King of the Hill: Hank Fixes Everything

Air Date

Sunday April 2, 2006

Production Code

9ABE21

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  With Buck Strickland and Thatherton and the towns other propane sellers engaged in a bitter price war, Hank tries to settle matters, but his efforts backfire on him, in this average installment... hide show

  Ahh... the return of 'King of the Hill'. For me, at least. I'd been watching and reviewing the previous episodes of Season 10 when shown by Channel 4 here in the U.K. at all hours in the middle of the night, until three or so months ago when they suddenly stopped dead. They finally resumed their run last night, and I just happened by chance to spot it billed and set my recorder in time!
  
  Bearing that in mind, I had lost the feel for the season a little. Maybe that affected my feel of this episode slightly, but even so, I found this one a rather average-at-best affair.
  
  Things start off with some potential, with Strickland Propane and Thatherton's engaged in a bitter price war, each offering low price promotions and both losing out. The local biker TV stars that Buck hires to promote Strickland okay, but not nearly as funny as they might have been.
  
  After Hank has tried to unite the warring propane sellers who in turn decide to do a little price fixing, the development of Hank being forced to try and record some evidence, is introduced too late in the episode and doesn't really have enough time to fully develop.
  
  However, with the convenient return of the biker celebrities, the story wraps up nicely and doesn't completely fall flat.
  
  There is also a subplot of Lucky, Luanne and Bobby waiting for rock concert tickets six days before they go on sale, which doesn't really go anywhere much but adds some nice support to the episode's main plot.

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• Guest Cast

  • Paul Teutul Himself
  • Paul Teutul Sr. Himself
  • Toby Huss M.F. Thatherton

• Recurring Roles

  • Toby Huss Voice of Cotton Hill, Kahn Souphanousinphone
  • Tom Petty Lucky
  • Danny Trejo Enrique

• Directors

  • Ronald Rubio Director
  • Dominic Polcino Director

• Writers

  • Kit Boss Writer

• Stars

  • Stephen Root Voice of Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland
  • Johnny Hardwick Voice of Dale Gribble
  • Brittany Murphy Voice of Luanne Platter
  • Pamela Adlon Voice of Bobby Hill
  • Kathy Najimy Voice of Peggy Hill
  • Mike Judge Voice of Hank Hill, Boomhauer
Episode Cast and Crew Details »

• In this episode Luann thinks it's cool that Lucky smokes, but back in season 1's Keeping Up With Our Joneses she knew that smoking was one of the worst things you could do to yourself and she spent the whole episode trying to make the Hills quit. [edit]
• The song played when all four propane sellers agree to Increase their prices, is "Why Can't We Be Friends?" by War. [edit]

• Tagline: "Stupid, stupid idiot!" (Biker.) [edit]
• A recording session for this episode was featured in an episode of the show Unscripted on HBO. [edit]

• Buck: Thanks for keeping me out of prison, Hank. I burned some bridges with the Aryans last time through. [edit]
• Bobby: I gotta get home, I have homework to finish.
  Lucky: Wait, you still in school?
  Bobby: Seventh grade.
  Lucky: Run along, professor. [edit]

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