In an episode from the 1999 season of The Simpsons, Homer hits paydirt when he crosses a tomato with tobacco to invent the tomacco, a terrible-tasting but highly addictive new vegetable. In 2003, Rob Baur, a Simpsons fan and operations analyst in an Oregon waste-water facility, realized that tomatoes and tobacco both belong to the nightshade family of plants, making it possible to cross them. Baur thus set out to create a real tomacco, by grafting a tomato plant onto a tobacco root, which he eventually accomplished. The resulting plant bears a tomato-like fruit, but contains nicotine in its leaves.