Tomacco

Tomacco

Tomacco is a fictional plant that was a hybrid between tomatoes and tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" of the animated television series "The Simpsons". The tomacco in the episode is a hybrid produced by plutonium radiation on a mixed crop.

Fictional tomacco

In the Simpsons episode, the tomacco was accidentally created by Homer Simpson when he "planted a little bit of everything" and fertilized his tomato and tobacco fields with plutonium. The result is a tomato that apparently has a dried, gray tobacco center, and, although being described as tasting terrible by many characters (Ralph Wiggum: "Eww, Daddy, this tastes like Grandma!" Clancy Wiggum: "Holy Moses, it DOES taste like Grandma!"), is also immediately and powerfully addictive ("refreshingly" so, much like Futurama's Slurm). The creation is promptly labeled "Tomacco" by Homer and sold in large quantities to unsuspecting passers by. Laramie cigarettes, seeing an opportunity to sell their products to children legally, offers to buy the rights to market tomacco for $150 million. Homer refuses, demanding $150 billion instead. This offer is rejected by the company's executives. The hybrid plant is so powerfully addictive that farm animals develop the abilities of speech and bipedal locomotion in their frenzied quest to gain more tomacco. A cow kicks through the wall of the Simpson farmhouse and screams a rudimentary "TOMACCO!" when looking for more. Eventually, all but one of the tomacco plants are eaten by farm animals. The company executives manage to steal the last tomacco plant as they depart, but a tomacco-crazed sheep attacks them, causing their helicopter to crash, destroying the last remaining plant. The sheep survived the crash.

Real tomacco

The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 "Scientific American" article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation, "Bio-Organic Chemistry", on page 170. (ISBN 0-7167-0974-0)

The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named "tomacco" as the new word "least likely to succeed." [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/american_speech/v079/79.2glowka.html&session=58927490]

External links

* [http://www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF19.html The Simpsons Archive: "E-I-E-I-(ANNOYED GRUNT)"]
* [http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,61091,00.html Wired News: "Simpsons" Plant Seeds of Invention]
* [http://www.snpp.com/news/tomacco.html Simpsons Fan Grows Tomacco]
* [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1068728694190_18?s_name=&no_ads= Homer Simpson inspires man to grow 'tomacco' - CTV.ca]


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