And “Staubach Elementary” this past week.
But if Arlen were near Dallas, how could they take a day trip from school to Mexico? Would take a good 7 or 8 hrs, one way.
Actually, in the 70’s at least, All Of Texas saw the Cowboys as their home team. Except for us few “pure” Texans in Houston. Dan Pastorini, Kenny Burroughs, “White Shoes” Johnson, Earl Campbell, and Coach “Bum” Phillips. Now THAT was a football team!
I like KOTH most of the time. Except the shoes that feature Peggy. I can’t stand how they made that character behave.
I haven’t watched it for a while. Is John Redcorn still “treating” Dale’s wife for headaches?
The KOTH moment that had me rolling on the floor was in the episode where Hank (or Peggy or Bobby) finds an arrowhead in the yard. Hank brings it to Dale’s house because he knows Redcorn is there with Dale’s wife.
Hank: “So how much would this thing be worth”
John: “My people do not believe that such things can just be bought and sold.”
Hank: “Ok, but how much would it be worth to my people?”
John: (looking serious) “Mr. Hill, to take that which belongs to another man…”
Dale’s wife: “John Redcoooorn! I am waiting!”
John: “Uhh, yeah… well… food for thought.” (slams the door)
Nancy dumped Redcorn near the end of the fourth season, when she fell back in love with Dale somehow. Currently they’re in their seventh season.
My favorite so far this season was from the week before last, The Son Also Roses, in which Bobby enters a rose growing competition and goes to a head shop to get lights to grow the roses.
Bobby: “Ricky at the Mega Lo Mart told me to see you about growing stuff indoors.”
Stoner behind the counter to other stoner behind the counter: “Don’t say anything!”
Bobby: “He told me to tell you I’m cool.”
Other stoner: “He’s cool.”
I saw that one last week. I almost fell off the treadmill!
According to last night’s syndicated episode, Arlen is about 90 miles from Houston.
My favorite episodes are when they visit Dallas.
(Leaving at the crack of dawn) “Hurry up! We have to get to Dallas before the drug dealers wake up!”
I think people forget just how big Texas is. It takes 4 or so hrs to drive to Dallas from Houston, 6 or so hrs to get to Mexico border from Houston area ('cause of non straight line route). YMMV.
And when I lived in Houston area, 90 miles from Houston was still Houston in many people’s eyes. Depends on direction. 90 miles south puts you in a whole lot of salt water. (Big city, really big, lots of suberbia).
Oh well, it’s a TV show. Gotta have some poetic liscence.
And the show is funny!
I love KOTH. But every now and then, I miss an episode. Like the one where they revealed the two shockers you posted. Now when that episode comes on, instead of smiling and saying “Great! This is the one I missed!” I’ll just say “This is the episode Guin ruined for me but not giving any warnings about spoilers.”
I feel lower than Boomhauer when he found out that Hank, Bill, and Dale ruined his car.
I’m even angrier than Cotton was when they repo’ed his Cadillac car. I tell you what.
I love the episode where Bobby takes Ritalin and becomes hyper-aware of everything around him. Especially the scenes of him sitting on the bus, staring at the fly, and in the kitchen.
“there’s some milk that’s about to go bad…and there it goes.”
My other favorite is the episode where they all quit smoking.
“Where in Texas does KOTH take place?” It’s like Texas’ own take of the Simpson’s conundrum, with as many conflicting data.
The best answer, as far as I can tell, is somewhere in the “Centroplex” area (Waco-Temple-Killeen). Here’s why:
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It has been demonstrated that Arlen High plays Belton during the regular season.
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When Bobby Hill’s propane comedy troupe was touring Texas, the map they showed during the montage traced their route through approximately that area.
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They fly out of DFW. South of Temple, it would be Austin-Bergstrom, San Antonio, or Houston Intercontinental.
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Plus, this area is relatively generic Texas, and is equidistant between Dallas and Austin.
Inconsistent with that model, of course, is the relatively short distance to Mexico–but they’d have to be futher south than “90 miles from Houston” even for that to work. Their easy access to Mexico can be better described as a plot device, I think, than evidence of location.
