The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

Actors: Mindy Sterling (actress), Thurl Ravenscroft (actor), Donald Kushner (producer), Mindy Sterling (actress), David Newman (composer), Jon Lovitz (actor), Willard Carroll (producer), Phil Hartman (actor), Phil Hartman (actor), Peter Locke (producer), Joe Ranft (writer), Joe Ranft (actor), Joe Ranft (writer), Timothy Stack (actor), Timothy Stack (actor),

Plot: A group of dated appliances that find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to, á 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.

Keywords: abandonment, air-conditioner, animal-driving-car, anthropomorphism, apartment, baby-carriage, based-on-novel, based-on-novella, bathtub, battery
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical,
Taglines: Imagine if Your Toaster Went on a Journey of its Own!

Quotes:

Toaster: What are you laughing at?::Air Conditioner: Absolutely nothing, nothing at all.::Lampy: I think he was laughing at us.::Air Conditioner: You know something? You're a bright little lamp.::Lampy: Thanks... Hey!

Lampy: Legs would help, you know.::Kirby: Brains wouldn't hurt either.::Lampy: Lay off.::The Radio: Yeah, pipe down, carpet-breath.

The Radio: I think Houdini did this once, and if I remember right, he was out of the hospital in no time.::Lampy: Well, that's encouraging.

The Radio: Boy, are we glad to see you!::Lampy: Yeah. I really thought I'd turned in my warranty that time.::The Radio: Until baggy here showed up!::Kirby: I just slipped and fell in. That's all.::Lampy: [laughing] Oh, yeah, sure, right.::Blanky: You can't fool us. We love you.::The Radio: That's right, like Mrs. Roosevelt loved her husband.::Kirby: Yeah, yeah. Well, here's the shore. Everybody off.::The Radio: Listen to this! This is President Roosevelt awarding the vaccum the medal of honor!::[Radio places a leaf on Kirby's face, but Kirby blows it off, and everyone laughs]

Air Conditioner: The whole bunch of you gotta have a combined wattage of maybe five, maybe less. It's been years. It's scrap metal time.

The Radio: Things could be worse, you know.::Lampy: How?::The Radio: How what?::Lampy: How could they be worse?::The Radio: They couldn't; I lied.

Blanky: He's not home.::Toaster: We'll have to wait.::The Radio: No. Let's wait inside!::Lampy: But it's locked.::The Radio: Luckily, my war training included inter-appliance codes. I will simply render the secret appliance knock, and we'll be welcomed by the native machinery. Stand aside, my meager companion!

[Radio knocks Lampy off the bed]::Lampy: Holy Mother of Edison! What were you thinking? You could have broken my bulb!

Lampy: Hey, come over here. I'm gonna...::The Radio: Why, do you dare to cross foils with the greatest Saxon swordsman in the land? Haven't you the slightest idea who you're dealing with?::Lampy: Precisely - a total idiot!::The Radio: If you sabre wags as loosely as your Norman tongue, you'll be run through in an instant. Defend yourself, Sir Lampy of Locksley!::[the Radio continually whacks Lampy with his antenna, Blanky falls on them]::The Radio: A blow for Richard! A blow for Marion! A blow for Mario, the garbage man! And for Carl and all the boys at the delicatessen! And here's one for the guys on 5th street!

Air Conditioner: You guys really have an attachment for that kid, don't you?::Blanky: Yes. He was our master.::Air Conditioner: Well, that's real nice, and any day now, he might come romping back, huh? He'll just come whistling through that door, and everything will be the same. Real peachy-keen-like.::Blanky: Uh-huh.::Lampy: It's a possibility.::Toaster: Well, at least we try to be optimistic.::Air Conditioner: [shouts] Optimistic? Somebody try to untie the knot in this guy's cord!::Kirby: Why don't you just shut off?::Air Conditioner: Oh, I'm really scared there, Kirby. What are you going to do, suck me to death?