"Hillennium" is the 71
st episode in the
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animated
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and is the 10
th episode of the fourth season, as well as the fourth Christmas special. The title of the episode is a play on the word
millenniumA millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years...
.
As
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
approaches,
Hank'sFor Hank's half-brother, also named Hank, see G. H. HillHank Rutherford Hill is a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. Hank works at the fictional Strickland Propane in Arlen, Texas selling propane and propane accessories. Hank's voice is provided by series creator Mike Judge...
irritation with everyone caught up in the Y2K hysteria grows. It seems that he and, ironically,
DaleDale Alvin Gribble is a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. He is an exterminator, bounty hunter, smoker, gun fanatic, and paranoid believer of almost all conspiracy theories...
are the only ones not hoarding supplies.
"Hillennium" is the 71
st episode in the
FoxThe Fox Broadcasting Company , commonly referred to as Fox , is an American television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, from 2004 to 2009 Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic...
animated
situation comedyA situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms...
King of the HillKing of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997 to September 13, 2009 on Fox. It centers on the Hills, a small-town Methodist family in Arlen, Texas...
and is the 10
th episode of the fourth season, as well as the fourth Christmas special. The title of the episode is a play on the word
millenniumA millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years...
.
Plot
As
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
approaches,
Hank'sFor Hank's half-brother, also named Hank, see G. H. HillHank Rutherford Hill is a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. Hank works at the fictional Strickland Propane in Arlen, Texas selling propane and propane accessories. Hank's voice is provided by series creator Mike Judge...
irritation with everyone caught up in the Y2K hysteria grows. It seems that he and, ironically,
DaleDale Alvin Gribble is a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. He is an exterminator, bounty hunter, smoker, gun fanatic, and paranoid believer of almost all conspiracy theories...
are the only ones not hoarding supplies. When there's a run on propane and Strickland Propane has to close its doors, Hank takes the last tank of propane and joins the hoarding hysteria. He discovers that Dale has been hoarding himself, and that his supplies had been destroyed when his barrel of
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was destroyed by a gerbil(which he was trying to crossbreed with a hamster for food) The two seek survival help from Chappy, the self-reliant outdoorsman who sells Christmas trees. His hysteria is so pervasive that Hank scraps his original gift-giving ideas and gets everyone low-tech survival items for Christmas presents. This particularly upsets Peggy, who had known of Hank's previous plan to replace her ancient
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with a more modernized computer but instead receives a grandfather clock.
On Christmas Day, Hank attempts to varnish the grandfather clock in a closed garage and passes out due to the fumes, where he has a
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of being trapped inside a
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game with a
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mole who inspires him to face the future with confidence. When he recovers, he creates a bonfire with his badly-chosen presents and promises his wife a blueberry
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the next day.
Quotes
- Chappy: I live in a shack and I poop in an outhouse. Let the grid go down, Lord; I'm ready.
- Hank: There isn't a Mrs. Chappy is there?
- Dale: That's your go-to guy? Monkey beans and an outhouse?! I couldn't face the bicentennial with monkey beans, let alone the millennium!
- Peggy: Is my Kaypro Y2K-compliant?
- Customer: Kaypro? My watch has more memory than that piece of crap.
- Kahn: Hey hillbillies! Those [rolls of toilet paper] aren't logs! They're for wipey-wipey.
- Dale (finding his kegs of Mountain Dew have been damaged by rodents): My Dew!
- Bobby (as a mole): I'm wearing diapers, Father!