The Hill family gets addicted to cigarettes after Hank makes Bobby smoke an entire carton after the latter gets caught smoking by the former.
This episode contains examples of:
- Bad Liar: Peggy tries to sneak a cigarette by hiding in the closet during their attempts to withdraw. When she gets caught, she claims to be knitting.
- Comically Missing the Point: While Hank and Peggy chew Bobby out for smoking, Hank reads off the diseases caused by smoking, Bobby responds by saying "I thought those were the ingredients", which pisses them off even more.
- Do Wrong, Right: Hank has to point out to Bobby how to smoke properly, like how to hold a cigarette like an American instead of a European (like a pencil), inhaling slowly instead of hot-boxing (quick puffs), and he even goes so far as to show him how to flick a cigarette.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Luanne's attempts to get Hank off smoking is baiting him and shaking a can of coins to scare him, being prepared to spray him with a mist bottle and giving him a snack when he says he won't smoke it is like Luanne is trying to get an unruly dog to stop misbehaving (which Luanne did as a matter of fact with Ladybird eating her make-up).
- Dramatic Thunder: Accompanies Peggy tossing the last cigarette out the window during a storm, and as the family tries to make it through the night without smoking.
- El Spanisho: Hank does this at the gas station where he catches Bobby for the first time. "Is this John Occupied? Es esta Juan Occupado?"
- Everything Makes a Mushroom: Hank throws a cigarette on the ground at Strickland and Enrique scrambles to pick it up before it ignites the propane tanks. A
Deleted Scene has Hank driving away while a mushroom cloud erupts in the background. - Going Cold Turkey: The family ends up doing this after Peggy throws away the last cigarette when Luanne locked them in a room. While initially miserable, it all works out in the end for them.
- Green Around the Gills: Bobby after smoking 180 cigarettes during his punishment, to which he feels like puking, which is what Hank's goal was.
- Hypocritical Humor: During Bobby's punishment, Hank talks about what a filthy habit smoking is, while getting himself addicted again by lighting a few himself.
- Hypocrite: When Hank lights one up in front of the guys, Boomhauer chews him out for the filthy habit, but doesn't seem to mind when Dale does it.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: The cigarette carton punishment sequence features a couple of these to indicate the passage of time with a large Deranged Animation cloud of smoke,
- I'll Take Two Beers Too: A flashback shows a teenage Hank lighting two cigarettes in his mouth and giving one to Peggy. He then gives her the other and lights another two for himself.
- Karma Houdini: Despite being caught smoking with Bobby and feeling incredibly guilty about it, Joseph never gets punished for his part. Though this can be excused as Dale himself is an avid smoker, he's even ecstatic that his son took his very first puffs and helps him learn more about it.
- Never My Fault: When the anti-smoking group calls Hank out for getting Bobby addicted, he just gets defensive and refuses to acknowledge how badly his attempt at a punishment backfired. Peggy is even visibly cringing the moment Hank tries to defend himself.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As punishment for smoking, Hank forces Bobby to smoke an entire carton. It backfires spectacularly when Bobby and Hank both get addicted to smoking and it just goes downhill from here.
- Only Sane Woman: Luanne serves as this role while trying to help the Hill family get over their addictions and gets quite emotional over it, as she doesn't want them to become like her own parents.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hank Hill, who normally takes propane safety quite seriously, joins Enrique on smoking near the tanks (which is dangerous, by the way) thanks to his returning nicotine addiction.
- Open-Minded Parent: Dale shows himself to be one when talking to Joseph about smoking. Instead of discipling him like a normal parent would do, Dale just gives Joseph some material to read, like a government report on smoking (which presumably talks about the health dangers of it) or a pop-up book from the tobacco industry that tries to sell people into smoking (the latter which entices Joseph).
- Parental Hypocrisy: Bobby is caught smoking by Hank and Peggy (who at this point were both hooked again) and try to get him to stop. But after the family gets called out by Luanne, they all agree to stop together as a family.
- Radish Cure: Hank gets Bobby to stop smoking by forcing him to smoke an entire carton at once. Despite making Bobby vomit, this doesn't work and he ends up getting addicted while Hank just gets hooked on smoking again.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- Hank has none of the smoking group voicing their displeasure about his punishment for Bobby by telling them how whiny they are and how they need to get off their high horse before leaving.
- Luanne delivers a magnificent one while locking the Hills inside Hank and Peggy's bedroom for the night.Luanne: I am crating y'all in like a pack of unruly animals! I am SICK and TIRED of dysfunctional families! I came from one, and I am not gonna let it happen to you. FUNCTION! FUNCTION, DAMN YOU!!!
- Rule of Symbolism: As the Hill family is enduring a night of withdrawal to kick their smoking habits, a storm is raging outside, and it blows over a cigarette vending machine, and blows away a billboard that advocates child smoking.
- Smoking Is Not Cool: The Aesop of the episode. It shows smoking in a bad light, with the family members getting testy from time without a cigarette and of course, getting at each other's throats when trying to withdraw. In addition, when Hank and Peggy went to a restaurant called Smokey's, the non-smoking section is show to be quite lively with a jazz band and people there enjoying themselves. The smoking section has less-than-attractive people hacking their heads off, of which both Hank and Peggy seem turned off by the experience. Plus the former owner of the restaurant is stated by the hostess to have died of cancer.
- The Stinger: The episode ends with Boomhauer giving a humorous message not to smoke, which ends with him walking away with a woman for an alternative of "oral fixation".
- Unreliable Illustrator: In the close-up shot of Ladybird licking Luanne's cosmetic makeup, her eyes are much larger than normal and even have visible sclerae.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: With one pack left to go, Bobby admits he's about to throw up, which satisfies Hank, but then he goes off and does so.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Peggy has this reaction when Hank tells her about his punishment for Bobby, but he wasn't having any of it, so he can sneak off a smoke. And later on, the support group to get them to stop smoking are totally disgusted with his parenting methods. And near the end Luanne gives then one when all three of them are fighting over the last cigarette.
