7.7/10648 votes#1 - How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1997
When Bobby discovers the one sport he is good at, marksmanship, he and Hank decide to enter a father & son tournament. As it turns out Hank is a terrible marksman.
Director: Adam Kuhlman
Writer: Paul Lieberstein
8.1/10668 votes#2 - 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
7.3/10620 votes#3 - Arrow Head
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1997
After Hank finds an arrow head in his lawn, Peggy gives a archaeologist permission to have an archaeological dig their yard.
Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
8.1/10702 votes#4 - 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
8.0/10653 votes#5 - Jumpin' Crack Bass (It's a Gas, Gas, Gas)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1997
In an effort to catch more fish than his friends, Hank decides to buy special "bait" from a street vendor. He soon finds himself in trouble with the law.
Director: Gary McCarver
Writer: Alan Freedland, Alan R. Cohen
7.5/10631 votes#6 - Husky Bobby
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1997
Much to Hank's dismay, Bobby becomes a plus sized model.
Director: Martin Archer
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.6/10622 votes#7 - The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1997
Hank and the guys seek vengeance after a group of teenagers beat them at paint-ball.
Director: Monte Young
Writer: Johnny Hardwick
7.5/10575 votes#8 - The Son That Got Away
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1997
Bobby and Connie get in trouble at school. They skirt their ensuing punishment and are joined by Joseph, as they head to "The Caves". Hank and Kahn quickly pursue them, knowing that the caves are Arlen's make-out point.
Director: Tricia Garcia
Writer: Jim Dauterive
7.2/10558 votes#9 - The Company Man
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1997
Hank struggles to portray himself and his life as that of a stereotypical Texan cowboy's for a Hollywood cowboy movie fan in order to secure a business deal for Strickland Propane.
Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Jim Dauterive
7.7/10565 votes#10 - Bobby Slam
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1997
Bobby joins the wrestling team and is caught in a dilemma when he has to fight Connie in order to make the team.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gina Fattore
7.9/10603 votes#11 - The Unbearable Blindness of Laying
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1997
Hank's mother bring home her new boyfriend, an affectionate Jewish man named Gary. After Hank sees the two of them having relations, he goes blind.
Director: Cyndi Tang
Writer: Paul Lieberstein
7.2/10575 votes#12 - Meet the Manger Babies
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1998
After seeing that Luanne is depressed, Hank volunteers to buy her some hand puppets at a rummage sale. Luanne starts doing a Christian puppet show, The Manger Babies. Hank agrees to play God in the televised version of the puppet show. When it turns out that the show will be on at the same time as the Super Bowl, Hank has to choose between helping Luanne or watching the game.
Director: Jeff Myers
Writer: N/A
7.4/10523 votes#13 - Snow Job
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1998
When Hank's boss, Buck Strickland, has another heart attack, Hank expects to be put in charge of the company while Buck is recuperating. Instead Buck picks Lloyd Vickers, a business-school graduate, and puts Hank in charge of feeding his dogs. At Buck's house, Hank discovers that Buck's stove is electric, not propane. Realizing that Buck is just in propane for the money, Hank considers leaving the propane business and opening up a general store instead.
Director: Adam Kuhlman
Writer: N/A
7.3/10528 votes#14 - I Remember Mono
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1998
On Valentine's Day, Peggy finds out that Hank lied to her when they were dating: he told her he was at home one week with a football injury, when he actually got mono from kissing another girl. She sets out to uncover the whole truth, and finds herself face to face with the past.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Paul Lieberstein
8.0/10556 votes#15 - Three Days of the Kahndo
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/1998
Hank and his family go with Kahn and his family to spend a weekend in a duplex condo in Mexico. When Kahn discovers that only the bottom half of the condo has been rented, he breaks into the top half and lets Hank stay there. Dale shows up to stay with the Hills, and when Hank, Kahn and Dale are arrested for breaking into the upstairs condo, they have to sneak back across the border.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: N/A
7.3/10561 votes#16 - Traffic Jam
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1998
After Hank has a car accident, he has to go to traffic school. The teacher of the traffic school is a comedian, Booda Sack, who gets laughs by insulting the audience. Inspired by Booda Sack, Bobby tries developing a stand-up act of his own. Booda Sack tells Bobby that to be funny, he needs to get in touch with his roots as a white man. Looking for something about "white roots" on the internet, Bobby comes across all the material he needs on a site called the White Nationalist Brotherhood.
Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Johnny Hardwick
8.3/10596 votes#17 - 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
7.2/10501 votes#18 - The Final Shinsult
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/1998
When Cotton learns that the U.S. government is giving the artificial leg of General Santa Ana back to Mexico, he teams up with Dale to steal the leg from the Arlen Museum.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10534 votes#19 - Leanne's Saga
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/19/1998
When Luanne's mother, Leanne, is released from prison, she starts living in the Hills' garage, and becomes romantically involved with Bill. Bill is busy fighting a foot fungus, with every last dime.
Director: Tricia Garcia
Writer: David Zuckerman
7.6/10519 votes#20 - Junkie Business
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/1998
After Hank realizes that his new employee at Strickland Propane is a drug addict, he can't fire him, because drug addiction counts as a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Director: Cyndi Tang
Writer: Jim Dauterive
7.7/10514 votes#21 - Life in the Fast Lane, Bobby's Saga
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1998
To teach his son the value of a dollar, Hank makes Bobby get a job selling drinks at the racetrack, and tells Bobby to do everything his boss says. What Hank doesn't know is that Bobby's boss, Jimmy Witchard, is a complete moron who makes Bobby do humiliating and even dangerous tasks. Meanwhile, Boomhauer competes for the right to drive the pace car in the NASCAR race.
Director: Adam Kuhlman
Writer: N/A
7.3/10513 votes#22 - Peggy's Turtle Song
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1998
After Bobby eats too much sugar one morning, he is mistakenly diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Feeling guilty about not spending enough time with her son, Peggy decides to give up teaching and be a stay-at-home mother, a decision Hank fully approves of. But Peggy is so bored at home that she starts taking guitar lessons, and composes a symbolic song about a turtle trapped in her shell. Meanwhile, Bobby takes pills for his ADD, and Luanne becomes convinced that she caught ADD from Bobby.
Director: Jeff Myers
Writer: Brent Forrester
8.2/10566 votes#23 - 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 Best Episodes of King of the Hill Season 2
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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
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying" is the best rated episode of "King of the Hill" season 2. It scored 7.7/10 based on 648 votes. Directed by Adam Kuhlman and written by Paul Lieberstein, it aired on 9/21/1997. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Texas City Twister".