Hank goes to New Orleans after winning an Alamo Beer contest and goes to a Cowboys game for a chance to win $1,000,000. Bill visits his family in New Orleans, to see his cousins.
Tropes:
- All Men Are Perverts: Bill, who admitted to his Aunt Esme that he prefers, in her words "playing in the garden", rather than keeping the Dauterive bloodline alive.
- Ambiguously Gay: Gilbert, Bill's cousin, who's quite campy, with none of the women trying to hit on him, plus mentioning to Hank how he knew former Dallas Cowboy player Golden Richards "briefly". And of course, he's based on playwright Tennessee Williams. Subverted in a later episode, where we see Gilbert openly hit on Buck Strickland, to the latter's great discomfort.
- As Himself: Former Dallas Cowboys QB Don Meredith appears in the contest where Hank has to choose between himself throwing the ball into the giant Alamo Beer can for $1,000,000 or Don to throw to for $100,000.
- Big "NO!": Bobby after Hank throws out the fancy clothes Gilbert dressed him up in since he wouldn't stop acting like a dandy.
- Bittersweet Ending:
- For Hank's storyline. He doesn't win any money from the throwing contest, but he and Don Meredith make up, with Don giving Hank advice on not dwelling on failures and moving on.
- Bill is tossed out of his family's estate due to his unwillingness to stay and help rebuild their rapidly crumbling fortunes... but at least he got a nice weekend out of it.Bill: Both of 'em!
- Blasphemous Boast: When Gilbert introduces Bobby to dinner with him decked out in fancy rich clothes, Gilbert invites Bobby to sit next to him, but Hank, afraid of Bobby being influenced, takes his place and tries to talk sports with Gilbert and asks about the Saints. Gilbert responds, "I'm more familiar with sinners than saints, my dear, and sinners always look good!".
- Deep South: The Hills and Neighbors go to New Orleans, with Bill seeing his family, a rich family living in a manor house.
- Everyone Has Standards: While Bill is usually desperate for any sort of female companionship, he was horrified at the thought of sleeping with his cousin.
- Fanservice: All of the women fighting on Bill's bed in their nightgowns with some torn clothes and one of them wearing a see-through gown.
- He's Okay: Hank tells Peggy that his aim with a football was good enough to plunk a blue jay before it could poop on her car, joking about his "killer aim," before clarifying that the bird wasn't hurt.
- Hidden Depths: Bill is surprisingly adapt at speaking French, is shown to be a talented accordion player and the last person you would expect to come from a wealthy family.
- Impoverished Patrician: Gilbert, the sole Dauterive man still living on his family's estate, dresses well and has fine clothes to spare for his guests, but almost nothing remains of the Dauterive family, or its considerable wealth and influence.
- Jerkass Realization: Hank gets upset with Don Meredith when he misses the throw, which he blames on him wearing his jacket, and feeling cheated by this Hank tackles him. Then later on, Hank and Don both go back to the Louisana Superdome where Hank successfully makes the throw, though with no pressure of winning money and Hank frustrated as to why Don didn't "bother" to take off his jacket. Don explains he practiced the throw while wearing said jacket and didn't want to screw up his throwing motion. This leads to Hank apologizing to Don and the two making up.
- Kavorka Man: Bill actually gets three beautiful women pining after him, even though one of them is his actual cousin by blood.
- Kissing Cousins: Violetta is revealed to be Bill's blood cousin, though that doesn't stop her from trying to score with him and even gets Bill in trouble with Aunt Esme for messing around with the other two women.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: When at a store in New Orleans, Hank and Peggy witness two men speaking to each other in French, with Peggy deciding to speak to them in Spanish, saying it's the same thing. She does, which confuses them, then Bill comes in, outclassing Peggy by speaking French fluently.
- Love Triangle: Bill has three women who are into him: Lily, Rose and Violetta. The problem is two of them were married to Dauterive men who ended up widowed. And one is his actual cousin by blood. And Bill has to figure out which one is his actual cousin.
- My Greatest Failure: How Hank came to feel about not making the throw himself in the contest, wishing he had the second chance. But Don Meredith snaps him out of his blue by giving him advice not to dwell on his past and let it go. Don then gives an example of never being able to play in the Super Bowl and how he came close, but he doesn't harp on it and is happy to keep on living his life.
- Red Pill, Blue Pill: Played with. Hank at first decides to go for the $1,000,000 and make the throw himself, but then he has doubts about making it, alongside the pressure of the fans watching him (and of course being turned off by his impressions of millionaires based on his experiences with Bill's family), and in the end decides to take the safe option of Don Meredith throwing the ball. But it gets subverted when Don misses the throw.
- Serious Business: Hank's attitude about his leftover beer when Dale suggests he pour it out and see if Hank's won the contest:Hank: I have never poured out beer, even to put out a grass fire.
- Southern Belle: Lily, Rose and Violetta.
- Special Guest: Dixie Chicks as Lily, Rose and Violetta and Meryl Streep as Aunt Esme.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Turns out Don Meredith also trained for the Alamo throw with a scale model he welded, like Hank did.
- Suddenly Always Knew That: After arriving in New Orleans, Bill starts showing skills he seemingly didn't know he had, like speaking fluent Louisiana French, dancing, and playing the accordion. Goes without saying that these make Bill even more attractive to the Dauterive widows who are lusting after him.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The episode has a happy ending for Bill, who made love to Lily and Rose and when the Hills pick them up, he has a huge smile on his face.Peggy: Nice weekend, Bill?Bill: Both of them!
