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

"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 television series The Simpsons.

Lisa protests that the Simpsons cannot accept the tobacco executives' money, but Homer does not understand what she means and rejects the offer as insulting, demanding $150 billion, which they refuse.

[2] The process of making a 'tomacco' product had first been documented in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting.

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.

It includes John Byner as Zorro, Shawn Wayans as "Robot Zorro", Rita Rudner as "Mrs. Zorro", Curtis "Booger" Armstrong as the Scarlet Pimpernel, Cheech Marin as King Arthur, Gina Gershon as the Man in the Iron Mask, Posh Spice as "Wise Nun", Meryl Streep as "Stupid Nun", Stone Cold Steve Austin as "Time Traveller #1", Spalding Gray as "Gay-Seeming Prince", Eric Roberts as "Man Beating Mule", Pelé as the "Hiccupping Narrator", Robert Evans as Martin Van Buren, Anthony Hopkins as "Corky" (Hopkins actually plays a character named Corky in the 1978 film Magic), and James Earl Jones as the voice of a "Magic Taco".

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?

[1][6] The music playing during the sequence where the Simpsons begin farming is the theme tune from the television series Green Acres.

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.

"[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."

[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.

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.