July 5, 2023 • 42 mins
Hank fires Dale as his exterminator and buys himself new grass for his front lawn. However, Dale destroys it by releasing some fire ants.
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Oh my goodness, hey Beggie,how could you do it? How could
you plant fire ants on our lawns? I'm denying that. That's my position.
There, you wrote it on thismap. Three am planted ants.
If all you're going on is myconfession, forget it. I'm simply not
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credible what you're listening to? Son? How did you like it? Welcome
to Speaking of the Hill in AustraliaKick of the Hill podcast, where this
week we are going to be reviewingthe eleventh episode of the series. It
is King of the Ant Hill.I am Dada and I am guy.
Yes, it's fresh from walking aroundbarefoot on my lawn. Oh how good
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is it when you find a freshlymode lawn? This smell, it's the
smell for me like it reminds meof Saturday mornings. I've always said this
on the podcast. Three of myfavorite smells, that one of them is
always a freshly mode lawn because itreminds me of watching Saturday Disney here in
Australia, eating some cereal, watchingThe Simpsons. Super weekends us to do
marathon from nine to twelve every weekendmorning, and Dab would be at the
front mowing the lawns here and thestand of the mower going, the smell
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of the grass coming through the frontwindow there, and just watching some cartoons
on TV. What a time Iwas. But yeah, in the lawn.
Yeah, And I can really appreciatethis episode a lot more. I
find it more relatable now as anadult. I think if I was a
kid watching this, I wouldn't appreciateit. But the idea of having a
good lawn is something as an adultI strive for. I fail at,
but I strive for. I failat it more often than not, but
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it is one that I am strivingtowards more and more. I actually don't
have a mower of my own.I've got a whipper snipper. I don't
mean I don't have that bigger lawn. But the other day I borrowed the
Lovely Louise's lawn mower, and Idid. I ran over the nature strip
and the and my front lawn andgot up looking all nice and even look
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look out at it and went,you know what, there really is nothing
like a well manicured lawn to makeyou feel like, you know you've kind
of accomplished a little something. Imean, I'm not a follower advocate of
the teachings of one Jordan Peterson,but the notion of making your bed in
the morning, it's a good idea. It means like you look at that
and you know, I've at leastaccomplished this one thing today. Likewise,
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with your lawn, you look atit and go, well, you know,
life, maybe throw me curveballs,speedballs, fastballs, what have you.
But I got the lawn things usedat least, and I don't get
present a mask to the world likeI know what's going on now. Guys,
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But here King of the ant Hilland neversode that I thought felt like an
earlier episode as well in a seasonlike this, I thought this one felt
We've had a really good run ofepisodes. The last one. What was
the last one we did? Iwasn't Peggy the Boggle champ? What came
after that? The let's go throughthis. I've got this lovely notebook that
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damn I got me for Christmas that'sfull of my notes about King of the
Hill, in Futurama, in SouthPark, and the Simpsons and all the
various shows we cover. Keeping upwith our Jones as the Cigarette Jones,
the smoking episode, Yeah, whichyou've both we both said on an episode
that we thought it felt like anearlier one. It was particularly the same
where he was like Roy about Luannewalking him in on the shower and things
like that. It just felt likean odd dynamic because it felt like their
relationship had grown since then, butthis one here just thought it felt like
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an earlier in the run episode,like, Lawanna Buckley, are they dating
again? We haven't seen them,but she references Buckley last time we saw
him, he was dumbing her.That's right, yeah, and she mentions
Buckley in this episode. Also,the Bobby was really weird in this episode.
I know, what do you thinkof that story? I was like,
this just feels one step too farfor King of the Hill. I
think one thing that we've appreciated aboutKing of the Hill, and I think
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that we speak for a lot ofviewers when we say this is it's got
a realism about it. Yeah,you know it feels. I mean,
you'll often have episodes where not alot of stuff happens, but it's the
little things in life that you sortof recognize and relate to and empathize with,
etcetera, etcetera. And Bobby beingsort of seduced by the Queen Aunt
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to become an aunt slaver of drones, Like, I don't think that would
ever actually happen. No, andit never really gets explained either. It's
just the way of leading to Bobbybeing covered in ants and then m Day
or being the one who meet movethe answer to him and sort of sacrifice
himself. But I'm just like,this is really stupid, and I don't
think I've had a moment in Kingof the Hill yet where I've gone this
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just like you said, just wouldn'thave happened. It felt very un un
unreal Yeah, unrealistic. Yeah,oh, it was just an animated cartoon.
But like you said, we've beenfocusing on how good and how real
it's felt so fucking of the Hill. But this storyline did not work for
me. It was just too weird. Like when he was spitting all the
sugar into the I was like,what is happening? Is what is this?
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Human beings are not? He's thateasily controlled by ants? I'm sorry.
Yeah. And we also, Ithought we're starting to see the cracks
happen. We're starting to see thatannoying side of Peggy. I thought here,
particularly where she was no funny,but the way she's sort of being
pretentious, pretending like she's not whiteand speaking with the accident all the time,
things that I was like, Ican see the elements are creeping in
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here. I can see maybe thisis what happens, but leads people to
go, I don't like this personall that weird pronunciation. Yeah, things,
Yeah, that was It's something Inoticed, and I look, I
didn't find it grating because you know, look, I am as guilty as
the next person of you know,putting a bit of a spin on things.
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Link Hm, that was a reallytasting song that I had this morning.
You love your German accent, Well, that's my friend, that's my
friend Jackson. I say, youlove you love your jaman one. That's
true. Um, but yeah,I mean Peggy sort of going all to
the point where you see the onewho says green goes, she calls them
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green goes. I'm like, sure, don't know we can get away with
that. I don't think so.So yeah, it's interesting that you're you're
saying you can sort of see thecracks one. I mean, I am.
I think one thing listeners know aboutSpeaking of the Hill is that you
know, Dan and I are kindof discovering this show as we go along.
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We would not view us of itprior to this, and you know,
We have heard things about later episodes, later seasons, but you know,
right now, we're just playing itas it goes and likes it'd be
like somebody watching The Simpsons for thefirst time and someone everyone's saying, oh,
you know home it becomes a realjerk in season fifty, and he'd
be like, this guy, really, there's no way he will. He
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leaves his wife behind an overturned car, so she takes the blame drink driving
instead of him. No way,it happens. It happened, So maybe
we'll become those people. But Ido have here that I do like the
way because we've mentioned how Dale hassort of felt like a character that's been
sort of on the outer He hasn'treally been part of a major storyline so
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fast, just being sort of justthey're just one of the friends. I
guess that's kind of in the casefor Bill and boomhow they've had their moments.
But this is the first time wherewe've sort of felt like we've had
a real Dale story, and Ithink it was good because he's had not
many redeeming qualities up to this point. He's been that conspiracy theorist, he's
misogyn this Stick is just a blindidiot when it comes to the real world.
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But here we get a bit ofa redemption and you can see why
Hank would want to be friends withhim. Why are you sitting on why
is Hank friends of this guy?Besides the fact that he lives nearby him?
And this is it? This iswhy because you know he sacrificed himself
for Bobby. There is a friendshipthere. This is the first time we've
really seen wife Hank would want tobe with this guy. What do you
want to be friends with him?Yeah, although you know, to have
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a redemption arc, you've got toyou got to have a low point and
the end. Yeah, it doeshim dirty. He does, at least
one stage throughout this episode. Andyeah, but that that comeback is all
the more sweet because yes, hewell he went pretty low but then he
got high again. So yeah,yeah, but it was It was an
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interesting uh and Dar I say afun episode with with that focus on Dale
because I find him in it aninteresting and certainly funny character. But yeah,
to add a little depth to himby way of this storyline, I
thought was great. Besides Hank,I think after we've now had this episode,
I think it's probably the most interestingcharacter on the show so far.
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There are a lot of layers tohim, isn't there. He's a good
guy, but man, he's justhe's mind wanders. But you know,
you also feel sorry for him becausehe's wife cheating on him. But then
you don't feel sorry for him becausehe's a bit of a pigst It like,
there's so many parts to him.Oh yeah, very much, so,
very much. So. No,it was just it was it was
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great to have a little more timedevoted to him, and yeah, particularly
to give him that hero's moment.I thought it was. It was really
neat. Now, this episode wasactually written by the voice of Dale,
Johnny Hardwick. Now this last timehe wrote an episode. It was the
one I think it was the Hanks, Scott the Willie because it was the
golf one. And it sort offelt like in that episode that Dale was
sort of put to the outer becausealmost to the point where he was like,
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well, if I'm writing it,I can't make it about me.
This one was the complete opposite.And I'm glad they did that because even
though he doesn't he doesn't didn't createthe show as the voice, you know,
the character. I think more thanjust people writing it. You know,
how you're saying lines, You've gotto understand the role that you're playing.
So I think he's probably got abetter understanding. Besides, maybe might
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judge of who Dale really is.And I think him behind the pen of
this episode showed I think so.Yeah. I mean, if you're spending
day after day, week after weekwith a character and putting meat on their
bones, yeah, yeah, youare going to get gain a greater understanding
of who they are and how theyfit into the big picture of the show.
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So yeah, I mean, ifyou've got the ability to construct and
write a whole episode, then yeah, Balms do so. But yeah,
I mean, I think one thingwe've noticed from the podcast that we're doing
with our Pawel Jim Cummings is,you know, the voice artist par excellence.
