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Submitted by B Mackin
The Brave Little Toaster is an epic classic, but I have to say, the film is still pretty intense, even watching it 22 years later. This scene below is great. That’s the late great Phil Hartman as the Air Conditioner doing (what I think) is a Jack Nicholson impression.
Neat fact: it was the first animated film to ever be screened at Sundance.
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The minute he said “it’s a conspiracy” I cracked up and had to pause the video. Too much, wish I had a DVD copy of this.
The original “Brave Little Toaster” movie was made of awesome and win, the sequels, however, belong in the failblog page.
There are sequels?
I remember those. They went to Mars or something.
The Aircondtioner from The Brave Little Toaster scared me when I was little and I’m still afraid of him now.
“Poor air conditioner.”
“Aw, he was a jerk anyway!”
YES. He scared me when I was little, and watching him now made me a bit nervous. Glad I’m not the only one!
NO! This was the worst movie ever. Even as I child, I hated it. FAIL FAIL FAIL!
What are you going to do Bekah, suck me to death?
comment win!
The Brave Little Toaster was one of the best movie heroes ever.
OMG! I loved brave little toaster. I’m sad I threw out my copy of the movie
Thanks for the reminder – I’d totally forgotten about this one. A friend recommended it when my daughter was little and my whole family liked it – even my sister with no kids! I’m gonna have to look for it at garage sales now, dangit. (yes, I’m one of those dinosaurs who hasn’t thrown out my vcr yet. Hey, it still works!)
Wow, you actually upgraded from Betamax? You know that Beta is superior technology…
I knew it was a matter of time for this to be here.
Loved the film as a kid.
I used to loooooove this movie when i was a kid!!! then i saw it about a year ago and i realized that its actually a really depressing movie. all they do is fight on the journey, John Lovitz/Radio is essentially a con man, and the toaster gets essentially disemboweled at the end!!!
HOLY FRICK this movie scared me D: Whenever they had the part with the demonic fireman I cried…
Demonic fireman?
It might’ve been soemthing else come to think of it, but there’s one part where the toaster has a nightmate about a freaky clown-like dude spraying a hose at him (hose = water = toaster instant death)
Anyone remember the brave little trailer spoof from animaniacs?
My sister and I used to get this form the library ALL THE TIME. In fact, we were probably the ones who checked it out the most. I always hated the Airconditioner. My sister and I would freak out. (I miss all these movies…..gonna have to see if the library still has it!)
The music number in the Pawn Shop (or whatever it was) always scared me, but overall i freaking love this movie!!
Was anyone else terrified during the sene where they’re crushing the cars at the junk yard?
I loved that scene and the accompanying music number! My favorite part of the whole film.
This was holy when I was a kid, I even liked the A/C because he had a cool ’stache & was badass (lol). Now I know he’s Phil Hartman I like him even more!
I loved this movie so much. Still do. One of my favorites.
The author committed suicide last summer, I believe…Sad, but this story clearly came from a very depressed mind.
Wikipedia says he’s still alive…. Odd…
Hmmm, that’s weird. I heard it all over the place a little while ago. I’d check up on it, but I’m supposed to be working now. *gets back to it*
Wikipedia is always 100% accurate……. not
No, he does say he committed suicide. I tried to put the link in my name but I’ve never done that before, so here it is just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._Disch
Er, it* does say. And hurray, my link worked!
You’re right. This movie was based on a short story by Thomas M. Disch, who did commit suicide last year. Most of his work is very dark science-fiction and poetry, but this short story is oddly sweet for him. The movie expands it by a gazillion, and has a different ending, but the odd spirit is still there. He did write a story that the poor sequel is based on, “The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars”. And he had nothing to do with the third, “The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue.
We watched this so many times with our children that we started to analyze the whole thing and look for the director’s cut. It was pretty fun to figure out the “deeper meanings”.
I love this movie..but kind of creepy. I JUST finished watching this movie online and checked this site and found this. lol!
I’m still afraid of choking my vacuum cleaner when I run over the cord.
Me too. Every time I vacuum…”GET THE CORD OUT OF HIS MOUTH! DON’T LET HIM SWALLOW IT!”
Yes yes!
OMG!!! I thought it was just me! Whenever I vacuum I keep the cord all wound up in one hand so I don’t run over it. People have laughed and ask me why I vacuum like that. “Don’t ask.” Lol. So amused to see it had that effect on other people as well
what? you mean it won’t hurt the vacuum if you run over the chord? I guess this movie was so ingrained in my subconscious that running over chord = disaster that I’ve always been careful not to run it over. Though I will say, I must have watched the beginning of the movie a dozen times, but never made it past the pawn shop part. Too scared as a kid.
