- 8.9/10690 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.9/10747 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.7/10731 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.6/10545 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.6/10527 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.5/10490 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.5/10478 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.4/10582 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/10594 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/10496 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/10464 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10792 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10564 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10533 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10484 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10507 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10451 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10434 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10436 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10420 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/10428 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/10664 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/10699 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/10568 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/10479 votesLoading...
#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
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".