King of the Hill/Traffic Jam

Traffic Jam
Season 2, Episode 16
Airdate	February 22, 1998
Production Number	5E14
Written by	Johnny Hardwick
Directed by	Klay Hall
← 2x15 Three Days of the Kahndo	2x17 → Hank's Dirty Laundry
King of the Hill — Season Two

Traffic Jam is the sixteenth episode of the second season of King of the Hill, and the twenty-eighth episode overall.

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

and Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

Also Starring: Amy Hill (Ms. Kailiki Aliki), Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone), Orlando Jones (Kidd Mookie, Toenail), Lauren Tom (Connie Souphanousinphone)

Special Guest Voice: Chris Rock (Roger "Booda" Sack)

Special Guest Voice: John Amos (Glen Johnson)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Plot Overview

After getting into an accident, Hank is made to take traffic school and he unwittingly takes one taught by a stand-up comic. Despite Hank's best efforts, this only encourages Bobby's career in comedy.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Toenail: Boom! Now that's what I call general haberdashery!

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Hank gets Roger Sack a job at Strickland Propane.

Characters

• Hank's attempts at getting Bobby away from showbiz seems to stem from his perception that it's not a stable career and those in it live pathetic lives.

Trivia

The Show

• This marks the first appearance of Roger "Booda" Sack. While he is voiced here by Chris Rock, he'll be played by Phil LaMarr in all subsequent episodes.

Allusions and References

• In the final scene, Roger twice refers to Hank as Drew Carey who, incidentally, would be a special guest voice in a later episode.

Goofs

• Bobby tells his dad about Ice Cream Lovers' Traffic School, but the brochure he's holding is clearly for the Singles Traffic School. Bobby does have the Ice Cream Lovers' brochure when we first see him before it cuts away and back to him with a different brochure.

Quotes

• Kahn: Ahh! My neck is broken! I sue you for everything you have! Aw! It's Hank Hill. What's the point? I have everything you have, but better.

Hank: Kahn, on this side of the earth, we back out to the right.

Kahn: Yeah, yeah, just my luck. I run into uninsured redneck.

Hank: Not only am I insured, I happen to be a member of the perfect payment club.

Kahn: (thinking for a beat) My neck is broken!

• Roger: Now, tell me, Bobby, does your old man drink a lot of beer?

Bobby: Oh, yeah.

Roger: Now, now, now, don't lie now, Bobby. Does he just stand around all day drinkin' beer with all his other white friends, goin' "yeah"?

Bobby: No, they go, "yep."

• Hank: Sit down, son! They're not laughing with you, they're laughing... at me.

• Roger: Bobby, let me give you a little piece of constructive criticism: you're not black.

• Hank: Son, let me put this in terms you can understand: I am not down with that.

• Bobby: You're so lucky, Connie. You're ethnic. Joseph and I are just... nothing. We're just white and boring.

Joseph: Yeah.

• Hank: Then he said my mother was so big, her stretch marks had names.

Glen Johnson: Well, has he ever seen your mother?

Hank: No.

Glen Johnson: Is she overweight?

Hank: Not by half.

Glen Johnson: Well, then that's not funny.

• Hank: Boomhauer, where'd everybody go?

Boomhauer: Yeah, man, I tell you what, man. They took that dang old truck. Dang old muffler fallin' off and it ain't got no brakes. Man, sparks flyin'. Like I told 'em, fix that dang ol' thing. Put on some duct tape, man.

Hank: What? They took Bobby to Snapz?!

• Bill: Shut up, you whitey!

• Hank: If you're looking for a real job, you ought to consider a career in propane. You know, this whole humour fad is pretty much on the way out.

• Roger: Your mama is so ugly, when she walks in the bank, they turn off the camera.

Hank: And your mother is so ugly, uh, it affects her self-esteem.

Roger: Your mama got so much hair under her arms, it looks like she got Buckwheat in a headlock.

Hank: Well, your mother's hair is so short, she looks like she's not a woman at all, but more like a man.

Roger: More like a man? You got to work on that one. Check this out. It's been so long since your mama's last bath that her hairy armpits smell like propane gas.

Hank: Now, excuse me. Hold on there, fella. A joke's a joke, but now you've gone too far. Propane has no natural odour. What you smell was actually put there by man for safety purposes.

• Hank: Hello, I'm Hank Hill.

Roger: And I'm Roger Sack.

Hank: Tonight's episode dealt with racial stereotypes, especially the myth that white people do not have butts.

Roger: As you can see from the man standin' next to me, that's simply not true.

Hank: Thank you, Roger.

Roger: It's a damn fine butt.

Hank: Uh, yeah, thank you.

Roger: That butt is the bomb.

Hank: Yeah, uh, I think it's time for The X-Files. Now! Go!