@@artiefufkin88 Yeah that's literally how modern architecture works. Modern skyscrapers are designed to collapse within their own footprint to minmize the risk of damage to other property or people
Hate to be that guy to bring politics up, but when I was a freshman in college in mid October, 2016, a political scientist came in to give a presentation on why it was going to be "scientifically impossible for Trump to be elected as president." Now, I'm not exactly a conservative man. I'm not a pussy, bleeding heart liberal either, but when that guy had the gall to come in and spew all that bullshit, a lot more of me wanted to see Trump win.
@@goldengod5915 political scientists aren’t actual scientists thanks for the update lol. However no real scientist would vote for Trump anyway so.....yeah
@@kchannel5317 in the end the regulations were the real villains. "You can make it tall enough to fall over, not wide enough to prevent a fall, and no foundation.
@Rock Golem I could see how he may say "no more world's to conquer" as india was the greatest and the last. Even if he didn't beat them. Alas I know nothing!!
@Nick Fomula government is far too slow and stupid to be proactive about taking away anything. The reason why there is regulation is because someone did something that hurt someone else and now you have to tell everyone else not to do that thing anymore.
@Nick Fomula The fact that you really think that is the most asinine idiotic thing I've seen all week, no point of your sense less rambling you had, can be considered a coherent response.
@@conversationtosaurusrex Just because you have TDS, doesn't mean what he said was incoherent for the rest of us. I read his comment, liked it and then had a good laugh at you and the rest of the morons that need their heads dunked in a toilet.
@dusty bowman okay? You seem to not understand the concept of public health and safety. Idk if you watched the clip but his project fell over, and if it were not a cartoon, someone could’ve been killed. Now I’m all for teaching the public building code, it’s part of my job, but being a sneaky asshole and deliberately skirting around the law is unacceptable. And that sneaky shit is what I’m talking about, residents and professionals both do it and at that point I could give a shit about teaching people. Dale knew the law, and went around it purposely. I’m not going to act like that is a moment for learning.
@@nickmontalbano9573 I think the idea here is instead of 'rejecting the 40 foot tower' so Dale skirts the law in a hazardous manner instead allow Dale to build his tower with government assistive oversight. Assumably if a 39foot tall tower was acceptable by the inspector then a 40foot tower following tolerances and a proper driven foundation would of been safer and better for everyone involved.
@@yourimpossibletoisgn no you’d be right in assuming that, but at the same time no fucking way in hell would that tower be legal or permitted…there’s no way it would even get city or country approval, let alone community approval assuming an HOA. It violates countless laws, not even getting into code violations. The Inspector would’ve had him rip it down in any circumstance, and frankly where I work, it’d be a 5k fine for negligence and reckless endangerment. Even with oversight this project would’ve never saw the light of day.
I swear to god this exactly how I got my fence, my second shed, and my pool. The fence had to surround the whole property to be called a fence (by our ordinance) so I attached the fence to my house, fence only surrounds 80% of the property. Pools weren’t allowed, but “ fish ponds” were fair game. And I didn’t build a shed, I built a barn.
@@RoadLessMarveled This sounds less like government, and more like HOA nonsense. The government itself, for all their bullshit, only cares that you don't do like Dale and build a watchtower that will squish your neighbor's house the second a light breeze comes in. The HOA on the other hand will come at you with a knife if you paint your fence a shade of blue they've decided is slightly too dark. Still, good on Gavin.
@@Foxingg God protect you from Boomers with nothing to do, but fight over petty bullshit about what colors houses should be. My grandpa used to be on a board, and people fight over the dumbest stuff, or get on the board just to get something approved for their house.
@alexiapup Nah, that was just the beginning of Season 3 with "Peggy's Headache." The conclusion was late in Season 4 with "Nancy's Boys" where Dale & Nancy wind up on a double date with Hank & Peggy, & it rekindles things.
Those people baffle me. They keep repeating the same so called loopholes even though they NEVER work. Like if one of these hairbrained ideas actually worked on occasion, fine, but they never do.
Honestly, I could also see those kinds of people becoming antagonists in the show if it was still ongoing. Especially if Bobby was in the middle of getting a license. (I’m assuming they would actually age the characters instead of keeping them in a perpetual age loop.)
There was an episode where he was in court and tried to say that the gold fringes on the US flag made it an admiralty court and thus not having jurisdiction.
@@zenmastermtl I think it's probably 10% successful, 30% wind up arrested BECAUSE of it, and 60% give up and comply. They're narcissists who have chosen a "rules for thee, not for me" approach to society, and they've usually convinced themselves that they're the smartest person in the room.
"It was a controlled demolition! Dale was nowhere near the tower!" Hank Hill: "Are ya high? This dang clip clearly demonstrates that the man IS responsible for the destruction of the tower."
Well this isn't exactly the first time Kahn tried to interfere with something that one of Hank's friends were doing, i mean there is episode where Bill had a giant American flag hungup in his yard, and Kahn found the flag to be an annoyance so Kahn attempted to take the flag down but Bill scared him off.
@@TheCommenterDragon Kahn didn’t even ask or demand Bill to take his flag down He just went on to Bill’s property and tried to take it down himself and Bill went all George Brett on Kahn Kahn was late for work because of Bill’s flag due to the illusion that it was still dark outside
Kahn inadvertently saved Dale’s life. If he hadn’t called in that inspector when he did, the tower probably would have collapsed while Dale was on top of it.
Dale is actually practising something pretty clever called “malicious compliance,” where you stay just within the confines of the law to the point where your actions are clearly in protest of it, but you can’t be punished because it’s technically not a breach. It might’ve worked if the person doing it wasn’t Dale.
