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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Intellectuals, or rather, people who ''think'' they are intellectuals. Usually appearing without any advanced education, working experience in their field, or anything approaching common sense, the closest the series has to a usual "villain" type are people who believe themselves competent activists, authors, philosophers or educators, who show up to denigrate or swindle the Hills. Perhaps lampshaded, as all these "intelligent" and "progressive" people are unable to find employment or acceptances anywhere except Arlen, Texas, and even there everybody knows how ridiculous they are.

** Jokes about fictional town Durndle and the people from it are pretty commonplace, as well.

** One episode had Hank get a thrown-out back. He attends Yoga sessions to relieve this, but he dislikes the self-absorbed, skirt chasing Yoga teacher (though softens slightly once he realizes the Yoga is helping). Immediately after he is fully healed, the guy in charge of disability finds out about this, automatically assumes he was taking advantage of worker's comp, and reports Hank to court. Hank's defense is that if he wasn't in agonizing pain, he would have punched the Yoga instructor out. This instantly convinces the judges.

** People who actually do have advanced educations like the archeology professor and Bill's doctor are still often portrayed negatively, so the portrayal as self-important but unqualified may just be another aspect of the treatment of intellectuals, rather than unqualified intellectuals being the target itself.

* [[Base Breaker]]: Hank, at least for some tropers. On one hand, the man is a [[Fountain of Memes]] with a lot of funny mannerisms and great lines, and shows admirable traits such as a good work ethic and a desire to be a loving husband and father. Yet others aren't too keen on him mainly due to his status as an arguable [[Black Hole Sue]] who tends to never be in the wrong in later seasons, as well as his general attitude as a boring old stick in the mud who could stand to loosen up with Bobby.

** Kahn and Minh. You have those who hate them for being a pair of obnoxious assholes... while others love them BECAUSE they're obnoxious assholes due to being hilariously terrible people.

* [[Black Hole Sue]]: [[Good Ol' Boy|Hank Hill]], the universe bends over time and time again to make him right. For example, Bobby becomes a Plus Sized model and is loving it, and Hank is embarrassed and thinks Bobby is going to be made fun of. Then, at the end of the episode after dragging Bobby away, several bullies began pelting the models with donuts, and Bobby said Hank was right.

** Inverted with in the specific case with Hank's desire to make Bobby potential boyfriend material, in which Bobby does basically nothing Hank recommends in that regard, yet is regarded well romantically by many girls and had a longtime girlfriend who is considered attractive (according to Joseph and Chang Wasanasang), despite Bobby being overweight and of low-social status in school. On the other hand, Joseph is basically the embodiment of what Hank wants Bobby to be like in that regard (an athletic football star who sticks up for himself), yet he does very poorly in attracting girls, Lori seems to be his only real girlfriend the whole series.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: The tragic premature death of [[Brittany Murphy]] has turned many of Luanne's moments into this, especially the two-parter where the Megalo-Mart blows up and Luanne is feared to be dead ( {{spoiler|she survived, but lost her hair}}), the final season episodes where Luanne has a child (before her death, Brittany Murphy stated that she wanted to have children in 2010) and the episode where Luanne is visited by the angel of her dead boyfriend, Buckley (not just because of Brittany Murphy's death, but because of the death of her husband five months later).

* [[Funny Moments]]: Now has [[King of the Hill/Funny|its own page.]]

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Bill's comment form "Peggy's Turtle Song" about how the cute [[Strange Girl]] looks [[Values Dissonance|"Pro-Choice" in a worried tone.]] Flash forward to the late 2000s when the republican party is mandating invasive screenings for abortions and generally cutting back on women's health and services.

* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Depending on your feelings about Hank and Peggy's behavior, Bobby's entire life qualifies as this.

** Played more straight with Hank's upbringing under Cotton.

** "Uh-Oh Canada" has the conservative christian leads [[And Zoidberg|(plus Kahn)]] espouse beliefs that America is all around better than Canada (Represented here by strawmen that could be just anyone from any episode with no difference). Essentially its all the stereotypes of conservative texans towards foreigners.

*** That being said, both Hank AND the Canadians were shown to be obnoxious, overbearing patriots who ended up being [[Not So Different]], so this may have been intentional.

* [[Values Dissonance]]: The series has a mostly conservative christian main cast, the things they do or say that come off as strongly this or [[Unfortunate Implications]]. A good example is Hank's reliance on "traditional values" when it comes to sports and how he views Peggy not really earning money like he does at work.

* [[We're Still Relevant, Dammit!]]: The [[Myspace]]-centric episode. [[Deader Than Disco|In 2008]].