King of the Hill/Revenge of the Lutefisk

Revenge of the Lutefisk
Season 3, Episode 21
Airdate	April 20, 1999
Production Number	3ABE19
Written by	Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger
Directed by	Jack Dyer
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King of the Hill — Season Three

Revenge of the Lutefisk is the twenty-first episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the fifty-sixth episode overall.

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

and Toby Huss (Cotton Hill)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Didi Hill), Maurice LaMarche (Reverend Tomason, Fire Chief Investigator, First Cop)

Special Guest Voice: Mary Tyler Moore (Reverend Karen Stroup)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Plot Overview

Bobby is racked with guilt when he wolfs down the lutefisk from Arlen First Methodist's new female minister. This is doubled when he not only accidentally starts a fire to cover up the aftermath that burns down the church, but let's Cotton take the fall.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Cotton: But not in the face. That's how I make my livin's.

Seen, But Not Heard

• Boomhauer

• Nancy Gribble

• Joseph Gribble

• John Redcorn

• Minh Souphanousinphone

• Connie Souphanousinphone

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Reverend Tomason retires and is replaced by Reverend Stroup.

Referbacks

• We briefly see the Fire Chief Investigator, previously seen in "A Firefighting We Will Go".

Trivia

The Show

• This marks the first appearance of Reverend Stroup in the series. While she is voiced here by Mary Tyler Moore, she will be voiced by Ashley Gardner in all subsequent episodes.

Quotes

• Reverend Thomason: And now, friends, I'm sad to say that I've decided to retire from Arlen First Methodist.

Peggy: Retire? The man works half a day a week.

Reverend Thomason: After much reflection and soul-searching, I've decided that the future of God is on the internet. Cyberrev.com will spread the gospel to every online soul in the world unless you have AOL.

• Dale: So it's up and running. The secret lab in the basement of the Harvard Divinity School where they ordain women surgically.

• Bill: You know what I think? I think God sent a female minister here to punish me. First single gal to move to Arlen in years and she's forbidden to marry.

Hank: Uh, Bill, ministers can marry.

Bill: Oh! Thank you, God.

• Dale: Wait till Cotton finds out about this female man of God. I almost hesitate to fax it to him.

Hank: That's not going to happen, Dale. I told you to stop sending my dad The Gribble Report.

Dale: You tell me a lot of things, Hank. Most of which I publish.

• Peggy: I am Peggy Hill and this is Peggy Hill's Frito Pie. It is a traditional Texas recipe that I found on a bag of a Fritos.

• Reverend Stroup: When I found out I'd been assigned to a church in Texas, I was a little worried. A lot of female ministers don't last too long down here.

Hank: Yeah, it gets pretty hot in the summer.

• Reverend Stroup: Where is my lutefisk? I put it right here between the Frito Pie and the Frito Pie.

• Peggy: Oh, poor Reverend Stroup, huh? Just seeing how much people enjoyed my Frito Pie must have, well, it must have been salt in her wounds.

• Reverend Stroup: Someone did this because they don't want a woman minister. To him I say, you can burn down our church, but you cannot burn down our faith. Our faith is the kind of stuff that children's pyjamas should be made of.

• Peggy: And I read in the paper that the flames were so hot they literally burned the very wood the church was made of.

• Peggy: Bobby, you haven't even touched your arroz con chicken.

Bobby: I'm not eating, ever again.

Cotton: Aw, I don't blame you. I ate bugs in the war tasted better than this.

• Peggy: Our sweet, sweet, little sensitive little boy. He feels everything so deeply, like a poet. (off Hank's look) A cowboy poet.

• Reverend Strop: Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Buddhist, man and woman, we are all brought together today by hate.

Luanne: Oh, I hate hate!

• Cotton: They found my girlie bar matches. It's only a matter of time before they accuse me of church-burnery.

Dale: Colonel, I would be honoured if you used my phone to claim responsibility.

Cotton: But I didn't do it, you idiot!

Dale: The evidence suggests otherwise. They've got your matchbook and it won't be long before I turn you in.

• Peggy: I have always said that man is capable of anything. Before, people used to look away or pretend not to hear me. But now they will all have to nod in agreement. Yes, they will.

• Didi: There's no bail. He's burned down a church. Now our baby is going to grow up without a father. Not your and my baby. Cotton's and my baby.

Bobby: I feel so bad. It was an accident. I know it was an accident! Why can't they just leave him alone and forget about it?

Didi: This baby was an accident, too, but if I forgot about it, it would never get born. I think you have to be responsible for your accidents. Cotton thinks so, too. At least he stopped saying he didn't.

Bobby: Really?

Didi: He said if the baby turned out as good as you, Bobby, then he will not abandon it.

• Cotton: If I can take a bullet for my grandson, I'll do it. But not in the face. That's how I make my livin's.

• Bobby: Mom, as long as we're confessing: remember when grandpa broke the arm of your boggle trophy 'cause he was playing soccer in the house?

Peggy: I will never forgive him for that.

Bobby: It was me.

Peggy: I forgive you.