I think it’s a running gag. Bobby is straight. But, he has no interest in stereotypically masculine things(sports, cars, etc). However, he enjoys and excels at stereotypically feminine things(growing plants, dog dancing, sewing, cooking). There are some exceptions-Bobby is an excelent shot( Dale “If they use a sniper, I want Bobby to do it. That way, I know it’ll be a clean kill.”) and he tried out for the wrestling team.
3rd Rock From The Sun did a similiar thing with Tommy. He was a gourmet chef, an excellent decorator, and a magnificent tailor. After seeing all the preparation he’s done for the wedding, his girlfriend begins to wonder if Tommy is gay.
August. “Tommy, do you like wearing those knickers?”
Tommy-“Like them? I made them. Look at this crushed velvet!”
August then gives Tommy a passionate kiss. He responds with equal enthusiasm.
August-“Just checking.”
She walks away.
Tommy-'Hey! What about me? You don’t start the mower and not cut the grass!"
So far, IIRC, Bobby has kissed
Kahnnie
Tid Pao
And that girl voiced by Sarah Michelle Geller
He’s also expressed interest in seeing Kahnnie naked.
Now that I think of it, part of the joke is that Hank would have an easier time dealing with his son if he was gay. in Hank’s mind, sewing, baking, etc are all acceptable activities for a gay man. It’s the fact that Bobby likes all those things and girls that really confuses Hank.
My favorite moments:
Hank (upon meeting Kahn and family for the first time): So what are ya, Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: We are from Laos.
pause
Hank: So is that in China or Japan?
Kahn: We are Laotian!
Hank: So is that Chinese or Japanese?
Cotton (on meeting his new baby in the episode where Peggy is still in traction): Hey there little baby! I’m your daddy! Do you wanna kill a Nazi*?
Cotton’s horror at his new son’s “manmilk”
Alan Rickman as the Ren Faire king
Randy Travis’s theft of Peggy’s song
Peggy’s employee’s suggestion about the Team Peggy Hill Suggestion Box: “That’d work better if you cut a hole in the top.”
*(pronounced Nazzy)
And let’s not forget his fling with LuAnne’s cosmetology mannequin.
Or that Jordan girl-from this season. Although I don’t know if they kissed yet.
I like when Dale gets a job at “Stick-Tech”, and gets off on firing people.
BTW, in the episode where Dale’s dad is gay, his dad’s boyfriend Juan Pedro mentions playing a game called Taboo. What is Taboo?
Taboo is a team game. You try to get your team to guess a word by talking about it. However, you can not use any words on the taboo list.EG
If the word is baseball, you would be forbidden to use diamond, bases, innings etc.
A member of the other team monitors you. If you use one of the taboo words, they use the game’s buzzer. It’s roughly the size of 2 packs of cigarretes, blue with a hot pink button. It looks rather like a breast from one of Picasso’s paintings.
Taboo is a pretty fun game, actually, especially in a medium-to-large group. People split into small groups, and at each turn one person is the speaker. The speaker draws a card, which has a word that they have to make their teammates guess, but they’re not allowed to say… I think it’s five words as they try to prompt the other players to guess. So they drawe a card with the word on it plus five forbidden words-- the speaker can say anything BUT those words.
Pantellerite, you’re probably right about the location. It is fairly non-specific “Central Texas.” But the propane store Hank works at looks amazingly like the one located in Austin on South 183 past ABIA, around Pilot Knob.
To give you an idea of why Taboo is associated with being a gay man, there’s a variant called Celebrity Taboo. You have to get your partner to guess the celebrity whose name is written on the card, without saying the celeb’s name or using any of the 5 taboo words.
Hmmm … I wonder if they avoided having any Judy Garland cards because “everybody” would guess her first. 
I don’t think there was any one episode where they revealed the Nancy-Redcorn-Joseph connection. There are lots of hints over many separate episodes about what Nancy and Redcorn are doing behind Dale’s back, along with hints that everyone in the town knows about it except Dale. Then just take a look at Joseph, take a look at Redcorn, take a look at Dale, and draw your conclusions.
Oh yeah, and Bobby also kissed Nancy once. At least, the last scene was of him diving across the room at her with that intention (the episode where he’s nervous about playing Spin the Bottle at a party).