Luanne's father (voiced by Johnny Knoxville) returns to Arlen to stay with the family, and Peggy reveals to Hank that Hoyt is a convict who lied about his time working on an oil rig.
Tropes
- Anti-Role Model: Hoyt starts teaching Bobby things about law-breaking. This is the final straw for Peggy, who helps Hank get back at him and clear Lucky's name.
- Establishing Character Moment: Hoyt's first interaction with his sister Peggy has him give her two lottery tickets that were already scratched (and weren't even winning tickets). Things only get worse from here.
- Loophole Abuse: The b-plot has Dale exploiting one of these to build his long talked about guard tower.
- Retcon: Hoyt is revealed to be a convict on his last strike - the "oil rig" explanation from past seasons was a lie.
- No OSHA Compliance: Dale's guard tower, which topples like a Jenga tower when he barely leans on it. Moments before said collapse, the inspector calls him on his idiocy.Dale: You can't touch me! This tower's only 99 feet square, it's non-residential and it doesn't even have a foundation!Inspector: Hold on for a minute, with a base that narrow and has no foundation? Forget the law for a minute, are you a complete imbecile?
- Series Continuity Error: Hoo boy, the episode is chock full of them.
- First of all, in the very first episode, Luanne is eighteen years old and she has just moved into the Hills' home after her mom stabs her father with a fork. In the episode "Luanne Gets Lucky", she claims she was sixteen when the event happened and had to miss her prom because of it. In this episode, Hoyt claims Luanne was just a little girl the last time he saw her and she seems to have no memory of the event. Made more egregious by the fact that "Luanne Gets Lucky" aired only one season earlier.
- Later on, Hank mentions that he had never met Peggy's brother despite in earlier episodes saying what a great man he was and how he enjoyed his company.
- Perhaps most jarring is that in earlier episodes, Hoyt was said to be a small, timid, nerdy man who looked like a male version of Peggy and ran off because his wife Leanne was abusive to him, yet in this episode he is depicted as an overweight man who looks nothing like Peggy, is a total jerkass, and mentions that he ran off because of a drug addiction and the possibility that he'll be in jail for the rest of his life if he commits one more crime (which he tries to cover up from Luanne as "working on an oil rig").
- Unseen No More: After being The Ghost for most of the show's lengthy run, Hoyt finally appears in the flesh (though a younger version of him was seen in the wedding video from season 3's "Hank's Cowboy Movie"). He's Put on a Prison Bus for good at the end of the episode once his plan to frame Lucky for his crimes goes south.
