Ziggy’s Toaster

Cidu Bill on Oct 31st 2008

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Tom Wilson, Ziggy, comic strips, comics, humor | 20 responses so far

20 Responses to “Ziggy’s Toaster”

  1. Rusty Oct 31st 2008 at 12:08 am 1

    Best I could come up with is some sort of dinnertime ‘toast’.

  2. ddsassdd Oct 31st 2008 at 01:35 am 2

    Ziggy’s life is one of endless pain and suffering, just like reality. He discovers that even his appliances are plotting to keep him alive, thus furthering his misery.

  3. Frank Oct 31st 2008 at 04:14 am 3

    Looks like my mother’s TOASTMASTER circa 1953. The design stamped in the metal side gave it away. It was a great improvement over the non-popup one
    which always burt at least one side. The darkness setting worked unlike most of the pieces of junk sold today. A decent one costs close to a hundred bucks today.
    Us geezers are known to complain about they’re “not building them like they used to” but the darn thing worked well.

  4. NiChrome Oct 31st 2008 at 06:52 am 4

    Ziggy owns Talkie Toaster?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf_characters#Talkie_Toaster

    Ziggy bought a toaster/radio combo and is listening to Star Trek?
    http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72500.asp

    … of course neither of these explanations is very funny

    As a postscript to Frank, the average price of a toaster in 1950, adjusted to 2008 dollars, was $150.
    http://www.toaster.org/sales_volume.html

  5. Cidu Bill Oct 31st 2008 at 06:55 am 5

    Maybe some odd fusion of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica?

  6. Nicole Oct 31st 2008 at 09:05 am 6

    This comic is in reference to one of the lost episodes of Star Trek. In it, the Starship Enterprise arrives at the planet App-liance. On this plant the In-dors are warring with the Ot-dors. Ignoring the prime directive (Oh – like that never happened before) Kirk decides to intervene and bring peace to the planet. He has Scotty modify the transporter to rearrange his and Spock’s molecules to resemble the inhabitants of App-liance. Kirk becomes a chain saw to and, as you can see form this comic, Spock becomes a toaster. While the In-dors listen with interest to Spock’s logical arguments for peaceful cohabitation, Kirk with his new form runs amuck, killing every Ot-dor in sight, effectively creating a pax-chainsaw. The planet find peace and the Starship Enterprise is off to a new adventure.

    Tune in next week when Scotty is unable to change Kirk back from his chainsaw form and the starship Enterprise is sucked back in time to 1974. In an attempt to change him back Scotty beams Kirk down to a small farm house in Texas where he encounters a man who calls himself “Leatherface”

  7. Pinny Oct 31st 2008 at 12:23 pm 7

    I think that Rusty (#1) has got it. The toaster is giving a toast. (Just not the type of toast you’d expect from a toaster.)

  8. Trish Oct 31st 2008 at 01:16 pm 8

    I’ve seen pizza ovens in some pizzerias made by a company called Vulcan. Maybe they make toasters too. Then the Vulcan toast is (obscurely) funny.

  9. JohnRoy Oct 31st 2008 at 01:38 pm 9

    Believe it or not there was a Vulcan toaster at one time, in 1905
    http://www.toaster.org/images/toasters/vulcan_upright.gif

    I guess the joke here is a toaster making a toast …

    Pretty lame if you ask me …

  10. bullthistle Oct 31st 2008 at 06:05 pm 10

    Maybe if it had said “Bottoms up” or “to your health” it would have been more obvious because it’s just a toast. I thought it must be a StarTrek reference but decided not - just a toasting toaster.

  11. Frank Oct 31st 2008 at 07:12 pm 11

    NiChrome - Closer to $100 (gold @ $700 vs $35) but the damn things worked and lasted 20+ years.

    The inhuman TOASTMASTER making a nonhuman toast.

  12. Lola Oct 31st 2008 at 09:30 pm 12

    Reminds me of the toaster on Red Dwarf.

  13. Kevin Andresen Oct 31st 2008 at 10:16 pm 13

    Maybe it’s just me (and I think a toaster toast *is* the joke), but when I toast, it’s a welcoming in, a celebration of an image of the future; it’s not some wishful command such as “fare well” or “live long and prosper”. I’d say (okay, I wouldn’t say except I do know one couple that got married in Star Fleet uniforms), “may you live long and prosper”; that’s a toast. You know, “to life”, “to happiness”, “to beer”, that sort of sentiment. So, for me, this good idea implementation isn’t funny.

    “I raise my glass to toast.”

  14. Aaron Oct 31st 2008 at 10:49 pm 14

    Ziggy is insane and believes inanimate objects are speaking to him.

    What’s not to understand?

  15. Powers Nov 2nd 2008 at 09:08 am 15

    Aaron, the part that’s confusing is that the artist picked a very well known phrase from Star Trek for the toaster’s dialog, apropos of apparently nothing.

  16. Aaron Nov 2nd 2008 at 04:51 pm 16

    Okay then. Revised to read: Tom Wilson is insane, and believes that inanimate objects spewing non sequiturs are “hilarious”.

  17. Gus Johansen Nov 3rd 2008 at 12:27 am 17

    Damn you, Ziggy. Damn you.

  18. Rainey Nov 3rd 2008 at 02:36 pm 18

    I think this strip is referring to the fact that sci-fi shows used ordinary objects and tools to represent futuristic items. ie- cheese graters used as communicators, Christmas lights used as starry skies.

  19. Scott Strehlow Nov 3rd 2008 at 09:11 pm 19

    I agree that the toaster is making a toast. I was originally thinking vulcanize = hot (i.e. curing rubber with heat) and toasters are hot, so they must be Vulcans.

    My aunt has a Toastmaster pop-up that she got as a wedding present about 50 years ago. She is still using it daily. I think it has had the plug replaced once or twice. Otherwise it works as well now as when it was new.

    One of her refrigerators is that old too. I don’t remember what brand it is.

  20. eeyore19 Nov 7th 2008 at 03:20 pm 20

    Clearly it’s a complimentary toaster.

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