King of the Hill/Hillennium

Hillennium
Season 4, Episode 10
Airdate	December 19, 1999
Production Number	4ABE10
Written by	Johnny Hardwick
Directed by	Tricia Garcia
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King of the Hill — Season Four

Hillennium is the tenth episode of the fourth season of King of the Hill, and the seventieth 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), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland)

and Toby Huss (Chappy, Joe Jack, Customer, Kahn Souphanousinphone)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble, Female Shopper), David Herman (Big Terry, Panicked Shopper, Clerk)

Plot Overview

Hank naysays the upcoming millennium and the Y2K panic. That is until he finds propane is scarce.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Dale: You will be begging for gerbster.

Seen, But Not Heard

• Joseph Gribble

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Hank gets Peggy a new computer, updating her from her archaic Kaypro.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Boomhauer quotes a line from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now when he ends his spiel with "The horror. The horror."

• The arcade is named J.R.R. Tokens, a play on the name of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Dale calls Chappy Clem Kadiddlehopper, a character played by Red Skelton.

Quotes

• Hank: That's crazy. Everyone's known about the millennium for almost a year now.

• Chappy: I live in a shack, I poop in an outhouse, I eat what I kill. Let the grid go down, Lord. I don't need it.

Hank: Uh, there isn't a Mrs Chappy, is there, Chappy?

• Hank: Well, it's taken 2,000 years, but, Dale, you're finally making sense.

• Dale: The real problem will be obtaining fresh meat. A breeding pair of gerbils.

Nancy: Um, Dale, honey, one of those is a hamster.

Dale: Laugh now, lady. After a month of eating cockroaches, you will be begging for gerbster.

• Hank: Bobby, you're not all hepped up on this Y2K ho-haw, are you?

Bobby: I just saw a man wheeling 300 rolls of triple-ply and it made me uneasy.

• Hank: And I'll take that computer - the grey one.

• Clerk: Oh, shoot. Our system is down. I can't ring you up.

Hank: Well, just write me out a receipt.

Clerk: Sir, the computer is down. I can't sell you a computer. I can't check our inventory. I can't lock the front door. It's impossible to figure out the sales tax.

Hank: It's eight percent.

Clerk: Yes and 8 is a key on the computer.

• Hank: Well, I hope you took your heart pills this morning, Mister Strickland 'cause it looks like it's going to be a rough one.

Buck: No, not me, Hank. There's a lynch mob out there. They gone Y2-kooky. I'm out of here.

Hank: Sir, have you forgotten the gasser's creed? "I promise to dispense --"

Buck: No, no, no. I don't have time for that. Debbie and me going to the dessert to ride out the apocalypse. I'll be back in two weeks.

• Dale: Hank, I have dedicated my life to getting ahead of others in times of crisis. This... is my time.

Hank: Fine. It's your time. So what do we do?

Dale: I have no idea.

• Hank: Now, I know that your mom wants a computer for Christmas, but she'll thank me come January first when this is the only gift on the block that'll work. And when that grid goes down, you know what's going to happen?

Bobby: I don't know what a grid is.

Hank: Exactly! Nobody does. And they certainly won't know what time it is and that's when they'll be knocking on our door, asking to use our clock.

• Luanne: Thank you, Bobby. Well, I got you a Discman and, Uncle Hank, I got you a pair of Timberland boots. And I got toilet paper and a laundry mangle.

• Hank: I'll bet you're ready for the millennium, Coach Landry. You won 270 games and you needed was one suit. And one hat. And that one expression.

• Hank: I want to apologise to everyone for almost ruining Christmas. There really is nothing to be afraid of about this millennium. Heck, the year 2000 happens only once in the history of man and we're darn lucky to see it happen. Peggy, do you remember how excited you were when you rolled over the odometer in your Buick? Well, imagine if the whole world had been in that car with you.

• Kahn: (watching rolls of toilet paper burning) Hey, hillbillies! Those aren't logs, you know. Yeah, they for wipey-wipey!