History Recap / KingOfTheHillS13E1DiaBillIcShock

* ItIsBeyondSaving: Dr. Weissman's logic in cruelly telling Bill to give up and get a wheelchair is that Bill quickly succumbed to temptations while attempting to diet and had a second blood sugar spike in the same week. Weissman even rudely tells off his nurse for suggesting nutritional counseling since he believes that Bill is incapable of changing his lifestyle.

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Zig-zagged: After learning of Bill's diagnosis, Peggy restricts Bobby (and presumably Hank as well, but it's not shown onscreen) to eating healthy food. Bobby and Joseph observe her through the kitchen window as she is making wheatgrass juice. She tastes the finished juice, makes a disgusted face, wipes her tongue clean with a towel, then serves the juice to Bobby. Yet when Bobby eats some of the candy bar that Joseph gave him when he saw how bad the wheatgrass juice must taste and how much Bobby must be suffering from only being allowed to eat vegetables, he can only take a single bite before declaring it to be far too sweet, and when he drinks the wheatgrass juice, he finds that it tastes better than he assumed it would.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Bill goes to Dr. Weissman's office and beats him up just because the doctor (rightfully) told Bill that he would eventually lose his legs to gangrene and end up in a wheelchair if he didn't get his diabetes under control. To be fair, the doctor was a jerk and basically told Bill to just give up and get a wheelchair now since Bill would never change his lifestyle, but Bill was the one who chose to take him literally and get a wheelchair he didn't need rather than change his diet and exercise, so beating up Weissman was excessive and there was no reason for it (aside from Weissman just being a jerk).
** In Bill's defense, Dr. Weissman went ''way'' over the line in painting a really bleak picture as to Bill's prospects in managing his diabetes, telling him the battle was already over. He basically sabotaged his patient's chances of beating the affliction, which the Hippocratic Oath strictly forbids. An asswhupping by Bill is relatively getting off easy; Weissman could have been subject to a lawsuit and even possibly stripped of his license to practice medicine.

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Zig-zagged: After learning of Bill's diagnosis, Peggy restricts Bobby (and presumably Hank as well, but it's not shown onscreen) to eating healthy food. Bobby and Joseph observe her through the kitchen window as she is making wheatgrass juice. She tastes the finished juice, makes a disgusted face, wipes her tongue clean with a towel, then serves the juice to Bobby. Yet when Bobby drinks the wheatgrass juice, he finds that it tastes better than he assumed it would.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Bill's first doctor is stupified when Bill pleads ignorance to how he could've gotten diabetes i.e. poor dieting. [[TooDumbToLive Bill merely thought he was in love.]]

* HandicappedBadass: Thunder and his team are basically this trope incarnate, and some of it rubs off on Bill as he starts playing with them. The exercize Bill gets from that lets him get his diabetes under control.

* HandicappedBadass: Thunder and his team are basically this trope incarnate, and some of it rubs off on Bill as he starts playing with them.

** When confronted over the grossly unprofessional manner in which he discussed Bill's diabetes, Doctor Weissman denies everything, trying to claim that he only said that Bill could possibly lose his legs at some point (after explicitly telling Bill that he should go ahead and get a wheelchair because he'd inevitably need it one day). Naturally, Bill is not convinced.
---> '''Doctor Weissman:''' I never said anything that could constitute malpractice... under its current definition.

* BlatantLies: When confronted over his grossly unprofessional conduct, Dr. Weissman claims that he only told Bill that he could ''possibly'' lose his legs one day if he didn't get his diabetes under control -- after having told Bill right to his face that he should just get a wheelchair right then because he'd inevitably need it one day. Naturally, Bill doesn't buy it for a second.

* BlatantLies: When confronted over his grossly unprofessional conduct, Dr. Weissman claims that he only told Bill that he could ''possibly'' lose his legs one day if he didn't get his diabetes under control -- after having told Bill right to his face that he should just get a wheelchair right then because he'd inevitably need it one day.
* BrutalHonesty: More emphasis on brutal than honest. Dr. Weissman tells Bill exactly what will happen to him if he doesn't change his lifestyle: his diabetes will progress and cause complications such as heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and losing his legs to gangrene. He takes it too far by telling Bill to just go ahead and get a wheelchair now since these things are inevitable. Naturally, Bill doesn't buy it for a second.

* BrutalHonesty: More emphasis on brutal than honest. Dr. Weissman tells Bill exactly what will happen to him if he doesn't change his lifestyle: his diabetes will progress and cause complications such as heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and losing his legs to gangrene. He takes it too far by telling Bill to just go ahead and get a wheelchair now since these things are inevitable.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dr. Weissman both rudely shoots down his nurse's suggestion that Bill sees a nutritionist to help his diabetes, strongly implying sexism, and mockingly telling Bill that he'll never improve his health and is fated to succumb to gangrene among other health problems. This also implies that he actively looks down on the overweight.

At home, Bill, upset over losing his new friends tries to spike his blood sugar by eating handfuls of sugar. Hank and one of Bill's new friends show up and stop him, telling him that he should be proud of himself for managing to beat his diabetes after his doctor had written him off as a lost cause.

After gorging on junk food at a carnival, Bill collapses and is taken to the hospital. There, he is diagnosed with diabetes and is told to go on a healthy diet and exercise. He briefly attempts to eat a healthy diet, but quickly caves to temptation and ends up in the hospital for the second time in a week. The JerkAss doctor says that since Bill will never follow his advice to diet and exercise, his diabetes will end up killing him. The doctor then tells Bill that eventually he'll end up losing his legs to gangrene, so he might as well just give up and get a wheelchair now, while he still has good insurance. A discouraged, depressed and sad Bill takes the advice too literally and goes home in a wheelchair that he doesn't really need.

Later, Bill befriends a wheelchair rugby player (who calls himself Thunder) and his team, and starts playing with them, which helps him get over his depression and learn to enjoy life again. One night, a drunk Bill gets out of his wheelchair and starts walking, leading to his new friends accusing him of faking being disabled. Bill tries to claim that he has diabetes and is therefore disabled, but when he tests his blood sugar, he finds that his blood sugar is normal; all that exercise playing wheelchair rugby got his diabetes under control.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Bill's first doctor is stupified when Bill pleads ignorance to how he could've gotten diabetes i.e. poor dieting. Bill merely thought he was in love.

** Bill refuses to take responsibility for his diabetes. At first, he blames it on his genetics despite his first doctor (and eventually Hank) saying that his poor diet and lack of exercise were the main culprits. He'd rather give up and succumb to the complications than to make the necessary changes to reverse it. He does reverse his diabetes once he does start exercising, but it was due to pure dumb luck.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dr. Weissman both rudely shoots down his nurse's suggestion that Bill see a nutritionist to help his diabetes, strongly implying sexism, and mockingly telling Bill that he'll never improve his health and is fated to succumb to gangrene among other health problems. This also implies that he actively looks down on the overweight.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Bill's first doctor is stupified when Bill pleads ignorance to how he could've gotten diabetes i.e. eating too much junk food. Bill merely thought he was in love.

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Sort of. Bill didn't really need the wheelchair in the first place and was only in it because Dr. Weissman told him he should just give up and get one. But Bill's friends treat him getting out of his wheelchair as this trope, after initially accusing him of faking being disabled.