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* The short story ''Waffles Are Only Goodbye For Now'' by Ryan Cole has a robotic fridge buried in the rubble of the home of the family it once served, now killed in a war. The fridge has a limited vocabulary consisting of food names but it's still able to befriend a child from a refugee camp, who eventually drags it back there so it can be continued to be useful, this time as a generator.
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* ''Series/Danger5:'' Pierre's motorcycle can talk.
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* ''Literature/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon'': The protagonist Boxxo is a sentient vending machine sidekick to Lammis, who often carries him. Except he can only communicate using preprogrammed lines.

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* ''Literature/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon'': The protagonist Boxxo is a sentient vending machine sidekick to Lammis, who often carries him. Except he can only communicate using [[WelcomeToCorneria preprogrammed lines.lines]].
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* ''Literature/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon'': The protagonist Boxxo is a sentient vending machine sidekick to Lammis, who often carries him. Except he can only communicate using preprogrammed lines.
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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has both Sheila, the artificially intelligent [=M808V=] Main Battle Tank, and Andy the talking bomb, a possible homage to ''Film/DarkStar''.

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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has both Sheila, the artificially intelligent [=M808V=] Main Battle Tank, and Andy the talking bomb, a possible homage to ''Film/DarkStar''.
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* A TV adaptation of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' had the Count having a conversation with himself, using his dictaphone.

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* A TV adaptation of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' ''Series/TheMarriageOfFigaro'' had the Count having a conversation with himself, using his dictaphone.
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* It wasn't exactly a regular character, but the Talkie Toaster from ''Series/RedDwarf'' might qualify.

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* It wasn't exactly a regular character, but the Talkie Toaster from ''Series/RedDwarf'' might qualify. It's played for laughs given that a toaster with ArtificialIntelligence is AwesomeButImpractical, mainly serving to annoy Lister who owns it.
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* The ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Old World Blues'' expansion has ten appliances in the player's apartment with simulated personalities [[ForScience as part of a scientific experiment]]. The cast includes [[TerrifiedOfGerms a germophobic sink]], [[CasanovaWannabe a smooth-talking]] agricultural research station obsessed with "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything seeding]]" everything it can, a [[RedScare virulently anti-Communist]] book processor that turns [[OrwellianEditor potential seditious documents into blank sheets of paper]], a BettyAndVeronica couple of light switches, a JiveTurkey jukebox, a FunSize security robot obsessed with mugs and a [[RoboticPsychopath psychopathic toaster]] that would [[KillItWithFire burn the world]], if only its heating coils were more powerful.

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* The ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Old World Blues'' expansion has ten appliances in the player's apartment with simulated personalities [[ForScience as part of a scientific experiment]]. The cast includes [[TerrifiedOfGerms a germophobic sink]], [[CasanovaWannabe a smooth-talking]] agricultural research station obsessed with "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything seeding]]" everything it can, a [[RedScare virulently anti-Communist]] book processor that turns [[OrwellianEditor potential seditious documents into blank sheets of paper]], paper, a BettyAndVeronica couple of light switches, a JiveTurkey jukebox, a FunSize security robot obsessed with mugs and a [[RoboticPsychopath psychopathic toaster]] that would [[KillItWithFire burn the world]], if only its heating coils were more powerful.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' has Sally's handheld computer Nicole. Nicole eventually gets upgraded to have a holographic avatar, but she spent a good chunk of the series' run as just a talking box.

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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has Sally's handheld computer Nicole. Nicole eventually gets upgraded to have a holographic avatar, but she spent a good chunk of the series' run as just a talking box.
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' has Sally's handheld computer Nicole. Nicole eventually gets upgraded to have a holographic avatar, but she spent a good chunk of the series's run as just a talking box.

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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' has Sally's handheld computer Nicole. Nicole eventually gets upgraded to have a holographic avatar, but she spent a good chunk of the series's series' run as just a talking box.
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* ''VideoGame/TheClueFinders'': LapTrap is a floating "laptop", and also doubles as the in-game menu.
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* In the early issues of ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' Spider had a mafia-made [[MatterReplicator Maker]] that talked back to him often, and made his trademark mismatched sunglasses. But it stopped making witty comments after the second time Spider ripped out its' [[AIGettingHigh hallucinogen simulator]] and got left behind [[spoiler: when Spider went on the run, though he gave it orders to fabricate a Martian venereal disease for the cops.]]
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* A TV adaptation of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' had the Count having a conversation with himself, using his dictaphone.
--> '''Dictaphone''': An anonymous letter. Rosina, guilty as hell about something; Susanna, locked in the bathroom. A man jumps out of the window, who turns out to be Figaro.
--> '''Count''': Well, so he says.
--> '''Dictaphone''' That's right.
--> '''Count''': It just doesn't make any sense! Rosina must have thought the whole thing up. I can't believe she'd do that: she has far too much respect for me.
--> '''Dictaphone''': Figaro hasn't, though.
--> '''Count''': You're right.

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* ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog'' has Sally's handheld computer Nicole. Nicole eventually gets upgraded to have a holographic avatar, but she spent a good chunk of the series's run as just a talking box.

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* ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' has Sally's handheld computer Nicole. Nicole eventually gets upgraded to have a holographic avatar, but she spent a good chunk of the series's run as just a talking box.



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* [[Series/TheLateLateShow Geoff Peterson.]]
* The 'Bots in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' could count, as they were all made from objects found in thrift stores.
** Also those special parts that control where the movie begins or ends.

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* %%* [[Series/TheLateLateShow Geoff Peterson.]]
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* WebVideo/PawDugan can talk to machines. You can learn this apparently.



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* Pintsize from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' is an [=AnthroPC=], which presumably is a computer that makes sex noises when you slot in your USB stick.
** ''Questionable Content'' also has two other [=AnthroPCs=] that are regular characters. None of them is really an appliance, though. Winslow is basically an oversized [=iPod=], but Momo just looks like an anime character.

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Pintsize from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' is an [=AnthroPC=], which presumably is a computer that makes sex noises when you slot in your USB stick.
** ''Questionable Content'' The comic also has two other [=AnthroPCs=] that are regular characters. None of them is really an appliance, though. Winslow is basically an oversized [=iPod=], but Momo just looks like an anime character.



* A talking car, like KITT as mentioned above, but much more snarky and meanspirited Ultra Car from ''[[Webcomic/WalkyVerse It's Walky]]''.
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* A talking car, like KITT as mentioned above, but much more snarky and meanspirited Ultra Car from ''[[Webcomic/WalkyVerse It's Walky]]''.
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* BMO from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' - an animate game console (who may actually be an interdimensional prison for the mooks and villains faced in the games).

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* BMO from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' - ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': an animate game console (who may actually be an interdimensional prison for the mooks and villains faced in the games).



* Plankton's wife Karen in WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants. It's best not to think about how she can operate underwater, though.

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* Plankton's wife Karen in WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants.''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. It's best not to think about how she can operate underwater, though.

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* Another talking sentient computer named Box accompanied Commander Nathan Spring in ''Series/StarCops''



* Another talking sentient computer named Box accompanied Commander Nathan Spring in ''[[Series/StarCops]]''

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* Another talking sentient computer named Box accompanied Commander Nathan Spring in ''[[Series/StarCops]]''
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* Plankton's wife Karen in WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants.

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* Plankton's wife Karen in WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants.

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