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10"Dang it writers!" Even [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill shows that are grounded in realism]] can make a few [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck jarring mistakes]] now and then.
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27* Tropers/{{anoni}}: Off the top of my mind, the episode where Bobby smokes. What does Hank do as his punishment? Force Bobby to smoke an entire carton of cigarettes (there had to be like 10 individual packs of cigarettes in that carton) while he watches. I'm sorry, but that's child abuse right there. It would also fuel Bobby's addiction. It only made things worse! I believe a normal parent would have gotten help for their kid.
28** Tropers/{{Krendall}}: [[TruthInTelevision The sad truth]] is that this used to be a very common way parents would punish their kids for smoking. The idea was the kid would get so sick from smoking so much at once that they'd never want to do it again. As stated, Hank's mind is a stuck in the 50's, so it fits. The worst part about that scene for me was Hank feeling the need to teach Bobby how to smoke "like a man."
29* ''Tropers/{{Capretty}}'': "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS2E6HuskyBobby Husky Bobby]]". Bobby becomes a male plus-sized kids model and Hank is, of course, embarrassed by this, and he and Bobby are teased for it. Near the end of the episode, Hank pulls Bobby out of a public fashion show. In the middle of the show, a bunch of bullies come up and start chucking doughnuts at the models. We then get this horrible, slow motion montage of these poor young boys being pelted with doughnuts. No one helps them, all the adults and people there just watch and let it happen. When it's over, Bobby turns to Hank and says something like "Wow Dad, you were right!" and Hank is all "I told you so." Except Hank did not pull Bobby out of the show because he knew he would be assaulted; he did it because he himself was embarrassed and for the life of him cannot accept that his son might be into something slightly different. And the end with the doughnuts was such an awful moment that was tacked on just to get a "Gee, thanks Daddy!" ending is a total AssPull to [[DesignatedHero keep Hank likable]]. This episode seriously disturbed me. I was genuinely upset when it was over that no adults felt the need to help these defenseless kids and that all the people just watched.
30* Animeking1108: In the episode "Meet the Manger Babies", Hank was complaining about his TV screwing up. Bobby reasonably asks why they wouldn't get a new one, only for Hank, being the Patriot that would make [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Abridged!Bandit Keith]] blush, says it's because America "doesn't make them anymore." When Bobby suggests getting a Japanese TV, he orders Bobby to go to his room. Not only does this make Hank look like a total [[UnfortunateImplications Xenophobe]], this contradicts when Kahn first appeared, and Hank praised the Japanese for making good, HD [=TVs=].
31* Tropers/SpiderFan14: "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" really gets me. First off, No one takes Bill trying to kill himself seriously. This is not cool, he needs psychological help and Hank and the gang make him out to be a rambunctious puppy that needs people to take days off of work to train him. Call a goddamn suicide prevention line! Second, at the Christmas party when Bill has a mental breakdown, the guests want to beat him up for wearing a dress. WTF? That just made the episode too much of a CringeComedy like the episode about Bobby trying to win back Connie after they break up.
32-->'''Peggy:''' We need to take him to a psychologist.\
33'''Hank:''' He's just suicidal, Peggy. He's not crazy.
34* Tropers/{{Baronobeefdip}}: For me, it was the episode "Sleight of Hank" about the magic show, or, as I like to call it "Hank acts like an ass and sucks the fun out of everything for the entire half-hour". Long story short, Nancy is having a birthday party at a magic show and Hank is bitter about it (He doesn't like magicians because, surprise-surprise, David Copperfield made the Statue Of Liberty disappear once. Grow up, Hank. You sound like some spoiled brat who just had his "bwankie" taken away). Anywho, throughout the magic show, Hank pretty much acts like that kid who didn't get the toy he wanted by complaining through the show and saying how everything is done with "smoke and mirrors" or "wires" (think of it like that guy has to point out every single scene in a cheesy ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movie is done with [[SpecialEffectsFailure old-fashioned effects]], it makes it hard to enjoy either). Oh, but it gets worse. When Peggy is called on stage to participate in the "Pinata Of Death" trick, Hank actually walks onto the stage and grabs the flaming stick the magician is using for the trick. (Beat) Excuse me for a moment...[[DesignatedHero Are you serious, Hank? Did you really just do something that foolish?]] This isn't some cutesy "Pull a rabbit of of my hat" magic trick, the "Pinata Of Death" was shown to be a very dangerous trick. Hank's immature behavior could've gotten people (including his own wife) seriously injured or even killed. I mean, it's one thing to whine and bitch like some f-ing toddler, but to actually endanger innocent lives? It's a miracle Hank wasn't thrown in jail. I said it once and I'll say it again... [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Grow. Up. Hank!]]
35* Troper/{{LSBK}}:I'm surprised nobody mentioned "Three Coaches and Bobby", basically Bobby joins a kid's football team and Hank is so ecstatic (for Hank), but Bobby is terrible and while on the field he sees some kids practicing soccer and wants to join, Hank is, of course, mortified. Long story short Bobby stops enjoying himself when soccer turns out to be more about having one than crushing your opponent in the dirt, and quits. The Dethroning moments for me is the fact that soccer, played by twelve year-olds is equivocated to the sport in general (Hank specifically doesn't it call it a "real sport" several times even to Bobby's coach. But also the fact that 12 year-olds could play a game just for the sake of fun and not winning pisses me off. Yes, the rules for the team were ridiculous, and no, I'm not the kind of person to agree that all kids should get trophies for trying or something like that, but the lesson here is "Any sport that isn't football and people play to just enjoy and not necessarily win and humiliate the other team is obviously isn't a real sport and a complete joke". And note, I HATE soccer with a passion, it doesn't mean I like the terribly stereotypical and over simplified version portrayed here.
36* Tropers/{{Collectionchange}}:''Escape from Party Island'' was a mistake as bad as ''Sleight of Hank'', the plot is that Hank takes his mother and her friends to an island to get little glass "miniature" glass figures, which they seem to have an uncomfortably strong affinity to, which then hosts a rowdy Spring Break which causes Hank to worry about their safety and want to leave. The reason this was a [=DMoS=] for me is that Hank is basically treated like trash the whole episode by the old women he goes out of his way to protect and accomodate. Also, Tilly (Hank's mother) keeps excusing her friends actions, and doesn't ever defend him once (which makes the episode where she wishes Hank to defend her seem deeply myopic). A particularly bad moment early on is when they have cucumber sandwiches, and offer some to Hank, and when he refuses because he doesn't like cucumbers, Tilly " apologizes" for him and then seems to agree with her friends that there is something wrong with Hank not liking something they do. We also find out that during Cotton and her marriage, for a period of years, she [[AbusiveParents abandoned Hank to his crazy father]] just so she could save herself mentally with her little glass miniatures. But the worst is the ending, when Hank risks them missing the boat at her request for a miniature they forgot, and gets the Aesop that [[BrokenAesop he should be more considerate of his mother's fragile sanity!?]] [[FlatWhat What]]. This episode calls into question whether Hank really is wrong in trying to connect more with Cotton, since this episode shows her to be an even more selfish and unreasonable parent then him.
