King Of The Hill Bobby
Alternate VersionsWhen the show was shown during the week, some changes were made. Like the opening was altered. Now the title just appears over the heads of Hank, Bill, Dale and Boomhauer whereas in the original version, the title appeared on a seperate screen with Hank's head in the middle; In the original airing of the episode 'Square Peg', during the credits, Hank drove up on his riding mower and apologized if the content of the episode was offending to anyone. This was probably cut because Hanks says 'Coming up next is a show called X-Files' which he thought was a pornography show but it's about a man and woman who don't have sex. Hank Hill, the hero of 'King of the Hill', is the last of a dying breed in many ways.
The Panhandler Steakhouse is a steakhouse restaurant in Arlen. The restuarant has an eating challenge in which if a patron finishes a 72 ounce lonestar sirloin steak within one hour, the meal is free of charge. It's home to the world's longest salad bar, and the second longest sneeze guard.
He's reasonably honest, reasonably moral, he works hard, he believes in American craftsmanship, and he loves his dysfunctional family. And he's a conservative.
He's a bit repressed emotionally though; annoying him or getting him mad is easy, but expressing those tender emotions like love is hard for him, due mostly to his upbringing by his dysfunctional and tyrannical dad Cotton, an obnoxious old man who lost his shins in WWII and somehow had his feet sewn into his knees. Hank's conservative point of view doesn't always make him easily sympathetic in some cases though. Hank's wife, Peggy, is a warm, loving and caring person at heart, but she's also a megalomaniac. Peggy is an over confident and under educated substitute Spanish teacher, quite rare in this day and age of 'Women power'. Peggy always strives to do her best, which isn't bad in and of itself, but her pride tends to exude control over her decisions which leads to Peggy making a fool of herself. Hank's son Bobby is a dense, effeminate couch potato who's watched too much TV. Full of under developed desires and longings, Bobby is easily impressionable and easily gets caught up in fads when they shove their message in his face hard enough.
As Hank puts it, 'That boy ain't right.' His initial goal is to be a stand up comic, but he later decides to be a magician. His friends are Connie (later a girlfriend) and Joseph. Hank also has a live in niece, Luanne. She was raised to be trailer trash by her dysfunctional parents (her dad is Peggy's brother) and initially longs to be a Hollywood hair stylist. Like Bobby, Luanne can be easily caught up in fads.
Hanks friends are Dale, Bill and Boomhauer. Boomhauer is a motor mouth Lothario whom no one can really understand. Bill is a faded high school football star turned army barber who's wife has left him and appears to have a thing for Peggy. Dale is an exterminator and conspiracy theorist who's so wrapped up in his conspiracy theories that he would never suspect that his newscaster wife Nancy is having an affair with her Indian therapist John Redcorn and/or that his son Joseph is actually the son of John Redcorn and Nancy. The only other person who doesn't seem to notice this is Joseph himself. Hank's neighbor is an Asian man named Kahn (Connie's dad), the classic feuding neighbor scenario.
Despite the many frustrations Hank endures and the compromises he has to make, he trudges on, clinging to his ideals and doing the best he can. Part of why this is still better than the Simpsons is that unlike the Simpsons, this show doesn't rely on anyone character to supply all the laughs and it doesn't rely on larger than life animated sight gags for all the laughs either. Hank is also probably the only TV Dad to have the dignity of being right anymore. And unlike Homer, even when Hank's efforts get ridiculous they're never as outlandish and moronic as the former's.
18th episode of the fourth season of King of the Hill ' Won't You Pimai Neighbor?' EpisodeEpisode no.Season 4Episode 18Directed byBoohwan LimKyounghee LimWritten byJohn AltschulerDave KrinskyProduction code4ABE18Original air dateMarch 19, 2000Episode chronology← Previous'Bill of Sales'Next →'Hank's Bad Hair Day' Won't You Pimai Neighbor?' Is the 18th episode of the fourth season of the US.
The 78th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on the in the United States on March 19, 2000. The name of the episode alludes to the theme song of the series, 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' Contents.Plot Hosting a neighborhood party to celebrate the beginning of the Laotian, soon learns that a group of is searching for the Sanglug in the vicinity of Arlen. The monks are planning to attend the party and test the two most likely candidates, and.At the party, a number of objects, one of which belonged to Sanglug, are laid out on a rug for the candidates to choose from, the idea being that Sanglug's reincarnated spirit will be drawn to the object he had possessed. In an attempt to distract Chane and give Connie first pick, picks up a cane from the rug and does an impromptu dance. The cane is in fact the object that Sanglug had possessed, and the monks are awed by the possibility that Bobby may be the reincarnated lama.
The monks decide that one of them should stay behind with the Souphanousinphones while the others make preparations for a further test. Revels in the attention that Bobby begins receiving, but Hank disapproves of the entire matter, believing Buddhism to be '. Meanwhile, the monk who stayed behind notices that some of Bobby's mannerisms bear striking similarities to those exhibited by Sanglug, reinforcing the idea that he may indeed be the reincarnated lama, and gives Bobby some books about Buddhism to read. Bobby begins to offer pieces of transcendental advice that usually prove helpful to the situations at hand; however, he soon admits that he does not understand either Buddhism or, the faith in which he has been raised, very well after an indignant Hank discovers him meditating in his room. Hank begins to fear that Bobby is abandoning the family's Christian beliefs, and to his dismay, finds no help from Reverend Stroup, who thinks that Bobby's use of Buddhism to strengthen his spirituality is fine since Bobby still loves.As the date of the second test approaches, Bobby and Connie are dismayed to learn that if he truly is the lama, he will have to take a.
Bobby is ready to refuse to take the test or deliberately fail it, but Connie tells him that she will not feel right dating him unless he makes an honest effort, in case he really is Sanglug. Kahn, initially displeased that Bobby could be the new lama, is overjoyed by this and hopes that he passes. The night before the test, a despondent Bobby tries meditation and prayer to figure out what to do about the test, since he is unwilling to part ways with Connie; Hank, meanwhile, prays at his own bedside for Bobby to fail the test.When the test day arrives, a senior monk shows Bobby a new group of items laid out on a rug and asks him to choose any one item that he sees on it. Among the objects is a mirror, and Bobby, seeing Connie's face reflected in it, chooses her. Despite Kahn's objections, the monk declares that the choice was a valid one and that Bobby is not the lama.
After the others leave, however, a junior monk notes that the mirror was the correct item, and that Bobby had at least used it despite not choosing it outright. 'Tough call', the senior monk admits, 'but it's mine, and I made it.' Depiction of Buddhism The monks depicted in this episode seem to belong to the Tibetan tradition; they are referred to as ' and their leader 'the ', the mantra Bobby chants is which is also chanted by Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, and the search for the reincarnation of the Lama Sanglung seems to be a reference to the Tibetan tradition. By contrast, (and presumably the as ) belongs to the Buddhist tradition, which makes use of neither the title of 'lama' for monks nor of the practice of identifying reincarnated spiritual leaders.Reception The episode was shown at the 'International Buddhist Film Festival', which praised its 'good writing and fearless satire'.It also was nominated for the for directing. References.