King of the Hill/A Firefighting We Will Go

A Firefighting We Will Go
Season 3, Episode 10
Airdate	January 12, 1999
Production Number	3ABE11
Written by	Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland
Directed by	Cyndi Tang-Loveland
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King of the Hill — Season Three

A Firefighting We Will Go is the tenth episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the forty-fifth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer, Dooley), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill, Clark Peters), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter, Joseph Gribble)

and Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

Also Starring: Earl Bullock (Heck Dorland)

Special Guest Voice: Barry Corbin (Fire Chief Investigator)

Special Guest Voice: Buddy Ebsen (Chet Elderson)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Plot Overview

The guys recount how they were approached to be volunteer firemen, but their infighting led to disaster after disaster.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Dale: Bickey-Bi Be Bo-Bo, Bickey-Bi Bo!

Seen, But Not Heard

• Minh Souphanousinphone

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Dale's version of the story gives insight into his perception of himself as he is not only buff, but has a full head of flowing hair.

• Bill's version of the story shows a window into his low self-esteem as he sees himself as not only completely bald, but also fatter than in reality.

Referbacks

• Chet Elderson asks if Hank is the one who blew up the Mega Lo Mart. Hank points out that it was Buckley.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The episode contains several references to The Three Stooges. In addition to the title being a play on the 1940 short A Plumbing We Will Go (reinforced at the end when Dale mentions Throckmorton is looking for four plumbers), Dale sings a bit from "Swingin' the Alphabet" from the short Violent Is the Word for Curly, and the closing theme interweaves in "Three Blind Mice".

• Dale sings a bit from "The Lumberjack Song" from Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first appeared in the episode "The Ant, an Introduction".

Memorable Moments

• The Rashomon-style the guys tell their side of the same story, each with their perception of events. In Boomhauer's everyone talks as he normally does whereas he is heard speaking plainly and clearly for the only time in the series.

Goofs

• When Hank shows up with the Frito pie, he sees Boomhauer wearing brown pants, but their blue moments later when he stands up to put it in the oven.

• Hank's glasses fall off and are visibly there the whole time as the guys fall into the grave, but the shot from inside the grave has Hank once again wearing his glasses.

Quotes

• Bill: Dauterive, comma; William Fontaine De La Tour, comma; Sargent Barber, comma; United States--

Hank: Comma, numbskull; comma, shut up!

• Bobby: Ooh, spoons! Can I assume the potatoes will be mashed tonight?

• Peggy: It allows a woman to lift a man's weight through a scientific principle that I like to call "leverage."

• Bobby: Maybe it has something to do with when you pulled your groin picking me up.

Peggy: Well, honey, I don't think that could be true since ladies do no have groins.

• Fire Chief: So you were the ones who busted that hydrant. We got an anonymous call it was a bunch of kids.

Dale: "Bunch of kids"? I gave you names. Hill, Bobby. Gribble, Joseph.

• Dale: My name is Shackleford, Rusty Shackleford. I refuse to speak without my attorney present. (stands and takes off hat) I am Mister Shackleford's attorney, Rusty Shackleford. My client pleads insanity.

Bill: (also standing) My name is Dauterive, comma, Bill. And I am also insane.

• Fire Chief: Gribble, you've had your phone call.

Dale: I know, but now I'm making one as Shackleford.

• Dale: What'cha got under the foil, Mister Party Pooper? Some party poop?

• Bill: My face hurts.

Hank: And it'll match your ass when I'm done kickin' it!

• Dale: Why don't you just eat more pizza? That's all you ever do is eat pizza. No wonder you're bald and your wife left you!

Boomhauer: Dang ol' amen.

Bill: Hey... I'm burned.

• Fire Chief: Well, I thought you guys had reached your peak when you pantsed Chet Elderson at his funeral, but then you outdid yourself by burning down your own firehouse!

• Hank: Why would you switch the oxygen tanks?

Dale: Oh, let's face it. Me, Bill, and Boomhauer had no idea what we were doing. You're the only real fireman among us. I saw your tank was running low. Mine was full and I knew you'd need every molecule of oxygen to carry our charred bodies out of that raging inferno.

• Dale: Chet Elderson must have plugged that sign in the last time he was at the station. What a moron! May - May he rest in peace.