The family is at Paradise Pier, where Marge was looking forward to riding the Ferris wheel all her life, only to find out that it is being dismantled with some of its equipment being sold. Homer purchases a dumbbell while Marge gets a tandem bicycle. When Marge wants to take the bike for a ride, she finds that Homer is a less than willing participant.She tries it on her own and falls. Realizing that his mother might actually be lonely, Bart offers to go for a ride with her. They ride into an unincorporated part of the county and come upon a small village that features a tea house. Later the tea house closes forever causing Bart to invite his mother to his treehouse for tea.Marge redecorates the treehouse and the pair goes off to get a new tea service where he gets a Krusty Teapot. Outside the store the bullies accuse Bart of being a “Momma’s Boy,” which causes Bart to rebel. Marge goes into a depression and eventually sells the bike.Feeling bad, Bart offers to compete with her in a karaoke contest. While seeing Skinner and his mother perform, Marge has visions of a terrible future for Bart and she stops the show to let Bart know that he shouldn’t worry about her, it’s her job to worry about him.Meanwhile at Moe’s Homer shows off the strength in one of his arms he’s gained from working with the dumbbell and Moe has an idea on how to capitalize on it. Moe takes Homer to the arm wrestling championships, where Homer readily wins, but finds that he really misses his wife.
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(outside the Simpsons' house, Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph are singing 'My Sharona'; music from The Knack. Homer throws his arm wrestling trophy through the window. They stop singing) Homer: That song is a pop music footnote! (beat) I didn't say 'stop'! (the bullies continue singing. End episode and roll credits). Meanwhile at Moe u2019s Homer shows off the strength in one of his arms he u2019s gained from working with the dumbbell and Moe has an idea on how to capitalize on it. Moe takes Homer to the arm wrestling championships, where Homer readily wins, but finds that he really misses his wife.' Arm wrestling (or armwrestling). Various factors can play a part in one's success in arm wrestling. Technique and overall arm strength are the two greatest contributing factors to winning an arm wrestling match. In the episode of The Simpsons 'Marge's Son Poisoning' (2005), Homer enters an armwrestling tournament. The documentary Pulling. Oct 02, 2019 The Simpsons Full Episodes 2019 Bart and Lisa have super powers - Duration: 5:32. The Simpsons Full Episodes 2020 1,467,698 views. Nov 13, 2005 Watch The Simpsons - Season 17, Episode 5 - Marge's Son Poisoning: Marge buys a tandem bicycle, but Homer doesn't seem to be interested.
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'E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)' | |||
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The Simpsons episode | |||
Episode no. | Season 11 Episode 5 | ||
Directed by | Bob Anderson | ||
Written by | Ian Maxtone-Graham | ||
Production code | AABF19 | ||
Original air date | November 7, 1999 | ||
Guest appearance(s) | |||
Episode features | |||
Chalkboard gag | 'I did not win the Nobel Fart Prize'.[1] | ||
Couch gag | The living room is set up like a trendy nightclub. The bouncer lets Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie in, but sends Homer away. | ||
Commentary | Mike Scully Ian Maxtone-Graham George Meyer Matt Selman Rob Baur | ||
Episode chronology | |||
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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 American animated sitcom The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 1999. In the episode, inspired by a Zorro movie, Homer begins slapping people with a glove and challenging them to duels. However, when a real Southern gentleman accepts Homer's request for a duel, the Simpsons run off to the old farm Homer lived in with his parents and breed a dangerously addictive but successful tobacco/tomato hybrid called 'tomacco'. The episode was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed by Bob Anderson.
The episode received mixed reviews.
Plot[edit]
The Simpsons go to the Springfield Googelplex Movie Theaters 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 when he insults Marge; he then uses his dueling glove to get anything he wants from people. When a gun-toting Southern colonel at the Kwik-E-Mart actually accepts Homer's 'challenge', Homer finds himself bound to a duel at dawn the following day.
