Hank’s best friends are also his neighbors: Bill, Boomhauer, and Dale. Also living with the Hills is Peggy’s niece Luanne, a slightly dim-witted beauty-school dropout who is able to find her voice through a Christian puppet show. Many storylines deal with Hank’s concern for Bobby, and an early catch-phrase from the show is “the boy ain’t right.” Despite not understanding Bobby, Hank clearly loves his son and struggles to be a better father than his own, WWII veteran Cotton, who “killed fifty men” and lost both his shins in the war. Hank and Peggy’s only son is Bobby, an overweight, under-achieving eight-grader with the dream of becoming a prop comic. She writes “musings” for the Arlen Bystander and is a champion Boggle player. Hank is married to Peggy, a substitute Spanish middle school teacher with an inflated sense of her own intelligence. The patriarch of the Hill family is Hank, a salesman of propane and propane accessories with a narrow urethra and an obsession with his lawn and the Dallas Cowboys. The show remains true to Judge’s original concept and depicts the suburban Hills and their neighbors on Rainey Lane. Fox Broadcasting Company brought in Simpsons writer Greg Daniels to collaborate with Judge on the pilot, and the series debuted January 2, 1997, with Judge and Daniels as co-creators. Hank was loosely based on a neighbor character in Judge’s hit MTV series, Beavis and Butt-head. In 1995, Mike Judge wrote a pilot episode for an animated series centered on Hank Hill, a common sense, all-American propane salesman in Arlen, Texas. Clete Shields Sculptures at The Wittliffġ18 boxes plus oversized posters, artifacts and framed items (75 linear feet)Īcquisition: Donated by and through efforts of Jim Dauterive.Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection.In this older style of flashback he looks just like Dale does now, however even in the older depictions he’s still called "Bug." Most likely, this is another instance of a character being retconned in appearance and personality as the series progressed. In a flashback Dale has earlier in the series, his father can be seen giving him a ventriloquist's dummy for his birthday (much to Dale's chagrin.) He can also be seen in a flashback early in the series about looking after their sons in the " The Order of the Straight Arrow". However, after he sees Bug kiss Juan Pedro, Dale realizes that his dad was telling the truth and is perfectly fine with it. Dale then goes to the rodeo to inform the men there his dad is monitoring them. When Bug first tries to tell Dale he's gay and that Juan Pedro is his partner, Dale again hates him after he is convinced his dad's a government agent. Years later, with help from Hank, the two reconcile their differences. Upon seeing Dale, he grabbed the nearest woman he could find, who turned out to Nancy, and kissed her as a cover-up because he was insecure at the time and didn't want Dale to find out he was gay. As it turns out he was using this as a cover up for his homosexuality because at the time he was flirting with a gay Filipino caterer who was part of the wedding party crew and was about to kiss him. He was hated by Dale for years after Bug grabbed his son's wife, Nancy, and kissed her at their wedding. Bug also has a boyfriend named Juan Pedro. He is homosexual and works at the Lonestar Gay Rodeo.
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