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Recap / King Of The Hill S 8 E 22 Talking Shop

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Despite Hank's wishes for Bobby to take auto shop, Bobby takes peer counseling so he can give advice to vulnerable teenage girls. Meanwhile, Hank finds a wrecked car for Bobby to fix, thinking that he signed up for auto shop.


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  • Advice Backfire: One of the rules of peer counseling is that they can only be there to listen to their client's problems, not actually give them advice. Bobby ends up breaking that rule repeatedly starting with telling Stacey to ditch class.
  • Allegedly Dateless: Bobby is supposedly hopeless with girls at the start of the episode, despite the fact that he dated Connie and he's had numerous one-off love interests over the years.
  • All Men Are Perverts: The main reason why class advisor April doesn't let Joseph sign up for peer counseling is she thinks he's only joining to be around girls. She's not far off the mark.
  • Apathetic Teacher: April refuses to help Bobby after Stacey starts stalking him, even after she told him not to date his clients or give advice, outright telling him he's on his own.
  • Brutal Honesty: Joseph tells Bobby the reason that girls don't like them is because he's weird and Bobby is chubby and kind of dumb.
    • When Hank describes his dream of being able to die happy after fixing up a junker car with Bobby and getting to see him drive off, Dale replies that his dream is "actually kinda sad".
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Stacey Gibson becomes one to Bobby after he keeps giving her bad advice, including dumping her boyfriend.
  • Girl of the Week: Jenny Medina and Stacey Gibson. Bobby wants to try dating Jenny, but ends up having Stacey become obsessed with him. Jenny ends up calling off her date with Bobby after finding out what happened to Stacey. Neither girl shows up again in the rest of the series.
  • The Internet Is for Porn: When the boys notice that the signup line for peer counseling is nothing but girls, Joseph pleasantly reminisces about a similar story he read online that "ended nicely".
  • Mixtape of Love: After becoming infatuated with Bobby, Stacey mixes a few CDs for him, then also buys him a CD player after realizing that he might not have any way to listen to them.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: While April was correct that she told Bobby not to date his patients or give them advice, she refuses to help him or tell Stacey Gibson to leave him alone, instead leaving in a huff.
  • Special Guest: Three in this episode: Laura Prepon voices peer counseling advisor April, Lindsay Lohan voices Jenny Medina, and Alyson Hannigan voices Stacey Gibson.
  • The One Guy: Bobby ends up being the only boy to sign up for peer counseling after Joseph can't help being a perv.
  • Unequal Pairing: April says that peer counselors are not allowed to date their clients since they're vulnerable. Naturally, it backfires on Bobby when he ends up breaking that rule.
  • Women Prefer Strong Men: Hank attempts to veto Bobby's interest in peer counseling by telling him that girls will want to date a guy who knows how to fix a car.
  • Zany Scheme: The episode starts off with Bobby and Joseph coming up with different ideas to meet new girls to date, including greeting girls outside the restroom.

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