You know, you really put alot of work into creating a character
from the from the ground up,or you know, from the vocal calls
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out, so to speak. Soyeah, yeah, I mean that's that's
definitely the case here, I think. Yeah, And it was also co
written by Paul Liebestein or Libstein LibersteinLiberestein, who fans of the Office.
If you haven't checked out the Officetop podcast on the fourth figure, just
get that work. Make sure youdo so. But fans of the Office
will know he missed the character Tobyon the US version of the Office,
so he co wrote this episode ofKing of a Hill. But I just
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found the whole lawn aspect, likeI said, so relatable now as an
adult. Like it just it's hardto get a lawn looking green all the
time. So I can really appreciateHank being so sad when he goes outside
and it's just dirt, Like canyou imagine it? The thing someone who's
takes so much pride, It wouldbe like someone burning your DVD collection,
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you know, Oh my god,that's the real global warming. If it
just say, right, for example, a next of yours obviously never going
to leave the loves of the wise, why would you? But just like
that crazy ext of yours wanted toget back at you. What do you
reckon? We've been the best wayfor them to have gotten back at you
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if you'd done them dirty or whateverlike this they wanted to piss you off?
Is it? Is it fun withyour collection of DVDs? Or something
like? God? What's the thingbesides besides the obvious ones like a car
and things like something's personal to you, you know, wouldn't not even like
I imagine something like picking LUNs atrandom and like putting a big scratch into
them or something like that, oreven just taking like one or two,
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because I mean, I've I noticedthis. Not long ago. I had
a real yend to watch a particularmovie and I'm like, I know I
bought this, and I was Iwent down to the back room where I've
got, you know, my biglibrary set up, and I was going
through. I went basically went throughevery shelf and some of them are like
two layers deep. Yeah, okaynot there not there not there not there
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not there not there Okay, whereelse do I still DVD? I have
a look at one of that box. I couldn't find it at all.
I'm like, who did I lendit to? Someone? I'd called the
few people that I occasionally will lendstuff to. It was like, no,
I don't have that. It'll happenedto it asking for a DVD.
It's tween twenty three, man,I'm pretty sure then streaming now. So
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I have someone messaged me yesterday sayingdo you still have that vid vhs of
someone said that I lent you?And I'm like, what back in like
two thousand and fucking five, Like, no, I don't think I still
have it, don't I don't.I don't recall you have given me that,
Like, yeah, I definitely lentit to you. I'm like,
really, it's been like fifteen years. I don't know where it is.
And I'm sorry, I can buyone off eBay fourty fuck a dollar do
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you want me to? But yeah, so you couldn't find it or did
you find it? I couldn't findit in the sow. I'm like,
that's when you know you've got toomany? Isn't it a little bit?
I've got a problem. Oh rubthis crap. What were your favorite moments
from King of the End Hill.I was very taken with Dale establishing his
bona FIDE's Biddy Clary I have reada book, but it was great.
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I love that. But a lotof great Hanks stuff in this episode,
stuff I could really relate to,because you know, you've got friends that
you love, but sometimes you viewas a bit of a cautionary tale.
Yeah, it's like, oh yeah, I'm not going to drink with that
person, because I know I happeneda drink. Guys don't for a fuck
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up. Guy's a good guy.I'm sure friends friends like I think about
me. But the Hank to say, without my lawn, I am Bill.
Do you want to be married toBill? It's like yeah, And
also something else that he does,because we all know that Hank is striving
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to be a little more progressive andopen mind and all that stuff, but
you know, generally kind of stuckin his ways. The disbelief with which
he says celebration of local graffiti righthere, because yeah, I mean,
I'll give you a headline local mancanceled newspaper subscription. If you're at an
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age you're like, well, graffiti'sout tagging or dandalism. At that point
now, I'm just like, that'snot art, that's just that's just the
misguided youth. Why don't you buyyourself? I can rush and just do
it at home. But it's adisbelief celebration of local graffiti. It's like,
yeah, it just doesn't make anysense on any like graffitian artist.
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And that doesn't even make it easiercelebrating them even worse um. But then
it gets to a very touching momentat the end, which I think is
a very hank way of but recognizinghis community and how he's regarding how much
he feels for them in kind.If any of you weren't here, I'd
mess you. So that's a verysweet way of putting it. I like
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that a lot. It's like howsomeone says I love you, but they
can't actually bring the words to sayit. Yeah, so they you know,
I brought you a chocolate bar Ialso had here, So I love
it when you can't just it's justdissoning for the lawn. Yeah, but
pamit for that construction. I've neverrelated to cart He's like, sucky lawn,
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bring down property values. I'm like, I hear you, buddy,
that's me ruining herne Hill for everybody. That's why guys have invited to the
block party. They kind of forwardbecause the poverty vas have been drop about
so much because of his lawn.Mow your lawn and maybe you'll get an
invitation. I am a proud,ignorant woman and no one is going to
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change that. Now. That isthe stupidest thing I ever heard anyone say.
All right, mister Davis, hitme with your first question. Ah,
what are the incorrect ingredients in Bethany'sguacamole? Oh? Yeah, she's
on the phone too, I knowwhat are they? I forget? Well,
Bethany, you cannot make guacamole withlima beans and rich crackers pretty much.
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I'm pretty sure that's what she says. Green goes as well. I
believe that's yeah, after green goes. But all that weird pronunciation, It's
like, yeah, yeah, thatwe've already seen that in a couple of
episodes. I haven't wait word,yeah, but this one felt this one,
they're sort of felt like it wascharming to a point, you to
sort of saying some words this way, but here she was sort of saying
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I am better than you because Ican say it this way. And yeah,
just yeah. My first question ishow much perse square foot is the
grass? Uh A rally Saint Augustineis one twenty five per square foot?
M hmm, correct. What's yournext one? That was also one of
my questions. But one more questionfor you. I can tell I can
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tell you look at your notes,I can tell when you've got them,
and how much does Hank pay Dalefor extermination duties. Oh oh, I
thought originally or what he bumps upto, No, originally originally, Well,
it's two dollars, isn't it?Two dollars a day? Yeah,
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I just like it was a week. He goes in this big spearond is
like I was just hanging out fortwo or fifty. A little call,
a little asked to vitos three fiftyis gonna say a little reference to are
the subs hang out? We doget two fifty day because she paid him
a dollar? Oh God, checkout, check out going down to South
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b If you want to hear agood laugh, ask we're talking about the
suck you this episode? Holy Christmas? That was was that fun? Oh?
Heck of the time? God luckness? Muster. What is the name
of the poison? That's Hank Buyers, it's the eco nomical way to kill
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antser, it's eco what eco ridd? No, you just said the word
you go kill to kill kill?Yeah, eco kill. Yeah, that's
the economic thing to kill the ants. What's it called eco rid? It's
called the bust that couldn't done.Man, That's all I got for you.
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Okay. My final question is Peggywhen he discovers Dale's a little set
up there and he's got the timecards of when he's going to drop the
poison. A little display. Shepicks up A one. It's of the
time. On what time does shepick up UM two fifty? Not really
now it's an exact time. It'sa Matchbox twenty song. Oh it's three
am I must be lonely? Yes, three a M. Yeah, you
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know that song was originally written.I know this because I used to love
Matchbox one. I still do.And they coming to Australia next year,
supported by Googles. I got ticketsfor it, but I'm abably there's one
of the ones my buckets. I'vealways wanted to see them. But they
do a VH one Storytellers, oneof those shows I used to love VH
one and Storytellers. He's learning behindthe scenes about the songs and things like
that. But it was originally justmeant to be a piano ballad written for
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his mum who was going through cancer. And he plays it that on the
piano in that and on that VHone Storytellers, and like, you can
never hear the song the same again. It's like because it's almost like an
upbeat pop song, country pop songwhen you hear the actual song, but
when you're hearing slow Slow it downon the piano, it's like this song
is actually tragic, like it's it'sit's really worth checking out. It's on
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The divisional of King of the AntHill was May eighteenth, nineteen ninety
seven. It was written by AsWe Said, Paul Lipstein and Johnny Hardwick
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and directed by Gary McCarver. Theepisode kicks off with Hank on his mower
measuring his grass, and he's justvery precise with it and he's got to
make the exact same height. Ittakes me air out of those tires and
things like that. And Khan says, can my dog shot on the lawn?
As somebody says, he asks,doc, or just let the dog
do it? I think he asks, okay, but but it's a very
(21:00):
sort of this is happened asking,But I'm asking that it's happening as its
prairie dogging. Yeah, and Dale, and Dale defends him, and Hanks
just sad here because, um,because I can't give him shit about lawn,
so that he's got a better lawnbasically, And Hanks sad because he
poured his heart and solent to hislawn and you know, I saved the
tender feelings from my lawn, theones that I held back from my family.
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Meanwhile, we got Peggy on thephone discussing the GUACAMOLEI and avocados as
she says, and you know,she calls her a green go and I've
just got here. I don't knowwhether we should be doing that ever.
Then he mentioned that, you know, in charge of the block party,
the Cinco de Mayo, which hugefestival obviously over in the States, and
(21:44):
do you know what do you knowwhat it's to form? It's something to
do with the dead, right,No, No, that's uh deal.
Still I'm worthdors that's oh yes,is it's spanished for the fifth of May.
