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==Lifestyle== | ==Lifestyle== | ||
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| + | Voice-over actor Kendra Ray has described Dale as fancying himself as a "William S. Burroughs" or "Jack Nicholson" type. A guy who thinks he knows all the angles. Always with a conspiracy or inside information that is crackpot theorism. Dale runs his own extermination business, Dale's Dead-Bug, although he generally does not pay taxes on his income and has filled out an income tax form only once. It is hinted that he is not professionally trained in extermination and that his business is not a legally operating firm in the United States, as his company checks read "Dales Dead Bug - A Liberian Registered Company." He drives a white [[Dodge Caravan]] nicknamed "the Bug-ebago" (a [[portmanteau]] of "bug" and Winnebago) with a large plastic [[queen ant]] sculpture perched on the roof. The ant, which can be rotated to appear dead (legs up) or alive (legs down), was a group project of Dale and friends/neighbors [[Hank Hill]], [[Bill Dauterive]] and [[Boomhauer|Jeff Boomhauer]] to help them over the emotional turmoil they shared over the death of actor [[Hervé Villechaize]]. Later on, Dale ends up buying a [[Hyundai]] claimed to be owned by former Dallas Cowboy [[Deion Sanders]] from another former Cowboy and Super Bowl champion, "Big Willie Lane." | ||
| − | + | Dale is also seen to be a musician, with the [[electronic keyboard]] as his principal instrument. His résumé includes a stint with the [[Meet the Propaniacs|Propaniacs]], Big Mountain Fudgecake, and the Dale Gribble Bluegrass Experience. | |
| − | During the episode "The | + | During the episode "The Texas Skillsaw Massacre," it is revealed Dale also cares for and raises show turtles, where Dale was seen polishing a turtle using Turtle Wax and a handheld electronic buffer. |
| + | When the chemicals he used to kill rats (as well as a lifetime of smoking) forced Dale to briefly give up his job, he took a position as a corporate hatchet-man and was spectacularly good at firing people, but his action to deal with a roach infestation (which he caused inadvertently) at this job led him to return to extermination where he successfully killed every roach without the use of poisons. Dale's favorite TV shows are ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' and ''[[What's Happening!!]]''. He enjoys drinking [[Alamo Beer]] with Hank, Bill and Boomhauer. Dale is an avid smoker (since third grade) of [[Manitoba]] brand cigarettes, most likely a parody of [[Marlboro (cigarette)|Marlboro]] cigarettes, and also drinks [[Mountain Dew]] (which he once asked Nancy to boil). In the episode "Dale Be Not Proud," Dale tells a boy receiving his kidney that the kidney likes Mountain Dew, and to give it a can once a week. He also stockpiled two CO2 pressurized drums of Mountain Dew in preparation for [[Y2K]] in the episode "Hillennium." In the same episode, he attempted to breed "gerbster," a combination of hamster and gerbil for fresh meat during Y2K (he had thought that the breeding-pair were gerbils, but Nancy had pointed out that one was a hamster). | ||
| − | + | Dale's paranoid nature extends to his home and family. He has coded scenarios should he ever come under threat (no matter how absurd or unlikely), albeit Nancy is oblivious to the exact nature of the scenario. His own home is rigged with various security and surveillance features; as to how he can afford them is uncertain as Nancy is the superior earner. He once rigged Hank's and his own mailbox to explode via the television remote. His rear sliding door features a backup grille style door (the kind found in shopping mall stores) to keep out intruders; his front door features a full metal roll-down door, while the porch lights serve as klaxons, which were put in use when the real Rusty Shackleford paid a visit (see below). His bathroom is accessible via keypad lock as is access to the basement. Dale's basement is his principal "headquarters." One episode indicates he has perimeter encompassing security cameras and motion detectors that respond in his own voice. His living room TV is rigged like a videophone. He records all his phone conversations but does not allow callers to record their calls to him themselves. He owns surplus Soviet night vision goggles and eavesdropping listeners. | |
