- Nah, he says in one episode, "I'm 34 years old, I don't need this crap!" while arguing with Nancy.
- Another episode he complains to Hank about being 40. Maybe he's trying to hide is age?
- There were a number of years between when he said he was 34 and when he said he was 40, so maybe only the kids are Not Allowed to Grow Up?
- This could very well be. Luanne was 17 when the show started, celebrated her 21st birthday, got married and had a daughter while Bobby only aged two years and didn't change appearance.
- Another episode he complains to Hank about being 40. Maybe he's trying to hide is age?
- This can probably be filed under 'likely, but sometimes'. Kahn said early on they'd been in the country roughly 20 years, and have repeatedly shown they have a very heavy disconnect with their native culture. Given Connie's limited grasp on the language (where she has a hard time differentiating between 'good morning' and an insult), it's likely they don't speak Laotian horribly often anymore. It might be something they reserve for arguments at this point.
- The other characters have also very early on accepted that the couple is quick to insult anybody they're around no matter how friendly they become. Everyone's probably just become numb to the barrage of insults for the sake of keeping peace.
- This may be true when they're alone, since I've noticed that their English is better when they're talking amongst each other.
- There's also that one guy at the Renaissance Fair who sounds exactly like Hank, and looks just like him, only with black hair.
- Not implausible. Cotton's love of prostitutes has been duly noted (he once tried to take his grandson to a brothel, which is now a high-end hotel). There may be men all over Arlen and a good chunk of the Pacific theater with horn-rimmed spectacles, narrow urethrae, and a love for their profession and their profession's accessorizes that approaches fanaticism.
- General theory confirmed, details jossed.
It's the only logical explanation for how Buck hasn't been locked in state prison and Dale isn't in a mental hospital. Seriously, the crap Dale and Buck have pulled would land a person in prison.
- Cotton too.
Cotton | ||||
Hank | G.H. | Hank's half brother* | Hal** | Bill |
Ezekiel*** | Didn't any of them have kids? note | Bobby | ||
Edd (the whole year in the movie being a total fake; the Eds are in the future) |
- *
- There once was a two-part episode that has Hank meeting his brother.
- **
- There was an episode about Hank meeting this guy, who was very similar to him. Seriously, it would be scary if they were not related.
- ***
- See here; combine the Ezekiel relation guess with the "20 minutes into the future" guess.
Note: I have not seen every episode of King of the Hill. If there are any errors with this, that's why.
- Don't forget that one guy at the Renaissance Fair who totally sounds like Hank.
- One episode had a girl who had the same biological father as Joseph. This supports the theory that Dale WAS visited by aliens and they gave his DNA to Nancy and Candi.
- Or John Redcorn is a huge man-slut...YMMV, though.
- It should be noted that after Joseph hits puberty, his facial features resemble Dale's more closely than Redcorn's, particularly his mouth and chin.
- He's probably really high on spectrum, but think about his strange behavior that are clear symptoms to Asperger's.
- His obsession with Propane and other interests
- A bit uncomfortable with sexuality, and at times can be distant from his family.
- Prefer to not be very emotional, Hank can be very stoic.
- Seconded. In the episode where Hank gets addicted to video gaming while Bobby trains for the president's fitness award, the game based off of him is called "Pro Pain". Hank assumes that this is simply a misspelling, when it is really a play on words. Asperger's can lead to things like this.
- Except:
- His "obsession" isn't really that, just the dogged support of a man trying to stick by what he thinks is right, and have loyalty to the product he has spent his life selling.
- Is a portrayal of a middle aged man who was raised to believe men don't talk about their feelings.
- Tying in with the above, Hank's been raised with a certain degree of stoicism and reticence regarding certain topics that are "polite" to talk about.
- Hank's not very bright or imaginative.
