King of the Hill/And They Call It Bobby Love

And They Call It Bobby Love
Season 3, Episode 2
Airdate	September 22, 1998
Production Number	3ABE01
Written by	Norm Hiscock
Directed by	Cyndi Tang
← 3x01 Death of a Propane Salesman (2)	3x03 → Peggy's Headache
King of the Hill — Season Three

And They Call It Bobby Love is the second episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the thirty-seventh episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

and Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone)

Also Starring: J. Evan Bonifant (), Jim Cummings (), Andrew Dorsett (), Dave Thomas (), Lauren Tom (Connie Souphanousinphone)

Special Guest Voice: Chuck Mangione (Himself)

Special Guest Voice: Joanna Gleason (Marie's Mother)

Special Guest Voice: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Marie)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Plot Overview

Bobby meets a girl at school and after hanging out she becomes his girlfriend.

Meanwhile, the guys find a couch in the alley.

Notes

Seen, But Not Heard

• Joseph Gribble

Music

• Hank Williams - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

• Hank Williams - "There's a Tear in My Beer"

• Lynyrd Skynyrd - "I Know a Little"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The guys find a couch in the alley that they soon spruce up. It soon disappears, unaware that it was taken by Bill and put in his living room. Curiously, despite the other guys being in his home in later episodes, they never address it.

Characters

• Bobby has his first girlfriend, but it ends when she breaks it off and after a broken heart, he recovers. The entire time, Connie shows jealousy, confessing to Luanne that she like him.

• Luanne's hair has begun growing back.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program For Programming One Hour Or Less in 1999.

• From this episode on, Toby Huss has been upgraded to the main cast.

Quotes

• Hank: My name? My name is Hank Taxpayer and I want that couch removed. There are people who stand in that alley. (listens) We talk. (listens) Well, that's not really your business, is it? (listens) Sports, mostly. You know.

• Hank: (answering phone) Hello?

Marie: Hi. Can I speak to Bobby, please?

Hank: I'm sorry. You have the wrong number.

Bobby: Who was it, dad?

Hank: Oh, a girl, asking for someone named Bobby.

Bobby: Oh.

• Marie: Bobby, did you know that the average person consumes 500 chickens? That's enough chickens to feed a whole starving village... but they shouldn't eat them. Because it's bad.

• Hank: Bobby has a girlfriend? All right, son. (pause) She's real, right? I mean, she's not imaginary or on a cereal box or anything, is she?

Bobby: No.

Hank: All right.

• Bobby: You want to kiss?

Marie: Nah. I gotta go.

Bobby: You know, Marie, the other night when you wanted to kiss, I didn't feel like it, but I did it anyway. You have to respect my needs, too.

• Bobby: You know, I don't think I've ever seen you guys kiss.

Peggy: Your father has kissed me.

Hank: Peggy!

Bobby: I'm not afraid to show my love. You are.

Peggy: Your father and I have done things you can't even imagine!

Hank: Peggy, please!

• Luanne: Oh, I'm flattered that you asked me to help you with your algebra homework, Connie.

Connie: Uh, actually, Luanne, I don't need you to teach me algebra.

Luanne: Oh, thank God!

• Connie: Well, as you know, Bobby has a girlfriend.

Luanne: Bobby has a girlfriend? And I know it?

• Luanne: Well, if you and Bobby are meant to be, then it'll happen. I mean, Buckley and I weren't meant to be and that's why he blew up.

• Hank: Bobby's Marie is 14 years old.

Peggy: What? Oh, God. That means when she was 3 our Bobby was only 1. It makes me sick just thinking about it.

• Bobby: Marie broke up with me!

Peggy: Aw. It doesn't feel so good, does it, son?

Bobby: No.

Peggy: I guess your love wasn't as strong as your father's and mine, now, was it?

Bobby: No, it wasn't.

• Peggy: (seeing Marie) Is that her? Oh, now it all makes sense. She looks exactly like me.

• Connie: Bobby, are you okay?

Bobby: Me and Marie just broke up. (vomits)

Connie: You're taking it pretty hard. You must have really liked her a lot.

Bobby: Oh, no. No, I just ate a 72-ounce stake dinner in 37 minute-- (vomits)

Connie: Oh, when you finish, you want to come over to my house and watch some television?

(Bobby continues vomiting)

Connie: It doesn't have to be television.