"Homie, is it supposed to glow like that?"

"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
1105 AABF19
Original Airdate: 11/07/99
"Homer begins challenging everyone around him to duels after he sees a Zorro film at the Googoplex. Most people back down, until Homer meets an old-fashioned Colonel who takes him up on his dare. Unable to get out of the contest with the Colonel, Homer and his family flee to the country, where they become farmers. Farm life is difficult until Homer creates a new crop called tomacco--tomatoes crossed with tobacco. The new fruit is disgusting to eat, but incredibly addictive. Selling barrel upon barrel of tomacco, Homer attracts the attention of some tobacco industry executives who want to capitalize on his new crop. Will Homer sell his cash crop for a pile of cash? Why are all the animals who ate tomacco suddenly going berserk? Would it really have been so bad to duel that Colonel after all?"

alright...figured I'd just use the websites synopsis and spend my time typing to analyze the episode.

So we start with the Zorro film, which greatly parodies Pygmalion and all other 'Pygmalion-esque' situations for a while. The girl in the movie, a plain, 'unattractive girl', is suddenly made over into a smokin' hot salsa dancer. The process is as simple as removing her glasses, letting her hair down, and unbuttoning her shirt. Then there's the whole duel thing which the rest of the episode is based off of.

Homer, blatantly mimicking old southerners, begins challenging people to duels with a leather glove. Ironically, the only one to accept the challenge is an old southerner.

Like the synopsis says, the Simpson's then flee their home and go to Homer's family farm and attempt to be farmers. In parody of the farming way of life, they begin wearing overalls and chewing wheat, and other similar activities.

The show parodies the tobacco companies outlook on selling to kids when several stereotypically insensitive tobacco company executives show up in a limo outside Homer's Tomacco stand. They ask Homer to take a ride with them and, greasily, suggest that Tomacco would make millions because it hadn't been outlawed for kids and they'd be able to target children as a market for it.