#244 – Launch
Posted on May 11, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Back when we first met I was visiting my future wife at her apartment. We were in her bedroom talking when her roommate burst into the room yelling “The toaster is on fire!” I ran into the kitchen to see orange flames and smoke pouring out of the top of the toaster. I quickly unplugged it and tossed it into the sink and flooded it with water. Apparently the toaster strudel she was making jammed into the toaster when it was supposed to pop up and it came into direct contact with the hot coils. Needless to say, they had to get another toaster.
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Eat the toast as you fly through the air. Sounds like fun.
I ate through the archives a while ago — think the ad was on Comedity? Maybe. — and I -love- the comic. This just happens to be the first time I’ve been up at midnight reading comics, and thus able to form a (Sort-of?) coherent comment.
My (new) toaster used to launch toast straight up, like a foot in the air. It calmed down some when we loaded it down with two slices instead of one. >
I remember when I was about 4 or 5, my father was making breakfast one Sunday morning and he had recently “fixed” the toaster. The toast nearly hit the ceiling before landing on the floor, nearly missing one of the cats.
LoL… toaster strudel = fire!
lol nice, back when i was 5 our old toaster had a busted spring in it and the toast would ALWAYS hit the roof….fun times ^^, course the cleaning the strudels off the roof did suck just a bit.
I’m sure a lot of people, including me, were sure from the title that it had to do with the prize inside the cereal box.
you know what i have always wondered, if you put bread which you already putted sugar on in the toaster, will it ocme out as caramel?
I`m usually not that awake yet when I start my day with toast. Biff`s toaster would really help me get to work on time.
Biff does’nt have much luck when buying kitchen appliances does he?
My only question is, did the toast hit him or did the toaster?
Because if it was the toast that sent him flying…man…
Once again with the impatience while waiting for the toast. You’d think that he would have remembered the first time that happened.
mmm flaming strudel…
matbe the toast missle taht shot him out the window was to teach him to be patient, keep up the good work chris
makes me want to lissen to the “yeah, toast!” song (/_^)
Biff was…
toasting himself?
That’s strange even for Biff.
biff ruined another window :[
Bad luck with buying applience screw that he has the best luck, who doesn’t want a toaster that fires toast like a cannon. That kicks butt, and I still want to know where does Biff get these things?
Btw, where did his forehead VCR go?? did he removed it the thime he got toast in it? 😛
must be a powerful piece of toast too…maybe its made from wheat bread?
While on the subject of toast, I find it best that when you’re buttering it is to put one slice on top of the other, it helps melt the butter faster.
now on the subject of the comic, it’s nice to see Biff has a sense to wear his shoes inside the house. most people just wear socks or barefoot. Or slippers, but if Biff wore slippers during this, he would most surely have lost them.
…least he went through the window this time. (refers to comic #234)
That must have been one hell of a good impression you left on your future wife and her roommate.
kenshin, here in sweden dose no one wear shoes inside your houses… just a funny fact 😛
….I will shut up now (/_-;)
That toast must’ve hurt.. a lot… Poor Biff, all the pain he has gone through… and all that is to come!
I’ve never actually had a spring-loaded toaster. I have a toaster oven.
So, I just read through the entire archive because I saw an ad for this on F@nboy$, and I have fallen in love with Biff(the comic, not the person.) You have a great art style, and your sense of humor reminds me of Far Side. I look forward to reading more of your comics!
Hello, new reader here! Saw an add on another site which made me laugh, so I decided to check the whole comic out. It’s better then I could have imagined! This rivals Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side comics in hilarity. Had me burst out laughing every couple of comics.
That said, I have a toaster that does launch the toast very high. My lil cousins love to play ‘catch the toast’ in the morning.
Hey thanks a lot Rhokk and Richard. 🙂
If he continues this way with toast-related accidents, we may well see the genesis of….
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“POWDERED TOAST MAN!!!!!”
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(…just a brief nod to all the “Ren & Stimpy” fans out there…)
I just decided I’m going to be posting as Brett from now on.(This is Rhokk)
Hehe, me and my friend were actually talking about puting a modified toaster in his room like three hours ago. We had a lot of fun imagining the scenarios of toasts flying through the room, hitting animals, parents and girlfriends on the forehead… Whatever, funny one man!
