History Recap / TheSimpsonsS11E5EIEIAnnoyedGrunt

* TriggerHappy: Implied with the Southerner, with his RV having stickers for "honk if you demand satisfaction (read: duel)" and one saying that he's a member of a pistol dueling society.

* AnimalGenderBender: The neighboring farmers have an Asian elephant which they named "Petunia" and refer to as female, despite the elephant having tusks which make it a male.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Played with. While no one had ever cross-bred tomato and tobacco plants, since both plants are in the nightshade family, it is theoretically possible.
** A fan in 2003 was able to crossbred a tomato and tobacco plant. It resulted in a plant that looked like the famous tomacco on the outside but was inedible due to the lethal amount of nicotine that it contained. The plant lived for 18 months and produced fruit every season. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20111121061013/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20031113/tomacco031113/]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Laramie executives, looking to buy the tomacco in order to make people addicted to cigarettes and other tobacco products from youth. When the last plant falls into their hands by accident, they waste no time at all stealing it (though this comes back to haunt them).

* HalfwayPlotSwitch:

* LaserGuidedKarma:

* ShoutOut:

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Laramie executives, looking to buy the tomacco in order to make people addicted to cigarettes and other tobacco products from youth.

-->'''Cow:''' [[SuddenlyVoiced TOMACCOOOOOOOOO!]]

* ImplausibleDenial: Homer increasingly denies the idea that Tomacco is dangerously addictive, even as his own farm animals go into an insane rampage to get the last vegetable. If it couldn't be made any clearer...

* ShaggyDogStory: The whole point of the Simpsons moving to the country was to get away from the duelist. When they return (having forgotten why they left in the first place), the duel is immediately back on. And despite Marge and Lisa distracting the duelist with some pie, Homer complains: "Are we dueling, or what?", the duelist apologizes: "Where ''are'' my manners?", and shoots Homer in the arm.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* SoapboxSadie: Lisa tells Homer to destroy the very last tomacco plant and gets frustrated as he makes excuses like "not knowing where to start because he's just one man." At no point does Lisa ever try to destroy the plant herself.

** To be fair, they did play the part of HonestCorporateExecutive at first. Offering to give the family a huge amount of money for the tomacco. It was only after Homer demanded a thousand times that amount that they resorted to stealing it.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Homer told the family he'd accept the offer Laramie Cigarettes made for "tomacco", Lisa pleaded to him about how cruel they are, hoping to convince Homer not to make any deals with them. Homer instead took it as a sign he could charge more.

* RealityEnsues: The Southern Gentleman shoots Zorro immediately after drawing his sword in an ImagineSpot.

* LazyBum: Lisa screams at Homer to destroy the last tomacco plant and end the evil it's caused, then gets angry when Homer spouts bullshit about not knowing how to stop it. At no point does Lisa even ''try'' to destroy the plant herself when it's right in front of her.

* SoapboxSadie: Lisa screams at Homer to destroy the very last tomacco plant and gets frustrated as Homer spouts bullshit about "not knowing where to start because he's just one man." At no point does Lisa ever try to destroy the plant herself; she's more interested in having the moral high ground and shaming Homer into doing the right thing rather than do it herself.

* SomethingWeForgot: As Homer pulls up to their house at the end of the episode, he is greated with the sight of the Southern Gentleman ''still'' waiting for him.

** Later, after fleeing home to avoid the duel, the family looks for a place to live and bumps into Jimmy Carter. He's busy at a Habitat for Humanity, but they ask him to build a new house. When he says he's too busy with his current project, Homer yells at him--leading to Carter taking off one of his gloves. Homer drives away, as Carter demands satisfaction.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Homer's initial glove slap was to defend Marge's honor. It quickly escalated out of control from there.

* LoopholeAbuse: The reason the Laramie execs want to buy the rights to tomacco is because they can't sell tobacco to kids, but their Ain't No Law that prohibits tomacco. (Unfortunately, Homer misinterprets their intents.)

* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: Defied in Homer's ImagineSpot: no less a sword-slinging badass than Literature/{{Zorro}} (who has normally been a recipient of this) gets in a duel with the Southern Gentleman and gets [[InstantDeathBullet insta-killed]] by the guy's gun -- [[https://youtu.be/_Zv25jmqDx4?t=52 the Gentleman]] [[CurbStompBattle doesn't even stands from the seat Homer imagines him in]].
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Homer [[ImagineSpot tries to imagine]] what would Literature/{{Zorro}} do if he was in Homer's current predicament, and the result is Zorro gets [[CurbStompBattle shot dead by the Southern Gentleman with so much ease the man doesn't even stands from his seat]].

* OffModel: In a scene where Lisa questions the [=ToMacco=] and the choice of name to Homer, you can notice Lisa's outline behind her, especially when Homer pets Lisa and the latter subsequently {{facepalm}}ing.

* RunningGag: Homer getting stuck under the tractor.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formerly Chuck's)"

* TastesLikeFeet: Ralph invokes this trope with one of the greatest lines of the entire series.

* OffModel: In a scene where Lisa questions the [=ToMacco=] and the choice of name to Homer, you can notice Lisa's outline behind her, especially when Homer pets Lisa and the latter subsequently [[FacePalm facepalming]].

* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: Defied in Homer's ImagineSpot: no less a sword-slinging badass than Literature/{{Zorro}} gets in a duel with the Southern Gentleman and gets [[InstantDeathBullet insta-killed]] by the guy's gun -- [[https://youtu.be/_Zv25jmqDx4?t=52 the Gentleman]] [[CurbStompBattle doesn't even stands from the seat Homer imagines him in]].

** The episode starts with Homer randomly doing {{Glove Slap}}s, only to inadvertently end up in a duel with a southerner, which he escapes by hiding out at his family's farm. Unlike other episodes where the previous plotline is forgotten, when the Simpsons return home, Homer finds the southerner ''[[{{Determinator}} still]]'' waiting for him and ends up dueling.

** A fan in 2003 was able to crossbred a tomato and tobacco plant. It resulted in a plant that looked like the famous tomacco on the outside but was inedible due to the lethal amount of nicotine that it contained. The plant lived for 18 months and produced fruit every season. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111121061013/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20031113/tomacco031113/]