Fleeing from a duel, Homer takes his family to live on a farm. There he discovers that by mixing tomatoes, tobacco and radioactivity from the nuclear plant, he can create a dangerously delicious new substance.
WAR
32.1
Wins Above Replacement
“E I E I Annoyed Grunt” ranks #526 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.9 — Mixed. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.1 on impact, with Homer landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Homer: Did you see the way Emil's looking at Mindy? Hoo-hoo! I think something's going on there.
Homer Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Unknown: Sir, I demand satisfaction. I challenge you to a duel. Do you accept or are you a coward? I... am a coward!
Lisa · Bart: Dad, it's a tobacco company! They make billions off the suffering and deaths of others. She's right, Dad. They can afford a lot more.
Bart · Lisa: Gimme! I want more! I thought you said it tasted terrible. It does. But it's smooth and mild. And refreshingly addictive.
Ralph · Chief Wiggum: Oh, Daddy! This tastes like Grandma! Holy Moses! It does taste like Grandma!
All Jokes — 73 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Unknown character: Oh, my. War is terrible.
Announcer: Buzz Cola, the taste you'll Kill for. Available in 'ze' lobby.
Announcer Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Character in theater: Do they really think cheapening the memory of our veterans will sell soda? I have to go to 'ze' lobby!
Theater worker · Customer: You're not supposed to go to the bathroom without washing your hands either. Touché.
Character: To the top, please. Swim, my pretties.
Homer as Zorro: What? 'N'? What does 'N' stand for? No, no. It's a 'Z.' I am Zorro. 'Z' for Zorro.
Homer · Lisa: I have come to return King Arthur to the throne. It's a history lesson come to life! No, it isn't. It's totally inaccurate.
Homer · Unknown: 'S.P.'? The Scarlet Pimpernel? We're just, uh, friends.
Patron · Homer: You're pouring hot butter on my leg! Shh, shh, shh!
Homer · Unknown: Sir, I demand satisfaction. I challenge you to a duel. Do you accept or are you a coward? I... am a coward!
Movie Audience · King Arthur: Whoo! You go, Zorro! I, King Arthur, declare Zorro the new king of England!
Rapper: From the 'Z'to the 'O' to the double 'R'-'O' / He's the dude in a mask from the barrio / With his horse and his mask and his big ol'sword / He'll cut your butt from a '52 Ford
Rapper Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer · Old man: Oh, move it, Q-tip! Ha!
Homer · Old man: Will you duel, or are you a coward? Would a coward do this? Bye!
Homer · Marge: 'H' is for Homer! Thanks, Homer.
Seymour Skinner · Agnes Skinner: Mother, please! You're embarrassing me. No, I'm not. Seymour needs the toilet! His bladder's full- full of urine!
Moe · Patron: Heavyset? What's that supposed to mean? Take it easy. Take it easy. I'm just sayin'. You ain't no, uh, Tommy Tune.
Moe · Homer: Hey, a duel? I, eh- Isn't that a little extreme? Here, here, have a free beer. Really? But you've never given anyone a free beer.
Homer · Various singers: And I owe it all to a little glove slap. [Musical sequence about glove slapping]
Homer: Coming through. Challenge. Duel. Hi, Lenny. How dare you? Demand satisfaction.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: Pistols at dawn? Oh, why did I have to slap a guy who says 'suh'?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Store clerk · Homer: You'll need a will and a headstone. Aisle six. Aisle six? [Groans]
TV announcer: The National Weather Service says dawn is still scheduled for 6:20 tomorrow... and to please stop calling.
Bart · Homer: Yeah, he's probably just a big blowhard like you. Sir, that is an insult! I challenge you-What?
Homer: Oh, honey, I had the worst nightmare. This glove kept slapping people, and I was getting blamed.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Marge: No, no, no, no. You'll get sap on your dueling blouse.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Bart: It looks like you were saved by a Christmas tree. And somebody wanted to get rid of it in April.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Homer · Flanders: You know, I've always wanted to tell you how much- [Phone recording] To continue talking, please deposit 10 cents. Aw, screw it.
Lisa · Bart: That has people living in it. You can see them through the windows. Lousy showoffs.
Homer · Jimmy Carter · Other volunteer: Could you build us a house, President Carter? We can't go back to ours. I'm sorry. These are for the truly needy. Yeah. Get your own habitat.
Homer · Carter: Come on, Carter. Build us a house, you lazy bum! You have offended me, sir. I challenge you to- [Screams] Come back here! Why, you yellow-bellied-
Homer: 'Rural Route 9'? That's it! We can hide out at the farm where I grew up!
Homer Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bart: What a dump! Race you to the swimmin' hole! [Laughing] Come on, Ma! Bring the young-uns! There's no leeches! Ow, ow, ow! Lots of snakes though!
Bart Character Comedy Misdirection Marge · Homer: Holy moly! We can't stay here! It's full of raccoons! Just think of'em as cats with rabies.