And there's a yearly celebration to celebratethe Mexican victory over the Second French
Empire at a battle in eighteen sixtytwo. Oh well, there you go.
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What's celebrating indeed? Single them ole? Hey, Hank, what do
you say to another lawn spraying fromyour favorite exterminator? Well, I don't
know. I guess those twice aweek sprayings have been doing the job.
Dale. I lost another client.Thanks. I used too much chemicals,
I say, Sarah Lee, usemore chemicals than I do. Come on,
(22:30):
I need to make up the income. I'll do it for free.
Uh well, okay, lingo man, I'll get my stuff. You know,
maybe that's what's wrong with your lawn. Dale's spraying too much poison on
it. What na, He's alwayssprayed my lawn. And if I can
give some business to my friend andkeep my lawn bug free, it's worth
(22:53):
two dollars a week. Well,then good for you for choosing your friend.
Over your lawn. But then Hankshas an awkward conversation similar to what
if you listened to I believe itwould be an upcoming episode of four figure
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old mate from some place in Bolbomwas about to start, and then a
local guy caught up. He's like, I can do it for half the
price at the great the front andhave an awkward conversation and tell the other
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guy to go away. It's like, this is Hanky, like the old
conversation of like your friends, youknow he's your friend, but you know
he's like doing the best job,but he's your friend. Is like,
how do I tell him? Idon't want him to do it anymore?
Like I just that's why you shouldnever really go into business with friends,
because it will just not ever othertime, ending hardacho on it. Oh
exactly, yeah, yeah, Iknow. I felt I felt bad for
(23:38):
both people in this in this equation. Yeah, but he so he takes
the rain check, but he stillwarns him about the fire ants and they
don't believe him at all. Youknow anything, I've written down half of
them, but half of him.On defense it's just basically Dale was just
like he's heartbro. He can't believeit, like Hanks his best friend,
(23:59):
and he's losing customers and I don't. I mean, I thought about this
recently. Actually. It's like ofCoursed I was an exterminator, Like it
just it just it just seems likethe kind of job he would have,
right. But but but then you'relooking at it's like is he any good
though? Like it's kind of likethe guy that fixed out washing machine once
and he started going on a backconspiracy theories about the dark side of the
moon and the royal family drinking blood, And I was like, how do
(24:21):
we get this guy out of myhouse? But I was like, oh,
he's he's um my wife, Nicola, and she talks and he's like,
oh, English, I suppose youfollow those royals that drink the blood?
Right, And everyone's like, whoa, this went weird, real weird.
What Snider off the way to theon their way to the nursery to
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to get some new lawn, Bobbyand leder Burder in the back. I
remember when I was a kid whenDaddy used to go hunting, and like
we go with him and he woulddrive us all the way back home to
like donald the Avenue in nor Lanefrom Anarchy, and we'd be in the
back of like he's not a utebut like a truck we used to call
it basically with like a trailer inthe back. We would just stand in
the back driving, cruising through thestreets. I'm like, can you imagine
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if that happened now, you'd beyou'd be throwing a gulag like Daddy's like
drive down the hill but fucking windthrough, air through. It was so
much fun. But like now waslike the idea of that just like scarce
me. But like we used tojust do it Dad, We cruised down
the street, We're in the fuckingback of the truck, screaming our heads
off. What a time, well, time to not die. Just a
(25:27):
different world, man. But nowI'm like, there's not a chance I
will allow Ali to be in thatsituation. But Dad's like, you're hopping
the back. I'm like, fuck, yeah, absolutely, Oh my god.
Yeah. So I used to loveriding in the back of a ute.
Like, honestly, the best memories, some of the best memories of
when I was a kid was drivinghome from hunting the hunting. I didn't
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like like now, but like drivinghome, just like standing in the back
of Dad's eute, just hanging ontothe roof because he used to have railings
for the guns to rest on,just holding off for dear life, or
even on relatively long trips. Imean, I don't think I ever would
have done a like a ute fromGeelong to Melbourne or anything like that.
Yeah, you can go half anhour in the back, I mean yeah,
but they aren't their version of Bunningshere and ask so that it feels
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bad about I've got a lot offriends, only one lawn. Why are
men so attracted to hose? Andthen we seized the Raley Saint Augustine,
Augustine, Augustine Augustine. I believeRaley Sain Augustin, Peggy, Peggy.
Look, it's Raley Saint Augustine,hell with fertilizer and seed. I want
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this hank. It's a dollar twentyfive cents a square foot, so what
it's worth it? Look, somepeople hoist a flag to show they love
our country. Well, my lawnis my flag. It tells the world
here lives a competent, trustworthy salesmanof propane and propane accessories. A man
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who can't keep up a lawn iseither a napt or stupid. With out
my lawn, I am Bill,Do you want to be married to Bill?
Well? Mister, you have justinstalled the finest line on the block.
Oh, Peggy, I didn't doit for me. I did it
for Arlin. I didn't do thisfor me. I did it for Arlan.
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But yeah, I mean that kindof that kind of mindset of like
if you can't tend your line,you're either in NPT or stupid. It's
like there's probably some truth in yeah. Yeah. And I watched this and
I was like, do my neighborsthink that I'm a blithering fool? I
just Ward's fine, but it's justnot what it could be. I guess.
Yeah. I have been prone tolet mine go on occasion last year
(27:47):
when um when the lovely the reasonI went to Bali with with loose kids.
My lawn was a bit of abit of a wreck before I left
and actually commissioned and did it andnothing. You did it the day I
actually got back, because I gotback and I'm like, what the fuck?
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But my mum had been up inthe interim and she said you know
you're a lawe's getting a bit raggedguy. I said, no, man,
man, actually organism to take you. It's not me having a go
at you. By the way,we basically lawns go well, like,
let's just wait until he's nearly backthat way. It looked nice, but
when he gets home, that's whatwe're thinking. It's a good philossom,
it's a good player. Plus itwas pissing rain, which means the grass
grew twice as high as well.I was like, there's a lot of
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fucking grass, man. I thinkthat happened the first time that I Actually
your dad came over to do mylawn. He was like, how long
has it? Benson? Did thisjudge me double because of it? So
well, he's still got to hurthere as a result. Oh my god,
sorry Papa Dando. But yes,Hank's very proud of his new lawn,
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and Luanne loves that. She's rollingaround the grass. I can't remember
the last time I rolled around ongrass. But it's a great feeling,
isn't it just really nice grass justrolling around on it. It's just yeah,
getting out of the kids. She'spretty good. Yeah, Hank is
a little perturbed by it. Yeah, I mean Lane gets a little bit
weird with it. Hit like Lawanneand Bobby just it just felt like they
were written wrong, like this one. Yeah, like idiots in the head,
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like yeah, bizarre. But Dalethen arrives and he starts dropping ants
out of his pants. I wonderedto be a joke, ants and your
pants. I don't know. Idon't even think about it till then,
the way when I'd have said it. But Hank wakes up. He walks
out barefoot and can't is super jealousof the grass. And if you had
a lawn this awesome, you wouldgo out and appreciate them all. If
you're up at six am, you'relike the sun's rising, You're going out
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in that lawn, right, pullyourself a coppa, go out, depending
on the weather, and you goand your bare feet just feel it between
your toes. Do a little hJohn McLean fist with your toes. Oh
yeah, as I said, Carne'sjealous who says maybe tomorrow will compare salaries.
But this, unfortunately, is whereHank finds an anti. Such a
dick. Oh, he is sucha dick. He's great. Look I
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think it is actually I think Ithink, of all the characters, I
love Lamb, but I think thefunniest is Can't. Like whenever he's on
the screen, it's funny every time, you know. I mean, I'm
occasionally he's going to do something nutsand jib, but generally he's just a
dick, just a bad person.But unfortunately, this is where Hank finds
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the first ant heill. And ofcourse Dale is just waiting in the waiting
in the bushes, ready to getthere, and he's he's going to rub
it in. He rubs in astraight away. Well you should listen to
me. So Hank and Peggy theyget some eco kill and they explain what
it does. So it gets intothe brain of the ants and like,
and I was like, this soundshorrific. It sounds a bit like it
sounds a bit Last of Us.Yeah, like laying an egg on the
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brain. And I was like,they explained, you know, how the
killer fungus works in Last Nights inthe first episode, they were saying,
Yeah, it gets into the thingand you know, invests into the brain
and it basically uses the ant likea puppets. Yeah, and then they
start doing it to humans. Yeah, Well, the game just like one
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of the greatest games of all time. Apparently I've never played. I'm in
a huge gamer. But people areannoyed with how the show ended. I
was like, well, how thegame goes be more? There's going to
be more? Yeah, of course, I don't know, Peggy. It
seems to me it's gonna take morethan a bag of flies to scare off
these red devil bastards. No,they do more than scare them. The
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forward fly injects its egg into thefire ant's head. The egg hatches into
a maggot, which eats away atthe ant's brain until the head falls off.
For Pete, it's necessary. Ilike it. This is exactly what
those environmentalists should be spending their timeon, finding ways to use nature against
other forms of nature that are inconvenientto man. So this is what Bobby
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here. He's fascinated by the ants. He's there with Joseph for his magnifying
glass, and he keeps accidentally burningants. When you see a kid,
even if it's just an aunt,taking satisfaction and burning things like that,
that's usually alarm Bowels for this getsgoing to be somewhat of trouble when he's
a bit older. Did you doit when you were a kid? Never?
