History Recap / KingOfTheHillS2E5JumpinCrackBass

--> [[LogoJoke That's it. I'm goin' fishin'.]]

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The judge who punishes the carjacker who tried to take Hank's truck by making him live in a pick-up truck for three months as [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook sending him to prison will end up teaching him how to be a better thief.]] Hank respects this, seeing him as a judge with common sense. When he finds out about Hank using cocaine as fish bait however, he instead sentences both him and Dale, who decided to [[AFoolForAClient represent Hank during the trial]], to 10 years in state prison should they fail to produce results.

** Hank fails realize the "Jack" he was talking to doesn't dress or act anything remotely close to someone who fishes or Ray's description, especially given he fails to notice he does not have a truck, or that there's a truck further from them with someone else was with. The fact that the "bait" be bought required him to tie it to the hook doesn't clue him in he bought something completely different.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: With the judge sentencing the carjacker to live in a truck, he's not too ecstatic about it, but it's him telling him he's going to live in an import is what causes Hank and the crowd to react in horror.

* FishingEpisode

—-> '''Hank:''' Dale, you giblet-head! [[DoWrongRight If you were gonna cheat, why the hell did you buy a frozen bass?]]
—-> '''Dale:''' I had a coupon.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The entire sequence where Hank and his friends uses his new "bait" to catch fish with as the Bass are all lively and jumping around whenever their lines are cast out.

* CassandraTruth: Peggy doesn't believe Hank didn't know that he was using crack for fishing bait and the judge was initially skeptical but gave him a chance to prove his innocence.

* CassandraTruth: Peggy doesn't believe Hank that he was using crack for fishing bait and the judge was initially skeptical but gave him a chance to prove his innocence.

* BoringButPractical: Hank prefers using hand-dug earthworms for fishing, as opposed to what the other guys use, like Dale's garlic bait, which Hank dismisses as cheating. For a long time, the worms get Hank by. But then, this gets [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] when he runs out of success for with his worms and goes for more alternatives, leading for him to inadvertently use crack as his bait with great success until the fish adapt it to their ecosystem, resulting in them no longer taking the bait. And it becomes [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]] in the end, where he ends up having to clear his name, he goes back to the worm, which he finally succeeds in making a catch, saving him a trip to prison.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The judge who punishes the carjacker who tried to take Hank's truck by making him live in a pick-up truck for three months as [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook sending him to prison will end up teaching him how to be a better thief.]] Hank respects this, seeing him as a judge with common sense. When he finds out about Hank using cocaine as fish bait however, he instead sentences both him and Dale, who decided to [[AFoolForALawyer represent Hank during the trial]], to 10 years in state prison should they fail to produce results.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The judge who punishes the carjacker who tried to take Hank's truck by making him live in a pick-up truck for three months as [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook sending him to prison will end up teaching him how to be a better thief.]] Hank respects this, seeing him as a judge with common sense.

* BoringButPractical: Hank prefers using hand-dug earthworms for fishing, as opposed to what the other guys use, like Dale's garlic bait, which Hank dismisses as cheating. Doubly subverted when Hank decides to go for more alternative means after an unsuccessful trip and when he ends up having to clear his name, he goes to the worm in the end, which he finally succeeds in making a catch, saving him a trip to prison.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The judge who punishes the carjacker who tried to take Hank's truck by making him live in a pick-up truck for three months as sending him to prison will end up teaching him how to be a better thief. Hank respects this, seeing him as a judge with common sense.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After a while fishing with the cocaine, the fish end up adapting it to their own ecosystem, meaning they won't fall for the bait anymore, which not only inconveniences Hank when fishing but ends up proving problematic when he has to prove to the judge that he was indeed using it for fishing.

* ParentalHypocrisy: Hank makes a citizen's arrest on the carjacker, with him protesting, with Hank saying "The hell I can't", with Bobby repeating the phrase, after which Hank scolds him for the language.

* BoringButPractical: Hank prefers using hand-dug earthworms for fishing, as opposed to what the other guys use, like Dale's garlic bait, which Hank dismisses as cheating. Doubly subverted when Hank decides to go for more alternative means after an unsuccessful trip and when he ends up having to clear his name, he goes to the worm in the end, which he finally succeeds in making a catch, saving him a trip in prison.

* TheAllegedTruck: Hank gets his truck back after the authorities were holding it for evidence after the carjacking, but they tore it apart to search for drugs and when he gets it back, it wasn't put back together and ends up in his lawn with its pieces spread around.