- Hank probably suffers Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (distinct from OCD). People with OCPD are often seen as workaholics and perfectionists, putting a lot of emphasis on self-control in all situations. They can be so involved in their work that they ignore family and friends, and are often so insistent on doing things properly that they lose sight of the point of whatever activity they're undertaking. OCPD usually carries a great distaste for any form of emotional expression from both the sufferer and those around him (emotions always carry a lack of control), and those diagnosed are often very judgmental and intolerant of others who do display excessive feeling or do things "improperly." As mentioned somewhere else on this site- Hank spends more time with his lawn, propane, his grill, his truck, and his dog than his family and shows them way more emotion, since they can't emote back.
- Dale may be on the spectrum. In addition to his obsessions, he often displays awkward motor and well developed language skills. His social interactions can be rather poor but he often seems to understand exactly what he's doing.
- I doubt this, Cotton looked almost exactly like Bobby.
- I concur.
- Thirded. Children tend to look more like their grandparents than their parents.
- And in his war story flashbacks, Cotton looks like a taller, older, thinner Bobby.
- Also, GH looks just like Bobby.
- Here's a picture of Hank as a kid◊. I think this speaks for itself.
- Hank does have a son, Ezekiel.
- Also, you really have to stretch things to believe Peggy would cheat on her husband. And with Bill, at that.
- Hank is frosty and chaste. It would also explain why Bill is always so clingy and obsessive with her at times, and why Peggy hates him, even when she has no real reason. Seeing him reminds her of their affair and possible child.
- At times, Peggy is just as uptight as Hank.
- Let's not forget that Bill used to be quite attractive.
- But also remember that he lost his looks several years before Bobby was born.
- Not only that, but Peggy tends to be naive and cocky. If Bill wanted to sink to such a low, he could have told her that he was in the military and conveniently left out the part about him just being a barber. After all, some women like a man in uniform and if he used to be a looker, then just imagine how he would've looked in his military uniform. Peggy could have enjoyed bragging to Minh (if she lived in the US at the time) and Nancy about being with Bill because of the "military" thing, and it's not like Nancy could've said anything because she's cheating on Dale. As for Minh, she and Kahn think they're surrounded by rednecks, so for all we know Minh could've just kept her mouth shut just so she could enjoy the show, especially once Peggy conceived.
- Except Peggy knew Bill in high school before he joined, and knew him when he became a fat slob, which happened several years before Bobby's conception. It's still a massive stretch to think Peggy would sink that low to cheat on Hank and sleep with Bill, of all people.
- Hank is frosty and chaste. It would also explain why Bill is always so clingy and obsessive with her at times, and why Peggy hates him, even when she has no real reason. Seeing him reminds her of their affair and possible child.
- Jossed in "Pregnant Paws". Bill is shown to be the same fat slob when Bobby was conceived, and is shown in the flashback to be looking in on Hank and Peggy until they closed the blinds while trying to conceive. There's no canonical point in time for Peggy to have had an affair with Bill, nor has she ever not been disgusted by Bill and rejected his advances.
- No canonical point in time? Because she and Hank supposedly couldn't have kids because of Hank's narrow urethra, it would seem it was then that she would be desperate enough to have a one-night stand with someone else to have a child. Because she and Hank were conceiving at the same time, Peggy herself might not know for sure.
- It's still a stretch for Peggy to cheat on Bill and for Bill to never tell anyone, given his inability to keep a secret.
- No canonical point in time? Because she and Hank supposedly couldn't have kids because of Hank's narrow urethra, it would seem it was then that she would be desperate enough to have a one-night stand with someone else to have a child. Because she and Hank were conceiving at the same time, Peggy herself might not know for sure.
Cotton is indeed Hank's biological father but Mr. Anderson from "Beavis and Butthead" is related to Hank. Cotton has at least one sister. While Cotton was serving overseas in WW2, his sister married a man with the last name of Anderson. Around the late 1940s, she gave birth to Tom Anderson. That would put him in his early 20s when the Vietnam War took place (in which he served). Tom Anderson is related to Hank, he just isn't his father. He's his older cousin (Hank was born around the mid-late 1950's).
