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The Best Episodes of King of the Hill

Every episode of King of the Hill ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of King of the Hill!

Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy,...
Genres:AnimationComedyFamily
Network:FOX

Best Episodes Summary

"Ho Yeah!" is the best rated episode of "King of the Hill". It scored 8.9/10 based on 690 votes. Directed by Tricia Garcia and written by Peter Huyck, it aired on 2/25/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bobby Goes Nuts".

  • Ho Yeah!
    8.9/10690 votes
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    #1 - Ho Yeah!

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/25/2001

    Unaware that the new employee at Strickland Propane is a prostitute, Peggy becomes her best friend and even offers her a place to stay--Hank's den.

    Director: Tricia Garcia

    Writer: Peter Huyck

  • Bobby Goes Nuts
    8.9/10747 votes
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    #2 - Bobby Goes Nuts

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2001

    Bobby goes from bullied to bully after learning a counterattack move in a self-defense class--for women.

    Director: Tricia Garcia

    Writer: Norm Hiscock

  • A Firefighting We Will Go
    8.7/10731 votes
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    #3 - A Firefighting We Will Go

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/1999

    Hank and his friends become volunteer firefighters. They manage to wreck a fire hydrant, ruin a funeral, and finally burn down the Arlen firehouse. When the Fire Captain comes to ask what happened, the trio turns the story around to match each of their scenarios.

    Director: Cyndi Tang

    Writer: Greg Daniels, Mike Judge

  • Aisle 8A
    8.6/10545 votes
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    #4 - Aisle 8A

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1999

    Hank is the only one home when houseguest Connie has her first encounter with menstruation--and neither knows what to do. Meanwhile, someone has to explain PMS to Bobby.

    Director: Allan Jacobsen

    Writer: Garland Testa

  • High Anxiety
    8.6/10527 votes
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    #5 - High Anxiety

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/2000

    Hank becomes the prime suspect in an investigation led by Sheriff Buford.

    Director: Adam Kuhlman

    Writer: Alan Freedland, Alan R. Cohen

  • Returning Japanese (1)
    8.5/10490 votes
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    #6 - Returning Japanese (1)

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2002

    The Hills are off to Japan so Cotton can apologize to the widow of a soldier he killed in WWII, but something about Cotton's story doesn't quite add up.

    Director: Allan Jacobsen

    Writer: Kit Boss, Etan Cohen

  • To Sirloin with Love
    8.5/10478 votes
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    #7 - To Sirloin with Love

    Season 13 Episode 20 - Aired 9/13/2009

    Thankful to finally have something in common with his son, Hank is proud when Bobby’s knowledge of beef earns him a spot on a college team bound for the State Championships.

    Director: Kyounghee Lim

    Writer: Jim Dauterive, Tony Gama-Lobo, Rebecca May, Christy Stratton

  • A Beer Can Named Desire
    8.4/10582 votes
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    #8 - A Beer Can Named Desire

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1999

    Bill meets Cajun relatives and Hank competes for $1 million in a beer promotion at a football game in New Orleans.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jim Dauterive

  • Hank's Dirty Laundry
    8.3/10594 votes
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    #9 - Hank's Dirty Laundry

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/1998

    When Hank tries to buy a new dryer, he is told that his credit is no good because he owes money to Arlen Video. The video store's computer says he rented and never returned a pornographic movie, Cuffs and Collars. Hank refuses to pay for a movie he never rented, and sets out to prove that the computer was wrong.

    Director: Shaun Cashman

    Writer: N/A

  • Hanky Panky
    8.3/10496 votes
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    #10 - Hanky Panky

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2000

    Hank and Peggy are caught in the middle after Strickland's wife catches him with his girlfriend.

    Director: Jeff Myers, Adam Kuhlman

    Writer: Alan Freedland, Alan R. Cohen, Jim Dauterive

  • Naked Ambition
    8.3/10464 votes
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    #11 - Naked Ambition

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/20/2000

    Bobby's accidental glimpse of a naked Luanne has Joseph yearning to get his own look. But Connie catches them trying to peep, and thinks she's the target.

    Director: Anthony Lioi

    Writer: N/A

  • Keeping Up with Our Joneses
    8.2/10792 votes
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    #12 - Keeping Up with Our Joneses

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/1997

    Hank and Peggy's love of cigarettes is rekindled after Hank catches Bobby smoking, but Luanne is determined to nip their habit in the butt.

