After getting in a crash with Kahn, Hank attends traffic school, taught by a raunchy stand-up comic named Booda Sack.
Tropes in the Episode:
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Hank takes Bobby to see Booda Sack to show him what a sad, miserable choice a career comedy is. Booda invites Bobby on-stage and tells him why he brought his father here, which then Booda goes on about what a sad man he is, which seems to placate Hank. But then he says he's not as sad as Hank and goes on to roasting him.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Hank takes Bobby to see Booda Sack as an attempt to see what a miserable career choice comedy is, but that backfires when Bobby enjoys the show and after Booda brings him onstage and humiliates him, Bobby gets aspirations to be a comedian himself.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In The Stinger, Booda Sack and Hank appear together to dispel the stereotype of "white people having no butts", with Booda telling the audience that Hank does indeed have a butt and goes on saying how nice it is, while a much embarrassed Hank says to start the The X-Files.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: After getting Booda a job at Strickland Propane, him and Hank get along better, even having a good-natured "Yo Mama" joke exchange with each other, but Hank's own jokes aren't exactly comedy gold: "You mother is so ugly, it affects her self-esteem" and "Your mother's hair is so short, she looks like she's not a woman at all, but more like a man."
- Culture Clash: More like a Culture Crash. As Hank backs out, he does so into Kahn, with Hank telling him drivers back out to the right in the US while Kahn backs out to the left, something done in Asia.
- Dude, Not Funny!: A few instances:
- Booda making fun of white people gets laughs from Kahn, but once Booda makes an oriental joke, this mildly offends Kahn, calling it a cheap shot through his laughter.
- While Hank didn't really find Booda all that funny, Booda making a joke about Hank's narrow urethra is what really sets Hank off and gets Booda fired.
- The black audience is ready to rip out Bobby's spine after hearing his "white guy" material.
- Played for Laughs at the end, with Hank and Booda having a good-natured Yo Mama joke-off, but after Booda makes a joke about Hank's mother's hygiene by saying her armpits smell like propane, Hank doesn't take it well, because propane has no natural odor, but the smell was added for safety purposes.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Hank doesn't get on with Booda at first because of the latter's jokes towards the former. But after Booda saves Bobby from his jam at the comedy club, this gives Hank a newfound respect for him and even befriend each other after Booda gets a job at Strickland Propane.
- The Heckler: A more sympathetic version with Hank pretty much does this, not thinking of him much as a teacher and especially for constantly being the barbs of his jokes.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Hearing all of Booda Sack's barbs leads Hank to get so angry, his face literally turns red.
- Innocent Bigot: After advice from Booda Sack, Bobby researches his ancestorial roots to develop comedy material, which leads him to going to a White Nationalist website. And when he shares the jokes at the comedy club, in front of a black audience, it goes as well as you would expect. He's obviously not racist, he just doesn't understand what he's saying is offensive.
- Insult Comic: Booda Sack is one who likes to dish it out big time, but other than that, he's a pretty Nice Guy, giving Bobby advice on his comedy career and helps him get out of his jam when Bobby's "white guy" material act bombs. He even manages to get along with Hank in the end after helping him get a job at Strickland Propane.
- No Sense of Humor: Booda's insulting jokes nonwithstanding, Hank comes across as this, even seemingly getting confused with Booda making "Yo Mama's So Fat" jokes at Hank, who keeps insinuating she's at a normal weight. He did however develop one at the end of the episode.
- Noodle Incident: Booda Sack's career has really gone downhill after getting risque on Moesha, though he feels he's better off going into teaching.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Bobby, initially, telling jokes that black comedians tell like white people having no butts, which do manage to get some laughs from the guys, though Booda Sack thinks Bobby needs to get in touch with his roots.
- Special Guest: Chris Rock as Booda Sack.
- Your Mom: Booda Sack is fond of these jokes and uses them in his act. At the end, Hank and Booda have a good-natured joke exchange around these.
