King Of The Hill: Bobby Hill’s 10 Most Awkward Moments

2022-09-03 04:13:07 By : Mr. cai lei

From dog feed to deli meats, Bobby Hill is no stranger to questionable decisions and the awkwardness that follows.

Highlighting the minutia of small-town Texas through a warm yet critical lens, King of The Hill's comedic take on family life in the south comes from a place of love. Dealing with more Hank Hill, propane, and propane accessories, much of the show also focuses on the misadventures of his son Bobby.

Voiced by the inimitable Pamela Adlon, Bobby is shameless, sweet, and the direct opposite of his father in almost every way. Blissfully ignorant to judgment, Bobby's trustworthy nature often leads him into the most embarrassingly cringe-inducing situations.

Bobby is forced to smoke a carton of cigarettes after Hank finds him smoking a Manitoba 100—the official cigarette of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—in the Mega-Lo-Mart bathroom. With Bobby green from the nicotine and soon to yak, Hank decides to correct his form and unintentionally opens the door to addiction.

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From eating a nicotine patch like a dog and huffing a stranger's secondhand smoke at a bus stop like a rat to almost setting the Hill house on fire while smoking under a blanket, Bobby's behavior is rock bottom grim. Blaming Hank in front of the support group, the awkwardness and shock of the situation parallels the relentlessness of addiction.

Hank is forced to go to driving school after getting into an accident backing out of his driveway. Led by comedian Booda Sack (Chris Rock), Hank immediately becomes joke fodder. After learning that his comedy idol is teaching the class, Bobby starts to tag along.

Advised by Booda to tell jokes about his own people, Bobby searches "white people" online and lands on the White Nationalist Party's homepage. From asking how many Aryans were in attendance to making jokes about slavery and stealing, Bobby delivers the most offensive set imaginable to a racially diverse room. A causality of his naivety, this was certainly an off-tune and tense moment for one of King of the Hill's most likable characters.

With the school's potential livelihood riding on Bobby's standardized test scores, memorable side character Principal Moss takes it upon himself to cheat the inevitable by pushing Bobby into special education. Alongside Arlen's worst students, Bobby embraces his bogus classification to an unsettling degree.

Singing children's songs and making bracelets, Bobby covers his tracks while abusing his new identity. Overloading a log flume at Alamo Land because "he's special needs," Bobby and crew all fall into the water while goofing off, terrifying everyone in attendance. On the news as the face of the unchaperoned special needs community, Bobby's actions are not only in poor taste but speak volumes about the quality of Tom Landry Middle School's educational system.

Signing up for a 5k to raise money for school, Bobby piques Hank's interest and pride over his newfound athletic prowess. Waiting for Bobby at the finish line, Hank soon gets a call from his son who's over at the Mocha Bean having given up seconds after the race started.

With Bobby's lack of physical talent later being used as a motivational tool for the track and field team, Bobby revels in his unlikely letter status. Clearly the butt of the joke, viewers (and Hank) have to witness one of the best cartoon characters of the 90s slowly realize being the mascot for ineptitude isn't the blessing he thought it was.

Realizing that Bobby doesn't fit into restrictive children's sizing, Hank and Peggy take him to H Dumpty's plus-sized clothing store. After the initial shock of elastic waists and kids yelling "this is a fat kids store," Bobby is excited to find clothes that actually fit.

Seeing Bobby as the poster boy for big boys, H Dumpty corrals him into modeling and snaps him in all sorts of sensual, embarrassing poses—the Coppertone bare bottom pose being the worst. From having his behind plastered across the local newspapers to being physically removed from a plus-sized model show at the mall by his embarrassed father, Bobby's modeling career was as cringe for him as it was for Hank; it just took time for him to realize it.

Nervous over being invited to his first boy/girl party, Bobby would find his groove by making a move on an inanimate object. Smitten with the training head Luanne brought home from beauty school, Bobby would see sparks in its lifeless eyes and ditch a Jockey shorts sale at the mall to buy some alone time.

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Dressed in a smoker's jacket and devilishly spinning a bottle of ketchup, Bobby would finally meet those pillowy Styrofoam lips with his own...right as his mother Peggy walked in on the action. The trauma of having mom walk in while they're having relations with an inanimate object is so painfully hard to watch that it almost has to be based on a personal experience.

Lured in by the luster of Howie Mandel and organ meats, Bobby begins an ill-considered relationship with the Showbiz Deli. Hooked on the chopped chicken liver the owner orders in a drum from a catalog, Bobby gets gout.

While Bobby is excited about the "get out of the dance free card" his gout toe gives him, Connie flips the script and goes without him. Hurt and embarrassed over his self-wrought immobility, Bobby must hop, crawl, and roll his way to the dance. Few things could kill an ego like losing one's shot with their crush to a sandwich named the Louie Anderson.

At the 4Skore boy band concert with Joseph, Connie, and Connie's friend Jordan, Bobby is fired up over the music and his burgeoning feelings for Jordan and begins freak dancing with her. Steps away from Hank, the Hill patriarch is mortified and yanks him away, embarrassing him in front of his friends and crush.

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Not to be outdone, Bobby and Jordan would serendipitously find themselves locked in a closet for 7 Minutes in Heaven. Nervously blundering through conversation as an eager crowd cheers for them to disrobe and make out, the pressure and tension are unbearable. As Hank busts in and again yanks Bobby away from Jordan, the embarrassment of being ripped away from a "cool kids" party by his dad felt like salvation from the juvenile awkwardness of fumbling through feelings and first kisses.

After Bobby develops an allergy to Lady Bird, Hank builds an upscale doghouse for the family dog. When she won't move in, Bobby happily takes her place. Viewing the dog house as a starter home, Bobby thrives in his little bachelor pad before becoming lost in it.

Growing more feral the longer he's inside, Bobby gets to the point of crawling on all fours in his underwear while eating cereal slop from a dog bowl. As Connie walks in on his feeding, there was no ignoring the awkward reality of what he became.

With Bobby and Luanne in the midst of a prank war over pushing away charismatic grifter Rad Thibodeaux (Matthew McConaughey), Hank uses Bobby's swapping of Luanne's birth control pills with Sweet Tarts to teach him a lesson. Convincing Bobby that Luanne is pregnant because of his prank, Hank tells his son that he must marry his cousin to make things right.

Mortified because he's 12 and now in an incestuous relationship, Bobby's fears are radiant. As he hyperventilates and collapses to the ground after Luanne kisses him during the "wedding," Bobby learns in the most uncomfortable of ways that there are consequences for his actions and some of them are illegal in 24 states.

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