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40* @/KoriCongo: My Dethroning Moment has to be the episode "To Kill a Ladybird", where Bobby meets a raccoon he calls Bandit. The episode starts with Bobby trying to play catch with Ladybird, but she won't play. Hank goes on saying she is 91 years old in dog years, so she won't be able to play very well. A second later, he starts playing with her and she gets the tennis ball like a 21 year old dog. [[SarcasmMode Real subtle, guys.]] Later, Bobby is taking out the trash when he comes across a raccoon. He offers it some trash, and is thrilled to have someone to at least talk to. Later, Bobby takes some fruit pies to the trash and gives the raccoon one of them, naming it Bandit. The moment is really heartwarming, so you would think that the episode would have a message like "Wild animals should stay in the wild" or something similar. Nope, because later when Bobby lets Bandit inside the garage to let him out of the rain, the raccoon trashes the place. Hank enters the garage, sees Bandit, and looks horrified at it. Really, Hank? You've dealt with problems worse than Bandit, and you act like its the worst thing you ever seen. It doesn't help that Peggy said the raccoon would of bit his face off (once again, [[SarcasmMode real subtle.]]) So Hank calls his completely idiotic neighbor, Dale. He wants Dale to kill the raccoon, when all Bandit did was make a mess in his garage. When Dale tries to kill Bandit, it scratches him and tries to run. Here comes Ladybird, the suddenly 21 year old dog trying to protect Hank. Ladybird and Bandit have a short fight, Bandit runs off, and Ladybird follows him, causing Hank to panic and pretty much tells Bobby it's his fault for Ladybird running away even though Ladybird had no reason to be outside in the first place. Wow, Hank. Your dog runs after an innocent raccoon, so it's suddenly Bobby's fault. The worst part is that Dale might have rabies, ignoring the fact that Bandit showed no prior signs of being rabid. So what does Dale do when he needs a rabies shot? He runs into the forest. Seriously. This is before Dale becomes conspiracy crazy, by the way. After several hi-jinks with Not Rabid!Dale, the end comes when Ladybird shows up again. Bobby has a rifle while Hank is trying to persuade him to not shoot. The show uses ManipulativeEditing to make it seem that Bobby shot Ladybird when he actually shot Bandit. Yes, because Bandit comes into the scene he gets shot even though Ladybird actually showed symptoms of early rabies. Way to go, King of the Hill, you made a potentially heartwarming episode about A Boy And His Raccoon, and turned it into "Dogs can do no wrong and wild animals should be shot." This is the reason people think that Hank is a BlackHoleSue.
41* Tropers/StevieWillShowYou: "Naked Ambition". The episode where Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer end up in an insane asylum. Not for the episode itself, mind you, but because it didn't have any lasting effects for Bill. It seemed like the therapy he was getting there would have been good for him, but when the next episode came around, it's status quo as usual. I appreciate that the show had to respect status quo in order to work, but a little character development would have been nice. Hell, Bill always seemed to get the short end of the stick in that area. Poor bastard.
42** Tropers/InuyashaFE: What's even worse is that Hank pulls him out of the session for seemingly no reason. What logical reason could he have for pulling Bill out of something that could have had a very positive effect on Bill?
43*** Tropers/TheDogSage: Because Hank Hill is stuck in the 50's and obviously believes that psychiatry and therapy are useless voodoo, and that Bill should simply get over his problems on his own.
44* Tropers/XvBones: "Won't You Pimai Neighbor?". The episode where it turns out that Bobby is the reincarnation of a great, wise Lama. This was actually one of my favorite episodes - it showcases perfectly that Hank is a narrow-minded, borderline racist asshole and Peggy is a flatly stupid and wildly self-important asshole, but it's okay because somehow, they produced Bobby. And Bobby is a good kid. Plain and simple, Hank is a dick, Peggy is insufferable, Bobby is a good kid. And this episode framed that perfectly, by revealing that Bobby is not just a good kid, he is an inherently moral and incredibly wise kid who gave up a life he was basically born for out of simple love. Lets ignore the silliness of the actual proceedings, it was a good episode. The problem was it didn't stick. Bobby gained nothing from his momentary wisdom and none of it affected his life from then on, like none of it had ever happened, and he was right back to being the occasionally narrow-minded, occasionally selfish, occasionally wacky dipshit he'd been before.
45* Tropers/KoopaKid17: "Peggy's Fan Fair". I want to forget this episode ever exists because I am disgusted with how Music/RandyTravis is portrayed. Having him claim that he [[BlatantLies didn't plagiarize Peggy's song]] and [[UngratefulBastard lying about Hank saving him from his sinking trailer and claiming it was the other way around]] makes him look like a massive JerkAss in that episode. I don't even know how Randy even agreed to voice himself.
46* "What Makes Bobby Run?":
47** TheSupineLupine: I can't stand the one where Bobby becomes a mascot for the high school football team, but brings shame on both the school and his family when he (literally) runs away from the job after learning that the half-time tradition is for the rival band to come over and beat up the Longhorn mascot (though he ultimately makes up for it by both staging a show-stopping prank and accepting the traditional pummeling). His friends' and family's complete lack of sympathy is baffling; it's not even "We're sorry but you must do this," it's "Why aren't you volunteering for a brutal beating?". Furthermore, what town would celebrate the mob assault of one of "their" students, and what the hell kind of a football team would allow their rivals to desecrate their mascot?
48** {{Troper/Disney23}}: Four words: "What. Makes. Bobby. Run?". Seriously, it looks so out of place for a down-to-earth show like this. Here, Bobby refuses to accept the mascot tradition of getting his ass kicked by the rival school's marching band and he subsequently get branded a pariah and bullied by schoolmates, teachers and townsfolk alike. It was just very unsettling, especially the end where he finally goes through with it with the spectators taking pride at the (so-called) tradition. The mean-spiritedness and contrivity of this episode almost rivals [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "The Boys Of Bummer"]] in terms of suckiness.
49*** Troper/Vexer: I'd go so far as to say it's actually WORSE then "Boys of Bummer", as bad as that episode was at least we were meant to root for Bart and Marge did call the townsfolk out on being assholes and Bart did get to hit a home-run at the end. Whereas in "What Makes Bobby Run", everyone who bullied and harassed Bobby over not wanting to get beat up [[KarmaHoudini never gets any comeuppance]] and Bobby ends up agreeing to do the tradition of getting beat up(likely more out of fear of getting bullied more then genuinely believing in the tradition) at the end, which caused the episode to really leave a bad taste in my mouth.
50* Tropers/{{Brainiac0982}}: In "Hank and The Great Glass Elevator", Peggy and Bobby start liking burgers cooked with charcoal instead of propane, royally pissing off Hank. Later on, towards the end of the episode, a BBQ is going at the Hill house. Hank then presents two different burgers to Peggy, one propane and charcoal. When offering her one of these burgers, what does he say? "What's it going to be, Peggy...charcoal or me?" Hang on, propane is so damned important to Hank, he's willing to divorce his wife for liking charcoal better? From this point on, it's hard to see Hank as anything other than a total JerkAss.
51** C17: This isn't the first time, in "Girl You'll Be A Giant Soon", but its the one when Hank finds out propane isn't allowed at a BBQ cook up (watch the Food Network for why) Hank is of course outraged by this and wants to protest, only problem is no one cares to the point where he gets Luanne to go to her college and hires some people to protest with him. Hank is than shocked by the fact that the protesters are protesting. He got what he wanted, so why is he flipping his shit?
52** Shadow200: Seconded, this was were it was really getting bad, I'd smack Hank if I was Peggy for daring to even imply he'd leave her just cause she's starting to prefer charcoal over his precious propane. Tell me again how is it that a [[DesignatedHero stuck up, fun hating, always has to be right, never accepts things that are different and hates everything that goes against what he believes even if it benefits everyone is the Main Character?]]
53* QuackeyTrope: Something that really bothered me was the episode "Now Who's the Dummy?". Bobby starts practicing ventriloquism, and comes up with a puppet called Chip. Over the course of the episode, Hank takes a liking to the puppet, to the point where he starts communicating to Bobby only through Chip, and starts ignoring his own fucking son over a ventriloquist dummy. At one point in the episode, Hank basically tells Bobby that he'd rather talk to Chip, and hear Chip's opinion about things instead of Bobby. He spends time with Bobby, but only because of that damn puppet. Its just beyond idiotic and neglectful.
54** Gravityman: I have to admit that I haven't seen much of this show, but from this page and others, Hank reacting this way to ventriloquism is monumentally out of character. It would sound way more in character for Hank to be horrified at the thought of Bobby taking up this hobby, because that's how he reacts to pretty much everything Bobby does.
