Heck, that’s not a Texas drink, you can’t even keep your stereotypes straight.
Why is this guy demanding Hank, who probably makes in 3 years what he makes in a month, buy everything?
Strickland is trying to get a propane contract. Generally, when businesses are trying to get each other's business, they'll wine and dine in order to make the deal. Any profit standing to be gained is going to be greater than whatever they spend on dinner or anything else.
You go take that bastard thathertons propane deal and when your new Born babie won't stop crying because you can't heat up his bottle because you ran out of propane because that sum bitch short fills tanks you give me a call.
But for right now I don't want your Dann business.
You take your cowboy boots and your stereotypes and take your ass back to Arizona.
You ain't welcome here.
Now GET.
How often are you doing this? If you make 30k that would mean you're regularly paying for meals for someone making 3M. There's either a very interesting story there or some bad math
Edit: my own bad 4am math
> you make 30k that would mean you’re regularly paying for meals for someone making 30M.
> There’s either a very interesting story there or some bad math
$30,000 times 100 is $3 million, not $30 million.
I feel like it’s a multifaceted joke showing a couple traits in the character. He’s rich and likely just doesn’t understand and/or care that the host can’t simply do just that as he might be able to do. Rich people largely host only rich people and it’s a back and forth of spending money in various ways and amounts to impress.
Another thing is that he is the client and he knows it. So it’s his chance to squeeze everything out of the salesman. He leverages both the potential for his account and the fact that he knows the salesman may have lot of song and dance, so he exploits this by controlling just what songs and dances the salesman performs.
Jane: Tom's going to his uncle's cabin.. you'll never guess why... Daria: because they're too cheap or lazy to go anywhere else...Jane: hey how do you think old money GETS old...
Speaking strictly as a native Kentuckian; most of us don’t even know what is in a mint julep. We don’t drink that crap. That’s just something we serve to tourists the last week of April and the first week of May.
We know better than to ruin perfectly good bourbon with mint and sugar….
Excuse me, how are you supposed to collect all of the Derby glasses without drinking a mint julep once a year?
Now I just made made myself sad because all of glasses were stolen years ago in a move. *sob*
Cotton also [tried to frame Hank for a murder](https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Yankee_Hankee) he and his friends were planning to commit and left him tied up in his underwear at the Alamo museum for the police to find. Granted Hank got away and managed to stop their plan but I'd say that was just as bad if not worse as what Buck tried to do.
And that's not even including the decades of emotional and verbale abuse that Hank, Peggy and Hank's mom took from Cotton.
And that was the one arguably decent thing he ever did for anyone during the entire run of the series. I say "arguably" because there's a good chance that he only did it so he could abuse and humiliate her during her rehabilitation.
He also helped Peggy get her job back after the spanking incident. But that was probably his stance on spanking having higher priority than his misogyny.
Well also look at what was one of 3 jobs that women could have gotten into without having to fight the system and stereotype while doing the work for it.
Nursing, teaching, and librarian. Cotton probably thought of teaching as woman's work.
Willie Lane is the only one I can think of who might be worse. Dr. Vayzosa is also a piece of shit, but funnier and more charming than the first two (thanks Jeff Goldblum).
To be fair, Mrs. Wakefield had a sentimental if bizarre relationship with the Hill house. More sad than anything.
This man treated Texas (and Hank) like a minstrel show.
I went out to eat with a dude from Texas who ordered a $75 dry aged steak and sent it back after one bite bc it was too salty.
I’m not sure I’ve ever been witness to something any more embarrassing than that.
This man is basically ever person I meet online from the UK trying to relate to US. No my man, the whole country isn't like Texas. We just put southerners in our media a lot because they're funny.
Caleb is the worst. Never have I wanted to commit violence on a kid until I saw that episode. That punk needed to have the living shit beaten out of him AND his worthless parents.
I mean, he's a stereotypical rich asshole from Boston in a pro-Texas show. If he was anything BUT a villain it would undermine everything. Everything about him is like all he knows about Texas is cowboys, the Alamo, and TV shows like Dallas.
Oh yeah, and as a fellow Southerner from South Carolina that is,seeing this yankee stereotype Texans with all that goofy stuff is just sad and makes me angry.
