A Beer Can Named Desire

Season 4, Episode 6, Aired
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Hank wins an Alamo Beer contest, which gives him the chance to win 1 million dollars. He travels to a football game in New Orleans to try and win Bobby's college money, amongst other things. Meanwhile, Bill rides along to his aunt's plantation in Louisiana to visit. He is confronted by three very beautiful cousins each with an agenda to marry the last remaining available Dauterive, who happens to be Bill.moreless
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  • Bill stole the show.

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    By cactusjack39, Jan 25, 2009 Report Abuse
    This episode of King of the Hill was great. I thought that the Hank storyline was okay, but what really made it entertaining was Bill being Bill. I liked his storyline and it was an awsome situation to be in. I wished I was Bill in this episode. Having to chose between 3 beautiful women would be fun. As far as Hank and his problem of throwing his football into a hole for money, he should have done it himself. He went through all that work and he gave into his own blind faith in Don Meredith. Serves Hank right for being so stupid. Thank you.moreless

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  • When Hank gets a chance to win a million dollars by throwing a football throw a giant Alamo beer can, the Hills, along will the neighbors, drive to New Orleans. They meet a true Southern gentleman, 3 woman competing for Bill and footballer Don Meredith.moreless

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    By darlingdarcy, Nov 17, 2006 Report Abuse
    "A Beer Can Named Desire" is perhaps the best episode of the spectacular fourth season. Bill's bloodlines are revealed, Hank gets the chance to win a million dollars, and Bobby gets lessons in how to be a dandy.

    The episode begins with Dale, Bill, Hank and Boomhauer drinking their dietary staple, Alamo beer. The company is running a contest - if a drinker finishes their beer and finds "WINNER" at the bottom of the can, they win a chance to throw a football through a hole in a giant Alamo beer can and win a million dollars, or have Dandy Don Meredith can take your throw and if he makes it, the person gets a hundred thousand dollars, all during half-time at a New Orleans Saints game. While the guys are anxious to find a winning beer can, Hank isn't willing to pour out his beer to see if he won. In true Hank style, he puts the beer in the fridge with cellophane wrap across the top.

    Luanne finds the beer, drinks it, and discovers she's a winner. Hank corrects her - HE'S the winner. Bobby, Luanne, Hank and Peggy get ready to head to New Orleans, where the contest is taking place, but Bill, Dale and Boomhauer decide to join them. Bill reveals he has relatives in the bayou, and asks that they stop by. Hank grudgingly agrees.

    This is where the episode truly becomes legendary - Bill comes not from a "tar-paper shack", but a rich family with a plantation and three beautiful, eligible widows. However, one is a Dauterive, the other two ony married Dauterives. Rather than go for ladies' many Boomhauer, the women begin to compete for Bill's affection, hoping he will then marry her and give her children. Bill's Aunt Esthme (anyone know how to spell her name correctly?) reveals "The Dauterive blood is down to a trickle." The women show off their zydeco skills, best dresses and Southern charm, all in hopes of winning Bill's attention.

    Also present at the Dauterive mansion is Jean-Claude, the only living Dauterive male. However, he is not eligible to the women, if you know what I mean. He attempts to teach Bobby the wonders of being a Southern gentleman ("This here is velvet, Robert (prounounced like Colbert in Colbert Report), not velveteen. A gentleman must know the difference," Jean-Claude says, holding up a royal blue suit). He sends Bobby on his way to New Orleans with a few choice pieces of finery. As the family prepares to leave, Bobby, decked out in a powder blue suit with a walking cane, declares, "I da declare I need a window seat because this flower is wiltin\'", earning a groan from Hank.

    Bill decides to stay at the Dauterive plantation, much to the delight of the women. Peggy warns Bill one of the ladies is his blood cousin. Bill declares he's never had a two in three chance before and bids the Hills et. al. aideu.

    When the Hills arrive in New Orleans and meet Dandy Don Meredith, Bobby tells Don they're both dandies, with Bobby proudly showing off his burgundy smoking jacket and ascot. When the family gets back to the hotel, Hank promptly throws out all the clothes Bobby received from Jean-Claude into the hotel pool.

    At the half-time competition, Hank chooses to let Dandy Don take the throw, but the famous football star misses. Hank, feeling cheated that the man didn't even remove his jacket, tackles Dandy Don.

    Meanwhile, Bill is trying to discover which woman is his cousin, and narrows it down after seeing the grave of one husband. Eventually, all three girls, clad in their best lingerie, sneak into Bill's room, and commence a catfight as they all declare each other the cousin. Suddenly a lighter flicks, and Jean-Claude, in the shadows of the room the whole time, lights a cigarette and informs Bill which widow is his cousin.

    The true cousin rats Bill out, and his aunt asks him if he was "toiling in the soil or just playing in the garden?". Bill humbly admits to playing in the garden.

    In New Orleans, Hank finds Dandy Don getting into a taxi, and confronts him. The man explains he wore his coat when practicing in his backyard in New Mexico during the winter. The two go to the football stadium, and, coincidentally, the Alamo can is still up the day after. Hank makes the throw, but is still sad. Dandy Don tells him he'll feel better if he just accepts the outcome and gets over it.

    On the way back to Arlen, they pick up Bill outside the mansion, who is standing in the rain grinning. When Peggy greets him he interrupts to exclaim, "Both of 'em!"moreless

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    • When the three girls greet Bill, Violetta's fan changes color a couple of times when she is waving it. Edit

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    • Although the episode establishes that Luanne was supposed to go on the trip to New Orleans, she disappears throughout the middle of the show. She is seen with the family in the car and also when arriving at Chateau D'Haute Rive, but then is not seen in the house and is not seen sitting down to dinner with everyone else. She only reappears in the stands at the football game later in the episode. Although her apparent absence could possibly be explained by "camera angles," it seems odd that she is not present in most of the remaining scenes and that she does not have another line in the rest of the episode, especially given that she was the one who first discovered the winning beer can. Edit
    • Tagline: "Whoa! Heh-heh! That's a great story, Mr. Meredith." - Hank Edit

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    • Bobby: (dressed like a dandy) I do believe I shall give room service a jingle and have them order us up some etouffees. (Hank dumps the clothes over the balcony) NOOOO!!! Edit
    • Esthme: The Dauterive blood is down to a trickle. My two sons and my son-in-law, Girac, Rene and Emeril, died of arterial sclerosis in their twenties, leaving three desperate, childless widows to wander this house. They are strings on a harp stretched far too taut, and if they are not strummed soon... well... they really need to be strummed! Peggy: This is right out of Shakespeare! Edit
    • Peggy: Bill, I had no idea you spoke Cajun. Perhaps that's because I try not to ask you questions. Edit

  • Allusions

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    • The title of this episode "A Beer Can Named Desire" is an allusion to the title of the play by Tennessee Williams titled A Streetcar Named Desire. This episode chronicles a trip to New Orleans, and the play also takes place in New Orleans. Edit
    • Beavis and Butt-head The two mumbling cajun men that Hank asks directions from do so in the manner in which the main characters of creator Mike Judge's previous show Beavis and Butt-head, are famous for. Edit

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