King of the Hill
1997 - Present
This animated series follows Hank Hill, an old-fashioned guy who sells propane and propane accessories in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, and his everyday adventures with his kooky family and friends.
- Stars: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Root, Johnny Hardwick, Brittany Murphy, Toby Huss, David Hermann, Ashley Gardner, Lauren Tom, Breckin Meyer, Dennis Burkley, Tom Petty
- Created by: Mike Judge, Greg Daniels
- Tags: animated
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Season 2
- No Joke: Episode 16, "Traffic Jam" (1998). Bobby idolizes a Black comedian named Buddha Sack and tries to imitate him by making jokes about white people. He tries out his material on Buddha Sack, and Buddha tells him he needs to make jokes about what's funny to white people, so Bobby and Joseph search for jokes for white people and accidentally stumble onto a white supremacist website. Needless to say, Bobby's new material doesn't go over well at his first gig at Buddha Sack's hangout.
Season 3
- Beauty Pageant: Episode 6, "Peggy's Pageant Fever" (1998). Nancy announces that she's been asked to be a judge for the Mrs. Heimlech, Peggy decides to enter, and the competition gets to her head, and the pageant becomes more important than her friends and family.
- Magic Fingers: Episode 19, "Hank's Football Movie" (1999). Hank and Bobby travel to Wichita Falls to watch the Cowboys in spring training, and Bobby becomes enamored with the town. When he discovers that the beds in their hotel room have "Magic Fingers," he's convinced Wichita Falls is the best place in the world.
- Play Ball: Episode 24, "Take Me Out of the Ball Game" (1999). Mr. Strickland organizes a softball team, and he asks Hank to coach. Since the rules require a woman pitcher, Hank convinces Peggy to pitch, but his coaching style clashes with her pitching style. A particularly tense argument shakes Peggy so much that she loses her pitching skills whenever Hank is around, so the only way the team can win is if Hank takes himself out of the game.
- Jump: Episode 25, "As Old as the Hills" (1999). It's Hank and Peggy's 20th anniversary, and Peggy is feeling old and like she hasn't done enough with her life, so of course, she decides to skydive, and she talks Hank into doing it with her. Hank is nervous, but he does it and has a great time. Peggy hesitates at first, but ultimately she jumps. Unfortunately, neither her main parachute nor her backup parachute opened.
Season 4
- World Record: Episode 3, "Bills Were Made to be Broken" (1999). When Bill's touchdown record is broken, Bobby is inspired to break a record himself, so he hops on a pogo stick and has Luanne count the jumps, but he falls off after every jump.
- Waldorf Histeria: Episode 15, "Naked Ambition" (2000). Boomhaur falls asleep on an inner tube and floats down the river until he ends up in a strange city, sunburned and wearing nothing but a Speedo, so the police arrest him and send him to an asylum. He calls Dale, who calls Bill, and all three of them end up committed. Finally, they call Hank, who gets them all out.
- Pyramid Scheme: Episode 17, "Bill of Sales" (2000). Since Mr. Strickland took back his restaurant, Peggy misses being a manager, so she browses the want ads and ends up getting mixed up with a pyramid scheme called Metalife. She struggles to recruit salespeople until Bill takes initiative and sells everything.
- Bad Hair Day: Episode 19, "Hank's Bad Hair Day" (2000). Hank's barber, Jack, is losing his marbles, and he cut Hank's hair slightly wrong in a way that only he and Bill can tell. Reluctantly, Hank goes back to Jack and asks him to fix it. Jack not only ruins Hank's hair, he sprays it with peroxide and turns it platinum blonde. When Bill fixes it, the Army sends Hank a bill for $900.
Season 5
- The Education of a Jock: Episode 5, "Peggy Makes the Big Leagues" (2000). Peggy substitutes for a high school teacher, and she refuses to let football star, David "The Flyin' Hawaiian" Kalaiki-Alii, pass her class, causing him to be suspended from the team, but Hank's booster club finds a loophole that lets him do "work study" at Strickland, and Hank gives him an A, even though he admits David deserved an F. When David finds out, he's angry, and he asks Peggy to tutor him before he plays in the next game.