The BEST episodes of King of the Hill season 2

Every episode of King of the Hill season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of King of the Hill season 2!

In the little town of Arlen, Texas, lives a man who embodies the spirit of the Lone Star State. Hank Hill tends his lawn with pride, never overcooks his steak and sells propane and propane accessories. In this animated series from Mike Judge, Hank and his wife Peggy work to raise their son Bobby, be good neighbors and uphold their middle-class Texas values amid a changing world.

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Propane Boom
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7.81
300 votes

#1 - 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...

Directors: Gary McCarver
Writer: Norm Hiscock
Watch Now:Amazon
Jumpin' Crack Bass (It's a Gas, Gas, Gas)
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7.77
380 votes

#2 - Jumpin' Crack Bass (It's a Gas, Gas, Gas)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1997

Hank can't catch any fish with hand-dug American Earthworms, so he decides to try some artificial bait. Unfortunately, he mistakenly buys crack cocaine, thinking that it's fishing bait -- and the fish become addicted to his new bait. Hank gets in trouble with the law when he goes back to the dealer to buy some stronger bait.

Directors: Gary McCarver
Watch Now:Amazon
The Unbearable Blindness of Laying
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7.68
311 votes

#3 - The Unbearable Blindness of Laying

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1997

Hank's mother comes to visit for Christmas with her new boyfriend, Garry. When Hank walks in on his mother and Garry having sex, he goes blind. Garry figures out the problem, and tries to help regain his sight, and they end up at a Faith Healing Church for answers.

How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying
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7.65
482 votes

#4 - How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1997

Bobby discovers a talent for target shooting, Hank thinks this could be his chance to bond with his son. The only problem is that Hank can't shoot. Ashamed to admit that he can't use a gun properly, Hank refuses to enter the father-son fun-shoot with Bobby.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
Husky Bobby
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7.65
364 votes

#5 - Husky Bobby

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1997

Bobby becomes a successful model for overweight boys' clothes. Peggy is happy that Bobby is feeling good about himself. But Hank is worried that Bobby will get picked on.

Directors: Martin Archer
Hank's Dirty Laundry
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7.64
272 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Shaun Cashman
Three Days of the Kahndo
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7.60
285 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Lauren MacMullan
The Final Shinsult
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7.59
248 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Jack Dyer
I Remember Mono
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7.54
280 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Wesley Archer
The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg
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7.53
356 votes

#10 - The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1997

When Hank and his friends get trounced by four teenagers in a game of paintball, they fear that they're growing old. They decide that to beat the teenagers in a rematch, they'll have to learn to understand the mind of a teenager, while defending their OWN egos in the process.

Directors: Monte Young
Bobby Slam
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7.51
345 votes

#11 - Bobby Slam

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1997

Bobby joins the wrestling team at Tom Landry Middle School. When Connie decides that she, too, wants to wrestle, Peggy uses Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to force the coach to give her a tryout. But the coach gets his revenge by pitting Connie against Bobby in a wrestling match. Bobby and Connie devise a little plan of their own to outsmart the coach's decisions.

Directors: Chris Moeller
Writer: Gina Fattore
Hilloween
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7.50
357 votes

#12 - Hilloween

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1997

Junie Harper, a conservative church member, declares that Halloween is a Satanic holiday, and gets the school to shut down Hank's "Haunted House" on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state. Luanne and even Bobby start to believe Junie when she says that Hank is a Satanist, and Hank has to fight against Junie's attempt to cancel Halloween for the whole town.

Directors: John Rice
Watch Now:Apple TV
Texas City Twister
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7.49
387 votes

#13 - Texas City Twister

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1997

When Hank discovers that the trailer Luanne grew up in is still available, he wants Luanne to move out of the house and back into the trailer. Hank and Peggy have a fight where Peggy accuses Hank of being cold and repressed, and Hank sort of tells Peggy to go to hell. After Peggy goes with Luanne to help her move, Hank learns that a tornado is heading for the trailer park. It's up to him to save his wife and niece, and to prove that he's not so repressed after all.

Directors: Jeff Myers
Watch Now:Apple TV
Snow Job
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7.48
318 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
Life in the Fast Lane, Bobby's Saga
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7.43
246 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
Junkie Business
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7.43
243 votes

#16 - 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.

Leanne's Saga
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7.43
281 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
The Company Man
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7.42
292 votes

#18 - The Company Man

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1997

Hank tries to get the propane account with Mr. Holloway, a visiting businessman from Boston. Holloway has stereotypical ideas about Texas and is disappointed that Hank doesn't live up to the stereotype. So Hank must swallow his pride and act like a "cowboy" to get the account. All the while, competing with his biggest rival, Thatherton...who has no problem playing the part to win the account.

Directors: Klay Hall
The Son That Got Away
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7.29
298 votes

#19 - The Son That Got Away

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1997

Hank and Kahn fear the worst when Bobby, Connie, and Joseph explore a cave where teenagers go to make out. The whole clan reveals their experiences with The Boneyard, as the search for the trio ensues. The most unlikely of heroes comes through, to 'rescue' the kids and save the day.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Peggy's Turtle Song
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7.29
256 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Jeff Myers
The Arrowhead
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7.28
341 votes

#21 - The Arrowhead

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1997

After Hank finds a couple of Native American artifacts in his yard, a snobbish archaeology professor from Arlen University gets Peggy's permission to dig there. Peggy is fascinated by the professor's sophistication and knowledge, and Hank becomes jealous.

Directors: Klay Hall
Traffic Jam
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7.18
260 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Klay Hall
Meet the Manger Babies
star
7.17
263 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: Jeff Myers