55*** LawandDisorder: Not sure if you actually watched this episode. Hank was very much against the whole thing at the beginning (making repeated disappointed remarks about Bobby playing with dolls), but came to love Chip because his persona was the sporting son Hank had always wanted. It's one of the unfortunately few episodes where Hank fully admits he was wrong by the end.
56* {{Troper/ElegantVamp}}: In "Luanne Virgin 2.0", it's revealed that Peggy had pre-marital sex with a boy (as a test to see if he was gay) and Hank acts like a complete jackass about it. It would be one thing if it happened while they were together, but this was before she even ''met'' Hank, and it happened at least 20 years ago. Luanne and Rhett, one of the boys from the virginity group, decide to get married so she doesn't have to be a virgin anymore. Peggy wants to convince her not to go through with it, but Hank continues to act like an ass and tells Luanne to get married just to spite Peggy. She tries to apologize to him, she tells Luanne that if she had married the first person she slept with, she wouldn't have met Hank, and even has a ceremony where you become a "born again virgin" just so Hank will forgive her, and he '''''still doesn't change how he feels''''' until he sees her, in his words, "whatnots". The ending is framed as a touching moment between them, but it's anything ''but.'' Yeah, it wasn't her apologies, or her heartfelt speech about how she wouldn't have met the love of her life if she had married the first person she slept with, OR the fact that she was willing to become a born-again virgin all for the sake of his forgiveness. I was dumbfounded that she would possibly want to stay married to someone like that after everything she did for him.
57* Tropers/SuperSaiyaMan: From the episode of "Hank's Choice", its discovered that Bobby has an allergy to dogs. On top of calling everyone who owns a poodle or a cat a 'woman' (right in front of his own wife in an ''insulting'' manner) Hank won't concede that he has to let go of Ladybird. Hell, he builds her a doghouse which is like a mansion just for her, with electronics and everything. Hank, she is a DOG, hell you don't even need to 'file a permit', dog houses don't need them. And he doesn't even attempt to make it smell like Ladybird, put a treat inside, etc. and expects her to just enter. All so he can basically kick Bobby out of the house into the doghouse. Oh, and no one says anything (except for Peggy, whose the OnlySaneMan here) that making Bobby pop all those pills for his allergies is a bad thing. On top of it all, Bobby goes along with it despite its blatant [[AbusiveParents child abuse]]. And Hank gets away with being a KarmaHoudini in the end.
58** ABNo4: The icing on the cake is that the resolution of the episode tries to make Bobby out as the bad person for having exaggerated his condition and taken advantage of the freedom he came to enjoy while living out in the doghouse. In an episode where Hank seems to care more for his dog's comfort than his son's, somehow his son is at fault by the end. As a fun aside, this was the show's 100th episode.
59* Tropers/DalekExterminer: One of my least favorite episodes from this era of the show is "It's Not Easy Being Green." It felt to me like Mike Judge had some feelings of resentment towards environmentalists, and just used this episode to rant his frustrations. I acknowledge that the political far left can be annoying, but this episode didn't seem to have any real satire; its message mostly seemed to simply be "people who care about the environment are bad." Bobby's environmentalist teacher seems to be a massive dick with no morals whatsoever who cares about literally nothing except the environment. Then Hank is shown to be totally in the right for thinking that caring about the environment is stupid. I actually sort of like the plot turn where Hank has to pretend to be an environmentalist to protect his secret from Boomhaur, but for the most part this episode seemed to accomplish nothing except shame people who want the planet to be safe.
60* "Bobby Goes Nuts":
61** PurpleShirt: When I saw Hank Hill trying to force Bobby to "Fight fair", I wanted to tell Hank "Where in the hell did you go to school where the bullies 'Fought Fairly' like that? It sure as hell is ''NOT'' Arlen, or ''ANYWHERE'' in Texas. Because I want to live there." Yes, Bobby wasn't acting any better. Yes, that is a spot, you should kick someone there if they're attacking you...''IF THEY'RE ATTACKING YOU''. Taunting people in detention just so you can kick them in the crotch isn't self defense - that's bullying. What he ''should have'' been teaching Bobby wasn't "Don't kick in the crotch", it was "Don't do that ''UNLESS YOU HAVE TO''." You just know Hank is a gun owner too - and gun owners don't tell you to provoke people into attacking you just so you can pull it out and shoot the person dead and say "they tried to attack me first" - That's called "murder". I thought Hank was old fashioned - not ''stupid''.
62** Darkrage6: Peggy was also pretty bad in that episode, siding with Hank and somehow making Bobby out to be the bad person (true he could've been less smug about Hank not being able to do anything and he could've explained what happened to Peggy, but somehow I doubt the latter would've made her any less of a bitch) and Peggy tackles him and tries to subdue him and continues defending Hank's ridiculous actions, but the biggest is when Bobby gets angry and kicks Peggy in the crotch and she doesn't feel any pain at all. That is flat out false! Getting kicked in the crotch is every bit as painful for women as it is for men, and for KOTH to imply that it's not is not only incredibly stupid but dangerous as well.
63* Tropers/{{TwentyTwoSevenths}}: "Lupe's Revenge", also known as the moment I started hating Peggy Hill. The episode starts out with Peggy and her class going on a field trip. Okay, that's not so bad... But then, for no reason, she demands that everyone starts speaking in Spanish... including the bus driver. That's already a terrible idea, seeing as he doesn't even freaking speak Spanish! Oh, but wait, it gets worse! Seeing as how the bus driver isn't fluent, he gets lost, right? Then some local citizen knock on the door thinking it's a normal bus. So what does Peggy do? She decides to let him on the bus and follow him around. [[SarcasmMode Because that's the smartest thing to do, right?]] Because there's no way that he could be a thief, or a murderer, or a child molester, right? So, after another five or so minutes of sheer dumbassery, they go home. And there's this little girl, who is very clearly a Mexican native. Despite the fact that no one else on the bus was wearing those clothes, or had that accent, or even that color of skin, she demands the girl to get on the bus, eventually dragging her on! Peg, you fucking lunatic, what the hell were you thinking!? Were you thinking!? There is no way that you can honestly be that stupid. No, I refuse to believe it. Anyway, it takes them the entire motherfrakkin' bus ride home, long after the bus leaves, for her to realize her mistake. So, she does the logical thing, takes her home in her car, thus ending the episode. Haha, just kidding! That would make this episode more logical! Instead, she thinks it's a good idea to hide the girl in her closet. So, after what is implied to be 2 days (side note, that's how long a person has to be missing for a missing person's report to be placed.) she finally takes her home. Fast forward a few mind-numbingly stupid minutes, where she's in court. Her lawyer makes her give her reason as to why not to be arrested in Spanish to show how bad it is. In what is admittedly a funny scene, she bungles the Spanish language (confusing "embarrassed" with "pregnant" and "years" with "anuses," for one) in a manner that calls her entire career (yanno, teaching Spanish) into question, big-time. Thankfully, the episode ends in about two minutes. You know, if they didn't make the character such a dumbass, the concept would be kind of cool. But holy hell did they fuck up the execution.
