King of The Hill

Hank Fixes Everything

Season 10, Episode 10, Aired 4/2/06

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Buck Strickland embarks on a propane price war with Thatherton and two other rivals, and hires the guys from "American Chopper" to boost sales at the Propane Expo. When the 'war' goes too far, and the companies are all losing profit, Hank takes matters into his own hands, and calls a meeting. Unfortunately, the owners decide to 'price fix' and get caught. Meanwhile, Lucky and Luanne wait for Brownville Station tickets, in line 6 days before tickets go on sale.moreless

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Mike Judge

Voice of Hank Hill, Boomhauer
Kathy Najimy

Voice of Peggy Hill
Pamela Adlon

Voice of Bobby Hill

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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...moreless

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By Jay-Spacedust, Apr 11, 2008 Report Abuse

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.moreless

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- 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
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- Tagline: "Stupid, stupid idiot!" - Biker Edit
- A recording session for this episode was featured in an episode of the show Unscripted on HBO. Edit
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- 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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