the brave little toaster to the rescue basement

When they come back with the last apparent tube for miles, however, Radio and Ratso (after an argument with the tube) accidentally break it, and it seems that all hope is lost. In an attempt to revive Wittgenstein to his superior state, Radio and Ratso go to the college's storage building to find the hard-to-find WFC 11-12-55 tube.

The appliances learn that unless they find a replacement quickly, Wittgenstein's tube will blow and lead to his apparent death.

Carroll, and his birthdate, November 12, 1955). Due to being infected by a computer virus, the same one that affected Rob's dorm room computer and the one in the vet's clinic lab when Wittgenstein tried to contact them earlier, the miserable supercomputer reveals that he is living on one rare vacuum tube, the 'WFC 11-12-55' (A reference to the producer and screenwriter, Willard F. When the appliances discover an old TLW-728 prototype supercomputer named Wittgenstein abandoned, all alone, and run-down in the basement when transistor was invented. Meanwhile, Mack, Rob's lab assistant, plots to sell the injured animals Rob had been tending to as part of his courses, to a place called 'Tartaras Laboratories,' the same facility that Sebastian, an old monkey, was sent to when he was just a baby. The appliances along with a rat named Ratso seek to help Rob by finding and reversing the effects of his computer virus, hence recovering the master's thesis.

One night, while finishing on a thesis, his computer accidentally crashes due to a terrible computer virus. Rob McGoarty, the owner of the appliances and whom they refer to as 'The Master', is in his last days of college and is working at a veterinary clinic.

The brave little toaster to the rescue basement