I never thought about it too much, but I think this movie put the same idea into my head! LoL. I guess I’m afraid that the rotating brush will somehow rip up the cord and it’ll be at the very least unusable… *shrug*
DA’ MAASSSTEEERRRR! I LOVED b’wanket!
I used to watch this movie all the time. It wasn’t the air conditioner that scared me, it was the clown in the toaster’s nightmare, especially the demonic smile. I had to cover my eyes.
I always fast-forwarded that part. Oddly enough, I didn’t have a fear of clowns; I just found that one particularly disturbing.
I’m kind of wishing we’d kept that video after all. Ah well, I can probably still quote most of it from memory:
“I think Bernoulli did this once. Why, if I remember correctly, he was out of the hospital in no time.”
“Well that’s encouraging.”
wow. just wow. that clip is the ony bit of the movie i’ve seen. but wow. haah, i bet this would be fun to watch stoned.
I cried when he fell into the bath
Why? He is never plugged in and its just a cartoon. Nothing would happen.
Wow I forgot about how many parts of this movie screwed with my child mind.
Wow this reminded me how much I love this movie
I would always get scared of the AC part. It’s very emotional. Now that I’m older, I can actually understand what they’re talking about.
My daughter forced me to watch this film so many times that the video wore out. GAH! I HATE this film!!! I hate it with a passion!
Never heard of it, I guess I should go look it up.
But beware, you fans will all have my scorn if I don’t like it.
My parents told me they could “never find the movie” in stores because every time we rented it I watched it nonstop.
Greatest. movie. ever.
This movie was fantastic when I was little and it’s still fantastic now. I never really enjoyed Disney movies as a kid (princess+dangerous situation+prince=happy ending) but I’ve always loved this one. Disney really didn’t have a hand in making it though, I found out later, they just released it to the mass market (right? I don’t really remember.)
Many of the people involved in making this movie went on to become Pixar.
I’m gonna say that that movie was freaking terrifying for me as a kid. I loved that movie in the same way you might love a good horror film. It was that dark, scary, and raw edge that made it so interesting and compelling.
Watching that clip now is way different now that I have some knowledge about the world. I mean that air conditioner had a psychotic episode and breaks a fuse… a kid friendly version of someone with high blood pressure getting so worked up they have a heart attack.
I still to this day can get emotional about parting with old appliances thanks to this movie.
Odd that you mention getting emotional about parting with old appliances. When I sold my first car a few years ago I went in the bathroom at the car dealership and got a bit weepy because the car crushing scene from this movie popped into my head.
I think I liked it when I was a kid because I thought it was like The Incredible Journey but with appliances. But watching it when you’re older you realize just how dark it really is.
Wow how in the world did i like this demented movie so much when I was younger lol. Probably because I didn’t really understand what was going on.
Pixar legend Joe Ranft was the lead story man on this film and also did the voice of the appliance salesman. May he rest in peace.
I taped this off of Disney Channel back in the late 80’s and picked up the DVD much more recently.
Funny how so many pass this off as a kiddie movie. When you sit down and watch it, just . . . wow. It gets unbelievably dark.
Another reason this film is awesome is that Kirby the vacuum was played by the wonderful Thurl Ravenscroft. Also known as the original Tony the Tiger, the singer of “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch,” and one of the singers in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. Also the bearer of one of the sweetest names ever…
okay so true story time: I broke my face on my living room coffee table @ age three because i was running around singing along to The Brave Little Toaster. I had raccoon-like bruises for weeks afterward and STILL insisted on watching it almost daily.. 18 years later and even the mention of this flick makes me smile. Epic Win!
This is definitely one of the darkest cartoons I remember watching as a child. A character blows up, an innocent looking character gets depressed, one gets blown away during a storm, one gets hit by lightning, panic attacks, quicksand, a repair man made to look like an axe murderer/mad scientist, characters singing about how their lives have no meaning before they die, and at the end one character commits suicide.
That’s almost as many bodycounts that would match the 80’s Transformers Movie!
I’m not saying the movie sucks in any way. I’m just saying it’s dark.
To fix this you can adjust the contrast on your tv. Then it will not look so dark.
Aw, not suicide. Self-sacrifice!
Toaster saved the master. And he even managed to fix her and still took her to college with him and the rest.
He’s talking about the green truck that drove itself into the compactor at the end of the junkyard song.
That particular song is called worthless, you can see on the video on youtube that there is a green truck who commits suicide right at the end.
Man, I remember watching this at 1am sitting on a bed with Sam ‘the Cricket Club boy’, cause we ran out of other videos to watch.
