7.9/10548 votes#1 - Death of a Propane Salesman
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1998
Hank and Luanne survive the Mega Lo Mart explosion, but Buckley is no more. Hank finds that he is scared of propane, and tries to figure out how to deal with his fear of dying. Meanwhile, Luanne, who lost all her hair in the explosion, decides to become an activist like Sinead O'Connor.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: N/A
8.0/10571 votes#2 - And They Call It Bobby Love
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1998
Bobby starts dating Marie, a girl who's two years older than him. Bobby takes the relationship more seriously than Marie does, and is heartbroken when she dances with other guys. Marie decides to "move on" leaving Bobby an emotional wreck. Meanwhile, Hank and the guys find an abandoned couch in the alley, and grow to depend on it.
Director: Cyndi Tang
Writer: Norm Hiscock
8.0/10509 votes#3 - Peggy's Headache
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1998
When Peggy starts writing "musings" for the local newspaper, the pressure gives her a headache, so she goes to John Redcorn for a therapeutic massage. When she finds out that Dale's wife Nancy is having an affair with John Redcorn, she is so horrified that she decides to tell Dale about it.
Director: N/A
Writer: Joe Stillman
7.3/10467 votes#4 - Pregnant Paws
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1998
Hank wants to breed Ladybird, but the veterinarian says that she has a narrow uterus and probably can't have children. Hank becomes obsessed with finding a way to get Ladybird pregnant, which annoys Peggy, because she's the one who really wants another baby. Meanwhile, Dale becomes a bounty hunter and is assigned to hunt down a man with several unpaid parking tickets. He decides that he needs a hound to accompany him on his first bounty, so he nabs Ladybird, to Hank's horror.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10436 votes#5 - Next of Shin
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1998
Hank tries several different methods to improve his sperm count so he can get Peggy pregnant. The frustration of not being able to have another child becomes worse when Cotton shows up and announces that he got his wife pregnant. But Cotton becomes so nervous at the prospect of having a baby at his age that he flees to Las Vegas, and Hank, Bill and Dale go after him.
Director: Jeff Myers
Writer: N/A
6.8/10466 votes#6 - Peggy's Pageant Fever
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1998
A beauty pageant offers Peggy the chance to win a truck. If she can endure a series of rigorous makeovers to impress the judges.
Director: Tricia Garcia
Writer: Norm Hiscock
8.0/10486 votes#7 - Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1998
Hank is outraged when he attends a lawn mower focus group and discovers that the new model of his favorite mower has been turned into an upgraded "yuppified" version.
Director: Shaun Cashman
Writer: Jim Dauterive
7.5/10459 votes#8 - Good Hill Hunting
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1998
All the kids in the neighborhood are going on their first hunt, but Hank is unable to get a hunting license for him and Bobby. Bobby is so upset about being denied the chance at a rite of passage that he starts to regress into acting like a little kid. Hank reluctantly decides to take Bobby hunting at the La Grunta Resort.
Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Joe Stillman
8.1/10563 votes#9 - 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
8.7/10725 votes#10 - 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
7.4/10461 votes#11 - To Spank, with Love
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/1999
After being taunted and pantsed by one of her students, Peggy loses it and spanks him. She is immediately fired, but Cotton and his old buddies start a campaign to get "Paddlin' Peggy" reinstated. Once she is back teaching, Peggy uses her reputation for violence to scare her students, and takes things too far, in true Peggy fashion.
Director: Adam Kuhlman
Writer: David Zuckerman
7.3/10454 votes#12 - Three Coaches and a Bobby
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/1999
Hank gets his tough old football coach to lead Bobby's football team. When the coach proves to be a tyrant, Bobby decides to quit football and join the soccer team, much to Hank's disappointment. Meanwhile, Peggy tries to fit in with the other soccer moms, and takes a crash course from Minh on Soccer-mom etiquette.
Director: N/A
Writer: Johnny Hardwick
7.5/10435 votes#13 - De-Kahnstructing Henry
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/1999
Kahn gets a great new job and invites Hank over to the office, hoping to make him jealous. While bragging about his job, Kahn gives away government secrets, swearing Hank to secrecy. Hank talks to Bill about Kahn's job, and Kahn gets fired for it.
Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Paul Lieberstein
8.2/10528 votes#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
7.6/10442 votes#15 - Sleight of Hank
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1999
Hank and Peggy go to a magic show where Peggy gets to be the volunteer in the best trick. Hank tries to figure out how the trick was done, and Peggy won't tell him. Meanwhile, Bobby is looking for a way to liven up his Sunday School report on Jesus, and when he sees the magician, he incorporates some of the tricks and patter into the report, calling it "The Amazing Jesus."
Director: Jeff Myers
Writer: N/A
8.2/10478 votes#16 - 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
7.5/10477 votes#17 - Escape from Party Island
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/1999
Hank takes his mother and her friends to a museum of miniatures in Port Aransas, and they get stuck in the middle of MTV's Spring Break. Meanwhile, Bill tries to put the moves on Peggy while Hank is away.
Director: Gary McCarver
Writer: Jonathan Collier
8.2/10502 votes#18 - 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
7.2/10442 votes#19 - Hank's Cowboy Movie
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1999
After Hank and Bobby visit the Dallas Cowboys training camp in Wichita Falls, Hank decides to make a video that will convince the team to move their camp to Arlen.
Director: Shaun Cashman
Writer: Jim Dauterive
8.0/10474 votes#20 - Dog Dale Afternoon
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/1999
When Dale brings home a new 'Super Mower' the neighbors are jealous, but his attitude leaves everyone with a bad taste in their mouths. To knock him down a few notches, the crew decides to hide his new mower, & make it look like a conspiracy, Peggy gets involved and it goes too far. Dale gets pushed over the edge & it is Hank that goes to help him back down.
Director: Tricia Garcia
8.1/10471 votes#21 - 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
7.5/10434 votes#22 - Death and Texas
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/1999
Peggy gets a letter from a Death Row convict who says that he is a former student of hers, and that she had the most positive impact on his life. She starts visiting him in prison and bringing him what she thinks is timer sand for Boggle -- not realizing that it's actually cocaine. Meanwhile, Dale wants to become an executioner.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: N/A
7.7/10519 votes#23 - Wings of the Dope
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1999
While studying for her beauty school exam, Luanne sees someone bouncing on Buckley's old trampoline. It's Buckley, who has come back as an angel. Hank and Peggy think Luanne was hallucinating after using too many hair-dying chemicals, but Hank's friends come to believe in the existence of Buckley's Angel. But Luanne finds that Buckley isn't much more help to her as an angel than he was when he was alive.
Director: Cyndi Tang
Writer: Johnny Hardwick
7.5/10408 votes#24 - Take Me Out of the Ball Game
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1999
When Thaterton stacks his Company softball team with Pro sports stars, Hank pulls Peggy off of her own Softball team to become the Ace pitcher for Strickland Propane. Unfortunately, Hank's over-managing causes her to lose her stuff, and cause her to lose the love for the sport.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10450 votes#25 - As Old as the Hills...
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/18/1999
Peggy and Hank's 20th-anniversary party leaves the missus missing their youth; and a bottle of tequila is the highlight of their private revelry.
Director: Adam Kuhlman
Writer: Norm Hiscock
The Best Episodes of King of the Hill Season 3
Every episode of King of the Hill Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of King of the Hill Season 3!
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 3 Ratings Summary
"Death of a Propane Salesman" is the best rated episode of "King of the Hill" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 548 votes. Directed by Lauren MacMullan and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/1998. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "And They Call It Bobby Love".