In this episode of KOTH Hank helps Bobby learn the importance of basic automotive repair skills and how they can help you cope with other issues in life. Interestingly the car appears to be an Australia market 78 Ford Falcon XC sedan. Although this car was never seen in another episode again I like to imagine Bobby fixed it up with Hank and eventually drove it.
Free Penny Lane Ippolito, stop them at the boarder of Colorado, dont let them get to Arizona! Free the foundling! And return her to her parents! This is the way!
There is absolutely no way they kept that car any longer then like a week in universe. They don't even keep it in the backyard as like a long term project for Bobby to work on which leads me to believe like with all things Bobby gave up on this too and the car was probably sent back to the dump. But then again, Post Season 5 Judge gave the creative control position to a different department and basically just did was Seth MacFarlane does with his other shows where he just provides the voice direction he has no real power or authority on how he wants the show to be written unless he pitches the idea of having a musical number which is the one exception to the rule. Judge continued to voice Hank all the way up until the 13th and final season and he stayed with this show even when it started to get real bad. Season 8 isn't exactly the best season but it has some really good episodes. Season 9 onward however the show dips so hard in quality you literally have to stare in horror at how unwatchable it becomes. The worst of Simpsons and Family Guy is still leagues more unwatchable compared to the worst bottom of the Barrel of King of the Hill but you can feel the depression overwhelm your body when the show starts losing its original identity.
@Impactjunky, ironically, that vehicle was not available legally in the USA until around 15 years ago. However, Bobby did raise some good points, as did Hank, in this episode.
@Ghost Machine Yeah when I was younger I thought that line was dumb but much later I saw someone restoring a super old car on youtube that very few replacement parts are even made for anymore and the guy rebuilt the starter on it instead of buying a new one. Of course the line about needing a ratchet for the distributor cap is pretty dumb though LoL
I tried learing how to rebuild a alternator but i gave up.half way and said fuck it im just buying a new 1 😂but maybe 1 day when i got the patients ill.sit down and try
The most important thing about learning is doing. Even brushing over some manuals and videos here on RU-vid to get a better understanding of the mechanics of parts is part of the doing process. I learned under the mentoring of older guys like Hank who taught the little tips and tricks.
I think it would’ve been nice to see the car slowly progress to a full repair as the series ran. Each moment occurring as a subtle application in the background. Then in the final episode Bobby starts the car up finally.
Hank probably realized how insane of a pain fixing that car would have been. Hank had a full time job and all other sorts of antics. So fixing this car would have been more than they could handle before Bobby was finally old enough to drive. I mean did you see the car Hank brought home? It's like he picked the worst possible thing he could find. There's plenty of cars in better condition for rebuilding than that disaster.
At the same time though he has no interest in cars. I would have killed to get that opportunity when I was 15 but it never came along so I had to learn when I was a lot older
Man I must be lucky bc when I was 16 I was given a 1999 Jeep Cherokee xj to fix up for my first car. Man i had a little bit of everything on that it was over heating se we put a thermostat and radiator in it only to find out the fins rusted off the water pump then I replaced the suspension the whole way around shocks leafs and coils then I spent 2 months on the rear quarter panels replacing those and painting them then I straightened the front brakes out the last guy put on backwards tore the carpet out bc it was rusting out the floor pans
@@anthonyluke4387 sounds like the average xj I hope you got her nice though those are badass little rings and if you treat em right they'll last as long as you do
You’re looking too much into this from the same people who mad an episode with the focal point of the climax of an episode being airbrakes working in reverse of how they do in real life.
Trust me boby, when you are stuck on the side of the road with your girlfriend and you could do more than ask your carborator how it feels, you be glad that you took autoshop lessons. Wise worda indeed
@@jarethhogan3274 not really. There’s tons of parts out there for old fords and Chevys. I tried getting into Volkswagen and I couldn’t find much for my 89 golf.
Hank: I didn't know if you were a Ford guy or a Chevy guy Bobby: Oh Dad..... I want a Toyota - Scotty Kilmer on RU-vid says its the best car ever Hank: Bwahahahaha
Bobby: Aw come on! This car looks like its for retirees! I want something that actually looks as fast as it runs! Hank: You will not slander Caroll Shelby's name in this house boy, and i'm not going to buy you a car from a country that we had to defend outselves from. Bobby: I don't think Shelby ever made a JZ Engine before
No, salvage usually only applies to serious accidents/flood damage. More than likely the car would have to be brought back to running condition to be registered though. In a state like Texas, the laws are much more lenient, for better or worse.
Well if its in a junkyard chances are its was probably considered a loss and the title would probably go to the junkyard but yes it would probably be a salvage title if fixed however you could get a "rebuilt" title for it
Moments like those are few and far between. Most of the time it's sheer grunt work. Feed them, do dishes. Make sure they're dressed appropriately, do laundry, etc. Same stuff as people with no kids just... More.
