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97. King of the Hill: Hank's Unmentionable Problem · Notable Nostalgia

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Like like, Okay, you open the door by accident, shut the door
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instantly, turn the light off. Let me feel shame for about fifteen minutes.
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Then let's never talk about it again. I'm Ali, I'm Andy,
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I'm Jeff, and I'm Ria. And this is notable nostalgia. What's up,
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nostalgia, nerds. It's me. It's Alie. I'm back for an
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episode. But I'm just joined by Andy. We don't have anyone else with
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us today. It's literally just us too. Is this this is the first
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time I think we've ever done an episode with just two people. Yeah,
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and I would call it the A Team. That's pretty just by alliteration alone.
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We are the A team. We are literally the A team here.
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So you know you're in for a dream. Well that's great. Well,
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if you read the episode description, we're discussing Keen of the Hill for the
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first time. Took us ninety seven episodes to get there, and we thought,
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because this is our ninety seventh episode, we'd pick a series that debuted
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in nineteen ninety seven. We still have not made it to the two thousands.
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I don't think we'll ever get I don't know that we'll ever get there.
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But well, it seemed like once we started talking about the two thousand,
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so many more nineties ideas started flooding in. I'm like, oh,
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what about this one? What about this one? But yeah, I don't
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know, but I definitely eventually we'll get to the two thousand. Yeah,
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okay, maybe in our two hundredth episode. Yeah. Well, we're reviewing
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the season one, episode six, titled Hank's Unmentionable Problem. And this debut
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is February twenty third, nineteen ninety seven. And then the show is created
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by Mike Judge from Beavison butt Heead Fame and Greg Daniels Simpson's Office Parks and
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rec Fame, and they both wrote this episode. Yeah, so, Andy,
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what's your love affair with Keen of the Hill? You know, when
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it first came out, I wasn't a super big fan. I was really
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excited when it came out, but then the first season or two didn't really
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hit for me. It wasn't until probably about the third fourth season when I
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fell in love. I think the characters get a little wackier. I feel
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like the voice acting gets a lot stronger. A little bit later, I
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feel like they're really going back to the beabs in my head kind of.
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I wasn't a huge fan of beabs in my head, So I don't know
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if they were doing like a satirical thing on like just how people talk.
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I don't really know, but I feel like they got a little more cartoony
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and zany as it went on. But yeah, I know it's weird because
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like the beginning the first couple episodes, there's there's funny parts, but I
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don't think the whole episodes are funny. Opposed to her later on, I
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think they just hit so many jokes. I don't know, it's weird,
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but yeah, I love king Get. I think I think a lot of
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series benefit from getting getting their groove and finding their footing. I don't disagree
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with any of that. I think the the voice acting does get stronger,
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and definitely the character development. But I think the heart of the series is
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kind of evident in the first season sure, as far as like this like
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a satirical look at like sort of conservative suburbia, you know, Christian e
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family life, you know, and standards and that kind of stuff. So
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yeah, and it's so weird about how like twenty five years makes a huge
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difference because like this is like a pretty right wing person for nineteen ninety seven.
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Yeah, now their borderline like not, you know, like they're never
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anymore. Now it's like the right wing so far right now, it's like
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what was what was this? You know? So yeah, they're they're so
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middle leaning and as far as like modern day politics, and I think,
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like in the early two thousands, like they're for sure like a Bush voting
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family kind of kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah, and then until Hank
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you know, shakes Bush's hand and there's no power behind it, He's like,
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what was that? It's so good? Yeah. But I'm always like
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this too, because I was like King of the Hill has always been kind
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of how my dad and like me, like it's been us a lot because
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like my dad knows how to like fix a bunch of stuff, and like
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he was in the military and you know, he's he does like a lot
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of cooking and you know whatever quote unquote like non masculine things too, but
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like just our dynamic, like we'd be working on a car or something and
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he's like, what are you doing. I'm like, Oh, I don't
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know, I'm just listening to the score of what's that story or whatever?
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You know, or something along those lines, you know, so, but
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yeah, it's just it's every time I see it, I'm just like,
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oh, how about we go make some buffins or something like that. So,
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I don't know, I kind of that connection when I watched this too,
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I always like, yeah, I related so hard to Bobby just says
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like a weird closeted trans kid, and my dad pretty pretty darn similar to
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Hank as far as like cared so much about his lawn, so it cared
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so much about what people thought of him and me only child. So uh
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yeah, I for sure related to Bobby. And I I definitely like appreciate
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the later seasons too, because Bobby becomes so much more developed and fun oh
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yeah yeah than in this. So but we'll dive into it. Do anything
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else you want to say before we kind of go into the review? No,
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not really. It's just crazy to think that like Greg Daniels and Conan
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O'Brien got their start writing together in like the mid eighties, and then you
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don't really hear of Greg Daniels until about two thousand and three, and then
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you look back and then you realize how influential and how many things that he
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actually wrote for and you're like, oh, we yeah, so like a
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lot of the foundation I think for comedy nowadays is from Greg Daniels, you
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know, because he's been around for so long. So I don't know,
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it's just pretty cool because I forgot Greg Daniels was a part of this until
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today. I was like, oh, yeah, that's crazy because I just
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think of Mike Judge, you know, so yeah, pretty cool. Yeah,
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he's for sure worked on some of my favorite shows between like The Simpsons
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and Parks and Rec and this, and yeah, Mike Judge just kind of
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has like a signature sort of humor which is like, you know, perfect
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satire. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. Cool. Well, I
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guess we can probably we get right into the one, two, three,
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four casts. In a podcast, Heady, what's a cool fat? Podcast?
