YMMV / King Of The Hill S 3 E 17 Escape From Party Island

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The episode could have had a Both Sides Have a Point conclusion by having Tilly at one point having enough of her friends insulting Hank and defending him, leading her to realize that he was just trying to protect them, paralleling Hank's realization of how her miniatures where helping her emotionally. Instead, the episode treats Hank as the one solely in the wrong, and Tilly's friends get away scot free with mistreating him.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Throughout the episode, as Hank takes the women around Port Aransas, not only does he have to put up with the women criticizing and berating him constantly, he also has to deal with rowdy partygoers as Spring Break arrives. And even more so, his own mother Tilly doesn't once stick up for him (making her something of a hypocrite in hindsight, considering the episode where she wants Hank to stick up for her). And after Tilly forgets her unicorn at the museum and Hank finally has had enough, he snaps at her, just telling her to forget about it and leave the island. Tilly tells him off before leaving to get the unicorn. It was portrayed as Hank being a Jerkass, with him dismissing the minatures as trivial, when they were really helping his mother emotionally. But considering all the crap he's dealt with, between the ladies and Spring Break, you can't help but feel for Hank.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Tilly lets her friends treat Hank like a punching bag and makes constant excuses for their behavior while berating Hank for not letting them walk all over him as if he has to naturally be respectful of them because of their ages. She more or less treats the unicorn she gets better than she does her own son who risks himself constantly to make her and her ungrateful friends happy and out of the way of Spring Break. Not only that but she makes Hank conform to what the ladies want with no regard to what he wants like forcing him to eat cucumber sandwiches when he doesn't like them and acts like he's at fault for this while apologizing to the waiter as if he were a poorly behaved child rather than a middle aged adult. When you consider in a previous episode that she wanted Hank to stand up for her in regards to Cotton's verbal abuse, she certainly doesn't seem to want to do the same thing for him.