The Brave Little Toaster - Worthless (No Interruptions)

Here's my favorite song from The Brave Little Toaster - Worthless - without the cuts back to the Master's house.

[@wintertheampharos4725]

The stressed, overworked, and exhausted employee The clinically depressed The drifter The has-been The unmarried The traumatized The free-spirit The elderly

[@riffraff7942]

I think the first and sixth are the worst

[@bigd8055]

Describes them perfectly, good job!

[@devinpaul9026]

Ironically, sounds like exactly the type described to ride on Philadelphia's "wandering bus" urban legend.

[@aienma6660]

The unmarried and traumatized were the same person Thats why the Limo and the Hurse died together.

[@ryandyer3466]

What about The pessimist.

[@voodoopup4376]

Growing up in a time when TV didn't treat kids like glass.

[@RagnaroekChaos]

Douglas Moreland The good news is that all of those good movies and animated series are still available. Thankfully we can show out kids the good stuff.

[@slashbash1347]

Douglas Moreland I dunno, films today can still have some adult situations. Look at The Incredibles, for example.

[@JAM609]

Exactly. This was my favorite movie for the longest time as a kid. Now I see it these days and I feel bad for the sheltered kids today.

[@Olaxan4]

Douglas Moreland People really love to wallow in the fact that they were old enough to see things younger people couldn't. Every Disney song on KZbin has a comment similar to this one rated to the top.

[@HunterVS]

Douglas Moreland really? all TV treats kids like glass? must be bulletproof if you watch Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, any pixar movie, alot of disney movies...

[@IronManx70]

I feel for that Hearse. Imagine your whole life is moving corpses while having to hear what gruesome or tragic fate they suffered

[@BetterOnichThanSorry]

IronManx70 Hearse had a hard life.

[@devildog621]

IronManx70 notice how the hearse was thrown on top of the wagon that took a guy to a wedding

[@adamnichols476]

devildog621 good catch lmao.

[@janetplanet4595]

Somehow I assumed it was the same guy when I was little and that was a big coincidence. Perhaps the thing the hearse learned was that the man committed suicide after leaving the relationship, and the loneliness came back.

[@jordanlewis4983]

Yeah that one was hardest, especially considering how incredible the voice talent was

[@jonathanshort8771]

Cars carry not only passengers they also carry stories.

[@MrKingkez]

+Jonathan Short well said sir :)

[@FransZzZBoyzX]

+Jonathan Short The best sentence about cars I've ever heard

[@FransZzZBoyzX]

+Molag Bal Speaking of dead body's, ever stood still what it meant when the funeral car and the wedding car went both together on the belt towards the crusher?

[@greenlee7smythe]

+Da Flak3 yes. it was symbolic. they were talking about the same man. hence why they got crushed together.

[@KhanMann66]

+greenlee7smythe Oh shit that's dark!

[@schuylerlakey3333]

This movie cultivated a generation of hoarders

[@bobtheduck]

I believe it. Then Toy Story finished the job. Just like Bambi's anthropomorphic error created a generation of vegetarians and vegans.

[@lisafenixx]

wow, i never thought about that.... maybe this is why i feel emotional/sentimental attachment to everything I own lol

[@whaky6294]

Holy crap dude, you just cracked my code.

[@FloridaMan69.]

yep

[@lindsakay3315]

Too right. I watched this movie religiously as a little girl and I think I care a little too much about inanimate objects 😂

[@Imasuky]

The older I get the more this song hits home

[@fozziebear62]

I know the feels

[@CK2012]

Yeha

[@PsinkaJones]

it's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have learned

[@retro8696]

The green truck hits home to me he is singing about how his past mater got depressed and killed himself.

[@Imasuky]

seeing that I said this 2 years ago is depressing

[@Mathenaut]

That last car killed itself. Preserved what was left of it's dignity. Wow.

[@CamTroid]

According to the Wiki, he was originally supposed to be part of a rescue attempt but that part got cut, so they strung together the parts that remained. I think it turned out much more powerful. He's accepting his fate.

[@PBJECTIVE]

+CamTroid That is how I always saw it. I think people focus on the truck and not that the appliances were also there. He was driving away, the scene got cut, and he was caught and put on the belt. It was poorly edited but it makes way more sense then anything else.

[@daniellemusleve1034]

+Strawberry Limes I Think What Your Saying Is There Was A Cut Scene Where He Tried To Save The Appliances.....Huh Also He Says Was Happy Till I Heard Em Say Your WORTHLESS!He Is Not Saying That To The Appliances.

[@chaosinc.382]

It was his last act of free will.

[@luigiepic]

Sorry, I'm kinda stupid. Where are people getting the idea that his master killed himself? I've looked at the lyrics and I don't really see it?

[@nerdieone1]

How many people think that the wedding car crashed & its driver died, only to be taken to the graveyard by the hearse? I've always wondered that seeing as those two are the only cars that are crushed together. Chilling.

[@vitric]

Listening to the words of both cars, it sounds more like the man riding in the wedding vehicle went and committed suicide, and the hearse took him to the grave yard. I've always wondered what the real connection was supposed to be too.

[@nerdieone1]

vitric Interesting! What makes you think he killed himself? (I've always had a bit of a hard time hearing the wedding car.)

[@Baldwin587]

nerdieone1 "Once took a Texan to a weeding, once took a Texan to a wedding. He kept forgetting his loneliness then his thoughts turned to home and we turned." (Or, "His thoughts turned to home and return.")

[@vitric]

It's "He kept forgetting, his loneliness letting his thoughts turn to home, and we turned." Not too sure exactly 'what' he's forgetting, but it seems like he's on his way to a wedding, his or another persons, and then suddenly becomes extremely depressed, and goes back home. The fact that the very next car takes somebody to a graveyard AND that they're both crushed together tells me that they are singing about the same person, from their own points of view.

[@vitric]

The rest of the song is pretty cryptic too, way past what you would expect a kid to understand.

[@SankaJonesCreations]

One of the catchiest songs and one of the most depressing scenes in film history; a strangely complementary combination.

[@TheHappyGabeShow]

@DejaVoodooDoll that hits hard

[@ponyoplushie]

For a depressing scene it sure has catchy music

[@davionanderson4940]

Its toe tappingly tragic

[@Steppenwolf27]

complementary

[@SankaJonesCreations]

@@Steppenwolf27 Ahh yes, thank you.

[@Draggobuttboi]

"pardon me while i panic!!" *maintains a completely straight face and calmly watches the cubes go by*

[@JaftenLKA]

I think he's panicking inside-I mean, it's not like he can freak out and run away. The only thing he can do is sit there and watch in horror.

[@janelle9998]

Draggobuttboi haha

[@VintageGameRoom]

Well he was pretty much worthless, unable to move whatsoever.. Like a paralyzed old man.

[@MissSakumiU]

It's kinda hard to be expressive when you're a car

[@jaclynzinck4241]

letting the cubes go by...... let the oil hold me down

[@Shoe0nHead]

i used to be TERRIFIED of this scene as a kid but listening to it now it's even sadder/creepier lool song about death and suicide in a kids movie. s'byootiful.

[@mrplow8]

If junkyards had glass walls, we'd all be pedestrians.

[@DainnGreywall]

What about the scene where the flower sees his reflection and thinks that the toaster is a flower too and when it realises it's not and that the flower is all alone it just withers and dies of loneliness? That shit was HARD on me as a kid X_x

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

ME TOO

[@Dragoncurse4]

Don't forget about the creepy satanic clown nightmare scene. So much scary shit in what is supposed to be a kids movie. This movie was awesome!!

[@GashPlague]

~You're worthless~

[@dandanni1010]

Morbid as it is to say, can we appreciate how they managed to capture the perfect mix of absolute terror, dread, and “dead inside” in just the eyes of the cars alone?

[@hagamapama]

It's like a depiction of purgatory. They're sitting there, remembering because there's nothing else they can do, and waiting for the end because the end is at least a change..

[@emiliodibenedetto4654]

I totaled a car, just the other day. I couldn't help but feel sympathy for the car. That car carried me through some experiences. This is so moving. Respect to the things that carry us.

[@TheDoubleDeuced]

I lived a life to the fullest I must confess, I thought I was the best Taking on every passenger load Just a tumble was all it took Once I was prized, but now I'm paralyzed Looks like I'm at the end of the road. You're worthless...

[@gabem.5242]

@@TheDoubleDeuced A small workhorse, they'd call me! Three generations, potholes and dents, Never gave up no matter the cost. Time gave me the bill and now I'm rusting in the wind, No more Autostrada for me...