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In a podcast, Handy, what's a cool fast? The first profane
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girl was made in nineteen fifty four by the Chicago Combustion Corporation. The ad
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CO Standard Motor Mower I EI, the first riding mower, was made in
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nineteen twenty one. Lone Star Beer was the first made in eighteen eighty four
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by Dolphus Bush. The Merrit Academy of Pediatrics recommend children be at least twelve
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years old before operating a push mower, and sixteen to operate a riding mower.
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A podcast, what's a cool fat podcast? And a podcast He's handy?
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What's a cool back? Hell yeah, that was awesome. That's so
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wonderful. Yayays wanted to do? I just love the timing. That's so
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funny. Yeah, that's great, that's cool. Yeah. Those are some
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Hank inspired facts, you know. Yeah, I love the Alamo beer as
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lone Star beer. Hank's obsessed with grills. Okay, anyways, No,
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they're great. Yeah, no, I love it. All right, Well,
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shall we dive into this? All right? Here we go. So
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the episode opens with Peggy playing Boggle in the living room and talking with Luan.
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When Hank sits down to join her, she mentions he forgot to flush,
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to which Hank explains that he didn't have to due to the problem he's
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had for a while. Peggy is persistent asking Hank more information about it,
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but Hank quickly shuts that conversation down. Hi, you forgot to flush,
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didn't have to, didn't do anything. Oh I see how long has this
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been going? On. There's nothing going on, Peg, that's the problem.
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Well, how long have you had this problem? There's no problem.
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Please, this is not something we need to talk about. Well, if
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you do have a problem, Peggy, please for God's sakes. Later,
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Peggy recommends that Hank take metamucil, but Hank again insists this is a private
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matter and doesn't want to discuss further. The next morning, at breakfast,
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Bobby is enjoying eggs and sausage, but Peggy offers Hank only brand muffins to
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assist him with his problem. Hank dismissively feeds them to the dog and Bobby
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or just Hank to eat them to help his unmentionable problem. Hank is bothered
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by the assumption from Bobby, it insists again that no one should know his
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intimate issue about him. Well, Hank is mowing. Nancy and Peggy are
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drinking coffee, and Peggy feels Nancy and on Hank's issue of constipation. Later,
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Bill mentions Hank's issue as a word spreads around the neighborhood. Hank quickly
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denies, but Bill tries to reach or Hank gets normal. Dale joins in
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and they both offer advice on how to fix it. Just later, Boomhauer
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pulls up with his suggestions. Hank is left annoyed and defeated about his invasion
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of privacy. Have you tried? It takes pressure off the lower body,
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you know, Hank? I find a ride on the lawn. Bowler helps.
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Would you please stop talking about this? You know, I've been thinking
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about y'all and y'all Daniel Bottom and all. What's gonna get moving again?
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I think y'all will go job with swimming and water bunch man, they gonna
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be bad, haven't you poop? And just like us to mand know,
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no work. It helped my aunt after her pregnancy. I don't know you
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do? I know you don't, so I figured just stop here, uh,
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quickly creating the problem and compounding as we go. Yeah, it's great.
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I love too how fast it spreads, from like the morning till the
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afternoon. Literally everybody on the block already knows. But you know, I'm
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kind of with Hank on this one. Like I wouldn't tell my significant other
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if I had issues like that. Are you serious the doctor? Oh?
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P Yeah, there's no way I would get a doctor appointment and then figure
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that out before I told anybody to see one. I don't know how serious
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it is, serious it is. I would don't wan anybody to worry unless
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they have to, and then too, I will deal with my shame on
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going to the bathroom by myself. I don't think anybody else needs to know
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that. I was kind of raised Catholic, and you know, when you're
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Catholic, everything's you know, shameful. So that's my own personal shame that.
