Atill can't get over when Hank threw his sandwich at Luanne, it flew across the kitchen while staying perfectly together until it smacked her with an audible sound.
A neat little detail after this episode is that the Mega Lo Mart actually hires older and more experienced people to be managers after this episode (we see one in the episode where Dale is hired to deal with their rat problem). That might explain why Hank doesn't have a problem going to Mega Lo Mart afterward, since he knows actually competent people are running things.
Kinda like what the opposite happened to “Home Depot” experts used to be the first employees, after the suits thought of saving Pennie’s, they started to hire people like Buckley.
I love that there were advertisements teasing that maybe Hank died because the show creators wanted to move the show to California and Hank (as an actor) refused.
Fun fact: I used to get asked why propane tanks weren't allowed inside Lowe's before we got an automated dispenser I would always use this episode as an example. If they saw the episode they immediately understood, if not it took 10 seconds to explain.
lol...I read the replies because I knew someone wouldn't get the joke...shit maybe I missed the joke. It's hard to read if the reply was a joke or serious. it could be read either way
This episode makes me feel old. I remeber it well when it first came out and the TV guides with all the different covers speculating on who died in the event.
I love the way Hank and the other former small business guys are treated by their teenage superiors at Mega Lo Mart. I would have loved to see Hank working there over a period of time. Notice how Hank walks into work at the beginning of the day with one of the upper management guys, while Buckley is Hank's department manager.
Important lesson in this episode: some jobs are best left to professionals and a large corporate entity doesn't particularly care who does the job. Worked for Walmart for 8 years and can say first hand they have no idea how or where to put people. They can and WILL put people in charge of firearm sales who have a flatline zero knowledge of what they're doing. This applies to vehicle parts, food, chemicals, anything and everything
I'm so thankful that Albertson's Company gave me the opportunity to apply my new (at the time) accounting clerk certificate to perform as one of their bookkeepers. It was even a gratifying role, but short lived once a university offered me more than $14/hr to do accounting for them.
I’m still just hung up on the “firearms sold at Walmart” part of that comment. Those are two things that should never be that close together in the same sentence.
23:49 I always took this moment as Luanne displaying a resemblance to her mother, getting angry at being denied something she wanted albeit in a very immature and juvenile way as opposed to Leanne’s more violent tendencies; which I especially find stands out as, while Luanne does get angry throughout the series (e.g. her prank war with Bobby after she broke up with Rad Thibodeaux, her boxing episode, when Lucky got arrested covering for Hoyt, etc), she doesn’t quite display that especially venomous temper that she did in this episode and Cotton’s debut episode where he slaps her behind, which I believe is a part of her flanderization throughout the series where she keeps becoming more stupid and incompetent (and religious) rendering her more mollified, toothless and incapable/oblivious to inflict harm on others.
Layaway Ray seemed to be subject to a civil trial rather than a criminal one, because the plantiff was his insurance company and not the State of Texas.
I never understood why they would have Bucky be in charge of Propane unless there was some kind of Insurance Fraud involved. Like he failed at his job so they made him into a greeter you don’t just go from greeter to manager of Propane.
Unless mega low can go from place to place with propane trucks and refill hundreds of gallons of propane for people's homes (gas stoves and hot tubs. Even the furnace in the winter if its needed.) Strickland should have been fine in arlin.
It would still have taken enough business from them to force them to lose loads of money. Strickland sells grills.and other accessories as well. So, I imagine the largest portion of their customers base is civilian. Most of which just use the portable tanks. The other customers probably bring in more money, but if you lose 30-40 percent of your income overnight...You won't be just fine as a business.
That bit about Walmart managers not giving a crap and leaving you to suffer is 100% true, and I’m not afraid to admit it! I work in the deli and let me tell you, working the slicers, the friers, the hot case, and the dish pit all by your self is impossible! They MIGHT send someone to switch with you long enough for you to take your lunch and that’s IT.