- This is also why he is so narrow minded, coming across as extremely bigoted at times - because he has literally never met a good, intelligent person with different opinions than him, he never learned to accept others or adjust his own opinion.
- While true Hank does seem to only meet caricatures of people he disagrees with, he doesn't exactly go out of his way to leave his in-group. He created questions to try and avoid hiring "undesirable" people, and in the same episode he rejects Maria Montalvo, not even because she was a woman (though that did play a role) but because she didn't know football. Similarly, someone may actually be completely reasonable but Hank simply refuses to understand the situation, this is exactly what happened with Wesely at the end of Straight As an Arrow.
- Hank is cursed with suck. Hank rarely meets a human being who isn't a complete idiot or total asshole. His friends, his family, and everyone he's ever shook hands with, is either a gullible moron who can easily be swayed into believing the topic of the week, or is the Manipulative Bastard who brought it in. Remember when Bobby went to special ed because he was lazy. Then the entire class of kids who were supposed to be normal kids then all stood up on the log flume and knocked each other in the water and did nothing but gleefully laugh as they approached the drop. My Lord, they should've been wearing helmets after that.
- While the kids were certainly lazy, the school administrators were equally to blame. The Principal was encouraging them all to feign stupidity in order to exclude them from the SATs (which they would've done poorly on, thus bringing down the entire school district's average score). And it probably didn't hurt that Dale was their chaperone.
- Wait a sec...
Some possible theories:
- 1. Something's in the water.
- 2. Hellmouth. (Hillmouth? King of the Hillmouth!)
Would explain why Cotton is well-behaved (by comparison) when outside of Arlen.
- I'd say it had more to do with Lucky. Hell, Luanne was going to community college for quite a few seasons, of her own accord no less.
- Then that would make Lucky a witch, given that he appeared as a one-shot/one-line character at the end of the season where she quit college, and didn't even meet her until the next season. I support the Manger Babies theory, but only in terms of her increasing naivety; she remains a sense of intelligence for a while, but it could be argued that her naivety eventually had a severe effect on that, too.
- More likely Filipino: Dale has shown he knows Tagalog and offered zero explanation for it. Or he's just not a racist. Dale actually comes off as more of a libertarian than anything else: he doesn't seem to have a problem with what other people choose to do as long as it doesn't infringe on his rights. See for example his opinion towards gays, which is actually more open-minded than any other adult on the show.
- Or he's just a right-wing militia guy who's not a racist?
- One of Dale's gun club's members is black. And gay. So I'd say he and his gun club buddies are right wing militia fanatics, but just aren't racist.
- I hate to say this, but a world filled with idiotic people is Truth in Television.
- My best friend has a similar theory, only with Hank being a grown up version of Butthead and Dale as a grown up Beavis.
- Daria and Hank Hill have access to the same levels of technology, the former being late 90s and the latter being whatever era the episode was in (KOTH after all ran considerably longer). It doesn't make sense for a man in his 40s to be descended from a teenager who uses the same era of computer as his wife.
- Does anybody notice that kid from Bobby's class has similar skin tone and hair? It's very possible Boomhauer made a woman pregnant with a child.
- It's an interesting theory, and maybe even an in-joke with the animators or something along those lines, but Boomhauer being a dark-skinned blonde isn't genetic - he tans obsessively, and in one episode he also admitted he dyes his hair. So if the kid is Boomhauer's, then I guess it's a case of Lamarck Was Right.
- It's likely that Garth from the episode "Order Of The Straight Arrow" in the first season, was meant to be Boomhauer's son, but the writers had second thoughts and pretended he didn't exist.
- Does anybody notice that kid from Bobby's class has similar skin tone and hair? It's very possible Boomhauer made a woman pregnant with a child.
- Alternatively, it's not Gerald but his wife Helen who is somewhere on the Hill family tree. She even once said that "some people only understand a good ass-kicking". Perhaps she's the secret love child of Charlie's wife and Cotton.
- Except her father appears with them and is played by Brian Doyle-Murray, and it's unlikely she was ever in Texas.
