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King of the Hill/A Beer Can Named Desire

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A Beer Can Named Desire
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Season 4, Episode 6
Airdate November 14, 1999
Production Number 4ABE05
Written by Jim Dauterive
Directed by Chuck Austen,
Chris Moeller
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The Hank's Giving Episode
King of the Hill — Season Four

A Beer Can Named Desire is the sixth episode of the fourth season of King of the Hill, and the sixty-sixth episode overall.

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

and Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Also Starring: David Herman (Gilbert Dauterive, Manager)

Special Guest Voice: Meryl Streep (Aunt Esme Dauterive)

Special Guest Voice: Don Meredith (Himself)

Special Guest Voices (The Dixie Chicks): Natalie Maines (Violetta), Emily Robison (Rose), Martie Seidel (Lily)

Contents

Plot Overview

Hank wins a trip to New Orleans for a chance to let Dandy Don Meredith throw a football in a large Alamo Beer for $100,000. Or he can attempt the throw himself for a million dollars.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Hank: Wow! That's a great story, Mister Meredith.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

Characters

  • It's revealed that Bill's family is from Louisiana and that he grew up there until he was six years old. It's also revealed that he is the last viable male in the Dauterive family. He is also fluent in French, much to his own surprise.
  • It's revealed that Luanne is 19.

Referbacks

Trivia

The Show

Behind the Scenes

Allusions and References

  • The title of the episode is a play on the 1947 Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.
  • The bait shop customer laughs very similarly to Butt-Head.

Memorable Moments

  • Bill introduces everyone to his Aunt Esme, speaking their names with a Cajun accent... with the exception of Boomhauer.

Goofs

  • During the field scene, the giant Alamo Beer can is suddenly gone in one shot despite being visible in an earlier, similarly framed shot.

Quotes

  • Dale: "Sorry - please drink another beer." That's what I call losing the battle, but winning the war.
  • Hank: "Sorry - please drink another beer." Well, they asked nicely.
  • Dale: Pour it on the ground, see if you won.
Hank: I have never poured out beer - even to put out a grass fire.
  • Dale: Bill, I didn't know you grew up in Cajun country and I don't care.
  • Hank: Well, I made 42 out of 50. I would've made 43, but I used a throw to drop a blue jay at 20 feet before he could poop on your car.
Peggy: You're that good?
Hank: Mm-hmm. I guess you could say my aim is deadly. (laughs) That blue jay is fine, though.
  • Hank: He's speaking some sort of French.
Peggy: Let me handle this. I speak Spanish. It's the same thing.
  • Peggy: Bill, I had no idea that you spoke Cajun. Perhaps that's because I try not to ask you questions.
  • Violetta: And you are the William we've heard so much about. The last remaining Dauterive male. Or should I should I say...?
Gilbert: Oh, don't bother.
  • Hank: You kinda snuck up on me there.
Gilbert: Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I've always been a creeper. Violetta says I creep like the kudzu vines that are slowly but surely strangling our Dixie.
  • Gilbert: Golden Richards was a Dallas Cowboy.
Hank: Yeah, yeah! He caught a touchdown pass in Super Bowl XII.
Gilbert: He was a beautiful man. I knew him... briefly.
  • Gilbert: Dinner, like youth, will be served.
  • Hank: So, uh, Gilbert, how do the Saints look this year, huh?
Gilbert: I am more familiar with sinners than saints, my dear. And sinners always look good.
  • Peggy: Bill, those women are trying to seduce you.
Bill: You think so, too? I was afraid it was just me.
Peggy: Listen to me. Two of these women are widows of the dead Dauterive sons. They are only related by marriage, so they are in play. But one of them is your flesh-and-blood cousin. She is your ticket to Hell.
Bill: Oh, my God. Which one is my cousin?
Peggy: That I do not know. So just to be safe, keep your hands off all three.
Bill: I still have a two-out-of-three chance. I never had those odds.
  • Hank: Mister Meredith, I have admired you from your playing days to Monday Night Football to your ice tea commercials.
Don Meredith: Well, my mom always calls me "Don" or "Donny".
Hank: Wow! That's a great story, Mister Meredith.
  • Bill: Now how long you been sitting there?
Gilbert: Thirty-five years.
  • Peggy: Nice weekend, Bill?
Bill: Both of 'em!
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