The Toast Patrol segment has a long (well, not that long) and glorious (certainly glorious) history of using obscure pop culture references, along with just being outright strange. We realize that many of you don't have a context for a good bit of we say (and I'm willing to bet most of you thought we made up the word 'intellivision'), but we're also firm believers in weird education, and we want our toastyfriends to be in on our jokes. So, here's a visual reference guide to some of the stranger bits of our very first Toast Patrol, starting with...
1. JAPANESE RUBBER SUIT MONSTER
Typically associated with the Godzilla franchise of old (and knockoffs thereof), they're rubber, they're monster suits, and they're often Japanese. We here at Toast Patrol HQ have devoted a sizable portion of our collective heart to rubber suit monsters, so expect them to come up again.
2. CEREBRO
Cerebro is the giant machine-thing that Professor Xavier (of the X-Men) uses to amplify/visualize his psychic power--it's a huge psychic amphitheatre of sorts. If you haven't read the comic or seen the movies, just trust us... there's a psychic dude named Professor X, and Cerebro is his big round room where he watches the pretty pictures in his head.
3. PHOTOSHOP> FILTER> RENDER> CLOUDS
For the non-photoshop-literate, this is how you make a basic cloud texture. If you get the chance to use photoshop, try it. Then you'll understand just how easy it was to make the crappy backgrounds on all those Twilight fan pics.
4. EDDIE-PEE-PANTS
That water wasn't always green...
That water wasn't always green...
5. INTELLIVISION
It's actually a game system, a la Atari. And yeah, it's that old... just look at that retro-tastic finish.
It's actually a game system, a la Atari. And yeah, it's that old... just look at that retro-tastic finish.
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