King Of The Hill Crack Fishing Full Episode

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JumpinCrack Bass (It's a Gas, Gas, Gas)Season 2, Episode 5Air dateNovember 2, 1997Written byAlan R. Cohen and Alan FreedlandDirected byGary McCarverEpisode guidePreviousNext"Hilloween""Husky Bobby""Jumpin' Crack Bass (It's a Gas, Gas, Gas)" is the seventeenth episode of King of the Hill. It was first aired on November 2, 1997. The episode was written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, and directed by Gary McCarver. James Carville has a guest voice role as the Honorable Judge Roland McFarland.

The story begins with Hank and Bobby digging for worms. Bobby wonders why they are doing so when they can just buy bait at the store, and Hank calls it "cheater bait" and gives a speech about fishing with worms to back it up. He then hears someone fumbling around in his truck, so he rushes over and finds a man attempting to hotwire it. He places the culprit, Billy Ray Walters, under citizen's arrest. Later, at Arlen County Court, judge Roland McFarland, known for his unique sentences, sentences the suspect to live in the cab of an import truck for three months. Hank comments on the just and accurate ways of the judge; it also reveals that Walters has a pregnant girlfriend, which serves as a possible motive for his attempt to steal the vehicle.

After the trial, Hank goes to retrieve his truck from the impound, only to discover that it has been disassembled due to the police checking if Billy Ray Walters hid any drugs in the compartments. Back at the Hill house, while Hank is looking for something, Luanne comes and tells Hank she retrieved the schematic to his truck and had already lined up the parts. Hank states because of the stress, he needs to fish now, which forces him to use a small rental car from Mega Lo Mart.

Hank then goes fishing with the guys. He uses his worms while everyone else uses manufactured bait. Boomhauer, Dale and even Bill catch numerous fish while Hank catches none. Desperate to catch a fish, he visits Layaway Ray's Bait N' Tackle which he hadn't visited recently. The owner, Ray Holiday, is just preparing to burn the place down for insurance claims when Hank arrives. The shop is completely bare and empty with Ray commenting that he is going out of business because he cannot compete with Mega Lo Mart's prices. Hank tells Ray about his troubles catching fish using the worms and that caught no fish at all with them. Ray offers what little bait he has left but isn't enough to sway Hank into buying. Ray then tells Hank about Jack, an uneducated man who was raised "in the hills," and who is apparently talented at making homemade bait. Ray mentions Jack sells his stuff on the street out of his truck. Hank hurries out and drives away just as Ray burns down his shop, causing his outdoor propane tank to explode.

Driving down a seedy part of Arlen, Hank comes across a young man standing on a corner. Hank asks for bait from the man, believing him to be Jack. Mistaking it for a drug code name, the man gives him a few vials of crack cocaine. Hank drives away with the contraband still believing its fishing bait when the view pans out to reveal to the real Jack, who is shown fetching a crate from a truck with the words "Jack's Bate" on the side.

Equipped with his new "bait", Hank goes fishing again. The fish keep coming for him, and his friends are amazed. They ask to try the bait but Hank denies them until he gives in. Now the fish keep coming as the guys reel in one after the other. Eventually, Hank notices that he is catching the same fish over and over. Hank tries to get the fish to go away but won't leave the proximity of the boat. Frustrated, Hank physically tosses the fish but comes swimming back, jumping over the boat and knocking Bill into the water.

Later, Hank becomes more inclined to go fishing then ever and starts to protect the bait from his friends because of all the fish he gets with it. Dale goes so far as to breaking into the Hill's garage to find the bait but is forced out by Hank carrying a running a weed trimmer. The next morning Hank runs out from breakfast to fish again, however this time the fish keep avoiding Hank and the bait. When Hank gets home he gives Dale the vial of bait where at first is excited but immediately becomes skeptical asking what's wrong with it. Hank tells him that the fish aren't biting anymore and avoiding the boat completely. Dale explains to him using knowledge he learned from his enrollment at extermination school. He informs Hank that he has introduced a new element into the fish's eco-system, and with each passing time Hank goes, the fish themselves become more immune to the bait until it doesn't work, much like how the worm failed before. He tells Hank that the solution is to get something stronger. He then sets out to get stronger "bait" from the same drug dealer. This time, Dale follows him, desperate to get the new bait for himself, but the police arrive and apprehend all three.

