Much like the heart-wrenching junkyard scene in Toy Story 3, the appliances in The Brave Little Toaster have a moment where they’re also threatened by a trash compactor. Josh also recalls being scared by a scene that takes place in an auto-wrecking yard. I can't believe it's already been 34 years since "The Brave Little Toaster" warmed all of our hearts/scared the shit out of us as children.įeels like only last night that I had a nightmare about it. It’s unclear if he killed himself or had the air conditioner equivalent of a heart attack, but he certainly is dead. He tells them, “We’ve been dumped! Abandoned! It’s scrap-metal time!” From there, an argument erupts where the air-conditioner freaks out and explodes. Less than 15 minutes into it, the appliances are lamenting the absence of their master, when a grumpy air conditioner - played by the late Phil Hartman - chimes in.
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In fact, much of the movie deals with just how worthless these things are. It’s not like Jerry Rees - the writer and director of The Brave Little Toaster - was unaware of this. If anything, I was probably more upset about the decimated Bagel Bites inside the toaster oven than the actual toaster oven itself.
I didn’t give a fuck - my mom just bought a new one. Hell, I remember when I was a kid I had a toaster oven that caught on fire. Potato Head, you can’t really say the same thing about a toaster or a vacuum cleaner. On occasion in Toy Story, Woody and the gang confront the fact that they will eventually be outgrown - and maybe even thrown out - but while a child might have some sentimental attachment to their cowboy doll or their Mr. Whereas the Toy Story films are adventure movies with some existential crises mixed in, The Brave Little Toaster is mostly about an existential crisis. But when a realtor puts a “for sale” sign out front, the appliances decide to head to the big city in search of the boy. It’s about a toaster and a few other abandoned housewares who reside in an empty house, awaiting the return of their “master,” a small boy who used to live there. If you’ve never seen The Brave Little Toaster, it’s a lot like Toy Story, except with appliances.
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But when I found the full film on YouTube, I rewatched it and immediately understood why it was so frightening. Honestly, I don’t remember being freaked out by the movie when I was young, and it’s hard to believe that a movie about a talking toaster could really be that traumatizing. I mean I guess this is a professioneal account February 28, 2020 Shinblam of Several Voices March 11, 2021įirst of all the brave little toaster was high key scary ! /J8SeMCR3I5 The air conditioner in the brave little toaster scared the hell out of me as a kid.
While it seems that Disney may not have all the rights to the movie - which might explain why its sequels are on Disney+ but not the original - I also found several blog entries, Reddit threads and Twitter posts by adults saying how much The Brave Little Toaster terrified them as a kid. That night, we settled on watching Muppet Treasure Island because I love everything with the Muppets, but I went digging into The Brave Little Toaster issue later on and was surprised by what I found. The original was nowhere to be found - not on Netflix, HBO or Amazon.
Unfortunately, all I could find was a couple of direct-to-video sequels on Disney+. Recently, I was trying to think of something cute and lighthearted to watch, and The Brave Little Toaster came to mind. For example, there’s The Land Before Time, which had a big impact on me as a kid, and Osmosis Jones, which is surprisingly educational. That’s why, when I join in on movie night, I insist on exposing my kid to stuff she hasn’t seen before. Don’t get me wrong, I genuinely think Frozen II is a good movie - and I applaud it for briefly reviving the male power ballad - but, as the father of a six-year-old, hearing the same film on repeat all summer can be grating, no matter what it is. Seriously, if I hear “ Lost in the Woods” one more time, I’m going to freak the hell out.
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