Plenty of amateur radio operators have down away with it. Like the one guy that got denied a 40' antenna tower because it "wasn't an engineered structure" so he put up a 160" antenna tower signed off by a structural engineer
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie 😑Really dude? Really? That's what you're opening with? Don't even have the courtesy to be inventive? [sigh] Okay then, out of pity and boredom, how pray tell is this scene a, and I quote verbatim, _"bullshit pro-government scene written by dirty leftist writers."_
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie Ya know, there was a time in my life where I'd just rip into a guy like you over a comment like this, but that time has long since passed. If you feel the urge to endanger yourself to prove a point, then go for it champ. Just try to not hurt any innocent bystanders and be sure to get the resulting disaster on camera. 👍
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie Sometimes you need to calm down, an equaly reasonable intepritation (and knowing that the actual koth writers are the closest thing to conservative you get in media actualy quite plausible), is that the governments obscure regulations are responsible for the structures colapse due to banning the construction of foundations.
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie How is this content deceiving? Do you think if you built this tower exactly like Dale did here you'd have a different result? I think your reading way too much into this scene. The only thing I get from this scene is that Dale is a moron. Pretty much every functioning society on earth has these kind of regulations on building one way or the other. Even the code of Hammurabi mentions them in a way. I'm paraphrasing here but it goes something along the lines of builders will be fined/put to death if their shoddy work causes injury or death.
Nope. A foundation is poured concrete, a weight. Driving metal anchors into the ground to counteract sway is not a foundation. Not only that but you can get anchors that are spiral, increasing their hold in the ground.
@@MrKuma2094 it would be a piling foundation. If permanently attached. What he needed to do was use guide wires staked to the ground and lots of ballast on the bottom level.
@@MrKuma2094 Half-true, but a foundation is just the lowest load-bearing part of a building. It can be concrete, stone, wood, metal, or any other material as long as it resists gravity, wind, seismic loads and prevents sinking, uplift, racking, and/or sliding. Concrete is the common method to do that for many reasons, but it's not the only way and in some cases it isn't even the best way.
@@brentsta There's is so much wrong with Q anon. All of the Deep State, all of the Trump being a savior, and all of the other wild conspiracy theories are so far out there it's not even plausible. Although, i will admit, i do believe that there are pedophiles in the higher up rankings. Just look at the man who spent a lot of time with Jeffery Epstein👀
That's what I loved about the show, it was real. It had scenarios that are possible, the jokes were good and non-repetitive, it didn't cram some message or viewpoint down your throat, and it never overstayed it's welcome. It's perfect.
@@HankThePimpHill Well the entire punchline of the joke is "Don't try to built a structure without a foundation" so you can't say its _without_ a message. Its just one idiots online haven't been trying to get people to negatively associate with the word in the last decade.
@@Avenger85438 To be fair, I didn't mean it was without a message, I just said that it wasn't crammed down your throat like how modern Family Guy does it
And its those buildings codes and permits as to why people will go around them and to build them anyways. Take Dales structure, for example. He built it under the regulation code amount and Intentionally didn't include a foundation or tie downs because adding a foundation or tie downs would require a permit.
@@KVIA01 Hank: Damn it Dale! Will you just wear the damn mask! Dale: You cannot muzzle my freedoms, Hank! Bill: Duh, I have COVID. Boomhauer: YO MAN! WHY Y'ALL DANG'OL STANDING CLOSE TO ME MAN! Talkin'bout that dang'ol social distancing, man!
@@AutoArtemAuto I love how that was an episode point too (when it's revealed they go on secret trips without him). Those guys would have died long ago if Hank wasn't around to keep in check most of the time. (Oh, and also when they made the tunnel under the alley and Hank was dealing with his "anger issues"))
If Hank had joined in, the tower probably would have gotten a firm foundation and wouldn't have fallen. I'm actually pretty surprised Hank didn't join in, it would have been a building project which he normally likes.
Dig a hole in the yard of the same dimensions as the base a few feet deep and build the tower from that point. Also put a plastic water tank on the bottom to weight down the base so that your tower doesn’t get top heavy.
@@sevenguardians7517 what about a water tank above ground with bracers placed against each side and the ground? Not a foundation, and all you'd have to lose height wise is maybe 3-5 feet.
@@grantg117 could work might be able to pass that off until the zoning commission sees through it and changes the code accordingly Just can’t sink the beams into the ground that’s considered a foundation
@@user-oo6qk2fj9h you'd have to adjust the width of the posts/brackets. You'd also probably want a foundation of some sort and it would also be sort of top heavy and prone to crumbling. You'd also have to either have prebuilt wall slabs that are attached to one another, or spend more time and money getting the equipment that would allow you to lay bricks up to that height. At least I think, I have no idea.
My zoning guy told me I'd need an engineer's sign off if my fence was over 5 ft, but that i could build a slight mound and put the fence on top and that would be all right. Not sure what we are incentivizing but ok.
@@peterhobo The prophecy lives on, Dale's tower of power has a positive upvote multiplier of 9999999999999999999999X due to design by superior Gribble genetics.
Dale sitting on a chair that moves up and down the tower: Not enough force to tip it over. Dale LEANING on the structure: Falls over effortlessly. Ah Cartoon Physics how I loath thee.
@@marioxmariox im sure too, but it’s more prominent, common and grand than most places. One of my favorite examples is when HH Holmes had a safe built into his house, didnt pay, and said they could repossess if they didn’t hurt the wall built around it. So he kept it.
even though this episode might have aired in the 00's, KOTH did start in the 90's. either way, pretty sure 90's kids agree KOTH has a very 90's vibes save for maybe the later episodes
My friends and I watched this episode years ago and we all made a deal that if any of us ever died from doing something like this, the rest of us would put “He died from terminal stupidity” on their gravestone as a warning to future generations.
I see a lot of comments arguing about what the best way to support the structure would be without foundations but no one is pointing out that only the top level has safety rails. Like I get that that's more important but it's still worth mentioning
Dale wanted to build a proper tower that would have been safe, but because of the zoning board he had to reduce to an unsafe standard. That’s the zoning boards fault.