| − | + | Perhaps owing to the research he has conducted as a conspiracy theorist, Dale has a thorough knowledge of the workings of the American government, [[legal system]], the BEAST (computer conspiracy), and bureaucracy. He has used this knowledge to assist his friends, both to help Hank with problems related to renewing his driver's license when a clerical error changes his gender, and to help John Redcorn with his land claim and lawsuit against the American government. Dale's help for Hank in that instance came about after he realized the [[Warren Commission|Warren Commission report]] was accurate and became obnoxiously patriotic, to the point of painting a huge American flag on Hank's house (without enough stars on it) and trying to turn Hank in to the Department of Homeland Security after he tried to remove it. However, he has a habit of horribly misconstruing information, having misunderstood placebo (a fake drug, usually sugar or colored water) for a top secret government research project and Hank for cleaning off the paint he put on Hank's roof as "defacing an American flag" in the aforementioned case. A running gag throughout the series is Dale's attempt (denied 6 times according to Hank) to construct his own guard tower on his front yard. In the episode "Flush with Power" he appealed to the zoning board for such permission only to be denied. He was later granted permission by a corrupt politician; to do so if he helped blackmail Hank (who also served on the board) which Hank promptly tore up when Dale confessed. In the episode "Life: A Loser's Manual" Dale ordered aluminum rails to finally build his tower. To avoid county laws, using his knowledge of loopholes, he constructed the tower with reduced dimensions the County had no authority to condemn (Regulations come into effect if the structure exceeds 100 square feet and exceeds 40 feet in height) at 39 feet high. However the lack of a foundation caused it to collapse. | |
| − | + | Dale stands 6 ft. (183 cm), and can bench press {{convert|35|lb}}. He shares a birthday with [[Van Cliburn]] (July 12). He is almost never seen without his signature [[Mack Trucks|Mack]] cap and prescription eyeglasses with sunglass lenses on a hinge, except on rare occasions where he is forced to remove them, as seen in the episode where he worked at a sticky notes business and had to adhere to a corporate dress code. He wears his cap and glasses indoors at all times, even at funerals. He always wears his hat because he is very sensitive about his hair loss. | |
| − | + | He often gets caught up in his (usually far-fetched and extreme) conspiracy theories, which can sometimes cause him to be very selfish or double-cross his friends (particularly Hank), although in the end he usually sees sense and comes to the aid of his friends. His schemes also tend to run out of steam or collapse; he bought a [[Low-power broadcasting|low-power]] [[radio transmitter]], and launched his own [[talk radio|talk station]] "serving the entire tri-house area" [[Art Bell]]-style, but soon ran out of things to talk about on the air. (He later indicated that "Dale's Dead Bug," of which he is owner and sole employee, was offended by things he said on air. He sold the transmitter to "Mexican interests" – namely, his friend, Octavio.) He also puts out an irregular newsletter titled "The Gribble Report," and was once asked by Hank not to send it to his father Cotton. | |
| − | + | His trademark line is "Shi-shi-shi-shaa-haa," usually heard too fast to phonetically understand, and he says it whenever he is impressed with himself carrying out a plan or when springing a sudden move. He also exclaims "Wingo!" when excited and "That's a Gribble of an idea!" when someone thinks of a solution to his problems. He's also known for exclaiming "S'go, s'go!" (a contraction of "Let's go") when rushed or excited and "G'h!" when he is startled or learns something that feeds into his paranoid nature. | |
| − | + | In the episode "Tankin' It to the Streets," Dale claims to have completed a [[Russian language|Russian]] correspondence course and can speak the language, in this episode he is heard reciting perfect Russian as is done in one other episode "Nancy does Dallas" though his application of this in handling an [[M1 Abrams|Abrams M1A2]] tank isn't exactly flawless (having flattened Kahn's new SUV, or, as Hank put it, "hit a curb"). In "Night and Deity," moreover, Dale is further shown to have some competency in [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]]. | |