- Maybe Charlie and Cotton are related, either brothers who were separated at a young age or cousins.
- Except her father appears with them and is played by Brian Doyle-Murray, and it's unlikely she was ever in Texas.
- What is it with you people and theories like this?
- Perhaps Daria and Quinn are working for the government are the ones doing the torturing.
- I don't think Connie would ever become Bobby's assistant. She has previously stated that she wants to go into journalism, and on top of that, is a stereotypical Asian overachiever (both because she wants to do well and because Kahn and Minh put a lot of pressure on her) and would most likely aspire to something greater than Bobby Hill's assistant.
- Due to Bill's frequent Acquired Situational Narcissism, and his status as a muscular babe-magnet as a teenager, you could argue he has a good case for having been a Jerk Jock in high school. Hank just doesn't remember it because he might've been the same way (look at his disapproving attitude for Bobby and people not into sports), and is pruning that out with his Nostalgia Filter.
- Hank definitely was, as shown in his flashback in the episode where Bobby was in a fashion show.
- Though Bill was a pretty decent guy in the flashback to Hank getting Bill's name tattooed on the back of his head.
- Bill was in the Army for the show's entire run.
- Due to Bill's frequent Acquired Situational Narcissism, and his status as a muscular babe-magnet as a teenager, you could argue he has a good case for having been a Jerk Jock in high school. Hank just doesn't remember it because he might've been the same way (look at his disapproving attitude for Bobby and people not into sports), and is pruning that out with his Nostalgia Filter.
- I don't think so. I have OCD and I know a lot about the disorder, and language issues like that aren't symptoms. My hypothesis is simply that his upbringing and environment gave him that weird accent. Bear in mind his grandmother talks like that too. I live in the South, so I've heard real folks talk like him before. If there was a medical explanation for his manner of speech, it would probably be a simple speech impairment, considering he imagines himself speaking normally while everyone else mumbles quickly (source: A Fire Fighting We Will Go), so clearly he's aware of it.
- Seconded. I'm dating a guy who was born in Texas, and he spent part of his childhood there and in New Mexico. (Both of us live in Oregon.) He's said that some people in the South do talk in a similar manner, but not as exaggerated as Boomhauer's speech. And, on a related note concerning an above WMG about the character's personality quirks, he's said it's a bit of a Truth in Television, but again, the show exaggerates it for laughs.
- Word of God says his accent/speech pattern is based on someone who left him a voicemail to complain about Beavis and Butthead.
- I second this into headcanon.
- Well, her Spanish skills weren't very good in the first place, though that doesn't negate this theory.
- They do get worse after the accident.
- I'd reckon it was psychological, rather than neurological: The reason Peggy got so up herself was because now she's a survivor. Think about it - she survived a skydiving accident. It would probably give lots of people a puffed-up image of themselves. After the accident, Peggy just felt invincible.
- I'd like to point that around the time of Season 4, FOX caught onto how the show was starting to develop plotlines concerning the characters, and demanded that they be cut down. Peggy in the first three seasons noticeably lacked self-confidence, not helped by Hank's conservative attitude. It was likely that the original plan would've originally been a one-to-two-season long case of Acquired Situational Narcissism for her due to surviving the skydiving accident. You can see her narcissism start to manifest during the second part as she's recovering. Chances were that she was meant to eventually suffer a Break the Haughty moment that would've had her ego cut down severely as her confidence tanks...but eventually regain said confidence whilst keeping her kinder and less haughty personality.
- Perhaps this could explain why Bobby seems to remain pre-pubescent, while Connie gets her period and Joseph gets taller, grows a mustache, and develops a deeper voice.
- Another point on this WMG, there was an episode where Bobby is mistaken for a Highschooler and makes up a story about having some Kidney disease. By the end of the episode, he tells someone asking for "Kidney Boy" that Kidney Boy died. Maybe there was more truth to that episode than apparent at first glance?
- At the very least, it's a case of karmic punishment.