64** Uraate1: What makes even worse is that this isn’t even the first time Peggy has done something like this and that time was even worse. In "Death and Texas" a death row inmate, Wesley Archer, writes to Peggy claiming to have been touched by her substitute teaching. Peggy visits him in prison and brings him books to read, much to the disapproval of Hank. Finding that Wes is illiterate, Peggy begins tutoring him. She plays Boggle with him and gives him the Boggle set to use. At their next meeting, Wes tells Peggy that the Boggle timer was destroyed in a fight, and that his friend will give her a new timer to bring to him. Peggy gets the over-sized timer, packed to the brim, from Wes's friend. Later Wes claims that the sand spilled out of the timer, so Peggy retrieves a brick of "timer sand" from his friend. Soon Wes admits to Peggy that the timer sand was actually cocaine and that he has been using her as a drug mule. He tells her that he had written all of the teachers in the Arlen yearbook and she was the only one naive enough to respond. Wes threatens to turn Peggy in unless she brings him a list of items and a brick of cocaine every week. The deadline passes, and Peggy is called to see the warden. Peggy and Hank go to the meeting to find that the only evidence against Peggy is the empty timer, which "looks like it's been licked clean." With no evidence, Peggy is absolved of the crime. The problem is the con was glaringly obvious in his letter. Wes was actually pissed that she fell for it. I also wonder if Judge is so patriotic why did he show the prison guards as such idiots. A woman comes in everyday with a packet of white powder and they don’t suspect a thing. I know there was no physical evidence but there was a lot of circumstantial evidence but she just got off because a drug addict did what drug addict do. There was no "you got lucky" or "I don’t want to see you again", they just let her go. Finally she made Hank apologize to her for the incident after acting like an ass to him the entire episode even threatening him with keys. If Peggy couldn’t figure out that a 39 year old man who grew up in another state was never taught by her, then it's easy to see why she didn’t realize that Lupe wasn’t her student.
65*** Ryukei12: Also for the [=DMoS=] below, Hank equates violently chopping off another man's head as bullying so a grown man beating up a child and and a group attacking one person seems mild by comparison.
66* Tropers/ForcedDj7: In the episode "The Father, the Son, and J.C." where Former President Carter tries to mend the relationship with Hank and his father, well, Peggy was a complete egotistical jerkass. When her son said about an idea that involved getting a new father, she said that she took his "horrible" idea and made it her "excellent" idea. Not just that, but if he didn't meet Carter, then their Christmas would be ruined. What does Peggy do after the two mend their relationship, she takes credit for saving Christmas. Sorry, but it was either the Former President, or the kid who saved Christmas, not some egotistic jerkass.
67** Tropers/DragonSwordX: If anything it was her fault that things got as bad a they did. All of her plans to get them closer together had backfired especially the last one which caused Cotton to go on a rampage.
68* Tropers/{{Demetrios}}: The episode "Fun With Jane and Jane." The cult activity in that episode was rather creepy for my tastes. Not Nightmare Fuel kind of creepy, fortunately, but still creepy enough to create a little bit of MoodWhiplash. Plus I'm sure this line from Peggy caused a lot of {{Facepalm}}ing: "Now now, Luanne, all sororities have hazing." Why do I get the feeling [[UnfortunateImplications not a whole lot of college students took that line well]]?
69** Tropers/{{Mogo}}:There were a few good jokes (most coming from the emu subplot) that creepiness didn't kill and Peggy was just making a bullshit excuse: You saw that she just wanted Luanne to make lifelong friends, she never did. But it's still wallbangery for a few reasons: 1) Hank automatically accusing Luanne of being on drugs or overreacting, not noticing Luanne eating like she's been starved or thinking that starvation and trying to take away someone's name is not a normal hazing prank. and 2) There's some seriously disturbing FridgeHorror thanks to Dale: He says that after the starvation and brainwashing, they ship them off to a farm where they work as mindless slaves. So not only did Peggy and Luanne barely avoid this fate, along with scores of others, but it implies that several college-aged girls are actively being enslaved. And it actually gets worse: The head Jane never got caught or anything. She lost the other Janes, but she could easily exploit and brainwash several more girls. And that's not even counting the ending, which implies Buck gets mauled by emus.... not that he didn't deserve it but geez.
70* {{LSBK}}: "Beer and Loathing", notable for being on of the few if not the only times I completely side with Peggy over Hank. Long story short, Peggy gets a job at Hank's favorite beer company, there's a beer shortage and hilarity ensues. Except no. Hank completely betrays Peggy's trust to go get beer in Mexico, even after she told him he'd only have to wait 5 days, and then after they got sick from it he gets angry at her for not telling. Despite the facts that, one, she specifically told him not to go down there, 2 tried to get rid of the beer after finding it with the reason being obvious for anyone with half a brain, and three, him acting like if he wasn't in the same position (she said a confidentiality agreement) like he wouldn't have acted the same way. The real kicker is though even though all of this is more or less acknowledged in the episode, they still try to end it with them both being in the wrong. No, just no.
71* Tropers/TheFarmboy: Now here's a moment that hasn't been said yet, "I'm With Cupid". So it's around Valentines Day and Bobby had broken up with Connie at this point. And Bobby taking the breakup very well, however [[FatIdiot Bill comes along and mucks it up]] by saying Bobby had squandered his one chance at love and doomed to live a life of loneliness. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero So now Bobby is a heartbroken wreck because of what Bill said]]. Then Bill "helps" Bobby try to woo Connie back, escalating to Bobby wearing nothing but a diaper and pretend to be Cupid and then got his ass kicked. [[IdiotPlot Dammit Bill, could you have just minded your own business]]?
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75* ztyran: I'm surprised Hank's behavior in "Get your Freak Off" wasn't mentioned. Hank, like Howard and Nancy Bronson (The parents of the girl Bobby likes), are in at one extremely different end of the parent spectrum-- in his case, the 1930's end. While any normal parent would dislike some of the more extreme music and the way Bobby was dancing, Hank calls Radio Disney smut. Then tells his son to have fun when he's stripped his room of everything in it in order to help "clean" out his son's mind. Then there was the behavior of the Bronsons. Naturally the episode shows Hank in the right by taking modern parents and exaggerating them to into being inattentive and too child-like themselves. This show really hits hard on the left.
76** SpaghettiBoy: Your parents aren't control freaks, are they? If they aren't... then you're lucky. Hank is a control freak. Peggy could have tried to stop Hank from cleaning out Bobby's room, but it would do ''no'' good since Hank would just ignore ''everything''. She says "Most control freaks won't stop until they get their way."
77* Troper/{{Drcynic24}}: How about "Maid in Arlen"? In and of itself, it isn't a bad episode per se, but the fact that this show just HAD to maintain the constant status quo of the miserable and depressing life of Bill afterward really bugged me. He was very happy with Laoma and he even fought to get her back after Kahn's machinations to break them up. Yet after all that though, we never see them together again. The worst part is, the original plan was for them to remain together. The whole thing just disgusted me because there was such a missed opportunity to grow Bill and give him something other than the chronically depressed loser.
78* mysticfire: I can't believe no one has mentioned "Witches of East Arlen". Not only is that episode very uncomfortable to watch, but once again we have an instance of Hank refusing to accept his son unless Bobby likes the exact same things Hank does. I know previous episodes have played on the fact that Bobby is very impressionable, but it feels like that was taken to the extreme here (Bobby believing Ward's claims of having higher power with zero proof, instantly shunning them when it seems they have no powers, etc.) The real moment that got me was when Hank discovered Bobby was a tarot card player, and not a regular card player (because this is somehow better). What does Hank do? He grabs a carburetor, places it in front of Bobby, and says something along the lines of "Here's a carburetor. Take it apart. Put it back together. ''Repeat until you're normal.''" Really, Hank? You're gonna alienate your son for having a slightly different interest/spirituality? I hope Bobby becomes an atheist and a stand-up comic ''just'' to piss off Hank.
79** tvman010585: Adding fuel to the fire was Hank's remark about Bobby getting his ass kicked for the rest of his life because he "found a new way to act like a nerd." That there proves that Hank sees life as a high school movie where sports are a SacredCow and anybody who has the audacity to be into something different is less than human. Not a good mindset to raise a son with, especially when said son is openly okay with the fact that he's not BigManOnCampus material.
80*** BoredMe: For me, [[JerkassHasAPoint this was the episode where everything that Kahn says about Hank became justified.]]
