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If Peggys Spanish is so terrible, how was she even hired as a substitute teacher?
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** No, Cotton generally loves Bobby. He treats him nice even when Hank's not around. Maybe some tiny part of him wants to make up for being just a Jerkass to Hank but the rest of him can't admit it, so he makes do by showering Bobby with affection. Although even ''that'' sounds way too sentimental for Cotton, so maybe not.
** My theory is two fold - Cotton was likely still more than a little bitter about losing his shins, in an unhappy marriage, and had recently had to leave behind the Japanese nurse he loved when Hank was born. This leads to Hank trying to live a certain way or hold up a certain standard in the hopes of winning Cotton's approval. Bobby was born when Cotton was an old man who had grown more or less accepting of his life, is his only grandson, and never tries to be anything but himself.

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** No, Cotton generally loves Bobby. He treats him nice even when Hank's not around. Maybe some tiny part of him wants to make up for being just a Jerkass to Hank but the rest of him can't admit it, so he makes do by showering Bobby with affection. Although even ''that'' sounds way too sentimental for Cotton, so maybe not.
** My theory is two fold - Cotton was likely still more than a little bitter about losing his shins, in an unhappy marriage, and had recently had to leave behind the Japanese nurse he loved when Hank was born.loved. This leads to Hank trying to live a certain way or hold up a certain standard in the hopes of winning Cotton's approval. Bobby was born when Cotton was an old man who had grown more or less accepting of his life, is his only grandson, and never tries to be anything but himself.
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* It's a form of rebellion against their parents. Plus, his mother is shown to be something of a stick int he mud, too.

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* It's a form of rebellion against their parents. Plus, his mother is shown to be something of a stick int he in the mud, too.
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[[WMG: Is Arlen a town or city]]
It's refered to as a town but has many amenities that only cities would have.
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[[WMG: What exactly happened to Coach Sours]]
I mean he is knocked out and disappears without explanation. Did Hank Kill him? It seems very likely that between him running into the brick wall with a helmet (which likely caused the crazy behavior he exhibits in his final scene) was he fired, quit, arrested? it was never mentioned. If Hank did kill him, he likely wouldn't be held responsible as Sours was trying to mow the kids down with his car and may have died anyway from either a stroke or traumatic brain injury.
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** Actually, wasn't Connie 12 in that episode she started her period? If my memory serves, she was 12 and the she didn't turn 13 until ''after'' that.

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** Actually, **Actually, wasn't Connie 12 in that episode she started her period? If my memory serves, she was 12 and the she didn't turn 13 until ''after'' that.



** Tying into that, there's something of an unspoken rule that you don't vandalize monuments/landmarks. However, the "Cougars Rule" thing might be an instance when they had permission to graffiti or it was treated as some long standing tradition where they'll put up with the graffiti.

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** Tying **Tying into that, there's something of an unspoken rule that you don't vandalize monuments/landmarks. However, the "Cougars Rule" thing might be an instance when they had permission to graffiti or it was treated as some long standing tradition where they'll put up with the graffiti.




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***Four: He wasn't ''forced'' to live there. The doghouse was really for Ladybird because they thought Bobby was allergic to her before they figured out he was reacting to broccoli (or something the broccoli was cooked in) and Bobby saw how nice it was, so he opted to go live in it.




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*If he has three kids, then the daughter we see is probably the youngest, so the absence of the other kids could be because they either moved out or whatever. If not, they were probably retconned.

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**Actually, wasn't Connie 12 in that episode she started her period? If my memory serves, she was 12 and the she didn't turn 13 until ''after'' that.




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**Tying into that, there's something of an unspoken rule that you don't vandalize monuments/landmarks. However, the "Cougars Rule" thing might be an instance when they had permission to graffiti or it was treated as some long standing tradition where they'll put up with the graffiti.
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** Cremated remains are not like the ashes from wood or charcoal. They are roughly the texture of coarse sand and most often contain bone fragments and shards. That could easily clog a toilet.
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[[WMG: Bobby and the chicken pox]]
* In season 2's "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg", it's established that Bobby and Joseph are sick with the chicken pox. Yet within the same day, Hank wants to reward them by taking them to the fun center. Keep in mind, when Bobby is first shown in the episode, he's barely able to walk because of how weak he is from the sickness, collapsing on the lawn. How did Bobby recover from the chicken pox so fast that he's able to play paintball?
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* It's a minor detail that doesn't affect the episode's outcome, but how is Debbie able to bring an unconcealed (!) shotgun into the Get-In Get-Out without any trouble? Putting aside that she wasn't attempting to rob the place, many stores have signs that specifically state that they ban guns in the premises. I know it's Texas but it still seems like a stretch that you could carry shotguns into stores without the cops being called.