I can attest to that as well. Also worked at the deli in Walmart. There really should be a sign outside the door 'Abandon all hope ye who enter'. The amount of times we were given only 3 hours for TWO people to clean the whole deli (taking apart slicers, carefully cleaning them, wrapping salads, packaging leftover stuff and marking it down to take out to the floor, shutting down the hot case and taking it apart, ALL THE DISHES, etc.) because if you go over your hours you get punished. God help you if the person you close with calls off. Then you're doing all of that on your own. Or getting immediately yelled at by a manager passing by asking why there are no rotisserie chickens below the hot case right after a literal village of Amish women took ALL of them as soon as I took them out. I don't miss it at all. Abandon all hope ye who get hired by Walmart
Casual face reveal? I guess being faced with the existential threat blowing up in a propane explosion can drive people to leave a more personalized mark on the world
Just wanted to say I appreciate all the work and attention to detail you put into these videos. I found your channel a couple weeks ago and have already binge watched all your videos . Being a kid who didn't have cable King of the hill on channel 11 was one of the cartoons that was on during weekdays and has a special place in my heart. I always look forward to seeing the next episode and your brake downs😊.
15:50 Incidentally, there's a term for this kind of analysis: Watsonian vs. Doylist Perspective. Watsonian Perspective applies to the internal logic of why stuff happens in a story, while the Doylist perspective describes the out-of-story reasons for the writer's decisions.
Keep a-movin' Dan, Don't ya listen to 'im Dan, He's a devil not a man and he spreads the burning sands with water. COOOOOOOLLLLLLL CLEEEEEAAARRRR WAAAATEEEEERRRR. God I love that song. Also is this the best ever episode(s) of King Of The Hill? Arguably, yes. All the two-parters are Elder God Tier. Great review as always, Mr. Skeleman.
And thank you for showing the part of the sandwich hitting Luanne. So funny, and makes you think how the sandwich keeps together before it comes in contact.
We all thought we would be a Hank Hill when we grew up.. having a wife, kid, job and house. Sadly most of us ended up like Bill, alone and sad! At least Bill has a home and a job, all I have is pain and suffering and being stuck in a wheelchair in my parents basement. I watch King of the Hill because it takes me back to a time where I wasn't so sad and broken!
There’s a reactor I watch, he was looking at the episode where Peggy gets a letter from a former “student” who is on death row. Her & Hank start arguing & she brings up “how many people have died in propane explosions.” And Hank/Luanne were in the Mega Lo Mart explosion & almost lost their lives. So for her to bring that up over her petty little argument is actually disgusting.
I was just talking to my husband last night about how you can now buy groceries on Amazon. It’s so weird now how yes, it use to be big Walmart we all talked about buying out all of small businesses, now it’s Amazon.
love these videos, this is so well done and thought provoking. You really were a teacher eh? lmao good job man, 32 ironworker here and I watched every second
Despite the tragedy of the explosion this episode was a nonstop barrage of jokes that were just hit after hit after hit. Yes its tragic what happened but at the same time it still feels like an integral watershed moment in the show that feels important as a fan to remember for good or bad
True for most of those episodes,, but they have more positive conclusions, whereas this one stays pretty bleak to the end. And luanne still suffers from losing her boyfriend much later in the series (tho technically they were broken up...).
If my memory serves me correctly The Peggy falling on the plane episode was identical to this episode in the sense that it ended on a cliffhanger where a character was assumed to be dead. So in my opinion that episode was dead. That being said you could make the argument that I'm wrong because it was possible Peggy survived but I don't think that would be reasonable even though that's what happened. Thanks for your response. @@mihan5660
Buckley doesn`t even show concern for Luanne when she might have to drop out of beauty school, and he's completely apathetic to her distress. That shows his behaviour comes from a place of selfishness. Buckley never treated Luanne well.
I remember when I first saw this episode and I 100% thought Hank would save the day, before the explosion. When it exploded and I was SHOOK! Same with Peggy jumping out of the plane. I really thought at the last minute the parachute should open. Then SHOOK!
He deserves that tough love from Peggy for the tough love he gave her in the boggle episode. I don’t care if it’s later in the series or not, he still deserves it.
