Part of a complete Ass-Kicking Breakfast!
A-ha! Here's the problem: too many toasters! You know what they say: all toasters toast
toast!"
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
Late For School, to letting the toaster be
modified into a weapon.
Very,
very rarely
Truth In Television.
Examples
Film
Live Action TV
- In the Red Dwarf 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.
- Averted in the new Battlestar Galactica; 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...
- I Love Lucy 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.
- Family Ties. "If that had been a Pop-Tart, we'd both be dead now."
- The Avengers episode "Return Of The Cybernauts" concluded with a tag where Steed's attempt at repairing Emma's toaster succeeds all too well.
New Media
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.
Video Games
- The Glider games include toasters which juggle slices of Projectile Toast that must be dodged.
- Ubi-Soft's game-you-never-heard-of Tonic Trouble featured a mad scientist's "Laboratory" that had one section where you ride a floating platform over vast pools of lava while insane robot toasters fired flaming hot slices of toast at the player. I wish I was kidding.
- In the Sonic The Hedgehog 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: all toastas toast TOAST!
- In MDK 2, Doctor Hawkins's primary weapon is an atomic toaster that fires irradiated slices of toast...and baguette rockets, and pumpernickel grenades...
Web Comics
Western Animation
- Wallace And Gromit seem to have specifically modified their toaster to launch the toast with incredible precision.
- Launching toast at Invader Zim'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 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
- Darkwing Duck 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... the milk.
- Twist: Powdered Toast Man actually shot butter packets instead. (After all, he was meant to promote powdered toast.)
- The Kids Next Door have, among their improvised weapons arsenal, numbers of gatling gun-like weapons that end in toasters. They seem to launch energy, though.
- On Dexters Laboratory, Dexter once slowed time to one-sixtieth its usual rate. As a result, the toast was suspended high out of his reach in midair.
- In the Mega Man cartoon, one of Roll's attachments for her Utility Arm was this. She used it to defeat Cutman.
Other
- The After Dark screensaver had the famous Flying Toasters.
