King of the Hill/Death of a Propane Salesman (2)

Death of a Propane Salesman (2)
Season 3, Episode 1
Airdate	September 15, 1998
Production Number	5E24
Written by	Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland
Directed by	Lauren MacMullen
← 2x23 Propane Boom (1)	3x02 → And They Call It Bobby Love
King of the Hill — Season Three

Death of a Propane Salesman (2) is the first episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the thirty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter)

and Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

Also Starring: Dan Butler (Daniel), Eloy Casados (Enrique), Bertila Damas (Maria Montalvo), Alan Freedland (Fireman), David Herman (Buckley), Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone, Joe Jack), Maurice LaMarche (Reverend Thomason), Lauren Tom (Connie Souphanousinphone)

Special Guest Voice: Chuck Mangione (Himself)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland)

Plot Overview

Following the explosion of the Mega Lo Mart, Hank experiences a fear of propane while Luanne refuses to grieve for the one casualty.

Notes

Seen, But Not Heard

• Nancy Gribble

• John Redcorn

• Minh Souphanousinphone

Music

• Chuck Mangione - "Feels So Good"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• In light of the destruction of the Mega Lo Mart, Strickland Propane reopens its Arlen branch.

Characters

• It's revealed that Buckley didn't survive the explosion.

• Hank suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and becomes afraid of propane. He recovers and returns to Strickland Propane.

• Luanne survives the explosion, but lost her hair. She denies any grief for Buckley, attempting to exercise an activist persona until she finally confronts losing him and returns to her old self.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Dale refers to the Texas R.C.C. agent as "Quincy", alluding to the titular medical examiner of Quincy, M.E..

Quotes

• Peggy: My husband is in there! He had to take this job because nobody else would hire him!

EMT: We're doing everything we can, Mrs Mangione.

• Chuck Mangione: I don't feel so good.

• Hank: What about Buckley? Did you find him?

Firefighter: I'm sorry, sir, but so far it appears that there were no other survivors.

Luanne: (gasps) Oh my God. I'm bald!

• Peggy: Hank, slow down. You almost died today.

Hank: Well, that's the good thing about death. You either die or you don't. I didn't, so let's go hit some balls!

• Hank: I'm fine. It's no big deal. Buildings explode. That's what they do.

• Dale: Find the body yet, Quincy?

R.R.C. Agent: We have some remains that we're analysing. You needn't concern yourself.

Dale: Oh, I needn't, shouldn't I? Then maybe I should not know that all Mega Lo Mart employees have a $5000 insurance policy.

R.R.C. Agent: That's nonsense. This is a very straight-forward investigation.

Dale: (chuckles) That's what they want you to think.

R.R.C. Agent: Sir, we are "they."

• Peggy: Oh, Hank, they need your help at Buckley's wake, manning the grill.

Hank: What? Grill? Uh, is it propane?

Peggy: Of course it's propane, Hank. They're not Unitarians.

• Luanne: They made me a wig. (reads card) "We made you a wig." They made me a wig.

• Peggy: Redbook says losing a boyfriend is the fourth most painful loss, right between grandmother and penis.

• Luanne: Oh, I'm not grieving. I broke up with Buckley seconds before the explosion and I never looked back. That's why I still have my eyebrows.

• Buck: Didn't think I'd see you here. Guilty conscience, huh?

Hank: Why would I have a guilty conscience? I did not blow up the Mega Lo Mart.

Buck: Oh, good. I'm glad you said that, Hank. I'm wearing a wire for an unrelated matter.

• Connie: This is depressing. Wanna go play in the cemetery?

Bobby: Okay.

• Hank: Can you believe this guy? He tells a joke at a funeral.

Dale: (lighting cigarette) Highly inappropriate.

• Peggy: I just don't know how one little boy can get so dirty in a cemetery.

• Hank: Y'all ever think about death?

Bill: Well, yeah, I think about it, Hank. I'm an army barber. I get up every day and stare death in the back of the head.

• Boomhauer: Man, I'll tell you what, Hank, about that dang ol' meaning of life, man. It's like this, man. You like a butterfly, flapping his wings, deep down in the forest, man. It gotta 'cause a tree fall, like, 5,000 miles away, man, and nobody see it; nobody don't know even happen. You know, you have a baby born into this world, ain't got no dang friend, got no nothing, but you're gonna come in and find out all about that old evil, man. Man, see, like, you don't even know, man. What you goin' - It's like ya born into this world, man. And you got, like, like this, man. Dust in the wind, man, or like a dang ol' candle in the wind, man. Don't matter, man. It's all oldies all the time. You know what I think, man? Like that dang ol' "I think, therefore you are are," man.

Hank: Well, that's what we tell ourselves, isn't it, Boomhauer?