History Trivia / TheBraveLittleToaster

** The main appliances make a cameo appearance in ''The Oz Kids'' episode [[ChristmasEpisode "Christmas In Oz"]]

** All of the main appliances except Kirby appear in inanimate form in the background of the tech shop in episode 8 of ''WebAnimation/CampCamp''

** One of the missions in ''[[VideoGame/LEGOStarWars LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga]]'' is called "The Brave Little Astromech To The Rescue".

** Toaster & co appear in the background of Dr. DOS's [[https://idle-mastermind.fandom.com/wiki/Laboratory Laboratory]] in ''Idle Mastermind''.
** One of the stories in ''Literature/DemonicHousehold'' is titled "The Grave Little Toaster"

*** Similarly, ''Haiku the Robot'' has an achievement named "Brave Little Toaster".

* DoingItForTheArt: Despite essentially having the film dumped in their laps with virtually no time and money, requiring them to regularly do a week's worth of work in a single day, Jerry Rees and co. had carte blanche to do the film however he wanted, and saw it as a golden opportunity to turn a simple children's film into something mature, sophisticated and unique. They insisted that all of the sound effects be made from scratch rather than be taken from a stock library and hired David Newman to give it a larger-than-life music score. When it was decided that the film's animation would be outsourced, Rees and most of the staff traveled to the Taiwanese studio to ensure that they still had a hand in the final product.

** The film also received three Russian dubs. The first was a VoiceoverTranslation and made exclusively for VHS in the Soviet Union, while the second two (from the Russian dubbing companies EA and ORT) are fully dubbed. The 1st was done exclusively for TV in the late 90s, while the 2nd dub was done in 2000. Interestingly, both versions have the Toaster voiced by a male actor, instead of a female actress, while the 1st dub made Lampy a female. The 2nd dub is the most common out of the three and is the only version to be preserved on home media. However, this is considered to be a slightly poor dub: while most of the movie's dubbing job is okay, the songs (with the exception of "City of Light", [[TheSongRemainsTheSame which remained entirely in English]]) vary between a mix of dubbing a few lines, using a VoiceoverTranslation, and leaving some parts in English. However, in the 1st dub (the rarest and hardest to find), the songs are fully dubbed and given accuarate translations.

* AwardSnub: A sad example of a quite literal one. According to director Jerry Rees, several judges at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival admitted that it was the best film there, but didn't want the festival to lose credibility by giving the top award to an animated film (the first animated film in Sundance history).

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Obviously, most of the cutting-edge appliances in Rob's apartment wouldn't remain cutting-edge forever, especially the Tandy-style computer, home theater system and boom box, all of which dwindled in popularity by the mid-90s. The only ones which remain popular today are the canister vacuum cleaner and the food processor. It still works from a narrative standpoint, however, as the older, more practical appliances being antagonized by flashy, vain style-over-substance ones [[JustifiedTrope wouldn't have been as effective had the generational differences been more subtle]] (and even still, the heroes would, at best, be considered antiques by TheNewTens and TheNewTwenties). This was also in the waning years of both CRT [=TVs=] and landline phones being commonplace, as both would be phased out in favor of digital flatscreens and cell phones, respectively, over the next decade or so.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The reported reason as to why the film never had a proper theatrical release in the United States was because The Creator/DisneyChannel had bought the cable rights and sought to make it available to their subscribers immediately, which made theaters nervous about booking the film and its intended theatrical distributor subsequently sacked their plans.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Obviously, most of the cutting-edge appliances in Rob's apartment wouldn't remain cutting-edge forever, especially the Tandy-style computer, home theater system and boom box, all of which dwindled in popularity by the mid-90s. The only ones which remain popular today are the canister vacuum cleaner and the food processor. It still works from a narrative standpoint, however, as the older, more practical appliances being antagonized by flashy, vain style-over-substance ones [[JustifiedTrope wouldn't have been as effective had the generational differences been more subtle]] (and even still, the heroes would, at best, be considered antiques by TheNewTens). This was also in the waining years of both CRT [=TVs=] and landline phones being commonplace, as both would be phased out in favor of digital flatscreens and cell phones, respectively, over the next decade or so.

** Lovitz and Hartman were real life best friends and worked together several more times.

** The late Judy Toll voices the Mish-Mosh and the other head of the sewing machine.

* WriterConflictsWithCanon: Possibly. While Toaster is referred to by male pronouns by other appliances in the film, but has been [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geohir5F76U referred to as female]] after the fact by people involved in its production.

* WriterConflictsWithCanon: Toaster is male in the film, but has been [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geohir5F76U referred to as female]] after the fact by people involved in its production.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Again, the combination of the "cutting edge" technology being cutting edge only by 1987 standards, along with the early 20th century being depicted as having been recent, immediately dates this movie to the year it was released.
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