Plot
The Simpsons go to the Springfield Googelplex Movie Theaters to see The Poke of Zorro. Afterwards, Homer, imitating Zorro, frightens Snake away by challenging him to a duel by slapping him with a glove when he insults Marge; he then starts to use his dueling glove to get anything he wants from people. First up is Moe for calling him heavyset, but after a slap, he gives Homer a free beer. When a gun-toting Southern colonel at the Kwik-E-Mart actually "accepts" Homer's challenge, Homer finds himself bound to a duel at dawn the following day. The colonel and his wife set up camp outside the house in his RV, awaiting the duel.
With Homer fearing for his life, the family sneak out with Homer clinging to an old Christmas tree and search for a temporary home. They find Grampa's old farmhouse (even though the end of "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" saw the old farmhouse burning down after Homer dropped a match and Grampa threw the sex tonic into the fireplace) on Rural Route 9 outside of Springfield, where they decide to live and, despite the land's poor reputation for growing crops, Homer becomes a farmer.
Homer calls Lenny and requests that he send plutonium to make the crops grow "real big, real fast." They do eventually grow, but since Homer had accidentally mixed the tomato seeds with the tobacco seeds, he decides to call the tomato-cross with tobacco, Tomacco. Homer and Marge set up a stall, Homer providing tomacco and Marge, fresh-baked mincemeat pie. While the pies do not sell well, the tomacco is such a success that executives from Laramie Cigarettes offer to buy the rights to Tomacco for $150 million.
Lisa protests that the Simpsons cannot accept the tobacco executives' money, but Homer misinterprets this statement, and rejects the offer as insulting, demanding $150 billion for tomacco, which they refuse to pay. Dumped back at the farmhouse, the family sees tomacco-addicted animals from other farms eating their crops. Homer saves the last plant, but when the rest of the animals attack the house, he tosses it into the air, and it lands right in the hands of a Laramie executive. The Laramie executives' helicopter leaves, but a tomacco-addicted sheep has sneaked on board and attacks them. The helicopter crashes, killing everyone on board and destroying the final tomacco plant. The Simpsons return home from the chaos, only to find that the Southern gentleman and his wife are still waiting for Homer to go through the duel. Homer goes through with the duel and ends up getting shot in the arm (but decides to go to the hospital after eating a pie Marge made).
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