Ray Holiday is the former owner of Layaway Ray's Bait N' Tackle who now works at the local Mega Lo Mart's tackle shop. He is a good friend of Hank.
Appearance[]
Ray is a middle-aged man with short black hair, a slight build, and pale skin. He has a cleft chin and is seen wearing a blue shirt with dark overalls and a wristwatch. In later episodes, he is seen wearing a red Mega Lo Mart employee vest.
History[]
Season 2[]
Ray was first introduced in "Jumpin' Crack Bass (It's a Gas, Gas, Gas)" when Hank went to his tackle shop to buy some manufactured bait after the worms failed him. Hank would frequently go to the Layaway Ray's Bait N' Tackle to buy fishing rods and fishing reels, but, until this point in time, would never buy bait; Ray was even familiar with Hank's obsession with using only worms and was in shock that Hank had "given up the worm." When Hank enters the store, it was revealed to be low on supplies and going out of business due to Ray's inability to compete with the Arlen Mega Lo Mart, and Ray could only offer inferior bait such as salmon eggs, marshmallow bait, and blood dough balls. He referred Hank to an unschooled man named Jack who sold fishing bait from his truck. While he and Hank were chatting, Ray secretly poured charcoal lighter across the store's floor. After he and Hank left the shop, Ray lit a match, threw it on the ground and blew up his soon-to-be former store. Later in the episode, he appears again in Judge Roland McFarland's court room at the Arlen County Court for a case called "Fidelity Mutual Insurance Vs Layaway Ray's Bait Shop," as it turned out that he tried to collect the insurance money but was found out afterwards.
He later appeared in the two-part episode "Propane Boom", where he was working at the tackle shop at Mega Lo Mart. Loathing his job at the Mega Lo Mart, Ray joined Hank—who got a job at the Mega Lo Mart after it temporarily put Strickland Propane out of business—and two others, Mark McJimsey and Joe, in an attempted mutiny at a Chuck Mangione concert. On the night before, Ray enthusiastically compared the mutiny to the rebellion of "Queer Nation." However, as Ray tried to blow his kazoo during Chuck Mangione's store inauguration, their noise was interrupted by the huge explosion inside the Mega Lo Mart due to a propane gas leak before the mutiny could get great attention. In the end, only Hank would get his old job back while Ray remained a Mega Lo Mart employee.
Season 3[]
In "Death of a Propane Salesman", Ray attended Buckley's funeral with a couple of other Mega Lo Mart employees. Later, he appeared briefly in the episode "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" attending Hank's Christmas party. Like the other people there, he was baffled at Bill Dauterive wearing women's clothing in an attempt to convince himself that he was his ex-wife Lenore. Hank eased the tension by wearing one of Peggy's dresses and pretended that his party had a "wacky" theme.
Season 7[]
Ray is also seen in the episode "Megalo Dale" doing jumping jacks alongside other Mega Lo Mart employees in the beginning of the episode as Hank and the store manager are walking in.
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