I never reaized it before, but I Layaway Ray being one of the disgruntled workers was likely very deliberate in hindsight. Megalomart blows up, and we have a guy that we know previously commited arson?
I'm still confused by how the mega lo mart blew up. I know Hank smelled the propane, But wouldn't you need an open flame for it to cause an explosion? Also, While I do understand why it happened, Watching Luanne act like a child to Hank because of how she didn't get the job just felt uncomfortable to me. Like I know they're kinda playing into her lack of intelligence but it honestly kinda feels like character regression.
Nope. I thought it was cool. Heck I didn't think much of a baby girls funeral despite staring at the body. It wasn't until i saw the plane shot down episode of M*A*S*H that I started to take tragedies seriously
14:40ish, you ignore Bucks mismanagement of company funds. It's often times shown that Buck takes cash out the register and gambles or goes to jug store with it.
I ignored it because that factor isn't revealed/discussed until much later in the series. I'm sort of doing these in a "as information arrives" fashion, because otherwise I have to keep all +200 episodes in mind when evaluating any one joke and cross reference it with everything else. I'll still do that when I think it's necessary (usually saying something like "we later find out") but generally I stick to just what's on deck currently or what's already been reviewed. Good point though!
It just occurred to me that Hank is pouring out Mega-Lo-Mart ketchup and tossing more items his family needs to get by. They may need that ketchup, etc. to survive the unemployment. Oh, and Thatherton is probably Arlen County’s Walter White; he’ll be ok.
I appreciate the argument about Buck paying severance. Maybe for the sake of movement of the episode, Buck folded too quickly. But they needed a mechanism to make Hank's situation frantic enough to feel the need to get a job at Mega Lo Mart. Hank has plenty of skills that he could have probably easily gotten a job running an end-loader or excavator. He may not be hazmat certified, but he could legally drive a semi. I'm certain he'd be OSHA AND Red Cross certified. But Hank has to have a savings for more than just a retirement RV or Harley Davidson Motorcycles, so he probably has a safety net (like the credit card Bobby stole from the kitchen cabinet, but I can't expect him not to have an emergency fund...he was the original shelter leader and made it all the way to Eagle ). It really doesn't make a lot of sense. Hank was so stir crazy during his mandated vacation that he picked a single lead off his tree just so he could rake it up. He has to work. You'd think that could be enough motivation to make him make the rash decision to accept a job at Mega Lo Mart. Edit: I just watched the comment that R2D says he thinks Hank lives from paycheck to paycheck. I tend to disagree. I think Hank does ok, is solid "middle class" but is at a glass ceiling so he's going to have to make do with what he gets. Even when Buck dies, there's no guarantee Hank makes manager.
Ever since I came across this channel a month ago, I've really enjoyed all the King of the Hill videos you've done. I find myself eagerly awaiting more episodes to come. In short, keep up the good work. 👍
The episodes that come as two partners are the best. I wish though peggy got pregnant with their second kid I really wanted to see how she handles pregnancy
I think part of the simp argument comes from the fact that now it's normal for women to have their own money and prospects, So there's a fine line between supporting them and being taken advantage of
I doubt that. Women have been earning their own money for a few decades; they only want to be treated with some respect from guys. However, there are way too many guys who feel very entitled to women's bodies and well... It's obnoxious. So, if some men can't quit treating women like objects and expect women to Fawn all over them without any actual reason, then they should not act surprised when they are some women who will take advantage just because those guys are shallow. You should be able to express affection and be able to have a give and take relationship with whoever you're dating. It's all about putting in equal effort.
I havent seen full episode of this show, but i was shocked that Hank would throw a sandwich right at Luanne's head. That seems a step to far out of character. 21:43
2:12 A missed opportunity that you didn't add that Super Sayian Hank from that one YTP, but yeah. Honestly, Season 2 ended off with a great cliffhanger.
The inexplicable palpable anxiety I felt on the pause between "this episode has been" and "reviewed 2 death." Also I will not be gaslit into believing in this supposed face reveal.
