The BEST episodes of King of the Hill season 3

Every episode of King of the Hill season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of King of the Hill season 3!

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.

Last Updated: 11/3/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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A Fire Fighting We Will Go
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7.97
417 votes

#1 - A Fire Fighting 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.

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Sleight of Hank
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7.96
291 votes

#2 - 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."

Directors: Jeff Myers
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To Spank with Love
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7.89
342 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
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Peggy's Headache
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7.84
361 votes

#4 - 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 theraputic 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.

Directors: Chris Moeller
Writer: Joe Stillman
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Jon Vitti Presents: Return to La Grunta
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7.84
368 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Gary McCarver
Writer: Jon Vitti
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Dog Dale Afternoon
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7.82
336 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Writer: Jon Vitti
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Revenge of the Lutefisk
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7.76
234 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Jack Dyer
Pretty, Pretty Dresses
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7.72
361 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Dominic Polcino
Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men
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7.65
340 votes

#9 - Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1998

After a Thanksgiving dinner where Cotton constantly insults Hank's mother, Hank, his neighbors, and his father attend a lawn mower focus group. The company announces that it is retiring its old model and introducing a new, "yuppified" version. Hank is the only one on the group who defends the old mower -- but is he trying to defend the mower, or his mother?

Directors: Shaun Cashman
Pregnant Paws
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7.60
336 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Chris Moeller
Peggy's Pageant Fever
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7.60
282 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Writer: Norm Hiscock
Watch Now:Apple TV
Good Hill Hunting
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7.59
276 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Klay Hall
Writer: Joe Stillman
Wings of the Dope
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7.57
318 votes

#13 - 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.

De-Kahnstructing Henry
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7.53
291 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Klay Hall
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As Old as the Hills
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7.51
289 votes

#15 - As Old as the Hills

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/18/1999

On their twentieth wedding anniversary, Hank and Peggy get depressed about all their unfulfilled dreams. After getting drunk and passing out, they decide to try something exciting: skydiving. Meanwhile, Cotton's wife Didi goes into labor and Bobby has to drive her to the hospital, and Luanne tries to remain at home without Hank and Peggy finding out she's there.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
Writer: Norm Hiscock
Death and Texas
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7.51
320 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Wesley Archer
Death of a Propane Salesman
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7.48
367 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Lauren MacMullan
Three Coaches and a Bobby
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7.47
262 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Chris Moeller
And They Call It Bobby Love
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7.47
295 votes

#19 - 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.

Writer: Norm Hiscock
Take Me Out of the Ball Game
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7.45
317 votes

#20 - Take Me Out of the Ball Game

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1999

When Thatherton 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 her love for the sport.

Directors: Chris Moeller
Love Hurts and So Does Art
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7.42
272 votes

#21 - 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.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
The Wedding of Bobby Hill
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7.42
251 votes

#22 - The Wedding of Bobby Hill

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1999

Bobby lets Luanne's new boyfriend, a self-proclaimed genius named Rad Thibodeaux, throw a wild party in Boomhauer's house. Luanne tells on him and gets him removed as Boomhauer's house-sitter, Bobby starts a prank war with Luanne. Bobby replaces Luanne's birth-control pills with sweet tarts, she convinces him that the trick has gotten her pregnant. To teach Bobby about taking responsibility for his actions, Hank and Peggy tell him that he'll have to marry Luanne.

Directors: Jack Dyer
Hank's Cowboy Movie
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7.39
321 votes

#23 - Hank's Cowboy Movie

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1999

When Hank takes Bobby to the Dallas Cowboys training camp in Wichita Falls, Bobby says he likes Wichita Falls better than Arlen. Fearing that Bobby will leave Arlen when he grows up, Hank decides to make a video to convince the Cowboys to move their training camp to Arlen.

Directors: Shaun Cashman
Next of Shin
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7.24
309 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Jeff Myers
Escape from Party Island
star
7.19
304 votes

#25 - 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.

Directors: Gary McCarver