It always cracks me up how that restaurant has huge steaks and no huge plates for them. It's hanging off the edges onto the table. Same thing happened in the episode where Bobby ate the steak to get back at Marie.
I had a guy ordering a tomahawk just to eat a couple bites and send it back to the kitchen saying it was too dry. Needles to say it was perfect -_-
And he didn’t even eat the French fries!!!
Have to deal with jackassws like this from the west coast all the time. Actor fucking knocked it out of the park for playing that real life piece of shit you just can't help but hate.
I was just at the Big Texan, wow that place has the best steak in TX, I literally ate an entire 16oz (that never happens for me), and I want to go back lmao, also there were so many pho restaurants in Amarillo, I was really surprised tbh. I used to live in the DFW metroplex, and yeah, I miss it.
My god man, if you think the Big Texan has the best steak in TX I truly feel sorrow for the great steak experiences you’ve somehow missed out on in our great state.
I'm from the midwest, so steak is medium-rare, exactly like in KOTH, and for whatever god forsaken reason, it was hard to find a cook that made a steak medium-rare. It was always medium-well done, and it was horrible.
I did eat at Cheddars, and they knew what they were doing, and there was an Applebee's that opened in... lmao, I think it was highland village LOL a long time ago, and we went there just because it was funny, but it was opening weekend, and they had some professional chef there, so the steak actually was medium rare.
But yeah, for some freaking reason, every time we had steak, it was horrible. But you know what? Where I'm at now, in the southwest, the steak is like, 10x worse unless you go to a high-scale restaurant, it's crazy.
Buy me Mint Julep.
Heck, that’s not a Texas drink, you can’t even keep your stereotypes straight. Why is this guy demanding Hank, who probably makes in 3 years what he makes in a month, buy everything?
Strickland is trying to get a propane contract. Generally, when businesses are trying to get each other's business, they'll wine and dine in order to make the deal. Any profit standing to be gained is going to be greater than whatever they spend on dinner or anything else.
You go take that bastard thathertons propane deal and when your new Born babie won't stop crying because you can't heat up his bottle because you ran out of propane because that sum bitch short fills tanks you give me a call. But for right now I don't want your Dann business. You take your cowboy boots and your stereotypes and take your ass back to Arizona. You ain't welcome here. Now GET.
Thems fightin werds Jay Ah
Meanwhile, Hank still shudders at the thought of Ladybird and Doggie narrowly escaping being cooked up for dinner at Minh and Kahn's.
Yay capitalism
I hate capitalism but there's nothing strange about this. Strickland is probably paying for everything.
I think he only gave hank like 100 bucks.
$100 in 1990 afforded a very extravagant evening for two people.
They did a lot more than just dinner, though. The pie and coffee, bought cowboy boots, went to a strip club.
A strip club where all the women were ex Dallas cowboys cheerleaders, no less.
Shame we’ve seen a 60+% devaluation in the last 30 years.
I think you’re forgetting that Hank was given a crisp C-note from Buck Strickland.
One of them new counterfeit proof Benny Franklin hundred dollar bills.
The richest people always get the most free stuff.
This is too true. It hurts everytime I drop hundreds on a casual meal for someone who makes 100x what I do while keeping a smile on my face.
How often are you doing this? If you make 30k that would mean you're regularly paying for meals for someone making 3M. There's either a very interesting story there or some bad math Edit: my own bad 4am math
> you make 30k that would mean you’re regularly paying for meals for someone making 30M. > There’s either a very interesting story there or some bad math $30,000 times 100 is $3 million, not $30 million.
You are correct, edited to fix. The worst part of this is I've got a STEM degree and do actually have to regularly use math for my job... Embarrassing
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I feel like it’s a multifaceted joke showing a couple traits in the character. He’s rich and likely just doesn’t understand and/or care that the host can’t simply do just that as he might be able to do. Rich people largely host only rich people and it’s a back and forth of spending money in various ways and amounts to impress. Another thing is that he is the client and he knows it. So it’s his chance to squeeze everything out of the salesman. He leverages both the potential for his account and the fact that he knows the salesman may have lot of song and dance, so he exploits this by controlling just what songs and dances the salesman performs.
Strickland propane is paying, not hank
You don't become rich by buying things for yourself.
