Bill Dauterive back in his prime before Lenore/Depression ruined his life. Bill is voiced by Stephen Root King of the Hill --- Main Channel / inkedcatgaming Twitch! / inkedcat Twitter / _inkedcat_
The "middle aged failure who peaked in high school" trope is usually reserved for jerks or bullies. Bill was a real good guy back then so his fall from grace feels less deserved and all the more tragic
And yet, look at what happens every time things start actually going well for him again, or especially if he gets ahold of even a little bit of power. He turns into a jackass before ultimately sabotaging himself in some way. See: That Youth baseball league he joined as an Administrator, and his short-lived relationship with Reverend Stroup.
@Garrett the better part is to siphon then fill it up that the next night then do it for a couple days then when they start complaining about their floating gas gauge.
@@Maw0 I know you're trying hard to troll but this was an early episode and we of course find out in multiple later episodes how Hank actually ended up in the propane business...
Out of the whole quartet, Bill had the most potential for greatness. He's shown to be a world class salesman, world class athlete, world class hairy stylist, world class chef, he is extremely gifted when it comes to working with his hands, on top of that he has a natural drive to protect the innocent and do what is just and righteous. Imagine how much better his world could have been had Lenore never come into his life.
I'll say and the part where he says that play chipped his spine is all the more accurate. I mean he had 5-6 men piling up on him,he had to carry their entire weight plus his to make that play. The man was a beast!
@@thisisntsergio1352 He literally said it aloud though. lol You usually run a play by knowing what it is before formation. He changed the entire play by telling everyone what it was.
@@GideonWallace "To fall from grace is an idiom referring to a loss of status, respect, or prestige" Not everyone falls from grace. Nothing is 100% except death
@@newerest1 They weren't really in a small town. But they did grow up in Garland when it was a small town. Garland had 80K people in 74, so not really a small town even by todays standards but in 64 it had 20K. A good comparison would be Plano and Frisco. Just 15 years ago Plano went from 30K to 200K in a flash. But they still would have felt out of place going to -what looks to be DEEP ELLUM.
@@newerest1 I don’t think Arlen is near Dallas. All of those towns, Lewisville, Grand Prairie, Irving, Plano, etc are basically Dallas. Unless youre from there, youll never know when youve left one “city” and entered another.
The episode where Bill loses his mind, tries to kill himself, and dresses up as Lenore really made me tear up. Because Hank went through so much to help and old friend that would've done the same for him and was able to pull him out of a dark place.
I relate to that episode way too much, for years I was just like bill, still attached to an abusive former best friend I haven't spoken to since 2018, I ended up moving on in late 2020.. I too have abandonment issues, bill is a decent man and deserved so much better than lenore
That episode really horrified me and I felt terrible for Bill, thinking what the hell did Lenore do to him? So seeing him moon her was super satisfying in that Ann Richards episode.
I agree, the drunk, young, a little more reckless Hank and the young awesome Bill dynamic would be a interesting contrast. They could explore more of the Peggy/ Hank young years and tell tales of how Hank Bill Jeff Boomhauer and Dale got to be close friends.
Andrew the Amazing M denied himself education and then got denied the glory of duty and got denied the glory of love. Which led to him being a real world version of Icarus. Long story short he tried to have it all at once too soon and life kicked him in the ass for it. It’s something that happens to a lot of people.
Happens in real life all the time. A good friend I grew up w/, his dad was the greatest. He was incredibly caring, had a great family, very athletic, a highly successful architect, designed & built their family home himself as well as a number of buildings in the region. Then a divorce happened & he went from that to living on the streets homeless w/ an addiction. One wouldn't even recognize him. Sadly it can happen to anyone.
The residents of Arlen, not just Bill, are sad examples of what it can be like when your life peaks in High School. Or at least when you treat it that way.
Many American small towns are like that in real life. You can be popular, athletic, and desirable in high school, but don’t let that be when you stop improving yourself
@@fresherturtle1154 And yet many in those small towns are quite content with their lives. I grew up in one, joined the Navy, saw the world and came back home 14 years later. I prefer it, quieter.
The fact they were just winging it with backstories in the early seasons shows they didn't think they'd last long. All us real fans know Hank fell into propane; it was never his dream...
@@ianfinrir8724 If you think of them as people then possibly. He's so in love with propane now that he can't ever remember a time where he didn't. But, I still think Mike Judge and the writers weren't very confident in the show. I'm sure he even said he wasn't sure how a show about a suburban family in a small TX town would go over after Beavis and Butthead...
Hank was selling jeans at Jeans West when Buck Strickland came in, admired his salesmanship and offered him a job selling propane. Hank decided Buck was a better lord to serve. Hank has the ambition and mindset of one of Charlemagne's paladins. He takes tremendous honor in being able to assume an intentionally simple role and serve a simple, universal cause that he believes in. Propane is Hank's little slice of the world, and he'll die to defend it. It's admirable because it's timeless and ultimately impossible to destroy; there will always be Hank Hills, in every culture and every profession, no matter how petty and strange they may seem to outsiders.
I love the first clip of Boomhauer as QB. He can tell the other team exactly what’s gonna happen and nobody has any idea what’s going on. Mike Judge is such a legend
@@irvinmorales1409 That is true, but older Bill only is very strong when he's motivated and confident, which is rare for present Bill, but in his prime, he was always confident, so you could imagine all the events throughout the show that would have been resolved quicker or wouldn't even have happened if Bill was still like his younger self.
