The town of Home encompasses the traditional values of the nuclear family—only for it to be victimized by the Peacock family—who represent the darker side of paradise. The town depicted in "Home" showcases the positive qualities of a world without globalization, but the Peacock family exhibit the negative aspects. The episode's closing scene has been described as "quintessentially American", featuring the final Peacock brother driving away in a white Cadillac with his mother "safely stowed in the trunk", ready to explore a brand new life. M. Keith Booker, in "Blue-Collar Pop Culture", compared the brothers to Leatherface's cannibalistic family from "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974). Booker also identified similarities between the brothers and the family from "The Hills Have Eyes" (1977), expressing the view that the brothers represented "pure evil".