I honestly never took any pleasure andwould get really upset when I saw
(32:15):
other kids doing even like bugs andstuff. Like I remember at high school,
this is one kid who was likesquishing bugs. I'm like, what
the fuck you do? I mate, like, why are you doing that?
I'm I'm sure I did it once, but purely for the science of
it, to see how the scienceof it worked. I mean, once
I realized, oh wait a minute, I have the power of a god.
Yeah, but I stopped doing itand I was like, oh that's
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yeah, it's not that cool.So what does it actually do? It
just makes them disappear. Well,it just burns them because you were concentrating
the heat of the sun through theprism of a magnifiing. But what happens
to They just sort of dissolve.Yeah, it's like you're setting fire to
them. It's like your Thanos orsomething. Just yeah, like your Thanos.
I am Thanos, holder of themagnify glass. I'm inevitable. But
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yes. Bobby then starts rescuing thembecause he was wanting to get poisoned.
He's getting taken over in the mind. They're whopping his mind. Dale then
kills the flies that are there tosort of part of the poison to prevent
the ants. Let's all out,and Joseph explains the idea of the Queen
to Bobby. Here. Then Hankruns over the nest with a moa and
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I was like, it's pretty badus moved from Hank just shows boss.
Yeah, fuck, you just showedover him. But then he he reads
the paper they get the celebration oflook of Graffiti US as we're talking about
earlier, and he looks out ontothe lawn and there's just lots of ant
hills everywhere and everyone's all the neighborsare there making fun of him and can't
he got a permit for that construction? And then Bobby apparently now being whopped
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by the queen aunt and that storyjust did not work for me at all.
I'm sorry, just didn't work.It didn't work for me on any
level. It didn't make sense.And it was also just pretty gross.
Yeah, it was just weird.And like the fact that like it never
gets wrapped up resolved. Yeah,there's there's a way of getting ants onto
Bobby's body. Without him having tobe warped by the queen aunt like he's
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just he's coming and sunny or something, you know, that's that's right.
He was having peanut butter and honeysandwiches and he did a Winnie the pool
or something. Yeah, just aweird choice there, that one. But
Hank and Seeds are that he needshelp, and he asked for Dale's help,
and just the conversation here, Iwas just holding out for two or
fifty. He goes crazy with thepoison and they wake up and the lawn
(34:28):
is now completely dead. It's gonebecause he's not trying to help him at
all. It's not fair. Shewas so young and green. I never
even got a chance for more.Oh it'll be okay, Hank. You
will grow a new lawn by nextyear's Schinko de Mayo. I can't go
(34:50):
through this again. From now on, wood chips and gravel. Yeah,
you do not mean that. Thinkbefore you speak, Hank. Do you
ever think that? Sometimes? Oh? Man, we thought about it for
our front law, and I'm like, it would be far easier to keep
this up just to have gravel.But then I look at the people down
the street. A lot of peoplein our street. Have you the fake
lawn which I would never get.Fake ones terrible to me, but there
just like stones and gravel, andI'm like, it looks fine, but
(35:15):
it looks also plain bear. Yeah, I mean Lou and I you know,
when we're moving together, we bothrealize we're not gardener types. It's
like, yeah, we want aslittle maintenance as possible. So I mean,
they'll probably like a small patch ofone, but mostly plants will be
in pots and water them and therewill be fake plants. Then we get
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Hanks friends and they're all sitting thereand just pondering out serves him right,
and Cancer says Karma, beach onyour big white, stubborn ass, and
Hanks like, I can hear you, what are you doing? And then
Peggy is now baking. This iswhere Luan says that Buckley wants to bring
wanted to bring a thirty eight,but Hanks there's nothing more than a twenty
two. And I was like,Buckley, is he back in the equation?
(36:01):
This meant is this just a resultof production order being out of whack
from broadcast? Last time we sawBuckley, he was kicking off the motorbike.
Remember when she starts going with boomhowur or think she's going with boom
Hower. Yeah, and they haven'treally alluded to them reuniting or anything like
that. Now our coat the Touroswith Azu care or sugar a very odd
(36:29):
Now, what the heck was that? The buck Queen Hank then sinks in
the mud when the sprinkles come on. He's just see so down he can't
believe it. And Nancy hopes thatHank doesn't blame Dale. And this is
where she realized that she's out ofsugar, and she goes to get more
and she finds the plan to sabotageHank in the basement of Dale's house.
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And it's got a very horror flickedvibe, doesn't it obviously signs of the
Lambs, And as he said,yeah, it also has a lot of
great bits in it where he justsays, well, I'm denying that.
He just he just denies it.It's Donald Trump essentially, I'm don't knowing
(37:12):
it. That's my position, yea. Bobby then talks to the Queen.
He says he can't take her out, for give him my queen. I
spoke out of turn and just let'shim out in the street, stupid Hank
chases after day, although you can'tbelieve it. And I like the fact
that Dale's scared of Hank because hewould be no, yah, Hank.
No, he seems like ad thatcan hold his own, you know.
Yeah, but he also carries somemoral authority I think. I mean,
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he's the leader. He's the leaderof their little group, isn't he he
is? Yeah, yeah, soit would be like, as we've said
in other episodes, like disappointing TomHanks or your dad. But you know,
and Dale, as he points outin one of my favorite is simply
not credible. So yeah, someonelike um, like Hank, he would
be afraid of them because yeah,not only well is a former his football
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days were a long way behind him, but you know, he's still got
a bit of a bit of cloudon him. But also yeah, he's
just like the boss of the neighbor, but someone you look up to,
someone you respect. And Dale,he blames Hank for it. You're faf
for firing me, and Hank says, do not mess up a man's lawn
as well. Get Bobby probably heis covered in ants, and he says,
take you know, take my handand they all move on to Dale,
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and everyone thinks Dale's dead. Hethinks he's risked his life and he
sacrificed his life to save my son. And this is where he sort of
not wins Hank over, but justsort of proves to Hank that you know
he is your friend. He's stillhe is the guy that you think he
is. He's just he was ina position of fear because he wasn't getting
paid enough money. And it's almostjust like, how dare he can't believe
his friend didn't want to support him. It's just the way Dale's mind thinks,
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you know what I mean? Hedidn't mean anything by didn't really realize
what he was doing, I guess. But Dale reviews and reveals himself as
a man of character by doing this. Oh, Bobby, what are you
doing? Take him up, Bobby, don't move a muscle. Listen to
him, Bobby, If you move, they're all gonna sting at once.
Take my hand, Bobby, answer, swarm on me. What if they
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don't, Oh they will. They'vebeen waiting to get a piece of me
for fifteen years. Come and getit, boys, Yu, Dale,
mister gribble Dale. No, Oh, oh god, she sacrificed your life
(39:34):
to save my son. I guessthat makes us even for you ruining my
lawn. What am I saying?Of course it makes us even while I
was blacked out, was anything insertedinto me? You're alive? Answer the
question whilst I was blacked out,was anything inserted into me? Once a
(40:00):
conspiracy theorist, always a conspiracy theorist, exactly right, Yes, And then
we get the block party and Hankersinside he's watching the golf green, look
at that grass, just admiring thatgrass because he hasn't got it anymore,
and Peggy and tells to come outside. It's she says, Margarita again,
and I'm just like, oh,shut up. She's actually quite annoying this
(40:20):
episode. Um, it's Margaret.It's Margaret. It's actually everyone out the
front and they've all got a pieceof their own lawn, which was like,
oh, this is actually really wholesome, you know, this is this
is very sweet. It's it's abit of a riff on. It's a
wonderful life as well. Yes,of course, yeah, I actually mentioned
Jimmy. You don't they I believethey do, is it? Bo?
(40:42):
Jim Rich maintain, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just very
sweet. They've got a piece oftheir own lawn and they're going to give
a piece to Hanks so he cangrow his own law. And again he
thinks Dale, he never knew whatbeating a friendship could take until until this,
and now he realizes that Dale ishis best friend. But anyway,
that is the end of the episode, and over the credits we get Hank
mowing just that particular little block ofgrass which is eventually will spread, but
(41:05):
just a little bit of easy animationfor them animate at once and just click
it on repeat. It wasn't likeone of those Hank spiels. It was
just Hank mowing his new little blockof grass. But overall, like I
said when I said earlier that itwas it felt to me like an earlier
see, like an earlier part ofthe season. This episode like an earlier
one because of Buckley and things likethat. Wasn't bad. I do think
that could have done without the Bobbystory. That was silly. I didn't
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really felt that he really knew whatto do with Lewen this one either.
But I thought the Hank Dale storywas one of the better stories we've had
on the show. So far.I think seeing the redeeming qualities of Dale
finally finally makes this character feel morevalid and important to this show, because
at the moment up to this point, I've just been like, why would
anyone be friends with this guy?He's just he's annoying, he's he's pricked
(41:49):
everybody. But then this, youknow, this sort of redeems him to
an extent humanizes them. Yeah.All right, guys. Well that is
our review of King of the antHill. Don't forget. You can get
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Yes, it's fresh from walking aroundbarefoot on my lawn. Oh how good
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is it when you find a freshlymode lawn? This smell, it's the
smell for me like it reminds meof Saturday mornings. I've always said this
on the podcast. Three of myfavorite smells, that one of them is
always a freshly mode lawn because itreminds me of watching Saturday Disney here in
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marathon from nine to twelve every weekendmorning, and Dab would be at the
front mowing the lawns here and thestand of the mower going, the smell
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of the grass coming through the frontwindow there, and just watching some cartoons
on TV. What a time Iwas. But yeah, in the lawn.