[@devinpaul9026]

"I once took the poor to work, their children to school, and even provided warmth and shelter for the homeless. All I ever asked was a few cents for the city I loved. The city that left me to die. I was once known as "The Number 15 Crosstown", and I did it all out of love. Until they didn't want my love anymore." *PIIIINNNGGG* "Last stop, Cube Street terminus. We thank you for riding with us, and have a nice day."

[@EGLEWRRR]

When a car dies, the memories you have with it fade faster. R.I.P. car

[@oldwarriorproductions6194]

I was once the fastest! The fastest express you've ever seen! but the faster took me down.. Im now a pessimist! A class 2P ruined by A4's and diesels! Last Station: end of the line! Thank You For Riding With Us! (Crusher Noises)...

[@jupiter9099]

The darkness of this film flew over my head when I was little.

[@ASR-Ansori]

+Jupiter9099 Such an awesome movie, though.

[@The_mario_fan]

+Jupiter9099 Same here!

[@JJsiN84]

+Jupiter9099 Me too, but I could still sense it. Probably why I was drawn to it and loved this movie so.

[@coolskeleton9579]

Agreed.

[@nikomartinez5606]

Agreed.

[@Ilikebats123]

A song about depression, last words, death and its inevitability? This is the darkest and saddest song I have ever heard! Now excuse me while I just lay here and die.

[@Heliophanus]

+Ilikebats123 It's also about how stories and places are lost to time. Some of the verses seem intentionally vague, and the only ones who knew the details are gone. Route 66 -- once used by natives, settlers, refugees, drifters and stars alike -- was decommissioned. There were millions of stories along that road, but who remembers any of them now? And the California beach culture and sexual liberation of 1960s, set on the backdrop of the worries of cold war and nuclear threat. Those of us who grew up later can probably never understand what it was truly like.

[@Piledriver86]

+Heliophanus I never really liked the way the Baby Boomers overtake everyone elses life. The way people talk about the 60's and 70s always makes it seem like no one else ever had a life worth living, like they're the only ones who were ever young.

[@bartosh2010]

+Henrik Magnusson We will be the same way as the baby boomers one day. Hell i already have a hard time telling young kids how awesome it was to grow up in the 90s and see all the technological advancement in games and movies in just the span of 10 years. Or just what it was like to live in a post Cold War pre Sep 11th world.

[@Piledriver86]

+Weston Bartosh Was it though? I grew up int the 90's, and yeah, I remember a few things with fondness, but for the most part it feels like it was the same crap as usual. Still had to go to school where I was miserable, still had to grow up with almost no friends, still had to comfort myself with tv and movies, most of which uscked with a handful of gems. Now I'm an adult, and life is still pretty shitty. Atleast now I can get drunk and high to forget and wait for death.

[@LynneleWhite]

+Weston Bartosh : I can't agree more. Kids these days will never know what it was like growing up before the internet was big and popular, before 9/11. While I will admit that every generation had their own set of struggles and new experiences at the time, I feel like the 90s were the perfect years to be born and brought up in. And this was my favorite song from this movie when I was a kid. I definitely identify with the dark themes as an adult. This song is chilling and beautiful altogether. I identify with how worthless the cars feel.

[@aceofheartzxaver1366]

This is in the most genuine sense a literal song about suicide and never finding happiness in a movie about a goddamn toaster

[@BrettonFerguson]

A lot of the cars used to be happy. But happiness is temporary and we all end up on the scrap heap.

[@TheInkPitOx]

The truck was trying to escape. There was a scene edited out.

[@elderjose9662]

this actually a song about death itself

[@jax6943]

I just noticed something...The little green car at the end, he could still move, he could´ve just driven away from the junkyard. But instead he drove right to his death. After suffering from the way his owners called him worthless, he decided to kill himself rather than to keep living like that... Damn, this scene is dark.

[@mountainanderson5597]

jorge gonzalez I've heard he tried to pick up the toaster and the other guys and haul ass out of there, instead he got caught and was put on the belt, you could still see them in there but if you look closely, he is trying to drive on the belt because the lines on the belt are going under him and if you watch a better quality one, his wheels are spinning

[@MrChickennugget360]

@@mountainanderson5597 i don't think that was the intent. Considering he has the most depressing "back story" other than maybe the Hearse and Limmo

[@ivantheterrible2594]

I never noticed that until now!

[@George-Hawthorne]

The fact that he still functioned refers to the fact that he weathered everything life threw at him and so manages to survive to a ripe old age while the younger cars broke before their time. Now at the end, he realized his time had come and chose to go out on his own terms rather than the magnets. In the end, young or old, becoming worthless is inevitable.

[@andrewcouch6471]

@@MrChickennugget360 That's actually the thing that got me most was he was on an Indian Reservation. The shit that vehicle had to have seen...

[@blargblarg5657]

The one that always struck me was the surf wagon. Upside down and rocking back and forth as she goes in. Her last moments stripped of dignity. This was a masterpiece.

[@indigothecat]

She was singing about "bikinis and buns filled with weenies" and "rumor was I had a hand in the LAY of the land." She was on her back and the car was rocking. I had no clue what she was talking about as a kid, lol.

[@plaidhatter1674]

The flow of the song is really good when uninterrupted

[@hakojo]

I became a mechanic because I don't want this to happen to my car. True story.

[@themonkey9603]

Came here to say this.

[@andrewcurtin7003]

Engineer myself, I hate throwing away appliances if they can be fixed, inspired by this movie actually

[@mcdiggles1141]

You raised them right, and if they become a doctor, they can pay you back the favor.

[@Lordodragonss]

That was heartwarming!

[@wintertheampharos4725]

Mc Diggles from roblox now pin me but if you raise them poorly or don’t raise them at all, then you’ll only have yourself to blame for the trouble they get into and their frequent struggles.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

Younger Viewers: Oh my LORD, that incinerator scene in Toy Story 3 it actually makes my heart hurt! Me: That's adorable. Watch this instead.

[@annamay2921]

The Brave Little Toaster: "Hold my bear."

[@LordIncompetent]

You are like a little baby. WATCH THIS

[@XxX_afterHours_XxX]

soup sandwich S U C C

[@jaclynzinck4241]

Younger Viewers: I am now having an existential crisis thanks

[@peterdinkler4950]

yeah I'm pretty sure this movie conditioned me for a life full of depression and disappointment thanks, Jerry Rees.

[@megamike15]

part of the reason the junk yard scene is so effective is the two main machines there don't talk. makes them seem more alien then the rest of them.

[@craZivn]

The magnet could be considered an analogy of the Ferryman or the Reaper, the crusher being the Gate of Eternity or the Gate of Hell. Neither is vindictive or takes pleasure in their job, it's just a task that they have to perform and it has made them grim and taciturn.

[@megamike15]

@@pyronaught6823 and the magnet clearly takes his job very seriously. the gang tries to run away and all it did was piss him off to the point it just gets rid of it's eyes and becomes even more scary.

[@MegaEXD]

@@megamike15 actually I think it closed its eyes because of the master. The Master doesn't know the magnet is possibly controlling itself. So he closed his eyes

[@megamike15]

@@MegaEXD your right. i have not seen the movie in awhile.

[@MegaEXD]

@@megamike15 your welcome

[@koolandblue]

Picture these cars as human nursing home patients sitting in the lunchroom wishing their families would visit them. Instead of getting crushed, they get wheeled away by a staff member back into their rooms. Then you'll really understand just how dark and sad this song is.

[@Dragon1813]

Interesting, I imagined them all sitting around a bar.

[@imquitefondofgeckos446]

STOP

[@benjwgarner]

Dragon1813 The Iceman Cometh

[@kagevista3375]

I imagine them being prisoners in the death row if they were humans, and the magnet is the guards taking them away, the compactor is the executioners.

[@nightskydiamonds2248]

This comment hurts so much.

[@xerotolerncerrum342]

The part with the corvette steering wheel turning back and forth symbolizing him trying to escape his fate, and the rez truck committing suicide, under his own power, because he was called worthless really get me every time.

[@micky_knuckles]

I literally never noticed that before. Seen this movie hundreds of times. He really drove himself onto the conveyor belt 😭😭😭

[@TheInkPitOx]

There is a scene that was edited out that made it clearer that the truck was trying to escape. He did not commit suicide.

[@mariomario9209]

@@TheInkPitOxthe movie makes it seem he did. He drove towards the conveyor belt, they probably cut out the scene to send a stronger message

[@DarciousMaluki]

I love how this song juxtaposes "the cutting edge." Particularly the race car, singing "I was the top of the line, out of sight, out of mind, so much for fortune and fame." How one day those cutting edge appliances and technologies will be dated and go unused, then thrown out.

