Slices, Dices, and Makes Julienne Fries: Difference between revisions

The [[Trope Namer]] for this was commercials for the Veg-O-Matic, one of the first products Ron Popeil sold, which really could do all of the things mentioned in the title. For those of you who don't remember it, the Veg-O-Matic was basically a French-fry cutter, fitted with a second blade that could be turned 90 degrees to cut slices.

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

* According to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4pg1bOEdM this classic ad], ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]''.

== [[Animated Films]] ==

* The merchant/FramingDevice guy in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' tried to sell such a device to the viewer: A combination hookah and coffee maker.

 

* In ''[[Explorers]]'', the three kids meet aliens who pick up English from watching television. One did a better job than the other so the latter communicates by speaking out TV catch phrases and clips from old black-and-white TV recordings, including this one.

* In the first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie, Michelangelo starts doing the "it slices, it dices" routine as Leonardo tosses a pizza in the air and slices it with his katanas — until a slice falls on Splinter's head.

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Animorphs]]'', the heroes have to cover for a broken-down Chee android named Erek(Chee are normally disguised with a hologram, but due to Yeerk tampering with the Pemalite ship that was the source of their technology, their holograms were failing) by pretending he's some kind of personal multifunction tool. Cassie gives a (nervous) sales pitch in front of a store audience.

"Anyone's fries," Cassie said, her voice tinged with desperation. }}

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Chosen"

'''Buffy:''' It slices, dices and makes julienne preacher. }}

* ''[[Thank God You're Here]]'' Episode #1.3

'''Frank Woodley:''' Killing thing. }}

* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' episode "The Academy"

 

== [[Music]] ==

* The [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] song "Mr. Popeil" references all of the classic infomercial lines, and this is no exception.

* Logan Whitehurst and "The Robot Cat."

It's got a stock ticker with the Wall Street prices! }}

 

* In the [[Warcraft III]] blademaster's funny quotes "I have a blade that can cut through armor! And still cut a tomato."

* From [[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]

* In the N Fuax Mercial of [[Crash Bandicoot]] ''Mind Over Mutant'', this is one of the features of the NV.

* [[Oracle of Tao]] has a sword technique with this sort of thing (in the skill description text):

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[SF Debris]]'' spoofed the line in his ''Projections'' review, when "kinoplasmic radiation" is used to [[Justified Trope|justify]] or [[Hand Wave]] almost every plot development in this ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==