Yeah, And I can really appreciatethis episode a lot more. I
find it more relatable now as anadult. I think if I was a
kid watching this, I wouldn't appreciateit. But the idea of having a
good lawn is something as an adultI strive for. I fail at,
but I strive for. I failat it more often than not, but
(01:27):
it is one that I am strivingtowards more and more. I actually don't
have a mower of my own.I've got a whipper snipper. I don't
mean I don't have that bigger lawn. But the other day I borrowed the
Lovely Louise's lawn mower, and Idid. I ran over the nature strip
and the and my front lawn andgot up looking all nice and even look
(01:49):
look out at it and went,you know what, there really is nothing
like a well manicured lawn to makeyou feel like, you know you've kind
of accomplished a little something. Imean, I'm not a follower advocate of
the teachings of one Jordan Peterson,but the notion of making your bed in
the morning, it's a good idea. It means like you look at that
and you know, I've at leastaccomplished this one thing today. Likewise,
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with your lawn, you look atit and go, well, you know,
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But here King of the ant Hilland neversode that I thought felt like an
earlier episode as well in a seasonlike this, I thought this one felt
We've had a really good run ofepisodes. The last one. What was
the last one we did? Iwasn't Peggy the Boggle champ? What came
after that? The let's go throughthis. I've got this lovely notebook that
(03:20):
damn I got me for Christmas that'sfull of my notes about King of the
Hill, in Futurama, in SouthPark, and the Simpsons and all the
various shows we cover. Keeping upwith our Jones as the Cigarette Jones,
the smoking episode, Yeah, whichyou've both we both said on an episode
that we thought it felt like anearlier one. It was particularly the same
where he was like Roy about Luannewalking him in on the shower and things
like that. It just felt likean odd dynamic because it felt like their
relationship had grown since then, butthis one here just thought it felt like
(03:44):
an earlier in the run episode,like, Lawanna Buckley, are they dating
again? We haven't seen them,but she references Buckley last time we saw
him, he was dumbing her.That's right, yeah, and she mentions
Buckley in this episode. Also,the Bobby was really weird in this episode.
I know, what do you thinkof that story? I was like,
this just feels one step too farfor King of the Hill. I
think one thing that we've appreciated aboutKing of the Hill, and I think
(04:08):
that we speak for a lot ofviewers when we say this is it's got
a realism about it. Yeah,you know it feels. I mean,
you'll often have episodes where not alot of stuff happens, but it's the
little things in life that you sortof recognize and relate to and empathize with,
etcetera, etcetera. And Bobby beingsort of seduced by the Queen Aunt
(04:30):
to become an aunt slaver of drones, Like, I don't think that would
ever actually happen. No, andit never really gets explained either. It's
just the way of leading to Bobbybeing covered in ants and then m Day
or being the one who meet movethe answer to him and sort of sacrifice
himself. But I'm just like,this is really stupid, and I don't
think I've had a moment in Kingof the Hill yet where I've gone this
(04:51):
just like you said, just wouldn'thave happened. It felt very un un
unreal Yeah, unrealistic. Yeah,oh, it was just an animated cartoon.
But like you said, we've beenfocusing on how good and how real
it's felt so fucking of the Hill. But this storyline did not work for
me. It was just too weird. Like when he was spitting all the
sugar into the I was like,what is happening? Is what is this?
(05:14):
Human beings are not? He's thateasily controlled by ants? I'm sorry.
Yeah. And we also, Ithought we're starting to see the cracks
happen. We're starting to see thatannoying side of Peggy. I thought here,
particularly where she was no funny,but the way she's sort of being
pretentious, pretending like she's not whiteand speaking with the accident all the time,
things that I was like, Ican see the elements are creeping in
(05:35):
here. I can see maybe thisis what happens, but leads people to
go, I don't like this personall that weird pronunciation. Yeah, things,
Yeah, that was It's something Inoticed, and I look, I
didn't find it grating because you know, look, I am as guilty as
the next person of you know,putting a bit of a spin on things.
(05:56):
Link Hm, that was a reallytasting song that I had this morning.
You love your German accent, Well, that's my friend, that's my
friend Jackson. I say, youlove you love your jaman one. That's
true. Um, but yeah,I mean Peggy sort of going all to
the point where you see the onewho says green goes, she calls them
(06:18):
green goes. I'm like, sure, don't know we can get away with
that. I don't think so.So yeah, it's interesting that you're you're
saying you can sort of see thecracks one. I mean, I am.
I think one thing listeners know aboutSpeaking of the Hill is that you
know, Dan and I are kindof discovering this show as we go along.
(06:40):
We would not view us of itprior to this, and you know,
We have heard things about later episodes, later seasons, but you know,
right now, we're just playing itas it goes and likes it'd be
like somebody watching The Simpsons for thefirst time and someone everyone's saying, oh,
you know home it becomes a realjerk in season fifty, and he'd
be like, this guy, really, there's no way he will. He
(07:03):
leaves his wife behind an overturned car, so she takes the blame drink driving
instead of him. No way,it happens. It happened, So maybe
we'll become those people. But Ido have here that I do like the
way because we've mentioned how Dale hassort of felt like a character that's been
sort of on the outer He hasn'treally been part of a major storyline so
(07:24):
fast, just being sort of justthey're just one of the friends. I
guess that's kind of in the casefor Bill and boomhow they've had their moments.
But this is the first time wherewe've sort of felt like we've had
a real Dale story, and Ithink it was good because he's had not
many redeeming qualities up to this point. He's been that conspiracy theorist, he's
misogyn this Stick is just a blindidiot when it comes to the real world.
(07:46):
But here we get a bit ofa redemption and you can see why
Hank would want to be friends withhim. Why are you sitting on why
is Hank friends of this guy?Besides the fact that he lives nearby him?
And this is it? This iswhy because you know he sacrificed himself
for Bobby. There is a friendshipthere. This is the first time we've
really seen wife Hank would want tobe with this guy. What do you
want to be friends with him?Yeah, although you know, to have
(08:07):
a redemption arc, you've got toyou got to have a low point and
the end. Yeah, it doeshim dirty. He does, at least
one stage throughout this episode. Andyeah, but that that comeback is all
the more sweet because yes, hewell he went pretty low but then he
got high again. So yeah,yeah, but it was It was an
(08:28):
interesting uh and Dar I say afun episode with with that focus on Dale
because I find him in it aninteresting and certainly funny character. But yeah,
to add a little depth to himby way of this storyline, I
thought was great. Besides Hank,I think after we've now had this episode,
I think it's probably the most interestingcharacter on the show so far.
(08:50):
There are a lot of layers tohim, isn't there. He's a good
guy, but man, he's justhe's mind wanders. But you know,
you also feel sorry for him becausehe's wife cheating on him. But then
you don't feel sorry for him becausehe's a bit of a pigst It like,
there's so many parts to him.Oh yeah, very much, so,
very much. So. No,it was just it was it was
(09:11):
great to have a little more timedevoted to him, and yeah, particularly
to give him that hero's moment.I thought it was. It was really
neat. Now, this episode wasactually written by the voice of Dale,
Johnny Hardwick. Now this last timehe wrote an episode. It was the
one I think it was the Hanks, Scott the Willie because it was the
golf one. And it sort offelt like in that episode that Dale was
sort of put to the outer becausealmost to the point where he was like,
(09:33):
well, if I'm writing it,I can't make it about me.
This one was the complete opposite.And I'm glad they did that because even
though he doesn't he doesn't didn't createthe show as the voice, you know,
the character. I think more thanjust people writing it. You know,
how you're saying lines, You've gotto understand the role that you're playing.
So I think he's probably got abetter understanding. Besides, maybe might
(09:54):
judge of who Dale really is.And I think him behind the pen of
this episode showed I think so.Yeah. I mean, if you're spending
day after day, week after weekwith a character and putting meat on their
bones, yeah, yeah, youare going to get gain a greater understanding
of who they are and how theyfit into the big picture of the show.
(10:16):
So yeah, I mean, ifyou've got the ability to construct and
write a whole episode, then yeah, Balms do so. But yeah,
I mean, I think one thingwe've noticed from the podcast that we're doing
with our Pawel Jim Cummings is,you know, the voice artist par excellence.
You know, you really put alot of work into creating a character
from the from the ground up,or you know, from the vocal calls
(10:37):
out, so to speak. Soyeah, yeah, I mean that's that's
definitely the case here, I think. Yeah, And it was also co
written by Paul Liebestein or Libstein LibersteinLiberestein, who fans of the Office.
If you haven't checked out the Officetop podcast on the fourth figure, just
get that work. Make sure youdo so. But fans of the Office
will know he missed the character Tobyon the US version of the Office,
so he co wrote this episode ofKing of a Hill. But I just
(11:00):
found the whole lawn aspect, likeI said, so relatable now as an
adult. Like it just it's hardto get a lawn looking green all the
time. So I can really appreciateHank being so sad when he goes outside
and it's just dirt, Like canyou imagine it? The thing someone who's
takes so much pride, It wouldbe like someone burning your DVD collection,
(11:20):
you know, Oh my god,that's the real global warming. If it
just say, right, for example, a next of yours obviously never going
to leave the loves of the wise, why would you? But just like
that crazy ext of yours wanted toget back at you. What do you
reckon? We've been the best wayfor them to have gotten back at you
(11:41):
if you'd done them dirty or whateverlike this they wanted to piss you off?
