The BEST episodes of King of the Hill season 6

Every episode of King of the Hill season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of King of the Hill season 6!

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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Returning Japanese (1)
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8.45
199 votes

#1 - Returning Japanese (1)

Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2002

The Hills head to Japan because Cotton wants to apologize for his actions in WWII. The grizzled vet says he plans to address the widow of a soldier he killed. Peggy arranges to cover the visit for the local paper, but the family arrives to find it has become an overblown media event. Cotton admits to Hank that the "widow" was never married, and the "action" did not occur in battle. Meanwhile, back home, Dale and Bill prove themselves dedicated house sitters by dressing up as Hank and Peggy; and Luanne finds a replacement dog when she thinks she has killed Ladybird.

Directors: Allan Jacobsen
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My Own Private Rodeo
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8.41
232 votes

#2 - My Own Private Rodeo

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/28/2002

Dale and Nancy are renewing their marriage vows, and Nancy wants to invite Dale's estranged father, Bug, a rodeo performer. Dale hates his father for making a pass at Nancy on their wedding day, but when Hank goes to see Bug, he discovers that the rodeo is a gay rodeo, and Dale's dad is gay.

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Bobby Goes Nuts
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8.34
386 votes

#3 - Bobby Goes Nuts

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2001

The episode opens innocently enough with Bobby's girlfriend Connie inviting him over to add some spark to her dying slumber party. But after Bobby's beaten up by a crasher, Hank urges him to enroll in a boxing class at the Y. That class is full, so Bobby enrolls in the next best thing: women's self-defense. There, he quickly masters the technique of targeting an attacker below the belt.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Writer: Norm Hiscock
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Dang Ol' Love
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8.13
191 votes

#4 - Dang Ol' Love

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/2002

Bill tries to get the attention of a beautiful jogger, by setting a trap in the street. She trips and falls, hurting her ankle but instead she goes home with Boomhauer. For the first time in his life Boomhauer finds himself in love, and heartbroken... like so many he has left behind.

Directors: Gary McCarver
Writer: Dean Young
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Returning Japanese (2)
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8.11
116 votes

#5 - Returning Japanese (2)

Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/2002

It is revealed that Hank has a long-lost half-brother, who disowns his American relatives. Angered by this, Cotton plans to spit in the face of the Japanese Emperor Akihito at a ceremony honoring WW2 veterans later that night. As the Hill Brothers try to stop their father, they come to realize how much they have in common. Meanwhile, Bobby develops a relationship with his dance partner at the local arcade.

Directors: Anthony Lioi
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The Bluegrass Is Always Greener
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7.95
219 votes

#6 - The Bluegrass Is Always Greener

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/2002

Kahn wants Connie to practice classical music so she can become a great concert violinist, but Connie discovers she has a talent playing bluegrass. Hank and the guys form a band with Connie, the "Dale Gribble Bluegrass Experience," and go to Branson, Missouri to participate in a contest. But in his desire to win, Hank pushes Connie to practice and takes all the fun out of playing, just like Kahn did.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Writer: Norm Hiscock
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Beer and Loathing
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7.83
264 votes

#7 - Beer and Loathing

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/14/2002

When Texas is out of Hank's favorite Alamo Beer, he is eager to find out why. When his questions go unanswered, Peggy gains employment at the company to find out. Peggy doesn't want to divulge the reason because of a clause that she has signed--a vow of secrecy. Hank turns on Peggy for her company loyalty, and Peggy turns on Alamo, for their customer disloyalty.

Directors: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Etan Cohen
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Lupe's Revenge
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7.82
268 votes

#8 - Lupe's Revenge

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/12/2001

Peggy takes the school Spanish club on a field trip to Mexico. She mistakes a little Mexican girl, Lupe, for one of her students, and takes her back on the bus with her. When she realizes her mistake, she brings Lupe back to Mexico and is arrested for kidnapping. Meanwhile, Hank finds himself the object of a female cop's affections, who keeps pulling him over for various reasons, in order to spend time with him.

Directors: Allan Jacobsen
Writer: Dean Young
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Joust Like a Woman
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7.80
235 votes

#9 - Joust Like a Woman

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/24/2002

Peggy stirs up rebellion among female workers at a Renaissance Faire where Hank is trying to land a big account. When she is assigned to be a house cleaning wench, she refuses to stay in character, and behaving inferior to the men. When she tries to approach the King, he dismisses her, which starts a war that Peggy needs to win.

Directors: Dominic Polcino
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Soldier of Misfortune
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7.80
374 votes

#10 - Soldier of Misfortune

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/9/2001

Dale is running for re-election as Gun Club president, but his chances seem to be shot when he accidentally discharges his gun. To give Dale his confidence back, Hank pretends to be "Mr. Big," answers Dale's ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine, and assigns Dale to pick up a briefcase. But Dale bungles the job, and nearly gets his friends killed by his opponent at the Gun Club.

