History Recap / KingOfTheHillS13E1DiaBillIcShock

** 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.

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Sort of. Bill didn't really need the wheelchair to begin with, 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.

* 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.

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, since he'll need one sooner or later anyway, and might as well get one while he still has 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 returns to doctor to beat him up for telling him to get a wheelchair and for being a jerk to him.

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 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, since he'll need one sooner or later anyway, and might as well get one while he still has insurance. A discouraged, depressed and sad Bill takes the advice too literally and goes home in a wheelchair that he doesn't really need.

* BigEater: Deconstructed with Bill and his diabetes: When he first appears, Bill is holding a bucket of popcorn, an ice cream cone, and a giant lollipop. He then orders ''another'' giant lollipop covered in cotton candy and starts stuffing his face, causing him to collapse from a blood sugar spike (leading to his initial diagnosis). After grocery shopping with Hank and eating a sensible dinner, he takes one cookie out of a package and eats it, then seconds later he breaks down and starts shoving cookies into his mouth like SelfDemonstrating/CookieMonster. This causes his second blood sugar spike and his encounter with the jerkass doctor.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bill goes to the doctor'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 go on a diet and exercise, so beating up the doctor was excessive and there was no reason for it (aside from the doctor just being a jerk).
* DrJerk: The doctor who told Bill that he should just get a wheelchair now since he would never make the life changes to manage his diabetes. He was also rude to his own nurse, brushing off her suggestion of nutritional counseling.

** When confronted over the grossly unprofessional manner in which he discussed Bill's diabetes, the jerkass doctor 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:''' I never said anything that could constitute malpractice... under its current definition.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Bill didn't actually need the wheelchair. The DrJerk told him that sooner or later he would ''eventually'' lose his legs to gangrene, not that there was anything wrong with them now. It's unclear if Bill was unintentionally faking and stayed in the wheelchair all the time because he misinterpreted DrJerk's angry ranting and genuinely thought he was disabled or if he was intentionally faking it for sympathy and attention, as well as because he preferred to be in the chair than go on a diet (and slipped up by getting out of it when he was drunk).
* QuitYourWhining: The doctor feels no remorse period when Bill confronts him over his embellished diagnosis. All he has to say is that he didn’t diagnose Bill with "cryabetes". Cue an epic beatdown from Bill.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Sort of. Bill didn't really need the wheelchair to begin with, and was only in it because the jerk doctor 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.
* ToughLove: Bill asks the doctor if he was giving him tough love after the doctor lists all the terrible things that will happen if he doesn't get his diabetes under control. Instead of answering, the doctor points out that Bill ignored his previous doctor's advice and tells Bill that he might as well just get a wheelchair now since he would need it eventually anyway. It's possible that the doctor really was trying to use tough love to scare Bill into changing his lifestyle (which failed since Bill chose to get the wheelchair instead), but it's also just as likely that the doctor was just being a jerk (especially considering that he callously dismissed his nurse's suggestion of nutritional counseling and told her that there was no hope for Bill).

** When confronted over the grossly unprofessional manner in which he discussed Bill's diabetes, the jerkass doctor denies everything, trying to claim that he only said that Bill could possibly lose his legs one day (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.

** When confronted over the grossly unprofessional manner in which he discussed Bill's diabetes, the jerkass doctor denies everything, trying to claim that he only said that Bill could possibly lose his legs one day (after explicitly telling Bill that he should go ahead get a wheelchair because he'd inevitably need it one day). Naturally, Bill is not convinced.

->'''Doctor:''' Let's face it: Sooner or later this will kill you. Probably sooner.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Bill goes to the doctor'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 go on a diet and exercise, so beating up the doctor was excessive and there was no reason for it (aside from the doctor just being a jerk).

* NeverMyFault: 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.

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Zig-zagged: After learning of Bill's diagnosis, Peggy restricts Bobby 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.

Bill gets diagnosed with diabetes and is told to go on a diet and exercise. He ignores this advice 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, since he'll need one sooner or later anyway, and might as well get one while he still has insurance. A discouraged, depressed and sad Bill takes the advice too literally and goes home in a wheelchair that he doesn't really need.

* DrJerk: The doctor who told Bill that he should just get a wheelchair now since he would never make the life changes to manage his diabetes. He was also rude to his own nurse.

