BURN-E

BURN-E is a short film released on the WALL-E DVD. It was written and directed by WALL-E lead animator Angus MacLane and produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

Plot
The short begins with the words, "2805 AD, 821,190,000 miles from Earth," when EVE's spaceship is flying towards Saturn. WALL-E, who is clinging onto the side of the ship then runs his hand through one of the rings (as seen in the WALL-E film). A part of the ring starts moving at high speed away from Saturn and catches fire after passing Mars. It then shoots away past EVE's ship and straight towards the Axiom where it smashes into one of its lights. On the bridge, Auto sees the damage and contacts SUPPLY-R, a supply robot who summons BURN-E, an engineering robot who is specifically designed for this job.

SUPPLY-R hands him one of the three lamps which he stores inside himself and BURN-E, after shutting down the power for the lamp, goes outside and begins to repair it. Meanwhile, WALL-E arrives at the ship and sees BURN-E. He waves at him and BURN-E sees and waves back, unaware that he has not yet welded the lamp and by the time he turns around, the lamp has drifted too far off into space. He desperately tries to get it back, but fails and goes back into the ship.

BURN-E then goes back to SUPPLY-R, gets another lamp and starts the cycle again. Meanwhile, GO-4 has just placed the plant inside the life pod and he goes to turn it on. At the same time, WALL-E goes in to retrieve the plant, but before he can get back to EVE, GO-4 launches the pod. Outside, BURN-E does not notice what is going on behind him until he hears the pod explode. Surprised, he turns around and slices the lamp off with his still activated blowtorch.

SUPPLY-R, now annoyed, drops the third and final lamp in front of BURN-E and he takes it. Soon, he is almost finished repairing the lamp when WALL-E and EVE, finished with their space dance, fly in through the airlock near BURN-E, the only entrance into the ship, and lock him out. BURN-E hears the door slam shut and starts thumping on it, trying to make it alert the others, but he ultimately realises that he has been locked out.

For a while, BURN-E travels around the airlock waiting for the doors to open. Meanwhile, the garbage airlock is preparing to jettison garbages cubes with EVE and WALL-E in them into space. EVE successfully breaks out of her garbage cube and then struggles to get WALL-E out. BURN-E sees the doors open and races towards them, realising that it was a way in. Just as he approaches the doors, a WALL-A unit shuts the airlock after noticing the commotion between EVE, WALL-E and M-O.

Later, BURN-E is making a flower shape by heating up a piece of metal with his blowtorch when he realizes that he can use it to cut a hole in the door for himself. He does so and races back to SUPPLY-R, just as the Captain and Auto begin their final fight. BURN-E reaches SUPPLY-R and is just about to press his POW-R button when Auto turns the ship over. BURN-E is flung backwards and is taken through the path to the airlock where he has to cling onto the lamp to avoid floating off into space. The Captain then de-activates Auto and rights the ship. BURN-E then tries to re-enter the ship, but it suddenly hyperjumps and BURN-E is caught in Hyperspace, pinned to the side of the hull. The Axiom then lands on Earth at its landing dock.

BURN-E, badly shaken, returns to where SUPPLY-R usually stood, but is very surprised to see that he has disappeared. BURN-E searches all over the ship, but can't find anyone. Finally, his search brings him to one of the life pods. There, he sees several robots on the ground below and he spots SUPPLY-R. He waves to him and his hand hits the Launch button. The pod is then launched and it lands right behind SUPPLY-R. BURN-E jumps out of the pod and presses SUPPLY-R's POW-R button, re-activating the lamp. As BURN-E whoops with victory, the door of the life pod, which was tossed into the air when BURN-E got out, flies back down to Earth and hits the same lamp, destroying it yet again. BURN-E then collapses in defeat.

After the credits, an arm comes out from SUPPLY-R's body and pats BURN-E's head and he says, in a dull, motionless voice, "There, there."

Cast

 * Angus MacLane: BURN-E
 * Ben Burtt: WALL-E
 * Elissa Knight: EVE
 * Jeff Garlin: Captain B. McCrea
 * MacInTalk: AUTO
 * Unknown actor: SUPPLY-R
 * Tessa Swigart: SUPPLY-R's computer

Goofs

 * In this short, the Axiom is cruising around the Solar System, but in the main film, it is shown that the ship is outside the solar system.
 * The Captain and Auto's fight is much shorter in the short than in the main film.
 * WALL-E can be seen waving at BURN-E while the Probe ship is pulling in, but in the film WALL-E isn't shown to be waving at him this is mainly because he was offscreen at the time.

Trivia

 * The tune that BURN-E hums is Ode to Joy. At the end of the short, the song is played again, this time with opera singers.