Dale could be an older Butthead, he has similar facial features and hair color. As with Beavis above, we don't know how long the timeline of Beavis and Butthead is, or even how old the boys actually were. They could have met Hank, decided to eschew their childish nicknames and started going by their real names, eventually gone out for football and become the young men we see in flashbacks with Hank and Cotton. Beavis and Butthead also takes place in Texas (though in the fictional town of Highland IIRC). Hell, it's even possible that Beavis and Butthead were taken from their poverty-stricken, neglectful parents by protective services and placed into adoptive care in Arlen.
- Note: Beavis and Butt-Head are 14 year olds in the 9th grade sometime between 1993-2001 as Bill Clinton was shown as the current president in several episodes.
- Their dates of birth are also given as 1978 and 1979.
- Except Peggy marriend Hank almost as soon as they graduated high school, and Peggy only knew Bill through Hank in high school, and Bill joined the Army right out of high school. Plus Bill married Lenore.
- This is why Hank is so often viewed in the right while everyone else is either wrong, ignorant, or stupid. Hank is a fairly honest person so he's not portrayed as completely perfect, but he views himself as very moral which is why he's the "right man" in most situations. Had the show been told from Dale's point of view, he would have more hair and HE would be the right man, like in his POV scenario from the fireman episode.
- Buck actually was the great businessman that Hank still sees him as, however over a decade of having his business essentially run for him by Hank and all social manners managed by Miss Liz effectively babied him and gave room for his descent into debauchery. Miss Liz stays with him since she still loves him, and Hank still believes that Buck is the same man he once was, and as such, Buck really only shows signs of his old self when one or both leave him.
- More or less confirmed by occasional dialogue and flashbacks throughout the series.
- I support this theory in every conceivable way.
- There WAS that freakily unexpected laugh once in an early season upon seeing Nancy go off with Redcorn. All I thought then was "he knows".
- Then why wouldn't Dale have cheated with that attractive female exterminator that was clearly into him?
- All other character flaws aside, Dale is fiercely loyal to his loved ones and especially his wife.
- Or maybe Dale truly is just a naive man who has no idea, and that is all part of his charm. The fact that he is paranoid of nearly everything except the affair right under his nose is just there for irony. It's still an interesting theory, but I can't help but think that he would crack after all those years of denial and do something drastic. And when it came to his father Bug being gay, Dale honestly couldn't figure that out by himself until he saw it with his own eyes. Also, I doubt that Nancy would allow him to be rough with her in bed. We already know for a fact that she's the type of person who always gets her way. The lady's no pushover, and I can't see Dale as someone who would push himself on her. Especially considering that during the affair, she was the one who allowed him to sleep with her twice yearly (Christmas and his birthday). As for the whole death wish thing, I dunno. Dale seems pretty content with his life. He pretty much lives off of Nancy, but prides himself in his extermination jobs (even if he sells himself short, he enjoys it very much). Maybe I'm just optimistic, but I just don't see too much darkness in the mind of Dale Gribble. Even if he became more lucid and figured out the truth, I still have to believe that his forgiving/accepting nature would shine through.
- There's also the possibility - which is not mutually exclusive of the above - that he pretends not to know just to screw with Nancy and John Redcorn, such as in "Dog Dale Afternoon", when he set up a pellet gun to shoot anyone trying to steal his new mower, and John Redcorn sets it off while sneaking in to sleep with Nancy:Dale: [seeing John Redcorn crawling into Nancy's bedroom window] I know what you're here for.John Redcorn: Dale, this isn't how I wanted you to find out!Dale: Quit screwing around with my mower!John Redcorn: You've got to be kidding.Dale: I don't kid about my mower, now get inside and start massaging my wife!John Redcorn: [to Nancy] He's taking some of the fun out of this.
- The flashback in "Husky Bobby" had him picking on an overweight guy, so maybe canon.
- Seems to be at least partially confirmed based on dialogue throughout the series. At the very least he took them to Hotel Arlen and bought them each a hooker. Except Hank, who ran away.