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Yeah, yeah, I can't talk about that. That's why I don't
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know if I've actually ever watched this specific episode. Oh okay, I may
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have skipped it because right when it starts talking about that, I'm like looking,
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you know, because I don't know, maybe, but yeah, it's
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wild. I'm the exact opposite, like Briann knows everything about me and I
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have I leave my problems to the point where we has like you need to
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go see a doctor. Oh yeah, yeah, I would tell a doctor
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before yeah, tell anybody. But I'm not afraid to talk to a doctor
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because you know, that's their job. But yeah, and they and they
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know better than you know. I know. Whatever. I try not to
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get worried about anything until I need to get worried. So yeah, okay,
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well I see what you mean about earlier comments like Dale for sure isn't
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as wacky as I normally like him, although like the bacon grease suggestions pretty
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funny. And then I really liked I really loved the part where Hank lets
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the dog out to go Pope and he says show off, which is such
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a great joke, and then yeah boom Hower. Of course pulling up is
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fantastic as well. So but you know, pretty simple plot. Yeah,
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it's a good I like where it's going. It's a simple problem to where,
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you know, I'm assuming a lot of people probably dealt with this.
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It's nothing too crazy, you know. I didn't know brand muffins were for
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going to the bathroom until I was twenty. I just thought they were delicious
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muffins. I had no idea there was like an underlining reason behind them.
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Do you remember that like fake SNL commercial with Phil Hartman called Colon blow vaguely,
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but I remember the Colon blow, but I don't remember that. It's
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all like how many, you know, like the traditional raisin brand, how
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many like bowls of Colon blow would you need to? Like they have the
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pyramid right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. That's
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great. Yeah. So yeah, brand is like fiber essentially should help you
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poop. So yeah, that's like the part where I can't think not Luiyne
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Nancy and she goes polio. Yeah, oh my gosh. Yeah, I
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won't tell any about anything because then they're gonna freak out. Then I'm gonna
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freak out, and I'm like, I don't know, maybe I do have
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polio. Yeah, but then that joke of like she goes to the extreme
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of polio and then softens it by actually saying, I'm actually not a meteorologist,
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so silly, you know, twisty riding, which is good. I
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do find it funny, and I find it, you know, on brand
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with what this sort of like fan dynamic is if Hank will not talk to
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Peggy about this even though it's like right, constipation is so common and regular
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and it's just so silly that they want like, I don't know, it
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sounds like maybe you are this way, but like I don't care if real
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like is I don't care if the door's open while I'm pooping, Like I
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don't oh, I know, it's no way, I like do every like
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It's hard for me to even just pee if somewhe doesn't have a fan,
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just because I'm like, I know they can hear me, Pete, I
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can't do that. It's fucking weird. Yeah, I have the shower on
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every time I go to the bathroom, Like I'll turn the sink on every
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time I go to the bathroom. I don't know, Yeah, I just
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and then it's like, yeah, yeah, I just make sure the door's
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locked, like four or five times while I'm in the restroom. One time,
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I was drunk at a party and I couldn't get out of a bathroom
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and I'm like, this is my hell, this is my hell. I
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need to get out of here because everybody's probably thinking what's Annie doing in there?
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And I'm just like in my head like I'm stuck, you know.
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But yeah, I mean, like pooping at a friend's house or like a
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thing like that is embarrassing. But I mean, you know, if your
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partner we've been together fourteen plus years, like what do we have to hide?
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I've worked at my job for almost three years and I think I've gone
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to the bathroom there at once. That's yeah, I don't go to the
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bathroom of public like all that I'm sick if I have to go the bathroom,
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Like, oh, I'm not film good, I go home. Yeah
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so no, not, I says Andy. Huh okay. But Dad's a
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complete opposite. No matter where him and I go, he goes to the
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Bathroom'm like, do you have to fucking do that everywhere you go? It's
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almost like you're like marking your territory. I'm like, just go to the
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store and then leave. You don't need to do it every time. So
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yeah, huh okay. Interesting, I have a lot of weird hang ups
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that I feel like, so it's just one of them. Uh okay,
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Well anything, But for this first segment, it's not There's not like a
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ton happening right now. But no, I think it's a solid point.
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You got this perfect the antagonist between Peggy and Hank. You can tell that
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there's gonna be tensions there, and then that compounds the tension of him not
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being able to go to the bathroom. So I think it's a perfect setup
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to act one essentially. So yeah, no, it's really good and it's
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a really simple like premise and problem. But like clearly they had like a
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ton to work off of for this, So yeah, for sure. And
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I think it's because even though it is such a simple problem, it you
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can see the bigger problems based off of this one. So Hank feels uncomfortable
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in general talking to his wife. Maybe that's you know, we know why
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it's because it's probably cotton. But uh yeah, so it kind of brings
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out more like emotional issues and things like that. So yeah, that's great.
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Okay. Peggy is watching a show on the topic of constipation. Hank,
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bothered by that. Bothered by the topic, asked if she's watching Howard
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Stern. He changes the channel. When Nancy announces on TV Hank's constipation issue.
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Hank confronts Peggy, and she explains that she's just worried, but Hank
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insists that she drops it. Well, I'm tired of worrying to myself.
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It's better to talk things out, Hank, not these things, not toilet
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things, all right, Hank, all right, if it makes you this
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upset, I will just sit here silently alone with my worries. Finally,
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at a buffet, we can see why Hank's We can see by Hank's diet
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why this issue might be happening as Hank only eats meat and cheese. Peggy
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is making a laxative chocolate sauce to serve Hank, but Bobby blows the cover
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by wanting to try it. Hank accuses Peggy of drugging him and claims that
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she's gone too far. Ooh, chocolate sauce? Can I have some?
