King of the Hill/De-Kahnstructing Henry

De-Kahnstructing Henry
Season 3, Episode 13
Airdate	February 2, 1999
Production Number	3ABE14
Written by	Paul Lieberstein
Directed by	Klay Hall
← 3x12 Three Coaches and a Bobby	3x14 → The Wedding of Bobby Hill
King of the Hill — Season Three

De-Kahnstructing Henry is the thirteenth episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Joseph Gribble), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Radio voice)

and Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble), Maurice Lamarche (General), Glenn Lucas (Boss), Lauren Tom (Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone)

Special Guest Voice: Chuck Mangione (Himself)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland)

Plot Overview

An attempt by Kahn to impress Hank with his job backfires when the secret info he reveals gets out and loses his job.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Kahn: Now prepare your brain for razzle-dazzle!

Seen, But Not Heard

• Luanne Platter

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Dale is shown taking welfare under the name Rusty Shackleford.

• Kahn loses his systems job and it's revealed it isn't the first. He gets a new job in Houston, but Minh refuses to move for, leaving Kahn to commute.

Trivia

The Show

• It's revealed that Arlen is a three-hour drive away from Houston.

Allusions and References

• The title of this episode is play on the 1997 Woody Allen film Deconstructing Harry.

Quotes

• Hank: I don't need a promotion. As assistant manager of Strickland Propane, I'm already at the top.

Kahn: Yeah. Okay. I leave you to think about that one.

• Hank: So, Kahn, you need some propane?

Kahn: Haven't they replaced you with a coin operated machine yet?

• Kahn: I new systems manager.

Buck: "Systems manager?" Well, hell, I like the sound of that. Debbie, that's your new title.

Kahn: No! She not in systems! You disrespect important job!

Buck: Well, I can't imagine anything more important than what Debbie does.

• Hank: You know, this can never get back to Kahn, but after swingin' that club, I literally felt like dancing.

• Bill: Hank, you ever have any regrets that you didn't go into systems?

Hank: Well, if I couldn't sell propane, like, like if I hit my head and went dumb and just couldn't be trusted with it then, yeah, I might consider going into systems.

• Hank: Dale, are you posting our conversations on the Internet again?

Dale: Conversations - no. Actions, whereabouts, your mowing schedule - no comment.

• Kahn: You sorry for Kahn? Kahn sitting pretty. I got severance package bigger than a year of... (tries to figure who to point to before deciding on Dale) your salary.

Dale: (laughs) Joke's on him. I don't even make a living wage.

• Hank: Hey, don't try to make me into the bad guy. Kahn's the bad guy. He leaked government secrets. He's lucky they didn't shoot him.

• Kahn: I fill out form. I unemployed. Where my cheque?

Welfare Clerk: I'm sorry, sir. Your past employer, apparently, has filed an objection. Let's see here. Uh, under reason for dismissal, they checked "Other" and then wrote in "Treason".

(beat)

Kahn: Where my cheque?

• Hank: Well, I suppose we could throw a couple of bucks his way. And, uh, I mean two bucks.

• Connie: Oh, Bobby, pretty soon we'll have a secret language we can speak in school.

Minh: No, Connie, I teach him Southern dialect. (lowers voice) He not the same class.

• Hank: Peggy, is it my fault he makes people hate him? I don't whisper in his ear every morning, "Be a jerk." That comes from within.

• Joseph: What was that about?

Bobby: That was a series of vowel clusters.

• Peggy: What would you do if Dale just suddenly left you high and dry like that?

Nancy: Oh, sug. I wouldn't get out of bed for a week.

• Bill: It's like he's got two families. Two families! I think that's unfair, when some of us don't even have the one.

Dale: I'd think he likes being bossed around by women if I didn't know better, which I don't.

• Kahn: I not go home without new kick-ass job. I show you! I get new job that make you cry every day.

Hank: Kahn, I love propane through and through, but okay, I'll give you this: your old job was something else, okay? Now go home.

Kahn: No. I can't fail. This not supposed to happen to me. I'm Asian, for God's sake. More expected of me. You not understand. You somebody's worker bee. If I accept your redneck life, it like I bury myself alive.

• Minh: I am not moving again. People here grudgingly accept us. That's rare.