My Neighbor Has Broken over 40 variances/ordinances to build tiny homes that are in a drainage ditch you would be surprised how many time I've told city inspectors and code enforcement officers to do something
Someone could probably do the rough math on how much force Dale would have had to exert onto that tower from that height in order to tip it over. He gives pretty detailed information on the frame. You could guess about the furniture, etc. I doubt it would have been humanly possible for him to tip it like that.
Of course not. When he is walking up on the highest level, that would be more force, than leaning against it. If he could push it over like that it would have fallen over by the lightest gusht of wind
I love all this analysis about a cartoon. When you've sorted this out please can you let me know how far a coyote can fall without death (or even permanent injury)? 😂
What irks me about this whole situation is that at the end of the day, these sorts of regulations are enforced in a way which tries to prevent people from doing what they want on their own property rather than helping them to do what they want on their property safely. If they tried providing examples of ways he could modify his intended guard tower to be safe to install it on his property instead of just rejecting all his proposals, he wouldn't have had to go to such ridiculous measures to get something close to what he wanted. Unless I'm reading it wrong, he made poor construction decisions (narrow base) and didn't include a foundation to get around the petty building restrictions. Once again, government regulation preventing people from exercising their freedoms in a safe manner.
It's a common misconception that the government exist to safeguard and support our freedoms, in reality all governments strive to limit and inevitably revoke such things.
@@S71xx Untrue. You seem to think that you have the freedom to punch anywhere you please. You don't. You're free to throw any punch you want, but only as long as it doesn't hit anyone else. The purpose of government is to make sure when you throw a punch it doesn't impact anyone. You may think a regulation is stupid, and hey, mabey it is... OR mabey it's to prevent your neighbor's home from being crushed by a poorly built tower falling over on it after the first storm that blows through. Why is it that morons don't get that my right to safety and peace limits your right to do as you please? It's all give and take.
That’s kinda the problem zoning laws were created to ensure safe structures. Over time special interest became involved and started imposing restrictions to limit development. Our own housing crisis we are facing is because special interests corrupted a system that was meant to protect.
@@S71xxthat’s a misconception the government exists to protect the liberties of its denizens. The problem is people elect the wrong people to government who will trounce said liberties for money, power, or for their religious beliefs. The conservative justices on U.S. Supreme Court Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell.
He could have just installed a bunch of heavy boulder around its based, classified them as landscaping and then anchored the tower to the boulders. Would have solved the problem and stayed out of code requirements.
“I defied the government and yet I cannot be punished for it” “ He webt until there were no more worlds to conquer “ -Dale gribble Why couldn’t that be in the constitution
I know Kahn is just doing this because of his prejudice towards Hank and co., but this is one of the times he was actually right to do this, as this tower could have easily harmed people had Dale not toppled it himself. (Even then, they're still lucky no one got hurt.)
@@fledbeast5783 Yes. However Dale still should not have built an unsafe tower. It's somewhat similar to a homeless person deciding to sleep in the road if a policeman said they could not sleep on the sidewalk. Then that homeless person puts their own life at risk. Also they put drivers at risk of crashing when they serve to avoid the homeless person. Its like what the building inspector said. Disregarding the law, it was stupid of Dale to go around the law in such a manner. Yeah, there are loopholes they could use. Dale could've weighted down the base of his tower with something. The hypothetical homeless person could sleep in a public park or in an alleyway. However there are safe and well thought out ways to get around laws and then there are unsafe and poorly thought out ways to get around laws.
@@SurprisinglyDeep Dale is also known to be a paranoid, anti-government idiot who hardly ever thinks things through. Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer once pranked him and instead of getting the joke, he immediately assumed a conspiracy involving a drug smuggling operation, and blew the prank out of proportion. Hell, he's even oblivious to Nancy and John Redcorn's relationship affair. Even if the Zoning Board allowed him to do it, he'd find some way to screw it up. Even Hank was against the idea, and of the four of them, he's the most sensible and responsible.
Thing is the building codes were the problem. He would have built a foundation, but the regulations wouldn't allow a second one. He would have made it wider, but the regulations wouldn't allow it. It is actually the regulations that caused him to create something unsafe. If the regulations hadn't been there it would have been perfectly safe.
@@gavinriley5232 the zoning board didn’t allow him to build the tower - probably for property value reasons. He specifically avoided the building codes to get around the zoning board, not the ASCE. Plus, that’s the old “if everything were legal the crime rate would be 0% argument”. If there were no regulations about how to build a structure at all, he would have likely made it unsafe anyway because he is an amateur builder. He seemed to thing a 39 foot tall tower with a 99 sqft base and no foundation was safe.
@@52flyingbicycles And he could've at least weighted down the bottom section of the tower with objects to serve as a pseudo foundation that's not legally a foundation, so it wasn't just regulations that caused it to be unsafe. He wasn't clever enough to think outside of the box, he just literally cut things out.
When you Watch Dale as a Kid: "He's an idiot" When you watch Dale as an Adult: "damn government" (has 9 and 9/10th by 9 and 9/10th foundationless shed in the backyard)
There are a few loopholes. If a structure is under x feet it does not need to be permitted in a lot of areas even if out put in a foundation. However if it's over that sometimes you can get away by not having a foundation because it's technically "temporary". I knew a guy who wanted a huge pole barn on his property (huge acreage in the middle of nowhere) but the county was being a pain about it and wouldn't issue zoning permits. So he just took shipping containers, stacked them 2 high and like 3 deep, and put a roof over all of it. Nothing they could do .
I love how the wreckage stayed within the confines of his property.
Just like 9/11!
It's my lawn.
@@artiefufkin88 dam you beat me to the punch
@@artiefufkin88 Yeah that's literally how modern architecture works. Modern skyscrapers are designed to collapse within their own footprint to minmize the risk of damage to other property or people
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When you got an A in political science but an F in actual science.