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No, I'm Bobby. This is an ordinary chocolate. It is laxative for
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your father. Oh where'd you find this chocolate sauce? Pegg? It sure
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is good? Here, Bobby, try some? Okay, I thought you'd
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never ask, Bobby, Bobby, you know what that is? So what
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is it? Thatchity? Oh you're trying to drug me? Good God,
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that's going well. You won't talk to me about it. Later, Peggy
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having a nightmare where Hank has died from his constipation Hank, and as Hank
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is lowered to his grave, Cotton flushes his tombstone. Peggy, waking up,
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stumbles into the bathroom to see Hank trying to poop, but she is
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shot. He is shocked that she would barge in on him. She hugs
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him as she is relieved to see him. After her dream, Peggy's concerns
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have now convinced Hank to see a doctor as long as he agrees to leave
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him alone. Don't no, don't touch me. I'm on the john.
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Get out of here. I was so scared. I dream you died.
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You didn't see a doctor. You didn't listen to coop Peggy, You're not
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supposed to see this. Listen, honey. I love you, Please don't
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die on me. I love you too, But oh geez, all right,
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I'll see a doctor if you just get out and leave me be.
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I love the dream sequence a ton. Hank's funeral makeup is so funny.
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I have that in my note. The funeral makeup is so perfect. And
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then if you didn't know who Cotton was, how he's just hanging from the
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casket is also just so freaking good. Yeah, that dream sequence is on
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point. But this, like if Peggy walked in on me while I was
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using the restroom, we wouldn't leave. I honestly, that's grounds for divorce.
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Like like, okay, you open the door by accident, shut the
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door instantly, turn the light off, let me feel shame for about fifteen
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minutes. Then let's never talk about it again. Ever, That's how I
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would deal with it. But yeah coming in. Oh no, I couldn't
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do that. I would be sorry, Bobby, You're gonna have two Christmases
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now, yeah? That fast? Jeez. Yeah, the Howard Stern thing
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killed me. That was That's so funny, Like how much like and this
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whole episode is is just a great example of just like blowing out problems,
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making problems so much bigger than they really are. And like, you know,
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a like a guy doing a top on constipation like is considered like porn
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talk to Hank, you know, potty talk. Yeah, yeah, because
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you know, Hank doesn't listen to Howard Shourney's too, so he just has
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to know, like, well, I've heard Howard sturning this potty talk on
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the the radio. This is about the bathroom. Like It's just a perfect
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little connection. Oh I love it. Yeah, yeah, great writing.
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And then I love that Bobby is still like as aware that this is a
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laxative but just insists on trying trying it anyway. That's on brand. I
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love that. Yeah, for sure, I've been saying this for years.
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But when Bobby is like when there's this episode where there's a tornado coming and
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then he's like, we can go to the Megalo Mark. They have moon
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pies. Yeah, that's my dad. I would say that all the time.
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They have moon pies, just like completely, it doesn't matter what the
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consequences are. I just want these moon pies. I don't care if I'm
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gonna ship my ass for the next two hours. I want this chocolate.
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Such a good character for Bobby y Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I
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I don't know. Dream sequence is a little silly to be like you're gonna
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like, but it does play well into this, like we are blowing this
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ship way out of proportion. So both Hank and Peg everyone's overreacting to literally
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like a little bit of a regularity. So the dream sequence is a bit
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absurd, But yeah, I don't I don't have much else for this segment.
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Yeah, not really, they're just setting it up grade. I think
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you're in a lot of good character moving forward, just like you said,
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like the Peggy blown it out of proportion, and yeah, Hank's like even
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they're both being wrong. You know, they're in the wrong here, Like,
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yeah, Hank eats some fucking you know salad, Peggy's stop drugging your
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husband's his knowledge. That's pretty crazy. Shrugged, Yeah, and I agree
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like Peggy is is wrong in the sense that, like she shouldn't be telling
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everybody what's going on with Hank's body. Like I agree with that. I
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think they should be able to communicate about regularly. But does the whole neighborhood
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need to know? No? Yeah, the first couple of seasons too,
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like you can basically understand Boomhauer, and then, just like anything else,
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it starts getting so out of like by season eight, you have no idea
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what boom Hower's saying, which I love. So yeah, right on,
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Well, this is a short episode, so we're going into our last sequence
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here. But at the doctors, Hank is trying to inconspicuously tell the staff
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about his issue, but it's thwarted by running into someone he knows and Peggy
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explaining why he's there, and then also the secretary reading out Hank's issue.
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Hanky, this is Macintosh, Hank. You is this your family? It
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was your father's third grade teacher. Oh why are you here, Hanky?
