King of the Hill

Season 5 Episode 14

The Exterminator

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A doctor tells Dale that inhaling dangerous chemicals is affecting his health, and if he doesn't give up exterminating, he'll die. Hank gets Dale a new job as a faceless drone at the adhesives company, Stik Tek. But Dale's experience at killing living things proves invaluable when he is placed in charge of telling people they're fired. Meanwhile, Joseph and Dale are preparing for a "hatch".moreless
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  • Dale was funny.

    8.5
    Dale Gribble was really funny. I like his paranoia and it was because of that, that made this episode good. It was interesting to see Dale handle a suit job where he had to sit in an office and behind a desk, something he tried to avoid all his life. After he realizes that he can't take much more, he begins to find out that he has a talent for firing people. He takes a liking to it as he finds a purpose to his job to make it interesting. I thought my favorite parts of the episode was where he fires certain people and when he dresses up in a suit. That was one of the few times I remember seeing him wear one. Thank you.moreless
Mike Judge

Mike Judge

Voice of Hank Hill, Boomhauer

Kathy Najimy

Kathy Najimy

Voice of Peggy Hill

Pamela Adlon

Pamela Adlon

Voice of Bobby Hill

Brittany Murphy

Brittany Murphy

Voice of Luanne Platter

Johnny Hardwick

Johnny Hardwick

Voice of Dale Gribble

Stephen Root

Stephen Root

Voice of Bill Dauterive

Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Kudrow

Miss Pittman

Guest Star

Stephen Tobolowsky

Stephen Tobolowsky

Dr. Burton

Guest Star

Jim Dauterive

Jim Dauterive

Cockroach

Guest Star

Ashley Gardner

Ashley Gardner

Voice of Nancy Hicks Gribble

Recurring Role

Breckin Meyer

Breckin Meyer

Voice of Joseph Gribble

Recurring Role

David Herman

David Herman

Gladstone

Recurring Role

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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  • TRIVIA (2)

    • In this episode we see that the pictures Dale took when his mower was stolen 43 episodes earlier in Dog Dale Afternoon are still hanging on the wall in his basement.

    • When Dale is looking at the Employee of the Month winners, if you look closely, the 1996 employee of the month was Rusty Shackleford, Dale's alias.

  • QUOTES (20)

    • Dale: (trying to fire a worker, interrupted by Joseph and Nancy)
      You people and your roaches! I am trying to fire this incompetent fool with compassion!

    • Dale: Carl, I'm off to round up some cockroaches. Any one of which would have made a better janitor than you!

    • Dale: I'll just have to find a new spot to keep my key to the executive washroom. (shows key and chuckles) Who has to make?
      Peggy: I...I could go
      Dale: Eh-eh, you're not an executive; hold it in 'til we get tot he restaurant.

    • Louis: (just fired by Dale) But I've got four children!
      Dale: I had someone earlier today with 8. Heck, I once killed a beetle with 30 million in her egg sack.

    • Dale: (bragging about features of his office to Nancy and the Hills)
      All of these plants are real and give off oxygen, which I use throughout the day.

    • Worker 1: I hear Mitch got 86ed, too!
      Worker 2: Yeah. At his own damned birthday party! Gribble walked in, blew out the candles, told him to leave the cake and get out.

    • Hank: Would you want to sleep with a bum?
      Dale: No.
      Hank: That's right. See, there's nothing sexier than a man with a 9-to-5 job which is why I lined up a new job for you. Remember my cousin Rita?
      Dale: The one with the underbite?
      Hank: Yeah. Well, she just quit her job at that adhesives company and she's putting in a good word for you to replace her.
      Dale: Well, I hope she puts it in writing because you can barely understand her when she talks.

    • Hank: Hey, Dale how are things with Nancy? You know, you used to, uh, brag about stuff.
      Dale: I didn't mean to brag. It's just that we were having spectacular sex.
      Hank: Yeah, but, uh, not so much lately, huh?
      Dale: Maybe it's something I ate. What's the opposite of oysters? Apples?

    • Dale: Here's what we'll do for your science project. We will breed servant roaches. As long as we ensure that I am the first thing the roaches see when they are born they will think I am their mother and will therefore obey my every command. My every command.
      Joseph: Think we can train them to crawl through a maze?
      Dale: Oh, we'll train them to do worse things than that, Joseph.

    • Dale: Now if you excuse me I've got some love to give, (to Nancy) and some love to make

    • Dale: (after getting the suit covered in cockroach guts) Good news Joseph, you can have your suit back.

    • Nancy: You're too sick to exterminate shug!
      Dale: I'll tell you what I told that doctor, I'm not quitting you incompetent quack!

    • Dale: (to Joseph) You keep this up Joseph and you're fired from this family!
      Nancy: Dale!
      Dale: (to Nancy) You're next Blondie

    • (Dale is firing an employee in front of Hank and Peggy)
      Dale: Louis, you've been with Stik Tek how long?
      Louis: It'll be fourteen years next week.
      Dale: No, it won't. You're fired!
      Louis: Fired? But I...
      Dale: Yeah, yeah. Look, I have to eat, she has to pee, and he has to get back to selling propane or he'll wind up in the same boat as you.

    • Miss Pittman: Mr. Gribble, how would you like to make this your permanent job?
      Dale: Firing Gladstone? Sure! Hey, Gladstone...!

    • Miss Pittman: Dallas is downsizing the flavored adhesive division. Pina colada was killing lab monkeys left and right.

    • Miss Pittman: Oh, you're bald. And not in an attractive way, like Sean Connery.

    • Dale: I have more pressures than any of you. You ever try replacing a cockroach's blood with root beer?
      Hank: You know I haven't.
      Dale: Then don't judge me.

    • Boss: Welcome to Stick Tech, Oh, you're late.
      Dale: Nu-huh! My watch says it is 9:06. Do you all start at 9:00?
      Boss: A team is only as strong as its weakest player, Mr. Gribble. Here at Stick Tech, we run a strong team.

    • Doctor: Mr. Gribble, years of abusing insecticides has totally dissolved your sinuses and coated your lungs in a substance we can't quite identify.
      Dale: I would like that substance back, it belongs to me.

  • NOTES (2)

  • ALLUSIONS (3)

    • Mr. Gladstone - It may be a coincidence but Mr. Gladstone was the name of Fred Flintstone's and Barney Rubble's boss on the Flintstones who constantly fired Fred and Barney and seemed to enjoy it, it's an amusing switch to have Mr. Gladstone fired as Dale makes his way up the corporate ladder.

    • Bill: Know who I saw at Megalomart? Richie Sambora.

      Richie Sambora is the guitarist for the band Bon Jovi.

    • The episode title The Exterminator is a reference to the action movie The Terminator.

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