[@halopro8958]

When you take into account that this movie was made in the 1980s, then it's very likely those "Cutting-Edge" appliances are now in that situation, especially things like the boom box, telephone and computers, who are now so large and under powered by today's standards that they're worthless. Only a few of them would still be considered useful like the toaster oven, the juicer and such, but they'd also probably be outclassed and replaced by new models that could do even more. Only one who is lucky enough to probably not be replaced is that purple lamp named Plugsy.

[@hotwax9376]

Including many of the appliances that the song described as "cutting edge" for the time. Very likely most real appliances from that era are long gone.

[@darkarcheos]

Usually the older appliances such as Toaster, Kirby, and even Lampy can last longer than those new ones since they were built to last and survive a lot of damage, drop any of those “new” appliances and they are easily scrapped

[@mosin54r2]

grown ass man and this still bothers me

[@meredithhutchinson7201]

+Mosin54R grown ass woman and this still bothers me.

[@mosin54r2]

It's disturbing, can't believe I saw this as a kid. You're a classy lady

[@RetroRupp]

+Mosin54R Grown ass man and this still bothers me too, but I also love it more now than I did then! Lol

[@Kolmin]

its to be well understood for the age your are now

[@ilikethecokev2]

'Cause now you get it more than you did as a kid!

[@100Beef]

The real horror is that we at least relate to one of these cars

[@bunniifangz]

i can relate to multiple cars

[@100Beef]

@@bunniifangz same

[@redrix1787]

I'd beg your pardon, it's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I've learned...

[@Zecxrity]

Especially the suicidal one

[@100Beef]

@@Zecxrity hope your doing well call the suicidal hotline just by googling it if you need serious help.... You can always talk to me in these comments too

[@556deltawolf]

The funny thing is many dumps don't "crush cars into cubes" anymore. Most scrap yards nowadays just stripe the old junkers of any usable parts and then the rest gets recycled. Not to mention, I have seen completely wrecked and junked up cars get fixed and rebuilt like brand new.

[@patcatania8582]

Yeah well, my buddy (+Ryan Sarra) and I are gonna try a different feat- try and recreate the Crusher from this movie into reality for our business. Yep.

[@halopro8958]

Pat Catania How is it working for you?

[@thematt523]

This was made in the 80s, when there was far less of a “recycling culture” than there is now.

[@twistedyogert]

So what happeneds to the "skeleton" of the vehicle once anything useful is taken? Are they shredded up and melted down?

[@erickmorton8085]

I work at a scrap yard and we crush them in a giant compactor with washers dryers stoves dishwashers and other metal stuff

[@Kev95682]

They may be cartoon cars, but this song makes me think of all the human wreckage I've ever known. This song is real talk.

[@lucasgomez0721]

I think is a Hell's representation...

[@Vasileva85]

This movie released when I was a toddler. B Movie is what triggered my interest in electronics repair, it taught me that I can actually fix my broken tech. Worthless made me very very upset and guilt me into taking care of my stuff, it deserves that much considering all the joy it brings me. I owe this movie my career as an aerospace repair technician. Edit: I caught catastrophic engine failures while working on commercial jets in 2019. It was because of this movie I was there and in a position to do something about it. People may have died if it weren’t for The Brave Little Toaster influencing a small child. Almost scary.

[@erikthomsen4768]

OH! MY! God!

[@BrettonFerguson]

I owe my career in engineering probably to Mount St Helens erupting in 1980. Something about seeing a mountain explode and wipe out millions of acres in seconds.

[@SkullSyker]

3:15 Aren't they basically hiding under the organs of other machines? This movie is metal as fuck.

[@chaosinc.382]

Yep! Pretty fucked, huh?

[@d4n737]

not really...

[@chaosinc.382]

Not really hiding in it. More along the lines of 'it fell on them'.

[@madjack1748]

It's the muffler so they're basically under his colon.

[@loganator01]

Even as a kid I remember watching this and thinking "they're being brutally murdered and their 'guts' are flying all over"

[@Umbra_of_Emberspike]

No wonder this song is tied with "Hellfire" for Disney's darkest song of all time.

[@155chipmunkz]

I know.

[@ZaiaFantasy]

This isn't a Disney film

[@Umbra_of_Emberspike]

ZaiaFantasy Disney, Hyperion; that is debatable, but we digress.

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

It is actually

[@darkcyclon]

This one is darker

[@AbandonedExplorationSquad]

Think of the stories our cars would tell if they were in this

[@RichTexas82513]

"I drove my people to the store" "Until the horrid day they had to say I was hit by a boar"

[@RichTexas82513]

@Vegas yeah that's what I shooting for lol

[@mysticpied]

“ i drove my person to a store” “Until the day I hit a tree And wood’nt start away“ “Now set here to to be scrapped they just couldn’t pay to repair so they replaced me and threw me away” “So much for living”

[@RichTexas82513]

@@mysticpied that's a better version, I like it!

[@mysticpied]

@@RichTexas82513 thanks this actually happened I let my brother drive he hit a tree and I couldn’t pay to save the thing so it was scrapped

[@metalman20]

man just like everyone else i have never realized how dark and depressing this song/film was. it just goes to show that as you grow older, you realize that not everything is as light and heartwarming as you thought as a kid. man this movie is amazing.

[@BotherRed]

I love it, I like dark suff when I was young, and I still do. It is my fav kids song

[@jaclynzinck4241]

I'm 13 and this is deep

[@chrisdock8804]

I feel like I knew. We were terrified of this movie.

[@clarelabellerose]

The movie is dark, but has an undertone of hope which prevents it from being like...Watership Down level dark.

[@lucindamobley5492]

The world may not be, but the Lord can give you rest. He loves you so much that He died so that you could live. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

[@pauldeddens5349]

Yes, this song came from a movie about a toaster

[@enyaautome3046]

Un petit grille-pain courageux

[@GC-fj4lc]

A movie... Rated G.... For.... Children... 😳

[@pauldeddens5349]

@@GC-fj4lc Lets not forget the holocaust references, or that the references are followed by lampy _literally fucking exploding._ Or the scenes where a man brutally rips apart appliances for scrap.

[@21centuryhippie61]

G C tbf, the original planet of the apes is also G. That rating wasn’t for kids back in the day it just evolved over time as the rating system became better defined.

[@pauldeddens5349]

@Thot Patrol USA Right fucking now.

[@21700r]

Lyrics: I can't take this kind of pressure I must confess one more dusty road Would be just a road too long Worthless I just can't, I just can't, I just can't seem to get started Don't have the heart to live in the fast lane All that has passed and gone Worthless (And there ain't nothing you can do about it) Worthless (Pardon me while I panic!) Worthless, worthless, worthless I come from KC Missouri And I got my kicks out on Route 66 Every truck stop from Butte to MO 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 it I wonder how close that I came Now I get a sinking sensation I was the top of the line, out of sight; out of mind, So much for fortune and fame Once took a Texan to a wedding Once took a Texan to a wedding He kept forgetting, his loneliness letting His thoughts turn to home and we turned 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 Once drove a surfer to sunset There were bikinis and buns there were 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 (Oo-wooh...) I worked on a reservation (Ooh...ooh...) 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 where the Hopi Was happy 'til I heard 'em say... "You're worthless."

[@Popcultureguy3000]

I get believe the made a reference to Native American suicide rates of thec early eighties.

[@Punkanova]

Truly the hero we needed

[@poletooke4691]

Thank you. No idea why it's so hard to find. Lol. Deaf here, so.

[@21700r]

@@poletooke4691 Happy to have helped

[@ranchintime2207]

This hurts my soul thank you for the lyrics

[@SilentScreamLP]

I just realized the message behind the song, having since rediscovered this masterpiece of a movie. No matter what we did, who we are, or how important we were, eventually we'll all be past our prime and, unable to do anything. We're all just gonna end up in the same place anyways, and we ain't coming back to retell our past. We all end up forgotten and, of course, "worthless".

[@ConkerTheCat]

There is more to this, notice the truck.....it drove away onto the belt....it still worked, it wasnt worthless, but the truck felt worthless due to the little backstory. Its really dark

[@devinpaul9026]

@@ConkerTheCat The truck knew that if it tried to escape the magnet would only bring it back. So it did the only thing it had left to do and robbed the magnet of the pleasure of killing it. "If I die, I die free." Rather fitting, considering it's characterization.

[@progamer69243]

Yeah!

