Bill decides to get roommates, only Hank forces him to take on Carl Moss.
Tropes found in this episode:
- Batman Gambit: Bill has a plan to get Kadee, Carl, and her husband out of his house: invite Octavio and his brothers to act as new roommates and make them too irritated to stay. It works: they start a huge fight and everyone but Bill and Carl are arrested.
- Control Freak: On full display. Hank forces Bill to let him have the final say on who he gets to pick as his roommate. When Bill gets too irritated by Carl and wants to kick him out for Kadee, Hank's sure that Bill's going to regret it and tells him not to come cry to him about it later. Once he figures out that Kadee has set up a counterfeit goods operation at Bill's house, Hank thinks things have gone too far, confronts him and tells him that he's now allowed to cry about it and he'll figure out a solution, but only if Bill can't make decisions for himself going forward. Bill turns him down and asks for one last chance to fix things on his own, which he barely manages to do, as stated above.
- Everyone Has Standards: Bill was willing to say yes to everyone in the Terrible Interviewees Montage but he found Carl Moss completely loathsome to live with.
- Never My Fault: Hank's happy to judge Bill's terrible roommate decisions but never really acknowledges that it was him who forced Carl on him.
- The Pigpen: Carl's living habits make Bill look like a neat freak: he refuses to wear socks or shoes inside the house even when Bill has guests over and when Bill insists on it, he leaves and comes back without a shirt, he drinks orange juice straight from a bottle and spills large amounts of it on his bare belly and he clips his toenails with his foot on Bill's makeshift table when he's watching TV and one of the clippings lands straight inside Bill's beer can.
- Roommate Com: Bill wants a roommate after watching one of these. He tries to have such a relationship with Carl, whom he finds to be even more annoying and slovenly than he is.
- From Roommates to Romance: Bill originally wants Kadee to be his roommate, but Hank vetoes his decision by thinking that he would get emotionally attached to her. Ultimately, it's Carl who ends up wooing her instead just when he was about to be kicked out, and now that he has, they both insist on staying at Bill's house.
- Sham Supernatural: The students of Tom Landry High have heard about janitors talking about toilets being mysteriously clogged, someone eating all the macaroni art projects and showers turning themselves on at the middle of a night, and they think the school is haunted by the headless ghost of a prom queen who was decapitated when a basketball hoop fell on her neck. Bobby and Joseph decide to investigate further, and it turns out that it's all due to Principal Moss, who's been living in the school ever since his wife kicked him out of his house. Dale, upon finding out about it, starts believing in it too.
- Special Guest: Mimi Rogers as Kadee.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Hank's insistence on having the final say on who qualifies as Bill's roommate proves right when the first 2 interviewees are an artist who can't pay rent and wants to fill Bill's house with art instead which includes things like a rusty bathtub full of bicycle parts and urine and Jimmy Wichard, who decides he wants the entire house for himself and a sign out front that says "Jimmy's House", both of which Bill instantly accepts and Hank instantly turns down.
- With Friends Like These...: Boomhauer and Dale leave as soon as Bill and Carl start fighting.
- You Are Grounded!: Hank offhandedly mentions this to both Bobby and Joseph after they sneak into the school after hours in search of the headless prom queen. Dale, being Dale, opts to make his punishment to have Joseph be the ghost's first victim.
