King of the Hill/Hank's Back!

Hank's Back!
Season 8, Episode 20
Airdate	May 9, 2004
Production Number	8ABE15
Written by	Aron Abrams & Gregory Thompson
Directed by	Robin Brigstocke
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King of the Hill — Season Eight

Hank's Back! is the twentieth episode of the eighth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred sixty-ninth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill, Female Customer, Mandy, Melinda), Brittany Murphy (credit only), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Male Student), Stephen Root (Buck Strickland, Bill Dauterive, Dr. Pitt)

and Toby Huss (Joe Jack, Grocery Customer, Chet)

Special Guest Voice: Johnny Depp (Yogi Victor, Brown Shoes)

Special Guest Voice: Marg Helgenberger (Mrs. Hanover, Pretty Student)

Special Guest Voice: Phil Hendrie (Pete, Dr. Wallis, Chairman)

Also Starring: David Herman (Male Customer, Dr. Cole), Jonathan Joss (John Redcorn), Danny Trejo (Enrique)

Plot Overview

When Hank's back begins to incapacitate him, he looks at having to go on worker's comp.

Meanwhile, Peggy offers her bagging services to a grocery store.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Yogi Victor: (warbling)

Music

• Teddy Pendergrass - "Close the Door"

• The Marshall Tucker Band - "Heard It in a Love Song"

Trivia

The Show

• This episode is also known as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hank".

• This is the second episode focused on Hank's back problems. The first was the similarly titled "Hank's Back Story".

Quotes

• Hank: I spent all day at work bent over like an L. Good posture is one of a salesman's most potent weapons.

• Dr Cole: What your back needs is rest. Just have your office send over your workers' compensation forms and I'll sign off on them.

Hank: Workers' comp? Do I look like a hobo to you? No, sir! I'm not going on welfare.

• Dr Cole: Well, if you insist on working, I'll write you a prescription for pain medicine.

Hank: Whoa, there, Dr Feelgood. I work at a propane dealership, not Woodstock.

Dr. Cole: Then I'm sorry, but all Western medicine can really offer you are drugs and nothing. But some people have had good luck with yoga. I hear here's a studio over in McMaynerbury.

Hank: Yoga? Isn't that a cult?

Dr Cole: The group that rented the space before them was a cult. That's probably what you're thinking of.

• Hank: (to the doctor) I hate to ask you this, but I'm going to need some help putting my pants back on.

• Peggy: I hope I'm not being fussy. Actually, I know I'm not. But you put my canned tomatoes on top of my bread and my chicken right next to my bleach.

Mandy: So?

Peggy: So, I think my family deserves better than poisoned chicken sandwiches on crushed bread.

• Bill: Yeah, Coach's special vitamins really did the trick. I broke my leg going for a touchdown and I didn't realise it for two days! Took seven police officers to get me into that ambulance.

• Mrs Hanover: So what are we looking at here? Slip and fall, carpal tunnel? Oh, here it is. "Lifted two propane tanks at once."

Hank: Yeah, I almost wrote "temporary insanity." Boy, a lot of paperwork, huh?

Mrs Hanover: Mm. It's half my job. The other half is exposing fakers.

Hank: Why would anybody fake it? I love the look on a customer's face when I top off their propane tank. The government can't send me that kind of satisfaction in the mail.

Mrs Hanover: Mister Hill, you can take it down a notch.

• Dr Pitt: Oh, well played, Mister Hill. It's my medical opinion that you might not be faking. Go home. Wait for your cheque.

Hank: Well, aren't you gonna help me? I don't want a cheque. I just want to get back to work.

Dr Pitt: I already said well played, Mister Hill.

• Hank: Your shoe's untied, Bill.

Bill: How embarrassing. I thought I'd removed the laces from these shoes.

• Bill: You'll see, Hank. Lying around the house alone all day isn't so bad. After a while, your couch and your TV will become your mother and father. The couch is your mother.

• Peggy: I saw a man and a woman buying the same kind of soup and I introduced them. Maybe I can even find someone for you, Pete.

Pete: Heck, who'd want a 40-year-old supermarket manager?

Peggy: Mm, good point.

• Buck: I'd love to help you, Hank, but you're on your own.

Hank: Mister Strickland!

Buck: I know you're telling the truth, but when I get on the stand, I got a nasty habit of incriminatin' myself. We can't have both of us in the pokey.

Hank: What about Team Strickland?

Buck: Yeah, I never understood what you meant by that, Hank.

• Hank: Who's going to hire a guy convicted of fraud?

Dale: Oh, I'll hire you, Hank. I can always use a convict to blame my shoddy work on.

• Peggy: Maybe in another 20 years, people will appreciate bagging again.

Pete: Sure doesn't look like it.