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I like the dig @ Family Guy right at the end.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6872418/Simpsons-stories-the-tomacco-man.htmlSimpsons stories: the tomacco manRob Baur is generally a straightforward, sensible man. A senior operations analyst at an Oregon sewage treatment utility company, he’s responsible for research and development in the wastewater field, something he’s been doing for 33 years. ‘I’ve had one wife, one employer’, he says, ‘try to keep it simple.’ He’s a liberal sort of fellow who loves The Simpsons. It’s the latter point that has given Rob Baur 15 minutes of fame that have lasted seven years. In 2003, inspired by an episode of The Simpsons, he grafted together a tobacco root and a tomato stem to make ‘tomacco’. In ‘E-I E-I D’oh’ (episode 231, first aired November 1999) Homer invents giant tomacco plants that taste disgusting but are completely addictive (‘That’s horrible!’ says Bart as he spits one onto the floor: ‘I want another one!’). Baur’s tomacco, on the other hand, has made him something of a Simpsons legend and given him a story to dine out on to this day (at wastewater conferences, he says, he often gets introduced as ‘Mr Tomacco’). After the plant produced its first fruit, he sent a press release about what he’d done to a local television station, thinking they might find it reasonably funny. Before long, people at The Simpsons heard about what Baur had done and invited him and his family to their offices. Baur had thought that one of the writing staff had probably read an article – as he had – in a mid-Seventies edition of Scientific American, in which a researcher grafted tobacco and tomato together. The idea was to show that you could grow tobacco leaves with no nicotine (which comes from the plant’s roots). The writer of the tomacco episode was Ian Maxtone-Graham, who’d come up with the storyline as a satire on big tobacco. Baur gave Maxtone-Graham a tomacco he managed to grow, and Maxtone-Graham ate it. Part of Baur’s intention in growing his tomacco was to poke fun at the tobacco industry. When he first read the article in Scientific American, he was moved: ‘I thought, wow, you could grow tobacco with no nicotine and prove the lie that people smoke for the flavour. They’re smoking for this insecticide, nicotine.’ His parents were both smokers: his mother died of lung cancer and his father had a lung removed when he got the disease as well. Watching the episode of The Simpsons reminded him of all of that – not the sort of epiphany you can imagine getting from an episode of, say, Family Guy.
When all air is water and all water is landTwenty years later, I'm still upside down
If I could somehow combine the crowd energy of the composed part from MSG, and the jam from Portsmouth, I would probably jizz at the speed of light.....
JJ, I think we must have had a telephathic conversation recently. I has this cross my mind as a great thread too! +KAs for my contribution, I love the Max Power episode.Homer: From now on, there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.Bart: Isn't that just the wrong way?Homer: Yeah, but faster!http://www.youtube.com/v/4w3zdkmw2E4&hl=en_US&fs=1
Did I mention at one point in my life I became so cynical that I ended up an optimist? If you think everything's gonna suck, eventually nearly everything in life becomes a pleasant surprise.
it's all fun and games until someone invites a militant lesbian.
That's almost as catchy as...
My mom just called me all confused. She said you sipped some Mouthwash and then raped a bean bag chair.
You try writing a decent review with parts of you brain still left at the venue!!!
You haven't lived until you've had a robot shart in your ear and followed along in the live setlist thread while it happens.
http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.com/This guy draws various people and characters as Simpsons. He's pretty good too.
stupid sexy flanders
http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/doh-favorite-simpsons-moments--900
