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Gayest Episode Ever

King of the Hill Accidentally Explores Muscle Gainer Subculture

Gayest Episode Ever

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8568 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

"Bill, Bulk and the Body Buddies" (May 20, 2007)

Can one illustration of a buff Bill Dauterive change your entire life in an instant? Well, for some people, yeah. This King of the Hill outing manages to stuff in a whole lot of imagery that will be familiar to a certain gay subculture. It's inadvertent — and specifically this episode also features explicitly gay characters as a counterpoint to the rude, crude muscle bros, but there's plenty to talk about nonetheless in Bill's adventures through body transformation.

Listen to our previous King of the Hill episodes here.

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0:00.0

Those mangoed colored palazzo pants that made my butt look big.

0:09.0

I'm having fun.

0:11.0

Your wife divorced you.

0:13.2

Hey, any of you guys feel like wrestling?

0:15.2

Even me?

0:17.3

Pocket sand.

0:18.2

Yeah.

0:27.6

Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT episodes of classic sitcoms.

0:29.4

I am called Drew Mackey.

0:31.4

I'm Glenn Lakin.

0:33.0

Glenn, what series are we discussing this week?

0:35.1

King of the Hill, Drew.

0:37.0

The only good Republicans. Right. So we're going to talk about how America needs King of the Hill more than ever, clearly. But this is, in fact, the fifth episode of King in the Hill we've covered so far, which is more than I thought we were going to cover. But less than I want to cover. I mean, it is... Or fewer than I want to cover. Weirdly... both work really. Yeah, it does. It is restorative for me to talk about King of the Hill and just spend time in this version of America rather than the one we actually live in. Because we've done this so many times, I'm not going to go into production history. No, just listen to the old episodes. You fools. Yeah, they're in the show notes. Oh, my God. I'm sorry, I will not do that again. Were you bored already? Are you already bored of recording? I just remember there was a message. I forgot the check. And the message was music? Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm not cutting that out, by the way. That's staying in. Everyone's going to know your shame. That's fine. Listen, we're all dealing with this world the best we can. I don't think you're dealing with it as best as you can. I think there's room for improvement. Glenn, mute your fucking phone. Sorry. My phone is muted. Now it is. It sounds silent. I don't know what to tell you.

1:44.6

I can't help the Instagram insist on making noise when I don't want it to.

1:51.7

Well, don't look at Instagram.

1:54.1

I don't know.

1:55.4

One social network at a time.

1:57.7

I feel like it's very hard to argue that this episode does not have a strong homoerotic undercurrent, even though it is not explicitly a gay episode. There's a gay joke, but like... Well, yes, a two-part gay joke. But then, you know, there's body dysmorphia and hot men, so what are you going to do? Yeah. Be gay, apparently. So yeah, I wanted to talk about King of the Hill this week because the reasons I stated at the top of this episode, but also, based on the election, I feel

2:22.6

very comfortable proclaiming that there's a masculinity crisis in America right now.

2:28.5

Yeah, apparently. It's not the one that the right wing people would have you believe. So we're

2:33.1

going to talk a little bit about ourselves.

2:36.7

But before I want to get to that, I want to talk about the four male leads of King of the Hill.

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