81* Tropers/{{Midoriri}}: For me, it was the episode "Goodbye Normal Jeans" where Peggy gets insanely jealous of Bobby and thinks he's replacing her or some crap like that. Basically, Bobby starts to get better at Home Ec, making Hank a new pair of jeans to replace the ones he accidentally ruined and breaking them in with a power sander. Then he gets good at cooking (Hank actually likes and compliments the food, and even makes a request for Thanksgiving dinner!), and what does Peggy do? She gets jealous of her own son, seeing him as competition, generally acts nasty and spiteful towards him, and upon finding a woman's magazine in Bobby's room (it had a turkey recipe in it, which was why he had it), she calls Hank in and says that "the boy is not right" because the magazine has sex tips and scratched-off perfume samples--that she probably scratched off. Just...that whole episode makes me mad, and there is something very creepy about Peggy's jealousy towards her own son and the fact he's finally getting a closer relationship with Hank.
82** Tropers/anoni: Also, another example of Hanks sexism. He initially doesn't like Bobby having Home Ec. Why? Because if Bobby knows how to do housework he won't want to get married. It may sound weird, but come on! Hank just said a guy's motivation to get married was so they'd have a wife who cleans and cooks all day so they don't have to! Uh... Hank? Protip: there are married couples where the guy does all the housework and the woman makes the money (a fictional example is in WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest) Sometimes they do both. It just sounds like another example of Hank's sexism and old-fashioned stupidity.
83*** Tropers/ChaosHatagami: Agreeable, especially since Hank should know better than to say that, especially since learning to cook is a good thing when you are growing up so you can take care of yourself later on in life, sure Hank married Peggy early, but he should know better!
84** Tropers/Retro7: Its not the first time where she became a jealous prick. There's a very infamous episode "Little Horrors of Shop" where Hank volunteers to be a substitute wood-shop teacher at Bobby's school and his hands-on approach wins over his students. However this winds up affecting Peggy as she was in the running for an honor-y award for best substitute and Hank was starting to steal her thunder. I don't remember the details but she actually gets Hank fired from the job. And even worse, wins said award. This troper took so solace at the end where the students were cheering for Hank while Peggy was accepting "her" reward. And promptly went silent when he left, making Peggy look more like a fool then she already was.
85*** Tropers/maxwellsilver: I know contesting isn't allowed, but Peggy doesn't cause him to be fired. Bobby was caught carrying tools between class. Principal Moss wouldn't budge on the school's "Zero Tolerance" weapon policy despite a saw not being a weapon and banning anything that could possibly be used as a weapon asinine, so he fired Hank. Peggy removed her name from the award and re-entered it as "Mrs. Hank Hill" to use his popularity for her own gain.
86** jessicaotiesha: Peggy has been jealous of an inanimate guitar and the family dog at least this time it’s a sentient being. Frankly I consider the episode where she got mad at Bobby because he didn’t find her attractive creepier.
87* TommyX: "Racist Dawg" is my DMOS for Peggy. Everyone thinks Hank is a racist because Ladybird attacked a black repairman (we later find out that Hank just hates repairmen). Peggy takes a stupid online test that Hank "failed," which is just pictures of black and white people flashing while the "test" taker clicks. Peggy "passes" and joins in on the crowd condemning Hank for his "racism." Peggy has had her bad moments in the show, no doubt, but I thought it was revolting how Peggy wouldn't support her husband just so she could feel better about herself. Then when it's revealed that Hank isn't racist, she just acts like she's been supporting him all along. Just like Peggy to back-peddle like that, eh?
88** @/{{Ecclytennysmithylove}}: I originally was about to come here and make an entry for this episode, but I see you already did. And I agree: Peggy condemning Hank and then suddenly supporting Hank was completely strange. But my DMOS will have to go to the dog specialist and the rest of the townspeople (including Reverend Stroup), who immediately jumped to conclusion by accusing Hank of being a racist, despite that Hank didn't show any racist behavior before. Seriously, the dog specialist and the townspeople should be ashamed of themselves!
89** Tropers/GrumpyOldMan: Mine as well, but for different reasons. The aforementioned test was based on an actual online test that was going around at the time. While it's hinted that the test was flawed, they didn't dig deep enough into just how such a test is indeed not a reliable indicator. I can see that they were making a point about not jumping to conclusions and accusing people of being racists, but they left it at "Well, Ladybird also attacked a white guy". Worse still, is the part where Hank coldly lets Ladybird tear into the white repairman and gets excited about it. Yes, it meant Ladybird wasn't racially discriminating, but couldn't the celebrations wait until after the poor guy was saved?
90* Tropers/Innocentdarkside: "Reborn to be Wild". Bobby joins that youth group is just [[CringeComedy painful to watch]]. To recap: Hank walks in on Bobby jamming out to a popular rock artist...and of course, since everything new and hip is evil to Hank, he takes Bobby to church where Reverend Stroup suggests having him join a Christian youth group run by a youth pastor who she speaks very highly of. Bobby, though skeptical at first, actually has a great time, and becomes much happier and more dedicated to his faith. But then Hank finds out it's one of those hip groups who love new rock and skateboarding, he goes to great lengths to try to get Bobby out of it. Why? Because it's not "proper." He even confronts the pastor running the group. When he asks Hank if being a good Christian or having a proper haircut is more important, Hank says something along the lines of "I'm not stopping 'til he has both!" From this moment on it's impossible to see Hank has anything but a controlling, whiny {{Jerkass}} trying to make Bobby an exact clone of him. Hell, even Peggy, Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer call him out on his behavior throughout the whole episode.
91-->'''Pastor:''' Even Jesus had long hair.\
92'''Hank:''' Only because I wasn't his father.'
93** Tropers/giygas100: All great points, but there is just one particular scene in this episode that sends the whole episode down to hell. At the very end when Hank is showing Bobby all the past fads they had went through, he tells Bobby that he doesn't want Christianity to be just a fad to him and end up in that box. That all fine and dandy except for one little detail...if Hank knew such behavior was a fad, THAN WHY DID HE EVEN NEED TO SEND BOBBY TO THAT YOUTH GROUP IN THE FIRST PLACE!? Seriously, he threatens Bobby with hellfire before he sees the youth group. Yet now that he's practically doing the same thing now with Jesus's grill slapped on, Hank views it as a passing fad? In fact, Bobby gets EVEN WORSE now. We never saw him get piercings and sneak out of being grounded before he went to the youth group! I'm just baffled at Hank's views changing because now Bobby's involved in a "Christian" activity. It's actually kind of concerning.
94*** {{AdamC}}: ...... Yeah, I know contesting isn't allowed, but the episode ''does'' explain why Hank let him attend it in the first place. He assumed the youth group would be what he considers "normal;" a bunch of kids Bobby's age sitting in a classroom being taught points about the Bible (he sent Bobby to his first meeting in a suit and tie). It's not until he actually meets the children that he finds out what the Youth Group is actually like and that's when he gets angry about it.
95* fluffything: As someone mentioned earlier, KOTH has no respect for people who own anything other than a dog. But, boy-oh-boy does it really show in the episode "The Petriot Act". In the episode, after Bill volunteers to look after a soldier's pet and gets to watch a (of course) lovable playful dog, Hank volunteers as well and ends up with a cat (naturally, to his dismay). Now, does the episode center around Hank learning that cats are loving affectionate animals and that they can be as much fun as a dog? No, because that would mean KOTH could no longer glorify dogs. Instead, the cat (named "Duke") is a mean-spirited vicious animal that causes Hank nothing but misery. Oh, and to make matters worse, Bill is actually shown to be very popular with the dog he's looking after. [[SarcasmMode Subtle, KOTH, real subtle]]. Between this and the equally horrified snake episode (which someone else already mentioned), KOTH might as well just spend a half hour saying "Dogs are Jesus and all other pets are the Devil. Anyone who owns something other than a dog is a miserable freak". As a cat lover, I can say that KOTH can kindly kiss my butt for sinking so low.
96** Quilladin206: What really hammered the nail in for me in this episode is that when Duke was forcing Bobby to pet him or he would attack him, Peggy ran into his room with a fucking baseball bat. What the hell?