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This is an only person's doctor. Well, Haink hasn't been able to take
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it. Walk threw my knee out playing touch football. Mister Hill. I'm
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sorry, sir, I cannot read this what does it say? Contact contact
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con what? When the doctor arrives, Peggy has all the details. The
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doctor demands a sigmoid oscopy. Meanwhile, Bobby is wandering in the hospital and
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causing trouble. Hank is receiving his stigmatoscopy when Bobby bardes in into Hank's embarrassment,
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his whole family is there to plus a student. Sigmoidoscopy was inconclusive.
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Then the doctor suggests a surgery, much to Hank's dismay. Later, at
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a health food store, Peggy and Hank are shopping for some food alternatives to
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help Hank as Hank argues with the person at the counter. Peggy now has
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Hank on a bathroom schedule and is keeping him on it. Hank's life seems
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to be miserable, missing out on helping build a fence, stuck to eating
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only greens at a barbecue restaurant. While there, he does try to use
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the bathroom again, but is still unsuccessful. Later, as Hank sits on
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the toilet, he sees all the things he's missing in life, as Peggy
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and Nancy discussed his newly found depression. Later, Hank, frustrated from sitting
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missing out demands to go back to his old way of life as Peggy Hank
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bond and embrace, but as soon as they do, Hank has the rush
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to the bathroom. I'd rather die with a Burger and mccollon than live and
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eat faux foo, Hank. I know, and it's okay, You're right.
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What well, I'm only doing this because I want you to be around
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as long as possible, because I love you. But I have to let
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you be you. Oh, thank you. I'll still be here for a
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good long while. I worry. I know you do it. You could,
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I know, honey, and I'm a lucky son of a gun.
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I'll tell you what to have. A woman like you care so much about
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me, I'm going to be more open, tell you how I'm doing more,
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and let you in. I just want this moment to last for a
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like me too, but it can't. The family wait with anticipation as they
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hear the toilet flush and triumphant music plays. As the episode ends. We
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also have a gag at the end where Hank addresses the fourth wall and apologizes
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for what the audience had to watch see in his backside, and the discuss
24:18
the toilet humor so I think King of the Hill might be one, two,
24:23
three, four. Yet What's a cool fax podcast? In a podcast?
24:33
What's a cool Fast? Texas has the second lowest high school graduation rate.
24:37
Texas executes more people than any other state. My least favorite state to
24:42
drive through is Texas. But I do love BUCkies. I love going to
24:52
bucket. What's a cool fact? All right? So I do think Okay,
25:18
hold on, hold on, hold on, it is. It is
25:22
the top priority on my bucket list to go to a BUCkies. I've never
25:26
you've never been, never been. It's huge because when you're driving through Texas,
25:30
it's like a full day of straight driving from one side of Texas to
25:33
the other. I've done it like eleven times, and it fucking sucks.
25:36
That's wild. When have you done this or what for? My dad was
25:40
in the Artist and you also did that all the time. Yeah, yeah,
25:44
I did it like I've done it eleven times. The last time I
25:47
did it, I was like twenty five, and I was like, I'm
25:48
never fucking doing this again. I drove to Florida, Yeah, and so
25:53
we'd always drive to Florida, Virginia. This fucking sucks. I hate him
25:56
all right, but about halfway, you know, about you know, four
26:00
hours into Texas then like you're like, oh, BUCkies. And then you
26:03
get there and it's like all air conditioned and they have everything you want there,
26:06
and there's a lot of people and it's wonderful because driving through Texas there's
26:10
nothing. You can't see anything. You see like Dallas for a little bit.
26:11
Yeah, but overall it's shitty. I hate it. And then people
26:15
drive like assholes there too. M But the one of the things I really
26:19
like about King of the Hill is when they have a special character, I
26:23
think because most of the time they're one offs. Like they have the Johnny
26:27
Noxll character who is like a poop picker upper. They have the band,
26:32
the Offspring, and the paintball episodes. They have this doctor, they have
26:36
the yoga instructor. They have all these wonderful one off characters where I would
26:40
love to see a few more episodes of just this doctor. I think this
26:44
doctor is so funny when like yeah, he's like, Okay, we're all
26:47
getting kind of tired, let's take a few minutes. They're all just stretching
26:49
all like henk, just ask yeah exactly. It's just so wonderful, And
26:57
I love all their side characters. That's one thing I love them. And
27:00
then they have one where a Snoop Dogg plays a pimp, wonderful. It's
27:03
just it's another great character. And yeah, they I just love all these
27:06
side characters in King of the Hill, And this is one of my favorite
27:07
ones is yeah Doctor, It's just so good at like adding to this this
27:14
satire humor of just like daily life. You know this this guy who works
27:18
at this health food store, because I mean, like there there's so many
27:22
people that go into those stores and are just like so gun ho and buying
27:26
in and then there's just like if you bring somebody who's skeptical and like tries
27:30
to like call it out, like yeah, how are they going to react
27:33
in those situations? So I feel like that was like kind of perfect.