[@Nic_2751]

The real message is that we shouldn’t determine our own value based on how society sees us, or we’ll end up like the junkyard cars who’s downfall was thinking they only served a higher up and weren’t worth beyond that, yet that’s why they tell us to get up and go hit the highway

[@SOMeDoOD1992]

respect your appliances, that is all

[@DraikRoan]

1st car: Acknowledges his own worthlessness. His transmission must have something to do with it. 2nd car: Must've been used alot in a 50s-sort of drag race, but the car itself couldn't handle such. Her ignition must've went out, thus the owner deemed her wortheles. 3rd car: Was used as means back and forth through route 66, a now defunct highway. Original owner sold the car (for whatever reason), and the car itself had been bartered about throughout the southern midwest. The steering components having went out over too much use, his final owner deemed him worthless. 4th car: Was a good racing car whose owner often got 2nd-3rd place. His owner however couldn't stand always being dubbed second banana; thus, he blames his 'failure' on the car, trashing it and deeming it worthless. 5th car: Owner had anxiety's about being around other people (or his upcoming marriage if it was the groom), so he just turned around & went home. 6th car: It's a hearse; it speaks for himself. Do notice however the many similarities between it and the 5th car, including how this car was put on top the 5th. I predict two things: either the 5th car got into an accident, the hearse having to send the 5th's owner to a graveyard; OR (more likely), the hearse and 5th car had crashed at one point (likely on the 5th car's trip back home) - which follows the hearse's statement of sending a man to a graveyard (sending someone to his grave). 7th car: According to the sexual connotations of the "buns and weenies" line, the surfer - this car's owner - was a real player's man. On the car's way from Pico Blvd to Zuma Beach (look 'em up), the owner must've sidewined off a cliff (the car's hand in the lay of the land) and into the pacific. Take note of the bitten-off surfboard still on the car. It leads me to believe the owner died by the fall, his dead body eaten by sharks. Car could no longer drive, obviously, thus is worthless. 8th car: This truck is literally speaking for their owners. The truck's registered owner was a poor indian woman who was in a marriage with a deadbeat & poor indian man, a hopi, who worked at a reservation. The truck was likely registered under her name as the Indian man didn't have the credit to even get such a thing. Anyway, the woman eventually left him seeking better conditions and took the kids on a bus; however, cause she still hold affection for the hopi, she purposely left him the truck. The man, in a drunk fit of rage, chased after them with said truck and forcefully took back the kids, likely gunning his ex-wife in the process. An a desperate attempt to win back his kids affection, he took them to the 'skids' - i.e. a playground slide in this context. The hopi was happy, but his kids obviously weren't - calling their own dad worthless & perhaps a murderer. Having being shunned by his own children and cops quickly approaching, his own guilt finally comes to fruition of what he had done. Life over, and in despair of killing his wife at his hands, he chooses his own death rather than being judge by the government - bringing his gun to his head & offing himself. Notice how the truck sort of just drives on the belt on its own. The truck acknowledges he's beaten down & worthless to others, just like the hopi. Also like the hopi, he feels guilty for playing a hand to the death of his owner's. So, just like the hopi in ways, the truck drives on the belt on it's own and commits suicide.

[@videogamerguy959]

+DraikRoan And if you listen VERY carefully after they say You're worthless after the 8th car kicks out the main protagonists, it sorta sounds like a gunshot.

[@DraikRoan]

+George Ottlein Don't freak out.These are only theories. Plus, It's vague enough to be interpreted either way, considering it's a movie for the kids.

[@GENERALGRIEVOUS627]

+DraikRoan They're very good theories though! I applaud your interpretation of the lyrics.

[@Piledriver86]

+DraikRoan Not bad, but I think you're off the mark on a few of them. 2. Factory defect, it never worked right. 5. The Texan abandoned his car aftr his marriage, the line about loneliness seems to fit more with the idea that she was his only company before marriage, and now he doesnt need the car anymore. 6. The Hearse despairs over its only function being to ferry dead humans around, until eventually breaking down. 7. Your theory IS plausible, but its probably a bit too complex. My guess would be that the surfer simply got a sweeter ride. He discarded the car along with his older surfboard. 8. Again, way too complex. The Truck was simply a workhorse car, but was deemed worthless by spoiled brats who didnt appreciate it or the reservation. Keep in mind, their stories arent necessarily tied to the reason for why theyre in the junkyard. Its just to show that they were all once useful.

[@corjonbett]

+Henrik Magnusson Honestly, I think the truck drives onto tohe conveyor belt himself, recognizing his time is up, but doesn't want to be carried to his death, instead choosing it on his own terms. And as for him being backwards on the belt? Well, he might have honor, but would YOU want to look at that crusher in your last moments, or on the world you are willingly leaving behind?\

[@doctoronoodle9455]

Everyone sees the magnet as a bad guy here... but anybody ever think that the magnet can't really leave and he's forced to hear these cars singing over and over and the singing eventually drove the magnet to insanity and eventually being the antagonist that it is in the film? He's probably thinking "DAMMIT CARS SHUT UP ALREADY!"

[@Piledriver86]

+Esteban Babaganoosh Pretty sure a lot of concentration camp guards didnt want to be there either, it didnt make their victims any less dead.

[@corjonbett]

+Esteban Babaganoosh He's more like the Grim Reaper. He probably has just turned his emotions off, having to be nothing but the end of so many... but check his eyes as the truck drives onto the conveyor at the end, he looks a bit stunned... I know, some say he tried to run and got caught... I think it'smore he refused to be carried to his death like an invalid. Doesn't mean he wants to WATCH the crusher coming, so he turned around.... That's my opinion.

[@Kolmin]

im sure its all understood the cars sing cause they know there last story is told. the magnet has a job to do and that's what it is job to end stories of life's of cars gone and we all know all cars have stories

[@shadowthehedgehog4737]

He tried to rescue the appliances.

[@MrChickennugget360]

considering how fucked up the Air Conditioner was for just being isolated from the others i can only imagine how fucked up the Magnet is

[@webm4675]

lets all gather around the camp fire and sing songs about assisted suicide and depression in a kids movie

[@Blahander]

lmao.

[@reddragon8167]

Heheh... " *kids'* "

[@jaclynzinck4241]

our C R I P P L I N G D E P R E S S I O N song

[@j-skullz]

@@jaclynzinck4241 ..and if you don't think that we can sing it faster then you're wrong..

[@101Volts]

1987 was a different time, and so were the 90s.

[@RhapsodyBlueVA]

1:52 I don’t know why, but listening to the VA for the Hearse gets me every time; he really put his all into the verse and you can feel the emotion in his voice.

[@billny33]

This song was deeply troubling to me as a child. But I trusted the judgment of this movie because of how sweet and likable the main group was (except for Kirby the vacuum but they needed a curmudgeon). I trusted that if they put a song in there, it wasn't "too dark for children." So I struggled through the terrors of "It's a B Movie" and told myself I shouldn't be scared by it, especially since my kid friends were bragging about watching Freddie Krueger and Child's Play and such. And I was being scared by the Brave Little Toaster? Get over it. And then this. Really? These cars with consciousnesses being crushed to death one by one, each too broken down to struggle and just accepting the end is coming, reminiscing on the best moments of their life before it gets snuffed out before an audience full of others knowing their turn is coming too? How utterly horrific. But again, I trusted their judgment so it can't be too dark for a kid's cartoon, right? I come back to see this as an adult and it's no easier to watch. It's worse.

[@metamaster5469]

On top of that, the second and third cars clearly make some effort to escape their fate [The pink one desperately trying to move away as the magnet comes down on her, the red one frantically turning his wheel to try and drive off the conveynor belt], and the last one just flat-out commits suicide.

[@HaplessNerd]

my favorite is the one at the end that doesn't even let the magnet pick it up and rolls onto the conveyor belt of its free will.

[@EdwardAlexander-ABF]

HaplessNerd My kid told me, the last car, the one that "worked on a reservation" committed suicide and drove itself into the crusher.

[@Piledriver86]

The way of all flesh, and metal. And literally everything that has ever existed or will exist.

[@Cuddles0321]

billny33 it never really scared me as a kid. What did scare me was the orange magnet guy and the crusher. Also I'm pretty sure this movie has a G rating. Idk how though tbh now that I look back on it

[@SudokuBro]

"This doesn't look like Crazy Ernie's Amazing Emporium of Total Bargain Madness."

[@SeansLipSyncingSock]

“Total Bargain MADNESS! HAHAHAHAHAHA...ha!”

[@Keeby256]

"It’s the right address"

[@chesiregirl]

It's made even darker when you look at the bite mark on the surfboard on the surfer's car. What if the surfer died in a shark attack and that's how the car ended up at a junkyard.

[@hagamapama]

"said I had a hand in the lay of the land." The surfer got environmentally conscious and stopped driving his car.

[@aidantanny7230]

hagamapama he probably drives a prius now

[@janetplanet4595]

I always wondered about "I beg your pardon It's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have learned" He most likely carried a victim of a grisly murder or accident.