97** Tropers/MelancholyUtopia: What really gets on my ass is Hank's shock at the price of cat food in the cat store. PUH-lease. Stop acting like it's any more expensive than dog food; dogs require just as much, if not more, supplies, insurance, love, care etc. than cats. In fact, as a guinea pig owner, I can straight up attest to that rodents are far cheaper pets to own than a dog. So if you wanna drag economy into the equation of which pet is superior, all I gotta say is, don't even go there, KOTH.
98* Phoenix79: "Pigmalion" takes the cake for me. Not only is the plot too farfetched and creepy for KOTH, the ending is what does it for me. Luanne and Peggy see a man get butchered in a slaughterhouse, and don't seem affected by it at all. They should be scarred for life after witnessing that. That kind of episode would work for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' or ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' but not ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''.
99* 3J In the "Fat & Furious" we get to see a unique talent surface for Bill. It was lame how it was ripped away by Dale simply because he was irritated. And when Bill finally decides to give competitive eating another try he gives it up mainly because some very childish adult came to watch.... so that she could gawk at how gross she finds the competition. It seems like Hank only agrees to let Bill quit because someone might find him weird. Aren't they like over 40?
100* JadeEyes1: "Après Hank, le Deluge" is positively infuriating. Arlin is experiencing flash flooding, and everyone has to evacuate to the middle school; Hank, who would normally be in charge at the shelter, is busy helping with the evacuations, so when Bill (who has backslid into suicidal depression) shows up in his old military uniform, he's mistaken for a government worker and put in charge. Meanwhile, Hank goes to the dam to check the flood gates, and finds the station abandoned. Since he's the only one there, he has to make the snap decision to open the flood gates (which have cracks in them). This prevents the dam from bursting (which would have wiped out the entire town), but floods South Arlin, destroying a number of homes and a strip mall. When Hank gets to the shelter and tells everyone what happened, they all turn on him, including Everett, the maintenance man who abandoned his post at the dam (who is [[KarmaHoudini defended by the crowd]] and [[{{Hypocrite}} proceeds to mock Hank, making chicken sounds]]), while Bill stands by and does nothing. Later, when Hank calls out Bill on being a poor manager (playing with walkie talkies, wasting supplies), Bill turns on Hank and has his underlings (including Everett) lock Hank up in a cage -- then boasts to the crowd that he, [[DrunkOnPower their almighty leader]], has locked up "The Arlin Flooder". [[PunctuatedForEmphasis What. The. Hell.]] Yes, Bill has severe depression, and it's rare that he's afforded any respect, but that's no excuse for him to treat Hank like that -- specially when Hank is one of the few people who treats him with any respect to start with! To make things even more infuriating, it's revealed at the end of the episode that the all clear was given days ago, and Bill deliberately hid the information from everyone so he could hold onto his leadership position -- a leadership position that shouldn't have been his to start with! In the end, no one involved in the fiasco learns anything or suffers any consequences. (Despite Hank having evidence that Everett, a county employee, was indirectly responsible for destroying part of the town -- way to grab the IdiotBall there, Hank.) This episode was so bad that even when I re-watched it years later, it made my blood boil. The stupid B Plot (Peggy, acting completely out of character, becomes obsessed that Bobby is developing "shelter shock" and interprets his every action as a "symptom", driving herself insane with worry) doesn't help matters.
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104* Halfstep: "Business is Picking Up". This one not only had a terrible Aesop, but made Hank into a super {{Hypocrite}} as well. Long story short, Bobby winds up mentoring under a guy who makes money off of using novel ways to pick up animal feces, Bobby decides to do it for a living. They both make incredible cash off of it. Hank however has a problem with it because...well no good reason is ever given. He can't contest that it's an honest day's work, but since it's disgusting, and people might make fun of Bobby for it, it's a bad job and it has to go. What what? For pretty much the whole series up to that point, Hank had been telling Bobby about how work wasn't always glamorous, but if done honestly, it's worth it, and you can say you're your own man for doing so. Bobby finally finds something that he enjoys doing, that he can do, that pays well, and now Hank has a problem with it because it's not glamorous, and people might make fun of him for it? What the hell? Does he really think anyone gives a goddamn that he's the Assistant Manager of some hole in the wall propane store run by some sinister car salesman/preacher/southern businessman stereotype in some town in the ass end of nowhere, or that his job is filled with glory? What would he rather have Bobby do, start selling drugs on the street corner? Then too, that was really the problem with this show all along: the protagonist is an Al Bundy, who has "failed" in life, and is basically working at his version of the shoe store with his "woulda's, coulda's, and shoulda's." Problem is, unlike Al, this guy isn't even clever enough to realize that he's ''in the shoe store'', or what that exactly means, let alone try to pass that on to his son.
105** Tropers/Ninetails2000: Wholeheartedly agree! Hank hates the job simply because it's something gross and would cause some people to be grossed out by Bobby.(And he was also off-put by the mentor's lavish lifestyle as well.) Hank's hypocritical logic and controlling nature is especially bad in this episode because [[WhatTheHellHero Bobby actually calls Hank out for his flip-flopping ]] but Hank refuses to give him a straight answer, just that he doesn't like it. As if handling propane is a better, less gross job. Also, just to make sure Hank comes off as being in the right, they had some frat boys(Who were looking to hire Bobby for after-party cleanup) be grossed out and not shake his hand, which is enough to unnerve Bobby somehow and the Hank literally bullies the mentor into faking a bullying incident to turn Bobby off of the job! Bobby got a job he could do and make serious money with at FOURTEEN! Do you just not want Bobby to work unless he's a tank-wipe at Strickland?
106* Tropers/KentuckyTroper1990: The entirety of Hanks actions from the episode "Church Hopping". So the Hills get to church late, and find a new family in, what Hank thinks is his pew. After telling him they aren't moving, Hank goes complaining to the reverend, who tells him there aren't any assigned seats. What does Hank do? He starts exploring new churches. Not so bad. After trying out a mega church, getting drunk with Lucky on Sunday, and leaning towards not going, the mega church reverend tells him, he should go back to his church. And here is what pisses me off every time. Hank tells Reverend Stroup that the new family are now going to the mega church. And if he doesn't get the seat assigned as his, he'll tell others about it. That's right. Hank threatens to empty out the reverend's congregation, if he doesn't get his seat. I'm no saint, but I'm pretty sure blackmailing your reverend over a seat that isn't even yours by any established set of rules, isn't very christian. And the worst part? He acts like God gave him the idea. I'm pretty sure God doesn't like it when whiny babies extort reverends like that. Enjoy the seat, Hank. Hope it was worth it.
107** @/Lionheart0: I have to concur with this episode, namely the ending, being my DMOS for the series as well. The idea that Hank so smugly blackmailed a pastor just to get back his favorite seat in a church is reeking of being a KarmaHoudini. Not to mention the Aesop that the main purpose of a church is to satisfy your selfish needs.
108* Cheeze13: "Hank's Bully". That one episode where that little boy tortures Hank seems to always get me so pissed off. Here, new neighbors move almost across the street, and the little boy begins to pick on Hank. Seemingly harmless, right? No, he then proceeds to pick on Hank in front of people, and they do nothing, waving it off as a "precocious sense of adventure". Yeah, right! Taking hats off of people's heads, calling them names, purposely smashing your bike wheel into someone's fresh lawn, with an evil little smile, and even turning a hose on, and sticking it in the mail slot! I understand that this may happen in real life, but this is just ridiculous!