Hate to be that guy to bring politics up, but when I was a freshman in college in mid October, 2016, a political scientist came in to give a presentation on why it was going to be "scientifically impossible for Trump to be elected as president." Now, I'm not exactly a conservative man. I'm not a pussy, bleeding heart liberal either, but when that guy had the gall to come in and spew all that bullshit, a lot more of me wanted to see Trump win.
They asked if I had a degree in theoretical physics. I told them I had a theoretical degree in physics
@@RenegadeRoach Is your real name Dr. Fantastic?
@@goldengod5915 political scientists aren’t actual scientists thanks for the update lol. However no real scientist would vote for Trump anyway so.....yeah
@@Qwsgwx Scientists use the scientific method. Social "sciences" don't.
I was rooting for dale on this one.
I never root for Dale.
@@Maw0 I disagree, yet appreciate the loyal opposition.
@@bokkenwielderful Yes.
Honestly me too. When I saw that chair he used to get down I thought that thing was dope.
@@kchannel5317 in the end the regulations were the real villains. "You can make it tall enough to fall over, not wide enough to prevent a fall, and no foundation.
The last refusal was “with extreme prejudice”
Translation its never happening. Take a hint lol.
No Say!
Why do you think he needed the guard tower.
Translation: Bruh, just go the hell away, we're sick of you
Now it will be lethal prejudice lol.
“He wept because there were no more worlds to conquer ~ Dale
@Gabriel Collalto its about him, not said by him
@Rock Golem I could see how he may say "no more world's to conquer" as india was the greatest and the last. Even if he didn't beat them. Alas I know nothing!!
Then he wept again because his lands had been conquered already.
Guacamole
Mmm kind of lol
The law stopped Dale from building safely and thus caused the structure to collapse. Damn government.
@Nick Fomula shut the fuck up
@Nick Fomula government is far too slow and stupid to be proactive about taking away anything. The reason why there is regulation is because someone did something that hurt someone else and now you have to tell everyone else not to do that thing anymore.
@Nick Fomula The fact that you really think that is the most asinine idiotic thing I've seen all week, no point of your sense less rambling you had, can be considered a coherent response.
@Nick Fomula Get off of UA-cam, Dale.
@@conversationtosaurusrex Just because you have TDS, doesn't mean what he said was incoherent for the rest of us. I read his comment, liked it and then had a good laugh at you and the rest of the morons that need their heads dunked in a toilet.
As a dude who works in city government, you’d all be shocked to know just how often shit like this actually happens.
As a guy who works in construction, you'd be surprised how much more never reaches the government
@@nicynodle2 it’s true, but we’ll get them..we always get them
@dusty bowman okay? You seem to not understand the concept of public health and safety. Idk if you watched the clip but his project fell over, and if it were not a cartoon, someone could’ve been killed. Now I’m all for teaching the public building code, it’s part of my job, but being a sneaky asshole and deliberately skirting around the law is unacceptable. And that sneaky shit is what I’m talking about, residents and professionals both do it and at that point I could give a shit about teaching people.
Dale knew the law, and went around it purposely. I’m not going to act like that is a moment for learning.
@@nickmontalbano9573 I think the idea here is instead of 'rejecting the 40 foot tower' so Dale skirts the law in a hazardous manner instead allow Dale to build his tower with government assistive oversight. Assumably if a 39foot tall tower was acceptable by the inspector then a 40foot tower following tolerances and a proper driven foundation would of been safer and better for everyone involved.
@@yourimpossibletoisgn no you’d be right in assuming that, but at the same time no fucking way in hell would that tower be legal or permitted…there’s no way it would even get city or country approval, let alone community approval assuming an HOA. It violates countless laws, not even getting into code violations. The Inspector would’ve had him rip it down in any circumstance, and frankly where I work, it’d be a 5k fine for negligence and reckless endangerment. Even with oversight this project would’ve never saw the light of day.
I swear to god this exactly how I got my fence, my second shed, and my pool.
The fence had to surround the whole property to be called a fence (by our ordinance) so I attached the fence to my house, fence only surrounds 80% of the property. Pools weren’t allowed, but “ fish ponds” were fair game. And I didn’t build a shed, I built a barn.
Government 0, Gavin 1
@@oz_jones Government 0, Gavin 3
@@RoadLessMarveled This sounds less like government, and more like HOA nonsense. The government itself, for all their bullshit, only cares that you don't do like Dale and build a watchtower that will squish your neighbor's house the second a light breeze comes in. The HOA on the other hand will come at you with a knife if you paint your fence a shade of blue they've decided is slightly too dark. Still, good on Gavin.
Are there any fish in your fish pond? Why are barns allowed but smaller sheds are not allowed?
@@Foxingg God protect you from Boomers with nothing to do, but fight over petty bullshit about what colors houses should be.
My grandpa used to be on a board, and people fight over the dumbest stuff, or get on the board just to get something approved for their house.
Dale Gribble: *builds guard tower in backyard*
Also Dale Gribble: *still can't see wife is cheating on him*
To be fair, this episode was made well after Nancy stopped cheating on Dale in Season 4 & fell in love with him again.
@alexiapup Nah, that was just the beginning of Season 3 with "Peggy's Headache." The conclusion was late in Season 4 with "Nancy's Boys" where Dale & Nancy wind up on a double date with Hank & Peggy, & it rekindles things.
Damn Redcorn.
@@theangrymick9743
Can’t blame a minority for falling for a white Texas woman 🤣
Ol' John No-Scorin' Redcorn loses again
RIP Johnny Hardwick. Thanks for giving Dale the nutty, lovable life we knew him as.
The government finally got 'em! A sad time to be alive.
"cause of death is unknown" Translation: probably suicide.
@ryelor123 Heart attack because of heat stroke.
WTF so many famous people dying these past few months. What is happening?
@@ryelor123How do you figure?
Dale seems like the kind of person who would say "I'm not driving, I'm travelling"
Those people baffle me. They keep repeating the same so called loopholes even though they NEVER work. Like if one of these hairbrained ideas actually worked on occasion, fine, but they never do.