[@greenlee7smythe]

Janet Vonnik he did. The wedding car and Hearse car were talking about the same man. Hence why they were crushed together

[@louche2388]

what about the wrecked indy 500 car? the racer probably died

[@Darkstar263]

After not seeing this film for many years. It's hit me how dark it was for an animated kids film. Yes a lot of the characters are appliances or in this case, vehicles. But there's quite a lot of death in this film. I miss the good old days when shows and films weren't watered down or censored for kids. This was quite daring for it's time.

[@sindrevangenrobberstad2889]

+Darkstar263 Well, in almost every Disney movie today someone dies, and doesn't come back. Just look at Inside out. There are amazingly heavy undertones in that movie!

[@DivinePearl]

+Mullerornis lol

[@shemesh9687]

It wasnt disney. Disney funded the release and stuff. It is actually directed towards college students

[@AloisAgos]

This film traumatized me as a kid. But as an adult it makes me feel sorrow for today's heartless throw away economy and rampant consumerism.

[@GabrielNicho]

I don't think the point of this scene was consumerism.......

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

I still love old cars.

[@CrescentGuard]

Now that I think about it, this song is REALLY nihilistic. All of these memories and experiences that these cars/people had, some of them had been through so much, one of them having seen a remarkable portion of a continent, but in the end all that happens is *crunch* "Worthless!"

[@corjonbett]

It's the same for us all. All of us may live out our lives, but if we are REALLY lucky, we may merit a footnote in history, IF that... ALL of us, are WORTHLESS... *CRUNCH*

[@CrescentGuard]

corjonbett Well, that's one way to look at it. I don't believe that's all there is to life, even after death, and no I'm not talking about it from a religious point of view (though I am religious). Unlike the machines, the ripples you leave live on without you, even if you aren't known by name.

[@GashPlague]

CrescentGuard Do those ripples persist even after our world is lifeless and scorched? When the only home we've ever known is devoured by the sun we once depended on to give us life? Face it man, unless you believe in an afterlife, there's really no choice but to look at life nihilistically. And most people who reject religion also reject the idea of an afterlife.

[@CrescentGuard]

GashPlague "There's really no choice," you say. Judgmental words there, clearly that is the only legitimate way of viewing things. Ephemeral is not the same as pointless. All things end, but that does not mean that they are without meaning or are not real. There's a quote from Mass Effect in dealing with lifespans between the milennia-long asari and their shorter-lived mates, which goes something like, "We do not focus on how short the time we have is, we enjoy the time we have." The end of the world is unfathomably far off, and may or may not have substantial effect on humanity depending on how technology progresses. I DO believe in an afterlife, but I acknowledge the possibility that one does not exist. My point, regardless, is not that the world isn't temporary--my point is that short-lived does not mean it is pointless. Life has meaning, that meaning being what you ascribe to it, and I find that spreading joy, intellectual stimulation, and artistic beauty to be things worth embracing. I see nihilism as little more than giving up, no better than psychological suicide.

[@GashPlague]

CrescentGuard I started writing you a big, long reply to argue with what you were saying, when I realized that I probably don't have a chance of convincing you to change your mind. Our perceptions of this world are just too different. All I'll say is that if you can believe in something that gives you comfort, keep it close to you. Because once you see life as the brief flash of existence that it really is, it's very hard to find that same level of comfort.

[@TheChaosDragoness]

Sheesh, it's only when you look back on your favourite childhood movies after years of not watching them that you realize how dark some of these movies are. I'm surprised I survived my childhood mentally unscathed.

[@j-yoshi6474]

Same here! I had absolutely no idea hard dark and scary this scene was until I read into it on TVtropes...

[@convincinglies1]

i believe these movies were MEANT to be watched twice. once when you are a child, once as a young adult. and they have completely different auras and totally different meanings each time. that is why movies like this are absolute genius

[@CentralGamingCore]

"Mentally unscathed" pfft

[@Virjunior01]

Central Gaming Core For real. I'm partially insane. I'm not even kidding.

[@njmy85]

I think this movie is excellent; it doesn't shield children from difficult themes or assume children can't handle reality. It's not like this movie has offensive violence or sex. It's just frightening enough to make you think. What are you teaching children about the world if it's just butterflies and rainbows all the time? One day they will have to grow up and think for themselves in the real world.

[@ancient_bam]

I saw this movie when I was VERY little and for years afterwards I cried every time we drove past this huge junkyard full of cars waiting to be destroyed--it looked uncannily like that one, with the big piles.

[@jalesyalofton2930]

lXRex19 well now 🚗 🚘 🚙 aren’t being junked to be crushed as often. You can buy them real cheap and rebuild them. My husband did that to a Malibu and all it needed was a lifter, the last owner was too lazy to take care of it. The car is doing fine.

[@Luceloupgarou]

I kinda think that the Texan car and the Hearse are singing about the same person. The man changed his mind about going to the wedding and turned but got in a horrible crash that killed him. "His thoughts turned to home and we turned" "Once took a man to a graveyard" I kinda think it's subtle, but the symbolism is there. There was definitely a Beginnings and Endings theme to the two being together.

[@RezgamerLuc]

i always seen these 2 as part of the same story too since both cars are crushed together and every other car gets smashed alone. that said my interpretation of the story was the guy went home and committed suicide. the whole line the Texan car says "Once took a Texan to a wedding. He kept forgetting, his loneliness letting his thoughts turn to home and we turned." man was going to a wedding and because of he's own feelings of loneliness, he kept putting it off and instead went back home and if we were to assume that the hearse is part of the same story, he died and was driven to a graveyard and considering he says "I beg your pardon, its quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have learned." implies the man didn't die of old age but there was a tragic way his life ended, probably suicide given all the clues we're given in these 20 seconds. also while that suicide could have been by driving into oncoming traffic resulting in a crash, the Texan car isn't any more damaged than any of the other cars in the junkyard so either they all crashed or she is just in disrepair from sitting there for years getting other cars piled on her.

[@Alice_Haukea]

Also, to add some more scary deeper meaning to this scene, I'm pretty sure the wedding line and the funeral line are of the same person. All the other cars were "executed" separately from each other, yet those 2 cars were literally stacked on top of each other and killed together. The yellow car sang about how the owner was going to get married, but basically chickened out at the last minute. Then the black car sang about the apparently heavy things it has seen in life. The way I see it, this guy was gonna get married, had last minute doubts and bailed. Then later regretted it to the point of severe depression and killed himself. A life story sung between two cars and thus it was only fitting they be crushed together.

[@RezgamerLuc]

I agree the 2 stories are connected, though I don't believe the man was the groom. the line says "his loneliness letting his thoughts turn to home and we turned" a man about to get married probably isn't lonely as they are typically marrying someone they love and if he was bothered by being lonely that should have given him more reason to go get married. more likely the man was a guest that was single and alone and seeing he friends/family find love when he couldn't finally broke him and he went home and committed suicide and hearing why he did it was hard for the hearse to live with.

[@Arckra]

To say we had these movies as kids and remain unscathed is incorrect. Now I name my darn cars due to this song. And I felt terrible the time my first car got totaled and was hauled off. RIP Fenris. He wasn't Worthless.

[@hagamapama]

Now I really want to see a bit with old junk cars where they recall how loved they were, remember when they were useful and sees death as not such a scary thing when you've lived well.

[@BEcauseILoveYooh]

Woke up this morning with this song stuck in my head. Why? I have no freakin idea. haven't seen this movie in well over 20 years

[@ultimateturkey684]

+Joe M That there is your inner child speaking to you. Don't resist it!

[@leogir1518]

+UltimateTurkey D: Never resist

[@hatapillar9437]

um Joe M resist it and I think you may need to talk to someone about this

[@JJsiN84]

+Joe M Yea dude, all a sudden at work today so I had to check it out again. lol

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

I had the same thing happen to me the other day! So I came here.

[@puffythedestroyer8878]

That instant when you are an adult and realize from the subject of the song, the magnet here essentially is an allegory of the Grim Reaper

[@tarponpet]

Have I seen you anywhere else??

[@puffythedestroyer8878]

@@tarponpet Most likely. At this point, im practically becoming the next Larry Bundy Jr. or Justin Y. with all the comment sections i keep poping up in. That, or I'm the inescapable thing that creeps and skulks in your shadows

[@tarponpet]

@@puffythedestroyer8878 Nah you aren't Frank.

[@ethanwashington9332]

Animator Don Bluth's rule of thumb was that kids can handle just about anything as long as the movie has a happy ending. I think this a prime example.

