(s13e02) “Earthy Girls are Easy”

Episode description: Dale, in an attempt to impress the ladies, organizes an Earth benefit concert.

I’m not really sure who wrote the episode description above, but its grossly inaccurate. The episode starts off with Bobby and Joseph planting trees for their Earth Science class. Right about the same time Hank finds out that Mr. Strickland has been illegally dumping old propane tanks in the Arlen river.

To keep customers from revolting Hank decides that Strickland Propane has to “go green”. After telling the gang in the alley about what’s going – Dale gets the idea to sell Mr. Strickland a carbon off-set…which Mr. Strickland immediately buys into…because it means he doesn’t have to actually do anything.

Dale quickly figures out that he can better utilize Bobby and Joseph by getting them to sell carbon off-sets, rather than actually plant them…without bothering to actually plant the trees.

Strickland uses his carbon off-set purchasing power to chase tale, and Hank insists that all of this is going to back fire. In an attempt to impress the hippy chicks in town, Mr. Strickland decides to throw and Earth Concert….in his carbon off-set forrest…which, of course, Dale hasn’t planted.

Hank and the family drives out to “Strickland Woods” and discover that Dale hasn’t done his job, which prompts Hank to force Dale to fess up. Mr. Strickland continues to trust Dale with ideas – because he offers the easy way out. So the duo head out to a gun nut’s house and buy his “carbon offset rights” to his surrounding trees.

The concert gets rolling, and everyone except Hank thinks its going to go off without a hitch. When Hanks sees that Bobby has completely lost faith in caring about stuff over this – he gets up on stage and confesses the truth of about everything Strickland HASN’T done.

Much to his surprise – the hippies don’t really care.

Ultimately, Hank helps Bobby with the one tree he planted at the beginning of the episode, and tries to teach him not to be like Mr. Strickland or Dale.

The episode does what “King of the Hill” has always done so well – it points out problems in society and comments on them through the filter of Hank. This was another good, semi-classic episode of the series. According to Dish Network this is episode 246…that’s amazing.

I can’t wait to see them hit 250.