Hank, Dale, Boomhauer and Bill face off with a bunch of teenage bullies at paintball.
Tropes in the episode:
- Age-Appropriate Angst: Losing the first and second paintball games cause all four of the guys, who are in their 40s, to accept in defeat they're old. But then they turn it around by studying the teens to beat them in their own game.
- Angry Fist-Shake: After Hank and the guys decide they're old while hanging with the elderly Pops, Cane drives by and shoots at them, with Pops telling them to shake their fists, scaring them off. But it doesn't work.
- The Bet: Before the climatic paintball game, Hank makes a wager with Cane that if Hank wins, he gets their amplifier but if Cane wins, he gets Bill's leaf-blower. In the end, Hank is the victor.
- Burning Bag of Poop: Hank and the guys get the last laugh on Cane when they leave a flaming bag of dog poop on his front porch, and Cane gullibly steps on it to put it out.
- Butt-Monkey: Bill, of course. While Cane and friends gets pretty nasty with all four of the guys, Bill gets the worst of it. They end up losing him as a decoy later in the climax where Hank and Dale managed to shoot two of the teens.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- During the first paintball game, Hank tells the guys to keep quiet unless they have something important to say as they try to be stealthy. Bill takes the "important" quite literally as he tells the guys about how he got a life insurance plan through the mail.
- Luanne seems to misunderstand why Cane invited her to his concert, telling Buckley that he should come along because Cane told her to "bring a friend for the drummer".
- Dojikko: Buckley was in this role with Luanne flirting with him while he's setting up a display of canned peas at Mega-Lo-Mart, causing him to fall, something Hank notes. Used later on in the climatic paintball game, with Dale using a recording voice message from Luanne, causing a teen to fall off a tree house and Dale getting the upper hand.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Sadistic a bully as he may be, Cane is horrified to discover a flaming bag of dog poop left by Hank and the guys and promptly stomps it out before it causes a fire.
- Grumpy Old Man: Pops, an elderly neighbor who yells at Hank and the guys for using a leaf-blower instead of a rake. Although later on after the experiences with Cane, Pops gets along better with the guys.
- Hypocritical Humor: As Bill cuts hair at the army base, witnessing a poor boy getting laughed at by his peers, he notes that teens are cruel. Then he goes to the next one in line, a rather pimply one, Bill says "OK, Pimples, hop on up", to which that boy looks offended.
- Invisible Parents: Neither of Cane's parents are ever shown on-screen, Hank even demands to see them to no avail.
- I Resemble That Remark!: Bill complains that when his wife left him for being lazy and dependent, none of his friends had the decency to get him a new one.
- Jerkass: Cane Skretteberg and friends are nothing but a bunch of disrespectful bullies who get gleeful out of tormenting others.
- Jerkass Ball: After that first paintball game, the guys are on edge while drinking, with Hank even insulting Bill for being a mooch, causing him to run off in tears, reminded of his painful divorce. Hank chews out Dale for his poor performance on the paintball field, which brings him to tears as well. Boomhauer then walks away, calling Hank a bully.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Played for Laughs as Dale studies teenagers and notes that "Teenagers has no respect for a man in uniform". But who could blame that teen in question when Dale intentionally sprayed bug spray on his veggie wrap?
- Kick the Dog:
- To give an idea of how sadistic Cane and friends are in their bullying, off-screen they shoot up Bobby and Joseph and force them to eat leaves (to be fair though, the boys seemed more star-struck than anything).
- Cane and company capturing Hank and the guys, making them walk to the golfers and shooting them up in front of them, firing squad style, greatly humiliating the guys and horrifying the watching golfers.
- They even do a drive-by, shooting Bill while the guys were standing around.
- Kids Are Cruel: Cane and his friends are this in spades. Bill discovers this while cutting hair, with the others laughing at one poor boy getting his hair buzzed off. And then exploited by using Bill as the decoy so Hank and Dale can take two of them out.
- Noodle Incident: Peggy's pep talk to Hank mentions how he ran off raccoons with a broom handle and a pillow case.
- Paintball Episode: Perhaps one of the most well-known in Western Animation.
- Papa Wolf: Subverted; initially it started as this after Cane shot up Bobby and Joseph, but gets quickly forgotten about when Hank and the guys end up playing for pride.
- Pet the Dog: Cane does at least seem to treat Luanne nicely, even inviting her to one of his concerts. And does suggest Bobby could make a good groupie (Hank corrects him, stating he meant roadie... or so he hopes).
- Right Through the Wall: After Peggy's pep talk with Hank, the two of them engage in coitus, with Bobby hearing it through his bedroom, but he thinks the raccoons have returned as he grabs a pillow case.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: After losing the first paintball game, Hank and the guys are like this, acting edgy and tense, with Hank even insulting Bill and Dale. Bill even gets defensive after being called a mooch by Hank, calling them out on not finding him a new woman after his divorce from Lenore. Later on, Hank gets triggered by Peggy painting her toenails and has a nightmare about what happened.
- Special Guest: The band Green Day appears as Cane Sketteberg and his band.
- Unexplained Recovery: At the beginning, Bobby and Joseph are incredibly weak after getting over the chicken pox and Hank takes them to the Fun Center. When they arrive, they seem completely healthy.
