Does the dog die?
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The Brave Little Toaster
Movie • 1987 • Adventure
ReportA 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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spindleclown
Quadruped, Elmo's dog, is unharmed. He does run (drive) away in fear, though.
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Is someone held under water?
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hexdeca
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 reality unstable or unhinged?
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CMster
Anthropomorphized appliances, dream sequences, the song Cutting Edge is disorienting
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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CMster
Child-like appliances think they've been abandoned by their caretaker (referred to as "master")
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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EntropyEmissary
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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Is someone stalked?
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hexdeca
Radio is stalked by Elmo St. Peters, who is trying to dismantle him.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is an animal sad?
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EntropyEmissary
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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Are there spiders?
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ZedC
In the original film there are shadow puppets that turn into spiders during a musical sequence.
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Are there bugs?
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ZedC
there are cartoony dragonflies shown briefly flying by the screen.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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spindleclown
A "mish-mash" of objects has an electric razor for a mouth, but never uses it.
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Is there cannibalism?
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ZedC
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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ChrisA
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 burned alive?
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Anonymous
An anthropomorphized air conditioner explodes
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Is someone buried alive?
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ZedC
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 body horror?
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EntropyEmissary
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 amputation?
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Riveris
A minor character's cord is ripped off
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Does a head get squashed?
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hexdeca
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 there a hanging?
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hexdeca
Hanging is referenced in the musical number "It's a 'B' Movie" by the coffee pot.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Brock
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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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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EntropyEmissary
Narrowly no, although a hand just avoids being crushed.
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Is someone tortured?
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Anonymous
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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Does someone fall down stairs?
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hexdeca
Though comically, the group is pushed down a flight of stairs by Kirby in the beginning of the film.
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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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Is there eye mutilation?
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Anonymous
A humanized oscilating fan has its eye poked out with a screwdriver
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Cryptesthesia
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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EllieAdkinson
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
Are there ghosts?
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spindleclown
The objects pretend to be a ghost to scare someone.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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CMster
Animated natural bodies of water
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Are there clowns?
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Anonymous
Someone has a nightmare about a clown dressed as a fireman.
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spindleclown
A character has an electric razor for a mouth.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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TankFrank
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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hexamoron
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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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Cryptesthesia
Kirby has a panic attack when he sees the waterfall
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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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Anonymous
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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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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hexdeca
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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Are there flashing lights or images?
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ZedC
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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glitterpop95
It’s not explicitly clear if Toaster is male or female.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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EntropyEmissary
This version of the story is lacking in LGBT themes compared to the book, so this goes without saying.
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Are there fat jokes?
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spindleclown
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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Is there blackface?
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spindleclown
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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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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glitterpop95
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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hexamoron
Kirby complains about Blanky crying in the beginning
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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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