History Recap / KingOfTheHillS1E7WestieSideStory

* InnocentBigot: The guys and Peggy, especially Hank and Peggy, fall into this. They're not malicious towards them because of their culture, just have skewed ideas of who they are (and not helped by the fact they keep thinking they're Chinese or Japanese when they're really Laotian.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: One of the women at the barbecue says that she's always had a problem "choking down" Peggy's Apple Brown Betty which starts to trigger Peggy's resentment toward Minh.

*** The above could be chalked up to Hank doing his best to put aside his grilling prejudices to welcome the Souphanousinphones and be a good neighbor by putting Kahn at ease.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hank not only eats one of Kahn's mesquite-grilled burgers, he actually enjoys it and admits to Peggy (while mistakenly referring to Kahn as Japanese) that the Japanese make everything better; "First the automobile, then the color TV, and now the hamburger." Later episodes would show Hank so devoted to propane that he won't touch anything cooked by any other means. Hank would also become such a patriotic American that he believes domestically-made products are superior to imports and even sent Bobby to his room for suggesting that he buy a Japanese TV set.

* AsiansEatPets: Hank and his friends, especially [[ConspiracyNut Dale]], worry if the stereotype about Asians eating dogs is true. Their suspicions aren't helped when Bobby Hill and Connie Souphanousinphone try and fail to get their families' dogs -- Ladybird and [[ADogNamedDog Doggie]] respectively -- to be friends, resulting in them running off and going missing right before a local barbecue.

* EatTheDog: Everyone freaks out after they suspect Kahn and Minh of eating dogs: first Doggie and then Ladybird. Hank and Kahn almost get into a fight before Bobby and Connie confess that they tried to get the two dogs to befriend each other, only to have them run away.

* EatTheDog: Everyone freaks out after they suspect Kahn and Minh of eating dogs, first Doggie and then, Ladybird. Hank and Kahn almost get into a fight when Bobby and Connie tell the truth about how they tried to get the two dogs to befriend each other and end up running away.

** Minh is much nicer here [[TookALevelInJerkass compared to her later appearances]]. She unintentionally offends Peggy by calling attention to the size of her feet ("What big feet you have, like boat!"), walking around in her big shoes, saying she feels like a little girl in mama's shoes. She did apologize for it later on though.
** Peggy embarrasses Bobby when she talks about the secret recipe of her Apple Brown Peggy and mentions how she'll pass it along to her son, the same kid who has no qualms about baking.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The "Chinese or Japanese" conversation, with Kahn stating he is from Laos, which of course goes over the guys's heads.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The reason why Peggy makes Hank go to Kahn's BBQ so people won't think he's racist. Hank lampshades it best: "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?"

** Minh is much nicer here [[TookALevelInJerkass compared to her later appearances]]. She unintentionally offends Peggy by calling intention to the size of her feet ("What big feet you have, like boat!"), walking around in her big shoes, saying she feels like a little girl in mama's shoes. She did apologize for it later on though.

* BaitAndSwitch: The beginning with the guys seeing a white man and his teenage son helping unpack at the new house. They introduce themselves and ask when brings them to Arlen. They reveal they're just hired movers for the Souphanousinphones.

* NotSoDifferent: Shown after Hank and Kahn yell at their children for letting the dogs loose and both simultaneously telling them to [[GoToYourRoom go to their rooms]]. They talk about how they both [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment deny their children desserts]], which finally has the two men forming a bond.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Kahn offends Hank by calling him a narrow-minded redneck, but you can;t argue with that considering Hank's skewed view of Asian people.

** Hank, who gives Kahn a propane tank, enjoys Kahn's burgers, cooked with mesquite. Yep, the same Hank who has a religious dedication to propane and pretty much shuns any other way of grilling, especially charcoal. One could argue he was just trying to be a good neighbor, though it's still a surprise when a later episode has him praying for forgiveness when Peggy and Bobby start eating charcoal grilled burgers.

** Minh is much nicer here [[TookALevelInJerkass compared to her later appearances]]. She unintentionally offends Peggy by walking around in her big shoes, saying she feels like a little girl in mama's shoes. She did apologize for it later on though.

** Hank, who gives Kahn a propane tank, enjoys Kahn's burgers, cooked with mesquite. Yep, the same Hank who has a religious dedication to propane and pretty much shuns any other way of grilling, especially charcoal.

* EveryoneHasStandards: TheStinger has Minh trying out Peggy's various foods, but gets disgusted with her rabbit stew, stating [[NotSoAboveItAll rednecks will eat anything.]]

* WomenAreWiser: Peggy and Minh, who pushes their husbands to get along and seem to hit it off, that is until Minh perfects the Apple Brown Peggy recipe, [[TheResenter which causes some envy in Peggy.]]