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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!

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,...

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  1. 8.7/10(744 votes)

    #1 - A Firefighting We Will Go

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    S3:E10

    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.

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  2. 8.2/10(549 votes)

    #2 - The Wedding of Bobby Hill

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    S3:E14

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

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  3. 8.2/10(494 votes)

    #3 - Jon Vitti Presents: "Return to La Grunta"

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    S3:E16

    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.

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    Director:Gary McCarver
    Writer:Jon Vitti
  4. 8.1/10(579 votes)

    #4 - Pretty, Pretty Dresses

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    S3:E9

    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.

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  5. 8.1/10(519 votes)

    #5 - Love Hurts... and So Does Art

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    S3:E18

    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.

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    Director:Adam Kuhlman
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.1/10(487 votes)

    #6 - Revenge of the Lutefisk

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    S3:E21

    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.

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  8. 8.1/10(468 votes)

    #7 - As Old as the Hills...

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    S3:E25

    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.

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    Director:Adam Kuhlman
  9. 8.0/10(565 votes)

    #8 - Death of a Propane Salesman

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    S3:E1

    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.

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  10. 8.0/10(593 votes)

    #9 - And They Call It Bobby Love

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    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Cyndi Tang
  11. 8.0/10(528 votes)

    #10 - Peggy's Headache

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    S3:E3

    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.

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  12. 8.0/10(501 votes)

    #11 - Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men

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    S3:E7

    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.

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  13. 7.9/10(491 votes)

    #12 - Dog Dale Afternoon

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    S3:E20

    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.

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  14. 7.7/10(538 votes)

    #13 - Wings of the Dope

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    S3:E23

    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.

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  15. 7.6/10(456 votes)

    #14 - Sleight of Hank

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    S3:E15

    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."

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    Director:Jeff Myers
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.5/10(474 votes)

    #15 - Good Hill Hunting

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    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Klay Hall
  17. 7.5/10(449 votes)

    #16 - De-Kahnstructing Henry

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    S3:E13

    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.

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  18. 7.5/10(423 votes)

    #17 - Take Me Out of the Ball Game

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    S3:E24

    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.

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  19. 7.4/10(475 votes)

    #18 - To Spank, with Love

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    S3:E11

    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.

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  20. 7.4/10(492 votes)

    #19 - Escape from Party Island

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    S3:E17

    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.

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  21. 7.4/10(452 votes)

    #20 - Death and Texas

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    S3:E22

    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.

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    Director:Wes Archer
    Writer:N/A
  22. 7.3/10(481 votes)

    #21 - Pregnant Paws

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    S3:E4

    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.

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  23. 7.3/10(449 votes)

    #22 - Next of Shin

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    S3:E5

    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.

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    Director:Jeff Myers
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.3/10(469 votes)

    #23 - Three Coaches and a Bobby

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    S3:E12

    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.

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  25. 7.2/10(457 votes)

    #24 - Hank's Cowboy Movie

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    S3:E19

    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.

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  26. 6.7/10(478 votes)

    #25 - Peggy's Pageant Fever

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    S3:E6

    A beauty pageant offers Peggy the chance to win a truck. If she can endure a series of rigorous makeovers to impress the judges.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"A Firefighting We Will Go" is the best rated episode of "King of the Hill" season 3. It scored 8.7/10 based on 744 votes. Directed by Cyndi Tang and written by Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, it aired on 1/12/1999. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Wedding of Bobby Hill".