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

Season 11, Episode 5, Aired
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The Simpson family goes to see a Zorro movie. Snake is rude after the movie, so to protect Marge's honor Homer challenges him to a duel, but Snake runs away at the onset of conflict. Overfilled with confidence, Homer starts challenging everyone to a duel by slapping them his glove. It gets him his way, until he slaps a Southern Colonel. The Colonel accepts his challenge and shows up at his front door at dawn. Homer chickens out and the family flees town. The man and his wife set up camp on Homer's lawn, while the Simpson family searches for a place to stay. Homer remembers Abe's old farm, so they go there and they become farmers. Homer has the repeated misfortune of tractors tipping onto him and he has no luck growing crops. He decides to use plutonium from the nuclear plant as a fertilizer. Radioactive tomatoes grow overnight, but they taste like ashtrays and are highly addictive. Apparently, they are tomatoes mixed with tobacco, which Homer starts marketing as "Tomacco." Lisa has moral problems with it. The Laramie tobacco company offers Homer $150,000,000 for the plant. Homer is not very good at negotiating, so he fails to cash in. When they return home, animals are addicted to the plant. They revolt, a la "Animal Farm" and a sheep destroys the last plant. The family returns home and Homer finishes the duel with a mere flesh wound and a hilarious "Glove Slap" rounds out the episode.moreless
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  • Julie Kavner

    Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier

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    Harry Shearer

    Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others

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    Dan Castellaneta

    Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others

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  • Tomacco makes this episode for most

    2.0
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    By futuramarama, Nov 11, 2011 Report Abuse
    Homer is inspired by a Zorro movie to slap people with a glove to get whatever he wants. He goes too far however and he hits a Southern Colonel- one who loves to duel people.

    So Homer and the family run away to a farm where Homer grew up. There, there's nothing, so Homer mixes a lot of plants and crops and vegetables, and makes tomacco, which is dangerously addictive.

    At the end they return Home after the animals eat up all the tomacco. The Southern Colonel duels Homer, and instantly shoots him.

    A really overrated episode it seems. Not really a funny episode by any meansmoreless

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  • Glove slap!! Baby, glove slap!!!!

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    By fenway98, Jul 14, 2010 Report Abuse
    After seeing a Zorro movie, Homer starts slapping everyone with a glove and challenging them to a duel. Of course, everyone would just let Homer slap them and forget about the duel. Until one day, Homer slaps a southern colonel, and he accepts the duel. Homer tries to avoid him, but he's staying on The Simpson's lawn. Homer says it's not safe for them in Springfield, so The Simpsons move to the ranch where Homer lived as a child. However, nothing Homer plants there is growing, until he orders plutonium and the his tomatoes grow. But they taste like tobacco, so Homer calls it Tomacco, and it becomes a huge success.

    This was a very funny episode. I loved many lines, espicially Ralph's:It tastes like Gramma!!! I want more!!!!!! Overall Grade:95%/A+moreless

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  • To avoid a duel with a souther colonel, Homer escapes to his childhood farm, and creates Tomacco.

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    By Hornets3, Aug 05, 2009 Report Abuse
    This was easily one of my favorite episodes of all time because it was just absolutely hislarious from start to finish. Don't even get me started on the muscial number from act 1 where Homer goes around slapping everyone and challenging them to a duel so he can get what he wants. Another favorite part is when Homer gets shot in the arm at the end, and Magre suggests going to the hospital, and Homer just says "after pie" haha. Just so many priceless jokes that made this episode so great. IMO this was a series classic, and in my top 10 episodes for sure.moreless

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  • In attempt to avoid a duel with a Southern Colonel, Homer takes the family and flees to his father's abandoned farm. Homer's attempts at farming fail miserably until he uses plutonium as a fertilizer and creates a tomato/tobacco hybrid.moreless

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    By meathead704, Oct 22, 2008 Report Abuse
    I laughed from start to finish in the very clever and entertaining episode. The scenes where the tractor overturns onto Homer are hysterical. Only the writers on "The Simpsons" can take the same joke, use it multiple times in a single episode, and still make it funny each time. One of the most clever and funny scenes is where Lisa walks into the delapitated barn and finds and unshorn sheep (or at least she thinks she does). I laughed very hard at the climax of that scene. I also liked the terrific allusion to "Night of the Living Dead." Great.moreless

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  • Season 11, Episode 5.

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    By Wanted23, Sep 11, 2008 Report Abuse
    Not entirely bad. Homer brings the Simpsons into the lavatory, not to discuss the one hundred and fifty million dollar offer, but to discuss the chemistry between the two negotiators. LMAO! Homer decides they should get one hundred and fifty billion, and the negotiators drive away. Haha, they want to sell kids tobacco, and they act like it's not wrong. Tomacco. Haha! Not the best episode, but not bad for the eleventh season. I hate how FOX shows end five minutes earlier, take two minute commercial breaks, air the credits for one minute, and then take another two minute commercial break. That's pretty dumb.moreless

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    • How did the sheep survive the crash? Edit
    • The farmhouse is in the same dilapidated state as it was in the beginning of "Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", even though it appeared to burn down at the end of that same episode. Edit
    • The casting for the Zorro movie is: Zorro...................John Byner Robot Zorro.............Shawn Wayans Mrs. Zorro..............Rita Rudner Scarlet Pimpernell.Curtis "Booger" 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" Gay-seeming Prince......Spalding Gray Man Beating Mule........Eric Roberts Mule beating Man........"Gus" Hiccupping Narrator.....Pele President Van Buren.....Robert Evans Corky...................Anthony Hopkins Voice of Magic Taco....James Earl Jones The Producers would like to thank: Film board of Canada The Philadelphia Flyers The makers of Whip Balm Mr. Robert Guccione The Teamsters Pension Found AAABest Bail Bonds Mr. and Mrs. Curtis "Booger" Armstrong Edit

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    • Blackboard Joke: I did not win the Nobel Fart Prize. Couch Gag: The living room is now a trendy club where everyone is let in, except Homer. Edit

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    • (The family is eating dinner, but they have no food since Homer's attempts at farming have been unsuccessful) Marge: More tumbleweed Lisa? Lisa: No thank you. I'm still finishing my bristles. Edit
    • Homer: Dueling at dawn, how did it ever come to this? Lisa: The National Weather Service says dawn is still predicted for 6:20 a.m. and to please stop calling. Edit
    • Skinner: Mother please. You're embarrassing me. Agnes: No I'm not. Seymour needs the toilet! His bladder's full. Full of urine! Edit

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    • Saving Private Ryan The Buzz Cola commercial seen before the movie shows World War II soldiers landing on the beach alludes to the opening scene of the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan. Edit
    • Old MacDonald Had a Farm The title of this episode is a play on the "E-I-E-I-O" line from the nursery rhyme "Old Macdonald had a Farm". Edit

    • Foghorn Leghorn: The colonel's accent and manner of speaking ("Sir, I say, Sir") references this mischievous rooster character of Warner Brothers cartoons. In turn, Foghorn Leghorn's voice and manner of speaking was based off the character Senator Claghorn of The Fred Allen Show radio program, performed by Kenny Delmar.

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