Honestly, I could also see those kinds of people becoming antagonists in the show if it was still ongoing. Especially if Bobby was in the middle of getting a license. (I’m assuming they would actually age the characters instead of keeping them in a perpetual age loop.)
There was an episode where he was in court and tried to say that the gold fringes on the US flag made it an admiralty court and thus not having jurisdiction.
@@zenmastermtl I think it's probably 10% successful, 30% wind up arrested BECAUSE of it, and 60% give up and comply. They're narcissists who have chosen a "rules for thee, not for me" approach to society, and they've usually convinced themselves that they're the smartest person in the room.
@@charonib I was gonna say I was sure there was an episode where he pretty much _was_ one of those clowns.
Okay, if a twig like Dale could push that down, you know it's not safe.
I read twig as twink for a second there, jesus
"It was a controlled demolition! Dale was nowhere near the tower!"
Hank Hill: "Are ya high? This dang clip clearly demonstrates that the man IS responsible for the destruction of the tower."
Makes you wonder how it survived a light breeze before that.
Are calling Dale a twigboy?
if a twig like Dale pushed it over just from leaning on it......how the hell did he get ontop of it to begin with without it falling over?
Kahn was just jealous he didn't get a tier in the tower of power.
Well this isn't exactly the first time Kahn tried to interfere with something that one of Hank's friends were doing, i mean there is episode where Bill had a giant American flag hungup in his yard, and Kahn found the flag to be an annoyance so Kahn attempted to take the flag down but Bill scared him off.
@@TheCommenterDragon Kahn didn’t even ask or demand Bill to take his flag down
He just went on to Bill’s property and tried to take it down himself and Bill went all George Brett on Kahn
Kahn was late for work because of Bill’s flag due to the illusion that it was still dark outside
@@techguy943 George Brett?
@@ianfinrir8724 Search up George Brett Pine Tar Incident and you'll understand
Kahn inadvertently saved Dale’s life. If he hadn’t called in that inspector when he did, the tower probably would have collapsed while Dale was on top of it.
I was expecting it to collapse when they rode up and down the chair
We have seen dale survive a lot
Kahn probably regretted it afterwards.
While that may be true, This episode was further proof that Kahn doesn't know how to mind his own business.
Dale is actually practising something pretty clever called “malicious compliance,” where you stay just within the confines of the law to the point where your actions are clearly in protest of it, but you can’t be punished because it’s technically not a breach.
It might’ve worked if the person doing it wasn’t Dale.
Plenty of amateur radio operators have down away with it. Like the one guy that got denied a 40' antenna tower because it "wasn't an engineered structure" so he put up a 160" antenna tower signed off by a structural engineer
@@zachbrenner9959 Now that's a power move
reminds me of the song "not illegal"
Why I own a Mossberg shockwave it's a legal sawed off shotgun but in the thin lines of the law not a shotgun fuk the ATF
Kahn may have just saved Dale's life. Let that sink in.
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie
😑Really dude? Really? That's what you're opening with? Don't even have the courtesy to be inventive?
[sigh] Okay then, out of pity and boredom, how pray tell is this scene a, and I quote verbatim, _"bullshit pro-government scene written by dirty leftist writers."_
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie Ya know, there was a time in my life where I'd just rip into a guy like you over a comment like this, but that time has long since passed.
If you feel the urge to endanger yourself to prove a point, then go for it champ. Just try to not hurt any innocent bystanders and be sure to get the resulting disaster on camera. 👍
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie Sometimes you need to calm down, an equaly reasonable intepritation (and knowing that the actual koth writers are the closest thing to conservative you get in media actualy quite plausible), is that the governments obscure regulations are responsible for the structures colapse due to banning the construction of foundations.
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie hold on now, propaganda? forget the writers for a second but are you a complete imbecile?
@Lord Robert Lee of Dixie How is this content deceiving? Do you think if you built this tower exactly like Dale did here you'd have a different result? I think your reading way too much into this scene. The only thing I get from this scene is that Dale is a moron. Pretty much every functioning society on earth has these kind of regulations on building one way or the other. Even the code of Hammurabi mentions them in a way. I'm paraphrasing here but it goes something along the lines of builders will be fined/put to death if their shoddy work causes injury or death.
Driving steel anchors 12 to 15 feet down and welding them to the structure would have stopped the tip over.
Wouldn't that be a foundation?
Nope. A foundation is poured concrete, a weight. Driving metal anchors into the ground to counteract sway is not a foundation. Not only that but you can get anchors that are spiral, increasing their hold in the ground.
@@MrKuma2094 it would be a piling foundation. If permanently attached.
What he needed to do was use guide wires staked to the ground and lots of ballast on the bottom level.
@@MrKuma2094 Half-true, but a foundation is just the lowest load-bearing part of a building. It can be concrete, stone, wood, metal, or any other material as long as it resists gravity, wind, seismic loads and prevents sinking, uplift, racking, and/or sliding. Concrete is the common method to do that for many reasons, but it's not the only way and in some cases it isn't even the best way.
@@MrKuma2094 Depends on the type of anchor you use. Helical piles would make it a deep foundation, which wouldn't save you from inspections.
Inspector: Never mind the county law, you're about to get slapped hard by the laws of physics.
I need a spin off of dale going through 2020. There’s so much golden material right now that I bet his old radio show could go on for years.
I feel like Dale would be into the Q-anon stuff. Possibly flat earth as well.
@@cultofthevoid5677 Eh, Dale seems less maliciously dangerous than those Q anon/MAGA freaks
@@cultofthevoid5677 Dale wasn't a flat earther in the original series, why would 2020 change anything and make him a flat earther?
@@ghostkid252 explain how a group against human trafficking is malicious, lib
@@brentsta There's is so much wrong with Q anon. All of the Deep State, all of the Trump being a savior, and all of the other wild conspiracy theories are so far out there it's not even plausible. Although, i will admit, i do believe that there are pedophiles in the higher up rankings. Just look at the man who spent a lot of time with Jeffery Epstein👀
The delivery man sounded so confused, like he can't believe he's delivering such an odd and specific order in a small community.