[@The_Thunderous_Gecko]

I like he's movies but sometimes the themes are questionable

[@smv4usa]

Interesting but I read this is NOT a Don Bluth film. It bears his style though.

[@The_Thunderous_Gecko]

@@smv4usa Where'd you read that. That doesn't sound right

[@smv4usa]

@@The_Thunderous_Gecko I looked up if he did that movie and it said he didn't.

[@The_Thunderous_Gecko]

@@smv4usa ok that's true

[@michaelwolfe9496]

Ok, just to recap. We have a bunch of depressed cars getting the life literally crushed out of them singing about their many sad lives, and I'm pretty sure that green truck committed suicide by driving into the crusher. Is it wrong that this was my favorite part of the movie as a kid?

[@krazyfan1489]

nope!

[@nickey4798]

Michael Wolfe It was mines too still love the song it pops up in my head and i have to listen to it... maybe we are all crazy depressed people.

[@Sqwivig]

No not at all! This was also my favorite scene from the movie as a kid and it still is. I always liked the song the cars sing. Sometimes the saddest part of a movie is the best part :)

[@BetterOnichThanSorry]

Michael Wolfe Catch tune.

[@megadeth22885]

Michael Wolfe i read they were actually planning to cut this whole song from the movie because the green truck did commit suicide in it

[@mysterymarezz]

First time listening to the song, I just enjoyed the catchiness of the music and the singing. Second time, I actually listened to the words, and I honestly cried. I imagine that must be a crushing feeling (no pun intended). One day meaning something to someone and being worthless the next. I haven't seen this movie, but after hearing the depth and meaning behind this song, I promise I'll check it out.

[@VenoMantis]

At worst you'll waste less than two hours. At best you will have seen a really, really damn good movie. Anyway, I imagine the crusher was eluding to a representation of the feelings one would get in that situation. They're crushed to the point where they're willing to just accept their fate within the gaping jaws of death itself.

[@SOMeDoOD1992]

Watch the movie, it is a classic

[@TheInkPitOx]

I can't take this kind of pressure. I must confess, one more dusty road would be just a road too long.

[@JacobMKeeneAKADrPepperKing]

Worthless.

[@TheInkPitOx]

I just can't seem, I just can't seem to get started. Don't have the heart to live in the fast lane. All That is past and gone.

[@JacobMKeeneAKADrPepperKing]

Worthless. There ain't nothin' you can do about it. Worthless. Pardon me while I panic! Worthless, worthless, worthless.

[@Dragon1813]

I come from KC Missouri And I got my kicks out on Route 66 Every truck stop from Butte to MO Motown to Old Alabama From Texarkana and east of Savannah From Tampa to old Kokomo

[@JacobMKeeneAKADrPepperKing]

Worthless.

[@PTSmash]

That shot at 0:11 has stayed with me for years because something about it was so gripping. It may be a cartoon, but the way those cars are drawn just telegraphs the idea that they have been utterly wrecked to the point where they can't go any further. I can feel their pain every time I look at it, and I think it speaks volumes about the subtext of the entire sequence.

[@indigothecat]

Now that you point it out that way, it makes me think of how we stack all of our elderly folks into nursing homes, where they just quietly hope for visitors and wait for death. They slowly become more and more numb as they watch their neighbors and friends die one by one, until eventually it's their turn. The only source of comfort is the sharing of their life stories, but no matter what kind of life they had, their endings will all be the same. As depression runs high in nursing homes as well, the final green truck that worked on a Reservation can be interpreted to having "bought the farm" of his own free will, since he literally drove himself to to conveyer that takes him to the crusher. If you interpret power-magnet to be the grim reaper, it makes the green truck scene that much more chilling.

[@G396]

This song is just fucking amazing if you really pay attention to the words,Personally I love the line delivered by the 1910's Indy racer "I was the top of the line out of sight out of mind" particularity the "out of sight" bit because in the space of a a couple words the meaning change drastically first implying he was super fast then to being ignored/neglected.

[@alexs174]

I just got into a stupid car accident and totaled my car. I emerged unharmed, but I wonder what dirge it would sing?

[@RomanceFreak]

I think that would depend on what you were doing when you were driving and where you were headed, because each verse when each car sang had a different story to tell of where they were going and who they were being driven by and what they were doing when they crashed.

[@TheDoubleDeuced]

Had a close friend years ago We were like bros, lived the lives that we chose Having good times every day What goes up always has to come down One wrong turn, and it started to burn At least you made it out ok...

[@swainer8014]

I was stuck with a bad driver! I was stuck with a bad driver! He wasn't paying attention, the steering wheel a-wrenchin' Now MacGyver couldn't fix me 😞

[@MisaKeiJune]

i was always bothered to my core about this song. its even harder to watch it now as an adult, it just resonates too much with me..... graduated college, up to my neck in loan debt, still living with my parents, and still unemployed. I know how it feels when "I just can't seem to get started." and the reservation car..... basically, "screw you magnet, ill do it myself"

[@extraspooky819]

Who did the voice of the Hearse? His singing is fucking amazing. Also something I just noticed is that these cars are all super high end. A hearse? A Texan Wedding car? An indie 500 classic? A sweet muscle car? All these cars probably thought they would be top of the line, the best of the bunch, born with a silver spoon in their mouths so to speak. But now they're this. Worthless.

[@MrChickennugget360]

not all- the first car was just a run of the mill Sedan, the last truck was a 40's pickup. I think they just made the models recognizable for the purposes of the movie-for the kids you know.

[@mountainanderson5597]

Surprising,from what I've heard, Michael Jackson

[@SariennMusic73]

Basically: doesn't matter what one does in life or how rich/perfect/known etc, they are. The reaper comes anyway and you can't fight it. Granted a child probably wouldn't figure that out, but a parent could and maybe it'd open their eyes. That we are all headed to the same fate. Thankfully not crushed at the end, but the same end (death) nonetheless.

[@janetplanet4595]

I think that says something though, that we waste perfectly good things that could be useful to people like say Cris, the masters girlfriend who was clearly a grease monkey/car lover. (the car she and the master own seems to be vintage also even for the 80s) She was pulling parts left and right I'm sure she coulda restored one of them.

[@sonicboom918]

All the singing parts were very good imo. I'm torn between hearse n Corvette tho for best singing voice

[@sooljim]

This is all a metaphor for the ruthless and demanding nature of the professional world. The whole movie is, but this scene in particular stands out. When you're a pro athlete or CEO approaching age 40, with forced retirement looming overhead, this is how you end up; You can look back fondly, with nostalgia, but you're too battered to keep going. Fittingly, the Master sweeps through this narrative in his fancy new sports car. He's headed for college, he's still young, and his potential is still endless.

[@monroe7532]

sooljim I think the first car is talking about professional life, the other cars aren’t

[@captainryusugi1128]

As a car guy, it especially hits hard. Even the most basic cars aren't really mere appliances; once they roll-off the dealer lot, they begin to have a personality. A beige 30 year old Toyota Corolla may have been used to take a woman in labour to hospital, take the kid to his/her first day of school, maybe even a holiday. It may have a rosary hanging from the rear-view mirror, political stickers, maybe even some basic customisations like tape stripes. It may need a certain touch to start, shift a certain way, etc.

[@kaimango7012]

Imagine this with human characters. It would probably be in a hospiz, having various old and fatally sick people which are extremely depressed talk about how that accident, that illness or that incident doomed them, just with a heart monitor go beeeeep one after another.

[@twistedyogert]

Or prisoners on death row.

[@salemcripple]

As a car guy, I think it's equally as sad as it is.

[@adamnichols476]

***** Yeah but people want to see death row people die so its not the same effect.

[@kaimango7012]

***** For that comparison to work, the cars would have to be fully responsible for ending on the junkyard. But while some talk about how they got destroyed in accidents, some simply state they were abandoned or got too old to run properly.

[@Yamikoto]

Kai Mango Try imagining this with dogs in a shelter instead. Not a "no kill" shelter either. Each has their own story, "I ran away and couldn't find my way home, now no one wants an old mutt." Stray dogs, fighting dogs, poorly behaved dogs, not to mention so many puppies that end up there as well. Even dogs who's owners passed away, sent to the shelter. Each in want of a new owner, or a return of their old family, but too many being put down instead. I prefer holding feelings for other living things than attaching such feeling over immaterial things like vehicles. Nonetheless, this song brings back such deep nostalgia for this movie.

[@mooncatstudios3175]

Everyone is talking about the hearse, but does anyone else think the race car is just TRAGIC? From the lines about how he wondered how close he came to winning, to the fact that he sounds like a teen or younger adult...I can't believe I'm about to cry about an animated car.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

He’s a teen or younger adult who collapsed after getting an mRNA vaccine.

