King of the Hill/Redcorn Gambles with His Future

Redcorn Gambles with His Future
Season 9, Episode 11
Airdate	April 10, 2005
Production Number	9ABE09
Written by	Etan Cohen
Directed by	Matt Engstrom
← 9x10 Arlen City Bomber	9x12 → Smoking and the Bandit
King of the Hill — Season Nine

Redcorn Gambles with His Future is the eleventh episode of the ninth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred eighty-second episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Octavio), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill, Angry Mom), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter, Waitress), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble), Stephen Root (Buck Strickland, Bill Dauterive, Cop)

and Toby Huss (Joe Jack, Clerk, Dealer, Angry Dad)

Special Guest Voice: Trace Adkins (Elvin Mackleston)

Special Guest Voice: Tom Petty (Lucky)

Also Starring: Paul Butcher (Kenny), David Herman (Waiter, Henry Mankiller, Bloomers), Jonathan Joss (John Redcorn)

Plot Overview

As Hank is tasked with finding entertainment for the Strickland Propane Family Fun Day, John Redcorn and Dale hassle him to book Big Mountain Fudgecake. This ultimately motivates Redcorn to open a casino on his land to have a venue for his band.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Lucky: (makes guitar sounds)

Seen, But Not Heard

• Boomhauer

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Elvin and Luck part ways with John Redcorn, ending Big Mountain Fudgecake. However, Redcorn rewords lyrics to their songs and begins a children's entertainment career.

Trivia

The Show

• It's curious that John Redcorn pronounces Big Mountain Fudgecake broken up after Elvin and Lucky disagree about the gig since the two characters were introduced after the first mention of BMF. There's also no apparent drummer even though at least one song involves a drum solo.

Quotes

• Buck: You know the Strickland Propane Family Fun Day?

Hank: The Strickland Propane Family Fun Day? We haven't done that in five years.

Buck: Well, glad you liked it 'cause this party is what I'm giving everyone instead of health insurance so we can't mess it up. That's why I'm putting you in charge.

Hank: I will treat this picnic with all the gravity and seriousness it requires.

• Elvin: Got fired from playing for free. It don't get any lower than that.

Lucky: That dang manager never got what Fudgecake is all about.

Luanne: No one ever does.

Lucky: We're either ahead of our times or possibly way behind, stuck in some more classical time. But either way, us and our times aren't seeing eye to eye.

• Peggy: Entertainment is the only thing that distracts people from realising how much they don't like each other.

• Hank: The guy asked me if I wanted honey mustard and I almost took a swing at him.

• Hank: Do I look like I know what a JPEG is? I just want a picture of a got-dang hot dog!

• Dale: Listen, Yoko. I'm the manager of this act and I'm sick of you trying to split them apart.

Luanne: What's a Yoko?

• Dale: Don't be surprised if Buck forgets all about that because the power of rockin' does things to a man.

Bill: It's true. I made a lot of my life decisions at a Foghat concert. I stand by them.

• John Redcorn: How could you not know there was no gaming in Texas?

Henry Mankiler: Look, the dream business is not extremely detail-oriented. Anyway, just stopped by to give you a friendly reminder. You still owe us $23,000.

John Redcorn: I could sue you.

Henry Mankiller: Possibly, but you'd spend years in the white man's courts fighting the white man's lawyers - which we have a lot of.

• Dale: Come on, guys. Did we give up when I left the "E" off of all of our merchandise? No! And we wore those "Fudgecak" T-shirts with pride.

• Lucky: You look like I feel whenever I run over one of my dogs.

• Octavio: Gribble? Got him.

Dale: Good. Make him disappear.

Octavio: You want me to kill him?

Dale: What?! No! Although... No, just drive him around, but I'm happy you're being pro-active. There are no bad ideas.