E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)

The living room is set up like a trendy nightclub (complete with a disco ball, a velvet rope, several club hoppers, and a bouncer). The bouncer lets Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie in, but sends Homer away.

Guest star(s)

The B-52's as themselves

Season 11
September 26, 1999 – May 21, 2000

"Beyond Blunderdome"
"Brother's Little Helper"
"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"
"Treehouse of Horror X"
"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"
"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
"Eight Misbehavin'"
"Take My Wife, Sleaze"
"Grift of the Magi"
"Little Big Mom"
"Faith Off"
"The Mansion Family"
"Saddlesore Galactica"
"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
"Missionary: Impossible"
"Pygmoelian"
"Bart to the Future"
"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"
"Kill the Alligator and Run"
"Last Tap Dance in Springfield"
"It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
"Behind the Laughter"

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"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", also known as "E-I-E-I-D'oh", is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It originally aired in the U.S. on November 7, 1999.

[edit] Plot

The Simpsons go to a movie theater to see The Poke of Zorro. Afterwards Homer, imitating Zorro, frightens Snake away by challenging him to a duel by slapping him with a glove, he starts to use his dueling glove to get anything he wants from people. First up is Moe, for calling him "heavyset" but after a slap, he gives Homer a free beer. Thus begins a montage to the tune of "Glove Slap" a parody of The B-52's song "Love Shack". 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 and his wife set up camp outside the house in his RV, awaiting the duel. (The RV bears a rear bumper sticker withe words "Honk if You Demand Satisfaction.")

With Homer fearing for his life, the family sneak out and search for a temporary home. Along the way they spy Jimmy Carter's Habitat for Humanity: Homer calls Carter a lazy 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 and requests that he send 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 see 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 into the air and it lands 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 and killing the executives (the sheep inexplicably 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 he tries some of Marge's mincemeat pie.

[edit] Cultural references

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The Buzz Cola advertisement shown before the movie is a parody of Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg.
The title of the episode is a parody of the children's song Old Macdonald^[obvious].
The movie the Simpsons see, The Poke of Zorro, is a parody of The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Other films that are playing in the cinema's are "My dinner with Jar Jar", "Mars needs towels", "That 70's Movie", "Shakespeare in Heat", "Facepuncher IV", and " Das Booty Call".
Meryl Streep and Posh Spice appear in the credits of the Zorro film casted as "Stupid Nun" and "Wise Nun" respectively. Anthony Hopkins' name also appears in the credits.
The "Glove Slap" montage song performed by the The B-52's is a parody of their song "Love Shack".
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 says "Sir, I say sir!" much like cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. He also has a similar accent.
The Southern colonel's RV has mudflaps of him drawn like Yosemite Sam. Mudflaps with the image of Yosemite Sam with guns drawn and the legend "BACK OFF!" are popular with American truckers.
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.
Homer's imagination of the colonel shooting Zorro is a reference to a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where an enemy character attempts to intimidate Indiana Jones by drawing out a swoard and displaying a series of swordsmanship skills, to which Indy nonchanlantly responds to by drawing out his gun and shooting the man.
When Marge interrogates Homer about the use of plutonium to make the crops grow, Homer cites The Amazing Colossal Man and Beginning of the End as his influences. Both films are creations of film-maker Bert I. Gordon, infamous for making B-grade films revolving around common small organisms growing to mammoth proportions.
The death of the Laramie team in the helicopter, at the hands of a ToMacco-crazed sheep, is a nod to a scene in the James Cameron film Aliens, where the crew of the marines' drop-ship meet the same fate, when an alien sneaks aboard their ship^{[citation needed]}.
At one part, Homer tells Marge, "Sometimes you have to break the rules to free your heart." She responds, "You got that from a movie poster." This, in fact, was the tagline to the film How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

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