Does the dog die?
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The Brave Little Toaster
Movie • 1987 • Adventure
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A group of dated appliances find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold decide to, a la The Incredible Journey, seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous fantasy, but with a dark subtext of abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness.
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Quadruped, Elmo's dog, is unharmed. He does run (drive) away in fear, though.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Child-like appliances think they've been abandoned by their caretaker (referred to as "master")
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Nah, there's a man who holds a ton of appliances hostage to sell their parts and they all pretty much hate his guts to the end and take the first opportunity they get to get outta there.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone stalked?
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Radio is stalked by Elmo St. Peters, who is trying to dismantle him.
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there are cartoony dragonflies shown briefly flying by the screen.
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Are there snakes?
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To The Rescue has a snake.
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Is an animal sad?
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A story is described in detail wherein a weiner dog had to endure arduous conditions to reuinite with its owner, but this event is not shown onscreen.
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Does a cat die?
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The sequel, To the rescue, has a cat in a car crash, she has a fake out death but survives
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Are there spiders?
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In the original film there are shadow puppets that turn into spiders during a musical sequence.
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Are animals abused?
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To The Rescue (the sequel) has animals who's backstories all include neglect and abuse. The plot also hinges on the animals being at risk of being shipped to an animal testing lab, and Mac threateningly holds a newspaper towards Maisie and her kittens but he is stopped. The first film nor Goes To Mars have any examples of animal abuse
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Is someone held under water?
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Though they are not held down by a person, Toaster, being made from metal, sinks to the bottom of the riverbed when the group falls off of a cliff.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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The "modern" electronics bully the protagonists before chucking them all into a dumpster.
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Is someone tortured?
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A humanized blender has its motor removed in a way designed to look like an organ harvesting scene from a horror movie.
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Is there body horror?
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You're not gonna like what Elmo St. Peters does to his appliances if you're squeamish about this.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Narrowly no, although a hand just avoids being crushed.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Toaster lodges themself into the trash compactor's gears, crushing their entire body (and technically their body and head are the same thing).
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Is someone burned alive?
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An anthropomorphized air conditioner explodes
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Is there a hanging?
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Hanging is referenced in the musical number "It's a 'B' Movie" by the coffee pot.
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Is there cannibalism?
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there is a scene where the radio jokes about the characters becoming cannibals, but no cannibalism actually takes place.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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There is a very downbeat and panicky scene towards the end of the movie, where various junkyard cars sing about their lives (and the eras they represent, in some cases) coming to an end as they are picked up by an electromagnet and fed into an industrial crusher. Some of these deaths are explicitly on-screen, and one is a suicide. In some instances, pieces of the destroyed vehicles spray onto the main cast and the other stacks of immobilized cars (who provide the background vocals). Rob almost dies in this manner as well.
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Is someone buried alive?
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There is a scene where all 5 main characters sink into a pit of mud. They all become fully submerged before they are pulled out.
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Is there amputation?
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A minor character's cord is ripped off
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Is someone choked?
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Lampy is shown choking himself on two different occasions, once unintentionally.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Kirby panics and has the mechanical equivalent of a seizure when he encounters a waterfall. He starts chewing on/eating his cord while his eyes bug out. The rest of the main cast respond the way humans would to seeing someone have a seizure ("Get the cord out of his mouth! Don't let him swallow it!"). Toaster switches off Kirby's power and pushes him back and forth to calm him down, and Kirby is fine afterwards.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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They don't die but they came very close
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Though comically, the group is pushed down a flight of stairs by Kirby in the beginning of the film.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A "mish-mash" of objects has an electric razor for a mouth, but never uses it.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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A humanized oscilating fan has its eye poked out with a screwdriver
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Children
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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The Toaster sacrifices himself in order to save Rob (the master) he gets fixed in the end though
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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The toaster, who is almost treated as a fondly loved toy by the young caretaker, gets destroyed in the last act of the film but is restored in the finale.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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the main characters get kidnapped by the shop owner
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Fear
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A character has an electric razor for a mouth.
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Are there clowns?
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Someone has a nightmare about a clown dressed as a fireman.
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Are there ghosts?
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The objects pretend to be a ghost to scare someone.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Animated natural bodies of water
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Is there defecation?
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During the "City of Lights" song, there's a brief scene where Kirby breaks off from the group to empty his bag behind a tree. As he is a vacuum there isn't anything gross about it (and it isn't even really visible on-screen), but it is treated similarly to someone going to the bathroom - Toaster lightly bonks their cord on Blanky's head to discourage him from watching.
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A humanized car drives willingly into a car crusher.
A humanized toaster jumps into the gearbox of same car crusher to save a person's life. She is repaired at the end of the film.
A humanized toaster jumps into the gearbox of same car crusher to save a person's life. She is repaired at the end of the film.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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In "It's a 'B' Movie", Lampy can be seen choking himself with his own cord, though not tightly enough to do anything.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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The AC clearly has some repressed trauma and shows it by nearly burning the cabin down
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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There is some imagery implying suicide (like a toaster being chased by forks or a toaster dangling above a bathtub)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Anthropomorphized appliances, dream sequences, the song Cutting Edge is disorienting
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Kirby has a panic attack when he sees the waterfall
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Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
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At the end of Toaster's nightmare there are some flashing lights when he falls into the bathtub. There are also some brief flashing lights at the beginning of Cutting Edge.
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Is there shakey cam?
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In the NTSC version, the camera is very shaky through nearly the entire runtime of the film due to the used reel having been deteriorated.
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Does a baby cry?
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Blanky has a child voice and does cry
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Are there fat jokes?
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Very, very brief: Elmo St. Peters is very portly, and he's seen drinking a blended weight loss shake before promptly eating a handful of marshmallows. It's not emphasized.
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It’s not explicitly clear if Toaster is male or female.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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This version of the story is lacking in LGBT themes compared to the book, so this goes without saying.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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No, but Radio plays an excerpt from "The Jazz Singer" of Al Jolson singing "My Mammy", which was notoriously performed in blackface. Why it's used is unknown, though brief.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Mention of “buns and weenies” at a beach, which is an innuendo.
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Kirby complains about Blanky crying in the beginning
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Sickness
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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A plane crashes through a wall in the Cutting Edge musical number but it doesn't explode and nobody really mentions it
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Does a car crash?
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Crashed Cars are referenced in the Worthless musical number. A truck carrying animals crashes in To The Rescue, everyone survives
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Oil dripped from a character which was meant to look like blood.
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