Mutual of Omabwah

"Mutual of Omabwah"
King of the Hill episode
Episode no.	Season 9 Episode 8
Production code	9ABE03
Original air date	March 6, 2005
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"Mutual of Omabwah" is the 179th episode in the Fox animated situation comedy series King of the Hill and was the 8th episode of the 9th season. The episode's title refers to the Mutual of Omaha insurance company.

Plot

Dale arrives in the alley with a beard made of bees, and talks about making money with honey. Bobby and Joseph are playing Star Wars when Bobby gets stuck under the garage door, breaking it. When Hank tries to explain insurance to him, Bobby thinks he can get a new bike if he breaks it. To teach him about responsibility, Hank drills Bobby about the details of their insurance policy. Dale sets up a booth at the farmer's market to sell his minimal honey harvest, but finds that the trendy women there want to buy bee stings as a natural homeopathic preparation, which he quickly capitalizes on. Bill and Boomhauer wander the market, and fall in love with fried bananas.

Hank makes Bobby call in the claim to the insurance company, only to discover that not only is the office now a call center in India, but his insurance has been cancelled due to forgetting to mail his last payment. Bobby doesn't understand why Hank is upset at not having insurance. Hank calls Peggy, who went out with Luanne to eat, to tell her not drive the car until he can get the insurance reinstated. Dale attracts a crowd and begins selling his bee stings like snake oil. Hank tells horror stories about what could happen if there were a fire or other incident while they were uninsured, and it begins to make Bobby frightened.

Bill and Boomhauer buy a deep fryer, and begin to get ideas about various things they can fry. Meanwhile, Peggy and Luanne are stranded overnight at a rest stop waiting to hear from Hank, and are getting hungry. Hank and Bobby's paranoia grows as a deliveryman attempts to leave a box of Dale's bees at the house, and Dale falls and hurts his arm while checking out the deep fryer, deciding to let the bees treat him. A starving Peggy and Luanne break into a vending machine for food, as Bill and Boomhauer accidentally drop a beer in to the fryer, starting a grease fire and launching the beer onto the Hills' roof making Bobby think there's a natural disaster occurring.

Dale realizes that the bee stings have done nothing for his fractured arm, and kicks over the case in a fit of rage, releasing a swarm of bees which come after him. He pounds on Hank's door, but a terrified Bobby refuses to let him in. Hank realizes that his overreaction has rubbed off on Bobby, and goes about fixing everything, guiding Dale into the safety of his van and putting out the fire on Bill and his driveway. Dale remembers that he's allergic to bees, so Hank and Bobby drive him to the hospital, and Hank tells Bobby how proud he is of Bobby's help. Back at the Hill residence, the answering machine picks up a call from Peggy, who is then detained by the police over the broken vending machine.

Production

• Ajay Naidu guest stars as the call center worker. He previously worked with Mike Judge on the film Office Space.

Quotes

• Dale: Come and get your freshly secreted honey! Don't be put off by Irwin Allen's The Swarm, or the tedious Peter Fonda film Ulee's Gold!

• Fried Banana Guy: Interest you fellas in a fried banana?
  Bill: Y-you can fry a banana? But... it's fruit.
  (Boomhauer just shrugs.)
  Fried Banana Guy: Here, just try one!
  (Bill and Boomhauer each take a banana and start eating.)
  Bill: Ohh, this banana's delicious! ...The monkeys must never find out.

• Bill: If everybody fried their food, there would be no war.
  Boomhauer: Mm-hm.
  Bill: What shall we try next, Boomhauer?
  Boomhauer: Tell you what, man, talkin' 'bout some dang ol' fried fried chicken, man.
  Bill: Fried chicken refried? Damn!

• Bill: We've buried the needle, Boomhauer! We're frying where no man has fried before!

• Hank: Where are you going, Bobby? This is not a big deal. It's just a little fire... and more bees than I remember...

• (Bill steps on a flaming turkey, tries in vain to kick it off of his foot, and starts screaming and running around.)
  Bobby: Mr. Dauterive's on fire!
  Hank: That'll happen.