On top of that, Topsy does have some similarities to Beavis. And as for the differences, well, there is a theory that there is uranium in the drinking water in Highland.
- Sounded more like a jackass boyfriend.
- Or it could be Luanne's mother. (Even though the fork incident was acted by the cat on the donkey.)
- While it's doubtless that most of his war stories are exaggerations if not outright lies, it's canon he's heavily decorated (and with medals that aren't given out flippantly, or in multiple for a single act, such as the Medal of Honor and Silver Star). There are enough of his close war buddies alive that doubtlessly someone would have called him out by now if he were taking credit for someone else's victory (no matter how close you are, for obvious reasons that's considered to be a very serious offense). So while he's a liar, he's also a war hero.
- And, while his claim of being in Munich two days before being in Okinawa was a lie, he was still in Italy, the Pacific and Okinawa. And he did also lose his shins and was shot multiple times. Pretty hard to fake those wounds. He may lie in some of his war stories, but not all of them.
- In the episode where Cotton is trying to get a plot for himself in Arlen National Cemetary, he seems to be genuinely surprised when Peggy points out that he wasn't in Munich, it seems like Cotton himself may be slightly confused about his war exploits.
- His army buddies from what we've seen the shape and state of them aren't exactly going to remember (He's in the best shape of them all which isn't saying much) as they've mostly gotten each other's tales mixed up. And the mines would've destroyed his shins as well as being shot at dozens of times. Guys have made up claims of gloryfing their deeds to make them out as heroic as possible since the beginning of time and he did the same. And there's a large hole in his story, if the Japanese destroyed his Shins with machineguns how was he able to kill them, and how was he able to get a piece of fat from his friend to kill them with when the sharks had ate him?
- And, while his claim of being in Munich two days before being in Okinawa was a lie, he was still in Italy, the Pacific and Okinawa. And he did also lose his shins and was shot multiple times. Pretty hard to fake those wounds. He may lie in some of his war stories, but not all of them.
- Or Going Postal again.
- He doesn't really go postal in "Dog Dale Afternoon" (when Hank steals his mower). He becomes more paranoid than usual and loses track of time for a while, but when Nancy informs him he has an appointment to exterminate the silverfish in the bell tower at the community college, he drops everything and gets to work (effectively a Let's Get Dangerous! moment). It's only while doing his job that Bill mistakes the wand for a gun and thinks he's gone insane and decided to shoot random people from the bell tower á la Charles Wittman.
- Just in case anyone doubts this, here's a picture◊ of that particular scene from Falling Down.
- Considering what she did to Flat Stanley, she has to be a bit sadistic at least. She wasn't even teaching kids about safety. All that stuff she was trying to "warn" the kids about, it's just common sense to avoid all of that. She's worse than Sid. At least his toys were executed swiftly. Flat Stanley was shot, gored, and crushed, and somehow survived all of that. This combined with her narcissistic personality disorder would lead to a very scary individual.
- She also enjoys collecting newspaper clippings of horrible fatal accidents in a scrapbook which disturbs Hank. She also said in one episode that she had a dream that she murdered Principal Moss and seems to be telling it like she enjoyed it.
The only character aside from the veterans who knew Cotton pre-WWII was Tilly, who Cotton was already established to abuse. If he didn't force her into silence, it's possible they agreed to keep the truth a secret due to Hank's low tolerance for things that challenge his worldview. As for the veterans, it's obvious they aren't in top form mentally. It's plausible Cotton marched into the veteran's hall one day and acted like he was one of them until they bought it. Cotton didn't even seem to know their names, instead calling them all nicknames and some of them shared "stinky" and "fatty". We have very little concrete evidence about Cotton's past except for Junichiro's existence which proves that Cotton had an affair in Japan. But even then, who is to say anything Cotton said about his history with Michiko was actually true? Cotton's word was proven to be unreliable when Peggy attempted to string together his stories into a coherent timeline for the military grave application. Note that he apparently backed out of that at some point since his last requests involved being cremated and having his ashes flushed. Last minute regret over his web of lies? Realizing he was playing with fire when Peggy of all people realized his story was sloppy and inconsistent?