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* It's a minor detail that doesn't affect the episode's outcome, but in "High Anxiety", how is Debbie able to bring an unconcealed (!) shotgun into the Get-In Get-Out without any trouble? Putting aside that she wasn't attempting to rob the place, many stores have signs that specifically state that they ban guns in the premises. I know it's Texas but it still seems like a stretch that you could carry shotguns into stores without the cops being called.

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A line in season 3, in spanish mwntions he has 3 kids. Later episodes we only see the duaghter,are the others kids referenced or dose the change in kids reflect how they did a 180 to his character?
[[WMG: peggy's computer]]
She starts the show with a kaypro, then gets a plot-point upgrade in season 4. She has what looks like an iMac g3. That's a big enough expensive they would have talked about it..how come it's just there?

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A line in season 3, in spanish mwntions Spanish mentions he has 3 kids. Later episodes we only see the duaghter,are daughter, are the others kids referenced or dose does the change in kids reflect how they did a 180 to his character?
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[[WMG: peggy's Peggy's computer]]
She starts the show with a kaypro, Kaypro, then gets a plot-point upgrade in season 4. She has what looks like an iMac g3. That's a big enough expensive they would have talked about it..how come it's just there?
** She was given the [=iMac=] in "Hillennium" as a Christmas present. Hard to say how Hank afforded it, but also remember that Hank saved a bunch of money that Christmas because he bought the family toilet paper instead of expensive gifts.


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[[WMG: Debbie carrying an unconcealed shotgun into a convenience store]]
* It's a minor detail that doesn't affect the episode's outcome, but how is Debbie able to bring an unconcealed (!) shotgun into the Get-In Get-Out without any trouble? Putting aside that she wasn't attempting to rob the place, many stores have signs that specifically state that they ban guns in the premises. I know it's Texas but it still seems like a stretch that you could carry shotguns into stores without the cops being called.

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** Yeah, Hank hates FOX in general, not just FOX News. There was this exchange:
--> '''Bobby''': Dad, can I watch FOX?\\
'''Hank''': Is it football season?\\
'''Bobby''': No.\\
'''Hank''': Then it's blocked.
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[[WMG: How did the Snake get from Hank's toilet to the sewer, if Hank has a septic tank?]]
*In one episode, Bobby gets a pet snake from Lucky, but it ends up going into Hank's toilet and causing panic throughout the town. But it's mentioned that Hank has a septic tank in Hank's Friend. So how could it have gotten to the sewer if his toilet is connected to the septic tank, not a sewer?
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*** As an Army vet and prolific shooter, it really should be second nature to him.

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* The skydiving company should be sued for allowing a complete novice to solo jump. Most companies require tandem jumping (you are attached to a professional skydiver who pulls the cord). You need alot of training to be able to solo jump.
* Not sure I blame the guy who pulled his his own cord as Peggy failed, at that point what was he supposed to do? Suffer a serious injury along with Peggy?
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* This is actually very TruthInTelevision as MLMs, fake diplomas for sale and other such scams specifically target people like Peggy, i.e. people who have a vastly inflated ego and are extremely susceptible to suggestion whenever anybody feeds said ego.
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She starts the show with a kaypro, then gets a plot-point upgrade in season 4. She has what looks like an iMac g3. That's a big enough expensive they would have talked about it..how come it's just there?
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A line in season 3, in spanish mwntions he has 3 kids. Later episodes we only see the duaghter,are the others kids referenced or dose the change in kids reflect how they did a 180 to his character?
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** Dale is one of the biggest hypocrites in the show and has shown to be okay with government operations when it suits him. Examples being "De-Kahnstructing Henry" where he's seen recieving welfare checks under "Rusty Shackleford" and "The Texas Skillsaw Massacre" where he tells Hank as much as he likes to scoff at the law, he will also enforce it.

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**Probably because, besides being old, he hasn't really done anything that would land anyone in prison and did misdemeanors at best. In terms of why he wasn't in a mental asylum, well, he's not mentally incompetent and hasn't shown himself to be danger to himself/others (outside of threatening people with tools and weapons) and it is painfully hard to put an adult in an insane asylum (more reasons as to why Hank probably wouldn't want to)




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**That still doesn't account for [=GH=] but I kind of figured he's either with her and her new spouse or she gave him away for adoption.




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***They explained this in-show as Bobby being a late bloomer, supposing the show doesn't run on ComicBookTime.