109* bobdrantz: While I can just make a generalized rant about how the show has a general dislike for anyone who owns anything other than a dog (Ok, KOTH, we get it, you think dogs are "God's gift to mankind and anything else is a disaster to own."). And, no saying it's a joke/parody does not make it any better. But, if I have to give a specific example, the worst I can think of is when Bobby gets a snake. Long story short, the snake (a python) escapes and a couple of corrupt exterminators cause a citywide panic, put the blame on Hank, and, at the end, brutally kill the poor reptile. First of all, I'm pretty sure people in freakin' Texas aren't going to be too concerned about an escaped pet snake, considering that snakes are pretty commonplace there (Including highly venomous rattlesnakes). Second, you don't kill someone's pet unless they're a danger to themselves and others (For example, if someone finds a stray dog, you don't kill it unless it's rabid or it mauled someone badly). What you do is that you safely capture it and return it to its owner, or you find it a new home. Third, Luanne's reaction to the snake is just overly stupid and unnecessary. "It's coming after me! It knows I'm a Christian!" Really, Luanne? You want to avoid the whole stereotypical "idiot blonde redneck" image, and you say something moronic like that about a snake? Oh, and let's not forget that Lucky bought that snake was a gift to Bobby. I'm pretty sure Bobby wouldn't be too happy about losing his pet, and I'm sure Lucky wouldn't be too happy that the gift (Which, by the way, pythons cost around $100 on average) he bought with his own money was killed by a bunch of panic-stricken idiots. To put it into perspective, an earlier episode had Bobby reluctantly having to kill a raccoon he befriended because it might've been (though, it turns out it wasn't) rabid and it might've infected Ladybird (and Dale). In this episode, however? The snake wasn't even a threat. They kill it in the most horrific way possible just because people were afraid of it. WTF, KOTH?
110** Tropers/{{Toogie}}: (This has been mentioned a couple times already, I know) The ending of the episode "[=SerPUNt=]" in which Dale and the two other animal control employees ruthlessly butcher Bobby's pet Burmese python, Joshua. As a huge fan of Dale, I can accept that his job as an exterminator requires him to kill pests, though sometimes his lack of compassion doesn't make sense to me, especially since he owns turtles as pets and treats them lovingly (the fact that snake was a pet is the point I'm trying to make here). Though it's hard to even get past the fact that the snake made it through a toilet alive, the whole thing still bothered me. I thought the sensible thing to do would have been to capture the snake and give it to an animal shelter or something. Isn't that what animal control is responsible for? Again, Dale is an exterminator at heart, but he was still on the job as animal control. The end of this episode got to me so much that I had nightmares. I just don't think Josh (or any of the other rats or smaller snakes in the sewer that posed no threat to anyone) deserved to be murdered, and I couldn't help but think that it was rather out of character for Dale to be that cruel.
111** Troper/fairygirl567: What threw me off in this snake episode was the treatment Hank and his family got from a lot of people in town. They were treating them as if they intenially brought a killer giant python into town and it killed someone, but what really disgusted me was when they went to a restaurant and a waitress seemed to be leading them to a table while they were getting dirty looks from everyone and then out of nowhere they find themselves outside in the back of the restaurant and the waitress herself had a big smirk on her face. Yeah, in real life if that happened that bitch would lose her job, along with a couple teeth if she did that to me. I know the two corrupt exterminators meant to have the family look like the bad guys, but I doubt they'd be getting this much hate with it going so far that they are refused service at a resturant.
112* Troper/{{GamerManDrew}}: The beginning of “Blood and Sauce” has one of my least favorite moments in the entire series. Hank catches Bobby baking a cake with Peggy and responds by becoming ashamed of Bobby for it because it’s not manly. Hank then has Bobby give him the oven mitts that he (Bobby) was wearing. Hey, Hank, there’s being old-fashioned and uptight, and then there’s just being downright ridiculous! Parents are supposed to let their offspring choose their own path. Apparently, Hank, who frequently tried to turn Bobby into Hank Hill 2.0, didn’t get the memo.
113* Troper/AllenbysEyes: Many later episodes push it, but "Suite Smells of Excess" may be the Dethroning Moment. It's set up as a Bobby-Hank bonding episode, with Bobby finally getting into college football. Instead we focus on Hank and Co.'s wacky adventures at the Big XII Championship in a forced and unfunny storyline, with Bobby just along for the ride. At this point the series goes from a subdued slice-of-life show to a Texas-skewed ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
114** Troper/{{MoPete}}: What makes the episode even worse is how no one on Nebraska's Sideline or on the field questioned why such a boneheaded play was called. (A Quick Kick with seconds left in the game? Really?!) They ran the play despite clearly knowing they were throwing away the game by doing so, and it took an IdiotBall moment on the part of a player from Texas to give Nebraska the win.
115* ArchdukeCthulhu: "The Minh Who Knew Too Much" really did it for me with the characters of Kahn and Minh. One of the earliest parts of me hating them was in "Father of the Bribe" but this was in full effect in this particular episode. All Kahn did was basically call everyone a redneck or hillbilly along with Minh and the really big point was with Kahn wanting to make a video of them giving people a "up yours" speech about them! First of all: What is their problem? Second of all: How would they like being called "slanty" or "oriental" on a regular basis? Kahn and Minh are just [[TheScrappy Scrappies]] to me, borderline [[EthnicScrappy ethnic scrappies]].
116** Ayumujel: To be fair, it was mainly Kahn being an jerk in this episode. Although Minh was initially taking advantage of fact that Dale and his group were able to her train for a skeet shooting competition for Nine Rivers so she and Kahn would finally be accepted into the club, Minh developed a nice bond with Dale and his friends from the gun club and she has to tell them that she's not going to be going to their gun club anymore after being accepted by Nine Rivers, she's shown (especially the next morning) to be genuinely sad and even disgusted at herself for taking advantage of their trust (although Khan claims that they'll get over it since they don't have feelings). Thankfully, it all works out at the end with Minh and Dale's gun club buddies.
117* Onlythrice: The episode "Pour Some Sugar on Kahn" really annoyed me. Minh's father (a former Laotian general) comes to visit and acts like a complete dick to Kahn. Every other sentence out of him is either him bossing Kahn around or insulting him. Kahn then resorts to karaoke to take his mind off things, and becomes popular and nicer. The General (yes, his head is so far up his own ass he makes his family call him The General) then knowingly ruins it for him by stealing his song right before he goes up on stage and smiles like the smug prick he is. Kahn then goes into depression, which is only "resolved" when the General agrees to leave so Kahn could "save face". They didn't even bother to write a proper ending, they just make the General a KarmaHoudini and have him leave without anyone even telling him off. To add insult to injury, Kahn immediately goes back to being a jerk to everyone after he leaves.
118* Tropers/PokeNirvash: Granted, I speak for a majority of people when I say that even though these [=DMoSes=] have good backing, I just don't see them as [=DMoSes=]. Hell, I don't even believe in the Darth Wiki. But, for me, the Dethroning Moment of Suck for King of the Hill would have to be "The Accidental Terrorist". Now, everyone would be expecting me to say that the fact that nobody believed Hank wasn't the one who bombed the cars was what bothered me, but no. For me, it was the fact that Hank, one of the most sensible characters in the entire series, didn't know that nobody paid sticker price for cars. Sure, the car salesman tricked him into doing it when he was still pretty young, and this is the same Hank who thought that Music/WeirdAlYankovic killed himself in the 1980s, but still, this episode bothered me just for that reason.
119** Tropers/LawandDisorder: It was more of the retconning the series is famous for. Hank was shown to know all about haggling when he bought his new truck a few season before (Telling Bobby to say that they both hated the truck once they got back from their test drive). I guess they were trying to show him as trusting, especially of people he's been in relationship with a long time. But he's quick to get frustrated and point out the untruths in others so I'm not sure what the point of this was.
120* Tropers/{{MosquitoMan}}: "Strangeness On a Train". The one where Hank and Peggy get busy on a murder mystery train is a long DMOS for Hank because he's just so out of character. Hank wouldn't ever do that, if any moments about him on this page indicate, not even for his wife's birthday (it was Peggy's birthday in this episode). And the other characters don't get off much better either, apparently Dale has a habit of spoiling these mysteries for Peggy (where did that come from?) and toward the end he seemed to be starting to feel guilty about this kind of thing. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot That's about all the development you get on that]]. And Nancy was right there, she doesn't mind her husband enjoying ruining her friend's birthday? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And at the end, Hank joins in dancing in public]]. Again something he'd never do.
