This conversation is really starting to feel like a Jerry Seinfeld bit. Further to that, though, I’m convinced there was some larger cultural understanding about burning one’s toast during this era that would lead to this kind of specific widespread phenomenon. They are almost comically mundane, which has some value in this regard. I can’t help but wonder why so many different writers’ rooms decided that toasters were a plot device worth exploring. I’m convinced there are more of these, but for now I’ve come to my wit’s end for Googling different combinations of the words “toaster” “toast” “burnt” and “scene”, to just okay results.įor you peeps who grew up on Heritage Minutes, you’ll be interested to know that this was the top hit, regardless of the keywords surrounding “toast”: Īlso in 1994, The Simpsons aired the fifth iteration of their long-running Halloween special, “Treehouse of Horror.” In the second of the episode’s three vignettes, Homer travels back and forth through time, altering the future, aided by a time-traveling toaster. In Ghostbusters II (1989), ectoplasmic goo animates a toaster during a kinetic test.īruce Willis’ toaster and its gently warming off-brand Pop-Tarts plays a big role in 1994’s Pulp Fiction. The entire 1987 children’s film The Brave Little Toaster, which I now recall is harrowing ( this isn’t even the scariest number ).īill Murray gets clocked by a toaster-wielding Carol Kane in the 1988 Christmas hit Scrooged. There were also many, many, more appearances in non-burning roles during this time period. Those are just the miscues relating to the actual functionality of the appliance.
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