In a room with his attorney, Peggy is in disbelief that Hank would go so far as to purchase crack cocaine but Hank swears he was under the assumption he was buying fishing bait. His attorney suggests pleading child-abuse as a reason for buying the illegal drugs but Hank stands his ground saying it was all a misunderstanding and he is not a "doper". Hank and Dale are tried at Arlen County Court, with Judge Roland McFarland, who now is familiar with Hank, presiding over the case. He orders Dale gagged after Dale objects to his order to remove his hat and becomes disruptive. Judge Roland is perplexed and is prepared to pass down a guilty verdict. Hank pleads with the judge saying that he's only a fisherman and that he had no knowledge that he was buying illegal drugs. Judge Roland admits he doesn't like Hank's story but is willing to give him and Dale the benefit of a doubt. He decides to give the two one last chance to prove their innocence by going on a fishing trip. If the crack cocaine works as bait, they're free to go on account that they were truly mistaken but if they fail both Hank and Dale will be sentenced to 24 months in prison. When the two are escorted out the next case, titled "Fidelity Mutual Insurance Vs Layaway Ray's Bait Shop," begins, as Ray Holiday is on trial for insurance fraud.

On the fishing trip, Hank, Dale, the judge, and an corrections officer wait for Hank to catch a fish. After hours of trying the crack cocaine still doesn't work, with Dale attempting to fool Judge Roland with a frozen fish and gets threatened with a doubled sentence if he attempts to cheat again. As the day comes to a close, Hank notices that he still has worms in his tackle box. With no other options he puts one on his hook, and Dale states that he would be cheating and they'd be spending double the time on their sentence. Hank replies that he was cheating with the "bait" in the first place, that he got greedy for wanting to catch as many fish as he could. He gives in saying that no matter what they're going to prison and if this was going to be his last day fishing in a long time, he would rather do it the right way. At the last minute, Hank gets a bite and pulls up a fish, a small one, but still a fish, allowing both Hank and Dale to be let off.

The showrunners for the season was Mike Judge and Greg Daniels.[1] Wes Archer, the supervising director, did a redesign on most of the characters to make them appear more realistic than they did in the first season.[1] In his 2003 DVD commentary for the episode "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying", Daniels reflected, "in season two, because of the way animation works, there was a big overlap. The episodes from season one were coming back and requiring producing and music and editing while we were writing season two. So, during the first season we had a very pure experience of just writing them without any distractions, and in the second season it suddenly got a lot harder because you'd be trying to write, and something would come in requiring attention."[2] Daniels added that, "this was part of the time I kept having a lot of car accidents, because we were so tired."[2] Early in the production of the season, Pamela Adlon couldn't come in for table reads due to the birth of her first daughter.[3]

A July 1997 article from USA Today revealed that the upcoming season would include guest appearances from Troy Aikman, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Chris Rock, Green Day and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The article also mentioned that the Hill family would make a guest cameo as in-universe characters on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons (the episode, titled "Bart Star", aired on Fox in November 1997). The crossover featured the voice of Mike Judge, with Daniels (an ex-Simpsons writer) explaining to USA Today that, "In the world of King of the Hill, The Simpsons exists only in that Bobby has a Bart doll. They exist as a TV show."[4]

The Christmas episode "The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" originated from an idea that was jotted down on an index card, which sat alongside dozens of other story ideas on a conference-room wall, until executive story editor Paul Lieberstein decided to take the story further. It featured a sex scene between Hank's mother and her new boyfriend, which Daniels viewed as risque. On the night before the episode's table read, the writers spent until 5 a.m. reworking the script of this episode, changing both the sex scene and the personality of the boyfriend character, as Daniels deemed him as too plain. Regarding the sex scene, Daniels remarked at the time, "we [needed] to find a way to have adults know what's going on but have kids see something else."[3]

In the episode "Traffic Jam", the comedian character guest voiced by Chris Rock was originally called "Busta Nut" in the script. The Fox Standards & Practices department objected, claiming that "Bust a nut" was slang for masturbation. His name was then changed to "Booty Sack" and finally "Booda Sack."[5]

In his September 1997 review of "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying", Chris Vognar of the Orlando Sentinel wrote that. "King of the Hill continues to hit the funny bone because it's more real and touching than any non-animated comedy on the air." He went on to write, "the show looks to have more of an edge this year; one future episode finds Hank and Dale mistaking crack for fishing bait, and the humor in week one is already carrying a more subversive tone without losing its human touch."[8] In his 2004 review of the DVD release, IGN's Tal Blevins gave the season a positive review, writing, "while the characters were still coming into their own in season one, the second season is where the show really gelled, and the characters were molded into how we know them today."[9]

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