The Brave Little Toaster Page #5

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Jerry Rees
Production: Kushner-Locke Productions
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
NOT RATED
Year:
1987
90 min
2,037 Views


Yeah, couldn't get

any more modern.

They're wonderful.

Honey, take some of our things.

This lamp would look

so cute in your dorm room.

Go for it.

What are you

going to read by?

I'll buy

some candles.

I won't read.

I'll go out.

I'm not gonna

take your stuff.

I'll just pick up a few

cheap things this afternoon.

That's right,

ladies and gentlemen.

Appliances,

cheap appliances...

available now at

Ernie's Disposal.

Where's a good bargain

place around here?

You should have gone

for the new stuff.

Oh, were you

in line first?

After you,

of course!

Pardon me!

# I can't take this

kind of pressure #

# I must confess #

# One more dusty road #

#Would just be

a road too long #

#Worthless #

# I just can't

I just can't #

# I just can't seem

to get started #

# I don't have the heart

to live in the fast lane #

#All that is past

and gone #

#Worthless #

And there ain't nothing

you can do about it!

Pardon me

while I panic!

#Worthless

Worthless #

#Worthless #

No, that place

is too expensive.

Cheap!

We're talking

real cheap!

What about Rooney's

down on 53rd?

They've got used

vacuums and junk.

This just in.

Rooney's vacuums

found to be...

carcinogenic in

recent lab tests!

Big, big tumors

on those rats.

We've got photos

to prove it...

and I don't even

want to look at them.

# I come from

K.C., Missouri #

#And I got my kicks

on Route 66 #

# Every truck stop

from Butte to M.O. #

# Motown to old Alabama #

# From Texarkana

and east of Savannah #

# From Tampa

to old Kokomo #

#Worthless #

# I once ran

the Indy 500 #

# I must confess

I'm impressed how I did #

#And I wonder how close

that I came #

# Now I get

a second sensation #

# I was the top

of the line #

# Out of sight

out of mind #

# So much for

fortune and fame #

A bargain

in every buck!

A buck in

every pocket!

A pocket in,

uh, every trouser!

Ernie's Bargain Circus...

where you ride

the Ferris wheel of values...

toward a better tomorrow.

# Once took a Texan

to a wedding #

# He kept forgetting

his loneliness #

# Letting his thoughts

turn to home and return #

# I took a man

to a graveyard #

# I beg your pardon

It's quite hard enough #

#Just living with the stuff

I have learned #

#Worthless #

Let's go cruising and

see what we can find.

Why wander endlessly through

the sprawling wasteland...

they call the city...

when your dreams

are all under one roof?

Our roof,

corner of 3rd and E.

Crazy Ernie's

Amazing Emporium...

of total

bargain madness!

Ha-ha-ha!

Ha!

Have you ever heard

of this place before?

Looks pretty neat.

# Once drove

a surfer to sunset #

#There were bikinis

and buns filled with weenies #

# Fellini just

couldn't forget #

# Pico, let's go

up to Zuma #

#Pico, let's go

up to Zuma #

# From Zuma to Yuma

the rumor was #

# I had a hand

in the lay of the land #

# Get up and go

hit the highway #

# Ooo-ooo #

# I worked on

a reservation #

# Ooo-ooo #

#Who would believe

they would love me #

#And leave on a bus

back to old Santa Fe #

# Once in an

Indian nation #

# I took the kids

on the skids #

#With a Hopi was happy

to lie in the shade #

#You're worthless ##

This sure doesn't

look like...

Crazy Ernie's Amazing Emporium

of total bargain madness.

- It's the right address.

- Hmm.

Oh!

At least we'll

all go together.

That's looking at the

bright side, isn't it?

The Master's down there!

Look!

- It's him!

- What? Where?

Why look,

it is him!

Maybe he still

needs us!

Yeah!

Chris?

Hey, these are

hard to find.

This is me.

What?

I can't hear you.

I don't get it.

There he is.

I can't believe it.

Freeze.

Here he comes.

You jump off one side,

I'll jump off the other.

Okay, I got it.

Which side?

- Right side.

- Okay.

I'm glad we don't have

to do this every day.

Look!

Hey Rob,

come here.

What?

Doggone it!

- He's coming back.

- He'll see us this time.

Run!

This looks just

like my old blanket.

I think it is

my blanket.

That's my radio.

Hey, Chris!

And the lamp!

Hey, Chris!

Wait a minute!

These are mine.

Let go!

Whoa!

Let me down!

Aaah!

Chris! Help!

Where are you?

Rob?

Chris!

Aaah!

Whew!

Would you cool it?

Get down here.

You're scaring me

to death.

Really now.

Why don't you just

buy a new one?

Where could I find another

toaster like this?

Like that?

Probably nowhere.

Ah-ha!

Bye, Mom.

I love you.

I'll call you tonight.

You forgot your sweater!

We did good,

didn't we?

Yep, we did good.

You know,

I've been thinking.

This college business

seems like a good idea.

I can absorb a lot

of interesting facts.

I'm picking up a news flash!

President Roosevelt has declared

today a national holiday...

in honor of those five amazing

appliances we've heard about.

So lock up the office,

take down the top...

and open that

rumble seat!

Last one to Coney Island

is a party pooper.

From the starlight roof

high atop the Ritz...

we wish our intrepid

little friends...

the best of luck...

and a fond farewell!

Ah, you're all

a bunch of junk.

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Thomas M. Disch

Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others. In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines. His critically acclaimed science fiction novels, The Genocides, Camp Concentration, 334 and On Wings of Song are major contributions to the New Wave science fiction movement. In 1996, his book The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1999, Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture, as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. Among his other nonfiction work, he wrote theatre and opera criticism for The New York Times, The Nation, and other periodicals. He also published several volumes of poetry as Tom Disch. Following an extended period of depression following the death in 2005 of his life-partner, Charles Naylor, Disch stopped writing almost entirely, except for poetry and blog entries – although he did produce two novellas. Disch killed himself by gunshot on July 4, 2008 in his apartment in Manhattan, New York City. Naylor and Disch are buried alongside each other at Saint Johns Episcopal Church Columbarium, Dubuque, Iowa. His last book, The Word of God, which was written shortly before Naylor died, had just been published a few days before Disch's death. more…

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