- Virtually every time Cotton's legs are shown uncovered, there is considerable scarring above his feet, and he does seem to have a verifiable record - consider that his application would have been denied had his service all been a lie or had no official records to back up his claims - and medals that are neither awarded flippantly nor without a paper trail. Plus he achieved the rank of colonel by serving in the Texas State Militia after the war, something that would be almost impossible to fake, as would his other war wounds shown when shirtless in Mexico which are confirmed by a doctor to be bullet wounds - with the bullets still embedded - in "Death Picks Cotton". As well, Hank played football in high school, which is well known to cause knee and leg problems later in life, more so considering Hank suffered a leg injury severe enough to stop playing at some point.
- Further, his Japanese lover confirms his feet were reattached to his legs and that doctors thought they would fall off. Because Cotton had not seen her in sixty years and she had long since moved on, this can not simply be chalked up to abuse. Additionally, limb reattachment is not unheard of.
On that note, the toilet tank says Topsy was flushed down that toilet, but Cotton mentioned he scattered Topsy's ashes over a prostitute, although it's entirely possible he scattered part of Topsy's ashes and flushed the rest.
- Leanne was present at Luanne and Lucky's wedding. Unless she was given a day pass from Fortuneteller Baba and had her halo hidden, this couldn't be the case.
There was even an episode, one that had Bobby getting into Christian Rock, where Hank shows him a box of stuff they family has given up on. He says he didn't want Bobby's faith to end up in that box. Hank is probably counting on a number of said "quirks" to end up there though.
Cotton and Buck are both womanizing, hard drinking, gamblers. However, they treat Hank quite differently. Cotton sees Hank as nothing but a disappointment, belittles his career and his life choices. Cotton will even named his youngest son Good Hank and will loudly declare the bawling, lactating baby to be a better son than Hank.
Buck attributes a large amount of his business's success to Hank's work ethic and values. In an episode where Kahn tried to get rich quick, he outright calls Hank a "golden goose". In every Buck heavy episode, the formula tends to be Buck's debauchery getting out of hand. Hank gets upset and confronts Buck about it. Buck admits his wrong doing and takes steps to placate Hank, if not improve himself. This demonstrates a far deeper respect than Cotton has ever showed Hank.
The greatest display of Buck's love and respect for Hank would be the episode where Buck is getting inducted into the "Hall of Flame" Before the award ceremony Buck and his bastard son get into antics that drive Hank into heavily drinking before giving an important speech. After drunken Hank makes an ass of himself, Buck sets out to correct this. He even goes so far to manipulate events to get Hank inducted along with him!
From the very first episode we are made aware John Redcorn is Joseph's real father. The only ones who aren't aware is Dale and young Joseph. Even the children know. But season five's episode 'spin the choice' had Joseph being told that "in a weird way we're[he and John Redcorn] related."A season later the episode 'of Mice and Little Green Men', showed both Dale and Joseph being aware Joseph was different. the episode ends with them coming to a conclusion that aliens used Dale's DNA, but while Dale seems to fully believe it, Joseph just seems to have wanted to make his dad happy. They are father and son no matter what. So their biological relationship doesn't matter. This is well and good, but it does affect his relationship with his real father, as season seven's "Vision Quest" see's Joseph at least hold John Redcorn with some form of respect, even wanting to seek him out for advice on spiritual matter before Dale interrupts him. Seasons earlier Joseph would've merely brushed off whatever was going on and whatever John Redcorn had to say.
Kahn's trouble-making niece Tid Pao once comes to stay with them from LA. After messing up there, no one in the family seems to consider jail or a legal punishment for making meth as she's simply shipped off to the next uncle in line. The final threat being that if she screwed up there, she'd be sent to her grandmother's in Laos.Seasons later Kahn was intending to host another trouble-making nephew, Phonsawan, who doesn't seem to speak English and going off of military time seems to be fresh from Laos. Unfortunately, being older, he never actually goes to Kahn's house and wanders off to party.And then finally Kahn allows and insists his mother stays with them. Showing that he dose care about family, and all of his seen siblings must care about their kids.
