things i learned from king of the hill

When it's time for us to go to bed in the Shutt household there is only one television program we can both agree on to lull us to sleep.


I wouldn't say that I've always been a fan of King Of The Hill but as of late, it's the only thing I can fall asleep to. Hank, Peggy and Bobby Hill, Luanne Platter, Dale Gribble, Bill Dautrieve and Boomhauer...oh you are all my best friends.

King Of The Hill is a family show, and with that comes family values and lessons.

1. It is okay to get sentimental over a motor vehicle. In Chasing Bobby, Hank attends a somewhat of a chick flick with Peggy only to find himself emotional during a pivotal father/son scene. Thinking it's due to the strained relationship between Hank and his father Cotton, Peggy tries to force Hank to spend more time with Bobby. Later discovered, he saw it as the relationship between him and his reliable pickup. It was time to let her go and it was okay.

2. Big feet, or any attribute you may not enjoy about yourself, can be sexy. As Peggy finally feels comfortable in her size 16 feet, in the episode Transnational Amusement Presents: Peggy's Magic Sex Feet she is recruited unknowingly to start in a fetish film. Poor Peggy. Your feet are still sexy, fetish film and all.

3. Don't piss off Randy Travis. In Peggy's Fan Fare, Peggy (I love Peggy Hill, I just want to throw that out there) writes a song and sends it to Randy Travis. She receives a letter from his lawyer telling her to never give up on her writing dream. Later at a Texas country music festival, she discovers none other than Randy Travis singing her song! That dbag. So she does what anyone would do, and tries to kill him by pushing his trailer into the water...but then she saves him...only for him to not apologize. See? Dbag.

4. When life gets hard you can pray to Buckley's Angel. Buckley is Luanne's boyfriend and he perishes in a propane explosion at the Megalomart in season 3. Later in the season, in the episode Wings Of The Dope Buckley comes to Luanne on the trampoline and utters the world every gal wants to hear from her dead boyfriend..."hey". Believing him to be an angel sent to help her, Bill also begins to pray to Buckley's angel...and so does Kahn.

5. The government is out to get you...just ask Rusty Shackleford. That's all I have to say about that.

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