Is it? Is it fun withyour collection of DVDs? Or something
like? God? What's the thingbesides besides the obvious ones like a car
and things like something's personal to you, you know, wouldn't not even like
I imagine something like picking LUNs atrandom and like putting a big scratch into
them or something like that, oreven just taking like one or two,
(12:01):
because I mean, I've I noticedthis. Not long ago. I had
a real yend to watch a particularmovie and I'm like, I know I
bought this, and I was Iwent down to the back room where I've
got, you know, my biglibrary set up, and I was going
through. I went basically went throughevery shelf and some of them are like
two layers deep. Yeah, okaynot there not there not there not there
(12:24):
not there not there Okay, whereelse do I still DVD? I have
a look at one of that box. I couldn't find it at all.
I'm like, who did I lendit to? Someone? I'd called the
few people that I occasionally will lendstuff to. It was like, no,
I don't have that. It'll happenedto it asking for a DVD.
It's tween twenty three, man,I'm pretty sure then streaming now. So
(12:46):
I have someone messaged me yesterday sayingdo you still have that vid vhs of
someone said that I lent you?And I'm like, what back in like
two thousand and fucking five, Like, no, I don't think I still
have it, don't I don't.I don't recall you have given me that,
Like, yeah, I definitely lentit to you. I'm like,
really, it's been like fifteen years. I don't know where it is.
And I'm sorry, I can buyone off eBay fourty fuck a dollar do
(13:09):
you want me to? But yeah, so you couldn't find it or did
you find it? I couldn't findit in the sow. I'm like,
that's when you know you've got toomany? Isn't it a little bit?
I've got a problem. Oh rubthis crap. What were your favorite moments
from King of the End Hill.I was very taken with Dale establishing his
bona FIDE's Biddy Clary I have reada book, but it was great.
(13:37):
I love that. But a lotof great Hanks stuff in this episode,
stuff I could really relate to,because you know, you've got friends that
you love, but sometimes you viewas a bit of a cautionary tale.
Yeah, it's like, oh yeah, I'm not going to drink with that
person, because I know I happeneda drink. Guys don't for a fuck
(13:58):
up. Guy's a good guy.I'm sure friends friends like I think about
me. But the Hank to say, without my lawn, I am Bill.
Do you want to be married toBill? It's like yeah, And
also something else that he does,because we all know that Hank is striving
(14:18):
to be a little more progressive andopen mind and all that stuff, but
you know, generally kind of stuckin his ways. The disbelief with which
he says celebration of local graffiti righthere, because yeah, I mean,
I'll give you a headline local mancanceled newspaper subscription. If you're at an
(14:41):
age you're like, well, graffiti'sout tagging or dandalism. At that point
now, I'm just like, that'snot art, that's just that's just the
misguided youth. Why don't you buyyourself? I can rush and just do
it at home. But it's adisbelief celebration of local graffiti. It's like,
yeah, it just doesn't make anysense on any like graffitian artist.
(15:07):
And that doesn't even make it easiercelebrating them even worse um. But then
it gets to a very touching momentat the end, which I think is
a very hank way of but recognizinghis community and how he's regarding how much
he feels for them in kind.If any of you weren't here, I'd
mess you. So that's a verysweet way of putting it. I like
(15:31):
that a lot. It's like howsomeone says I love you, but they
can't actually bring the words to sayit. Yeah, so they you know,
I brought you a chocolate bar Ialso had here, So I love
it when you can't just it's justdissoning for the lawn. Yeah, but
pamit for that construction. I've neverrelated to cart He's like, sucky lawn,
(15:52):
bring down property values. I'm like, I hear you, buddy,
that's me ruining herne Hill for everybody. That's why guys have invited to the
block party. They kind of forwardbecause the poverty vas have been drop about
so much because of his lawn.Mow your lawn and maybe you'll get an
invitation. I am a proud,ignorant woman and no one is going to
(16:18):
change that. Now. That isthe stupidest thing I ever heard anyone say.
All right, mister Davis, hitme with your first question. Ah,
what are the incorrect ingredients in Bethany'sguacamole? Oh? Yeah, she's
on the phone too, I knowwhat are they? I forget? Well,
Bethany, you cannot make guacamole withlima beans and rich crackers pretty much.
(16:41):
I'm pretty sure that's what she says. Green goes as well. I
believe that's yeah, after green goes. But all that weird pronunciation, It's
like, yeah, yeah, thatwe've already seen that in a couple of
episodes. I haven't wait word,yeah, but this one felt this one,
they're sort of felt like it wascharming to a point, you to
sort of saying some words this way, but here she was sort of saying
(17:02):
I am better than you because Ican say it this way. And yeah,
just yeah. My first question ishow much perse square foot is the
grass? Uh A rally Saint Augustineis one twenty five per square foot?
M hmm, correct. What's yournext one? That was also one of
my questions. But one more questionfor you. I can tell I can
(17:22):
tell you look at your notes,I can tell when you've got them,
and how much does Hank pay Dalefor extermination duties. Oh oh, I
thought originally or what he bumps upto, No, originally originally, Well,
it's two dollars, isn't it?Two dollars a day? Yeah,
(17:44):
I just like it was a week. He goes in this big spearond is
like I was just hanging out fortwo or fifty. A little call,
a little asked to vitos three fiftyis gonna say a little reference to are
the subs hang out? We doget two fifty day because she paid him
a dollar? Oh God, checkout, check out going down to South
(18:06):
b If you want to hear agood laugh, ask we're talking about the
suck you this episode? Holy Christmas? That was was that fun? Oh?
Heck of the time? God luckness? Muster. What is the name
of the poison? That's Hank Buyers, it's the eco nomical way to kill
(18:29):
antser, it's eco what eco ridd? No, you just said the word
you go kill to kill kill?Yeah, eco kill. Yeah, that's
the economic thing to kill the ants. What's it called eco rid? It's
called the bust that couldn't done.Man, That's all I got for you.
(18:49):
Okay. My final question is Peggywhen he discovers Dale's a little set
up there and he's got the timecards of when he's going to drop the
poison. A little display. Shepicks up A one. It's of the
time. On what time does shepick up UM two fifty? Not really
now it's an exact time. It'sa Matchbox twenty song. Oh it's three
am I must be lonely? Yes, three a M. Yeah, you
(19:11):
know that song was originally written.I know this because I used to love
Matchbox one. I still do.And they coming to Australia next year,
supported by Googles. I got ticketsfor it, but I'm abably there's one
of the ones my buckets. I'vealways wanted to see them. But they
do a VH one Storytellers, oneof those shows I used to love VH
one and Storytellers. He's learning behindthe scenes about the songs and things like
that. But it was originally justmeant to be a piano ballad written for
(19:32):
his mum who was going through cancer. And he plays it that on the
piano in that and on that VHone Storytellers, and like, you can
never hear the song the same again. It's like because it's almost like an
upbeat pop song, country pop songwhen you hear the actual song, but
when you're hearing slow Slow it downon the piano, it's like this song
is actually tragic, like it's it'sit's really worth checking out. It's on
(19:52):
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The divisional of King of the AntHill was May eighteenth, nineteen ninety
seven. It was written by AsWe Said, Paul Lipstein and Johnny Hardwick
(20:38):
and directed by Gary McCarver. Theepisode kicks off with Hank on his mower
measuring his grass, and he's justvery precise with it and he's got to
make the exact same height. Ittakes me air out of those tires and
things like that. And Khan says, can my dog shot on the lawn?
As somebody says, he asks,doc, or just let the dog
do it? I think he asks, okay, but but it's a very
(21:00):
sort of this is happened asking,But I'm asking that it's happening as its
prairie dogging. Yeah, and Dale, and Dale defends him, and Hanks
just sad here because, um,because I can't give him shit about lawn,
so that he's got a better lawnbasically, And Hanks sad because he
poured his heart and solent to hislawn and you know, I saved the
tender feelings from my lawn, theones that I held back from my family.
(21:22):
Meanwhile, we got Peggy on thephone discussing the GUACAMOLEI and avocados as
she says, and you know,she calls her a green go and I've
just got here. I don't knowwhether we should be doing that ever.
Then he mentioned that, you know, in charge of the block party,
the Cinco de Mayo, which hugefestival obviously over in the States, and
(21:44):
do you know what do you knowwhat it's to form? It's something to
do with the dead, right,No, No, that's uh deal.
Still I'm worthdors that's oh yes,is it's spanished for the fifth of May.
And there's a yearly celebration to celebratethe Mexican victory over the Second French
Empire at a battle in eighteen sixtytwo. Oh well, there you go.
(22:07):
What's celebrating indeed? Single them ole? Hey, Hank, what do
you say to another lawn spraying fromyour favorite exterminator? Well, I don't
know. I guess those twice aweek sprayings have been doing the job.
Dale. I lost another client.Thanks. I used too much chemicals,
I say, Sarah Lee, usemore chemicals than I do. Come on,
(22:30):
I need to make up the income. I'll do it for free.
