E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) break into the house to obtain the last Tomacco is a reference the film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and the zombies' attack. A farmer is shown using an elephant to measure his corn plants' height; this is a reference to the song "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in the musical "Oklahoma!", which features the line "the corn is as high an elephant's eye". The Southern colonel's accent is similar to the Warner Bros. character Foghorn Leghorn and he uses Foghorn's phrase "Sir, I say sir!", while the mudflap on his RV features a picture of him in a
His Eye Is on the Sparrow soundtrack although admitting "Houston sounds as commanding as one can expect from a later recording." "Entertainment Weekly" editor Melissa Maerz called it "a gorgeously rippling solo" with Houston "testif[ying ...] that Jesus is watching over her." Jody Rosen of "Rolling Stone" panned the cover, saying "Houston sings – and croaks – in a voice octaves lower than in her prime. At times the song has a ravaged magnificence, but mostly it's painful." There are many arrangements of the hymn that have been produced since its original publication. These include: His Eye Is on the Sparrow "His Eye Is on the