History NightmareFuel / TheBraveLittleToaster

*** All of this is HarsherInHindsight considering that Thomas M. Disch, author of the original book, eventually shot himself in 2008.

** Upon seeing the huge waterfall that the group has to cross, Kirby has what can only be described as a terror-induced seizure and tries to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything swallow his own cord]].

* According to the movie every single appliance, electronic, or mechanical object is alive, sentient, and watching you. Sure, they are mostly benevolent, but to [[ParanoiaFuel think that something is always watching what you do, even when you think you're alone, can be highly distressing.]] Keep in mind, ''this also counts for ''me,'' the very device that you're reading this article on.'' That's right, bub, '''''I've''''' been watching everything that you do, and that's not even getting into the guys who can actually get up and hurt you, like your car or your mower. [[WeAreEverywhere We're all around you.]]

---->"[[TranquilFury So]], it's back to that stupid static again. You think I don't know what's goin' on around here? I know what goes on in this cottage. It's a conspiracy... and every one of you low-wats is in on it! '''[[GreenEyedMonster Just cuz you can move around, you think you're better than I am!]]''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting I'M NOT AN INVALID!!]] I WAS DESIGNED TO STICK IN A WALL!! I LIKE BEING [[PunctuatedForEmphasis STUCK IN THIS STUPID! WALL!]]''''' I can't help it if ''the kid was TOO SHORT TO REACH MY '''DIALS!''''' [...] '''''IT'S MY FUNCTIOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!'''''"

* According to the movie every single appliance, electronic, or mechanical object is alive, sentient, and watching you. Sure, they are mostly benevolent, but to [[ParanoiaFuel think that something is always watching what you do, even when you think you're alone can be highly distressing.]] Keep in mind, ''this also counts for ''me,'' the very device that you're reading this article on.'' That's right, bub, '''''I've''''' been watching everything that you do, and that's not even getting into the guys who can actually get up and hurt you, like your car or your mower. [[WeAreEverywhere We're all around you.]]

* According to the movie every single appliance, electronic, or mechanical object is alive, sentient, and watching you. Sure, they are mostly benevolent, but to [[ParanoiaFuel think that something is always watching what you do, even when you think you're alone can be highly distressing.]] Keep in mind, ''this also counts for the very device that you're reading this article on.''

** The toaster's Heroic Sacrifice, and decidedly {{Family Unfriendly|Death}} DisneyDeath via ''graphic mutilation in the inner workings of the trash compactor''!

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* According to the movie every single appliance, electronic, or mechanical object is alive, sentient, and watching you. Sure, they are mostly benevolent, but to [[ParanoiaFuel think that something is always watching what you do, even when you think you're alone...]]

'''Radio:''' Just long enough to lose our minds. We'll be cannibals in a few days. I've seen it happen.

** And at the height of this incredibly intense scene, Rob begins SCREAMING HIS LUNGS OUT knowing that he's about to be slowly crushed to death. All the Toaster can do is watch in frozen terror as the scene is reflected on it's face.

* The compactor. All the other machines have some semblance of intelligence. He-it-just sits there, mindlessly eating anything the Magnet feeds it. The fact that it looks like a skull doesn't help either.

* For some viewers, Kirby can be ''really'' scary when he's angry. While the movie makes it clear that he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, scenes like his tug-o-war with Blanky over the Master's photo or his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the waterfall show that [[BewareTheNiceOnes he]] ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes could]]'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes hurt you if he wanted to]]. It doesn't help to have Creator/ThurlRavenscroft playing the character with the same booming voice he'd use to play [[PlayingAgainstType harmless and jovial characters]], especially since [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct he doesn't even sound like he's has to try that hard to go from harmless to threatening!]]

** The fact that the deformed, broken or amalgamated appliances singing about how horrifying their existence is is not the darkest song in the movie.

* Toaster's dream, symbolizing her deepest fear of shorting out and accidentally killing her beloved Master. And then there's '''[[MonsterClown THAT CLOWN]]'''.

* According to the movie every single appliance, electronic, or mechanical object is alive, sentient, and watching you. Sure, they are mostly benevolent, but to think that something is always watching what you do, even when you think you're alone...

* Toaster's dream, symbolizing her deepest fear of shorting out and accidentally killing his beloved Master. And then there's '''[[MonsterClown THAT CLOWN]]'''.

** Take a look at the clown's hair and that pants-wettingly nightmare-inducing [[SlasherSmile slasher smile]]. It makes him look like [[{{Satan}} the Devil]]!
** As pointed out in {{Fridge Horror}}, the fact that the clown tells Toaster to run shows that he's not just content with killing him; he's sadistically making sure that Toaster will die ''terrified''.
** It touches upon a bigger subject [[DoAndroidsDream do appliances dream?]] The answer is yes - and their nightmares are all about not being used for their intended purpose. Toaster being dropped into the bathtub while still plugged, and being shocked to death is the tip of the iceberg. You ''don't'' want to imagine what kind of bad dreams a blender would have.

** The yellow car that sings about how she once took a Texan to a wedding. The lyrics state that 'he kept forgetting, his loneliness letting his thoughts turn to home and we turned' suggesting that the groom committed suicide shortly after he and his bride got home from the wedding. This is immediately followed by a second car (a dark blue hearse) landing on top of the yellow car and declaring that he took a man to a graveyard ending with those two cars going into the compactor at the same time. It's not hard to believe that the Texan who committed suicide after he got home from the wedding was the same man who got taken to the graveyard.

