Seriously? Maybe in over 700 years…

This isn’t a review of Wall-e, if you want one, Google it. But this is to point out something I noticed today while enjoying one of the best animated films of ever. Wall-e is an old school robot on our very polluted Earth. He’s been around for a while and is still kicking because he is solar powered. Soooo, early on in the film we see him running out of juice. He stumbles outside to soak up the sun with his panels and when he is all charged up, we hear: the Mac OS startup sound.

If it is possible to go from loving to hating something in .02 seconds, it was this little audio “easter egg.” If you’re not familiar with the sound, check out this video (it’s the last one).  Who knows how many people will pick up on the cue (it clearly says something about the folks at Pixar) but seriously. I own a Mac, I’m on one all day at work, and I cringed the third (or fourth) time I heard the sound.

Other than that, I loved it. You will too, go check it out… Robot love is for everyone.