[@CaptainDoomsday]

This scene always creates such a weird mix of feelings in me. I could almost laugh, but I also tear up a bit. Particularly at "I must confess, I'm impressed that I did it; I wonder how close that I came." Something about the fact that he DOESN'T KNOW stabs me in the soul. That the greatest thing he's ever done is just a vague blur, and all that matters to anyone else is that he didn't win.

[@hagamapama]

Something about the way he said it suggests that he was a DNF (Did Not Finish) and possibly wrecked out right there at the Indy. Probably only there this long because it sat in some collector's home until the collector died.

[@ganondorfchampin]

This song is metal as fuck.

[@ganondorfchampin]

***** So exactly how metal is fuck then?

[@ganondorfchampin]

***** Ahh.

[@Official_GoldVader]

Boooooo!

[@Faux_Sunlight]

Haha metal, get it?

[@pyromonty1]

this prequel to CARS is dark as f***

[@terribletanner805]

"I must confess one more dusty road, would be just a road too long." In my elder youth I find this tremendously sentimental. Pardon me while I panic!!!

[@glaxko2]

I'm so glad to finally find a Brave little toaster video on youtube that still has it's comment section open.

[@lisambofoh]

You know a scene is disturbing when re-watching it as an adult only makes it worse.

[@TheOriginalTripleD]

The last cars story's even darker than you think. The truck talks about "working on the reservation" and "driving the kids". Until way too recently it was common for Native children to be forced to go to Residential Schools (Indian Boarding Schools in the States). These schools rarely gave a good education, children were often used for cheap labour and beaten if they tried to speak their own language. Many of them were traumatized and later struggled to raise their own families or just function in day-to-day life as adults. I'm probably reading way too much into this, but I interpret the truck choosing to remain on the line (remember he could drive away if he wanted to) as him committing suicide over being unable to get over what he did to all those kids. Isn't nostalgia fun?

[@RogueWeather]

Why is that dark

[@a.c.1515]

i think it's dark because that car watched so many innocent children live those traumatic lives only because of people discriminating against them for their culture....

[@155chipmunkz]

Canada had very shitty residential schools as well.

[@marthlink5015]

Yea I always interpreted as living on a reservation he seen how his culture was dying especially with like also farmers and immigrants the children often leave and don't come back to old customs leaving the old literally at times to die.

[@101Volts]

Meanwhile in the 1500s, "White Men" were stealing the Natives from their home land as slaves and they gave the Natives diseases the Natives had no immunity to *and* they thought the Sweat Lodges (Native takes of Saunas) were satanic. This was while the Englishmen never (or rarely) bathed, BTW. Don't forget once Britain got its mitts on Sugar, they thought the more rotted their teeth were, the higher up in society they were because they could afford to blow money. People literally stained their teeth with soot so they could look richer.

[@thefancydoge8668]

1:08 Seeing the steering wheel turn like the car is trying to turn away creeps me out till this day

[@RezgamerLuc]

it gets worse when you realize the truck at the end is still capable of driving and gets away from the crane yet still ends up on the conveyer and doesn't seem to be making an effort to get off implying he drove on it himself and is essentially comiting suicide.

[@porygon4023]

At 2:59, the truck actually avoids the magnet, and simply drives onto the runway. You just saw someone commit suicide in a disney movie.

[@plaidhatter1674]

His story is also depressing and reminds me of a line in cars from Doc Hudson: There was a lot left in him, but he never got the chance to show them.

[@lmartinson6963]

I wouldn't expect some movie called "The Brave Little Toaster" to have a song like this. Obviously, it's incredibly dark, but it's also complex and deep, catchy, and the visuals match perfectly. I wish more kids movies had moments like this.

[@quigglesmcgiggles]

This is lightyears better than "Let It Go"

[@brano13177]

Both songs are good, but they address different subject matter and viewing those subject matters differently. Let it go is an uplifting, hopeful affirmation of being ones own person, letting go of enforced desires and expectations of those around you to accept who and what you are and freeing oneself from stifling shackles and casting off the wearing of masks that hide your true self. It's about self acceptance and loving who and what you are and not allowing others to hold your true self down. Worthless is a depressing, somber lament of the past, of tragedy, disappointment and misfortune, about the passing of time, the yearning for ones former prime, relevance and worth and the inevitability of death. It is a series of stories of those from varying walks of life who were once youthful, full of life, hope and a feeling of belonging and worth; only to be cut down or passed by in the ever steady march of time or hard knocks, and facing inevitable, terrifying, and maybe for some: merciful oblivion. A tearful sharing of shattered hopes, broken dreams, lost livelihoods and approaching finality of death and how each sees and feels about the ending of their lives and stories in their final moments. Most fear and resist, others quietly accept in either reluctant disappointment and final regret or A muted, accepting dignity and contentment, and a small few: embrace and welcome it. Both may speak of different of different things and how such things are seen; but they still speak profoundly.

[@onenerd9573]

Compared to the B-Movie song from earlier in the film, this one is so much darker! B-Movie is basically cheep scares you expect to see in a theme park haunted house, while Worthless is about depression and the feeling of being...well...worthless. It's more real.

[@TheEpicGnome]

+One Nerd95 That's actually an interesting comparison. Perhaps B-Movie is meant to put fear into perspective; every cheap scare is ultimately exciting at the moment, but cannot compare to the shear emotion that death inevitably brings. I dunno, but maybe...

[@christinastephesn1548]

It’s a b movie is supposed to represent no escape and the unknown, as supported by the lyrics. The appliances don’t always know what peters is going to do to them, but they know thy can’t escape from their fate. However, I do agree this song is more disturbing because it imposes several more feels more directly and visually

[@moonjellymusic]

And yet, as a child, It's a B-Movie scared me so much more then this one. The song Worthless is so musically interesting and tragic... I wanted to sing along. The music during the line "once took a Texan to wedding" stayed with me for years after seeing the movie only one time. It's a B-Movie scared the crap out of me. It was SO CREEPY. To this day I have never gone back to find it. Actually, I think Worthless is the only song from the movie that I have actually looked up.

[@vectorricktenson216]

I don't know why i thought you were talking about "bee movie"

[@lordsnivyofnottingham2948]

B-Movie scares me, because I am, indirectly, a villain in the whole chapter, due to being the old tech guy who takes apart, modifies, and pulls parts from machines, even just to fix other ones. It makes me feel like a back-alley surgeon/serial killer.

[@j-yoshi6474]

0:24 Holy crap his eye pops out. Also the only death not to have a viewer discretion shot. 0:30 It sounds like the force of the magnet cuts off her note. 0:55-1:13 Nothing in this guy's solo sounds like a reason for being there. Which is weird, cuz everyone else's solo had at least something. Except maybe the yellow surfer car. 2:16 Her eye falls out. As if the eye scream of the first car wasn't enough, this one FALLS OUT ON IT'S OWN. And it SHATTERS. Notice how when the holder bounces off-screen, her pupil isn't there. Yeesh. 2:52 The magnet's eyes widen slightly when he drives onto the track. Even the magnet thinks that's messed up. On a side-note, this probably isn't the best video to watch in front of my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Oh well, at least Toy Story isn't real, so they aren't actually aware of what's going on right here! Uh... right?

[@monroe7532]

Josh Layng 2:52 I mean, not really

[@jayshearer21]

My opinion on the third one is that he drove everywhere, and if tou drive a car far enough, something is gonna go wrong (the poped hood comes to mind, its the only one that looks like it could have crashed)

[@MisterJohnDoe]

I think the magnet at the last part didn’t really look all that fazed, like the car is just doing the work for him.

[@ffooteii]

"I took a man to a graveyard I beg your pardon it's quite hard enough just living with the stuff I have done"......thats one self loathing car man

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

He seemed more traumatized than self loathing i think...the last car on the other hand was really self loathing, enough to commit suicide at least!

[@ffooteii]

Ebony Dare haha i didnt realize that the last one just accepted it lol

[@Holy_Calamity]

The lyric is "Just living with the stuff I have learned."

[@ffooteii]

"o look at me, i'm molly and i go around fixed people errors on youtube, la de la de la de".......iono what type of music you'd skip to

[@Holy_Calamity]

*shrugs* just thought you'd like to know what the car's really saying. And I skip to the blood curdling screams of the innocent, thank you very much.

[@TheIcefang]

that magnet is pretty effin scary

[@pauljimenez4076]

Hell yeah. I remember when I was little I would hide behind the couch till this scene was over

[@155chipmunkz]

Damn. And I thought Forte the pipe organ was scary.

[@bryanneideffer3969]

Subliminal messaging

[@gingaddict]

that magnet got under my skin! it just wouldn't leave toaster and his friends alone!

