A needlessly complicated plan to accomplish a simple task.

Creating an elaborate scheme involving things like lasers, explosions, rope ladders, poisoning and painstakingly crafted lies to make things more cool, interesting and exciting when all could be solved simply by telling the truth, getting the key or using the back exit, etc.

Cool for the sake of cool in effect (often used in movie plot explanations or sitcom plots).
The name Tom Sawyer Plan comes from Huckleberry Finn where Tom makes an elaborate scheme to free Jim from the plantation when they could have just gotten he key the whole time.

Sheldon Cooper on the Big Bang Theory's web of lies to avoid seeing Penny in RENT, which build on each other until he has to go on a weekend trip, hire an actor and keep up an elaborate fake back story to get out of seeing one play.
by TheArtNouveauGirl October 23, 2009
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To be tricked or deceived into performing a laborious or unpleasant task vie reverse psychology.
steve: damn it John Tom Sawyer'd tom sawyer me into helping him clean

tom sawyer: haha
by pi3r8 September 9, 2008
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The act of taking a dump on a hard surface, like a table or counter, and having your partner lay down on it with their back, causing it to spread between their back and the surface. After the dump is spread, you then stand above them and piss all over their face.
The Tom Sawyer Raft Ride is a lot more refreshing than it sounds...
by Stunzeedkus February 13, 2011
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1. a censored store shelf novel called masterpiece by publisher's societies of america, there with arthur p. jacobs and readers digest among, with united artists a name, which features that a region post crucible in which abusers, rapists and churchist pedophiles reigned and no justice existed even for children in literature well known to be killers of monsters, despite the existence of the Evers in literature prior dateing.
2. the name for the unverified myth of the actor who played Huck in the child abuse prevalent, heroeless version by Mark Twain? of the film Tom Sawyer aforementioned synapsis 1. Who was credited by publishers soceities to be called Jeff East who apparently appeared in the next show Huckeberry Finn as a different actor, said to look exactly as Anton Yelchin a modern actor, while the prior Tom Sawyer was said to appear to be the son of modern young American Actor Elijah Wood.
3. In novels and books passed about by hand, this was not a motherless child but one such kid called a 'baby' who spent years or months became a toddler, after being rescued from churchain grabbers and taken down the missisippi by Huckleberry Finn a family friend.

4. In literature said to be the father of Tristan Ever, ie Tuck Everlasting's dad with Becky the baby's mom, Tom Sawyer's cousin of their secret sometimes, family ties.
Ain't never was there a kid about a robber story we had, any how? Well more about you could know Tom Sawyer weren't treated like Will Hunting for being an abused child, but that rang a fake tale wonder if'n hatch was a real one, and ain't an age Huck didn't kill you All for thinking you had slaves?
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