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Hi everyone,

I watched the one-hour season finale of the animated series "King Of The Hill"
tonight, and I was shocked when I saw this in the closing credits:

"Guest Voice, Part Two: Seiko Matsuda"

!!!!

The main characters ("the Hill family") go to Japan in this episode. There is
a sub-plot that involved their son Bobby (who is grade-school aged). He is
walking down the street and finds a "dance vending machine." There are pads on
the sidewalk with arrows on them, representing a step forward, bbackward, to
the right, and to the left. There is a monitor you can watch while steppping on
them and animated dancing figures are shown on a big screen overhead dancing
in time to the steps made on the pads. He puts his money in the machine,
starts dancing by himself, and looks to the side. There is a Japanese 
school girl his age watching. She looks at him and says "DANSU!" Then she jumps
on the pads and dances with him.

The school girl is SEIKO. I didn't realize this until the show was over and 
saw the credits.

He goes back the next day, there she is again, waiting for him. She sees him
and says "DANSU!" She puts money in the machine and they start dancing.

The song that is playing the second time they dance is "KIMONO BEAT!"

She giggles after they dance and she drags him off to a photo booth. He tells
her "OK, this is how we're going to pose" but while he's talking she giggles
and kisses him on the cheek. He says "I have to go, but I'll meet you back 
here at 6:30." She says "DANSU!" and he says "Not right now...oh, you mean 
later...yes, we'll pick up where we left off!"

It is 6:25 and he's getting ready to go meet her, but his mother decides that
he has to go with here to see the sights of Japan. The girl is waiting at the
dance machine, and her Pikachu watch starts singing "It is 6:30." She looks
very sad and decides he is not coming. A Japanese school boy sees her and says
"Dansu?" He replies in a very low and sad voice "dansu..." and dances with him.

The family is driving in the car and Bobby's grandfather finds out what has
happened. He tells him that he MUST say goodbye to her or it will haunt him for
the rest of his life. They stop the car, he walks up to the dance machine and
he is there. She sees him, gets a big smile, starts to say "DANSU!" again, and
he says, "no...let's not say a word...LET'S DANCE!!!"

It is really sweet, and I thought it was a wonderful episode, but when I 
realized it was Seiko (and that I didn't even notice "Kimono Beat" the first
time) I was stunned.

This was the last first-run episode of the season. They will most likely be
showing repeat episodes until September, so keep an eye out for it (real easy
to spot as this is usually a half-hour show and this one was an hour long).

"King Of The Hill" is one of the top-rated shows in the USA. I wonder how many
hundreds of thousands of people...maybe even millions...watched this show 
tonight and didn't know they were hearing Seiko (or don't know who Seiko is).

Anyway...one more "collectors item" to drive you crazy until it is shown again!

Best regards,

Mike