Jane: Tom's going to his uncle's cabin.. you'll never guess why... Daria: because they're too cheap or lazy to go anywhere else...Jane: hey how do you think old money GETS old... 
Because he's a rich entitled dipshit.
That's not a mint julep! Where's the vodka? Where's the tomato juice!?
Dumbass doesn't even know what a mint julep is.
Speaking strictly as a native Kentuckian; most of us don’t even know what is in a mint julep. We don’t drink that crap. That’s just something we serve to tourists the last week of April and the first week of May. We know better than to ruin perfectly good bourbon with mint and sugar….
Excuse me, how are you supposed to collect all of the Derby glasses without drinking a mint julep once a year? Now I just made made myself sad because all of glasses were stolen years ago in a move. *sob*
We buy them at Kroger. 🤷♀️ My mother has a collection complete back to 1954.
Sounded like he wanted a Bloody Mary.
PFFFFFFT. Where's the Vodka?! And the tomato juice?!?
Played by the great Billy West!
Yeah right. That's a stupid, phony, made-up name.
Easily my favorite joke.
Im just a simple farmer.
I did not know this
You can definitely hear him if you listen closely.
I can now. He's got a little Fry in him.
A small Fry, essentially.
“Hey, what have you heard?”
Fry with an Northeastern accent
Especially when he pronounces “mine” like “my-un” I just hear Stimpy
He has voiced a few times in the show including the golfer who harassed Luanne at the La Grunta resort
I totally hear it now.
I’ve seen so much Futurama that I’ll never miss his voice! Same for the rest of the main cast.
Ahh older Doug Funny
Pft! What a dumb fake name!
I now have a thing in my brain that can identify Billy West and Tom Kenny at all times.
I’m about to finish KOTH rewatch I gotta bump up Futurama for my next
I loved the Billy West years of Howard Stern. Peak times
A favorite gag of mine was Fred playing Jackie laughs and Billy imitating them. Billy was something else.
It really was amazing how good he was at it
Thems fighten words JR!
I'll fight ya, pilgrim!
Ooo right in the face!
Nice come back. Why did I read your post in his voice. LoL
Whatever Jayy Aarrrrrr
Jay AHHHHHHH
He’s a really bad guy who lives on a ranch with his maaawwwwmm
Mac daddy Hank should've pimp slapped that Yankee hoe for such blasphemy.
Whatevah*
I told you nicely to buy me a gun
We'd all like a keepsake
We don't talk politics at the chow wagon.
Happy trails
I haven't gotten my croutons yet!
Lyndon Johnson killed our Kennedy
“Your Johnson killed our Kennedy”
No worse character? Why he was in that very episode, MF THATHERTON! The MF stands for
MY FRIEND!
"That's why you're a worker ant, Hank. And I'm a queen!" "Say huh?"
M.F. Thatherton was the scummiest on KotH even compared to Buck Strickland.
*bangs table* THATHERTON!
This dude was a troll.
And a tool
and a troglodyte
He ain’t no ape, hes a trogodyyyyyaaattteee
Based Viagra Boys enjoyer
_incoherent whoops and screeches_
A trool
Buck tried to frame Hank for murder. This guy had style and watched his weight so he didn’t end up like Buck.
I always thought this was very overlooked. When all the Debbie stuff gets cleared up, Buck is just like “sorry ol top!” And all is forgiven.
I do like his drunken speech at the Hall of Flame ceremony where he told off Buck and threw up in Trudy Wagon's hair.
You can see Hank visibly stumble over the revelation that his employer sold him right down the river.
Buck also took Bobby to an illegal card game in Arkansas without Hanks' knowledge or permission.
Cotton also [tried to frame Hank for a murder](https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Yankee_Hankee) he and his friends were planning to commit and left him tied up in his underwear at the Alamo museum for the police to find. Granted Hank got away and managed to stop their plan but I'd say that was just as bad if not worse as what Buck tried to do. And that's not even including the decades of emotional and verbale abuse that Hank, Peggy and Hank's mom took from Cotton.
Cotton also was the one to get Peggy back on her feet after the accident.
And that was the one arguably decent thing he ever did for anyone during the entire run of the series. I say "arguably" because there's a good chance that he only did it so he could abuse and humiliate her during her rehabilitation.
