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'''The Toaster''' is a device on Earth renowned for its ability to make the popular breakfast food served with butter, jelly, eggs, or other confection. Toasters come in two, four, or even six-slot models. | '''The Toaster''' is a device on Earth renowned for its ability to make the popular breakfast food served with butter, jelly, eggs, or other confection. Toasters come in two, four, or even six-slot models. | ||
[[ | [[Image:Centurion_armor_old.jpg|thumb|left|A Cylon Centurion, which technically cannot make toast, but is known for toasting Colonies.]] | ||
The laudable term is also used as the nickname that the Colonials have for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], due to the fact that the original models resembled "walking chrome toasters" because of their highly reflective metal bodies and toaster slot-shaped visual sensor {{TRS|Miniseries}}. [[Cylon-Related_Hallucinations#Baltar.27s_Internal_Six|Number Six]] and | The laudable term is also used as the nickname that the Colonials have for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], due to the fact that the original models resembled "walking chrome toasters" because of their highly reflective metal bodies and toaster slot-shaped visual sensor {{TRS|Miniseries}}. [[Cylon-Related_Hallucinations#Baltar.27s_Internal_Six|Number Six]] and [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] have both expressed that they consider "Toaster" to be an offensive racial epithet ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]"). | ||
The reference implies that toasting bread and other foods is just as enjoyable on the [[The Twelve Colonies | The reference implies that toasting bread and other foods is just as enjoyable on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] as on Earth. | ||
Ironically enough, it is the use of a toaster to make breakfast that draws the Cylon "toasters" attention to Helo's fallout shelter {{TRS|You Can't Go Home Again}}. | Ironically enough, it is the use of a toaster to make breakfast that draws the Cylon "toasters" attention to Helo's fallout shelter {{TRS|You Can't Go Home Again}}. | ||
It can also be said that the Colonials enjoy the act of shopping for toasters. [[Lee Adama]] enthusiastically makes a point about shopping for toasters on ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'', after the electricity (an important element for any toaster) goes haywire {{TRS|Valley of Darkness}}. | It can also be said that the Colonials enjoy the act of shopping for toasters. [[Lee Adama]] enthusiastically makes a point about shopping for toasters on ''''{{RDM|Galactica}}'''', after the electricity (an important element for any toaster) goes haywire {{TRS|Valley of Darkness}}. | ||
It should also be noted that a few [https://web.archive.org/web/20131006210618/http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72500.asp elite model] toasters have been known to communicate by sending or receiving "waves." | It should also be noted that a few [https://web.archive.org/web/20131006210618/http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72500.asp elite model] toasters have been known to communicate by sending or receiving "waves." | ||