The next morning, the colonel and his wife waited outside the house in their RV. The Simpsons sneak out with Homer clinging to an old Christmas tree and search for a temporary home. They find Grampa's old farmhouse on Rural Route 9 outside of Springfield, where, despite the land's poor reputation for growing crops, Homer becomes a farmer following a visit to the general store. After failing to grow a thing for a month, Homer calls Lenny and requests they send plutonium. The crops eventually grow, but since Homer had accidentally mixed the tomato seeds with the tobacco seeds, a new product is created. Homer calls the mutated crop 'Tomacco,' which tastes terrible, but is highly addictive. Homer and Marge set up a stall, Homer providing tomacco and Marge, fresh-baked mincemeat pie. While the pies do not sell well, the tomacco is such a success that executives from Laramie Cigarettes offer to buy the rights to tomacco for $150 million.
Lisa protests that the Simpsons cannot accept the tobacco executives' money, but Homer misinterprets this statement and rejects the offer as insulting, demanding $150 billion for tomacco, which they refuse. Dumped back at the farmhouse, the family sees tomacco-addicted animals from other farms eating their crops. With only one plant left, the family runs into the house, where Lisa urges Homer to destroy it, but Homer refuses until the livestock breaks in. He tosses the plant into the air and it lands in the hands of a Laramie executive. The executives' helicopter leaves, but a tomacco-addicted sheep has sneaked on board and attacks them. The helicopter crashes, killing everyone on board except for the sheep and destroying the final tomacco plant. The Simpsons return home to find that the Southern gentleman and his wife are still waiting for Homer to go through the duel. Homer does and is shot in the arm, but declines to go to the hospital until after eating one of Marge's mincemeat pies.
Production[edit]
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The episode was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed by Bob Anderson as part of the eleventh season of The Simpsons (1999–2000).[1] The American rock band The B-52's guest starred in the episode as themselves singing the song 'Glove Slap'[2] The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation.[3]
Themes and cultural references[edit]
The B-52's sing the song 'Glove Slap' in the episode
The Simpsons go to a screening of The Poke of Zorro, which is largely a parody of the Zorro film The Mask of Zorro (1998). Jonathan Gray wrote in Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality that The Poke of Zorro 'ridicules the outlandishness of Hollywood blockbuster fare', especially its 'blatant historical inaccuracies' which sees the film feature Zorro, King Arthur, the Three Musketeers, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Man in the Iron Mask and ninjas in nineteenth century Mexico.'[4] The film's credits list, actors John Byner, Shawn Wayans, Rita Rudner, Cheech Marin, Gina Gershon, Curtis Armstrong, Eric Roberts, Spalding Gray, Anthony Hopkins, James Earl Jones and Meryl Streep, singer Victoria Beckham, wrestler Steve Austin, soccer player Pelé and producer Robert Evans as having roles in the film, and, amongst others, thanks publisher Bob Guccione and hockey team the Philadelphia Flyers.[1] The Buzz Cola advertisement shown before The Poke of Zorro is a parody of the opening Normandy invasion sequence from the film Saving Private Ryan (1998).[1][4] Gray writes that it 'scorns the proclivity of ads to use any gimmick to grab attention, regardless of the ethics: as an indignant Lisa asks incredulously, 'Do they really think cheapening the memory of our veterans will sell soda?'[4] Amongst the other films advertised at the theater is My Dinner with Jar Jar, a reference to the character Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars and the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre.[5]
The song 'Glove Slap' is a parody of the song 'Love Shack'. The B-52's sang both the original and the amended version used in the episode.[1][6] The music playing during the sequence where the Simpsons begin farming is the theme tune from the television series Green Acres.[1] The addicted animals attempting to break into the house to obtain the last Tomacco is a reference the film Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the zombies' attack.[1] A farmer is shown using an elephant to measure his corn plants' height; this is a reference to the song 'Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' in the musical Oklahoma!, which features the line 'the corn is as high an elephant's eye'.[1] The Southern colonel's accent is similar to the Warner Bros. character Foghorn Leghorn and he uses Foghorn's phrase 'Sir, I say sir!', while the mudflap on his RV features a picture of him in a similar pose to Warner Bros. character Yosemite Sam.[1] Additionally, his horn plays the opening few notes of the song 'Dixie'.[1]
Release[edit]