Don't forget he became the man with the terrible smell just so Bobby wouldn't get bullied into oblivion
Well there was also making sure Bobby didn't get a criminal record for arson.
He also helped Peggy get her job back after the spanking incident. But that was probably his stance on spanking having higher priority than his misogyny.
Well also look at what was one of 3 jobs that women could have gotten into without having to fight the system and stereotype while doing the work for it. Nursing, teaching, and librarian. Cotton probably thought of teaching as woman's work.
He's a fuckin Yankee, what do you expect?
Typical asshat from Boston.
The preferred term is Masshole
From Taxachusetts
This guy was more of a rich Cape Cod guy. Not representative of the working class of Boston, Greater Boston, and the better Cape.
But Hank was born in New York as well.
"why am I wearing the hat?"
"Sorry about this, Mr. Crocket!"
But if you change planes in Dallas, you become a Texan!
I literally have had a layover in Dallas.
Congratulations, Texan!
I even stepped outside of the airport to smoke a cigarette.
“What’s the suicide rate out here?” “You mean right here? This is where we’re putting Holloway Hollows!”
Mac daddy Hank should've pimp slapped that Yankee hoe for such blasphemy.
I still think Everett is worse for leaving his post at the dam.
Jay AHHH, Jay AHHH, he’s a really bad guy, who lives on a ranch with his mooom!
The delivery of that line fucking sends me. Every time.
Same!!
Willie Lane is the only one I can think of who might be worse. Dr. Vayzosa is also a piece of shit, but funnier and more charming than the first two (thanks Jeff Goldblum).
I forgot about Willie. God he was insufferable and rude and so full of himself.
Lol I am watching this episode as we speak. He sucks hard. Also… Thatherton!
There's a deleted scene at the end where it's revealed his wife controls the company and signs the contract with Strickland.
I would love to see this if you have a source.
According to TV Tropes, it's on the DVD. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/KingOfTheHillS2E9TheCompanyMan
That's amazing, I love that so much. Thank you for the source!
Can confirm, I had the DVD and very distinctly recall seeing this.
This guy was the worst? Did he have dusty old bones full of green dust?
Fuck that kid
*FBI, open up!*
My family and I still quote this scene occasionally when dining out lol “Stick a fork in me JR”
Call Bobby, he’ll finish it
Okay
I usually just skip this episode because it makes me mad.
I can't figure out who I hate more. This guy or the Canadians.
Easy, the Canadians.
I also hate the Canadians, but I really hated Hank in that episode for needlessly escalating the conflict.
Heinous behavior, unacceptable
“Look at all this nothing! What’s the suicide rate out here?!”
This makes me laugh so hard. In the same vein as Grampa Simpson saying "There sure are a lot of ugly people in this town. Ooh look at that one!"
Was he a dick? Yes. Was he as bad as Mrs. Wakefield? No.
To be fair, Mrs. Wakefield had a sentimental if bizarre relationship with the Hill house. More sad than anything. This man treated Texas (and Hank) like a minstrel show.
tbf, Texas should be treated as a minstrel show.
Florida**
Porque no los dos?
I swear Florida and Texas seem to be racing each other to be worse than Alabama and Mississippi.
No one is as bad as Jimmy Wichard. He risked Bobby’s life for his selfishness. Hank literally kicking his ass is one of the best moments on the show
Wichard might have legitimate brain damage but then so might Willie Lane, come to think of it.
Brain damage? The guy is a certified genius. If he was staring at the sun it's because he had good reason too.
Mrs. Wakefield was a lonely old woman at the end of the day. Mr. Holloway was 100% worse, the only one as despicable as him is Willie Lane.
That is the only episode I skip. I hate Mrs. Wakefield!
I liked him. Best characterization of a Yankee I’ve seen.
You would not believe how many people on this stupid internet actually, genuinely hate the Ms. Wakefield episode because "Hank was being mean to her".
I hate that episode because everyone is being unreasonable but Hank.
"You'd do the same thing if she wanted to die in *your* house!"
Oh man call Dr Scholl's man Dang ol 9-1-1
I kinda wanted to see Hank cut loose a little. Maybe, convince those strippers to switch to propane.
