King of the Hill/Bad News Bill

Bad News Bill
Season 13, Episode 16
Airdate	May 3, 2009
Production Number	DABE10
Written by	Dave Schiff
Directed by	Ronald Rubio
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King of the Hill — Season Thirteen

Bad News Bill is the sixteenth episode of the thirteenth season of King of the Hill, and the two hundred fifty-first episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer, Announcer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Adlon (Bobby Hill, Baseball Kid), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Announcer/Tug, Baseball Dad #2), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Chairman)

Also Starring: David Herman (Coach Bradford, Umpire), Scott Klace (Lee Chisolm, Baseball Dad #1)

Plot Overview

Hank dreads baseball season due to years of Bobby's poor performances, but finds a new start with a new league. However, his excitement that the coach is encouraging Bobby into success is tainted when he's chided for not being a supportive father.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Hank: About your outfit, Bill? No.

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• The book Peggy is reading in bed is Dusty's Lust by Stephanie Motto, the same book she was seen picking up at the bookstore in "It Came from the Garage".

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The episode title is a play on the Bad News Bears franchise.

Goofs

• The baseball dad in the red shirt is initially voiced by Johnny Hardwick in the scene at the food stand, but in the climax the same character is clearly voiced now by Scott Klass.

Quotes

• Luanne: Gracie sure spits up a lot. She's definitely her father's child.

• Peggy: Is it already time to sign up Bobby for another season of baseball?

Hank: Or maybe this is the year we forget to. People forget things. See, Peggy, it's completely believable.

• Hank: I just can't sit in the stands for another season of parents looking at me with such... pity. This never arrived. You didn't see anything.

Luanne: But you're not making any sense. That did arrive. I saw something.

• Bobby: Hey, Joseph just told me the baseball forms came. I can't wait to play! Now, where did I put that thing you wear on your hand to catch the ball? I love that thing!

• Bill: This place is great. The newly-cut grass, the freshly-squeezed lemonade. Exactly like my childhood... should have been.

• Hank: I tell you what, it's nice to make a fresh start. I feel like a serial killer who relocated to Mexico.

• Hank: Ah, hello, Coach. Uh, you know those chubby kids that can't run, but can whack the hell out of a ball? Well, Bobby's not one of them. Uh, sorry if he costs you any wins.

Coach Bradford: In my experience, only losers talk about winning. Winning's for losers.

• Bill: Parents and volunteers? Can anyone make better children, even if they never made children?

Coach Bradford: They sure can. Non-parental volunteers are the most dedicated and admired members of our team.

Bill: I'm in! Take that, Big Brothers!

• Hank: I can't believe he said I gave up on Bobby. I mean, maybe I have, but it wasn't all at once. It was a slow, painful process.

• Hank: Well, I'm gonna start fresh with Bobby. From now on, I'm going to support him no matter what.

Peggy: You are truly one of the best fathers who gave up on his son and changed his mind about it that has ever lived.

• Baseball Kid: Large suicide, extra diet.

Hank: Diet? You can't put diet in a suicide. It'll ruin it.

Baseball Kid: What button turns off the commentary? Just pour it, jerk.

• Dale: Hello, Hank. I'll have a cheeseburger. Hold the lettuce, pickles, cheese, and meat, and instead of special sauce, I'd like very special sauce.

Hank: Dang it, Dale, move.

Bill: Hank, this is not the kind of service I expect from my employees.

Hank: I am not your employee.

Bill: Do you ever want to get on the field to see Bobby play?

Hank: (sighs) A cheeseless, burgerless cheeseburger. How would you like that cooked?

• Hank: Well, I just got off the phone with the mother of that boy I hit. She said he's okay. She also said some other stuff, but not in language I care to repeat. She's an emotional woman.

• Luanne: Uncle Hank, don't think of it as being banned from the baseball league. Think of it as being welcome everywhere else.

• Dale: I'm not gonna lie. I'm sensing some tension here. And I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of enjoying it.

• Luanne: What happened? Did he catch it? Oh, my gosh. He went invisible. I don't blame him.

• Bobby: Thank God you came, dad. Whew. That must be what it feels like in baseball hell.