The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 1999.[1] On October 7, 2008, the episode was released on DVD as part of the box set The Simpsons – The Complete Eleventh Season. Staff members Mike Scully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, and Matt Selman participated in the DVD audio commentary for the episode.[2]
While reviewing the eleventh season of The Simpsons, DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented that 'E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)' provides 'the kind of episode typical of the series’ 'post-classic' years. While it doesn't become a dud, it lacks the spark and zing typical of the best Simpsons. We get a mix of decent moments but nothing that elevates the episode above the level of mediocrity.'[7]
In the July 26, 2007 issue of Nature, the scientific journal's editorial staff listed the episode among 'The Top Ten science moments in The Simpsons', writing: 'Homer's attempts to be a farmer in 'E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)' involve using plutonium as a fertilizer. DNA from tobacco seeds and tomato seeds blend to produce a fruit that tastes like ashtray, but is nonetheless 'refreshingly addictive'.'[8]
In 2011, Keith Plocek of LA Weekly's Squid Ink blog named 'E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)' the tenth best episode of the show with a food theme.[9]
Legacy[edit]
A Simpsons fan, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon, was inspired by the episode. Remembering the article in a textbook, Baur cultivated real tomacco in 2003. The plant produced offspring that looked like a normal tomato, but Baur suspected that it contained a lethal amount of nicotine and thus would be inedible. Testing later proved that the leaves of the plant contained some nicotine.[10] Both plants are members of the same family, Solanaceae or nightshade.[11] The tomacco plant bore tomaccoes until it died after 18 months, spending one winter indoors.[11] Baur appeared on the episode's DVD commentary, discussing the plant and resulting fame.[12]
The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named tomacco as the new word 'least likely to succeed.'[13] Tomacco was a wordspy.com 'Word of the Day'.[14]
A store by the name of 'Sneed's Feed & Seed', which appears for a short time in the episode, has been the source of intense debate among fans of The Simpsons. Debate centres around the store's name, citing the possibility of a salacious joke within the episode.[citation needed] The writer of the episode, Ian Maxtone-Graham, has come out on Twitter to confirm that the store's name is, in fact, a reference to oral & penetrative intercourse, implying the store was once a brothel by the name of 'Chuck's Fuck and Suck'.[15]
References[edit]
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- ^ abcdefghijkBates, James W.; Gimple, Scott M.; McCann, Jesse L.; Richmond, Ray; Seghers, Christine, eds. (2010). Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1–20 (1st ed.). Harper Collins Publishers. pp. 530–531. ISBN978-0-00-738815-8.
- ^ abJane, Ian (November 1, 2008). 'The Simpsons – The Complete Eleventh Season'. DVD Talk. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
- ^Bio-Organic Chemistry, on page 170. ISBN0-7167-0974-0
- ^ abcGray, Jonathan (2006). Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality. Taylor & Francis. p. 2. ISBN978-0-415-36202-3.
- ^Chernoff, Scott (July 24, 2007). 'I Bent My Wookiee! Celebrating the Star Wars/Simpsons Connection'. Star Wars.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
- ^Druckenbrod, Andrew (September 18, 2007). 'Record Review: 'Simpsons' music may suffer in translation'. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
- ^Jacobson, Colin (November 19, 2008). 'The Simpsons: The Complete Eleventh Season (1999)'. DVD Movie Guide. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
- ^Hopkin, Michael (July 26, 2007). 'Science in comedy: Mmm.. pi'. Nature. 448 (7152): 404–405. Bibcode:2007Natur.448.404H. doi:10.1038/448404a. PMID17653163.
- ^Plocek, Keith (November 11, 2011). 'Top 10 Simpsons Food Episodes: Tomacco Ribwich with a Side of Guatemalan Insanity Peppers + Skittlebrau'. Squid Ink. LA Weekly. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
- ^Philipkoski, Kristen (November 7, 2003). 'Simpsons Plant Seeds of Invention'. Health. Wired. Retrieved October 22, 2008.
- ^ ab'Homer Simpson inspires man to grow 'tomacco''. CTV.ca. November 13, 2003. Archived from the original on November 21, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ^Baur, Rob (2006). The Simpsons The Complete Eleventh Season DVD commentary for the episode 'E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)' (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
- ^Summary of 'Among the New Words', American Speech, Volume 79, Number 2, Summer 2004.
- ^Word Spy – tomacco
- ^Ian Maxtone-Graham [@ianhmg] (February 26, 2017). 'Tweet answering 'Sneed's Feed & Seed'' (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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