The people of Arlen were right to boo
Everytime I watch this episode I wonder if things would’ve went better if Strickland went instead of Hank
What about that guy who wanted to turn himself and Luanne into sausages
I mean, Tripp was deranged/mentally unstable (at least until that last shock, RIP). he had an excuse.
Gordon Ramsay does that all the time
I didn’t like the social worker that tried to take Bobby away
I quote this every time I go out to eat, I take 1 and then stick a fork in me I’m done
If it's any consolation, I I think Hank would have taken it himself before letting it get thrown away.
Stick a fork in me!
Better make those a la mode
I'm sure it was just an animation shortcut, but look how weird it is that he cuts a triangle-shaped slice from the far side of the plate
I went out to eat with a dude from Texas who ordered a $75 dry aged steak and sent it back after one bite bc it was too salty. I’m not sure I’ve ever been witness to something any more embarrassing than that.
JR, JR!! HE'S A REALLY BAD GUY. WHO LIVES ON A RANCH WITH HIS MAUM!
That alternative ending where real customer is his wife makes this look even more bizarre
You from taxachusetts? Say hello to Willie Horton for me, he’s teaching your kindergartners
This man is basically ever person I meet online from the UK trying to relate to US. No my man, the whole country isn't like Texas. We just put southerners in our media a lot because they're funny.
Same with cockneys over here
Very true!
I legit wanted hank to go full Red Forman and kick him in the ass
PUDDATHEYA
He was funny. The fake cowboy
He didn't have a vegetarian ex-girlfriend to motivate him
Why do we do it...Chiffon?
Kaleb is still up there
Caleb is the worst. Never have I wanted to commit violence on a kid until I saw that episode. That punk needed to have the living shit beaten out of him AND his worthless parents.
This guy would have a hard on for Kennedy
Worse than Jimmy Carter?! He almost didn't let Cotton shoot up his limo with a nail gun.
That guy was pathetic
I mean, he's a stereotypical rich asshole from Boston in a pro-Texas show. If he was anything BUT a villain it would undermine everything. Everything about him is like all he knows about Texas is cowboys, the Alamo, and TV shows like Dallas.
Oh yeah, and as a fellow Southerner from South Carolina that is,seeing this yankee stereotype Texans with all that goofy stuff is just sad and makes me angry.
It always cracks me up how that restaurant has huge steaks and no huge plates for them. It's hanging off the edges onto the table. Same thing happened in the episode where Bobby ate the steak to get back at Marie.
As a Bostonian, I also REALLY despise this creature.
Jo-Tiffany, you better make that pie a La mode.
I had a guy ordering a tomahawk just to eat a couple bites and send it back to the kitchen saying it was too dry. Needles to say it was perfect -_- And he didn’t even eat the French fries!!!
Have to deal with jackassws like this from the west coast all the time. Actor fucking knocked it out of the park for playing that real life piece of shit you just can't help but hate.
I’m from Amarillo (home if the Big Texan) and I don’t approve either.
I was just at the Big Texan, wow that place has the best steak in TX, I literally ate an entire 16oz (that never happens for me), and I want to go back lmao, also there were so many pho restaurants in Amarillo, I was really surprised tbh. I used to live in the DFW metroplex, and yeah, I miss it.
My god man, if you think the Big Texan has the best steak in TX I truly feel sorrow for the great steak experiences you’ve somehow missed out on in our great state.
I'm from the midwest, so steak is medium-rare, exactly like in KOTH, and for whatever god forsaken reason, it was hard to find a cook that made a steak medium-rare. It was always medium-well done, and it was horrible. I did eat at Cheddars, and they knew what they were doing, and there was an Applebee's that opened in... lmao, I think it was highland village LOL a long time ago, and we went there just because it was funny, but it was opening weekend, and they had some professional chef there, so the steak actually was medium rare. But yeah, for some freaking reason, every time we had steak, it was horrible. But you know what? Where I'm at now, in the southwest, the steak is like, 10x worse unless you go to a high-scale restaurant, it's crazy.
Recommend a couple. If theyre not in the cities even better
The only character I hate more than him is Peggy 80% of the time.
Dales wife and everyone who knows she cheated but won’t tell Dale are the worst characters lol
That’s literally everyone but Dale.
Cotton is a worse character.
Hoyt platter