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A new reverend comes to Arlen—a woman minister—and she comes bearing gifts! In this case, it'e lutefisk: a Scandinavian treat that Bobby devours during a potluck to welcome this new church leader. But when his guts reject this culinary concoction during the next day's mass, Bobby has an extreme bathroom event that leads to the church burning to the ground—and Cotton is fingered as the number one suspect. Can Bobby clear his grandpa's name while keeping his historically significant bowel movement a secret?

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That1WelderGuy

I did a contract just south of Minneapolis last year and I tried to find Lutefisk(not that I tried too hard mind you) and I got the same response as you did. The contract ended in November so I wasn’t able to stick around Christmas to see if I could find some place that made it or if someone from the place I was doing the contracting for would offer me some.

OozingNeon

While your description of Frito Pie being kind of like nachos with “ground beef” is close, it’s actually more like a chili casserole that uses Fritos as a base. That’s why Fritos has a chili flavor variant you can get from the gas station, so you can recreate the flavor of eating Frito Pie without actually making a whole thing of chili.

Frank Grimes

Not a spoiler, but the chief in Bad boys is still indeed dead.

Blake R.

i have officially exceeded the amount of times I can hear the phrase "stinky poop" for the week

Shawn Frieler

I had lutefisk once at a Minnesota church potluck, appropriately enough. I couldn’t get past the texture. I haven’t met anyone that truly likes lutefisk. Most of the old-timers had different ways to cover up the taste.

Joe Hodgson

It's been said before in this space and it's about to be said again, but god damn is Toby Huss wonderful as Cotton. I watch all of these ahead of the podcast going live and my family is probably sick of me walking around and shouting in my best Cotton voice, "Find the man with the terrible smell!" When this show comes back we need some flashback episodes or something because Cotton needs to be a part of it.

Tricia

If you gentlemen are feeling really adventurous you can try the stinky food from my culture, chitterlings (pronounced chitlins) It’s actually kind of been phased out of Black cuisine bc of the aggressive odor but you can still buy them, the stinkiest part is preparing them which is a six hour process

Kat Heagberg

I definitely feel like the choice of Mary Tyler Moore to voice Reverend Stroup probably felt super on-the-nose for older generations/target audience at the time. My mom for example — growing up it seemed like her particular brand of feminism was rooted in two things: Mary Tyler Moore (that show was a huge inspiration to her when she was young and she for sure identifies with the character) and “Women should be priests!” (she was/is a self-described liberal Catholic). And the Minnesota thing to boot would have made her an ideal fit for a similar audience. I wonder also, aside from just general sitcom oversights, if the lack of accents on the MTM show was because it took place in Minneapolis? Most people I know who live there, as is the case in a lot of major cities, aren’t actually from there, and I’ve honestly heard more Minnesota accents in LA (Anyone want to eat “bag-uls” and watch “Dreg Race”?) than in Minneapolis. Loved this episode and discussion, and I think now I’m going to recommend it to my Mom — she was never a King of the Hill fan, but even in spite of the poop, I think she’d love it.

Pikachu Ferrari

I'm a regular attendee of the local Unitarian Church, and I don't get along with everyone, but I want to say 1 MOST of the people there actively hate church and many have difficulty actually sitting through the sermons led by, yes, our female Reverend; 2 this congregation is the most densely-packed group of intelligent people I've ever met in my life. EVERY SUNDAY I have an intelligent, interesting conversation with someone, about surprisingly deep topics. 3 plenty of women and queers and trans people and anything else. we have a Native American guy 👀 4 it's not a Christian church. they aren't Christians. most are actually ex-Christians who, again, *hate* church. You don't actually have to attend the sermons: Unitarian Universalist Churches have plenty of activities that aren't actually church. We have a bi-weekly D&D game that ALWAYS goes for at least five hours, every time. "Wow, you must go to the church in some liberal town." Nope, I'm describing the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham, AL. (The first integrated church in Birmingham, the UUCB received so many bomb threats in the '60s that the old lady answering the phones told one man "Mister, if you're planning on blowing up this church, then you'd better take a number!" and then slammed the receiver down lmao— they never got bombed lol)

burro

You will not find lutefisk in Minneapolis Bob. Everyone will look at you sideways for asking, half of people won't know what you're talking about, the other half will just say "oh, i think my grandma made that once?"

Jonathon

Great episode! That last joke is so good, too. Though the speed with which she comes back with "I forgive you" after Bobby confesses makes me think she always knew it was Bobby but reveled in blaming Cotton just because she hates him so much. Her delivery feels anticipatory to me, which makes it extra funny. It reveals that she doesn't really care that much about the trophy itself, but it the trophy was a perfect example of something Cotton would break specifically as a dig at Peggy because Boggle is something she's good at.

Henry Williams

The pope did use the f slur for gay men in Italian, but it was a form of the word that is basically only used by gay men themselves in Italy. So it’s a more nuanced situation than Henry implies. Not that I’m defending it, just not that cut and dry. I generally like this pop he’s made some very loving statements.

Davidandwaffles

Lutefisk is absolutely disgusting, but an XMas tradition in our Norwegian family. But Grandma insists, and there's just not enough butter sauce in the world to cover it. But what can you do, say no to Grandma after she's been making it since WWII?

Bob Mackey

I had (vegetarian) Frito pie in Southern California after recording this episode and it was very good!

Giovanni

My only knowledge of Lutefisk comes from the PBS animated series Arthur where George is known for his love of lutefisk, which none of the other kids like except for Buster who would eat even more lutefisk than Bobby ate in the episode.

Andrew Bouvier

The almost Futurama-esque Arson Investigate line is potentially quite dark. Arson investigators are the cops of the fire department world. They WANT a crime to be committed so they can place blame. And unfortunately, the "science" they often use is junk science that's horrendously out of date. Many of them take extremely short classes on identifying arson, and even if those classes weren't teaching junk science, they're still way too short . A particularly tragic case is that of Cameron Todd Willingham (PBS Frontline link: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/death-by-fire/interviews/gerald-hurst.html) The short of it is, arson investigators use junk science (even by 1991 standards) to convict, and ultimately executed, an almost certainly innocent man.

Dang

Talking Simpsons drinking game: take a shot every time Henry badmouths his father and every time he says something sweet about his mom.

PurpleComet

This episode made me laugh more than any King of the Hill episode so far. Maybe I've finally tuned into King of the Hill's particular brand of humor or maybe the writing was just on point, but I was LOLing constantly. Peggy kind of stole the show, her line about the fire being so strong it burned all the wood was a classic.

Jon Peder Grønsveen Opsahl

I'm Norwegian and can confirm that it is a christmas dish. The reason people eat it is mostly down to tradition, and people use condiments and sides to try to drown out the taste. I don't believe that many Norwegians eat it anymore either. It was a necessity for precervation that has turned to tradition.