The best part about the show is the realistic comedy just coming out with the flow, and not needing to force the jokes.
That's what I loved about the show, it was real. It had scenarios that are possible, the jokes were good and non-repetitive, it didn't cram some message or viewpoint down your throat, and it never overstayed it's welcome. It's perfect.
@@HankThePimpHill Well the entire punchline of the joke is "Don't try to built a structure without a foundation" so you can't say its _without_ a message.
Its just one idiots online haven't been trying to get people to negatively associate with the word in the last decade.
Yeah, Seth McFarlene's shows have become really guilty of. They even try to force the realism too.
@@Avenger85438 Yeah, but I heard he doesn't really write for those shows anymore.
@@Avenger85438 To be fair, I didn't mean it was without a message, I just said that it wasn't crammed down your throat like how modern Family Guy does it
Dale straight up quotes a Langston Hughes poem, not something you'd expect from a conspiracy theorist from Texas
+
He paid attention in English.
Honestly a few episodes have shown that Dale does have an appreciation for The Arts.
"And now, a farewell to 'A Farewell to Arms.' "
They quoted that line in "Die Hard" too so there is that lol
All jokes aside there’s actually people like that in the real world, they’re the reason we have so many building codes
And its those buildings codes and permits as to why people will go around them and to build them anyways. Take Dales structure, for example.
He built it under the regulation code amount and Intentionally didn't include a foundation or tie downs because adding a foundation or tie downs would require a permit.
“You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.”
"I've defied the government and yet I can not be punished for it".
Government: *yeah about that*
I fought the law and the law won
@@AhrkFinTey The laws of physics, that is.
Government: Sure, it's *technically* legal (you jackass), but Isaac Newton has words for you.
government: well just make a law to make it against the law
Lol people who don’t wear masks
Having worked in planning and zoning... this is 100% accurate.
You can scam the zoning board, but you can't scam mother nature.
R.I.P. Johnny Hardwick, you will be greatly missed. You were an important voice on King of the Hill and can't be replaced.
That's just what _they_ want you to believe...and they're right.
I know a guy named Steven Mair who sounds and acts exactly like him...and not on purpose.
Imagine Dale during the COVID pandemic.
The mans living like a king
Given his distrust of government, he would have seen right through it.
I have a bad feeling he would be into Q Anon
@@KVIA01 Hank: Damn it Dale! Will you just wear the damn mask!
Dale: You cannot muzzle my freedoms, Hank!
Bill: Duh, I have COVID.
Boomhauer: YO MAN! WHY Y'ALL DANG'OL STANDING CLOSE TO ME MAN! Talkin'bout that dang'ol social distancing, man!
i think he would treat it seriously until he finds out so is the government
Dale is literally the only man alive who will find a way to legally disregard every single US government regulation and law!
The only man alive? Lay off the mushrooms man.
Who is Dale? My name is Rusty Shackleford.
Pocket sand!
it's called "malicious compliance"
you cant disregard taxes (legally) but that doesnt stop me
As hilarious as this entire sequence is, I think the funniest thing is that Dale drops a properly-used Raisin in the Sun reference lol
bill & boomhaur practically raced over there to help him build his guard tower
I genuinely love how those three always do some crazy stuff without Hank around. Their misadventures are funny sometimes.
@@AutoArtemAuto I love how that was an episode point too (when it's revealed they go on secret trips without him). Those guys would have died long ago if Hank wasn't around to keep in check most of the time.
(Oh, and also when they made the tunnel under the alley and Hank was dealing with his "anger issues"))
Dale is a bad influence on Bill and Boomhauer.
If Hank had joined in, the tower probably would have gotten a firm foundation and wouldn't have fallen. I'm actually pretty surprised Hank didn't join in, it would have been a building project which he normally likes.
Dig a hole in the yard of the same dimensions as the base a few feet deep and build the tower from that point. Also put a plastic water tank on the bottom to weight down the base so that your tower doesn’t get top heavy.
Water tank is a good idea however
sinking beams into the dirt would be a foundation
@@sevenguardians7517 what about a water tank above ground with bracers placed against each side and the ground? Not a foundation, and all you'd have to lose height wise is maybe 3-5 feet.
@@grantg117 could work might be able to pass that off until the zoning commission sees through it and changes the code accordingly
Just can’t sink the beams into the ground that’s considered a foundation
@@sevenguardians7517 How about a brick wall around the tower?
@@user-oo6qk2fj9h you'd have to adjust the width of the posts/brackets. You'd also probably want a foundation of some sort and it would also be sort of top heavy and prone to crumbling. You'd also have to either have prebuilt wall slabs that are attached to one another, or spend more time and money getting the equipment that would allow you to lay bricks up to that height. At least I think, I have no idea.
Knowing that Boomhauer was a Texas Ranger it’s surprising what he went along with.
He wasn't, damn.
Probably because it’s a civil matter not a criminal matter.
My zoning guy told me I'd need an engineer's sign off if my fence was over 5 ft, but that i could build a slight mound and put the fence on top and that would be all right. Not sure what we are incentivizing but ok.
He’s telling you to make the ground higher instead of the fence
How long can Dale's tower of power retain 0 dislikes? Scholars predict there will never be one.
Scholars were wrong
@@peterhobo The prophecy lives on, Dale's tower of power has a positive upvote multiplier of 9999999999999999999999X due to design by superior Gribble genetics.
Those 4 dislikes came from the zoning board
You jinx it
some men just want to watch dale's watch tower burn :(
Rest in Peace, Johnny Hardwick.
Dale sitting on a chair that moves up and down the tower: Not enough force to tip it over. Dale LEANING on the structure: Falls over effortlessly. Ah Cartoon Physics how I loath thee.