Uh well, okay, lingo man, I'll get my stuff. You know,
maybe that's what's wrong with your lawn. Dale's spraying too much poison on
it. What na, He's alwayssprayed my lawn. And if I can
give some business to my friend andkeep my lawn bug free, it's worth
(22:53):
two dollars a week. Well,then good for you for choosing your friend.
Over your lawn. But then Hankshas an awkward conversation similar to what
if you listened to I believe itwould be an upcoming episode of four figure
Discount. But recently we had toget our hot water system replaced, and
old mate from some place in Bolbomwas about to start, and then a
local guy caught up. He's like, I can do it for half the
price at the great the front andhave an awkward conversation and tell the other
(23:15):
guy to go away. It's like, this is Hanky, like the old
conversation of like your friends, youknow he's your friend, but you know
he's like doing the best job,but he's your friend. Is like,
how do I tell him? Idon't want him to do it anymore?
Like I just that's why you shouldnever really go into business with friends,
because it will just not ever othertime, ending hardacho on it. Oh
exactly, yeah, yeah, Iknow. I felt I felt bad for
(23:38):
both people in this in this equation. Yeah, but he so he takes
the rain check, but he stillwarns him about the fire ants and they
don't believe him at all. Youknow anything, I've written down half of
them, but half of him.On defense it's just basically Dale was just
like he's heartbro. He can't believeit, like Hanks his best friend,
(23:59):
and he's losing customers and I don't. I mean, I thought about this
recently. Actually. It's like ofCoursed I was an exterminator, Like it
just it just it just seems likethe kind of job he would have,
right. But but but then you'relooking at it's like is he any good
though? Like it's kind of likethe guy that fixed out washing machine once
and he started going on a backconspiracy theories about the dark side of the
moon and the royal family drinking blood, And I was like, how do
(24:21):
we get this guy out of myhouse? But I was like, oh,
he's he's um my wife, Nicola, and she talks and he's like,
oh, English, I suppose youfollow those royals that drink the blood?
Right, And everyone's like, whoa, this went weird, real weird.
What Snider off the way to theon their way to the nursery to
(24:41):
to get some new lawn, Bobbyand leder Burder in the back. I
remember when I was a kid whenDaddy used to go hunting, and like
we go with him and he woulddrive us all the way back home to
like donald the Avenue in nor Lanefrom Anarchy, and we'd be in the
back of like he's not a utebut like a truck we used to call
it basically with like a trailer inthe back. We would just stand in
the back driving, cruising through thestreets. I'm like, can you imagine
(25:02):
if that happened now, you'd beyou'd be throwing a gulag like Daddy's like
drive down the hill but fucking windthrough, air through. It was so
much fun. But like now waslike the idea of that just like scarce
me. But like we used tojust do it Dad, We cruised down
the street, We're in the fuckingback of the truck, screaming our heads
off. What a time, well, time to not die. Just a
(25:27):
different world, man. But nowI'm like, there's not a chance I
will allow Ali to be in thatsituation. But Dad's like, you're hopping
the back. I'm like, fuck, yeah, absolutely, Oh my god.
Yeah. So I used to loveriding in the back of a ute.
Like, honestly, the best memories, some of the best memories of
when I was a kid was drivinghome from hunting the hunting. I didn't
(25:47):
like like now, but like drivinghome, just like standing in the back
of Dad's eute, just hanging ontothe roof because he used to have railings
for the guns to rest on,just holding off for dear life, or
even on relatively long trips. Imean, I don't think I ever would
have done a like a ute fromGeelong to Melbourne or anything like that.
Yeah, you can go half anhour in the back, I mean yeah,
but they aren't their version of Bunningshere and ask so that it feels
(26:14):
bad about I've got a lot offriends, only one lawn. Why are
men so attracted to hose? Andthen we seized the Raley Saint Augustine,
Augustine, Augustine Augustine. I believeRaley Sain Augustin, Peggy, Peggy.
Look, it's Raley Saint Augustine,hell with fertilizer and seed. I want
(26:34):
this hank. It's a dollar twentyfive cents a square foot, so what
it's worth it? Look, somepeople hoist a flag to show they love
our country. Well, my lawnis my flag. It tells the world
here lives a competent, trustworthy salesmanof propane and propane accessories. A man
(26:56):
who can't keep up a lawn iseither a napt or stupid. With out
my lawn, I am Bill,Do you want to be married to Bill?
Well? Mister, you have justinstalled the finest line on the block.
Oh, Peggy, I didn't doit for me. I did it
for Arlin. I didn't do thisfor me. I did it for Arlan.
(27:22):
But yeah, I mean that kindof that kind of mindset of like
if you can't tend your line,you're either in NPT or stupid. It's
like there's probably some truth in yeah. Yeah. And I watched this and
I was like, do my neighborsthink that I'm a blithering fool? I
just Ward's fine, but it's justnot what it could be. I guess.
Yeah. I have been prone tolet mine go on occasion last year
(27:47):
when um when the lovely the reasonI went to Bali with with loose kids.
My lawn was a bit of abit of a wreck before I left
and actually commissioned and did it andnothing. You did it the day I
actually got back, because I gotback and I'm like, what the fuck?
(28:07):
But my mum had been up inthe interim and she said you know
you're a lawe's getting a bit raggedguy. I said, no, man,
man, actually organism to take you. It's not me having a go
at you. By the way,we basically lawns go well, like,
let's just wait until he's nearly backthat way. It looked nice, but
when he gets home, that's whatwe're thinking. It's a good philossom,
it's a good player. Plus itwas pissing rain, which means the grass
grew twice as high as well.I was like, there's a lot of
(28:30):
fucking grass, man. I thinkthat happened the first time that I Actually
your dad came over to do mylawn. He was like, how long
has it? Benson? Did thisjudge me double because of it? So
well, he's still got to hurthere as a result. Oh my god,
sorry Papa Dando. But yes,Hank's very proud of his new lawn,
(28:52):
and Luanne loves that. She's rollingaround the grass. I can't remember
the last time I rolled around ongrass. But it's a great feeling,
isn't it just really nice grass justrolling around on it. It's just yeah,
getting out of the kids. She'spretty good. Yeah, Hank is
a little perturbed by it. Yeah, I mean Lane gets a little bit
weird with it. Hit like Lawanneand Bobby just it just felt like they
were written wrong, like this one. Yeah, like idiots in the head,
(29:15):
like yeah, bizarre. But Dalethen arrives and he starts dropping ants
out of his pants. I wonderedto be a joke, ants and your
pants. I don't know. Idon't even think about it till then,
the way when I'd have said it. But Hank wakes up. He walks
out barefoot and can't is super jealousof the grass. And if you had
a lawn this awesome, you wouldgo out and appreciate them all. If
you're up at six am, you'relike the sun's rising, You're going out
(29:38):
in that lawn, right, pullyourself a coppa, go out, depending
on the weather, and you goand your bare feet just feel it between
your toes. Do a little hJohn McLean fist with your toes. Oh
yeah, as I said, Carne'sjealous who says maybe tomorrow will compare salaries.
But this, unfortunately, is whereHank finds an anti. Such a
dick. Oh, he is sucha dick. He's great. Look I
(30:02):
think it is actually I think Ithink, of all the characters, I
love Lamb, but I think thefunniest is Can't. Like whenever he's on
the screen, it's funny every time, you know. I mean, I'm
occasionally he's going to do something nutsand jib, but generally he's just a
dick, just a bad person.But unfortunately, this is where Hank finds
(30:22):
the first ant heill. And ofcourse Dale is just waiting in the waiting
in the bushes, ready to getthere, and he's he's going to rub
it in. He rubs in astraight away. Well you should listen to
me. So Hank and Peggy theyget some eco kill and they explain what
it does. So it gets intothe brain of the ants and like,
and I was like, this soundshorrific. It sounds a bit like it
sounds a bit Last of Us.Yeah, like laying an egg on the
(30:45):
brain. And I was like,they explained, you know, how the
killer fungus works in Last Nights inthe first episode, they were saying,
Yeah, it gets into the thingand you know, invests into the brain
and it basically uses the ant likea puppets. Yeah, and then they
start doing it to humans. Yeah, Well, the game just like one
(31:06):
of the greatest games of all time. Apparently I've never played. I'm in
a huge gamer. But people areannoyed with how the show ended. I
was like, well, how thegame goes be more? There's going to
be more? Yeah, of course, I don't know, Peggy. It
seems to me it's gonna take morethan a bag of flies to scare off
these red devil bastards. No,they do more than scare them. The
(31:30):
forward fly injects its egg into thefire ant's head. The egg hatches into
a maggot, which eats away atthe ant's brain until the head falls off.
For Pete, it's necessary. Ilike it. This is exactly what
those environmentalists should be spending their timeon, finding ways to use nature against
other forms of nature that are inconvenientto man. So this is what Bobby
(31:55):
here. He's fascinated by the ants. He's there with Joseph for his magnifying
glass, and he keeps accidentally burningants. When you see a kid,
even if it's just an aunt,taking satisfaction and burning things like that,
that's usually alarm Bowels for this getsgoing to be somewhat of trouble when he's
a bit older. Did you doit when you were a kid? Never?
I honestly never took any pleasure andwould get really upset when I saw
(32:15):
other kids doing even like bugs andstuff. Like I remember at high school,
this is one kid who was likesquishing bugs. I'm like, what
the fuck you do? I mate, like, why are you doing that?
