Line #8 PlayingWith/BankToaster


1	'''Basic Trope''': Bank gives away free toasters to customers who open a new account with them.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice opens an account at Nth National Bank, and receives a free toaster.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Alice receives a toaster for opening an account with only a $10 balance.
5	** Alice the CEO opens up an account for her corporation, and receives an industrial toaster where you place the bread on a conveyor chain and it slides out the other end.
6	** Alice receives a complimentary ''[[TankGoodness tank]]'' for opening an account.
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** Alice receives a cheaper-than-cheap toaster. It can only take one slice of bread at a time, is not UL-approved, only has a 4” extension cord, is notorious for burning toast, and has a faulty spring.
9	** Alice receives a coupon for a free toaster at Bob's Kitchen Appliances.
10	* '''Justified''': A large-scale commercial bread bakery just opened in town, so what better way for the bank to convince its new employees to join them; namely, with a device that uses their product.
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** Alice is given a complimentary bank account for buying a toaster.
13	** Alice receives a toaster from the bank as a parting gift when closing an account.
14	** The bank actually uses the account sign-up forms to obtain customers' information so they can break into their homes and steal their toasters!
15	* '''Subverted''': The bank places Alice's deposit in a large furnace at no added cost, and her money is "toasted."
16	* '''Double Subverted''': Burning Alice's money in the furnace nets her more cash back through a very high savings interest rate.
17	* '''Parodied''':
18	** Alice receives a cluster of pointy wooden sticks embossed with the bank’s name. Told they are used for toasting marshmallows.
19	** When Alice finishes the new-account paperwork and asks for the free toaster, the teller hands her a glass of champagne and says “Here’s to no fee checking and high [=APR=]s” ([[DontExplainTheJoke it’s a TOAST]])
20	** A miffed Alice wants to know why she just received a glossy wall photo displaying superhero characters. The teller replies that she got a free ''poster'' for opening an account.
21	* '''Averted''':
22	** The bank doesn’t give any perks or rewards for opening an account.
23	** Alice keeps all her money under her mattress.
24	* '''Enforced''': Black-and-Decker paid the producer well to include their latest Toastest-with-the-Mostest machine.
25	* '''Invoked''':
26	--> '''Alice:''' So I opened a bank account. Do I get my toaster?
27	* '''Lampshaded''':
28	--> '''Bank:''' We don't do that anymore, that only happens on TV.
29	* '''Exploited''': Alice desperately wants to buy Bob a $50 necktie for his rapidly-approaching birthday, but she only has $20 available. Upon learning that the bank gives a free toaster upon opening an account, she opens the account with the $20, gets the toaster, then manages to sell it to some sucker for $50 (at least double what it’s worth) on Greg’s List.
30	* '''Defied''': The bank president rejects his assistant's idea of offering a toaster.
31	* '''Implied''': Alice got a new job, and is seen opening a bank account. A later scene shows her leaving for work in the morning with an envelope from the bank in one hand (on which a faint “Welcome to Nth National...” can be deciphered), and a slice of steaming toast in another.
32	* '''Deconstructed''': Nth National Bank finds themselves losing money on the toaster-promotion deal, since too many people were opening accounts with only a $5 opening deposit, then closing the account a week later, just for the free toaster.
33	* '''Reconstructed''': Nth National reinstates the free toaster policy, but has a new set of terms-and-conditions, such as a minimum opening deposit of $100, and a cost-of-the-toaster penalty for early withdrawal.
34	* '''Played For Laughs''':
35	** Alice examines the “floor model” toaster in the bank lobby, and when releasing the pop-up lever, plastic snakes fly out of the slots. All the tellers and most of the other bank customers laugh hysterically.
36	** Alice receives a complimentary item that is not a toaster, but rather something much more expensive/outrageous. The joke will also depend on if she opens an account [[Fiction500 with a deposit so large]] that it makes sense for such a gift to be given (even if it would make more sense for Alice to purchase it herself) or she opens an account [[DisproportionateReward with a $10 initial deposit]].
37	** Alice is given an UndesirablePrize as a gift for opening her account.
38	* '''Played For Drama''': Alice rushes her 7-year-old son Chuck to the hospital when he burns himself by sticking his hand in the (bank) toaster. A lawyer Alice meets in the ER offers to help sue the bank that gave her the toaster. There's some discussion of the [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implications]] of being lawsuit-happy and how no one takes responsibility. Then the judge throws out the lawsuit when investigation by the bank reveals that Alice was busy text-messaging in another room, while little Chuck was playing alone in the kitchen and tragically got burned.
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40	The following link will return you to the main BankToaster page, but it will not get you a free toaster.
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