Air Conditioner

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**Air Conditioner,** also known as **AC**, is a plot-driving incidental character in The Brave Little Toaster (1987).

## Air Conditioner

* Normal
* Overheated

## Detailed Appearance

**Air Conditioner** is a light gray Air Conditioning Unit with lighter gray vents, darker gray under-eyes, and two dials on the right side of his face. Unlike the other characters, he does not have a visible cord throughout all of his appearances. His eyes as well as his mouth are a vibrant ice-blue, and his pupils are dark blue.

## Personality

**AC** is very sarcastic and condescending, emphasized by being physically "above" the others. His suspension in the window has isolated him from the others, and he appears to have driven it further by pushing them away with his rude nature. His loneliness is self-inflicted, having full opportunity to interact with the others given they are in his vicinity.

He seems to take joy in the misfortune of others, as he is seen insulting the group's intelligence as well as making fun of Lampy when he didn't understand his sarcastic comment. He is also seen making jabs at Kirby, the insult of which seems to have been ultra-specific in order to anger him, almost coming off as mean-spirited flirting. Through this outer 'cool' facade, he is greatly troubled over the master's absence, though he'd already come to terms with the fact that he'd been abandoned.

## Biography

In the beginning of the film, he is woken up by Lampy and Radio fighting, starting the chain reaction of the appliances on the first floor waking up. Immediately upon waking, he powers himself on and appears to go back to sleep.

Later in the morning, he begins taunting the others after Blanky's picture of the master is shattered, instigating an argument. Through this argument, he repeatedly instills the (unfortunately true) idea that the appliances in the cottage had been abandoned. The others (namely Toaster) begin directing the judgement he gave towards himself, bringing up the fact that, of course, he had never truly interacted with the young master, being stuck higher than the child could reach.

This sends him into an emotional breakdown that, after going on a lengthy rage-filled tangent, causes him to overheat and explode, killing him.

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Roughly 3 days later, Rob returns to the cottage with Chris to retrieve the other appliances (himself not included). He finds him mostly intact but inoperable, repairing him offscreen when the scene cuts away. Air Conditioner's last appearance shows him crying with joy at finally experiencing an act of kindness.

AC is never seen or mentioned again.

## Errors

* AC appears to rapidly change scale between shots, ranging from ~2ft to around 3'5ft (compared against Kirby, who is ~3'5ft.)
* In his primary debut, he is missing his dials for the duration of the scene. Ironically, they're still missing when he *mentions* them.

## Trivia

* With the final timestamp 0:15:42, AC marks the first death of the film, though of course it isn't permanent.
* AC is only mentioned by name once.
* He is one of the two only characters to use the word "static".
* Toaster's voice actor, Deanna Oliver, originally auditioned for the role of AC, only to be given the lead role instead.
* Out of the hundreds of frames of animation created for his character, only 5 cels have resurfaced in auction. Others have been sighted but they have either never been located or are privately owned.
* According to director Jerry Rees, AC's model sheet is set to be recovered and scanned after being lost media since its creation in 1986.

## Gallery/Additional

### **Concept Art/Preproduction**

Standalone recovered celSet of 4 cels complete with their sketchesUnidentified AC Reference Image, Circa 1986Potential Sighting of AC's model sheet, which has been lost since 1986