Leaning on рretty much near the base of the structure at that. xD
Something something wind gust right as he leaned on it something something
I bet you're real fun at parties.
That's a good point because Dale's weak as shit.
America is the land of loopholes. How many of us have been getting around directions on our school worksheets since first grade?
Its all a scam
I'd say Russia is, but the lines have been blurring lately
Yeah man, we all learn that at different ages. It's all about doing just enough to get away with in this country.
I'm sure people of all countries looks for loopholes in laws... other then China or NOKO, they are likely just to kill you for trying.
@@marioxmariox im sure too, but it’s more prominent, common and grand than most places. One of my favorite examples is when HH Holmes had a safe built into his house, didnt pay, and said they could repossess if they didn’t hurt the wall built around it. So he kept it.
*My City:* _You're only allowed to have one garage on your property._
*Me:* _That second structure isn't a garage, it's a three car pole barn._
Man I miss the ol 90’s man lol
but this was from the 00's
@@SmashLiXs it’s what boomhauer mumbles about Clinton
@@colbylorenz9781 that's what he said?
What was he referencing? Minaviz?
even though this episode might have aired in the 00's, KOTH did start in the 90's. either way, pretty sure 90's kids agree KOTH has a very 90's vibes save for maybe the later episodes
R.I.P Johnny Hardwick, the voice of Dale Gribble.
You gotta admit, malicious compliance is a rare art form
My friends and I watched this episode years ago and we all made a deal that if any of us ever died from doing something like this, the rest of us would put “He died from terminal stupidity” on their gravestone as a warning to future generations.
Reckless redneckitude?
Building Inspector: "Are you a complete imbecile?"
Dale: "The answer to that question has always been 'yes'."
A guard tower must be expensive.
I love that even the guy delivering the rails can tell this is for some nonsense.
It's texas
"don't stop inspecting until you find fault"
What every Karen says to police officers.
R.i.p. dale, god this hurts
😢 that giblet-head...
Dale should’ve gone the old Ham Radio tower route for skirting building regulations
Johnny Hardwick watching over us from the 39ft guard tower in the sky o7
RIP Johnny Hardwick voice of Dale
This is one of my all time favorite Dale Gribble shenanigans.
I see a lot of comments arguing about what the best way to support the structure would be without foundations but no one is pointing out that only the top level has safety rails. Like I get that that's more important but it's still worth mentioning
Rest in peace Dale “Rusty Shackleford” gribble (Johnny Hardwick) 😞😞
Dale wanted to build a proper tower that would have been safe, but because of the zoning board he had to reduce to an unsafe standard. That’s the zoning boards fault.
Like Icarus he flew too close to the sun.
Honestly Dale and Bill were the only real reason I'd watch this show on occasion. I didn't much care for anyone else's antics
Makes it even funnier cause boom is a Texas Ranger
How did they get Boomhauer's bookcase and armchair up that high?
Sonic levitation with power supplied by clay copper and wine battery cells!
RIP Rusty Shackleford
Only Dale could innocently call his tower a "Tower of Power". Frank Zappa taught me well.
My Neighbor Has Broken over 40 variances/ordinances to build tiny homes that are in a drainage ditch you would be surprised how many time I've told city inspectors and code enforcement officers to do something
To be honest, Kahn actually saved Dales life here.
Someone could probably do the rough math on how much force Dale would have had to exert onto that tower from that height in order to tip it over. He gives pretty detailed information on the frame. You could guess about the furniture, etc. I doubt it would have been humanly possible for him to tip it like that.
Of course not. When he is walking up on the highest level, that would be more force, than leaning against it. If he could push it over like that it would have fallen over by the lightest gusht of wind
I love all this analysis about a cartoon. When you've sorted this out please can you let me know how far a coyote can fall without death (or even permanent injury)? 😂
@@RaglansElectricBaboon good healthcare
And that ladies and gentlemen, is why we have building codes.
love the looney toons physics where until you pointed out it had no foundation it was perfectly stable.
I love Dale. He never fails to make me laugh.
He made Kahn laugh😅
Dale quoting Langston Hughes is awesome.
What irks me about this whole situation is that at the end of the day, these sorts of regulations are enforced in a way which tries to prevent people from doing what they want on their own property rather than helping them to do what they want on their property safely. If they tried providing examples of ways he could modify his intended guard tower to be safe to install it on his property instead of just rejecting all his proposals, he wouldn't have had to go to such ridiculous measures to get something close to what he wanted. Unless I'm reading it wrong, he made poor construction decisions (narrow base) and didn't include a foundation to get around the petty building restrictions. Once again, government regulation preventing people from exercising their freedoms in a safe manner.
Yeah that's about the long and short of it
It's a common misconception that the government exist to safeguard and support our freedoms, in reality all governments strive to limit and inevitably revoke such things.
@@S71xx Untrue. You seem to think that you have the freedom to punch anywhere you please. You don't. You're free to throw any punch you want, but only as long as it doesn't hit anyone else. The purpose of government is to make sure when you throw a punch it doesn't impact anyone. You may think a regulation is stupid, and hey, mabey it is... OR mabey it's to prevent your neighbor's home from being crushed by a poorly built tower falling over on it after the first storm that blows through.
Why is it that morons don't get that my right to safety and peace limits your right to do as you please? It's all give and take.
That’s kinda the problem zoning laws were created to ensure safe structures. Over time special interest became involved and started imposing restrictions to limit development. Our own housing crisis we are facing is because special interests corrupted a system that was meant to protect.
@@S71xxthat’s a misconception the government exists to protect the liberties of its denizens. The problem is people elect the wrong people to government who will trounce said liberties for money, power, or for their religious beliefs. The conservative justices on U.S. Supreme Court Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell.
The first thing I thought to myself when they started building it was, "No foundation?" 😂
Damnit Dale, you had me at "Tower of Power"
RIP Dale we will miss you.
Dang , I Kinda Want To Build A Guard Tower Too !!
I bet after this a lot of guys tried it.
