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King of the Hill (1997)

Johnny Hardwick: Dale Gribble

The Exterminator

King of the Hill

Johnny Hardwick credited as playing...

Dale Gribble

Quotes9

  • Dale Gribble: Pittman, firing people can give you a pretty good buzz, but it's a poor, poor substitute for killing.
  • Dale Gribble: [to Joseph] You keep this up Joseph and you're fired from this family!
  • Nancy Hicks Gribble: Dale!
  • Dale Gribble: [to Nancy] You're next Blondie
  • Dale Gribble: I have more pressure than any of you, you every try replacing a cockroach's blood with root beer?
  • Hank Hill: You know I haven't
  • Dale Gribble: Then don't judge me.
  • Dale Gribble: [after getting the suit covered in cockroach guts] Good news Joseph, you can have you suit back.
  • Dale Gribble: I love exterminating.
  • Nancy Hicks Gribble: More than you love me?
  • Dale Gribble: No, pretty close though.
  • Nancy Hicks Gribble: You're too sick to exterminate shug!
  • Dale Gribble: I'll tell you the same thing I told that doctor, I'm not quitting you incompetent quack!
  • Joseph Gribble: Hey dad you want to help me out with my science project?
  • Joseph Gribble: [angrily] Up yours Joseph!
  • Nancy Hicks Gribble: Dale!
  • Dale Gribble: Sorry, son, that's the coffee talking, and the fluorescent lighting, and the excruciating headache!
  • Nancy Hicks Gribble: Make some time for the roaches, shug.
  • Dale Gribble: We'd all love to make time for roaches, but in the real world, people have to spend all night reconciling invoices or Miss Pittman won't let them wear Chinos and a knit shirt next Friday!
  • Dale Gribble: Now if you excuse me I've got some love to give,
  • [to Nancy]
  • Dale Gribble: and some love to make
  • Dale Gribble: They're not recognizing me as their maternal influence! The project has gone horribly awry! Joseph, get me some poison!
  • Joseph Gribble: But dad you're not supposed to inhale anymore poison!
  • Dale Gribble: Damn it! Why are there so many ways to kill a human, but only one way to kill a bug?,
  • [thinks for a moment]
  • Dale Gribble: hold that thought
  • [starts killing roaches left and right]

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