Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Difference between revisions

 

 

''For dinner and lunch!'' }}

 

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.

 

A guaranteed bet for fortune and fame!'' }}

 

''Return of the Killer Tomatoes!'' was a moderate success, and the executives behind it made the kind of decision only corporate executives can make without being deemed insane: What these two non-child-friendly films really need to follow them up is a [[Animated Adaptation|Saturday morning cartoon]].

 

ATTACK... of the Killer TOMATOES!!!<br />

From Gangrene's lab come forth each week<br />

* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: Loosely so in the case of the first film, the second is clearly an example of this trope, explaining that, yes, you are watching a sequel.

* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]: Lampshaded.

* [[The Film of the Book]]: "Based on the novel ''[[The Grapes of Wrath|The Tomatoes of Wrath]]''"

* [[Flashback with the Other Darrin]]: Jarringly averted in the second film. The flashbacks use recycled footage from the first film featuring the old actors.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Chad believes the only good tomato is a squashed tomato, until Tara comes into his life.

** In the Season One episode, ''The Tomato From the Black Lagoon'', the titular tomato named Link, lampshades this:

* [[Womb Level]]: In one of the video games.