| − | + | While Dale is boastful and often outgoing in his schemes, he invariably turns into a coward at the slightest sight of trouble, such as when he and Bobby attempt to steal the rival school's mascot (and subsequently retreats back to Tom Landry Middle School when they realize that their mascot costume isn't protected), Dale takes off the second Bobby tells him of the incoming students from the rival school, leaving Bobby behind (Dale heads off to tell Hank so that the latter may go and save Bobby). However, he openly admits that he completely trusts his friends (particularly Hank), even more than himself, and in cases where he does realize the full impact of his actions, he can be surprisingly self-sacrificing. When he and his friends became volunteer firemen, he secretly switched his full oxygen tank with Hank's low-running one just before putting out a fire. On another occasion, in order to save Bobby from a swarm of fire ants, he intentionally transferred them to his own body and allowed them to all bite him at the same time, an action that nearly killed him. He also saved the guys from a crazed member of the gun club claiming to be a member of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. | |
| − | + | He is also a keen baker, as referenced in numerous episodes. He cooks and cleans as his wife is the one with a full-time job and she personally pays most of the bills for the family. Nancy has him on an allowance. He reads a lot of romance novels. | |
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| + | Dale's physical frailty and lack of athletic abilities is a running gag. While his friends were athletes in high school, he was the towel manager. Hank states that Dale can only bench press 35 pounds and that he has proven he can "kick Dale's ass" while standing on a ladder. He also is incapable of performing a single pull-up. Dale admits that a prepubescent girl would probably beat him in a fight and that he doesn't know where his son got his athletic abilities — being unaware that John Redcorn is Joseph's biological father. During an altercation with Bill, Kahn describes him as an "anorexic chain smoker." Dale confirms the possibility that he may suffer from an eating disorder, when, in season three episode "Dog Dale Afternoon," Dale mentions "the binging, the purging," indicating that he suffers from bulimia, not anorexia, although this was while Dale was becoming more paranoid than usual. Dale also has very little stamina; Bobby is shown to easily power walk faster than Dale can run over a very short distance. He seems to have an advanced immunity to poisons and toxins; having been smoking for 30 years. When the police mistook him for an armed gunman, they fired [[tear gas]], to which he suffered no ill effect, claiming, "I use stronger than this to kill squirrels." He stands at 5'10" tall and is very slender. Despite his physical shortcomings, Dale claims to have "catlike reflexes," which he credits as the cause of any and all physical feats. Dale has excellent flexibility — which Nancy is said to enjoy — and also claims to be an expert in the fictitious martial art "Monkey Style." Oddly enough, Dale is a phenomal competitive eater. In season 7, he spontaneously enters a hot dog eating contest, claiming, "Any idiot can eat hot dogs; it's not a talent." Moments later, Dale is repeatedly eating three hot dogs at a time — "tri-dogging." Dale ate {{nowrap|34<sup>1</sup>/<sub>8</sub>}} hot dogs and temporarily became a "gurgitator" or [[Competitive eating|competitive eater]]. He is surprisingly agile to the point he managed to hop a fence to retain evidence until the police arrived to arrest the perpetrator. | ||
| − | Being physically weak, even describing | + | Being physically weak, even describing himself as a "coward," Dale relies on trying to outsmart his adversaries. Dale routinely spends hours in his basement studying his friends and enemies via the surveillance equipment he has installed around his property. He usually comes up with elaborate revenge plots that typically fail. However, on occasion Dale does succeed in his scheming, such as when he was able to overthrow the president of the Gun Club to become the new president of the club by bluffing that he was a CIA officer. Dale also typically comes to wrong conclusions about actual events; a running gag in the show is Dale being unaware of Nancy cheating on him, despite walking in on her and John Redcorn. Moreover, he typically thinks most events that occur to him are motivated, malicious acts against him and not accidents, such as when Hank cuts off Dale's finger by accident using his [[circular saw]] and Dale becomes convinced that Hank meant to injure him. In actuality, it was Dale who carelessly put his finger in front of the blade. |
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| − | + | Dale owns a countless number of [[firearms|guns]]. He was at one point the president of the Arlen Gun Club (simply because he had the most guns, according to Hank). In one episode when [[Peggy Hill|Peggy]] opened a bookstore, Dale stated that he "literally has oodles of guns" and started selling them in the back of the store, complete with a [[firing range]]. Dale (like the rest of the gun club) is a bad shot. He becomes a somewhat better shot when Minh joins the club and teaches the guys to "open their eyes and aim when they shoot." | |
