If memory serves, was it a cat that was duct-taped to a rat for some unspoken reason?
What's the movie with a weird orange snailesque spaceship where the ship AI sacrifices itself for its buddy pilot (at least that's what I sort of remember). I watched it in the 80's/90's and was interested in seeing it again.
Plot by Shakespeare and so good they named a bookshop after it.
* Starred in:
The Invisible Boy, My Little Margie, The Thin Man, Columbo, The Addams Family, Lost in Space, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Mork & Mindy, and a cameo appearance in Gremlins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot