After Bobby falls in love with the town Wichita Falls (where the Dallas Cowboys Training Camp is based), Hank and the neighbors try to make a movie to convince the Cowboys to move their training camp to Arlen.
Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: On the home movie montage, it has a school play with Bobby and Joseph, with the former falling off the stage. Dale laughs at that and Bobby even has a good chuckle about it.
- Amateur Film-Making Plot: The main story has Hank's attempts to make a movie for the Dallas Cowboys to bring their training camp to Arlen.
- Bad "Bad Acting": With Nancy in her trailer due to a migraine, Peggy offers to stand-in for Nancy and when she does, she speaks in a stilted, nervous manner (granted Hank didn't help when he gave her pressure saying the Cowboys will be watching).
- Bittersweet Ending: Hank sends off the video they all made for the Cowboys, but they write back saying they have no plans to move to Arlen, much to Hank's disappointment. However, the neighbors made up and Hank and Bobby end it by having a nice bonding moment together where Bobby says he has no intention to move to Wichita Falls, but to LA, NY or Vegas, though he might have a place in Wichita Falls for tax purposes. They end it by roleplaying a Cowboys football game.
- Dude, Not Funny!:
- Hank and Bobby grade the Cowboy players when watching them at training camp. Bobby gives Michael Irvin a B + to give him room to improve (especially considering the off-the-field incidents he was known for just as much as his stellar play) and Hank agrees with that idea. But then Bobby says he's giving Troy Aikman a B+, to which Hank says "That's not funny, Bobby".
- Then when watching the home movie montage, Hank trips up while jet-skiing, which makes Dale and Bobby laugh, with Hank responding by giving the latter a Death Glare.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Arlen is known by the unflattering nickname as "Pigtown", based on the sausage plants they have. Hank himself gets upset when Bobby refers to the town as such and orders him to wash his mouth out with soap.
- Epic Fail: Bobby tries to show off to Hank the fancy throw and catch tricks he seen at Dairy Queen himself with his blizzard, but ends up spelling it over himself and having to get a change of clothes.
- Foil: The Wichita Falls propane dealership is one for Strickland propane, with the latter caring about great customer service and taking propane safety seriously. The Wichita Falls one ran by a father and son are presented as cantankerous and lazy and tell Hank off while proclaiming their love for the Oklahoma Sooners. And before the father came out, the son is seen smoking a cigarette (not a brilliant idea to do around propane tanks).
- Gory Discretion Shot:
- With Peggy standing in for Nancy, she feeds a mouse to the snake. We only see Hank and Luanne's reactions during the feeding.
- Averted when the mice spill out and run around. A caged monkey grabs a mouse and we see it bite its head off.
- Happier Home Movie: Peggy and Nancy make up, then both gather some of their personal home movies and make a montage, which they make for the final movie Hank submits to the Cowboys.
- Heroic BSoD: Hank after the production of the Cowboys movie goes to Hell with everyone quitting and his failed attempts to make one by himself. He even talks to his Tom Landry plate about his problems.
- Hostility on the Set: In-universe; all throughout, everyone gets at each others' throats. Hank seeming to be unhappy with the efforts of everyone. Peggy and Nancy go at it, first with a disagreement over what Arlen residents are called; Peggy arguing it's "Arlenians" with Nancy saying "Arlenites". Then Nancy changes the script even more from "Arlen is Darlin'" to "Arlen: Where Super Bowls Are Born", the latter of which Hank finds more appealing. Hank even squabbles with Dale over his camera technique and having his Bug Van in the background of every shot. Meanwhile Nancy won't come out of her van because of a headache and takes a "healing" visit from John Redcorn to help her out. Boomhauer is stuck wearing an armadillo suit and sweating in the hot weather. It all culminates in the rats from the cages getting loose which totally wrecks the production, causing everyone except Hank to quit.
- Hypocritical Humor: While driving back to Arlen, Bobby complains about how much of a dump Arlen is compared to Wichita Falls and then gets disgusted by a bad smell. Hank then points out the smell is the sausage plant at work. Hank then takes a whiff himself and rolls up the window.
- Moment Killer: With Hank and Bobby. Hank laments getting the Cowboys Training Camp in Arlen and then talks about how he wishes he had the great QBs like Dandy Don Meredith, Roger Staubach or Craig Morton. Then Hank says "I love you" to Bobby, which shocks him. Hank quickly backtracks.
- Never Work with Children or Animals: Again, another in-universe example. At the zoo, Nancy refuses to do a scene where she holds a mouse and feeds it to a snake. Peggy tries forcing Nancy by throwing the mouse at her, which causes Nancy to throw the mouse into Boomhauer's armadillo suit. As he struggles, he knocks over the bucket of mice, resulting in them escaping and scattering everywhere, scaring everyone and causing a ruckus. A panicking Nancy then gets too close to a cage of monkeys that rip out a few locks of her hair. All this leads to everyone on the production quitting in frustration.
- No Party Like a Donner Party: What Dale fears what will happen when the younger generation leaves and the old people will eat the ones older than them.
- Product Placement: Dairy Queen appears in the episode, with the cashier doing fancy catching moves with Bobby's Blizzard that wows him. But Hank is aghast when it's slightly more expensive in Wichita Falls because in Arlen, it's not the official blended frozen dairy product of the Dallas Cowboys training camp.
- This is Truth in Television to an extent, Dairy Queen is huge in Texas (they actually have the most locations out of all US states), to the point
they even have their own exclusive menu.
- This is Truth in Television to an extent, Dairy Queen is huge in Texas (they actually have the most locations out of all US states), to the point
- Straw Fan: Hank and Bobby visit a father-and-son propane dealership in Wichita Falls that happens to be the official supplier of the Dallas Cowboys, and expresses how lucky they are to be able to see Cowboys games together. But both are incredibly surly and express they're sick of hearing about how great the Cowboys are, insulting Arlen and proclaiming that they like Oklahoma more and love the Sooners. They obnoxiously sing the Sooners fight song, with Hank covering his ears and singing the Cowboys fight song before leaving.
- Troubled Production: In-universe: Hank's attempts to get the Cowboys movie made by showing them how great Arlen is does not go smoothly. Hank is not satisfied with how things are going, trying to stifle Dale's camera-work and requesting it be more simple, Peggy and Nancy having script disagreements, and ends with everyone angry and quitting. And with Hank being the only one to do it himself, he tries to film himself at a stadium, but that goes poorly, leading him to have a Heroic BSoD.
