The Harmonaholics

Men's choir featured in the "It Ain't Over Till the Fat Neighbor Sings" episode of the animated TV comedy King of the Hill (first aired 15 May 2005). Originally a 12-member group, they expanded to 13 when Gillaume Fontaine de la Tour D'Haute Rive (aka the titular fat neighbor Bill Dauterive) happened upon them practicing at the Arlen Methodist Church. (Their usual practice space, the VFW, was flooded.) After convincing the maniacal director, Chris, to let him join, Bill (voiced by Stephen Root) is inducted into the ways of the Harmonaholics: singing show tunes and soft rock, wearing custom-made red silk underwear embroidered with one's name, and not commenting on the fact that the band's name is incorrectly punctuated as "Harmonaholic's" on the side of the tour bus. That sort of thing. The group is surprisingly serious for a suburban town's men's choir- one member, Otto, flies in from Amsterdam every week to sing, and Bill risks going AWOL to sing at a Dallas PBS station's fundraiser. That said, the group is not universally acclaimed. According to Dale Gribble (voiced by Johnny Hardwick), "this chorus is the feces that is produced when shame eats too much stupidity." We tend to agree.