I'm I'm sure I did it once, but purely for the science of
it, to see how the scienceof it worked. I mean, once
I realized, oh wait a minute, I have the power of a god.
Yeah, but I stopped doing itand I was like, oh that's
(32:37):
yeah, it's not that cool.So what does it actually do? It
just makes them disappear. Well,it just burns them because you were concentrating
the heat of the sun through theprism of a magnifiing. But what happens
to They just sort of dissolve.Yeah, it's like you're setting fire to
them. It's like your Thanos orsomething. Just yeah, like your Thanos.
I am Thanos, holder of themagnify glass. I'm inevitable. But
(33:02):
yes. Bobby then starts rescuing thembecause he was wanting to get poisoned.
He's getting taken over in the mind. They're whopping his mind. Dale then
kills the flies that are there tosort of part of the poison to prevent
the ants. Let's all out,and Joseph explains the idea of the Queen
to Bobby. Here. Then Hankruns over the nest with a moa and
(33:24):
I was like, it's pretty badus moved from Hank just shows boss.
Yeah, fuck, you just showedover him. But then he he reads
the paper they get the celebration oflook of Graffiti US as we're talking about
earlier, and he looks out ontothe lawn and there's just lots of ant
hills everywhere and everyone's all the neighborsare there making fun of him and can't
he got a permit for that construction? And then Bobby apparently now being whopped
(33:45):
by the queen aunt and that storyjust did not work for me at all.
I'm sorry, just didn't work.It didn't work for me on any
level. It didn't make sense.And it was also just pretty gross.
Yeah, it was just weird.And like the fact that like it never
gets wrapped up resolved. Yeah,there's there's a way of getting ants onto
Bobby's body. Without him having tobe warped by the queen aunt like he's
(34:05):
just he's coming and sunny or something, you know, that's that's right.
He was having peanut butter and honeysandwiches and he did a Winnie the pool
or something. Yeah, just aweird choice there, that one. But
Hank and Seeds are that he needshelp, and he asked for Dale's help,
and just the conversation here, Iwas just holding out for two or
fifty. He goes crazy with thepoison and they wake up and the lawn
(34:28):
is now completely dead. It's gonebecause he's not trying to help him at
all. It's not fair. Shewas so young and green. I never
even got a chance for more.Oh it'll be okay, Hank. You
will grow a new lawn by nextyear's Schinko de Mayo. I can't go
(34:50):
through this again. From now on, wood chips and gravel. Yeah,
you do not mean that. Thinkbefore you speak, Hank. Do you
ever think that? Sometimes? Oh? Man, we thought about it for
our front law, and I'm like, it would be far easier to keep
this up just to have gravel.But then I look at the people down
the street. A lot of peoplein our street. Have you the fake
lawn which I would never get.Fake ones terrible to me, but there
just like stones and gravel, andI'm like, it looks fine, but
(35:15):
it looks also plain bear. Yeah, I mean Lou and I you know,
when we're moving together, we bothrealize we're not gardener types. It's
like, yeah, we want aslittle maintenance as possible. So I mean,
they'll probably like a small patch ofone, but mostly plants will be
in pots and water them and therewill be fake plants. Then we get
(35:40):
Hanks friends and they're all sitting thereand just pondering out serves him right,
and Cancer says Karma, beach onyour big white, stubborn ass, and
Hanks like, I can hear you, what are you doing? And then
Peggy is now baking. This iswhere Luan says that Buckley wants to bring
wanted to bring a thirty eight,but Hanks there's nothing more than a twenty
two. And I was like,Buckley, is he back in the equation?
(36:01):
This meant is this just a resultof production order being out of whack
from broadcast? Last time we sawBuckley, he was kicking off the motorbike.
Remember when she starts going with boomhowur or think she's going with boom
Hower. Yeah, and they haven'treally alluded to them reuniting or anything like
that. Now our coat the Touroswith Azu care or sugar a very odd
(36:29):
Now, what the heck was that? The buck Queen Hank then sinks in
the mud when the sprinkles come on. He's just see so down he can't
believe it. And Nancy hopes thatHank doesn't blame Dale. And this is
where she realized that she's out ofsugar, and she goes to get more
and she finds the plan to sabotageHank in the basement of Dale's house.
(36:51):
And it's got a very horror flickedvibe, doesn't it obviously signs of the
Lambs, And as he said,yeah, it also has a lot of
great bits in it where he justsays, well, I'm denying that.
He just he just denies it.It's Donald Trump essentially, I'm don't knowing
(37:12):
it. That's my position, yea. Bobby then talks to the Queen.
He says he can't take her out, for give him my queen. I
spoke out of turn and just let'shim out in the street, stupid Hank
chases after day, although you can'tbelieve it. And I like the fact
that Dale's scared of Hank because hewould be no, yah, Hank.
No, he seems like ad thatcan hold his own, you know.
Yeah, but he also carries somemoral authority I think. I mean,
(37:36):
he's the leader. He's the leaderof their little group, isn't he he
is? Yeah, yeah, soit would be like, as we've said
in other episodes, like disappointing TomHanks or your dad. But you know,
and Dale, as he points outin one of my favorite is simply
not credible. So yeah, someonelike um, like Hank, he would
be afraid of them because yeah,not only well is a former his football
(38:00):
days were a long way behind him, but you know, he's still got
a bit of a bit of cloudon him. But also yeah, he's
just like the boss of the neighbor, but someone you look up to,
someone you respect. And Dale,he blames Hank for it. You're faf
for firing me, and Hank says, do not mess up a man's lawn
as well. Get Bobby probably heis covered in ants, and he says,
take you know, take my handand they all move on to Dale,
(38:21):
and everyone thinks Dale's dead. Hethinks he's risked his life and he
sacrificed his life to save my son. And this is where he sort of
not wins Hank over, but justsort of proves to Hank that you know
he is your friend. He's stillhe is the guy that you think he
is. He's just he was ina position of fear because he wasn't getting
paid enough money. And it's almostjust like, how dare he can't believe
his friend didn't want to support him. It's just the way Dale's mind thinks,
(38:43):
you know what I mean? Hedidn't mean anything by didn't really realize
what he was doing, I guess. But Dale reviews and reveals himself as
a man of character by doing this. Oh, Bobby, what are you
doing? Take him up, Bobby, don't move a muscle. Listen to
him, Bobby, If you move, they're all gonna sting at once.
Take my hand, Bobby, answer, swarm on me. What if they
(39:05):
don't, Oh they will. They'vebeen waiting to get a piece of me
for fifteen years. Come and getit, boys, Yu, Dale,
mister gribble Dale. No, Oh, oh god, she sacrificed your life
(39:34):
to save my son. I guessthat makes us even for you ruining my
lawn. What am I saying?Of course it makes us even while I
was blacked out, was anything insertedinto me? You're alive? Answer the
question whilst I was blacked out,was anything inserted into me? Once a
(40:00):
conspiracy theorist, always a conspiracy theorist, exactly right, Yes, And then
we get the block party and Hankersinside he's watching the golf green, look
at that grass, just admiring thatgrass because he hasn't got it anymore,
and Peggy and tells to come outside. It's she says, Margarita again,
and I'm just like, oh,shut up. She's actually quite annoying this
(40:20):
episode. Um, it's Margaret.It's Margaret. It's actually everyone out the
front and they've all got a pieceof their own lawn, which was like,
oh, this is actually really wholesome, you know, this is this
is very sweet. It's it's abit of a riff on. It's a
wonderful life as well. Yes,of course, yeah, I actually mentioned
Jimmy. You don't they I believethey do, is it? Bo?
(40:42):
Jim Rich maintain, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just very
sweet. They've got a piece oftheir own lawn and they're going to give
a piece to Hanks so he cangrow his own law. And again he
thinks Dale, he never knew whatbeating a friendship could take until until this,
and now he realizes that Dale ishis best friend. But anyway,
that is the end of the episode, and over the credits we get Hank
mowing just that particular little block ofgrass which is eventually will spread, but
(41:05):
just a little bit of easy animationfor them animate at once and just click
it on repeat. It wasn't likeone of those Hank spiels. It was
just Hank mowing his new little blockof grass. But overall, like I
said when I said earlier that itwas it felt to me like an earlier
see, like an earlier part ofthe season. This episode like an earlier
one because of Buckley and things likethat. Wasn't bad. I do think
that could have done without the Bobbystory. That was silly. I didn't
(41:27):
really felt that he really knew whatto do with Lewen this one either.
But I thought the Hank Dale storywas one of the better stories we've had
on the show. So far.I think seeing the redeeming qualities of Dale
finally finally makes this character feel morevalid and important to this show, because
at the moment up to this point, I've just been like, why would
anyone be friends with this guy?He's just he's annoying, he's he's pricked
(41:49):
everybody. But then this, youknow, this sort of redeems him to
an extent humanizes them. Yeah.All right, guys. Well that is
our review of King of the antHill. Don't forget. You can get
in contact with us King of theHill mail at gmail dot com and follow
us on social media at kot HUnderscore Pod. The next episode of Speaking
of the Hill, we are goingto be reviewing Plastic White Females. Look
out for that one in your feeds. But for now, I am Dando.
(42:12):
Mister Davis, any final words forthose incredible listeners out there, Yes,
listeners, if any of you weren'there, I would certainly miss your son.
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