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causes him to blow his remaining tube and he dies. Guilt-ridden over condemning the animals to their doom at Tartarus Laboratories, gives up his own tube, sacrificing himself. The appliances install Radio's tube in Wittgenstein and he wakes up with boosted power that regenerates all of his other tubes and destroys all the viruses within him. The appliances and Wittgenstein alert Rob and his girlfriend, Chris, to Mack's scheme. The appliances create a makeshift vehicle out of a modem, an office cart, and a car battery and pursue Mack's truck with Rob, Chris, and some guard dogs sent by Wittgenstein following them. They manage to lure the police to the front of the truck (causing the appliances to crash into the back) and have Mack arrested. After discovering the appliances in the truck, Rob and Chris assume that Mack had also planned to sell Rob's stuff, but Rob wonders where Radio is. Later, they discover Wittgenstein and Radio in the basement, but Rob is dismayed that Radio's tube is missing. Rob proposes to Chris and she replaces Radio's tube with a new one she found in
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laboratory named "Tartarus Laboratories". The appliances discover an abandoned, old prototype TLW-728 supercomputer named Wittgenstein in the basement. Wittgenstein reveals that he is living on one rare vacuum tube, a WFC-11-12-55, due to being infected by a computer virus. The appliances learn that
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In an attempt to return Wittgenstein to his full capacity, Radio and Ratso go to the storage building of the college to find the WFC-11-12-55 tube. However, when Radio and Ratso return with the tube, they accidentally break it during an argument. Wittgenstein does his best to survive, but the virus
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as Mack McCro, the former assistant of Rob McGroarty. Unlike the latter, he doesn't care about animals' feelings. He only cares about making money and wants to sell the animals (which Rob has taken care of) to Tartarus
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Rob McGroarty, the owner of the appliances, and the one referred to as "The Master", is in his last days of college while simultaneously working at a veterinary clinic. One night, while finishing his
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and watchful of her three kittens. Though she initially did not like Ratso because of his discourteous behavior, by the end of the film, he makes amends with her.
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by Rob in the first place. He is discourteous to almost everybody, but as the film progresses, Ratso begins to fix his attitude.
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who was the victim of the inhuman experiments of Tartarus Laboratories and as a result has a mutilated and bandaged hand.
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who is the leader of the clan of small appliances. Toaster is lion-hearted, rational, kind, contemplative, and caring.
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as Jim Bob, the assistant of Mack McCro. He and Mack plan to take the animals to Tartarus Laboratory.
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unless they find a replacement quickly, Wittgenstein's vacuum tube will blow and lead to his death.
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as Master Rob McGroarty, a university student, and the original human owner of the five appliances.
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on May 20, 1997, in the United Kingdom and on May 25, 1999, in the United States by
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Alexander Janko composed the film's score. In addition to the original songs, "
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lineup, it is the only film not to be based on the novella of the same name by
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with a naive demeanor. Lloyd replaces Timothy E. Day from the original film.
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who dons a negative, grouchy attitude towards the other appliances.
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whose personality parodies noisy and flamboyant announcers.
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Willard Carroll
Thomas M. Disch
Donald Kushner

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