** The car that sings about how she once took a Texan to a wedding. The lyrics state that 'he kept forgetting, his loneliness letting his thoughts turn to home and we turned' revealing that they crashed on the way to the wedding. This is immediately followed by a second car declaring that he took a man to a graveyard ending with those two cars going into the compactor together. It's not hard to believe that the Texan who crashed on his way to the wedding was the same man who got taken to the graveyard.
*** The line said by that second car (a ''hearse'') may very well be the most chilling in the entire song, and that's saying quite a lot:

** The yellow Packard Woody (the surfer van) looks salvagable...why is it in the junkyard? Look at the board strapped to it--there's a huge chunk ''bitten'' out of it, right where a person's head and right shoulder would be (while laying down and paddling, which is reportedly when most shark attacks on surfers happen). The previous owner may have died, which could explain what a 40s-era van is doing in a junkyard during a movie implied to take place in the early 80s; it languished for years and was simply forgotten about and discarded because no one cared enough about it.
** And don't forget the one car who, after singing part of his verse about how his life has amounted to nothing, jumps onto the conveyor belt of his own volition. The people who wrote this must have been going through some seriously tough times. Supposedly, the writers intended to show that car [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing itself]] for another vehicle, but it ended up looking like a suicidal move.

** Among the cars at the junk yard is a schoolbus with nothing more than a broken window and a damaged eye or headlight. Might he have been damaged while transporting children? No wonder it looked it's giving a ThousandYardStare.
** One of the cars is trying desperately to escape the conveyor belt by turning his wheel.

** Among the cars at the junk yard is a schoolbus with nothing more than a broken window and a damaged eye or headlight. Might he have been damaged while transporting children? [[FridgeHorror No wonder it looked it's giving a]] ThousandYardStare.

* '''THE MAGNET.''' An angry creature chasing you from above, who can see you wherever you hide, and if you're made of metal (or at least in close proximity of it) you ''can't move''! 100% ParanoiaFuel.
** Even worse, this is something that can not only carry you to your death, but it can ''get angry and spiteful''! When the gang hide from it, it becomes so enraged that it just sucks up all of the garbage in it's immediate vicinity until it's just a big, floating ball of scrap, then dumps it all onto the conveyor belt.

** The way that this scene is followed by Toaster's nightmare about getting violently electrocuted.

---->"[[TranquilFury So]], it's back to that stupid static again. You think I don't know what's goin' on around here? I know what goes on in this cottage. It's a conspiracy... and every one of you low-wats is in on it! '''[[GreenEyedMonster Just cuz you can move around, you think you're better than I am!]]''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting I'M NOT AN INVALID!!]] I WAS DESIGNED TO STICK IN A WALL!! I LIKE BEING [[PunctuatedForEmphasis STUCK IN THIS STUPID! WALL!]]''''' I can't help it if ''the kid was too short to reach my dials!'' [...] '''''IT'S MY FUNCTIOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!'''''"

---->"[[TranquilFury So]], it's back to that stupid static again. You think I don't know what's goin' on around here? I know what goes on in this cottage! It's a conspiracy... and every one of you low-wats is in on it! '''[[GreenEyedMonster Just cuz you can move around, you think you're better than I am!]]''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting I'M NOT AN INVALID!!]] I WAS DESIGNED TO STICK IN A WALL!! I LIKE BEING [[PunctuatedForEmphasis STUCK IN THIS STUPID! WALL!]]''''' I can't help it if ''the kid was too short to reach my dials!'' [...] '''''IT'S MY FUNCTIOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!'''''"

** And of course Toaster [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing itself to save The Master]].

* Toaster's dream, symbolizing it's deepest fear of shorting out and accidentally killing his beloved Master. And then there's '''[[MonsterClown THAT CLOWN]]'''.

* For some viewers, Kirby can be ''really'' scary when he's angry. While the movie makes it clear that he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, scenes like his tug-o-war with Blanky over the Master's photo or his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the waterfall show that [[BewareTheNiceOnes he]] ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes could]]'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes hurt you if he wanted to]]. Creator/ThurlRavenscroft playing the character with his trademark booming voice can also add a bit of shocking RealitySubtext for those used to [[PlayingAgainstType his typical harmless and jovial characters]], especially since [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct he doesn't even sound like he's has to try that hard to go from harmless to threatening!]]

** The fact that the cars are all humanized by having faces makes the magnet seem downright homicidal. When it goes into "appliance mode" as it tries to kill Rob, its eyes disappear, erasing any humanity in it and rendering it more frighteningly alien.

** The Air Conditioner [[AngstNuke raging himself to death]] after Kirby [[BerserkButton pisses him off]] by reminding him that he's stuck in a wall. His resentment of his function in life to sit in one place, watching as The Master would play and interact with the other appliances, sends him into a fit of TranquilFury which slowly builds into screaming rage as he literally flies apart, spewing sparks and flames until he short-circuits, leaving a burnt husk which can only cough up one last cloud of smoke. It's the machine equivalent of watching someone die from a rage-induced aneurysm.

** The Air Conditioner [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkNyaOTMIec raging himself to death]] after Kirby [[BerserkButton pisses him off]] by reminding him that he's stuck in a wall. His resentment of his function in life to sit in one place, watching as The Master would play and interact with the other appliances, sends him into a fit of TranquilFury which slowly builds into screaming rage as he literally flies apart, spewing sparks and flames until he short-circuits, leaving a burnt husk which can only cough up one last cloud of smoke. It's the machine equivalent of watching someone die from a rage-induced aneurysm.

** Among the cars at the junk yard is a schoolbus with nothing more than a broken window and a damaged eye or headlight. Might he have been damaged while transporting children?
*** [[FridgeHorror No wonder it looked it's giving a]] ThousandYardStare.