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Recap / King Of The Hill S 7 E 13 Queasy Rider

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Hank and Peggy try to fix their strained marriage by buying a motorcycle and immersing themselves in the biker lifestyle, which is notoriously misogynistic.


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  • Ambiguous Situation: It is never stated if it's Cotton or Didi (or both) who makes Bobby take baths with baby G.H. while staying over there, but regardless, the boy doesn't enjoy it.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Dale thinks the treasure map Dr. Rast draws as part of a metaphor is a real one and stakes out one of his sessions to steal it.
  • Cool Bike: The Hills get one for this episode, only to disappear shortly after.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Hank doesn't seem to consider that he's taking relationship advice from someone like Dale, who is completely oblivious to his own wife cheating on him for a decade, let alone any problems his therapist would bring up, only thinking to the extent he'd support Hank's opinion on the Texans tickets. Sure enough, this ends up backfiring when he supports Peggy the entire time. Lampshaded when Hank quickly mutters under his breath "I am going to kill Dale" when it's obvious he's not going to win with him.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: When Hank and Peggy are preparing for the motorcycle festival and Peggy gets a chance to drive the bike for herself for the first time when going to the store, she finds that she loves doing so as much as Hank does. When they finally set off, Hank tells her that they can switch after he gets tired, but he keeps making excuses for why she can't drive and downplays his obvious tiredness to the degree that he ends up driving the entire way to the festival with Peggy getting increasingly angry with each stop. Once they arrive there, it doesn't take long until one of the competitioners of a motorized barstool race first bumps him, knocking off Hank's glasses and then accidentally crushes them badly enough that they can't be repaired. This naturally makes Hank unable to enjoy the festival or to drive the bike any further, forcing them to turn around and letting Peggy drive them back while they visit other locations on the way back.
  • Noodle Incident: When Hank and Peggy head off to the motorcycle festival, Bobby bemoans about having another bath with G.H. while staying with Cotton. Sure enough, the episode ends on a photo with a very displeased Bobby forced to bathe with with his baby uncle.
  • The Shrink: The episode kicks off with Dale recommending his marriage councilor to Hank, who in turn recommends that he and Peggy buy a motorcycle.
  • Special Guest: Jennifer Aniston as Pepperoni Sue and Jamie Kennedy as Dr. Tim Rast.

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