@@methos-ey9nf True, but I'm guessing that no matter how tired you get there is always that sense of accomplishment/ pride when looking at your little one. We non-parents do it to keep our wheels spinning...you guys are building the future. I wish these moments happened a little more often for ya but either way, my hats off to you parents of the world.
I’d do the same thing if I had a son it teach my son a couple things. Responsibility Knowledge Skill Respect And above all I’d get quality time with my son. Not a bad way to introduce a first car.
This reminds me of me and my Dad. He wanted me to be a mechanic, I was hellbent on being a sensitive artist. Now that I'm into old cars, I imagine him looking down and smiling to see the 69 Ford pickup in my driveway.
@Kendall Pigg Glad you finally saw art in the cars. I've been driving a 68 Roadrunner ever since I got my license and it will always be my main transportation.
My little brothers Jeep alternator went out back in highschool, we didn’t have any money and he was not sure what to do. I told him, you gotta take it off to replace it anyway so get it off and hand it to me cause we’re gonna fix it. He didn’t believe me but when we cracked it open we found the brush springs were at maxed out and the bushes were only halfway worn down. We stretched the springs out and put it back together. He ran it up to autozone and had it tested (because he’s a non believer) Tested good at 14.7v Still have that Alternator on that Jeep today. 1987 xj Cherokee 4.0L factory 5 speed 2 door, we did have to replace the BA10 for an AX15 tho
@@samrolfe2224 I gotta give our little box the respect it deserved, they are junk boxes but that thing ate everything we threw at it and then some. Then one day I tried to do a burn out and BOOM! It shattered
Bobby Hill's my favorite character in any animated series. He's a good kid with a good heart in an environment that doesn't understand him, but likes him anyway.
Bobby is unlikable in this for me because he deceived his dad and rejects any kind of good manly qualities and I get that hank is just old school backwards, a bit too obsessed with gender norms but men naturally like to have qualities like hank like fixing cars and their house because it makes them feel independent. It's a feeling of independence when you can fix a flat tire or change your oil and keep your own car running and you save money by doing your own small things to maintain it. It's a feeling of independence and responsibility. Women have these to and cooking and doing laundry and keeping the house looking neat makes a woman feel responsible and makes her feel like she's grown up and is an adult and values having money into her home and values her family and taking care of them. These are healthy feelings of being men and women and not boys or girls who are not fully developed and don't have any responsibilities to anyone or anything
@@runbmc35 There's nothing wrong with a man not wanting to do things like getting into cars in that way, or a woman not wanting to cook and do laundry (NOBODY wants to fucking do laundry bro). Everything you mentioned is something that'd be a good life skill to learn, regardless of gender. This isn't the 1950s anymore where men do all the working and car stuff and women stay in the kitchen and laundry room. Both genders are free to do whatever tf they want without some asshole judging them for not being "masculine" or "feminine" enough.
Bobby is why I love Hank. Bobby challenges his dads set ways from his toxic father and helps Hank show us what tolerance looks like. We can coexist with people we don’t agree with and still love them the same.
This is exactly the car that everyone needs to start out with. They could learn how to fix it up and when they turn 16 that can drive it and appreciate the hard work they did. Much more of a valuable lesson then just buying a new car
Exactly, more people need to get their kids involved in atleast basic automotive maintenance, at the very least teach them how to check fluids, swap tires, and check for brake wear and rust. There are alot of people who drive every day that dont even know what a radiator is or how to check or change their fluids which causes people to not even realize that they are driving a completely unsafe vehicle.
Exactly, I’m 16 years old and the sad part is people twice my don’t even know what a starter is lol but I’m thankful to have a lot of knowledge about cars. Crazy thing is I’m taking auto classes in my school too but people need to know how to change a wheel by the side of the road at least
First car, brand new, needed craploads of work, traded in for a patrol car, loved that thing, if I couldn’t do something, had someone else do it, but I’d be there. Can change a tyre, the oil, AC charge, next job is coolant flush, I’ve aided in brake changes, ain’t that hard unless you have a rust problem. Something a lot more satisfying about walking into a NAPA, than sitting in the dealer’s waiting room.
Honestly that ride would've been amazing for Bobby if they eventually got it fixed up (more like restored). Especially since Hank and the guys know what they're doing. That could've paid for like 2 years of college if they did it well enough.
