KOTH: Pilot - #1
This is the 1st in an ongoing series of Wednesday nite bible studies based on the animated hit King of the Hill. The attempt is to develop & hone the fine lens of discernment with which we are to experience all of life. If we are to truly live, than we must come to a place where all the talk of theory ends & incarnational living begins. This is our hope & our prayer as we begin this arduous task.
Why KOTH?
Well, why not? I firmly believe that nature doesn't end at the leafy green stalks of grass of my front lawn or the rays of sun light that invade my modest home.
By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse.
What last longer, a good sermon or a good story?
All Jesus did that day was tell stories--a long storytelling afternoon.
Pilot - #1 (rank #15) 1/12/97
The pilot of King of the Hill introduces us to the town of Arlen, Texas, and the life of propane salesman Hank Hill. Hank spends much of his time standing in the alley outside his house, drinking beer with his three old friends: Dale Gribble, a conspiracy theorist who never notices that his wife Nancy is having an affair with her "healer" John Redcorn (or that his son Joseph looks a lot like Redcorn); Bill Dauterive, a divorced army barber; and Boomhauer, a ladies' man of indeterminate employment and even more indeterminate speech. Hank lives with his wife Peggy, a substitute Spanish teacher at Tom Landry Middle School; his son Bobby, who seems to like comedy records better than sports; Peggy's niece Luanne, an aspiring beautician; and his dog Ladybird, a bloodhound whose mother tracked down James Earl Ray.
When Bobby gets hit in the eye with a baseball, the resulting black eye causes a social worker to mistakenly believe that Hank is abusing his son. Meanwhile, Luanne moves in with Hank and Peggy after her mother is arrested for stabbing her father with a fork, and Hank tries to fix his truck.
Quotes:
Dale: I know what's wrong with your truck, Hank. It's a Ford. Know what Ford stands for, don'cha? "Fix it again, Tony." Hank: Dale, that's a Fiat.
(Bobby smashes the fence with a baseball bat) Hank: BOBBY! (Sees that neighbors are watching) er... PLEASE RESPECT THAT FENCE'S RIGHT TO......BE A FENCE!
(On the topic of global warming) Dale: We'll see what Butros Butros Gali Gali thinks about that, we'll grow oranges in Alaska.
(on Dale's disbelief of global warming) Hank: Dale, you giblet-head! This is Texas! It's 110 degrees in the shade, and if it gets one degree hotter, I'm gonna kick your ass!
Peggy: We would have had more children, but Hank has a narrow urethra.
Hank: Peggy!
Peggy: What?
Hank: He asked us how many children we had, he didn't ask you about my glands!
Analysis:
The prevailing theme in the pilot, as well as for most of KOTH episodes, is the overwhelming theme of understating the obvious. Hank reaches his boiling point when threatened with the very real possibility of Bobby being taken away from him. Even through all of this he finds every other way to state his true feelings for his son rather than to tell him verbally. After all, Hank's a man of action & few words & it does nothing to affirm his love for Bobby. Hank would have made a terrible psalmist.
He eventually breaks down & is able to finally tell Bobby that he's his boy & that everything else has eventually disappointed him, but never him. Sounds a lot like the love of another father I know...
The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.
For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.
We would be well served to study the love that the ultimate Father had/has for his son & not only act upon it in our own lives making it reality, but speaking this love into another's reality also:
I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
Hank is no Jesus, but if we work together, I know that it is inevitable to find truth there.
Why KOTH?
Well, why not? I firmly believe that nature doesn't end at the leafy green stalks of grass of my front lawn or the rays of sun light that invade my modest home.
By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse.
What last longer, a good sermon or a good story?
All Jesus did that day was tell stories--a long storytelling afternoon.
Pilot - #1 (rank #15) 1/12/97
The pilot of King of the Hill introduces us to the town of Arlen, Texas, and the life of propane salesman Hank Hill. Hank spends much of his time standing in the alley outside his house, drinking beer with his three old friends: Dale Gribble, a conspiracy theorist who never notices that his wife Nancy is having an affair with her "healer" John Redcorn (or that his son Joseph looks a lot like Redcorn); Bill Dauterive, a divorced army barber; and Boomhauer, a ladies' man of indeterminate employment and even more indeterminate speech. Hank lives with his wife Peggy, a substitute Spanish teacher at Tom Landry Middle School; his son Bobby, who seems to like comedy records better than sports; Peggy's niece Luanne, an aspiring beautician; and his dog Ladybird, a bloodhound whose mother tracked down James Earl Ray.
When Bobby gets hit in the eye with a baseball, the resulting black eye causes a social worker to mistakenly believe that Hank is abusing his son. Meanwhile, Luanne moves in with Hank and Peggy after her mother is arrested for stabbing her father with a fork, and Hank tries to fix his truck.
Quotes:
Dale: I know what's wrong with your truck, Hank. It's a Ford. Know what Ford stands for, don'cha? "Fix it again, Tony." Hank: Dale, that's a Fiat.
(Bobby smashes the fence with a baseball bat) Hank: BOBBY! (Sees that neighbors are watching) er... PLEASE RESPECT THAT FENCE'S RIGHT TO......BE A FENCE!
(On the topic of global warming) Dale: We'll see what Butros Butros Gali Gali thinks about that, we'll grow oranges in Alaska.
(on Dale's disbelief of global warming) Hank: Dale, you giblet-head! This is Texas! It's 110 degrees in the shade, and if it gets one degree hotter, I'm gonna kick your ass!
Peggy: We would have had more children, but Hank has a narrow urethra.
Hank: Peggy!
Peggy: What?
Hank: He asked us how many children we had, he didn't ask you about my glands!
Analysis:
The prevailing theme in the pilot, as well as for most of KOTH episodes, is the overwhelming theme of understating the obvious. Hank reaches his boiling point when threatened with the very real possibility of Bobby being taken away from him. Even through all of this he finds every other way to state his true feelings for his son rather than to tell him verbally. After all, Hank's a man of action & few words & it does nothing to affirm his love for Bobby. Hank would have made a terrible psalmist.
He eventually breaks down & is able to finally tell Bobby that he's his boy & that everything else has eventually disappointed him, but never him. Sounds a lot like the love of another father I know...
The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.
For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.
We would be well served to study the love that the ultimate Father had/has for his son & not only act upon it in our own lives making it reality, but speaking this love into another's reality also:
I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
Hank is no Jesus, but if we work together, I know that it is inevitable to find truth there.
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