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Hank Is a Cowboy the South Will Rise Again


Hank's Cowboy Movie is the 54th episode of Rex of the Hill. It was first aired on April 6, 1999. The episode was written past Jim Dauterive, and directed past Shaun Cashman.

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Synopsis

Hank and Bobby drive up from Arlen to Wichita Falls to run into the Dallas Cowboys training army camp. After watching the preparation session, they wait around until everyone has left, then Bobby notices a football left under a bench. They toss it around, acting out scenarios of Cowboy celebrity until they're chased from the field by a security guard who thinks anyone from Arlen is a "pig farmer."

At the local Dairy Queen (meet below), the child behind the counter puts a petty spin on serving Bobby a Blizzard, which further impresses Bobby. When Bobby tries the same move in the forepart seat of Hank's truck, he bobbles it and spills it on himself. As Bobby struggles into a clean pair of pants, Hank sees J & J's Propane, advertising itself equally "the official propane supplier of the Dallas Cowboys." Hank makes the fault of thinking that the place is a clone of Strickland Propane. The assistant managing director and his pimply teenage son, however, wearing apparel equally if they're going to a rock concert or a bar, think Hank is a "Southward Texas pig jockey," hate the Cowboys and would rather root for the Oklahoma Sooners. Horrified, Hank drags Bobby out of there.

That evening, at the Wichitan Cabin, Bobby discovers the bed has a Magic Fingers vibrating feature. Hank pulls the plug on that, literally, saying "Y'all're under eighteen." Bobby besides finds a copy of the promotional video the Wichita Falls Sleeping accommodation of Commerce made to lure the Cowboys. Hank isn't impressed, and gets further ticked off when Bobby refers to Arlen as "Pigtown."

On the way home, Bobby starts bad-mouthing Arlen, including the smell from the sausage plant; "That smell means jobs," Hank responds. That evening, Hank tells Peggy he'south worried that Bobby'south focus will be on eventually moving out of Arlen. Peggy concurs, citing a couple of students who recently told her they wanted to be astronauts.

At the local Pancho's Mexican Buffet, Hank airs his concern to his family, the Gribbles, Neb and Boomhauer. Hank puts forward a "long-shot" proposal to transport a promotional film well-nigh Arlen to the Cowboys. Hank designates himself as "the president of the motion picture," Dale volunteers to film it, Nancy to deed as the on-air presenter, and Peggy to write the copy. Boomhauer seemed to want to volunteer his services as the narrator, but Hank told him he'll be wearing an armadillo suit. Beak is assigned to have care of "snacks."

The opening shot takes place at a city limits sign, then moves to a Y'All Store It facility, where Hank eventually confesses that the sequence needed to be filmed again. Artistic differences emerge when Peggy and Nancy politely differ on whether the city's residents should be called "Arlenians" or "Arlenites." Hank then criticizes Dale for his "jiggle cam" work, and tells Boomhauer they'll get to him tomorrow. Boomhauer takes some cheese cubes from a plate; this is the extent of Neb's effort at catering.

When on location at Tut Rampy Stadium at Arlen High, Hank indulges in Cowboy dreams while engaged in doing stick effigy storyboarding. He is then carried abroad he really says to Bobby "I honey y'all, Bobby," only doesn't follow upwards on the moment.

The next location is an extremely depression-hire tourist trap, "Arlen Snake Farm and Boot Outlet. Now with monkeys." The production begins to fall apart; Hank tells Dale to stop working his van into the background of every shot, Peggy is upset that Nancy wants to change the slogan "Arlen is darlin'" to "Arlen, where Super Bowls are born," and Nancy locks herself away in her trailer/the Bug-a-Bago, necessitating a house call from John Redcorn: "I volition need nearly an hour. And a canteen of Asti Spumanti." Peggy takes it upon herself to replace Nancy in the next shot, which calls for someone to feed a alive mouse to a snake. Afterward one mediocre take, Nancy emerges and Hank tells her to do the scene. Nancy, all the same, refuses to handle a alive mouse. Peggy places the mouse on her sleeve, Nancy flicks it off so that information technology ends upward landing in Bookhauer'due south armadillo arrange, and panic ensues. The alive mice scramble as Boomhauer knocks over the saucepan they're in, the cheese plate is compromised by the mice, and the monkeys grab handfuls of Nancy'due south hair. Nancy quits, Peggy quits every bit the Arlenian vs. Arlenite feud blows up, Beak quits because Peggy quit, Dale and Boomhauer also walk off the project: (Dale: "You have bully-ragged this production and stifled my creativity from Day Ane. It is at present [checks his watch] Solar day 2. I quit!").

Hank then vows to shoot the film himself. He sets up shots at Strickland Propane and Tut Rampy Field which show he has no feel for cinematography. When he shows his footage to Dave, the tape editor at Channel 84, he'due south merciless in his critique of Hank'due south work: "You're just a dot at this distance … you lot've got no master shot, you crossed the action access, your sound's horrible…" Hank finally admits defeat.