Homer · Bart · Lisa · Marge: The Simpsons will be reborn as a bunch of gap-toothed bumpkins! I'll dig an outhouse! I'll weed the floor! I'll repress the rage I'm feeling! That's my girl.
Lisa · Homer: It doesn't sound very tractor-y. Hang on. And there. [Clattering, chugging] Now we're talking!
Homer: Go get Lassie! Lassie? I mean Lisa.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Lisa: Oh, you poor little sheep! No one's sheared you for years. Soon you'll be a nice, cool- [Screams] Rat!
Lisa Misdirection Visual Gag Neighbor · Homer: Well, well. Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car. This car was made in Guatemala. Well, pardon us, Mr. Gucci Loafers. I bought these shoes from a hobo.
Neighbor · Homer: Well, I know your soil p.H. is up around 9.6, and you need it seven to eight max. Oh, that's just superstition!
Neighbor · Homer: Not if you're plantin' gummy bears. D'oh!
Marge · Homer: Maybe it needs more fertilizer. I'm only one man, Marge.
Farmer · Homer: You couldn't grow stink on a monkey. Leave me alone, you big bully. Oh, I'm just razzin' ya. It's my way.
Homer · Neighbor: Oh, who am I kidding? I'm no farmer. Well, if it isn't Mr. Salad Fork. You couldn't grow stink on a monkey.
Homer · Lisa: More tumbleweed, Lisa? [Lisping] No, thanks. I'm still finishing my thistles.
Bart · Homer: Wasn't skipping town in the first place a coward's way out? Oh, you're right! [Sobbing] I'm a coward!
Lenny · Homer: Plutonium? Gee, Homer, isn't that kind of risky? Yeah, I guess you're right. It's not.
Carl · Lenny: Hey, Lenny, sending some outgoing mail? You know it. I'll probably send some tomorrow. I hear that.
Carl Lenny Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: Sometimes you have to break the rules to free your heart. You got that from a movie poster.
Homer · Marge: Well, when there's nothing left to believe in, believe in hope. Where'd you get that? From the producers of Waiting to Exhale.
Homer Marge Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Callback Marge · Homer: But didn't Grasshopperus kill Chad Everett? Only 'cause he tried to reason with him.
Homer: All right now, don't panic. It's possible the giant vegetables are invisible.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer · Marge · Bart: This farm's hopeless. Why didn't I listen to those inbred hicks? I guess I'll just go hang myself in the barn. Homer, no! Let him go, Mom.
Homer: [Gags, coughs] Tastes like cigarette butts! Hmm. That's odd. The outside looks like a tomato, but the inside is brown.
Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy Bart · Lisa: Gimme! I want more! I thought you said it tasted terrible. It does. But it's smooth and mild. And refreshingly addictive.
Lisa: Tomacco? That's pretty clever, Dad. I mean, for a product that's evil and deadly.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Ralph · Chief Wiggum: Oh, Daddy! This tastes like Grandma! Holy Moses! It does taste like Grandma!
Vendor · Customer: Can I interest you in a mincemeat pie? They're very- Does it have tomacco in it? No, but I use only the- Pass!
Tobacco Executive · Homer: Kids are crazy about tobacco, but the politicians won't let us sell it to them. Those dirty, rotten- Tell me about it.
Lisa · Bart: Dad, it's a tobacco company! They make billions off the suffering and deaths of others. She's right, Dad. They can afford a lot more.
Homer: Did you see the way Emil's looking at Mindy? Hoo-hoo! I think something's going on there.
Homer Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: The least we can accept is 150 billion! They'll be back. We control the world's supply of tomacco... and no one can take that away from-
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Homer · Animals: Look! A flying saucer! Hmm? [Laughing] Hmm.
Lisa · Homer: You're about to launch a terrible evil on the world! You've gotta destroy this plant! I know, honey. But what can I do as an individual?
Marge · Homer: Give them the plant, Homer! No. I'd rather die! [Screeches] Aah! Take it!
Homer · Mindy: So, Mindy, how did you want to pay me the 150 million? Cash'll be okay. Or stock!
Tobacco executive: Hey, props to Mindy on the grab! Boo-ya!
Pilot · Executive: Guys, we seem to be carrying a little extra weight. [Chuckles] Don't look at me. I'm on Sugar Busters.
Colonel: [Sniffing] What is that intoxicatin' aroma? Could that be- I say, could that be mincemeat pie?
Colonel Character Comedy Callback Callback Colonel · Homer: Hey! Are we duelin'or what? Oh, where are my manners? [Screaming]
Dueling Partner · Colonel: Hey! Are we duelin' or what? Oh, where are my manners?
Bart · Homer · Lisa: You okay, Dad? I think so. The bone stopped the bullet. Dad, this might be one of those things you should go to the hospital for. After pie.
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