    Director: John Rice

    Writer: Jonathan Collier, Joe Stillman

  • Propane Boom
    8.2/10564 votes
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    #13 - Propane Boom

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/1998

    When Mega Lo Mart starts selling propane, Strickland Propane can't compete with their prices, and Hank loses his job. He winds up working in the propane department at Mega Lo Mart, under the supervision of Luanne's boyfriend Buckley. Hank and other Mega Lo Mart employees decide to protest the way the company destroys small businesses, by disrupting a concert by the company spokesman, Chuck Mangione. Meanwhile, Luanne, who wanted Buckley to give her the job that he gave to Hank, tells Buckley she's breaking up with him. And Hank, Luanne and Buckley are the only people in the Mega Lo Mart when Hank notices a leak...

    Director: Gary McCarver

    Writer: Norm Hiscock

  • The Wedding of Bobby Hill
    8.2/10533 votes
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    #14 - The Wedding of Bobby Hill

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1999

    Angry that Luanne cost him his job house-sitting Boomhauer's house, Bobby replaces her birth control pills with candy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jonathan Collier

  • Jon Vitti Presents: "Return to La Grunta"
    8.2/10484 votes
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    #15 - Jon Vitti Presents: "Return to La Grunta"

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/1999

    Hank gets Luanne a job as a golf course drink girl at the La Grunta resort. In gratitude, Luanne gets Hank a chance to swim with a dolphin. Hank pets the dolphin, and the dolphin becomes aroused and tries to become sexually intimate with him. In return for his silence, the hotel pays him off, and Hank tells Luanne never to talk about what happened. Luanne gets sexually harassed by one of the golfers, she decides to follow Hank's example and not talk about it.

    Director: Gary McCarver

    Writer: Jon Vitti

  • Love Hurts... and So Does Art
    8.2/10507 votes
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    #16 - Love Hurts... and So Does Art

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/23/1999

    Worried at the prospect of going to a school dance with Connie, Bobby starts overeating at the local deli, and develops gout. Meanwhile, Hank goes to an art gallery in Dallas and finds that they are displaying an X-ray of his constipated colon.

    Director: Adam Kuhlman

    Writer: N/A

  • Little Horrors of Shop
    8.2/10451 votes
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    #17 - Little Horrors of Shop

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1999

    Forced to take a vacation, Hank becomes a substitute shop teacher, and a popular one, rousing jealousy in Peggy.

    Director: Adam Kuhlman

    Writer: Kit Boss

  • Nancy Boys
    8.2/10434 votes
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    #18 - Nancy Boys

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/2000

    After joining the Hills for a free romantic dinner, the Gribbles sleep together, and guilt grabs Nancy for cheating on her lover, John Redcorn.

    Director: Tricia Garcia

    Writer: N/A

  • The Exterminator
    8.2/10436 votes
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    #19 - The Exterminator

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 3/4/2001

    Repeated exposure to poisons forces Dale out of extermination and into a desk job that leads him back into extermination--of careers.

    Director: Shaun Cashman

    Writer: N/A

  • Hank's Back Story
    8.2/10420 votes
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    #20 - Hank's Back Story

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/2001

    Wearing a prosthetic rump relieves Hank's back pain, but makes him the butt of friends' jokes as they all prepare for a riding-mower race.

    Director: Cyndi Tang

    Writer: Alan Freedland, Alan R. Cohen

  • Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane
    8.2/10428 votes
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    #21 - Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane

    Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/2003

    Hank and Bobby take an 18-wheeler to Arizona, with Dale, Bill and Boomhauer as stowaways.

    Director: John Rice

    Writer: Dan McGrath

  • Texas City Twister
    8.1/10664 votes
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    #22 - Texas City Twister

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1997

    Luanne moves back into her home, a trailer, just as a twister is about to hit.

    Director: Jeff Myers

    Writer: Cheryl Holliday

  • Hilloween
    8.1/10699 votes
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    #23 - Hilloween

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1997

    Hank is excited about Halloween until someone complains and has the holiday canceled.

    Director: John Rice

    Writer: David Zuckerman

  • Pretty, Pretty Dresses
    8.1/10568 votes
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    #24 - Pretty, Pretty Dresses

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/15/1998

    At Christmastime, Bill becomes even more depressed than usual, because it's the anniversary of when his wife Lenore left him. Bill tries to commit suicide, and when that doesn't work out, he dresses up in Lenore's old clothes and declares that he is Lenore.

    Director: Dominic Polcino

    Writer: Paul Lieberstein

  • Revenge of the Lutefisk
    8.1/10479 votes
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    #25 - Revenge of the Lutefisk

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1999

    Arlen's new minister is a woman, which everyone except Cotton seems to accept. When Bobby eats all of a Midwestern fish dish prepared by the minister, it somehow leads to him accidentally burning down the church. Everyone assumes that Cotton did it, and he is arrested for a hate crime.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A