Headscratchers / The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue

• The first film implys that Rob was going to college because he was good at fixing and repairing things implying he was going into engineering but in this film he's in college to be a veterinarian.
• When Wittgenstein states that he's been in the basement for 4,999,450,852,312 nanoseconds as though it were a long time but in more conventional time measurements that translates into just over an hour.
  • I haven't seen the second movie, but if that's notable it can go main page under Writers Cannot Do Math.
  • Well, throughout his song you can see viruses tearing his insides apart piece by piece, and computer components are all about, well, computing. So maybe he's breaking down so much he either a) thinks its been only about an hour since he's powered down since his memory's faded or b) can't do math with large numbers as well anymore because the viruses have rotted his components so badly he's barely keeping himself alive at all.
• Why was everyone only mad at Radio about the tube being broken? He was originally the one who was holding it and Ratso took it from him first in order to state that he was the one that found it. That's where the tug-a-war between the pair began. And it takes two people (or a rat and an appliance) to fight. If either one of them stopped and just surrendered the tube, things would have been fine. Yet, only Radio gets scolded by the entire group for his behavior and the accidental destruction of the tube while Ratso serves as a Karma Houdini and doesn't even get a slap on the wrist for his part in the argument. Why does Radio get all the blame and no one points out that Ratso was being just as bad?
  • The big problem was that at that moment, the most important thing was that the tube just needed to be put in. Although the argument could just end if one of them gave it up, Radio's stubborn grabbing for the tube didn't seem warrented to the others because ratso was the one who found it. I assume that part of why radio was carrying it was because ratso can't run as fast as radio and carry the tube. I assume it was intended as a temporary arrangement by Ratso, but Radio had to be stubborn and want to put it in himself. I guess the way it was written, it was intended to give Radio the stinkeye as well because besides reminding Ratso the brand they were looking for, he didn't really do anything looking for the tube, so he didn't really deserve to put it in either.
• How does a computer that uses tubes catch a virus? I can understand most things connected to the internet getting a virus due to their more sophisticated wiring and interface, but how does a computer like Wittenstein get a virus?
  • Someone (intentional or accidental) input a code of virus to his system (that works on his type of OS)....he is a computer (who runs on codes) after all.
• Why would a lab that's apparently as cruel and inhumane as Tartarus even be allowed to exist without facing massive legal backlash? They're not exactly an underground operation since Rob recognizes them when he's forwarded the shipping order, so how are they just allowed to perform unethical animal experimentation? And if they are as corrupt as implied, why would they waste money buying a handful of animals from a local college when they could probably just catch their own?