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And they're not going to take it anymore.
In 1978, a film was made spoofing B monster movies (which was, itself, purposely produced as a low-budget B-movie), in which tomatoes mysteriously gain sentience and mobility, becoming killer tomatoes, which then attack. It was, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|sensibly]], called ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]!'' No genre was safe as the self-billed "Musical-Comedy-Horror Show" ripped up everything from romantic comedies to spy films, pausing long enough to take pot shots at superheroes and politics. Despite being made for less than $100,000, it's generally regarded as a failure at the box office. It, nonetheless, earned a cult following and practically became the defining film for [[So Bad It's Good]]. (If a parody can count as that, anyway.)
This would have been the end for the red menace (no, not '''that''' [[Dirty Communists|red menace]]), if it hadn't been for an episode of ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' using footage from the film to narrate a story called, "Attack of the Silly Tomatoes". It was a highly rated episode and New World Pictures inexplicably decided the world needed a sequel and offered the creators of the original 2 million dollars to film one.
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** In another Season One episode, the Franken-stem Monster was a carrot!
* [[Avengers Assemble]]: The sequence is used when assembling the completely non-crack team of tomato fighters.
* [[B-Movie]]: This was a B-Movie made to lampoon the whole concept of B-Movies!
* [[Bar Brawl]]: Found in ''Return of the Killer Tomatoes'', completely with cowboys. And ninja.
* [[Book Ends]]/[[Chekhov's Gag]]: The Missing Tomato Link's fax number, noted in the first season's episode "The Tomato From the Black Lagoon", and used in the second season episode, "Stemming the Tide".
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* [[Plant Aliens]]: They aren't actually aliens, but somebody thought it was close enough to put in and who am I to argue?
** There were some planted on Mars in one episode that waged war upon the Earth.
* [[Plant Person]]: In the second movie and the cartoon, the villain used technology to turn the tomatoes into humans.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: Spoofed in the first film.
* [[Produce Pelting]]: Well, of course. (To be specific, tomatoes are tossed at the camera during the opening credits.)
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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]
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