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[[File:Projectile_ToastProjectile Toast.png|link=Invader Zim|frame|"I'm gonna make '''toast'''!!"]]

{{quote|''Haw-haha! Here's the problem: too many toasters! You know what they say: all toasters toast ''toast!''"''|'''Mario''', ''[[Hotel Mario (Video Game)|Hotel Mario]]''}}

{{examples|Examples}}

* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' Live Action movie had a projectile toaster.

* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', it's not toast but a plunger that gets lodged in the toaster during the opening cartoon.

* In the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|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 ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' once built three different devices that threw toast on the floor to test the "always-butter-side-down" myth.

** They could've just built a table twice as high as a normal one, like ''[[BeakmansBeakman's World]]'' did.

* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "Return Of The Cybernauts" concluded with a [[The Tag|tag]] where Steed's attempt at repairing Emma's toaster succeeds all too well.

* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air]]'' had one scene where Phil's inability to fix appliances is brought up, including a line of something like "Just like dad 'fixed' the toaster?" just on cue for toast to launch from the offscreen kitchen into the living room where the conversation is being held. Ashley then says to "set the toaster on dark so she can meet it at school."

* A physical challenge from ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)||Double Dare]]'' involves launching toast out of a springloaded toaster across the stage to one's partner.

* A [[Projectile Toast|Projectile Toaster]] was worked into ''[[Morecambe and Wise]]'''s classic making-breakfast-to-the-tune-of-'The Stripper' routine.

* On ''[[Pixelface]]'', Romford's attempt to 'upgrade' the kettle somehow results in the toaster launching [[Projectile Toast]] at Alexia.

* 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 [[Malevolent Architecture|"Laboratory"]] that had one section where you ride a floating platform over [[Convection, Schmonvection|vast pools of lava]] while insane robot toasters fired flaming hot slices of toast at the player. I wish I was kidding.

* Ya know what they say: [[Hotel Mario (Video Game)|all toastas toast TOAST!]]

** The [[YoutubeYouTube Poop]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJKzr7-hjU "Link + Dinner = Disaster"] has [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]] {{spoiler|toasting spaghetti to kill George Volcano}}.

* Catching the toast that pops out of a toaster composes one of the many, many microgames in the ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]'' series.

* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'', [[Mad Scientist|Munitions Commander]] Kevyn Andreyasn used a simple toaster as a trial-run for a damaged 'fabber' plant, and ended up with a cross between a toaster and a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:S-mine |Bouncing Betty]]. Schlock, being Schlock, begged it off him so he could take it down to the firing range.

{{quote| '''Schlock''': "See? You get a ''lot'' more stopping power out of whole wheat."<br />

'''Grunt''': "It's my turn now." }}

* Riff invents a souped up one of these in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090606035834/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021226 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip.

* ''[[The Book of Biff]]'' has a page where "[http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/04/28/52-toast/ Biff] learns to be more patient when preparing toast.]"

* One of the [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation's]] many, many attempts to neutralize [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682] was to expose it to [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-426 SCP-426], the toaster that makes people think they are toasters too. Like most of the attempts to neutralize 682, it ended badly. 682 went berserk, ate a huge stockpile of bread, and went on a rampage in the facility launching toast at personnel with deadly effect. Curiosly, the D-personnel who were fed the toast produced by 682 claimed the toast was delicious and that it was the best toast they ever ate.

* [[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... [[Shadow of Impending Doom|the milk]].

* The ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door (Animation)|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 ''[[DextersDexter's 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 (Animationanimation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon, one of Roll's attachments for her Utility Arm was this. She used it to defeat Cutman.

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