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* Trapers/Glah: The episode where Bobby becomes the least active member in a relationship between a woman who is using him (well, several actually who were bored). Basically Bobby does things like wait on calls from his 'girlfriend' etc. with the strong implication that this is inherently wrong. By the end of the episode Bobby solves his problem by 'protecting' the group of women from a pot addict and then acting chivalrous in the most unpleasantly passive-aggressive way possible. The moral of that episode was 'there is still a huge [[Double Standard]] between men and women in some areas...and that's a good thing because a man being less active in a relationship is weird!'. Listen, I understand that society expects men and women to act a certain way...the problem with this, however, is that there is absolutely no reason why these standards are so unevenly biased, favoring men: would it be such a terrible thing for a woman to court the man? The only reason why this is considered bad is because society says no, and it would litterallyliterally harm nobody for men and women to choose who is active in a relationship. The fact that King of the Hill completely disregards this and says 'even though it harms nobody men and women should still be forced to act a certain way based on a society heavily biased towards men' is disgusting. If a man wants to be active in a relationship, fine...but it should sure as heck be a choice!

* [[Tropers/Super Saiya Man|Super Saiya Man]]: From the earlier seasons-the first in ''Three Coaches And Bobby'' is when Bobby is playing for the Cougars, and Hank hires his old coach to coach the pee-wee Football Team. We see in the flashback isn't mentally stable, but Hank being Hank...doesn't think anything of it. When Soccer begins being played near the games, the kids on the football team are tempted to play because the new coach is a madman, making them literally eat dirt or hurt themselves. Then Hank gives a [[Reason You Suck Speech]] about soccer...showing [[You Fail History Forever|that he fails history and common sense]]. Hank realizes Coach Sanders was the wrong choice when he begins [[Moral Event Horizon|trying to run over the Pee Wee Football players]]. However, Hank becomes a [[Black Hole Sue]] when the Soccer Team's coach turns into a wimp who doesn't even let his team win and Bobby quits out of frustration.

* [[Tropers/Midoriri|Midoriri]]: For me, it was the episode where Peggy gets insanely jealous of Bobby and thinks he's replacing her or some crap like that. Basically, Bobby starts to get better at Home Ec, making Hank a new pair of jeans to replace the ones he accidentally ruined and breaking them in with a power sander. Then he gets good at cooking (Hank actually likes and compliments the food, and even makes a request for Thanksgiving dinner!), and what does Peggy do? She gets jealous of her own son, seeing him as competition, generally acts nasty and spiteful towards him, and upon finding a woman's magazine in Bobby's room (it had a turkey recipe in it, which was why he had it), she calls Hank in and says that "the boy is not right" because the magazine has sex tips and scratched-off perfume samples--that she probably scratched off. Just...that whole episode makes me mad, and there is something very creepy about Peggy's jealousy towards her own son and the fact he's finally getting a closer relationship with Hank.

*** Tropers/anoni: Also, another example of Hanks sexism. He initially doesn't like Bobby having Home Ec. Why? Because if Bobby knows how to do housework he won't want to get married. It may sound weird, but come on! Hank just said a guy's motivation to get married was so they'd have a wife who cleans and cooks all day so they don't have to! Uh... Hank? Protip: there are married couples where the guy does all the housework and the woman makes the money (a ficitional example is in [[Johnny Test]]) Sometimes they do both. It just sounds like another example of Hank's sexism and old-fashioned stupidity.

** Tropers/Retro7: Its not the first time where she became a jealous prick. There's a very infamous episode where Hank volunteers to be a substitute woodshop teacher at Bobby's school and his hands-on approach wins over his students. However this winds up affecting Peggy as she was in the running for an honor-y award for best substitute and Hank was starting to steal her thunder. I don't remember the details but she actually gets Hank fired from the job. And even worse, wins said award. This troper took so solace at the end where the students were cheering for Hank while Peggy was accepting "her" reward. And promptly went silent when he left, making Peggy look more like a fool then she already was.

* [[Tropers/Ms Devin 92|Ms Devin 92]] - The episode where it turns out Kahn has manic-depressive disorder. Basically, Hank and Kahn find out [[Not So Different|that they both love grilling]] and work together to make a "super-duper grill" or something for a show. However, it turns out [[Continuity Nod|Kahn is on medication]]; Hank dismisses the importance of the pills, convinces Kahn to stop taking them, and then puts off getting new ones since the energy exuded by Kahn's manic side is speeding their grill-building along. However, it's obviously not long before Kahn becomes depressed and suicidal, and Hank has to scramble to get him new pills. There's a very loosely-interpreted [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]] where Kahn "has to" choose whether he's going to take the medicine and become crabby again for the day, or hope he swings back to manic to help Hank finish the grill. He turns out manic, and Kahn says everything he went through was worth it in the end.Excuse me?! There was a very real threat he was going to kill himself! The entire episode reeked of this patronizing attitude towards people with disorders, especially when medicine is required, like it's not a horrible experience in real life. Hank was exploiting someone with severe emotional problems for the sake of a grill! What if Kahn had gone back to being depressive and killed himself, huh writers? Would the precious grill be worth it then?

* [[Tropers/Baronobeefdip|Baronobeefdip]]: For me, it was the episode about the magic show, or, as I like to call it "Hank acts like an ass and sucks the fun out of everything for the entire half-hour". Long story short, Nancy is having a birthday party at a magic show and Hank is bitter about it (He doesn't like magicians because, surprise-surprise, David Copperfield made the Statue Of Liberty disappear once. Grow up, Hank. You sound like some spoiled brat who just had his "bwankie" taken away). Anywho, throughout the magic show, Hank pretty much acts like that kid who didn't get the toy he wanted by complaining through the show and saying how everyting is done with "smoke and mirrors" or "wires" (think of it like that guy has to point out every single scene in a cheesy ''[[Godzilla]]'' movie is done with [[Special Effects Failure|old-fashioned effects]], it makes it hard to enjoy either). Oh, but it gets worse. When Peggy is called on stage to participate in the "Pinata Of Death" trick, Hank actually walks onto the stage and grabs the flaming stick the magician is using for the trick. (Beat) Excuse me for a moment...[[Designated Hero|Are you serious, Hank? Did you really just do something that foolish?]] This isn't some cutesy "Pull a rabbit of of my hat" magic trick, the "Pinata Of Death" was shown to be a very dangerous trick. Hank's immature behavior could've gotten people (including his own wife) seriously injured or even killed. I mean, it's one thing to whine and bitch like some f-ing toddler, but to actually endanger innocent lives? It's a miracle Hank wasn't thrown in jail. I said it once and I'll say it again... [[This Is Sparta|Grow. Up. Hank!]]