I have heard lot about “Brave Little Toaster” but yet not able to see it. I am thinking to download it in this weekends.
Wow let me try to decode your sentence.
I have heard a lot about “The Brave Little Toaster” but have not been able to see it yet. I am thinking about downloading it this weekend.
Hopefully you are planning on a legal download.
John Lasseter was let go from Disney for this, then he started Pixar. Disney foresight fail.
And then Disney bought Pixar. Imagine that!
God, I love this movie so much! When I moved into my own place with my own appliances, I HAD to get a shiny retro-looking toaster – as opposed to one that toasts more than two slices of bread at a time – and every time I use it I have to show it my half-chewed toast, just like Master.
By the way, I’m 28 and not at all ashamed of this behavior.
I Definatly bought an old sunbeam toaster from a yardsale that looks just like The Brave Little Toaster (minus the face!) and have been using it ever since even though the adjustment is way out of whack
Sad…… everyone remembers this movie but they all forget the movie “The constipated coo coo clock”
This movie effected me so much as a child. I cried when they took away our cars because of this movie, and I <3 my computers all the more because of this movie.
BLANKIE!!
after seeing this movie, i was afraid that my toys and various appliances would be sad if i left them at home.
I love this movie like I can’t even describe. It is pretty intense for a kids movie though, I remember being absolutely TERRIFIED of the big junkyard magnet when I was little. And the songs are awesomeeee. Like, the Worthless one the cars sing. Kids don’t get that one so much lol
Seriously?! I watched that on Youtube today and thought it was funny, actually. It cracked me up almost as much as “it’s a conspiracy”…
though this movie is really dark once you really watch it.
When I was really really little, I liked it a lot. But as I got older, I got more and more freaked out every time I watched it. That scene they put up still kinda scares me.
That air conditioner!!! I was always scared of that part….it was so terrifying!!!
I’m avoiding watching it because I know it’ll bring back terrible memories
holy crap, this movie used to freak me out when I was a kid. I didn’t even understand what was going on, and I don’t even remember how old I was when I saw this, but that scene brought back the same feelings I used to have as a kid, and I’m seriously trippin right now.
OMG! Me and my sister were just talking about this movie!! <3
This movie is even creepier than it was when I was little. I was playing the AC clip on my laptop and hubby thought I was watching The Shining.
I love this movie!!! From the first time I saw it as a little kid, to today!
When I watch it with my kids, they have to tell me to not say all the lines.
My only problem is that they kept calling Toaster a “he”, but it was clearly a woman’s voice. It drove me nuts as a kid. I always saw Toaster as a girl.
I remember having a kid-panic attack when my mom accidentally ran over the vacuum cleaner cord. All I could think about was this movie! The dark, terrifying movies are childhood favorites for me.
Dude I flat out LOVED this movie
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!111!111
THAT IS AWESOME!!! I WAS WATCHING IT WHEN I WAS A KID! WHEN I WAS 5 IN 2000 SOMTHING!!!
I was born in ‘91, but my parents had me watch this as a little kid and I remember it so well and I loved it. We used to have a nice shiny metal toaster that I would always talk to as a kid as if it was the Happy Little Toaster. x3
Oh boy. This was my absolutely favorite movie in the world when I was younger. And to this day, I can still quote the entire movie forward and backward, and hear the sound cues in my head. When I’m bored, the entire MOVIE gets stuck in my head. So glad to see this on here.
I still like to watch it every now and then. And yes, I still enjoy it. You gotta admit, some of the music is pretty great.
This one actually made me think that the electrical stuff in my house had feelings… Great movie, was one of my favorites when I was a kid!!!
“What are you gunna do suck me to death?”
I remember that scene. Scared the hell out of me then and it still does now…and I’m 17. I haven’t watched this since I was like…5. Sll in all, I loved this movie. The Lamp was my favorite, and the junkyard scene was always so cool and…freaky too.
Disney seems kinda desperate for ideas on this one. Can’t you see one of the animators going, ‘Let’s make a film about a little talking toaster!’
To this day I am TERRIFIED of this movie. When I was in college I saw it on acid. I have never looked at a toaster the same way.
Then my wedding came and my wife and I got 3 toasters and I almost cried. This movie is really friggin creepy.
That movie used to scare the crap out of me when I was a little kid. Watched it obsessively anyway.
i had nightmares. the vacuum FREAKED me out. it still does.
because of this movie, every vacuum we’ve had over the past 20 years has been named kirby. when i moved out of my parents house and a few years later moved in with my fiance, i called the vacuum kirby once and she immediatley smiled, knowing what i was talking about.
My most favorite movie when i was little… i must have watched the sequels and not realized cause i remember watching when i was older and wondering where certain parts went