home to find that the Southern gentleman and his wife are still waiting for the duel. It takes place: Homer is shot in the arm, but declines to go to the hospital until he has had some of Marge's mincemeat pie. Production The episode was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed by Bob Anderson as part of the eleventh season of The Simpsons (1999–2000). The American rock band The B-52's guest starred in the episode as themselves singing the song "Glove Slap", a parody of their song Love Shack. 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. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation. Cultural references After Moe refers to Homer as "heavyset", he excuses himself by saying "You ain't no, uh, Tommy Tune". The Poke of Zorro The Simpsons go to a screening of The Poke of Zorro, a loose 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." The cast list for The Poke of Zorro is also deliberately nonsensical. 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 film also includes thanks credits for the National Film Board of Canada, the Philadelphia Flyers NHL team, the "Makers of Whip Balm", Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, the Teamsters Pension Fund, "AAABest Bail Bonds" and "Mr. and Mrs. Curtis 'Booger' Armstrong". Advertisements