E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
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"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It originally aired in the U.S. on November 7, 1999.
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[edit] Synopsis
The Simpsons go to a movie theater to see The Poke of Zorro. After Homer, imitating Zorro, frightens Snake away by challenging him to a duel with his glove, he starts to uses his dueling glove to get anything he wants from people. First up is Moe, for calling him "heavyset," but after a slap, he gives a shocked Homer a free beer. Thus begins a montage to the tune of "Gloveslap" -- parody of the B-52's Love Shack. But when a gun-toting, Southern colonel actually accepts Homer's challenge, Homer finds himself bound to a duel at dawn the following day. The colonel sets up camp outside the house in his RV, awaiting the duel.
With Homer fearing for his life, the family sneak out and search for a new - or at least temporary - home. Along the way they spy Jimmy Carter's Homes for the Homeless; he calls Carter a bum, who responds by pulling off his glove to slap him, as Homer has been doing. They find Grampa's old farmhouse on Rural Route 9 outside of Springfield, where they decide to live, and, despite the land's poor reputation for growing crops, Homer becomes a farmer.
Homer calls Lenny who suggests that Homer use plutonium to make the crops grow "real big, real fast". They do eventually grow, but since Homer scattered seeds indiscriminately, his main crop is tomacco, a mix of tomato and tobacco, which tastes bitter but is very addictive. It is such a success that executives from Laramie Cigarettes offer to buy the rights to Tomacco for $150 million.
Homer rejects the offer as insulting, demanding $150 billion for tomacco, which they refuse to pay. Dumped back at the farmhouse, the family sees Tomacco-addicted animals from other farms eating their crops. Homer saves the last plant, but when the rest of the animals attack the house, he tosses it away, right into the hands of a Laramie executive.
The Laramie executives' helicopter leaves, but a tomacco-addicted sheep has sneaked on-board and creates mayhem, causing the helicopter to fly out of control and crash, destroying the final tomacco plant (somehow, the sheep survives). With all the tomacco crops gone, the Simpsons return to Springfield, forgetting that the Colonel is still there. The Colonel shoots Homer in the arm, but Homer says he'll only go to the hospital "after pie".
[edit] Trivia
- The family passes by a store with a sign reading Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formerly Chuck's). If the store's previous owner kept the rhyming scheme, it would have been named Chuck's Fuck and Suck.
- "(Annoyed Grunt)" is the script notation rendered by Dan Castellanetta as D'oh!
[edit] Goofs
- The family goes to live in the old Simpson farmhouse, despite it clearly being burned to the ground in the Season Six episode "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy". (However, the book The Simpsons Beyond Forever implies that this episode may have taken place before "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy, despite the fact that Homer was surprised to see the house when he saw in this episode".)
[edit] Cultural References
- The Buzz Cola advertisement shown before the movie is a parody of Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg.
- The movie the Simpsons see is a parody of The Mask of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
- The farmer using an elephant to measure the height of his stalks of corn is in reference to a song in the musical Oklahoma!, wherein the corn "is as high an elephant's eye".
- The Tomacco-craving animals trying to break into the barricaded farmhouse recall the zombies from George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
- The Simpsons farming montage music is the theme song from Green Acres.
- When the Southern colonel shows up at the Simpsons' house to duel, he calls "Sir, I say sir!" much like cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn.
- The scene with Homer worrying about the duel the next morning whilst looking at a tombstone with his own name on it spoofs the 1990 film Back to the Future Part III.
[edit] Songs
[edit] Glove Slap
- by The B-52's (to the tune of "Love Shack")
A glove slap in a little old face will get you satisfaction.
(Homer slaps a toll booth attendant, who lets him pass)
Glove slap ba-a-beee.... (Glove slap, baby)
(Homer slaps Kirk Van Houten at the golf course, and he lets Homer play)
Glove slap, baby, glove slap!
(threatens Dr. Hibbert as he prepares to give an injection. Hibbert injects himself and gives Homer a lollipop before falling over)
Glove slap, I don't take crap!
Glove slap, shut your big yap...
[edit] The Zorro Rap
- From the Z to the O
To the double R-O
He's a dude in a mask in the barrio.
With his horse and his mask
And his big ol' sword.
He'll cut your butt from a '52 Ford.
[edit] Cast of Zorro
- Zorro - John Byner
- Robot Zorro - Shawn Wayans
- Mrs. Zorro - Rita Rudner
- Scarlet Pimpernel - Curtis "Booker" Armstrong
- King Arthur - Cheech Marin
- Man in the Iron Mask - Gina Gershon
- Wise Nun - Posh Spice
- Stupid Nun - Meryl Streep
- Time Traveler #1 - Stone Cold Steve Austin
- Orangutan at Dance - "Puddles"
- Seemingly Gay Prince - Spalding Gray
- Man Beating Mule - Eric Roberts
- Mule Beating Man - "Gus"
- Hiccuping Narrator - Pelé
- President Van Buren - Robert Evans
- Corky - Anthony Hopkins
- Voice of Magic Taco - James Earl Jones
The Producers Would Like to Thank:
- The Film Board of Canada
- The Philadelphia Flyers
- The makers of Whip Balm
- Mr. Robert Guccione
- The Teamsters Pension Fund
- AAA Best Bail Bonds
- Mr. and Mrs. Curtis "Booker" Armstrong
[edit] Quotes
- Announcer: Buzz Cola. The taste you'll kill for.
German soldier: Available in ze lobby!
Lisa: Do they really think cheapening the memory of our veterans will sell soda?
Homer: (in German accent) I have to go to ze lobby!
(in "ze lobby"...)
Squeaky-Voiced Teen: I'm sorry, but we're not supposed to put butter on the Milk Duds.
Homer: You're not supposed to go to the bathroom without washing your hands, either.
Squeaky-Voiced Teen: Touché. - Homer: Will you duel, or are you a coward?
Snake: (menacingly) Would a coward do this? (he reaches his jacket) Bye! (he leaves the theater; everybody cheers Homer) - Carl: Sending some outgoing mail?
Lenny: You know it! (they high-five)
Carl: I'll probably send some tomorrow.
Lenny: I hear that! (they high-five again, the look at each other, shrug, and walk off in opposite directions). - Lisa: Tomacco? That's pretty clever, Dad... I mean, for a product that's evil and deadly.
Homer: Ah, thanks, honey. - Lisa: The National Weather Service says that dawn is still scheduled for 6:21 and to "please stop calling".
- Ralph Wiggum: (eating some Tomacco and spitting it out) Oh, Daddy, this tastes like Grandma!
Chief Wiggum: (eating a bite of Tomacco and also spitting it out) Holy Moly, it does taste like Grandma!
Ralph: I want more.
Chief Wiggum: Yeah, me too. We'll take a bushel or a peck or just—just give it to me.
(Homer giggles evilly) - Homer: (When he's stuck under the tractor) Go get Lassie!
Bart: Lassie?
Homer: I mean Lisa. - Homer: Wake up, Marge! It's time to harvest our giant radioactive supercrops!
Marge: It's been only one night.
Homer: If there's one thing we've learned from The Amazing Colossal Man and Grasshopperus, it's that radiation makes things grow real big, real fast.
Marge: But didn't Grasshopperus kill Chad Everett?
Homer: Only because he tried to reason with him.
[edit] External links
- "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
- "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" at the Internet Movie Database