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**Yes, but a lot of people don't actually know to do that.




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**VitriolicBestBuds? It's kind of like Quagmire from ''Family Guy'', where, despite the things he's done (and vice versa), the other three do hang with him, provided, Quagmire isn't as upstanding as Boomhauer.




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****Eh, grafting wasn't really that impossible in the 40s, considering the foundations for modern plastic surgery was founded in about the 1917-ish, so the idea of grafting his feet to his knees wouldn't be really farfetched.




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**Maybe it's because of how some article of clothing are worn, in which case, men's shorts tend to be worn higher on waist (to my observation), so, in which case, the clothing could mess with the colostomy bag (as clothing does have to be carefully put on/worn when one has one), however, that would also extend to pants.




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**Bobby did say Hank hated FOX, in which case, he'd block it just for that.



*** I took it that Peggy got fired by the school to save face and spanking ''other'' people's kids is very much frowned upon.










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**Probably peer pressure, however, the idea, in some cases, that some (or a couple of) people in a small town can be racist (or whatever) could blemish the town's reputation.




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**Not really, as open-container laws usually cover city/public grounds, not residential grounds. The alley where they drink would be considered, in some sense, "residential grounds".
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** Or to stay on Cotton's good side, to ensure that Cotton won't murder Dale in his sleep.
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[[WMG: Why did Bobby even face detention during the end of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Clown"?]]
He didn't even DO anything to deserve it for a change. It's not like his talent show act was against school rules or anything. Was it because of what he said about the principal? I forget the wording, but it was in regards of eating beans and it making you pass gas. Was it another case of RuleOfFunny?
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[[WMG: Some bits of the episode Dale Be Not Proud]]
I get that it's a cartoon and RuleOfFunny and RuleOfCool apply. Going off the ending, it seems as if the 10 year old boy did get Dale's kidney after all. I am more confused on how Dale and Hank are just allowed to walk out of the hospital, and how that hospital didn't have security to stop Dale from escaping.
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* I have to throw in my own headscratcher for this, since you kindly made a subheading for this episode: going back to the old "ItJustBugsMe" name, Dale cannot pronounce "Pfizer" correctly, defaulting to the phonetic pronunciation of the name, but doesn't read "placebo" on sight as "place-bo". He clearly doesn't know what either thing is yet he pronounces placebo correctly. I personally find this inconsistent. *Snort and adjust thick-rimmed glasses.*

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* I have to throw in my own headscratcher for this, since you kindly made a subheading for this episode: going back to the old "ItJustBugsMe" "It Just Bugs Me" name, Dale cannot pronounce "Pfizer" correctly, defaulting to the phonetic pronunciation of the name, but doesn't read "placebo" on sight as "place-bo". He clearly doesn't know what either thing is yet he pronounces placebo correctly. I personally find this inconsistent. *Snort and adjust thick-rimmed glasses.*
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* A possible explanation, but trying not to excuse Cotton's generally abusive nature: Cotton begrudgingly respects people who stand up to him, moreso than blind loyalty. Cotton was awful to Hank as a child, but Hank, as far as we could see, was still obedient and respected his father (mainly out of fear). The same goes for Didi — she was subservient and softspoken (most of the time), and it's not like Cotton ever had anything nice to say to her. But Peggy and Bobby were different (although they had different approaches). Peggy brushed Cotton off most of the time, stood up to him and called him out. His respect for Peggy was made most obvious in the episode where he's helping her learn to walk again. Bobby has always been kind to Cotton, so their relationship wasn't as antagonistic, but unlike young Hank, Bobby didn't simply say "yes sir" to everything Cotton said. Bobby was still himself, and didn't let Cotton's ways intimidate him.
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** Connie wears a relatively baggy shirt and doesn't get much chance to show off any curvature. At the same time, 13 is pretty late for a girl to start her period in this day and age, and Minh is not exactly an hourglass herself, so it seems Connie is probably just a fairly shapeless girl (who also prefers to dress somewhat boyish) who will remain that way even as puberty progresses.
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* Moss mentions he needs to sell steaks until his suspension's lifted. Now how he managed to get out of the "labeling children as special needs to avoid testing them" scam with just a suspension is a totally different question....
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** Actually Hank approved of Bobby being a pit hand sinc "it's not cooking it's barbecue" The real head scratcher is how Canon Hank like meats that weren't grilled with propane?

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** Actually Hank approved of Bobby being a pit hand sinc since "it's not cooking it's barbecue" The real head scratcher is how Canon can Hank like meats that weren't grilled with propane?

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