121** Tropers/{{Shizari}}: Actually, Dale has been established as hating Peggy long before that, so him spoiling the mystery was just a normal day for him. But yeah, it was out of character for everyone involved. Though I think the real DMOS of this episode was the conductor, throwing everyone off the train [[NotWhatItLooksLike because he saw everyone in their clothes on the floor and, without further thought, assumed they were having an orgy.]]
122* Nebagram: "Bwah My Nose" does it for me. The episode has a good, albeit clichéd setup: a rematch of a high school football game against a rival team to avenge a defeat that had haunted Hank and the guys ever since, and Hank having to get over a fear of playing and reinjuring his nose. But what made my blood boil was right at the end when the guys went to torment the opposing captain at his business and cost him potential clients... All for losing a game of flag football. A troper above wrote that Hank mentally never left high school, and this episode proves them 100% correct.
123* flashsucks: "Uh-Oh, Canada". We get it Mr. Judge, you love your country. You hate anyone who says otherwise. But don't stoop to this kind of shit. You've insulted cats, culture, and everything else that rubs your little head the wrong way, but don't force feed your tripe about how amazing your country does at the Olympics or what your country invented, and just act like a smug little twerp when someone says otherwise. And that last scene with Peggy standing in front an American flag... patriotism is fine, Judge. Creating [[StrawLoser unlikable, one-dimensional characters]] who are supposed to represent an entire country isn't. Not in any imaginable way. Is it any surprise this was from the last season?
124** AdamC: The problem with this (and a lot of these moments) is that the episode forgets to call Hank out on this. Being patronizing and ignorant is perfectly in character for him and can be a good source of humor, but the show often tends to forget that these are character flaws and doesn't treat them as such.
125* Trapers/Glah: "The Boy Can't Help It". The episode where Bobby becomes the least active member in a relationship between a woman who is using him (well, several actually who were bored). Basically Bobby does things like wait on calls from his 'girlfriend' etc. with the strong implication that this is inherently wrong. By the end of the episode Bobby solves his problem by 'protecting' the group of women from a pot addict and then acting chivalrous in the most unpleasantly passive-aggressive way possible. The moral of that episode was 'there is still a huge DoubleStandard between men and women in some areas...and that's a good thing because a man being less active in a relationship is weird!'. Listen, I understand that society expects men and women to act a certain way...the problem with this, however, is that there is absolutely no reason why these standards are so unevenly biased, favoring men: would it be such a terrible thing for a woman to court the man? The only reason why this is considered bad is because society says no, and it would literally harm nobody for men and women to choose who is active in a relationship. The fact that King of the Hill completely disregards this and says 'even though it harms nobody men and women should still be forced to act a certain way based on a society heavily biased towards men' is disgusting. If a man wants to be active in a relationship, fine...but it should sure as heck be a choice!
126* Tropers/MsDevin92: "Just Another Manic Kahn-Day". The episode where it turns out Kahn has manic-depressive disorder. Basically, Hank and Kahn find out that they both love grilling and work together to make a "super-duper grill" or something for a show. However, it turns out [[ContinuityNod Kahn is on medication]]; Hank dismisses the importance of the pills, convinces Kahn to stop taking them, and then puts off getting new ones since the energy exuded by Kahn's manic side is speeding their grill-building along. However, it's obviously not long before Kahn becomes depressed and suicidal, and Hank has to scramble to get him new pills. There's a very loosely-interpreted FriendOrIdolDecision where Kahn "has to" choose whether he's going to take the medicine and become crabby again for the day, or hope he swings back to manic to help Hank finish the grill. He turns out manic, and Kahn says everything he went through was worth it in the end. Excuse me?! There was a very real threat he was going to kill himself! The entire episode reeked of this patronizing attitude towards people with disorders, especially when medicine is required, like it's not a horrible experience in real life. Hank was exploiting someone with severe emotional problems for the sake of a grill! What if Kahn had gone back to being depressive and killed himself, huh writers? Would the precious grill be worth it then?
127** JustSome1:As someone with depression (though I don't have the manic portion), this episode pissed me off for that reason. Hank Hill proves just how much of a jackass and only how he only cares about himself.
128** ItsAVolcano: While this episode has many problems, one of the things that stood out to me was the continuing characterization of Hank's attitude towards mental and emotional problems; namely that you shouldn't address them or seek help. After seeing Hank's attitude towards Bill seeking help at an asylum for his various issues and his refusal to help Enrique with his marital problems a part of me was hoping that seeing Kahn with a legitimately dangerous medical condition would help change his views. Normally I enjoy [[ContinuityNod continuity]] but why this part of Hank's characterization was kept is beyond me.
129* Derpyhooves1: The series finale "To Sirloin with Love" started off fine with Bobby joining a college meat inspection team but it took a sharp decline when he accidentally loses a match. The team then treats him like shit and then sounds like they would kill him. Then at a restaurant they blind the opposing team. Bobby wants to quit after that and he doesn't tell Hank what the team has done and Hank chastises Bobby and pretty much blows him off to go with the team to the state championship. Then the rival team gets back at them by hijacking the bus with tasers and stranding them in the desert. [[UnfortunateImplications Overall this series plays violence of sports fans as comedy even when the joke would be that they are being physically harmed no matter how young (see "What Makes Bobby Run?" above). No one raises an eyebrow at this and its presented as a "fact of life"]]. Sparta had softer sportsmanship policy! It also made out Hank into being controlling of Bobby to the point that Bobby has to like the same stuff as he does to make Hank feel better as a father.
130** SuperSaiyan006: Seconded, I removed my first one in favor of this. Yeah all throughout the series [[DesignatedHero Hank]] has basically forced Bobby to do stuff that Hank likes and his way instead of what Bobby likes doing in order to make himself feel good about his own failings, and with him always being shown in the right and with this as the final episode it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Everything Bobby enjoys doing Hank thinks its the Devil and improper and goes out of his way to ruin it despite Bobby having fun and enjoying himself such as the Christian Rock episode. As if its saying, unless you do exactly what your parent wants and likes you'll be nothing but a disappointment. [[SarcasmMode Great lesson there, KOTH.]]
131*** Regulas314: Thirded! I changed my entry from "Get Your Freak Off" for this. The flashback of Hank basically conditioning Bobby to enjoy beef as much as he does since he was a baby REALLY rubbed me the wrong way. It's as if Hank learned nothing from Cotton trying to shape him "into a man" and views Bobby more as a lawn to be tended than an actual person. Only a handful of episodes have ever really done the whole "Hank was right about Bobby's interest being bad this whole time" plot, but this just felt sickening. Why Bobby didn't bother to mention his team was not only sabotaging their competition, but THREATENING HIM I don’t have a fucking clue!
132* CapriciousSalmon: I removed my DMOS for "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" for a later addition. People dislike the Lucky/Luanne story because Luanne is in the same spot as her mother by the end of the show: married to a loser, broke, and with an infant daughter, the only difference being Luanne has a loving support network. People blame Lucky for this, but they should get mad at Peggy! In "Edu-macating Lucky" Lucky decides to propose to Luanne, but wants to get his GED first. He asks Peggy to help him study and Peggy gives him the wrong answers to ensure he fails, thinking he'll break up with Luanne. Too bad Luanne is pregnant, but now, Lucky won't wed her unless it's a ShotgunWedding. So, the proposal goes ahead, because nobody realizes you can take most standardized tests as many times as you want until you pass, as long as you adhere to the waiting periods. If you didn't get it, Peggy was so focused on trying to get Luanne to reach her potential, that she doomed Luanne (and by extension, Lucky and Gracie) to a life of squalor, just out of pride. Lucky was actually serious about improving himself, could've gotten gainfully employed so he could afford more than just a truck and a trailer, and Peggy messed it up for them. And she receives no karma for it, takes no responsibility, and gets to kick Lucky in the stomach! Gracie doesn't deserve to be named after her!

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