* KeepingTheHandicap: Bill attempts this after being accused of faking and rejected by his new friends. He eats handfuls of sugar in a desperate bid to bring back his diabetes and restore the new life he had forged for himself. Fortunately, Hank explains the situation to Thunder, and the two of them explain to Bill that

* ObfuscatingDisability: Bill didn't actually need the wheelchair. The DrJerk told him that sooner or later he would ''eventually'' lose his legs to gangrene, not that there was anything wrong with them now. It's unclear if Bill was unintentionally faking and stayed in the wheelchair all the time because he was depressed about the things the doctor said to him and genuinely thought he was disabled or if he was intentionally faking it for sympathy and attention, as well as because he preferred to be in the chair than go on a diet (and slipped up by getting out of it when he was drunk).

* ToughLove: Bill asks the doctor if he was giving him tough love after the doctor lists all the terrible things that will happen if he doesn't get his diabetes under control. Instead of answering, the doctor points out that Bill ignored his previous doctor's advice and tells Bill that he might as well just get a wheelchair now since he would need it eventually anyway. It's possible that the doctor really was trying to use tough love to scare Bill into changing his lifestyle (which failed since Bill chose to get the wheelchair instead), but it's also just as likely that the doctor was just being a jerk.

* HandicappedBadass: Thunder and his team are basically this trope incarnate.

Later, Bill befriends a group of wheelchair rugby players and starts playing with them, making him feel happier and get over his depression. 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.

At home, Bill, upset over losing his new friends tries to spike his blood sugar by eating sugar with a spoon. 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.

* JerkAssHasAPoint: While the doctor was definitely a jerk in the way he talked to and treated Bill (and his own nurse), he was right that Bill had no intention of dieting or exercising (he ignored his previous doctor and immediately asked this one for 3 Jell-O's when he entered the room), and when Bill was basically given a choice between either getting healthy or eventually needing a wheelchair, Bill chose to just get a wheelchair. So there wasn't anything the doctor could do to help him.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Bill didn't actually need the wheelchair. The DrJerk told him that sooner or later he would ''eventually'' lose his legs to gangrene, not that there was anything wrong with them now. It's unclear if Bill was unintentionally faking and stayed in the wheelchair all the time because he was depressed about the things the doctor said to him and genuinely thought he was disabled or if he was intentionally faking it because he preferred to be in the chair than go on a diet (and slipped up by getting out of it when he was drunk).

* JerkAssHasAPoint: While the doctor was definitely a jerk in the way he talked to and treated Bill (and his own nurse), he was right that Bill had no intention of dieting or exercising (he ignored his previous doctor), and when Bill was basically given a choice between either getting healthy or eventually needing a wheelchair, Bill chose to just get a wheelchair. So there wasn't anything the doctor could do to help him.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Bill goes to the doctor's office and beats the doctor 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 go along with it and get a wheelchair he didn't need rather than go on a diet and exercise, so beating up the doctor was excessive and there was no reason for it (aside from the doctor just being a jerk).

* ObfuscatingDisability: Bill didn't actually need the wheelchair. The DrJerk told him that sooner or later he would ''eventually'' lose his legs to gangrene, not that there was anything wrong with them now. It's unclear if Bill was unintentionally faking and stayed in the wheelchair all the time because he was depressed about the things the doctor said to him and genuinely thought he was disabled, or if he really was just faking, and slipped up by getting out of the chair because he was drunk.

Later, Bill returns to doctor to beat him up for being a jerk to him.

Bill gets diagnosed with diabetes and is told to go on a diet and exercise. He ignores this advice 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, since he'll need one sooner or later anyway, and might as well get one while he still has insurance. A discouraged and 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 group of wheelchair rugby players and starts playing with them, making him feel happier and get over his depression. One night, a drunk Bill gets out of his chair and starts walking, leading to his new friends accusing him of faking being disabled. Bill tries to explain 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.

At home, Bill, upset over losing his new friends tries to spike his blood sugar by eating sugar with a spoon. Hank and one of Bill's new friends show up and stop him, telling him that he should be proud of himself for beating his diabetes.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Bill didn't actually need the wheelchair. The DrJerk told him that sooner or later he would ''eventually'' lose his legs to gangrene, not that there was anything wrong with them yet. It's unclear if Bill was unintentionally faking and just stayed in the wheelchair all the time because he was depressed about the things the doctor said to him and genuinely thought he was disabled, or if he really was just faking, and slipped up by getting out of the chair because he was drunk.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Sort of. Bill didn't really need the wheelchair, and was only in it because the jerk doctor 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.

* DrJerk: The doctor who told Bill that he should just get a wheelchair now since he would never make the life changes to manage his diabetes.

* ThrowingOfftheDisability: Sort of. Bill didn't really need the wheelchair, and was only in it because the jerk doctor 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.