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->A-ha! Here's the problem: too many toasters! You know what they say: all toasters toast ''toast!''"
-->-'''Mario''', ''HotelMario''

On TV, toast ''always'' flies out of the toaster. This serves a variety of purposes, from allowing a character to catch the toast while running by as they're LateForSchool, to letting the toaster be [[ImprovisedWeapon modified into a weapon]].

Very, ''very'' rarely TruthInTelevision.
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!!Examples

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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' Live Action movie had a projectile toaster.
* In ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', it's not toast but a plunger that gets lodged in the toaster during the opening cartoon.
* The toaster in ''Ghostbusters II'', which launched toast into the air while dancing to Jackie Wilson.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* In the ''RedDwarf'' book ''Better Than Life'' Talkie Toaster kills a mutant like this, by launching red- hot ashtrays at it.
* True to the spirit of the trope if not the letter, the ''{{Mythbusters}}'' once built three different devices that threw toast on the floor to test the "always-butter-side-down" myth. If they put their minds to it, though, this troper is certain they could build a toaster to launch toast across the state.
** ...why go through all that trouble when they merely had to start butter side down and/or make a table 10 feet high, like an episode of ''BeakmansWorld'' showed us?
*** Because it's the '''[[RuleOfCool Mythbusters]]'''. It's what they do.
* Averted in the new ''BattlestarGalactica''; the Pop-Tart-esque pastries the characters are preparing don't fly from their toaster, just pop a bit and settle back. But they ''do'' draw the attention of the Centurions (also "toasters") who are hunting the characters, so...
* ''ILoveLucy'' is perhaps the oldest TV show this is seen on. It became somewhat of a running gag. On one memorable occasion, Lucy was angry that Ricky was paying more attention to his newspaper than to her, so she loaded up the toaster, and aimed it at him. Ricky caught the toast out of the air without even looking up from the paper.
* ''FamilyTies''. "If that had been a Pop-Tart, we'd both be dead now."
* ''TheAvengers'' episode "Return Of The Cybernauts" concluded with a [[TheTag tag]] where Steed's attempt at repairing Emma's toaster succeeds all too well.

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[[folder: New Media ]]

*The NinjaPirateZombieRobot familiar in ''The KingdomOfLoathing'' occasionally stuns enemies by shooting toast from its groin-mounted toaster. Toast produced this way goes into your inventory as an edible food item. [[{{Squick}} Don't think about the implications too much.]]

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[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]

* There is a ''{{Garfield}}'' comic where Odie is launching slices of toast into the air, while Garfield is shooting them out of the air with a bow and toilet plungers. Jon is obviously not happy about this, after he gets hit in the face with one.
** This is also played with in other Garfield strips - Jon attempts to fix the toaster and instead ends up making it launch toast at such speeds that it ricochets across the house, knocking Odie into walls, among other things.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* The ''{{Glider}}'' games include toasters which juggle slices of ProjectileToast that must be dodged.
*Ubi-Soft's game-you-never-heard-of ''Tonic Trouble'' featured a mad scientist's [[MalevolentArchitecture "Laboratory"]] that had one section where you ride a floating platform over [[ConvectionSchmonvection vast pools of lava]] while insane robot toasters fired flaming hot slices of toast at the player. I wish I was kidding.
* In the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' novel "Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory", Sonic gets turned into a toaster by a ray that turns animals into household appliances (). Obviously, since he's a toaster ''with attitude'', he makes a very useful weapon for Tails as he sets about trying to find the ray and reverse the process.
* Ya know what they say: [[HotelMario all toastas toast TOAST!]]
** The {{YouTube Poop}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJKzr7-hjU "Link + Dinner = Disaster"]] has [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]] [[spoiler:toasting spaghetti to kill George Volcano]].
* In ''MDK 2'', Doctor Hawkins's primary weapon is an atomic toaster that fires irradiated slices of toast...and baguette rockets, and pumpernickel grenades...

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* In the webcomic [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com Schlock Mercenary]], [[MadScientist Munitions Commander]] Kevyn Andreyasn used a simple toaster as a trial-run for a damaged 'fabber' plant, and ended up with a [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040609.html weapons-grade toaster]]. Apparently, the toaster-template got stuck, so all future weapons and materiel produced by said fabber [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040613.html could ALSO make toast]].
* Riff invents a souped up one of these in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021226 this]] ''SluggyFreelance'' strip.
*[[http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/04/28/52-toast/ Biff]] learns to be more patient when preparing toast.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''WallaceAndGromit'' seem to have specifically modified their toaster to launch the toast with incredible precision.
*Launching toast at InvaderZim's face is one of the ''least'' annoying things GIR does upon getting his mind sucked into their house's master control system.
*Snoopy proves himself Virtuoso Master of the Projectile Toast during the cooking scene from ''[[{{Peanuts}} A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving]].''
* DarkwingDuck deliberately rigged his toaster for this purpose, as part of his breakfast/training routine. His ''entire'' breakfast is launched at him this way, in fact. Including... [[ShadowOfImpendingDoom the milk]].
* Twist: [[TheRenAndStimpyShow Powdered Toast Man]] actually shot ''butter packets'' instead. (After all, he was meant to promote ''powdered'' toast.)
* The KidsNextDoor have, among their improvised weapons arsenal, numbers of gatling gun-like weapons that end in toasters. They seem to launch energy, though.

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[[folder: Other ]]

* The ''After Dark'' screensaver had the famous Flying Toasters.
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