Parents Guide for
The Brave Little Toaster (1987) More at IMDbPro »

A provocative-looking reel-to-reel tape player is briefly seen in the beginning of the song "B-Movie Show" whose spools appear to resemble pasties with tassels.

In the scene where the TV tries to convince the Master to go to Ernie's disposal, there's a shot of the character pulling paper out of a filing cabinet. One of the sheets of paper has a naked woman on it with two small stars covering her nipples. However in the DVD release, she now sports a bra.

An air-conditioner smashes and cracks the walls surrounding him, violently spews fire and sparks and blows up. (Representing suicide)

A character is electrocuted during a thunderstorm, shorts out and passes out.

The characters fall off a cliff into a rushing waterfall but are unharmed.

A blender is seen being taken apart by a repair person in a manner that seems to emulate dismemberment and we see the main characters wince in disgust.

The main characters are shown from outside getting tossed rather roughly from The Master's bedroom into a dumpster by the modern appliances.

We see various singing cars getting crushed by a compactor into scrap during the song "Worthless".

A character throws himself into the gears of the compactor, crushing himself in the process and stopping the compactor from crushing a man. However, he is later shown getting fixed and survives.

Mild insults and name-calling, phrases like "Shut up." In one scene, The Radio says "damn."

None

Some of the scenes listed under "violence" can be considered frightening/intense.

The scene in which the air-conditioner shorts out may frighten younger viewers.

The lamp turns on the light in a hollow tree, revealing it to resemble the face and mouth of a monster, subsequently scaring the main characters and himself.

A menacing, fireman's outfit-clad clown in Toaster's nightmare tells him to "run" and tries to douse him with water which then turns into giant forks that try to stab him, we then hear the clown laughing maniacally as Toaster hangs above a water-filled bathtub. (This scene has traumatized several children during the 80's, but nowadays kids should be fine watching it).

Blankie gets blown into a tree during a fierce thunderstorm and the other characters panic and try to save him.

The characters fall off a cliff into a rushing river and struggle against the flow, but are gradually rescued by Kirby.

Many of the appliances in the repair shop appear ghastly in their broken state, they also make sinister shadow puppets (including a knife) during the song "Like A Movie".

A giant trash magnet chases and terrorizes the main characters around a junkyard, the trash compactor (which seems to resemble giant teeth) also threatens to hurt them at various points.

Suggested MPAA rating: 'G' (but contains some scary images)