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
As/Is the "best" of the iTunes series, plus an additional song, "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)", a Marvin Gaye cover. In "Inner City Blues", Mayer called upon DJ Logic, the support act of the "Heavier Things" tour, to join him to perform a turntable solo. The songs all feature Mayer's touring band of the time: Volume one features a cut-out silhouette version of Mayer (from the cover of "Heavier Things") with two tones of blue. As it is separate from the other volumes, its artwork is rather distinct from the rest. Artwork for the covers of volumes two, three,