Later, Hank talks to a Tom Landry commemorative plate, wondering where he went wrong. This scene echoes the flashback in "Escape from Political party Island" where Hank remembers his mother fixating on her glass miniatures as Cotton fiber is out of command and their matrimony starts going off the runway. Peggy then decides to practise something virtually information technology. She gathers up home movies from Nancy Gribble besides equally the Hills and has Dave cobble together a "human interest" promotional film, consummate with brief nude scene featuring Bobby as a toddler: "Look how smooth my bottom was." It ends with the slogan: "Arlen: where super people make Super Bowls." Since everyone who gathered to spotter the premier of the moving picture is continued to it in one style or another, information technology's a striking with them.

As for the Cowboy, they reply to the offering with a form letter thanking them for the video merely that they have no plans to motion to Arlen in the near futurity and a toy football game. Hank accepts that Bobby will leave Arlen at some bespeak; Bobby agrees but plans to move to either New York City or Hollywood instead of Wichita Falls. Besides, he points out, there'southward withal plenty of fourth dimension. Hank and Bobby then toss around the toy football, reliving Cowboy dreams.

Characters

  • Hank Hill
  • Peggy Loma
  • Bobby Colina
  • Luanne Platter
  • Dale Gribble
  • Nancy Gribble
  • Jeff Boomhauer
  • Beak Dauterive
  • Kahn Souphanousinphone
  • Dave (cameo)
  • John Redcorn
  • Leanne Platter (cameo)
  • Hoyt Platter (cameo)

Stinger Quote

Hank: "Sweet Jethro Pugh."

Trivia

  • A urban center limits sign, glimpsed in the third flavour episode "Hank's Cowboy Motion picture", gives Arlen's population every bit 145,900.
  • The closing song is the Dallas Cowboys "Stampede March" song that Hank was singing in the truck and in the Wichita Falls Propane store.
  • "Pancho'due south Mexican Buffet," where the group gathers and decides to brand a promotional video for Arlen, is an bodily franchise with locations more often than not in Texas.
  • When the bucket total of alive mice is overturned and panic ensues at the snake subcontract, the music in the background is "Gimme Three Steps" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
  • During the scene in the Wichitan Motel, Bobby sings a couple of short phrases from "Wannabe" by The Spice Girls.
  • At the time this episode aired, the Cowboys were training in Wichita Falls on the campus of Midwestern State University. They trained in Wichita Falls until 2002, with a brief stint in 2001 at the River Ridge Sports Circuitous in Oxnard, California; the prospect of the Dallas Cowboys preparation in California must have offended Hank'southward Texas sensibilities. During 2002-2003, the Cowboys relocated to San Antonio and the Alamodome. Between 2004 and the present, the team has moved dorsum and forth between San Antonio and Oxnard.
  • In a couple of episodes, "Pigmalion" and "How I Learned To Terminate Worrying and Love The Alamo," Arlen'south pig slaughtering manufacture is highlighted. Throughout the serial, the focus is relentlessly kept on Strickland Propane.
  • Luanne'south parents, Hoyt and Leanne, are seen in their younger versions in Hank'south movie he sends to the Cowboys. This is also the showtime episode Hoyt is seen.
  • This is one of the few episodes where Hank tells Bobby he loves him.
  • The 'home movie' portion of the episode distinctly shows Hank grilling on a charcoal grill.
  • At the end of the episode, when Hank and Bobby are throwing the football, is a reverse from the pilot opening scene.
  • When Hank goes off on his ain to record the portion of the video which takes place on a football field, it's revealed that the field is called Tut Rampy Field. In the episode Après Hank, le Drench, there's a dam which is called Tut Rampy Dam. In the episode Hank Gets Dusted, there's a racetrack which is called Tut Rampy Racetrack.
  • This is the second and last fourth dimension a Dairy Queen makes an appearance in the series. In Square Peg, it's revealed that at that place'due south a local Dairy Queen in Arlen which Hank, along with Bobby, drives by in his truck.
  • The ending of the 'home movie' video shows the Hank and the guys on the scarlet couch out in the alley from the episode And They Call it Bobby Honey.
  • "Arlen Snake Farm" is similar to the real-life "Animal World and Snake Subcontract Zoo" that is located on I-35 in New Braunfels, Texas.

Goofs

  • Hank and Bobby are in Wichita Falls visiting the Dallas Cowboys training camp. They go to Dairy Queen. At that time, Wichita Falls did non have a Dairy Queen. The closest one was in Holliday, TX (20 minutes abroad).
  • Snakes exercise not have eyelids, just the milk serpent Peggy holds at the ophidian subcontract blinks once.

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