Directors: Anthony Lioi
Writer: J.B. Cook
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Sug Night
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7.80
287 votes

#11 - Sug Night

Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/5/2002

Hank repairs a propane-powered hot tub for a bikini-clad Nancy Gribble, and starts to have dreams about him and Nancy grilling burgers in the nude. When Peggy finds out, she concludes that Hank is bored with her and that they need to spice up their marriage by going to a nude beach.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
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The Father, the Son, and J.C.
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7.71
247 votes

#12 - The Father, the Son, and J.C.

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/16/2001

Buck Strickland has to build a house for Habitat for Humanity as part of his community service, Hank does all the work. Buck is so pleased that he promotes Hank to manager, but when Hank tells Buck in public that he loves him, he is quickly demoted. Cotton becomes jealous that Hank likes Buck better, and Peggy sets out to repair their broken relationship for a Christmas miracle.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Writer: Etan Cohen
I'm with Cupid
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7.71
300 votes

#13 - I'm with Cupid

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/2002

Bobby adjusts to his breakup with Connie, until an afternoon talking to Bill sends him right back into a depression. Not knowing where to go with this issue, Hank sends him to ladies' man Boomhauer, for a lesson in picking up on women. When Bobby sees him in action, he loses the respect for the "magic" he has, when he sees him strike out time after time.

Directors: Allan Jacobsen
The Substitute Spanish Prisoner (aka Dr. Peggy Hill)
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7.67
237 votes

#14 - The Substitute Spanish Prisoner (aka Dr. Peggy Hill)

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/3/2002

Peggy takes an online I.Q. test sponsored by the "Intelligence Institute of Texas," and is declared a genius. When the head of the Institute, Dr. Vayzosa, offers her a chance to get a PhD for only $900, she uses the family savings to pay for it. When Luanne takes the online I.Q. test and also scores as a genius, Peggy realizes that she has been conned, and she comes up with an elaborate sting to get the money back. Hank learns of her plans, and tries to intervene, but is it too late?

Writer: Etan Cohen
Tankin' It to the Streets
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7.65
209 votes

#15 - Tankin' It to the Streets

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/31/2002

After learning the Army used him as a guinea pig for an experimental drug, Bill gets drunk and steals a tank, but Dale reveals that the information is wrong, Bill was not used as an experiment. The guys have to prove to Bill that his life is as it is without military tampering, and get him to surrender the tank.

Directors: Monte Young
Torch Song Hillogy
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7.63
293 votes

#16 - Torch Song Hillogy

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/2002

Peggy nominates Bobby to carry the Olympic torch through Arlen, but it's Hank who wins the honor---and bungles it.

Directors: Anthony Lioi
Writer: Emily Spivey
Of Mice and Little Green Men
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7.58
225 votes

#17 - Of Mice and Little Green Men

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/7/2002

When Hank and Dale find more interest in the activities of the other's son, they switch roles, Hank helps Joseph with sports, and Dale reads lines for a play with Bobby. After thinking about their differences, Dale comes to the conclusion, that he is not Josephs biological father--an alien is.

Directors: Shaun Cashman
Fun with Jane and Jane
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7.52
174 votes

#18 - Fun with Jane and Jane

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/21/2002

Peggy encourages lonely Luanne to join a sorority, but the snobbish sorority girls won't have anything to do with her. So Luanne joins Omega House, a sorority where everyone is accepted and everyone is named "Jane," not realizing that it's actually a cult that brainwashes lonely young women. Meanwhile, Buck Strickland tells Hank to kill his emus, but Hank and his friends can't bear to do it.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
Unfortunate Son
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7.50
173 votes

#19 - Unfortunate Son

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/10/2002

When Cotton's VFW has to close down due to a shortage of members, Hank tries to get Vietnam vets to join. But the WWII vets and the Vietnam vets hate each other, and when Hank tries to bring them together, he and Cotton wind up getting pursued by kill-crazy Vietnam veterans who are having flashbacks. Meanwhile, Dale gets a falcon that keeps attacking Bill.

Directors: Anthony Lioi
Father of the Bribe
star
7.28
245 votes

#20 - Father of the Bribe

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/6/2002

Kahn tries to bribe Bobby to break up with Connie. Connie and Bobby decide to pretend to break up so they can get the money. When Connie's behavior convinces Kahn and Minh that she is depressed without Bobby, they try to push her and Bobby back together. After endless double dates with the parents, they become tired of each other, and decide to break up, to Kahns horror.

Writer: Dean Young
A Man Without a Country Club
star
7.20
190 votes

#21 - A Man Without a Country Club

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/14/2002

Kahn covets membership in an all-Asian country club, and is invited...if he brings Hank and his family along. Hank is the one who is targeted for membersip, but only to keep the club from being Asian exclusive.

Writer: Kit Boss
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Hill
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7.14
201 votes

#22 - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Hill

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/2002

Unable to find a full-time teaching job, Peggy agrees to go to work with Hank at Stickland Propane. An idea that Hank is much fonder of than Peggy. When the opportunity arrises for Peggy to teach full time, she lies about her religion, to teach at a Catholic school.

Directors: Gary McCarver