King of the Hill/The Unbearable Blindness of Laying

The Unbearable Blindness of Laying
Season 2, Episode 11
Airdate	December 21, 1997
Production Number	5E09
Written by	Paul Lieberstein
Directed by	Cyndi Tang
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King of the Hill — Season Two

The Unbearable Blindness of Laying is the eleventh episode of the second season of King of the Hill, and the twenty-third episode overall.

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

and Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

Also Starring: Toby Huss (Cotton Hill, Televangelist)

Special Guest Voice: Carl Reiner (Garry Kasner)

Special Guest Voice: Tammy Wynette (Tillie Hill)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Doctor)

Plot Overview

When his mother, Tillie, drops in for Christmas, Hank is resistant to her new boyfriend Gary. It gets worse when he walks in on them having sex and goes blind.

Notes

Seen, But Not Heard

• Didi Hill

Music

• Brenda Lee - "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"

• Willie Nelson - "White Christmas"

Arc Advancement

Characters

• It's revealed that Cotton's misogyny resulted in treating Tillie like a literal footstool until she eventually left him.

• Tillie is dating a man named Gary. Hank is hesitant to accept him until Gary goes out of his way to help Hank and show how much he honestly cares for his mother. This is enough to finally undo Hank's blindness.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The title is a parody of the title of the 1988 film The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Quotes

• Bill: Is he funny?

Hank: Well, he doesn't seem too funny.

Bill: Seinfeld's funny.

Hank: Seinfeld's funnier than Garry.

Dale: I'll bet Garry - Kasner, is it? I'll bet he's funnier than Cotton.

Boomhauer: Cotton ain't no funny at all, man. Dang ol' POW camp, man, ol' bamboo shoots, talkin' about 'em puttin' in ol' fingernails, man. Freak me out about that.

• Hank: You know, the man won't even eat steak. Now, what's that about? Hell, my boss has a bypass surgery every year and he eats all the damn steak he wants.

Bill: That's not the reason Garry doesn't eat steak, Hank. It's 'cause the cow is sacred to his people.

Dale: Nope, you're thinkin' of the Hindus. The pig is sacred to the Jews.

Bill: I wouldn't, myself, never join a religion that restricted my diet. See, I don't want to get into heaven that way.

• Peggy: When are you planning on telling me what you saw?

Hank: I can't say. You want me to lose my voice, too?

• Tillie: What did the doctor say, honey?

Hank: I poked myself in the eye. It's the darnedest thing.

Tillie: But what about the other eye?

Hank: Well, it seems the other eye compensates by shutting itself down. It's one of nature's wonders.

Garry: My entire life, I've been reading Psychology Today, I - I never heard of an eye sympathetically shutting down. Hmm.

Hank: I got a magazine you ought to read. It's called "The Ten Commandments"!

• Hank: I'm not gonna be blind forever, you know? And the second I see some ass, I'm kicking it.

• Hank: Dad, it's good to hear your voice.

Cotton: Still blind, huh? Or are you faking? (punches him in the stomach) Either you're blind or slow. I'd believe both.

• Cotton: What's he sellin'?

Hank: Oh, uh, that's just the guy who drove me here.

Garry: Garry Kasner.

Cotton: Kasner?! Happy Hanukkah. I served with one of your tribe in the pacific. Name of Brookland. You know him?

Garry: I know a Joe Brookstein.

Cotton: That's him.

• Hank: Uh, dad, I got to take your shoulder here.

Cotton: Hands off, girly! I didn't fight off a bunker of horny privates to let you cop a feel.

• Garry: You didn't have to leave early on my account.

Cotton: Where's my eggnog?! Bring me my eggnog!

Hank: (sighs) No problem.

• Hank: (to Garry) Look, it's nothing personal. I'm just not crazy about the idea of my God seeing me in your God's temple.