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It's February on TalKing of the Hill, and love is in the air—unfortunately, it's nonconsensual love between a dolphin and a man. When Hank scores Luanne a job at the La Grunta resort, she buys him a dolphin encounter experience in return. Unfortunately, this experience soon turns into a confrontation, leaving Hank absolutely humiliated—and hushed up with a boatload of free La Grunta merch. And despite the seemingly wacky premise, this episode spins an incredibly meaningful allegory about survivors of sexual abuse and assault. So grab the nearest box of tissues and a jar of comforting capers, and listen in!

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Pikachu Ferrari

a washer is a flat disc with a hole in it and Hank is buying a screw with a nut on it (something you might supplement with a washer). I have no idea how much those cost in the '90s but I guess typically not eight cents 😅 (the man's got a family!)

wildlandblazed

Wow I really was not expecting KOTH to have an episode on sexual assault that holds up post MeToo! Also all of this Sammy talk coincidentally being uploaded the same day the Boondocks pilot was publicized gave me a good laugh. I'm hyped for the TalkingSammy series you guys definitely promised for the 25th anniversary next year :)

Frank Grimes

Classic and classy episode, given the subject matter.

Dan Vincent

Peggy isn't exactly wrong about using a flash in broad daylight! The sun is a powerful light source but one problem with it is shadows. The dynamic range of a sun-lit subject may produce some harsh shadows that plug up or might look distracting. A pop-flash can act as a bit of fill light to lift those shadows up and make them less obnoxious. Especially in a portrait situation like Peggy taking a photo of Bobby with the flamingoes. Other solutions are large reflectors or even larger off-camera flashes to help control the dynamic range. That's not to say that Peggy is a skilled photographer; she's kinda repeating something without thinking about WHY she should use the flash in this scenario. Which is very Peggy-like behavior. But still, it's not unheard of to use a flash in broad daylight.

RVG

Well this just became your most timely episode drop ever

Erin Hardy

Stephen Root's delivery on "I was gonna live it up" always kills me.

Chris Dobson

As a fellow pescatarian, weird that Bob doesn't enjoy brunch? There's always a good Greek Omelette or an eggs Florentine at a brunch place!

Anna Mansager Comedy

You ever notice Hank gets sexually assaulted a lot This one, the one with the lady cop who’s interested in him

Joe Hodgson

I wasn't sure if Bill going back to confront Duke was a genuine response to trying to put his trauma behind him, or another very dark joke about Bill's crippling loneliness. If so, then that might be even darker than all of the suicide jokes.

Riley Hall

If the new age dolphin fan was still alive in 2024, he'd be making tik tok videos about pizzagate. oh, and also a real estate agent

Carlos Hernandez

Your episode description for this one was a roller coaster ride!

Chris Cashmoney

Just wanted to put in my two cents as a photographer. In the case of Peggy using her flash outside, this is something that photographers will commonly do. It's referred to as "fill flash" and essentially what you're trying to do is reduce unflattering shadows from a sun that is directly overhead. I don't think Peggy knows this technique so would have utilized it by mistake at best. But I just wanted to use this as a teachable moment and I encourage everyone to try fill flash this summer.

Ryan Strawn

"If dolphins are so smart, why can't they play the drums" - Crow T. Robot

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Side note about Lifetime movies - I live in Ottawa, Ontario, and one of my closest friends works on film sets for a living, and SO MANY Lifetime and Hallmark movies film here, so occasionally there's some funny stories about actors having big egos despite this, or someone we know from other projects being in town for one of them. Typically these days it's a lot of people from different CW shows that ended in the last ~5 years, local Ontario-based actors, or the classic level of supporting actor from a bunch of recognizable things who never gets to play the lead (I'm thinking of a specific actress who has been on The Good Place, Supergirl, and some Netflix movies, for instance). There's certainly a lot of love for these movies from certain audiences (especially the Christmas-themed Hallmark ones), so I think it's less shameful than it used to be, but it's definitely not something people really *want* to be doing all the time, which makes it funny when someone gets a big head about being the lead in one of them.

Obvs Ofcourse

Great job, guys. But the ethics of this episode don't really hold up to scrutiny. They play sexual assault for laughs - all you have to is imagine how this would read if the dolphin's victims were women. Would we accept an ending where the hero is vindicated by causing her nemesis, another woman, to ALSO be sexually assaulted? And it's bogus for the show to imply sexual assault victims have an obligation to speak up. They should, if they want to, and feel they can. But to imply it's a moral failing to speak out is BS - a person is assaulted and that puts a burden on THEM? Granted, this was about as good as it got in the 90s - but it rests on the corny, and disgusting, idea that sexual assault is kind of funny if it happens to a man.