History Recap / KingOfTheHillS3E12ThreeCoachesAndABobby

* WouldHurtAChild: Coach Sauers throws a football at one of the players who tries to join the soccer team, knocking him out. His overall disregard for the young boys' safety is taken to the extreme when he chases the remaining players around the football field with his car.

* SpecialGuest: Creator/WillFerrell as Coach Lucas.

* HiddenDisdainReveal: When Hank stops Coach Sauers from using his car to chase after the kids, Sauers reveals that he always hated Hank for not only being a do-gooder but also breaking his ankle and costing him state championship football game. Hank counters that HE got him into state and he wishes he never brought him out of the shoe store.

* PutMeInCoach: Inverted; Hank tells the original football coach (portrayed as insecure and incompetent) to not play Bobby due to them being able to win, but the coach insists, since he likes to play everyone at least two minutes, even someone as inept as Bobby.

* TooDumbToLive: After Joseph finds a crack in his helmet and lets Coach Sauers know about it, he simply tells him to put it on and ram his head against the wall to test it out. Joseph refuses and joins the soccer team. A fed-up Sauers does it himself, who then promptly hurts himself.
* TrainingFromHell: Coach Sauers training, which resulting in him walking on the boys while doing sit-ups, expects them to memorize a huge playbook, and involves some even getting injured.

* WouldHurtAChild: Coach Sauers throws a football at one of the players who tried to join the soccer team, knocking him out. And he even seems to have a lack of regard to safety. Then taken to the extreme when he chases the remaining players around the football field with his car.

* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Coach Sauers in his later years ends up working at a shoe store when Hank and the guys offer him a chance to return to coaching by taking over the Tom Landry Middle School football team. He's so excited about coming out of retirement, he almost quits his job but rescinds after Hank points out the coaching is not a paying job.

* {{Foil}}: Coach Sauers and the soccer coach Lucas are polar opposites. Coach Sauers is incredibly passionate about football and winning. However he uses extreme methods to do so, which end up scaring away the kids to soccer. Coach Lucas is more gentle acting and more supportive. However, he's incredibly politically correct, being happy with just tying the game, not wanting to win or lose to avoid hurting any feelings. And acting as something of an environmentalist, having the kids pick up trash and removing the graffiti from the bridge, to which the football team does, as a means of tradition.
* {{Jerkass}}: Coach Sauers is incredibly passionate about winning, but his methods demoralize and even hurt the kids, with him not even caring at all about their well-beings. It's after he chases them around in his car, which makes Hank even realize what kind of guy he is.

* NoSympathy: When some of his players get hurt, the most Coach Sauers does is tell them to take a salt tablet and doesn't seem particularly concerned about their well-being.
* PutMeInCoach: Inverted; Hank tells the original football coach (portrayed as insecure and incompetent) to not play Bobby due to them being able to win, but the coach insists, since he likes to play everyone at least two minutes, even someone as incompetent as Bobby.

* {{Flashback}}: While painting the bridge, Hank recalls back to 1974, back in his high school days, with Hank running for a touchdown to bring Arlen High to the State Championship, with Peggy watching him, while Boomhauer and Bill as teammates.

* BrokenPedestal: Hank used to look fondly at Coach Sauers, who took the Arlen High football team all the way to the State Championship in 1974. But he quickly loses all respect for him when he sees his extreme methods, such as chasing the boys around the field with his car.

* TooDumbToLive: After Joseph find a crack in his helmet and lets Coach Sauers know about it, he simply tells him to put it on and ram his head against the wall to test it out. Joseph refuses and joins the soccer team. A fed up Sauers does it himself, then promptly hurting himself.

* NoSympathy: When some of his players get hurt, the most Coach Sauers does it tells them to take a salt tablet and doesn't seem particularly concerned about their well-being.

* TheCheerleader: Bobby acts as this to the football team, much to the embarrassment of Hank.

--> '''Peggy:'' (After hearing them talk about their [=SUVs=] and heated seats) Oh, well, that is a must, isn't it? You know, my butt is either warmed by my car seat or covered by my sweater. I have to keep it at optimum temprature or I could die from mild discomfort. (The moms give a nervous chuckle) Yeah... (mimics their chuckling, then gets worked up) Oh, and you know what else would just make me die? If by mistake, I paid so much attention to my child's game, that I maybe raised my voice. Oh, I would just die, I would! Or if I got stuck with a bunch of losers who couldn't recognize a dead-on perfect [[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]] impression, well I would just die a thousand deaths! You know what? I have got a football game to watch. (Throws down sweater and walks away before coming back and picking it up) [[FailedAttemptAtDrama Oh, that would be Minh's.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Being scared off by Coach Sauers, Bobby and others jump ship to the soccer team. Even Joseph joins them after a while. Then in the end, having grown tired of the atmosphere of the soccer team. The boys go back to football.

* {{Jerkass}}: Coach Sauers.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hank not only encourages the Cougars to tag the team name on a bridge, he encourages it. Later episodes would portray Hank as more of an uptight rule-follower who is strongly against people painting graffiti like when he was upset about the graffiti on the Tea Kettle in "Harlottown" or Bobby and Tid-Pao tagging the alley in "Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do".

* {{Foil}}: Coach Sauers and the soccer coach Lucas are polar opposites. Coach Sauers is incredibly passionate about football and winning. However he uses extreme methods to do so, which end up scaring away the kids to soccer. Coach Lucas is more gentle acting and more supportive. However, he's incredibly politically correct, being happy with just tying the game, not wanting to win or lose to avoid hurting any feelings. And acting as something of an environmentalist, having the kids pick up trash and removing the graffiti from the bridge, to which the football team does, as a means of tradition.

** Hank is one to the boys when Coach Sauers chases them around the football field with his car and knocks him out with a Gatorade cooler

* NiceGuy: Coach Lucas, though to a fault. Where he want to tie and have no one win or lose.

--> '''Peggy:'' (After hearing them talk about their SUVs and heated seats) Oh, well, that is a must, isn't it? You know, my butt is either warmed by my car seat or covered by my sweater. I have to keep it at optimum temprature or I could die from mild discomfort. (The moms give a nervous chuckle) Yeah... (mimics their chuckling, then gets worked up) Oh, and you know what else would just make me die? If by mistake, I paid so much attention to my child's game, that I maybe raised my voice. Oh, I would just die, I would! Or if I got stuck with a bunch of losers who couldn't recognize a dead-on perfect[[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]] impression, well I would just die a thousand deaths! You know what? I have got a football game to watch. (Throws down sweater and walks away before coming back and picking it up) [[FailedAttemptAtDrama Oh, that would be Minh's.]]