Spin the Choice

Infobox Television episode
Title = Spin the Choice
Series = King of the Hill


Caption =
Season = 5
Episode = 4
Airdate = Sunday 19 November 2000
Production = 5ABE05
Writer = Paul Lieberstein
Director = Allan Jacobsen
Guests =
Episode list = List of King of the Hill episodes
Prev = I Don't Want to Wait for Our Lives to Be Over
Next = Peggy Makes the Big Leagues

“Spin the Choice” is the eighty-eighth episode in the FOX animated comedy "King of the Hill". Although it was the 5^th episode produced for the 5^th season, it was broadcast as the 4^th episode.

Plot

Hank is grooming Bobby for the honor of carving the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner. However, when Bobby hears John Redcorn speak about how white men conquered the Indians and stole their land, Bobby becomes outraged and disenchanted with the ritual of Thanksgiving, and dedicates himself to learning about Native Americans.

While Dale acts as John Redcorn’s lawyer in Redcorn’s attempt to reclaim his people’s land, Redcorn also has paternal feelings for Joseph, and tries to bond with him and teach him of his Native heritage, but Nancy doesn’t want him to reveal that he is secretly Joseph’s biological father.

Luanne tells Peggy that everyone finds Peggy’s board games boring, so Peggy invents a new game, "Spin the Choice", the only parts of which are spinning and choosing, the two things Peggy thinks people like about games.

At the Hills’ neighborhood Thanksgiving party, Dale announces that he has managed to win Redcorn 12 acres of land in unincorporated Arlen. As this is only one one-thousandth of a percent of his people’s original land, Redcorn is furious. Hoping to defuse the tension, Hank allows Bobby to make a presentation about Native culture, but Bobby shocks everyone by giving a speech in which he says Native Americans were cannibals, and by presenting Redcorn with a cannibal feast: a faux human head made out of turkey and vegetables. Joseph is horrified and wants nothing to do with Redcorn.

Dale goes to Redcorn’s home to apologize for his son’s reaction. Dale’s choice of the words “my son” make Redcorn very emotional, and he comes close to revealing to Dale that he is Joseph’s father. However, when Dale starts to worry that Redcorn is a cannibal and becomes convinced Redcorn is going to eat him, Redcorn’s anger is deflected.

Nancy chastises Joseph for rejecting Redcorn, while Dale phones Hank from Redcorn’s bathroom to request rescue from being eaten by Redcorn, so Hank, Bobby, and Joseph go to Redcorn’s (Joseph to apologize to Redcorn, and Hank and Bobby to reassure Dale).

On the way, Hank and Bobby make peace and agree that both native cannibalism and what the white man did centuries ago were both wrong, and Bobby looks forward to carving the turkey after all. At Redcorn’s, Joseph apologizes to Redcorn and explains that Nancy taught him to have sympathy for the plight of Native Americans. Redcorn is moved by Joseph’s new maturity and sensitivity, and tells Dale that he will accept the 12-acre settlement offered by the government, and that when he dies, he wants to leave it to Dale in his will, so that when Dale dies, Joseph will live on the land of Redcorn’s ancestors.

Error

Redcorn angrily notes that the 12-acre settlement offered to him is only 0.001% of the 130,000 acres he had been seeking. This is off by roughly a factor of 10, as 12 divided by 130,000 is 0.0000923, or slightly less than 0.01%.