I just read through your comics from 1 to 244 and I gotta say, they’re funny. By around 154 I was in tears. Keep up the good work.
Through all of this… Who once thought of the poor window? What did he do to deserve this?
Think about THAT for a while…
Thanks Bunnyman, I’ll do my best.
two things
one- First person Biff! Woo!
Two- Has anyone ever played MDK2 Armegeddon? The professor in that game has a toaster with similar launching capabilities. He even gets it radioactivized and it is a hugely powerful weapon.
He got… Toaster Owned?
Maybe he should get a toaster press and save himself the broken toasters/windows/face.
I have seen a video of a toaster in Japan that launches toast all the way from the floor to the ceiling, but Biff’s toaster surpasses even that!
Now, did Biff buy that toaster, or make it himself? I wonder how forceful his breader is….
Hey, new reader here. I just went through the archive, it’s brilliant. Keep up the good work.
Do Biff’s eyebrows ever get tangled up while he sleeps?
goren,this is what chris would say,” glad you like the comic’
Never mind the toaster or breader. I wonder what the auto bread maker would be like?!
so is biff unconciouse,or is he conciouse? who wants toster strudel
umm,i am going to make an online comic in this year( hopefully i will )
I think we have something to combat Mayor West and his Cat Launcher, now…
Hopefully, he didn’t try to catch the toast with his mouth… If he did, he’ll need dental work, and dental work is something you DON’T want to half-arse.
‘course, this is Biff, so he’ll probably try to get some ‘discount’ dentistry… with a power drill.
When toasters where first put on the market, the springs in them were sprung to slightly the wrong end of the spectrum. Toast would literally pop up to a metre in the air when it was ready! The trouble is, the people didn’t realise this wasn’t how it was meant to be and so didn’t complain, and the factories didn’t get any complaints so continued to make toast that would fly out of the toaster! The thing finally came up when several people were knocked nearly uncontious after toasting stale bread and peering over the holes to see if it would be ready…the rest, as they say, is history…BOING SPLAT!!!
If you ever run into a situation where you can’t use water on something, such as an electrical appliance, throw baking soda onto it. This can be helpful for grease fires, too, for example.
In one of Dave Barry’s books, he put strawberry frosted poptarts in a toaster and taped the handle down. The fire from the poptarts were visible from outside the toaster. If I could find a really cheap toaster, I’d recreate this.
*lol*
Funnily enough, the comic that had the link I clicked on that got me to a page where I clicked on a link to get here relies heavily (early on) on a toaster fire to get the characters together. http://www.questionablecontent.net
Don’t bother with it if you’re someone who’s anti-plotline. It’s a story. Fantistic for those of us who like to laugh at ourselves though! It’s one of only 3 other webcomics I read religiously. I think Biff will be the fourth.. I just have to get to the end of the archives…. Taken me 6 and a half hours so far.
Waitaminute…
does Biff madify/modify his own stuff?
Can he do it to my stuff?
You could use that if your late for your carpool and haven’t eaten breakfast yet.
You’d think he’d learn after getting the toast impaled in his head. LESS powerful, not more.
Same thing happened to our toaster when I was a kid except it was poptarts. I still mock my sister to this day for lighting the toaster on fire. I don’t remember if my dad put it out or if my dad put it out anymore though.
Same thing happened to our toaster when I was a kid except it was poptarts. I still mock my sister to this day for lighting the toaster on fire. I don’t remember if my dad put it out or if it went out on it’s own anymore though.
wait i though biff was having breakfast not launch
right in the VCR!
Thank you for flying Air Toast.
Sadly, due to the rising cost of butter, the complimentary glass of orange juice and bowl of cereal have been cut back.
We hope you enjoy the flight.
My toaster fires LAZERS and ejects toast at mach 5. It is equipped with a motion tracker and GPS system so it can find you wherever you are! Also dragonbrad, would it kill you to use correct grammar?
Artillery toast!
i always wanted a toaster that popped my toast up like it does in cartoons. then i could have a ninja moment every morning and try to swipe the plate under it and catch it on the way back down.