The Brave Little Toaster

[AlkaSeltzer]

So a couple of days ago the Australian version of the cable channel Disney aired that 1987 film "The Brave Little Toaster." I had forgotten completely about it, and the name rang a bell as I looked at it on the tv guide of my cable set-top box. I found it weird that the Disney channel aired such an old piece of work (which at the time of seing the name I didn't know it was), I mean I don't even see re-runs of Snow White and the Twelve Dwarfs on the Disney channel amongst all the Hannah Montana bullshit. I don't think I have seen one actual Walt Disney classic film on cable tv.

(Which on an unrelated point, I think channels that show old kid cartoons are incredibly awesome and marketably smart because older people can enjoy them for the nostalgia hit, and kids can enjoy them because - well, they're cartoons. This is why I love that channel Boomerang for instance. Not that its really nostalgia for me, I mean all the films were made before I was born - but still I watched them as a kid)

Anyway, so I hit enter and a stream of memories came back - It was like Toy Story but with household appliances and no Tom Hanks. SO FUCKING AWESOME OMG.

But then my childhood horrors came back. You see, in this movie an air-conditioner commits suicide (Fun Fact: Was voiced by the guy who played Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz before the actor's drugged up wife murdered him in his sleep. RIP Phil Hartman) and a sadistic clown from hell arises from black smoke in a nightmare sequence and tries to impale the toaster with giant demonic forks. I mean WTF?

Now I know why I am so fucked up. Because The Brave Little Toaster fucked my childhood up. I most likely didn't sleep for days over this shit. FML. Discuss.

[WeirdJamFace]

SO!!!!
Anyone here watched that Lilo and Stitch TV show?
Isn't it weird how Gantu is so much smaller in the show then the movie?

[AlkaSeltzer]

At 11/10/09 08:04 AM, WeirdJamFace wrote: SO!!!!
Anyone here watched that Lilo and Stitch TV show?
Isn't it weird how Gantu is so much smaller in the show then the movie?

comeon, you're 14 and I'm 16, we're both from the same country - you must have seen this masterpiece.

[Evark]

I watched that movie for the first time on VHS at a friend's house from pre-school. You see, we were initially playing this AWESOME looney toons game (Rabbit Rampage) on SNES, but the parents were all "hey too much video games do something else."

Absolutely loved that movie. When I was little I actually had a yellow blanket that I was infinitely attached to, just like the electric blankey in the movie. Wore the thing to rags. :' )

[ChocEliteBar]

Sometimes, memories are awesome. Sometimes, they aren't. The Brave LIttle Toaster happens to be both.

And yeah, Disney does suck these days.

NEEDS MOAR CLASSICS.

[TacticalShoe]

That movie kicked so much ass, man. Especially the radio voiced by Jon Lovitz

[DevilDog016]

I like different kinds of toasters. Big toasters!

[robin1232]

wow, I recently posted about that movie on newgrounds, but I didnt know the name

[KittyKat87]

That movie is so great. I love all the Disney classics. The new ones just don't measure up to the pure awesomeness of the old classics. Especially all those crappy sequels they made... I mean, Cinderella 2? Did we really need that? DX

[Shikamarana]

I remember how he killed the flower. :(

[142201]

At 11/10/09 09:50 AM, DevilDog016 wrote: I like different kinds of toasters. Big toasters!

Fuck yes! The 70's version of that show sucked so hard, it was hilarious.

I've seen the Brave Little Toaster, but it was so long ago that I don't remember anything about it. I probably had nightmares about it. :(

[Chavic]

Silly appliances. Wheres the switch for the sun?

[Rallard]

The yellow blanket was such a bitch.

That's what I remember most about this movie.

[AlexanderTheInsane]

One of the scenes I'll always remember from that movie (aside from the cool songs) was when the air conditioner loses his cool (bad pun, I know). T'was one of the most disturbing moments in my childhood.

[Sheizenhammer]

Holy shit, I can't believe I forgot about that movie! I remember watching it on a rented video when I was about 6 or 7. It's amazing! Anyone who hasn't watched it really needs to.

What's more awesome is I specifically remember having to write a story about what I did on the weekend for homework that week. Since the highlight of the weekend was that movie, I ended up writing about it. And I got a really good mark for it too! :D

Fuck knows why I remembered that, but meh. Call it a testament to how memorable the movie is. ;)

[ZagmenO]

Fuck yes! I used to love that movie! Too bad USA's Disney Channel is too into that Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers type bullshit that you mentioned to want to air classic gems such as that one.

[SlipperyMooseCakes]

At 11/10/09 07:55 AM, AlkaSeltzer wrote: I don't even see re-runs of Snow White and the Twelve Dwarfs

Wait a minute...

[megakill]

that film is so fucking awesome! i havnt seen it in years!

[The-Great-One]

The Brave Little Toaster has to be one of my favorite Disney movies. Although it does have it's flaws the dark tones set in show how most of us treat our appliances.

[ChaDMcBaDD]

At 11/10/09 01:38 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote:

At 11/10/09 07:55 AM, AlkaSeltzer wrote: I don't even see re-runs of Snow White and the Twelve Dwarfs

Wait a minute...

wow i did not catch that. fucking LOL'd

[AlkaSeltzer]

At 11/10/09 02:08 PM, ChaDMcBaDD wrote:

At 11/10/09 01:38 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote:

At 11/10/09 07:55 AM, AlkaSeltzer wrote: I don't even see re-runs of Snow White and the Twelve Dwarfs

Wait a minute...

wow i did not catch that. fucking LOL'd

It was late ok?

[CapnCrunchDaPimp]

I totally agree. People laugh when I say I was fucking scared shitless from The Brave Little Toaster, but at a young age it's cynical and haunting. I hated the part with the sophisticated technology, that was always creepy. Watching cars singing sadly and getting crushed into cubes was horrifying. It's a good movie, but boy it scared the bejeesus out of me.

[Spunky6666]

Oh wow! I almost forgot about that movie. Now the days of sitting there on my couch and watching The Brave Little Toaster and the Gumby movie on VHS are all coming back to me... the memories feel all warm and cozy in my mind. So much nastolgia...

[SaucyMachine]

The brave little toaster was a brilliant animation.
I use to love it when I was little.

[OfficeMan]

I remember seeing this movie when i was 6, Good times

[Chdonga]

They show that, like every month on Toon Disney.

[Bundeswehr]

Wasn't that the film franchise with one of those movies showing a toaster going to the planet Mars?

[SaBErT00thedT0Ad]

I remember that movie! It was fucking awesome. I remember that it disturbed me and I had bad dreams. But I cant remember why. . . Problly the Ac suicide thing.

[BloodPact]

Come on man, you can't go wrong with Brave Little Toaster. That's one of Disney's more decent originals before they came up with the crap they have now.

[oddzooka]

I imagine the idea for this movie started out something like this:
"So whats our next big title gonna be. Any ideas?"
"I have an idea for an animated film."
"Oh, great. Whats it about?"
"Well, there are these random ass household appliances who worship their owner as a god, but when their master sells their house and leaves them behind, they decide to go on a journey to find him."
"Great, so does the story have any important life lessons?"
"Only that theres always somebody better than you are."
"Sounds like a future classic."
"Oh yeah."