Hank’s Cowboy Movie

Infobox Television episode
Title = Hank's Cowboy Movie
Series = King of the Hill


Caption =
Season = 3
Episode = 19
Airdate = March 16, 1999
Production = 3ABE18
Writer = Jim Dauterive
Director = Shaun Cashman
Guests = Earl Bullock (Dave)
Episode list = List of King of the Hill episodes
Prev = Love Hurts and So Does Art
Next = Dog Dale Afternoon

"Hank's Cowboy Movie" is the 54^th episode in the FOX animated situation comedy "King of the Hill" and is the 19th episode of the third season.

Plot

Hank and Bobby are visiting the training camp of the Dallas Cowboys in Wichita Falls. During the visit Bobby finds the town a vast improvement then living in Arlen. Whilst in the hotel they are staying at, Bobby finds a video that the town used to entice the Cowboys to relocate their training camp. Hank is worried by Bobby's growing criticism of Arlen and during a conversation with Peggy he comes to the conclusion that there is little to keep children like Bobby staying and living in Arlen when they grow up.

During a dinner out with the neighbours, Hank suggests that they take the move that Wichita Falls took and make a promotional film on the town to try and persuade the Cowboys to relocate their training camp.

The shooting of the film get underway but everyone starts finding fault with one another over a variety of issues. Hank is constantly criticising Dale over his over use of the zoom feature on the camera and putting his dead bug truck in the background of many shots. Peggy starts feuding with Nancy over some of her creative changes in the script, and use of the word Arlenites to describe the people of Arlen instead of the supposedly correct term of Arlenians. The feuding comes to a boiling point when at a snake farm Nancy refuses to do a shot involving feeding a mouse to a snake. Peggy then places the mouse on Nancy which causes her to knock over a bucket of mice and cause chaos at the farm. Hank pleads with Peggy to apologise to Nancy over her actions but refuses to unless Nancy apologises for using the term Arlenites and threatens to quit if she refuses. Nancy tells her, "Well you just quit Suge". After both woman quit everyone else follows suit leading Hank to ask, "What about the Cowboys?".

Hank then takes on sole responsibility of shooting and making the film entirely on his own but during an editing session, is told by the editor that the footage is near unusable for a variety of reasons which include bad sound and not using a master shot. Hank starts to become despondent over his inability to make the film which prompts Peggy to apologise to Nancy and try to resurrect the film idea. She takes a box load of videos and home movies to Dave, the editor Hank used. Peggy then invites over all the neighbors to the house and are told that she used home video footage to make a highlight reel of the families over the years to send to the Dallas Cowboys.

Bobby then sees Hank sitting on the front door footsteps and is told that the Cowboys rejected the idea of relocation but thanked him for his efforts and sent a little Cowboys football. Bobby then starts to have a conversation with Hank that while he will probably leave Arlen when he is older he is still going to be around for a while. The two then decide to play with the football and pretend that they are playing in the dying stages of the Super Bowl for the Cowboys..