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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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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.