Therapist Hopping
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 1/2 | ||
| Directed by | Season Atkins | ||
| Written by | Holly Everman Paige Allen | ||
| Production code | 201/202 | ||
| Original air date | November 26, 2007 | ||
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Therapist Hopping is the second season premiere episode episode of King of the Hill. It was first aired on November 26, 2007. The episode was written by Holly Everman and Paige Allen, and directed by Season Atkins. It is the first episode to air on INNCD 47 and NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations after ATE Media canceled the series after one season. It also marks the first appearance of Bart the Bully, Danielle the Bully, and Lynsay Gerardo.
Plot
When the Willis family finds out that the Friday appointment slot they have had for twelve years has been taken over by another family (revealed to be Bart and Danielle), they abandon their therapist and begin therapy at the new "Megatherapist" after auditioning other therapists. The relocation to the Megatherapist tends to occupy their lives much more than normal; as Ava describes it, "It keeps coming at you." Ava decides enough is enough and chooses to run away and try Austen's way of family therapy. Ava returns home from drinking with her nephews Baxter and Austen - while highly intoxicated - and declares she is finished with family therapy altogether. Later that night, Ava dreams of plan to return to Quill Family Therapy follwing the first fight betwwen Ava and Bart started a massive fistfight. In a meeting with Lynsay Gerardo, Ava negotiates the return of her appointment slot, the departure of Bart and Danielle (the family that earlier usurped Ava's slot) and leverages the departure of other clients in exchange for a permanent appointment slot at Quill Family Therapy.
Production
Cultural references
- In the beginning of the episode, the family is late to therapy because Ava was working overtime and Tom had set the clocks incorrectly on daylights savings time. This caused Ava to say, "Tom you fall back, not fall forward!" meaning Tom set the clock an hour forward, rather than an hour back.
- At the Point After Lounge, Ava and Bianca (then Baxter) sing along with "Glamorous," a single from Fergie.
- As Ava and the family try another new therapist, Ava opens the door only to hear "Day By Day," then closes it and walks away. "Day By Day" is a hymn based on a prayer ascribed to the 13th century bishop St. Richard of Chichester and was a standard in many hymnals. The version that we hear in the episode, however, is from the 1971 musical "Godspell" with music by Stephen Schwartz.
- This is one of the few episodes where Ava is visibly drunk. The others include The Unbearable Homophobia of Laying, Buckeye Ava, Ava and Angela Willis: Celebrating 20 Years and What Happens on Aeverine Willis' Facebook Profile, Stays on Aeverine Willis' Facebook Profile. She's also seen visibly drunk at a much younger age through a flashback in Quillsville Cold Case: Albert Willis.