[@Al1701]

And then it hid its face and managed to get even scarier.

[@sirfuecksalot90]

This song gets creepier as you age and the subject of mortality becomes so real. All of these cars have elaborate purposes, legacies and some level of pride in their accomplishments. It's so fatalistic seeing how much that matters as they are preparing for the inevitable.

[@user-ei3ux6gt3s]

it only becomes scary if it was worthless.

[@starwarsnerd100]

Anyone else notice the car saying "I just can't-I just can't-I just can't seem to get started" is mimicking the noise of a car that won't start?

[@akaMouse]

Car 1: worn out Car 2: depression Car 3: traveller that got to see the country Car 4: the athlete Car 5&6: The happiest and worst days of someone's life Car 7: Youth and fun Car 8: abandonment

[@luvkirby4ever]

Welp. Here's my interpretations of each car's story. Of course, my word isn't law, so feel free to disagree: #1- He simply aged like a normal car and can't manage traveling anymore because he aged too much. #2- She can't start anymore. #3- His owner cruised around lower Western part of the United States, traveling and having a good time. #4- He was a racecar at its prime that wiped out during the Indy 500 race. #5- To understand my thoughts behind this one, this is how I hear the verse: "Once took a Texan to a wedding. Once took a Texan to a wedding. He kept forgetting his loneliness, letting his thoughts turn to home, and we turned". Her owner was going to get married, but got cold feet. Given "his thoughts turn to home", I think that the marriage would have taken him (the owner) out of Texas. Therefore, he forgot about the fact that without his wife-to-be he'd be lonely and left her at the alter. #6- He is a hearse. Needless to say he has seen/heard some traumatic things. #7- She was a car who traveled around to many vast places, including the beach. #8- He had lived on a Native American reservation, though was eventually trashed for being "worthless". He is, however, seemingly functional enough to drive. I assume that he either has a different broken part, making him just as nonfunctional as every other car there, or his owners just wanted a newer, "better" car. Not every story seems to explain how/why the cars got trashed; some are more about what the car did during its lifetime. If the magnet is representative of the grim reaper (bringing everyone to their death), then the last car accepted this fate and decided to die peacefully instead of struggling. Think of it like someone with a terminal disease accepting that they are about to die and being fully prepared to go.

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

My interpretation of the Wedding car, was that the Texan on his way to the wedding; lost his concentration ("his thoughts turned to home and we turned") after which he crashed and died, and was then taken to the graveyard by the Hearse car. Hence why the two cars were crushed together and shared a verse. I can't ignore that bite mark in the surfboard that the yellow car has strapped to her roof, so my guess is that her owner was perhaps killed by a shark or something.

[@koalt.z.robertson9814]

I think #7 took their owner to the beach and they were surfing and killed by a shark because if the bite in the surfboard

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

ComputerGames That's what i already said.

[@RomanceFreak]

You're interpretations are much better than mine, and more likely. I completely agree with them all, and agreed on your last comment about being prepared to go.

[@CaptainJoystick]

I think #8 is a straightforward case of the car being worn down and breaking down, the backstory he describes helps explain why he drives onto the conveyor of his own volition and faces death on his terms, rather than suffer the indignity of being carried there by the magnet.

[@buddyb20]

1. Got old. 2. Died young at sweet 16. 3. Wanderer. Never settled down. 4. Glory seeker. 5. Cold feet. 6. Suicide. 7. Philanderer. Entitled to legacy. Never got a job. 8. Abandoned.

[@jalesyalofton2930]

buddyb20 I think 🤔 💭 the first one was more of an 😩 exhausted employee. I been there myself working a job consisting 50+ hour a week with no breaks sometimes.

[@diablojones]

I remember bawling as kid while watching this, saying "I'd take every one of those cars!"

[@Gnomelord0]

So this is a song about depression, old age, and suicide in a Disney film, that...makes sense

[@HunhowsShadowStalker]

I don't see the suicide part here.. If you're talking about the one car that started driving, he's seen facing away from the crusher. If he drove onto the conveyor belt, he'd be facing towards it, and not away from it.

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

+Keva the Half-Kestora he probably turned himself around so he wouldn't see his incoming doom. If I was him I wouldn't want to look at that crusher either.

[@ngoog]

+Keva the Half-Kestora Maybe the truck was taking one last look at the world, as if to say goodbye?

[@ennuiiunne5319]

It's mostly about being a failure.

[@ennuiiunne5319]

Facing the audience to lament towards the young as a warning. The point of this song existing.

[@justinglock20]

The song isn't about cars. They're used as an allegory for life. We all start out shiny and new, we each travel down different roads and have unique experiences but we all end up in the same place eventually. All we'll have left are our memories and knowing that our turn in the crusher is coming.

[@vgman94]

❤

[@MorganDoYourThing]

Is this...is this car Hell?

[@MorganDoYourThing]

lmao this is where Lightning McQueen from Cars is gonna end up

[@MorganDoYourThing]

+Zerlich R burn! XD

[@zerlichr426]

+- I Am The Mudkip - If not for toys to this move were so popular this movie would end in garbage bin. Hole series is just taking other movies and adding cars and planes to it. Also back to song. In any other dub version of this song the messege was taken out and lyrics completly changed

[@Piledriver86]

+- I Am The Mudkip - No, more like car death row. They get to leave after they're broken down and recycled

[@MorganDoYourThing]

***** WHAT KIND OF RETIREMENT HOMES DESTROY THEIR OCCUPANTS?? lol

[@edmortis]

some of the just teeny tiny little touches in the animation really get me. like the magnet's little nod when he drops the Indy 500 car and his eyes widening when the green car drives onto the conveyor.

[@BEAKER6868]

this is basically a metaphor for what ultimately happens to everyone in the end. some of these cars were successful, some weren't. but in the end they all ended up in the same place, the junkyard. which is basically the graveyard for material objects. just like with people, everyone ultimately dies regardless of how successful or unsuccessful you are.

[@pokemonmanic3595]

I think 2:12 is the saddest part, the car watching in despair before the magnet comes to take it

[@ganondorfchampin]

This song is so freaking metal, it needs a metal cover.

[@dood3530]

Replace all the machines in this song with people. See how terrifying it becomes.

[@justinratcliffe947]

Daniel Jones Youre definitely right about the concentration camp thing. I cant imagine how this may have gotten Holocaust survivors all badly haunted if they pictured people in place of these cars

[@kagevista3375]

It wouldn't be a junkyard, but something like a concentration camps or a death row.

[@laediewillacaw5259]

Either that, or I depict the junkyard somewhat like a nursing home. Think about it, those poor folk being a pistol in their prime, simply to wither away sixty years later to the point where they can't even go to the bathroom on their own. Simply wallowing in their worthlessness until the day where the magnet of death lifts them up, and crushes whatever might be left of their nimble bones. Perhaps they are still loved and admired by those around them, but on the inside, all that remains is a depressive, distant memory of the able-bodied being they once were. Unable to take care of their loved ones like they once did; unable to pursue their passions as they had when they were younger- nevermore making memories. Their inability to move out of danger makes danger move ever so swiftly, to cease their worthless existence.

[@echoflowerproductions1445]

Someone actually started an animatic music video of that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKCtqmd8rdane7s

[@micky_knuckles]

Oh god, this song. Literally at my dead end job, age of 37, whole family dead, facing looming inevitable homelessness in 2 short months, definitely choking on tears and a menthol cigarette.

[@ascii_9727]

THE CAR COMMITS SUICIDE

[@jiawo]

ree

[@greenlee7smythe]

AsCii_ that was actually a truck. Let’s not split hairs :)

[@tabletaussendienst2721]

AsCii_ what

[@pink3t224]

I think he was trying to run away from the magnet

[@clampfan101]

Yes, he was try to escape. The rest were just accepting the inevitable.

[@scarlettgrey256]

I think I got this figured out. If you pay attention the cars are paired up in dualities. 1 and 2 represent physical and mental exhaustion (one can’t carry on the other can’t even get started), 3 and 4 represent success and failure (number 3 had a long running career and number 4s lines indicate he ran the indy 500 but never actually finished so his career never started), 5 and 6 represent life and death (wedding and funeral) and 7 and 8 seem to represent youth and old age (7 went to the beach and and cruised whereas 8 worked his whole life and then as he got older he was forcibly retired even though he was still willing and able to work). Each and every one of them are now in a position where life and or society gave up on them and they’re just waiting to die except for the last one who just doesn’t want to wait any longer.

[@whammo12]

Man, Cars 3 is really dark.

[@dylanpietz7855]

This song is a cross between somber and hopeless and catchy and upbeat at the same time. Don't you think so?