:: November 2, 2004
This election day, I am thinking of a genius King of the Hill Episode from four years ago, "The Perils of Polling," in which Hank becomes disillusioned (to the point of existential crisis) with George W. Bush because of the presidential candiate's weak handshake. So on election day, instead of voting, Dale Gribble and Hank take off for a day of shopping at the outlet mall, and Dale attempts to assure Hank's subversion by driving into Mexico. There are also subplots involving Bobby saving a diving pig from drowning, the futility of fringe candidates, Luann's flirtation with the Communist Party, and Peggy running a polling place from the Hill's garage. Here are quotes from the episode.
But this is interesting: the episode is not listed on the offical Fox.com KoTH site. It was "get out the vote" special aired outside of the regular season, as far as I can tell, but still numbered as part of Season 5. Could Fox be trying to erase this episode from history? ::
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