Not going to lie. It would be dope if we had a spin of show about hank and the guys in their highschool/college years. Like all the adventures they had.
Bill canonically met Lenore at a Molly Hatchet concert ("passed out in his lap" another instance of Bill protecting the vulnerable and helping people in need...at great personal cost). Arguably Molly Hatchets most famous song "Dreams I'll Never See" is a song where the protagonist wakes up feeling washed-up and sad, like everything is falling apart. stuck thinking about dreams that will never come true. He constantly tries to pull himself together but can't stop thinking about the love he once had, struggling to move on. It's so quintessentially Bill Dauterive. I think of Bill "dragging this fat old bald bastard out into the Alley every day" whenever I hear it
@@irvinmorales1409 Actually, no. Because in that episode, Bill realized how bad his life would've been if he and Charlene were together. Granted, it's not bad in anyone else's book but with Bill? Not so much.
I like the episodes where old Bill shows the strong traits of his younger self. It shows that no matter how far you fall, you still have that badassery inside you. Billdozer ftw 🤘
Like when Bill steals a tank and manages to pull rank on the cops that try to pull them over and even managed to convince the female officer to go out with him on Saturday.
I like how you see some of his old personality in some episodes like when he takes care of Boomhauer after Boomhauer gets dumped and when he teaches Bobby how to barbecue. He's not completely gone.
The Army, and Lenore took a lot away from Bill. But they could never take away his friends. That's because Hank never let them. Hank and the others may get upset around Bill, but it's because he reminds them of everything they lost. Bill had the most of any of them to lose. I think that's why it hits Bill so much harder then the others. Hank list his father and mother but gained it all back becuase of his dedication to others and ability to put those before himself. Dale never knew what he lost because no one ever told him, becuase of Hank no doubt. Dale eventually got it back because of his ability to look at the positives and help other's rather then fear them, even in the most simplest way he could. Boomhower lost his youth and with it his dignity, he gained them back by subverting expectations and keeping the peace in his neighborhood while no one was watching. Bill did the most for everyone early in his life, becuase of this he was rewarded with more then anyone, unfortunately those who give the most usually never stop giving. Bill is a reminder that this world will only keep taking if you don't stop giving. But Bill's story evens out in the end, mostly because his friends (who would never take from him) are there to help him recover. It can seem like too much sometimes, but we see Bill come to a stand at the end and even out to be less of a burden on his friends.
Lenore may have left bill but she didn't seem to take any money from him, bill still had his house after the divorce he must've did a smart move & had her sign a prenup
@@animefan2454 Bill got a placebo, he wasn't given any real medicine. As for the barber thing, well he enlisted to be a soldier and follow orders. That's army life, that's what he signed up for. You don't get to choose.
If Bill got his confidence back, he would do really well. Him being the one who keeps them all save and being the responsible one makes his downfall all the sadder
"I'm gonna sell propane and propane accessories, if my grades are good enough." Really got me for some reason. He's living his freaking childhood dream.
Somewhere in an alternate universe where in the series he married the right woman who truly loved him for who he was and was encouraging and faithful to him instead of that succubus piece of shit Lenore. He ended up staying in shape, retaining his hair, became a highly decorated soldier in the Gulf War, Grenada, and a highly decorated officer in Iraq and became a very highly respected full-bird Colonel.
According to the showrunners of King of the Hill, the plan was to have Bill get into a relationship and eventually marry Laoma, Khans sister. However, since one of the many running gags of the show was that Bill couldn't find a woman, they ruled this out for comedic purposes. As bad as Bills loneliness was, it was really Nancy's affair with John Redcorn and their resulting love child Joseph that was a pain to watch since Dale was obvious.
@@Dank951 eh, not really. At least Dale is quite happy with his life. And although Joseph is not his biological son, he's definitely Dale's son. And John Redcorn got what he deserved, his biological son not acknowledging him, and the woman that he love wouldn't leave her husband.
Bill was enlisted. If anything he’d be a sergeant major probably. Colonel falls under the officer rank structure where sergeant major and other sergeants fall under the non commissioned officer structure.
During the football part all the numbers were named after the Dallas Cowboys greats. Boomhouer wearing 8 for Troy Aikman, Hank wearing 33 Tony Dorsett, 21 Deion Sanders, on the o line someone was wearing 44 Daryl Johnston. Nice little attention to detail I never noticed until now.
Lol at Hank and the boys at a punk show! Dallas has/had a lot of music venues. My parents went there to see the Sex Pistols back in the late 70s and they literally said there were a bunch of “good ol boys” who wandered in and started booing and throwing beer cans at them. It’s crazy how accurate this is.
I actually feel so bad for bill he cared for his friends and even saved Hank from getting his ass kicked he joined the military to protect and now he lost everything
For the love of Bill, they need to give him a win when they come back with that time skip. I don't need much, just him being a little healthier. He's clearly happy now being alone.
@Jacob Dorvinen forgetting your shoes when you are running from danger is out of panicking. What Dale was doing (while I do love him acting like an idiot) was if you make a nine year old boy a firefighter and deal with a burning building on his first day.
You can mourn it for a while and it's kind of therapeutic but I saw after 1 year get out of the house. Change something, anything. It's the only way sometimes you can get knocked loose from a rut