27:34
It's like and I met in the nineties, this was so much more like
27:40
made fun of and just like pooh pooed and all that kind of stuff,
27:42
no pun intended, but like, ah, yeah, so I didn't I
27:52
didn't catch it. I didn't understand. Why do you know why Hank kicked
27:53
the acupuncturists in the ass a little bit earlier, he said of oh,
27:59
because Louis and goes, you could try this, Uh yeah, they let
28:02
you on fire, and he goes when to move into that to kick him
28:04
in the ause Okay, yeah, kicked him in the ass. Yeah,
28:07
it's just so funny. Just walk up slowly with the ship still burning out
28:11
of about Yeah. Oh I love Hank. Yeah yeah, yeah, Hank's
28:15
wonderful. I just love it. Yeah. I feel like Hank growing up.
28:19
I feel like, you know, it'd be a good like if for
28:22
me. I think he'd be a great father figure, you know. So
28:25
when I see him, I'm like, oh, you know, especially because
28:26
I grew up with the nineties. Nowadays a little more problematic. You can't
28:29
just go kick people, but that you know, we're watching a cartoon here
28:32
from the nineties. So but uh yeah, I love the whole family dynamic.
28:36
I do get why a lot of people think Peggy's kind of annoying,
28:38
and I think it's because the first season or two I love Peggy. Later
28:42
on like she's maybe my second to third favorite character behind uh Dale, Dale's
28:48
my favorite, hands down, But uh yeah, no, I love Peggy.
28:51
But the first couple of seasons, I do think she's a little bit
28:52
annoying, but yeah, you can get over it, like I can get
28:56
over It's not awful. Yeah, And I would attribute all of it to
29:00
the character development. You know, it takes some time, and that first
29:03
season is pretty short. It's not like a full season. Oh yeah,
29:08
yeah, yeah, Yeah. There's some the gags in the hospital really funny,
29:15
like Hank clinching his buttthole or his butt jakes and the doctor tell him
29:18
to stop, and then Bobby's like chaos, Like it definitely felt like a
29:25
Simpson's gag that the elevator won for sure, right, Like Bobby hits all
29:29
the phones, yeah, and then the bait like the woman's in labor and
29:32
then you hear the baby company, So that felt like really Simpson's as So
29:36
I'm sure like Dan Greg Daniels had a lot of say in some of those
29:38
sort of gags, which I don't necessarily I don't know, I don't I
29:45
like Hill, I have watched like a ton, like I don't remember a
29:48
lot of the episodes and stuff, but like, is that common on the
29:51
show, Like those level of gags, I feel like they move out of
29:53
that. They do move out of it pretty quickly. And Bobby changes quite
29:59
a bit too. Yeah, I think the exactly. I think since there
30:02
was connection with the Simpsons, yeah, they probably did try to, you
30:04
know, do a little kind of a brat Brady type character. But if
30:08
you haven't watched it, you should watch the episode where David crosses in it
30:11
and Bobby starts hanging out with this group and that like they larp and they
30:17
think they're wizards and it's so good. That's one of my favorite one another
30:21
side character. I would love to see more episodes of the David Cross character
30:23
on King of the Hill. But yeah, based on well just just based
30:30
on David Cross's stand up, especially around that time, is like perfect for
30:34
that show anyways, any plays an adult. But uh yeah, the hospital
30:38
scene too, I think King Hill also does a great They do awkwardness so
30:45
wonderfully because like if I were to have that done and the doctor's doing it
30:51
and then like you know, a younger pretty girl walks in, that would
30:53
make me so much more uncomfortable than just if it was the doctor alone.
30:57
And so Hank doesn't have to be there anyways, doesn't want to talk to
31:00
Peggy about this, doesn't talk to anybody now, Peggy the son, the
31:04
doctor, and some other random person Like I just I love. It's just
31:08
so wonderful because you can just like you can feel how awkward I feel like
31:12
that is so and he like won't even be in his boxers in front of
31:15
his his wife, Like it's so silly. That level of shame and like,
31:25
uh, you know, modesty is is kind of wild to me.
31:30
And then there's like a small portion there's like a small clip where you see
31:33
Hank cooking bacon and saving the grease, so you know, call a little
31:38
callback on there. I do love this sort of like Hank is missing out
31:42
on all the like he's sad he can't build a fence. Yeah, and
31:48
then when his friends come to like fix the fence, she's like, well,
31:49
he's on his bath the bathroom time, which is s by hisself.
31:53
But we do get like a really tender moment at the end where they're like
31:56
embracing each other and Peggy and I don't I don't really remember seeing that later
32:01
on, So yeah, it's just pretty cool, you know, Like and
32:05
then you can tell even though he doesn't feel comfortable talking, he still really
32:07
loves her and stuff. Yeah, well you know that's always really cute when
32:09
you see stuff like that. Yeah, for sure, for like how absurd
32:14
this sort of concept of this whole episode is and how absurd they've blown up
32:19
this problem because I mean the doctor's recommending surgery. Yeah, I know,
32:23
right, Yeah, I wonder how well you'd have to go with two.
