King of the Hill/Be True to Your Fool

Be True to Your Fool
Season 7, Episode 19
Airdate	April 27, 2003
Production Number	7ABE12
Written by	Dan McGrath
Directed by	Anthony Lioi
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King of the Hill — Season Seven

Be True to Your Fool is the nineteenth episode of the seventh season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred forty-fifth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (credit only), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Jail Guard, Get In Get Out Cashier), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Commentator #1, Doctor)

and Toby Huss (Cop with Slurpee, Tattooed Cellmate)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Officer Helen), David Herman (Commentator #2, Cop #1, Tim), Phil LaMarr (Officer Doug, Judge, Desk Clerk), Dave Thomas (Liquor Trunk Cashier, Tattoo Artist, Toothless Loser)

Plot Overview

Hank is fed up with Bill after he and the other guys get lice from him. However, after resorting to shaving his head, he discover he got a tattoo of his name on the back of his head and has to make amends after Bill gets himself arrested.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Inmates: (singing) There's a hole, there's a hole. There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.

Music

• Quarterflash - "Harden My Heart"

• The Doobie Brothers - "China Grove"

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• Bill gets his beer from a store called the Liquor Trunk. In "Full Metal Dust Jacket", as Hank puts up the "out of business" sign there was a man putting up a sign on the same building with a sign reading "Coming Soon: Liquor Trunk".

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Dale mistook his itchy scalp for a spider-sense, a superpower of the comic book character Spider-Man.

• Boomhauer paraphrases the open text to the Star Wars films when he begins recounting how Hank got his tattoo by establishing as "a long time ago, in a dang ol' Arlen, far, far, away."

Memorable Moments

• Hank's tame attempts to get arrested, which are jaywalking, violating a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" sign, and finally hitting a cop car with his truck, the last of which results in the cop taking it personally because he scratched the bumper sticker from her daughter's school.

Quotes

• Hank: Dang it. Lately my scalp's been itchin' like crazy.

Dale: You, too? I thought my spider-sense was tingling to warn me of danger. Unless we both have spider-sense.

Bill: Finally! We can talk about something besides who ruined whose golf-watching day. My scalp is itchy, too! (beat) It's lice, you know.

Hank: What?!

Boomhauer: Oh, man!

Bill: There's a lady in town who does lice treatment for school kids. She's so pretty. So, I stuck my arms into a big pile of hair we cut off some new recruits, and those little critters, they just hopped right aboard me. (he notices the guys are staring him down) If any of you guys know a better way to meet the lice lady, I'd like to hear it.

• Peggy: Oh, Hank, lice are nothing to be ashamed of.

Hank: If it's nothing, why are you still wearing your shower cap?

Peggy: Am I? No. Why, so I am. That is so funny! I - Well, I'll just take it off when I go outside, where it'll be easier to... take off.

• Dale: As an exterminator, I will take steps to spare us the shame of hairlessness. A mixture of malathion and lindane. Fairly harmless, according to the government, which has been squirting it at you for most of your life.

• Hank: How does a man lose track of the back of his own head? Ugh, a tattoo? I've been lying every time I donated blood.

• Tim: 'Atsa matter, buddy?

Bill: I'm the matter. I screw everything up! All my friends are mad at me because I gave them lice.

Tim: You got lice?

Bill: I also spit when I talk. And I fart when I spit.

Tim: That's what makes the world interesting.

• Dale: Hank? So, you're the North side burglar. Wait here a minute. Nancy! Will you bring me a gun, please?

Hank: Knock it off, Dale. I need to ask you something serious. Now, can you remember any reason why any of us might have ever gotten a tattoo?

Dale: What kind of tattoo? Like a bar code? Because that would point to the Rand Corporation.

Hank: Good night, Dale.

• Doctor: Mister Hill, I have to tell you, tattoo removal is very painful and time consuming. Are you sure you can't work things out with this Bill?

Hank: I'm sure.

Doctor: Oh, come on, what did he do? Forget your anniversary? Look at another guy with a little more hair?

• Bill: Sure, your fingers turn blue from the barbicide, but that's just part of the job.

Tim: You have a job?

Bill: Sure. Gotta pay the mortgage somehow.

Second Cellmate: You got a house?

Bill: Well, yeah. I got it in the divorce.

Tim: You were married?

(all the cellmates gasp in awe)

Tim: Guess we got a nickname for you. "Hollywood".

• Tim: Man, jail was a lot less fun before you got here.

• Hank: Bill! Bill, I need to talk to you!

Bill: Go away!

Tim: Yeah, go away!

Hank: Who are you?!

Tim: Who are you?!

• Hank: Peggy, don't save dinner for me tonight. I'll explain everything later. But right now, I'm afraid I have to... break the law.

• Hank: (takes off shirt in the Get In Get Out) I believe I'm in violation of the law. Go ahead and arrest me.

Cop with Slurpee: Uh, sir, that's not officially a law.

Get In Get Out Cashier: Eh, it's just store policy, but I don't enforce it. I'm not even wearing shoes back here.