King of the Hill/Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men

Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men
Season 3, Episode 7
Airdate	November 17, 1998
Production Number	3ABE08
Written by	Jim Dauterive
Directed by	Shaun Cashman
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King of the Hill — Season Three

Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men is the seventh episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the forty-second episode overall.

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

and Toby Huss (Cotton Hill, Kahn Souphanousinphone)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Didi Hill), Beth Grant (Tillie Hill), David Herman (Jonathan Burrows, Buckley)

Special Guest Voice: Billy Bob Thorton (Boyce Hubert)

Special Guest Voice: Dwight Yoakam (Lane Pratley)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Plot Overview

When Cotton shows up for Thanksgiving at the Hills on Tillie's rotation, the attacks on his ex-wife carry over when he crashes the focus group for the newest Mason lawnmower Hank attends.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Cotton: Pump jockey!

Hank: I am not a pump--

Cotton: Works for tips!

Music

• Gary Glitter - "Rock and Roll Part 2"

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Luanne expresses worry about moving on from Buckley and briefly sees him.

• It's revealed that Kahn is a system analyst.

• From what one can discern, Boomhauer had a job, but got a settlement and is on worker's comp.

• When it had been established that the main characters can understand Boomhauer, for the first time we see peripheral character can't.

• Dale uses the alias Rusty Shackleford for the first time.

• It's revealed that Bill's full name is William Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive and was divorced from Lenore in 1991.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The title and much of the episode's plot parody "Twelve Angry Men" an episode of the Studio One anthology series that was adapted into a 1957 film.

Quotes

• Bill: Oh, Hank, I will never be sick of you, not even when we're sharing a cloud in Heaven.

• Hank: Dad, you came last Thanksgiving. This year it's mom's turn, remember?

Cotton: Well, I don't want to cause any fuss. Your mother can eat in the yard.

• Peggy: Your father is going to ruin this Thanksgiving as surely as Squanto and his band of Indians ruined the first one.

• Peggy: Hank, the day after Thanksgiving is, in my opinion, the biggest shopping day of the year.

• Hank: Uh, dad could you please show mom some respect while Bobby's in the room?

Cotton: You heard him, Bobby, leave the room.

• Hank: What's the matter?

Dale: We may or may not have run into your dad in the men's room and we may or may not have told him that we were being paid $50 to participate in a focus group.

Bill: Mostly may.

• Kahn: Kahn Souphanousinphone. I am system analyst.

Hank: So that's what you do. What kind of systems?

Kahn: Oh, why bother explain? You already in over your head.

• Boyce Hubert: Boyce Hubert. Minister. Although I've lost my faith. 'Course, I did find a pretty great parking space on my way in. But the Lord works in such mysterious ways, who the hell knows.

• Hank: Uh, my name's Hank Hill and I--

Cotton: He runs a gas station. Next! I'm Cotton Hill. I killed fitty men!

• Kahn: I love this mower so much, my... my heart... hurts.

Jonathan Burrows: Why? Why do you love it so much?

Kahn: Because Hank Hill never be able to afford one on his meagre salary.

Cotton: My boy's a pump jockey. Works for tips.

Hank: Dad, I do not work for tip--

Cotton: Pump jockey!

Hank: Dad, I am not a pump--

Cotton: Works for tips!

• Bobby: Buckley's not getting any deader, Luanne. It's time to move on.

• Dale: I like the ashtray.

Hank: Don't be an idiot, Dale. That's the gas cap.

Cotton: He's an idiot. He can use it however he wants.

Dale: Thank you, Colonel.

• Bill: Hank, you have been speaking for me for... I don't know how long.

Hank: Years and years.

Bill: Well, that sounds about right.

• Didi: I'm sorry about all those things Cotton said about you. It doesn't mean anything. He just doesn't like you.

Tillie: I wouldn't mind Cotton's rantings if Hank would just stick up for me.

Didi: Well, if it makes you feel any better, Hank doesn't stick up for me, either. His own stepmother.

• Jonathan Burrows: I think I've got enough positive and negative comments to put together a very positive report.

• Jonathan Burrows: I don't see, or like, where this is going.

• Bill: Oh, now I know why you're always speaking for me, Hank. 'Cause I'm never right and you always are.

Hank: You know, Bill, if I'm always speaking for you and I'm always right, that means you're always right, too, doesn't it?

Bill: Well, uh...

Hank: (whispers) It does.

Bill: It does. It does! How do you like that? I'm always right.

• Boyce Hubert: Well, I'm not sure if there is a God or a Heaven. But one thing I can tell you is your daddy's going to Hell.