King of the Hill/Spin the Choice

Spin the Choice
Season 5, Episode 4
Airdate	November 19, 2000
Production Number	5ABE05
Written by	Paul Lieberstein
Directed by	Allan Jacobnsen
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King of the Hill — Season Five

Spin the Choice is the fourth episode of the fifth season of King of the Hill, and the eighty-eighth 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 Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble), Jonathan Joss (John Redcorn), Breckin Meyer (Joseph Gribble)

Plot Overview

As Thanksgiving approaches, John Redcorn begins to feel the pangs of not seeing his son. In his attempt to reach out to Joseph, he misleads an impressionable Bobby to take up the fight for Native Americans.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Hank: Oh, my God, it's so juicy!

Seen, But Not Heard

• Boomhauer

• Principal Moss

Music

• Billy Idol - "White Wedding"

Arc Advancement

Characters

• John Redcorn takes a settlement in which he receives 12 acres of unincorporated Arlen.

Trivia

The Show

• It's revealed John Redcorn's full name is John Redcorn III.

• It's revealed that Joseph's middle name is John.

Memorable Moments

• Hank confronts John Redcorn in his jeep when Redcorn breaks down in tears about Joseph. As Redcorn moves toward him, a horrified Hank makes an exit out the jeep.

• Bill participates in Peggy's Spin the Choice and gets to her makeshift wheel, which involves a wheel on a piece of cardboard with Peggy's hand acting as the dial. He "spins" it and Peggy's finger lands on a Winnebago, only for Peggy to tick it down to "free choice", leaving Bill to concede "I spun it a little too hard."

Quotes

• Hank: I've been waiting for the right year and if you feel ready this, Thanksgiving you will be carving one of the three tom turkeys.

Bobby: I'm ready, dad. I wasn't ready last year. I realise that now.

• John Redcorn: Dale, I read that the government returned 84,000 acres to the Utes near the Orahee Reservation. It's a good precedent for our tribe's lawsuit, don't you think?

Dale: Well, with me acting as your legal advisor, I am confident you have an airtight case. Although I am not sure what you mean by "precedent".

• Joseph: Dad, my bike chain is busted.

Dale: No problem, son. I'm pretty sure I keep a chain tool in Hank's garage.

• John Redcorn: But I barely see my son since we broke up.

Nancy: Sug, he's Dale's son, remember?

John Redcorn: Say that now, but when it comes time to get him into college, let's see what box you check.

• Bobby: Are you sure it's the white man who did all that stuff? Because I come from white people and this is the first I'm hearing of it.

• Peggy: Luanne, are you ready for another Thanksgiving Boggle tournament?

Luanne: Aunt Peggy, everybody hates your Boggle tournament.

Peggy: What?

Luanne: What?

Peggy: You just said that everybody hates my Boggle tournament?

Luanne: I didn't say that. I thought it. (beat) Well, now that you know, everybody does hate your Boggle tournament. But it's because you give grades instead of prizes.

Peggy: Yes, Boggle is a harsh mistress.

• Peggy: Maybe I should come up with a game that other people have a chance at. It's gonna be tough to find one that doesn't give me an advantage.

• Hank: Bobby, in honour of your first carving we're gonna fry up one of the turkeys this year.

Bobby: Dad, that is no way to celebrate the rape of the Native Americans for 350 years.

Hank: Bobby, don't use the word "rape". It's not polite.

• Bobby: Dad, you and your white people stole hundreds of thousands of acres from John Redcorn and now you celebrate by frying a turkey? When does the killing end?

Hank: What the...?

Bill: Hank, you're terrible.

Hank: I am not--

Dale: Just give him his land back, Hank.

• Bobby: You can't just barge in here! This room is my property and... Ah, what's the use? Look who I'm talking to.

Hank: You are talking to your father and you will not use that Frenchman's wave with me.

• Peggy: Do not blame Bobby. I taught him to keep an open mind. Maybe I taught him too well.

• John Redcorn: I had this old headdress lying around and I thought, well, you might like it.

Joseph: Horns and a feather. Thanks.

• Bobby: I refuse to eat the white man's white meat!

• Hank: That's it. You're going to your room. And stay off the guests' coats.

• Peggy: This is normal teenage rebellion. When I was his age, I wrecked my parents' bicycle.

Hank: All right, fine. But this whole anti-Thanksgiving thing couldn't have come at a worse time.

• Peggy: (describing "Spin the Choice") Well, the game is pretty straightforward. You can choose to spin or you can choose to choose. If you choose to spin, you can land on spin, or choice, or lose a spin, or lose a choice, or free spin, or free choice, or spin again.

(John Redcorn arrives)

Nancy: I'll be right back.

Peggy: (to Luanne) She loves the game, but her ex-lover just showed up. Most players won't face such distractions.

• Dale: Here's something to be thankful for. You got a settlement offer from the government. Twelve delicious acres of unincorporated Arlen.

John Redcorn: Twelve? I was seeking 130,000. There's no way I'm accepting this... insult.

Dale: Come on. Twelve's a lot. Eleven of 'em are connected. The other one's across the highway. If you don't want 'em, I'll take 'em.

• John Redcorn: I would also like to make a toast to the white man who steals our land and steals our sons.

Dale: To the white man!

• Dale: Look, I feel terrible for what Joseph said. My son has all the Gribble passion with none of the Gribble charm.

• Dale: Oh, come on. So Joseph called you a cannibal. It's not like it's true. Is it?

John Redcorn: Of course not! Any cultural anthropologist will tell you that the Anasazi tribe last practiced cannibalism over seven hundred years ago!

Dale: And you are affiliated with what tribe...?

John Redcorn: Dale, I don't eat people! For God's sake, it would be like me accusing you of cannibalism, just because that nut in Michigan who boiled body parts in his stove was white. And that disc jockey in Philadelphia who ate people in his basement. Also white.

Dale: Ah, boy, you're really up on cannibalism, John Redcorn. Well, look at the time--

John Redcorn: It just makes me so angry!

Dale: (laughs nervously) You should know I'm highly carcinogenic.

• Dale: You have to save me, Hank. Now here's the plan: (whispering)

Hank: Dale, you're just going "psst psst psst."

Dale: Well, I've got nothing!

• Hank: You called John Recorn a cannibal. That's one of the worst things you can call a person.

Bobby: No, it's not. The New York Times says cannibalism is part of his cultural heritage and you have to respect other people's culture. Who are we to judge? Hmm?

Hank: I am not judging. I am stating a simple fact. It is wrong to eat human beings.

Bobby: Says you.

Hank: Yes, and I'll say it again. It is wrong to eat another human being.

Bobby: Oh, but it was right for the white man to throw blankets with smallpox onto the Indian reservations?

Hank: No, that was wrong, too. But so is eating human beings. Bobby, I agree that stealing Indians' land was wrong. Can't you agree that eating people is wrong?

Bobby: I guess.

• John Redcorn: I can't believe she left me... for that.

Hank: She didn't leave you for that. She married that two years before she met you.

• Joseph: John Redcorn, I know you're not really a cannibal. My mom told me. She told me a lot of things.

John Redcorn: Really? Like what?

Joseph: How the white man stole your land and your heritage, and that it's time you got it back. And how we're all children of the earth, so in a weird way, we're related.

• John Redcorn: I think I will take those 12 acres after all. And then, upon my death, I would like to pass the land on to you, Dale, for all the help you've given me.

Dale: Score!

John Redcorn: Then Joseph will live on my forefathers' land after you die.

Dale: Thanks, Captain Bring-Down.