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Bank Toaster
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Banks love finding ways to get new people to deposit their money with them and open an account. Decades ago, they would give away free toasters, alarm clocks, or other cheesy home electrical appliances to new customers, which grew to be an expected perk for opening a new bank account. Indeed, the free toaster became so closely associated with new bank accounts that it has influenced how banks are depicted in American media and popular culture. Whenever there is a scene in a bank, the Bank Toaster can commonly be invoked in signs or promotional displays advertising new accounts or in character dialogue. If one of these toasters is established as part of a promotional display at the beginning of a bank scene, certainly anticipate something happening to it by the scene's end. In bank robberies, the Bank Toaster usually comes up as a comedic device, such as an item Stupid Crooks may try to steal either in a last-ditch attempt to take something from the bank after any effort to take the money has failed or in a clueless mix-up/failure to realize there would be something more valuable to take from the bank. After the 2000s, banks have transitioned to providing cash incentives or consumer electronics as an incentive to do business with them, turning this into a Forgotten Trope. These rewards are provided to the customer after the account has been available for a set amount of time and a certain number of deposits have been made to the account, to prevent individuals from opening an account simply to take advantage of the promotion. Examples |
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The League of Super Evil schemed to steal $5 so they could open a bank account and obtain a free toaster. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): During Huntress's fight with Pat Pending in a bank he was attempting to rob she knocks him into a shelving unit containing gift toasters and blenders. Pat takes the opportunity of being partially obscured by the appliances to take a pill that allows him to fake his death. | |
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In Our Dumb Century, during The Great Depression, Herbert Hoover introduces a Free Toaster Premium Initiative (bread not included) to boost confidence in the nation's banks. | |
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The Scamalot video Toaster involves prankster James Veitch demanding a free toaster in an e-mail reply to a Nigerian fraudster trying to pull a 419 Scam. He claimed he needed to open a new account to take advantage of the Nigerian gentleman's incredible offer, and he might as well claim the free toaster while he was about it. He later recounted the same story during a TEDTalk | |
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Discussed in Season 1 of Mad Men, when the admen mention how giving away toasters and other appliances is a gimmick to get housewives to visit the bank. This is the starting point of Sterling Cooper's actual pitch to get men to open new accounts with what they call the "executive account," which emphasizes features to ensure privacy against snooping wives (like sending statements to a man's office, rather than his home). | |
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The bank in Freefall apparently offers a choice between a toaster and a waffle iron. It's generally recommended to go with a toaster, as the waffle irons tend to bite. | |
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The Brain POP video on interest (as in, the fiscal sense) involved Moby trying to run a bank in his and Tim's front yard. When Tim signs up for an account, he receives a toaster which is implied to have been the one from the kitchen based on the fact that at the end, Tim asks Moby "Are you sure you should be running a bank if you don't know how to calculate interest?", to which Moby hands Tim a lava lamp and he responds "Okay, this is definitely from my bedroom." | |
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. episode "Crystal Hawkes" features a scene where Brisco steps into a bank offering a free branding iron to anyone opening a new account. | |
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Stephen Colbert quipped on The Late Show that the Russian bank Vnesheconombank has such close ties to Vladimir Putin that if one opens a checking account for $100 or more, one receives "a free toaster and a dead journalist." | |
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In Spider-Man 2, a Morally Bankrupt Banker, on top of denying Aunt May and Peter Parker a loan, denies them a coupon for a free toaster. | |
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The episode of The Lucy Show "Lucy Takes a Job at the Bank", Lucy takes a job at the bank handing out the complimentary toasters, and screws things up in a hilarious manner. | |
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In one Sherman's Lagoon strip, an octopus is seen thinking about the various options and account choices banks provide, ending his inner monologue with the remark that getting a free toaster used to be so much easier. | |
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A Random Event in Neopets results in the bank apologizing for an error in their system, and gives you an exclusive toaster item alongside allowing you to collect bank interest a second time. | |
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Seinfeld has a slightly modernized version with an electronic organizer and a tape recorder instead of kitchen appliances. Both items turn out to be defective. | |
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The New Yorker's Peter Steiner's "Return Your Toasters"◊ suggests that people who were pulling their money and assets out of Citibank were also returning their free toasters. | |
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There's a Monk episode with this trope. In fact, the bank manager gives Monk one of the toasters as a reward for solving a bank robbery, which is greatly welcomed by Monk after the show had begun with Adrian at breakfast contending with burnt toast and a subplot developed necessitating he and Natalie getting a new one. | |
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On Laverne & Shirley, Laverne agrees to help a woman who she thinks wants more of the bank's free dishes. Instead, she turns out to be a bank robber, and she and Laverne are both arrested. | |
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Referenced in Escape from Monkey Island where an option to end the Dialogue Tree with a bank teller is to act outraged at the lack of free toasters. | |
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All in the Family had Edith explaining to Archie why there is money in the bank they cannot use. It seems that she used money from the main account to open some new accounts so she could get free stuff (a heating pad, an electric blanket, and a radio). There's a "substantial penalty for early withdrawal" so the money has to stay in those accounts for now. | |
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In Eerie, Indiana, the ghost of Grungy Bill, "The Worst Bank Robber West of the Mississippi" ("worst" as in "no good, incompetent") who has never committed a successful bank robbery, tries to run away during yet another unsuccessful attempt to rob a bank with one of the Eerie Bank's free toasters. Managing to be successful at stealing the toaster, Grungy Bill determines this to be a successful bank robbery and his soul can finally rest in peace. | |
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In the Fresh Off the Boat episode "Hi My Name Is", the family needs a new toaster. However, instead of just buying one, the ridiculously frugal parents decide to have the youngest son Evan sign up for a bank account just to get the free toaster. | |
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Ernest P. Worrell did commercials for regional banks involving this trope. While toasters weren't mentioned specifically, other appliances were featured such as a television and a Weber brand grill. | |
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Sev Trek asked why anyone would want to join the police force set up by the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (2003). The winning punchline: Every recruit gets a free toaster! (Cylons are nicknamed "toasters.") | |
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In a Superdude skit on All That involving the superhero having to thwart a bank robbery by an evil Costume Copycat, when Superdude is incapacitated and the villain has taken all the bank's money, the villain turns around at the last minute to steal one of the bank's free toasters, as well. The villain's balked escape gives Superdude enough time to recover and defeat his foe with his magnetic butt that pulls the toaster (and the villain who won't let go of it) back to him. | |
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Friends: Phoebe's bank mistakenly deposits $500 in her account. After she alerts them to the error they send her a novelty telephone shaped like an American football as a thank-you gift. | |
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In the Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number custom campaign A Real Human Bean, the protagonist Hammarin, is entitled to a toaster offered by his bank. He goes to the bank and kills everyone on his way to the toaster. | |
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