@@Impactjunky not to mention at this time this is a mid-70s malaise four-door (it's not malaise but most people wouldn't know the difference between a Australian one back then) worth a whole lotta nothing
That car has been sitting for so long there's flowers growing off the top of the engine.. I love all the little details in this show from dialogue to physical elements it's pretty great and very underrated
I used to occasionally watch this show growing up... now today, I operate a propane company, love beer (brewing and drinking), and am always in the garage teaching my kids how to wrench... maybe this show had more of an impact on my life than I thought 🤣
@@joerivas9847 🤣🤣🤣 propane, and propane accessories… but no, just focus on the distribution of propane to residential/commercial/industrial customers… don’t do much on the retail end of appliances or “accessories” lol
"Trust me Bobby. When you're stuck at the side of the road with your girlfriend, and you can do more than ask your carbourettor how it feels, you'll be glad you took auto shop." Love that line right there.
Bobby is so intelligent and mature for his age. The fact that he's able to recognize and talk about the cycle of abuse in families, and the unique ways that manifests, speaks volumes to what a special kid he truly is.
Not to put down that idea, but let's be honest - Bobby was upfront about how he took Peer Counciling mainly because he saw it as a means of picking up dates. That's not really a sign of a wisdom beyond his years.
@@GDark08 It's a good thing Bobby learned early on not to lead on girls, especially girls with poor emotional coping mechanisms. This episode is a good example. The girl was following Bobby home and became obsessed with him because he was giving her a false impression of affection when really he didn't care. That's incredibly selfish and can even be dangerous if the person becomes violent. Hearts are precious things y'all. Be mindful and courteous to those in your lives. If they think you like them when you really don't, be truthful, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
The rusted bolts that still don’t come out with heat oh those ones are a pain in my backside. Good times though once you finally get it out and you tell I win car I win
@@davesaussieduster My dad has always been a Chevy man, but he started to embrace Dodge in 2005, buying a durango just months after i was born. He bought a 2012 Ram 1500 Outdoorsman in 2016, and now, almost 19 years later, i'm about to own 2 70's Dart Sport's while driving around that very same Durango. Weird how 1 small thing can change a person.
@@mildly_miffed_man1414 Shop classes in the east coast and west coast are very rare now. Maybe in the mid west its still around but from my perspective it's rare.
My dad helped me buy a truck but didnt teach me shit he said heres a bucket of sockets and wrenches and a 20+year old ratchet he bought in mexico back in 89 all i can say thanks to him i learned and now im what was suppose to be just a simple lesson on "be a man" turned into my career
Me too. My dad is still awesome and gave me $600 car and I spent every day that summer fixing it. It ran but constantly needed work. Unfortunately it the clutch went out and I couldn’t fix it. But he was so impressed that he got me a $5,000 car that’s still in perfect shape YEARS later.
I feel ya on that. My dad called his 455ci Big Block V8 1969 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 Cutlass a Chevelle. I looked at him funny for saying that. He got it as a present in the 1990s for passing freshman year without threatening to shoot up the school. My dad's parents told me that because my old man was a troubled youth.
@@faithce4936 or just your drive way. Dude legit it's howe and my dad fix our vehicles and most of our family members who can't afford to go into a shop but can afford the parts. hell you don't even need a drive way you can fix it infront of your apartment/house if you don't have a driveway. And most fixes can be down in a couple of hours.
@@faithce4936 just buy a 1,000 car fix it sell it for 1,500 buy a 1,500 dollar car fix it sell it for 2,000. Rinse and repeat you could buy your self a nice sports real quick.
@@kingkota2302 Just pray you don't pick up a bad gear box and you got to watch out for the buyer/seller limit before you need a dealers license in your particular state. Things to watch out for.
shades boomhauer already said the engine was cracked. You cant fix a cracked block with the engine still in the car. One way or the other that motor has to come out if you want to fix the car
shades true but if the block is broken the engine is toast. Even if it was repairable it would have to be sent to a machine shop to be repaired. If this engine is blown it needs to be removed to get taken apart to find out why it blew up.
@Night shade the diagnostic is already done. The engine is cracked. There is no way to repair a broken engine block in your garage it has to be replaced or taken to a machine shop to be fixed.
Yes it was some great entertainment!!! God knows we need more of it!! I thank you for adding these little bits of humor and wisdom to my life every now and then!!! God Bless You and your family, be safe my dear friend 🙏 ❤
@@lisamartinez9887 You're welcome, God bless you and your family as well! To be honest I don't usually post stuff like this though. I post all different kinds of things but the main focus of my channel is my low budget project cars. I know that sort of thing isn't for everybody so I'm not posting those vids for views, just trying to get involved with the budget muscle car community here on youtube and it's been fairly successful so far.
Well I've become a faithful follower and I grew up watching and enjoying friends and family working on cars, especially muscle cars and trucks so I'm sure I'm in great company!!! So you have a fan of your channel for life 😆
Should have listened to Boomhauer: "Dang ol' axle's busted engine's cracked too man. Dat ol' heada gasket blown and dang ol' just piece of junk, man." Cracked engine needs welding skill to fix, out of scope for an auto shop class. Head gasket replacement means you need to take the head off, which is a real PITA even if you know how to do it.
