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"The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" is the first Christmas episode of the FOX animated series King of the Hill, aired as the eleventh episode in the show's second season (though it is the season's ninth episode in production order).

Synopsis[]

Hank Hill and his wife, Peggy, are at the airport waiting for his mother, Tilly, to arrive for Christmas. He had been informed that she had gotten remarried to a Jewish man named Gary whom he is worried will treat her badly like his biological father, Cotton, had. They soon arrive and he is already worried because he thought he made her carry the bags by herself but she informs him that she volunteered but he is still uncomfortable around Gary because he doesn't know him. Everyone gets along well with him except for Hank and when he attempts to bond with him he makes up excuses as to why he can't talk to him.

Later Hank, Peggy, their son, Bobby, and niece, Luanne, are getting ready to go to a baseball game but Hank tells Peggy that he needs his giant foam hand to cheer with. As he enters the house he discovers clothes lying around the house and discovers Tilly and Gary having sex. The sight frightens him and he runs out of the room when suddenly Gary's dog tag shines into his eyes and he goes blind as a result of that and his fear. He stumbles into the truck and reveals to his family that he has gone blind.

Peggy drives Hank to the hospital to try and figure out the cause of his blindness. The doctor can't find anything wrong with him and asks if he poked himself in the eyes and he asks if it's possible that someone can go blind as a result of seeing something "very wrong" and he tells him that it's a possibility. On the drive home he is forced to admit to Peggy that he had gone blind as a result of seeing Tilly and Gary having sex. When they arrive he tells the rest of the family that he went blind because of poking himself in the eye and the other shut down as well. Later they celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, and Hank can't enjoy it because of his blindness but he attempts to exchange the gifts. He gives people the wrong presents and accidentally tears down the tree.

Hank later asks Peggy to drive him to Cotton's house so he can spend time with him. Unbeknownst to him Peggy has insisted that Gary drive him instead so they can bond. He is shocked when he discovers this and gets angry with Gary jokes around with him. When they arrive at Cotton's he punches Hank in the stomach to test if he was actually blind. Then he takes them out to hunt for a Christmas tree which consists of shooting it down with a shotgun. Later they have a conversation and Gary learns that Cotton divorced Tilly because she was "too old" for him and Gary is furious that he would treat her that way and they leave. They enter a live television broadcast of a Christian show where miracles are performed because Gary had seen Hank watch it earlier, during which Gary tells Hank he knows the reason why he went blind and that he would be honored to have him as a stepson. He excepts and his vision is restored. He then decides to get revenge on his friends Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer, because they picked on him while he was blind.

Cast[]

Voice actor/actress Character(s)
Mike Judge Hank Hill
Jeff Boohaumer
Kathy Najimy Peggy Hill
Pamela Adlon Bobby Hill
Brittany Murphy Luanne Platter

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20th Century
Movies
Miracle on 34th Street (1955 remake) (1973 remake) (1994 remake) • Die HardDie Hard 2Home AloneHome Alone 2: Lost in New YorkGeorge Balanchine's The NutcrackerTrapped in ParadiseJingle All the WayHome Alone 4The Family StoneDeck the Halls12 Men of ChristmasHome Alone: The Holiday HeistJingle All the Way 2Home Sweet Home Alone
Television episodes and specials
20th Television
M*A*S*H "Dear Dad" • "Dear Sis" • "Death Takes a Holiday" • "All About Christmas Eve"
Tracey Ullman "Santa Baby" • "Kay's Gift" • "Merry Catnip"
The X Files "Christmas Carol" • "Emily" • "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
Malcolm in the Middle "Christmas" • "Christmas Trees" • "Pearl Harbor" • "Hal's Christmas Gift
Bones "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" • "The Santa in the Slush" • "The Goop on the Girl"
How I Met Your Mother "How Lily Stole Christmas" • "Little Minnesota" • "False Positive" • "Symphony of Illumination" • "The Over-Correction" • "The Final Page, Part 1" • "The Final Page, Part 2"
Glee "A Very Glee Christmas" • "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" • "Glee, Actually" • "Previously Unaired Christmas"
New Girl "The 23rd" • "Santa" • "LAXmas" • "Christmas Eve Eve"
The Mindy Project "Josh and Mindy's Christmas Party" • "Christmas Party Sex Trap" • "Christmas" • "When Mindy Met Danny"
Last Man Standing "Last Christmas Standing" • "Putting a Hit on Christmas" • "Elfie" • "Wedding Planning" • "Gift of the Wise Man"
Other shows "Christmas Story" • "The Worst Noel" • "Haus Arrest" • "Amends" • "Blue Christmas" • "A Christmas Story" • "Cookies for Santa" • "In God We Trust" • "Road to Tradition" • "Afternoon Delight" • "Christmas" • "The Glitch That Stole Christmas" • "Secret Santa"
20th Television Animation
The Simpsons "Simpson Christmas" • "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" • "Marge Be Not Proud" • "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" • "Grift of the Magi" • "Skinner's Sense of Snow" • "She of Little Faith" • "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" • "Simpson Christmas Stories" • "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" • "The Fight Before Christmas" • "Holidays of Future Passed" • "White Christmas Blues" • "I Won't Be Home for Christmas • "The Nightmare After Krustmas" • "'Tis the 30th Season" • "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" • "The Way of The Dog" • "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" • "Manger Things" • Feliz Navidad
King of the Hill "The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" • "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" • "Hillennium" • "'Twas the Nut Before Christmas" • "The Father, the Son, and J.C." • "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane" • "Ms. Wakefield"
Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" • "The Best Christmas Story Never" • "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" • "Rapture's Delight" • "A Cleveland Brown Christmas" • "Road to the North Pole" • "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls" • "Murray Christmas" • "Season's Beatings" • "Die Semi-Hard" • "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" • "'Tis the Cleveland To Be Sorry" • "Minstrel Krampus" • "Christmas Guy" • "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" • "The 2000-Year-Old Virgin" • "How the Griffin Stole Christmas" • "Ninety North, Zero West" • "Gifted Me Liberty" • "Don't Be a Dickens At Christmas" • "Santa, Schmanta" • "Christmas is Coming" • "Yule. Tide. Repeat." • "The First No L" • "Christmas Crime" • "The Return of the King (of Queens)"
Futurama "Xmas Story" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas"
Bob's Burgers "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins" • "Christmas in the Car" • "Father of the Bob" • "Nice-Capades" • "The Last Gingerbread House on the Left" • "The Bleakening" • "Better Off Sled" • "Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas" • "Yachty or Nice" • "Gene's Christmas Break" • "The Plight Before Christmas" • "The Nightmare 2 Days Before Christmas"
Other cartoons "Hook's Christmas" • "A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman" • Olive, the Other ReindeerIce Age: A Mammoth Christmas • "The War on Grafelnik" • "Miracle on Culpepper Slims Boulevard" • "A Very Solar Holiday Opposites Special" • "Dip the Halls Adventure" • "Xmas with The Skanks Adventure"
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