Forget the law for a min are you a complete imbecile
I know right! I always had this dream even before this episode aired and when I first saw it I was on Dale's side the entire time.
Just learned that the Voice Actor for Dale just passed away.
Hank should know its next to impossible to stop Dale when he gets a craxy Idea
For someone who hates the government Dale knows the rules and his way around them
King of the Hill ain't going be the same without Dale. 😥
😎 🚬
He could have just installed a bunch of heavy boulder around its based, classified them as landscaping and then anchored the tower to the boulders. Would have solved the problem and stayed out of code requirements.
I never noticed how different Dale's voice and mannerisms change over time.
I’m surprised it lasted that long without falling over
all it take was for Dale to lean against it LMAO
“I defied the government and yet I cannot be punished for it”
“ He webt until there were no more worlds to conquer “
-Dale gribble
Why couldn’t that be in the constitution
in a manner of speaking, it's in the declaration of independence.
Takes on a whole new meaning that boomhaur is a marshal
Not surprising that a structure is more dangerous when you follow the building codes.
Nothing wrong with the building code, Dale just choose not to anchor it to the ground.
Are you a complete imbecile?
That last three seconds should be a meme response
Worst part is that they regulated it so he could only build something unsafe and made all the safe options illegal
No one forced him to build it
I'm no architect, but even I know that foundations are important.
I love Kahns logic..........
The most racist logic, he has.
Dale's brain at full capacity.
gribble really out here quotin' langston hughes smh
I know Kahn is just doing this because of his prejudice towards Hank and co., but this is one of the times he was actually right to do this, as this tower could have easily harmed people had Dale not toppled it himself. (Even then, they're still lucky no one got hurt.)
If the government didn’t require him to build it under those codes there would theoretically be no safety risk.
@@fledbeast5783 Yes.
However Dale still should not have built an unsafe tower.
It's somewhat similar to a homeless person deciding to sleep in the road if a policeman said they could not sleep on the sidewalk. Then that homeless person puts their own life at risk. Also they put drivers at risk of crashing when they serve to avoid the homeless person.
Its like what the building inspector said. Disregarding the law, it was stupid of Dale to go around the law in such a manner.
Yeah, there are loopholes they could use. Dale could've weighted down the base of his tower with something. The hypothetical homeless person could sleep in a public park or in an alleyway.
However there are safe and well thought out ways to get around laws and then there are unsafe and poorly thought out ways to get around laws.
@@SurprisinglyDeep Dale is also known to be a paranoid, anti-government idiot who hardly ever thinks things through. Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer once pranked him and instead of getting the joke, he immediately assumed a conspiracy involving a drug smuggling operation, and blew the prank out of proportion. Hell, he's even oblivious to Nancy and John Redcorn's relationship affair. Even if the Zoning Board allowed him to do it, he'd find some way to screw it up. Even Hank was against the idea, and of the four of them, he's the most sensible and responsible.
I love how there are so many comments about how to build the tower to be more stable while getting around the regulations
2:14: "There’s no evidence that Dale is the responsible person the collapse of the Tower of Power! It’s a controlled demolition!"
if only he had anchored the tower with some steel cables like they do with radio towers. he could have avoided this mess.
Well would he have enough room on his property to do so? Then also maybe the zoning board had a provision against cables
@@kymattok the cables wouldn't need to be that far away on a tower that small, but idk about the zoning laws for it.
Or by simply adding weight to the bottom it could have been more stable.
2:15 it was in this moment, Dale realized why we have building codes
Thing is the building codes were the problem. He would have built a foundation, but the regulations wouldn't allow a second one. He would have made it wider, but the regulations wouldn't allow it.
It is actually the regulations that caused him to create something unsafe. If the regulations hadn't been there it would have been perfectly safe.
@@gavinriley5232 the zoning board didn’t allow him to build the tower - probably for property value reasons. He specifically avoided the building codes to get around the zoning board, not the ASCE. Plus, that’s the old “if everything were legal the crime rate would be 0% argument”. If there were no regulations about how to build a structure at all, he would have likely made it unsafe anyway because he is an amateur builder. He seemed to thing a 39 foot tall tower with a 99 sqft base and no foundation was safe.
@@52flyingbicycles And he could've at least weighted down the bottom section of the tower with objects to serve as a pseudo foundation that's not legally a foundation, so it wasn't just regulations that caused it to be unsafe. He wasn't clever enough to think outside of the box, he just literally cut things out.
Aloysius that sounds great... on paper.
@@stuflames4769 It would be great in real life. Zoning laws are just ways for the rich to get richer
When you Watch Dale as a Kid: "He's an idiot"
When you watch Dale as an Adult: "damn government" (has 9 and 9/10th by 9 and 9/10th foundationless shed in the backyard)
LOL currently mathing the dimensions for a tool shed that is less than 249 ft sq to fit just under the county permit regulations.
0:35 when your spanish teacher asks you a question
“Man I miss the ol 90s man”
Why doesn't it have a foundation? Is it legal only because of that?
He’s avoiding any codes about the regulations of a residential structure’s foundation by just not having one. Legal but not practical.
Depends on the regulations where he lives, if it doesn't have foundations it's not a building probably.
Nah I think he was so concerned about skirting the codes and adding whizbangs that he forgot about the practicalities of how to build a sturdy tower
Could've at least weighed down the bottom part of the tower. Still not a foundation.
There are a few loopholes. If a structure is under x feet it does not need to be permitted in a lot of areas even if out put in a foundation. However if it's over that sometimes you can get away by not having a foundation because it's technically "temporary". I knew a guy who wanted a huge pole barn on his property (huge acreage in the middle of nowhere) but the county was being a pain about it and wouldn't issue zoning permits. So he just took shipping containers, stacked them 2 high and like 3 deep, and put a roof over all of it. Nothing they could do .
“Dang ol miss the ole 90s man” i felt that
If they had just approved his original tower design then this wouldn’t have happened