- Given that Cotton was able to get a drivers license from Mexico, I'm sure faking his own death is something he would be more than capable of doing, it would allow him to live the rest of his life without having to deal with his family.
The plot of the episode revolves around Hank's confrontation with the hyperactive neighbor kid Caleb. The kid constantly harassed Hank and messed with his belongings and his submissive parents (Jim and Lila) just passed it off as him being an adventurous kid who is only teasing Hank because he likes him. When Hank has Bobby harass Jim and Lila as a lesson Jim tries his best to be civil to Bobby despite showing annoyance which almost implies he's repressing his anger. When Hank agrees with Jim that Bobby will leave them alone if they keep Caleb away from Hank, he tries to softly tell Caleb to "please stop riding your bike on [Hank's] lawn." Caleb just brushes off his dad's request and continues to laugh at Hank while messing with his lawn. Jim then gets upset and angrily orders his son with a raised voice "I mean it son, GET OFF THE GRASS!" Lila and Caleb both react in shock to this and Jim seems ashamed at what he just did. Caleb immediately gets off Hank's lawn and goes home with his parents.With Caleb's hyperactive attitude and his mother stating that he goes to a "gifted school" this could possibly imply that he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or is on the autism spectrum. His father who was not used to or prepared to raise such a child was prone to getting very angry with Caleb and often raised his voice at him to where it was borderline abusive. As a result, Jim went to anger management and was able to pass and keep custody of his child. This resulted in Caleb walking over his pushover parents. The brief scolding Jim gave Caleb was a relapse of his anger.
- Not himself apparently
- He admitted Hank is on that list
- Depending if you believe theory he knows about John and Nancy, John Redcorn and Nancy Might be on the list along with Joseph.
- It would explain why his marriage to Lenore ended up how it did and why he always seems to fall so easily into zany situations and form co-dependent relationships with other men.
Revival Predictions:
- It could show Bobby as an adult using advice from his dad on how to raise his kids, but in a more modernized setting.
- History Repeats and Luanne, despite being the nice girl, almost murders Lucky for getting her caught up in a frivolous lawsuit. The judge also finds out and sends Lucky to prison, while Luanne is sent to a psychiatric hospital. (This also covers the fact that both their respective voice actors have passed away)
- History Repeats and because of the above, Bobby gleefully takes Gracie in, mirroring Luanne being taken in by Hank.
- It could be a take on more satirical comedy shows, seeing if Bobby made it far into comedy.
- Depending on if Bobby moved or not, he could be in a fish-out-of-water situation if he moved out of Texas.
- It could give a glimpse of what Bobby's old classmates turned into, such as Connie becoming a lawyer/instrumentalist, etc.
- in relations to a theory that Joseph knew or found out about his dads, him as an adult could be juggling two part time jobs, one with Dale and one at John Redcorns kiddie place.
- Judge and Daniels did talk to FOX this year about a potential reboot of the show.
- Alternatively it'd feature one of the guys being the main character of that episode or the main focus alongside a B plot.
- Dale was one of the main characters from the start. He was never really Out of Focus, and the guys all had plenty of A Day in the Limelight episodes.
- Specifically off screen in the episode “Strangeness on a train”.
- he purposely ruined the mystery upon luanne accidentally telling him. He also kept repeatedly twisting the knife by telling the food got ruined, just to hold it over Peggys head how much her birthday sucks.
- We all know he’s done less to warrant a Hank Hill ass kicking .
- Its a nobody tried to kick his ass right after he spoiled the ending.
Bobby isn't really crazy about Troll dolls or his secret unicorn ranch (Rancho Unicorno). He just does all those things to drive Hank insane because he gets a thrill out of Hank's frustration.