I think it's well past time to expose and traumatize a whole new generation to this freaky movie. Both are on Disney+, but the original film-now heavily associated with Pixar-didn't get the streaming treatment. Disney then released two follow-ups: The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars and The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue. Lasseter took the concept to Hyperion Pictures, which later released it as an independent production to positive reception. Maybe some of that has to do with its history: Lead animator John Lasseter originally pitched Brave Little Toaster as a computer-animated feature to Disney, which upset a studio executive so much that he fired Lasseter within minutes. Still, it's one of the most successful Disney-owned films not to appear on the corporation's streaming platform, Disney+.

What about The Brave Little Toaster creeped me out so much as a child that I avoided it for years before rewatching it this week? Is it because it's about inanimate objects and their perilous journey from a countryside cabin to a big brutal city? Or maybe that strange clown sequence? That MURDEROUS junkyard scene that has Toaster throwing his body into the gears of another machine? The fact that these cuties experience extreme existential crises? There's so much in this kid's movie that seems too grave for kids.

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