither "made things faster or cheaper"), it was shelved. Furthermore, Lasseter was promptly let go afterwards, which let to his hiring later at Pixar.
  • In a version made for Polish television, the entire forest scene, a crucial one in terms of character development, is edited out of the film; it just cuts straight to the waterfall scene. Apparently the scene was thought to be too scary by Polish executives, and so that left a complete Mood Whiplash in the story, and that version's Lampy with no explanation as to how she burned her bulb out.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Thurl Ravenscroft (Tony The Tiger and "Mr. Grinch" singer) as Kirby.
  • And Jon Lovitz is Radio.
    • Phil Hartman is the air conditioner and the hanging lamp in the hardware store from hell.
    • It's kind of hard to tell it's Hartman, too, since for each character he does an impersonation (Jack Nicholson and Peter Lorre, respectively).
    • This troper thinks air conditioner sounds like an evil Lionel Hutz.
  • Lampy is voiced by Tim Stack (Son Of The Beach).
  • The entire cast, in fact, was part of The Groundlings at the time. Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz joined Saturday Night Live a mere two weeks after recording their parts.
  • In Goes to Mars, we have:
    • Bryce Lynch from Max Headroom as Rob.
    • Wayne Knight as the Microwave.
    • Fyvush Finkel as the Hearing Aid.
    • Kath Soucie as Tinselina.
    • Alan King as the Supreme Commander, with Jim Cummings as his singing voice.
    • Farrah Fawcett as the Faucet.
    • De Forest Kelley as Viking I.
    • Carol Channing as the ceiling fan.
    • Brian Doyle Murray as Wittgenstein the Mainframe.
  • The Polish dub has an interesting cast:
    • Toaster is Matt Ishida, Cow, Stacy and Satsuki Kusakabe.
    • Lampy is Mirage, Maleficent, Lady Bane and a turkey.
    • Radio is Snaptrap, Rocky and Wakko Warner.
    • Kirby is Chef and Chief Quimby.
    • Blanky is Stella and Penny.
  • In the Brazilian Portuguese dub (1st Version), Lampy is Princess Luna, Sailor Saturn and Sango.
  • In the Japanese dub, Radio is Isshin Kurosaki. Surprised? Me neither.
• No Budget: This film was made on a budget of $2.3 million, which was modest even for animated films at the time.
• Non-Singing Voice: Remember that song in 'Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars'? The song 'I See a New You' was supposed to have been sung by the Toaster. It wasn't.
• The Other Darrin: Jon Lovitz didn't return for the sequels, so Roger Kabler became the voice for Radio.
• Shrug of God: The gender of most of the appliances, especially the Toaster.
• Vindicated by Cable
• What Could Have Been: Imagine if John Lasseter had been able to make this film as the first(?) to combine hand-drawn elements and CGI? Sadly, the idea was deemed not cost-effective enough and the tech wasn't quite there yet.