King of the Hill/Good Hill Hunting

Good Hill Hunting
Season 3, Episode 8
Airdate	December 1, 1998
Production Number	3ABE04
Written by	Joe Stillman
Directed by	Klay Hall
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King of the Hill — Season Three

Good Hill Hunting is the eighth episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the forty-third episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Joseph Gribble), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

and Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble), David Herman (Eustice Miller, County Clerk), Jonathan Joss (John Redcorn), Lauren Tom (Connie Souphanousinphone), Tara Charendoff (James)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Plot Overview

While all the kids on the block going hunting, Hank is unable to get a permit, denying Bobby his rite of passage.

Notes

Seen, But Not Heard

• Luanne Platter

• Minh Souphanousinphone

Music

• Pat Benatar - "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The first appearance of the La Grunta. In trying to persuade Bobby off the expensive deer hunting, he finds a pamphlet offering a swim with the dolpins.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The episode title is a play on the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.

Memorable Moments

• After the cold opening in which Bill seems to be cleared of rummaging through Dale's trash, the end credits shows Bobby playing in Hank's truck, turning on the headlights. It shines on Bill rummaging through the Hills' trash and reacts like a deer caught in the headlights before Bobby turns them off and Bill goes back to the garbage.

Goofs

• After Bobby drags the cardboard box out onto the lawn, we see the deer drawn on now suddenly has a heart with a fruit pie wrapper tapped on it. It then cuts to Bobby drawing on the heart and taping the wrapper on it.

• In the final scene, Hank's truck pull up in the driveway, clearly stopping just before entering the garage with Bobby seen getting out of the side. In the very next cut, the truck is parked inside enough that the doors are the inside of the garage.

• It's stated that Bobby is still 12-years-old, even though an earlier episode stated Bobby had an upcoming birthday and episodes even earlier than that also stated he was 12.

Quotes

• Dale: Those deer are infiltrating the human quadrant. They've replaced fire ants as the number one exurban pest. If everything I know about exterminating is true - which it is - we got to find the queen deer and take her out.

Bill: Queen deer. I'll bet she's beautiful.

• Dale: We're not just killing a deer. We're killing Joseph's childhood.

• Hank: This is crazy. People used to go hunting, all they'd need was an orange shirt and a six-pack.

Dale: Times have changed, Hank, but you'd know all this if you were a hunter. For the love of God, man, you go to church more than you go hunting. You should be ashamed.

Hank: I'm not ashamed. And I'm glad there's people out there thinning the herd, but if I want to get sloppy drunk and shoot off guns with a bunch of guys, I'd go to my dad's Oscar party.

• Hank: What's with the bandages? Luanne fixin' to give you another haircut?

• Peggy: Hank, you're scared of being alone with him.

Hank: I am not.

Peggy: You are scared of your own son.

Hank: Maybe I am. So what? I don't get him sometimes. The things that come out of his mouth and he's almost a teenager, so just it's going to get worse and I don't know what we're going to talk about for two days and... hell yes, I'm scared.

Peggy: This is an important milestone on Bobby's road to becoming a successful adult. One of the big three: age 12, first hunt; age 16, learns to drive; age 18, finally turns 18. Give him this milestone, Hank, so he can move on to the next and the next and eventually move out of the house. And then you won't have to talk to him at all.

• Hank: So you're telling me my boy can't go hunting because you wouldn't let a couple of twig boys starve? Forget number six. You're now serving nonsense.

• Bobby: Just so you know, I'm leaving a boy, I'm coming back a man.

Connie: You're lucky. I'm leaving a girl and coming back a man.

• Hank: Bobby, uh, there's something I want to tell you.

Bobby: No, me first. I know I'm about to be a man, dad, so I wanted to take this last chance to tell you how much I love you.

Hank: (sighs) You might want to take this last chance to cry, too, because we're not going.

• Hank: Well, I did see Bobby talking to the Mrs Butterworth bottle, but I didn't think it was strange at the time.

• Hank: (reading pamphlet) "Cushion shooting stands, heated blinds with automatic corn feeders." Well, that's not hunting. That's shooting fish in a barrel.

Eustice: Oh, they - they have that, too.

• Joseph: We make a great team, don't we?

Dale: Yep. The Gribble doesn't fall far from the tree.

• Bobby: I got shot in a holdup.

Connie: What?

• Bobby: Look at me. Everybody's got a deer and I don't. Everything looks so Christmasy. Now I know how the Jewish kids feel.

• Bobby: This is fancy. Where do the deer stay?

Hank: They don't keep the deer in the hotel. God, I hope they don't.