

He then sacrifices his own tube, which actually turns out to be the very rare tube they had been looking for, thus leaving himself as a lifeless appliance. The appliances are then very grumpy at Radio, and he feels terrible. Wittgenstein does his best with all his might, but he blows his tube with a big explosion and apparently dies, powering down. When they come back with the last apparent tube for miles, Radio accidentally breaks the tube, 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 difficult-to-find WFC 11-12-55 tube. The appliances learn that Wittgenstein's tube will blow and lead to his apparent death unless they find a replacement quickly. Radio has that kind of tube, which possibly means he is a computer, too. The miserable supercomputer reveals that he lives on one rare tube, named the "WFC 11-12-55". When the appliances find Wittgenstein, they discover him abandoned, all alone and run-down and broken in the basement. Meanwhile, in a dual plot of the film, Mack, Rob's lab assistant, plots to sell the injured animals Rob had been tending to a place called "Tartaras Laboratories", the same place that old-skinned Sebastian (-an old monkey, that Rob's tending for-) with his hand when he was just a baby. The appliances, along with the rat Ratso who found Wittgenstein, then seek to help Rob by finding Wittgenstein to reverse the effects of his virus, hence recovering the master's thesis. While working on a thesis, the computer crashes, thanks to many terrible computer viruses infecting Wittgenstein, an old TLW-728 supercomputer. Rob McGroarty, the owner of the appliances and whom they refer to as "the Master", is working in a laboratory where he tends to injured animals.