No high stakes. No half-assed jokes every 2 seconds. No Sci-Fi shenanigans. Almost no politicalnes. Just a fun, light-hearted, based show about a father raising his son. I love this show.
@@Tofuey TBH, it was probably one of the earliest television depictions of an unapologetic conservative being confronted with a world rapidly shifting progressive around him. Pity the real world doesn't have Hank's willingness to accept everyone for who they are. Dale for instance, is the epitome of a modern conspiracy theorist (though ironically, some of the conspiracies Dale warned us about back then actually turned out to be real-world truths, such as illegal government surveillance). But Hank accepts him. Hank is totally fine with Bobby being in a relationship with Connie - a non-white, Asian-American girl. He's fine with his next door neighbors being Asian immigrants. He has a solid friendship with John Redcorn (a Native American).
Asian dad's be like I didn't know if you were a pocket rocket civic man... Or a normal person who would drive something better To be fair tho, civics are nice tho. They just become something else when you dip the wheels and cut the cat off 😂
My Dad hates working on cars, but is one hell of a carpenter. Yet I love fixing up cars and cant stand carpentry. It goes to show, that we are all our own person, with different skill sets and interests.
@kms now That's awesome! My dad bought me my first car as a fixer-upper too and I'm still driving it over a decade later. I'll never sell it for any amount of money.
My dad hated working on cars. I bought my first project a few months ago, and I’ll be learning myself unfortunately, in a few years I’ll have a nice car.
@1spunkymonkey2 I believe you're right, someone else commented last night that they thought it was an XB and then I remembered that the XC actually looks a lot like that with the recessed headlight area. After searching through pics last night it seems to be a 75-77 XC with the plain hood and 4 headlights. I guess Mike Judge or whoever drew the car must have based it on an XC even though we never got that exact car here.
@@Impactjunky If memory serves me right the XC was built from July 1976 to late 1978 when it was replaced by the European styled XD Falcon. Bobby's car is most likely a 1978 GS model because the 1976.5-1977 cars did not have a Ford badge in the grille, where the 1978's did, it most likely has a 302 V8 as signified by the quad headlights although the 351 Cleveland could also be the engine
@@1spunkymonkey2 thanks for the info, I searched up different year model xc pics last night and it showed me ones with quad headlights and a Ford badge for 75 through 77 so I assumed that was correct
"When you're broke down on the side of the road, you'll be glad you can do more than tell your carburetor its feelings." Yep, very important life skills. People don't realise how work like that can clear the mind. Even difficult rusty bolts up in the rust belt, after using every word in the book to get it loose....you realise everything else isn't so bad anymorr.
Turning wrench is turning wrench. And once you can diagnose problems on an old car you can diagnose ones on a new car. Now it may just be replacing sensors or fuses rather then rebuilding carbs or setting points
@@tl5108 except theres 10 millions sensors on new cars, some of which can cause others to fail. it turns into a never ending electrical gremlin nightmare.
Ngl I'm really happy my dad taught me how to turn a wrench, I saved up and got me a barely running 3000GT for $1,200. We took that thing apart and put it all back together in perfect running order. Now in my 30s I do all my car maintenance myself and when something breaks 90% of the time I crack open a cold one and do it myself in the garage.
That's the beauty of the show. Sometimes hank was right. Other times he's wrong. The show's never one sided or biased, and doesn't try to paint the audience as horrible people if they don't agree with something
People had to make me do some of my (now) favorite things when I was a kid too. Having to do things you don't want to do is just part of being a child.
Yea but if he didnt make him take shop Bobby would just be asking his car about how it feels. As a parent you gotta make your kids go through shit they don't want to learn skills to survive.
I think it makes the show more realistic that Hank can only understand things from his point of view and we get to see Bobby deal with it. As a kid I felt like Bobby, I hated work, but now I am an adult I realize how many minor handyman skills my parents taught me that some of my friends are clueless about. My buddy couldn't figure out how to get his toilet to stop running and I looked like genius when I told him to shut the water off and I was able to fix it by pulling out one piece and putting back in without tools.
The fact that we never see it again actually feels pretty accurate to real life. I imagine Bobby never really taking to it like Hank wanted and the car sat right where it was parked.
*Hank:* "I didn't know if you were a Ford man or a Chevy man." *Bobby:* "Actually Dad, I'm a Honda man." *Hank:* "WWWAAAAAAAAAA!!! MY GOD I FAILED AS A FATHER!"
Dude this is an amazing gesture that hank tried to give Bobby. I'd love to do this with my child, have them really earn their car in a way that really no one else could feel.