32:27
I mean, I don't get you know, but for how absurd and everything
32:35
is, like it is a really sweet moment and like it's it's so funny,
32:38
like this is the moment where they're like I'm gonna because I'm going to
32:42
communicate better and like all these and you know, like clearly it's like never
32:45
gonna happen, but it is just such a like proper portrayal of like that
32:52
marriage at that time. Oh and like conservative you know, suburban middle class
33:00
life. Like it's it's so on point for for that. Yeah, it's
33:02
perfect. Yeah, because you know you're not allowed to talk about your feelings
33:07
back then and stuff like that, and you know any anything that isn't anything
33:10
that's a little different, like you know, uh, those tofu what that's
33:15
crazy? You know, it is perfect. One thing is true though every
33:20
time I do something or I get stressed out, Like every time I go
33:23
to the dentist, I make some kind of life thing to I'm like,
33:25
I really have to read more, like when I'm done, because I gets
33:29
so my nerves are shaken. I gotta get more into my Indian heritage or
33:32
just just shit like that. I don't know why. So with Hank going
33:35
through this, She's like, I gotta communicate more. I'm like I can
33:37
one. Like, I don't know what it is. I don't know why
33:40
I get so anxious and nervous or what that makes me want to do something,
33:45
but yeah, every single time. Yeah, and then you know,
33:46
and then I follow through until my next Dennis pointment. Then I'm like,
33:50
Okay, I'm going back to South Dakota. I gotta visit my you know,
33:52
reservation and shit like that. So that's funny. I like, I'm
33:57
I hate the dentist, Like I get so much anxiety any doing it,
34:00
but I'm not like questioning my life. I fucking hate it every time.
34:04
And you know, I think maybe because I grew up with you know,
34:07
my dad and the military and stuff or Indian hospitals, so like everything was
34:12
done really cheap or really fast, and so like I just I didn't really
34:15
ever have good experiences growing up, so I feel like that's part of it.
34:20
But then also it's so vulnerable. You're just laying there with your mouth
34:22
open too. Like I saw too how they talk. They talk about you
34:27
like you're not right in front of them, you know. I hate that,
34:30
Like they talk to each other like I'm not there, and then they're
34:34
like, oh, the gums are pretty bad, like you know, Like
34:36
I'm like, I'm right here, are you assholes? Like yeah, I
34:40
have to go on the nineteenth too. Yeah, okay, So you know,
34:51
of the season one episodes, it seem like kind of the most unbrand
34:53
for Notable Nostalgia. Kind of would have liked Jeff's voice on this one.
34:58
Honestly, I almost considered the pilot. I don't know, I didn't know
35:02
where to go. It seemed like the right one, but I think it
35:07
like, if we were to like review an episode of Notable Nostalgia or sorry,
35:10
an episode of Keen of the Hill again, what episode would you want
35:14
to do? Ooh, that one's tough on huh. Probably either want to
35:16
do the one where the one on dry Knoxyle where Bobby they do this like
35:22
career day and Joseph gets stuck with Hank, and then Bobby gets stuck with
35:28
this guy who does Pooper Scooper, but it turns out to really good business,
35:31
and that one's Dry Knoxyle, It's really good. Or the one with
35:35
David Cross where uh, yeah, Bobby's trying to get into this new book
35:39
and he's reading this like fantasy book and he starts kind of playing magic cards
35:43
and then this like adult LARPer is like, oh, those are just basic
35:45
cards. Why don't you hang out with me and my friends? And it's
35:47
just super over the top, and yeah, it's just wonderful. And then
35:51
yeah, I think those two, those two probably my favorite. I think
35:54
I would have. I would want to review the Home Mac episode where Bobby
36:00
takes Homeac and I loved Home Grown Up just because there's like so much going
36:05
on in that episode where Hank is like ashamed of Bobby being feminine and so
36:09
I love like, but then it turns out he's really good at it,
36:13
and I think that's that's where like Bobby has to make a cheerleading outfit.
36:17
I remember there's one where I think he starts like sewing. I think that's
36:21
the one where he's sewing Hank's pants rights, and then you can take the
36:25
night off a peg. Yeah that was great. I love it. Yeah,
36:29
Oh, that one is good for sure. Yeah, and then there's
36:31
one where he's like the funniest person, so then the football team wants him
36:36
to be like the lead cheerleader between like the where the cheerleaders play football and
36:39
the football are play or Yeah, that one's really good. There's so many
36:43
good ones. I love King I think it's great. Nice. Okay,
36:46
So I don't know what your scale is, but you know, where do
36:52
you put it in the pantheon of like nineties television sitcoms? I think storytelling.
