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

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

Episode details

Production Number: AABF19
Original Air Date: November 7, 1999
Writers Ian Maxtone-Graham
Director: Bob Anderson
Blackboard: "I did not win the Nobel Fart Prize."
Couch Gag: The couch is roped off, and there is a disco ball above the couch. All of the family members, except Homer, are allowed to sit on the couch.
Guest Voices: The B-52's

Synopsis

The Simpsons go to a movie theatre where they see The Poke of Zorro, obviously a parody of Zorro. Homer is fascinated by the movie so much that after the movie, he challenges Snake to a duel with his dueling glove, and is applauded a hero who demands satisfaction. It isn't long before Homer uses his dueling glove to defeat other people, to the tune of the B-52's "Love Shack". But on one day, a pistol-toting colonel from the south announces he's challenging Homer to a duel at dawn. With Homer feeling scared, Marge and the kids take Homer on a trip to find a new home as the Colonel and his wife live at the Simpson family house. They find Grampa's old farmhouse on Rural Route 9 outside of Springfield, which they agree to live in.

When they arrive, Homer becomes a farmer. He grows watermelons and tumbleweed, and has trouble growing crops until he calls Lenny, who suggests that Homer get plutonium to make the crops grow faster. The crops eventually grow, but most notable is his ToMacco crop, a mix of tomatoes and tobacco, which tastes bitter but is very addictive. It is a success so much that executives from Laramie Cigarettes offer to have the company buy the rights to ToMacco for $150 million, until Homer rejects the idea, instead demanding that the cigarette company buy the rights to the crop for $150 billion, which they find unfavorable. That is, until animals from other farms who have been addicted to ToMacco hop on the Laramie helicopter and a sheep addicted to the crop attacks the evil executives and eats the last ToMacco crop, which is on the helicopter.

After this happens, all the crops of ToMacco are gone, and the family returns to Springfield, mindful that the Colonel is still there. The Colonel shoots Homer in the arm until a pie is offered, and Homer is lucky to be alive.

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: (menancingly) Would a coward do this? (he reaches his jacket) Bye! (he leaves the theater; everybody cheers Homer)
• 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! Glove slap, I don't take crap! Glove slap, shut your big yap...
• Lisa: ToMacco? That's pretty clever, Dad... I mean, for a product that's evil and deadly.
  Homer: Ah, thanks, honey.
• Ralph Wiggum: (eating some ToMacco and spitting it out) Oh, Daddy, this tastes like Grandma!
  Chief Wiggum: (spitting 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 pack or just—just give it to me.
  (Homer giggles evilly)
• Bart: (eating some ToMacco and spitting it out) Bleah! Tastes like cigarette butts.