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===Political views=== | ===Political views=== | ||
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| − | + | Dale is highly suspicious of all levels of government and ardently defends his [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]] rights, once remarking, "Guns don't kill people; the government does." Dale also refuses to pay taxes, does not vote ("The Perils of Polling"), and occasionally prints his own currency (Hank Hill typically appearing on the Hundred-Gribble bill, according to Hank in "Mega-Lo Dale"). He runs away and sweats a lot when the [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] comes knocking on his door. In the episode "Movin' On Up," he refused to give Hank his social security number so the quartet of friends could rent a house on the block to use as a clubhouse. In another episode, he believed the government had tested "deadly [[placebo]] drugs" on Bill, supposedly made by [[Pfizer|"Puh-fizer"]] in order to create a group of [[Supersoldier|super soldiers]] that could survive Arctic conditions to repel the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] in case of invasion via the North Pole. Despite his passionate dislike of Government, he has received welfare from unemployment offices under his alias "Rusty Shackleford." In one story arc, Dale went on a tour of the sites involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy to confirm his conspiracy theories, but when he finally read the entire part of a key FBI report on it he realized that the government had been telling the truth and that his entire worldview was ruptured; Dale then became even more annoying a true-patriot than he'd been a dissident (he tried to turn Hank in to the FBI and [[Homeland Security]] after Hank got sick of Dale's pro-government bragging) but used his newfound respect for the Federal government to get an obnoxious DMV employee to immediately correct Hank Hill's personal information after it had listed Hank as "female" and gave bureaucratic excuses for not changing it. | |
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| + | ===Rusty Shackleford=== | ||
| + | Due to his beliefs, he uses the alias '''Rusty Shackleford''' whenever he doesn't want his real name known, mostly when ordering pizza. However, Dale inevitably reveals his identity anyway after a few minutes through one act of stupidity or another, such as using the two names interchangeably with the same person. | ||
| − | + | Dale has claimed to have the birth certificate of a child who died in 1953 with the name Rusty Shackleford. It is not known whether this document is real or fake. The only two documents he has ever signed with his real name were the neighborhood block charter and a Mega-lo-Mart club card application by accident; he refuses to sign any document authorized by a government official. Along with the alias, he often wears a false mustache to "tighten" his security. | |
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| − | In the episode " | + | In the episode "Peggy's Gone to Pots," Rusty Shackleford is revealed to be a real person after showing up on Dale's doorstep. He had come to see Dale because of some medical documents that were filled out and never paid in his name. He tries to tell Dale that he had never actually died and had simply moved, but Dale immediately flees out of fear that Rusty had come to hurt him and his family. This forced Rusty Shackleford to remain in the neighborhood for the course of a few days searching for Dale and in the end all he had wanted was a signature. |
| − | + | Dale used the alias of Central American singing sensation '''Lamotil''' when he was in Mexico for the elections in the episode "The Perils of Polling".<ref>{{Cite episode |title= The Perils of Polling|episode-link= |url= |access-date= |series= King of the Hill|series-link= |first= |last= |network= Fox|station= |date= 2000-10-01|season= 5|series-no= |number= 5ABE02|minutes= |time= |transcript= |transcript-url= |quote= |language=}}</ref> | |
| − | In the episode " | + | In the episode "Bystand Me"<ref>{{Cite episode |title= Bystand Me|episode-link= |url= |access-date= |series= King of the Hill |series-link= |first= |last= |network= Fox|station= |date= 2005-09-25|season= 10|series-no= |number= 2|minutes= |time= |transcript= |transcript-url= |quote= |language=}}</ref>, Dale used the alias of teenager '''Sparky Wilson''' when applying for a newspaper delivery job. |
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==References== | ==References== | ||