36:58
It's a really tight, easy goods story. I'm gonna give it like
37:00
an eight out of ten. Funniness. There was a few funny moments,
37:04
but not its best. I'm gonna give that maybe like a five out of
37:07
ten. Yeah. Overall, I think I'm gonna give overall out of every
37:10
King of the Hill episode, I think I'm gonna give it like a five
37:14
out of ten, five or six out of ten. Yeah, I think
37:15
overall, like just the standard scale, I think six out of ten is
37:19
probably pretty good for this. But you know, you get a feel for
37:25
what this show is gonna become, which is nice. Have you ever listened
37:30
because the band who does the intro's names the Refreshments. Yeah, I'm gonna
37:35
think I've just thought about it. I'm gonna go listen to some of their
37:37
other stuff now, okay, like, yeah, I've just thought about that,
37:39
So just not it's such a perfect theme song, it is. That's
37:43
what made me think about that end to day. Yeah, it is really
37:45
perfect. Yeah. The intro to this I think is perfect too, because
37:47
like they're just hanging around while everybody else is doing something. And I don't
37:53
know, maybe that's the thing for America. I don't know, just saying,
37:55
you know, four white dudes just hanging around while everybody else is building
37:58
the stuff around him. I don't know. I want to get political.
38:00
Also, like the responsibilities of like a father and husband of just like standing
38:05
around all day drinking beer and then like come in for this photo of family
38:07
photo. Yeah so good. Yeah. Now, I I don't know,
38:15
I feel like maybe we should have picked the later season episode or something,
38:17
but it is what it is. I'm I'm glad we're touching Keen of the
38:21
Hill for the first time. Yeah. Oh and then, uh, you
38:25
know, I don't. There's been talks of a revival, and I would
38:30
assume that our friend Jayden Lebron will probably be honest, since Jayden works on
38:32
the Beam and Bed is so freaking cool. Yeah, if there is,
38:37
we definitely got to hit up Jayden and see, yeah, get some insiders
38:40
business about it, insider news. I don't know. Yeah, well they
38:44
and they should and they know they're recasting characters because they've also been accused of
38:47
using white people to voice people of color on the show, so you know,
38:52
if they are, let's bring in Jaden. Would would you know who's
38:57
killing it? Jada? You know Jadie can do Dale perfectly? Would is
39:00
insane? Like? Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, right on?
39:05
Is there anything else we want to cover on Keing of the Hill? Not
39:12
that I can think of as of right now. Overall, I think it's
39:15
a great series if you do decide to watch it, if you've ever watched
39:17
it. If it were me, you could definitely maybe skip some of the
39:22
episodes in the first and second season, but it's worth it just because then
39:27
when the later episodes happen, they really pay off, like that character development
39:30
really starts paying off near the ends and there's some I highly recommend the series.
39:34
There's some early character development too, like Peggy's Boggle obsession and like,
39:38
you know, you see why Hank is the way he is, and like
39:42
meeting you know, Cotton and those kind of things. So, you know,
39:45
I think there's a lot of shows for the first season isn't like as
39:50
good as it could be or just not as it doesn't hit as hard as
39:53
later seasons, and Parks and rec is a great fucking example. The first
40:00
season is unwatchable. It is so and it's one of my favorite series of
40:05
all time. So yeah, okay, well, thanks for tuning in.
40:10
We are just a couple episodes away from our one hundredth episode. I have
40:15
no idea what we're gonna do yet, but we gotta do something big.
40:19
Yeah, unless you have an idea, you look like you're pondering there.
40:22
Oh no, nothing not nothing too crazy yet. Okay, I have no
40:27
idea. Yeah, all right, But before we get out of here,
40:30
before we say Goodbyesa, do you have anything you'd like to promote? Oh?
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Sure, since this is a Salem nominated podcast again, second year in
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And then, uh, if you are in Portland for a comedy milestone
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41:15
Portland. It's called the Big Happy Comedy Tour. It's sponsored by Out magazine
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41:25
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41:36
Mississippi Studio is one of my favorite places to go in Portland actually, So
41:39
if you just want a good night, let's take out all the funny laughs
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you're guaranteed to have. If you just want to go have some fun drinks
41:45
in a cool place, go there. But then you also get the fun,
41:47
the funniness from Ally and all of them. So that's gonna be a
41:51
lot of fun. I have a new podcast coming out July third. It's
41:54
called Andy's Murder Radio. Yeah, that's crazy here. Right, it's first
42:00
time anybody's hearing about it, so it's gonna be me reading stories of murders
42:07
that happened. So I'm pretty excited. Uh yeah, July third is gonna
42:09
be the very first episode, and then every week on Wednesday. Oh,
42:15
Andy's Murder Radio, which is super out of pocket for me because I don't
42:17
like murders like you're scared. Yes, subject, that's what I was thinking.
42:22
I gotta get out of my show. I got I just went to
42:24
the dentist on I need to try something new. So you'll be coping in
42:29
front of your partner. Yeah, I'm gonna well cool. Uh well,
42:37
I'll be excited here the first episode July third. All right, well,
42:44
thanks for listening to this episode. We will see you Alan O beer drinkers
42:50
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