How did Hank end up with a shitty job when he was a Texas Football Legend?

Because football stops meaning shit the second you're unable to play it anymore. If you didn't make bank from it before then nobody gives a single fuck about it.

Because Bill Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive was the ACTUAL legend who got fucked over by the government.

They don't call him the Billdozer for nothing

Hank didnt go to university, did he?

Is this thread for talking about men who were great at football in highschool, and married women named Peggy?
He was a star running back on the Polk High School football team you know.

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being a texas football legend is like being a new york faggot, they're a dime a dozen

Don't let this distract you from the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, "Spare Tire" Dixon.

Bill was the record setting legend, Hank fucked it up didn’t he?

>Hank should have started his own propane company. Would have stolen all of stricklands customers

The guy was too loyal to Buck. Plus he was the only character that had a code of ethics and morals. To him, starting his own business and stealing his former employer's customers was a shitty thing to do.

Hank literally grew up with aspirations of selling propane. There's an episode with a flash back of when he is a boy scout and he says that.

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watch that dupree 30 for 30, i think it was called the best that never was

Sometimes you have to abandon your talents for your dreams.

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You have to strike fast when you peak early. If you don't you rapidly settle into random mook territory.

>random mook territory
What do the Italians have to do with anything here?

Iirc he made pretty good money. The show was about the middle class dingus. You couldnt have him sitting at a desk for a newpaper writing articles about armpit hair braiding in victorian era england and why its relevant today

Athletes are worthless in the job market unless you can find a football fan or training program to hire you. For some reason strength and physical fitness is considered a non-skill.

>assist manager for successful company that provide a necessary resource
>shiity
no

lmao gas jockey faggots

He probably could've been an engineer.

Legend? he is just reliving his highschool football days in the series, hardly a legend.

He led them to State, in Texas

i think it was minh who said that it was a shame to have such discipline and so little ambition

save up enough autism bux to move out of your mom's boyfriend's garage yet

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you sissy, i killed fiddy men

Did buck eventually leave his business to hank or give it to some gold digger?

He left it to his bastard son Roy

thats why hank was happy, you dont derive happiness from where you work but by the code of ethics that you follow in your life. discipline is a huge part of being content in your life.

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This is why King of The Hill is the most important animated series of our time

Donna dose things to me....

Every star football player I knew (college included) that wasn’t quite good enough to go pro ended up selling cars after a few gigs doing commercials for local companies the year after they won a championship. There was some bribery scandal going on with both high school and college athletes in my town to get the kid to switch schools like in that one episode, but that amounted to a few grand at the end of it all. Also, Buck is shown to care deeply about Arlen football, so Hank is probably lucky to have gotten the job he did, anyway.

Id love to work a 9-5 job, that I love doing, and if I really wanted to once in awhile I could jack around since most of the time the boss is out getting tail or getting drunk. Only down side Hank has is Peggy, if he would have gotten a women 1 or 2 notches above peggy he would produce a better son.

Oh fuck, did Mike Judge straight up rip off Married with Children?
Damn...

She's no Debbie Grund

No, just the fact they played football, and had a wife named peggy. Outside of that, there is nothing else that comes to mind that are the same... Maybe Buck Stickland? named after the Dog buck?

Doesn't Hank actually like working with Propane? How did that old saying go, "find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life".

It supports him well enough that he was able to marry and raise a middle class family. I'd say he's in a better place than most people.

It’s diamond dozen, dumb dumb

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Damn that young Boom Howard is a stud.

They both worked deadend jobs

They're both blue-collar salesmen, and Luanne is sort of like Kelly

>t.butane cuck

Would have been great to see an episode where he was an oilman or something
>gotta get that casing set ah tell yuh hwhut

Hanks job wasnt a dead-end job, He had a nice house, with a woman who cooked, and cleaned. Al starved, and had a Wife who didnt want to work be it professionally or do upkeep around the house.He loved that job, Al hated his job,and was supposed to be temporary. Hank Loves propane, Al hates shoes.

Al job considered blue collar? I think his job is a service job, and Hank never gets his hands dirty like his drivers have to.

I don't think it was looked down on, they treated Luanne going to community college as a good thing. Hank just knew what he wanted to do early on and pursued it.

It is a shame that he was obsessed with propane and not something like engineering because he had the potential go to far in any field he wanted to be in.

But at the end of the day he lived how he wanted to live doing a job he love surrounded by his friends, and does it actually get better than that?

Fair enough, plus the fact that Hank is good enough with his money for his salary to be a non-issue.

>Hanks job wasnt a dead-end job, He had a nice house, with a woman who cooked, and cleaned

Al did too.....while being a shoe salesman

this

>pays for house, truck, family

most people cant even do that

>most people cant even do that

I'm a fucking merchandiser for Pepsi and I can do that with my shit job

yeah good luck buying a house a shoe salesman

what the salary? my idiot friend has a history degree and makes 35k

probably cant buy a house on that salary

That was the late 80's. You could buy a house for next to nothing.

>To him, starting his own business and stealing his former employer's customers was a shitty thing to do.
Strickland's biggest competitor did exactly this and Hank always thought he was an asshole for doing so.

>puzzling over the "plot" of a cartoon
what are you, some kinda fucking feeb?

>history degree
thats where fucked up

>what the salary? my idiot friend has a history degree and makes 35k

Lol, I'm hourly. $19/he and 10-20 hrs of OT+ Mileage. Probably clear $60k+ a year. A bit on the labor side though so it won't attract many people.

The only way he can fix it is take a CPA program and take the exam. Only 30 credits left

Then maybe it's not so shit.

Based charcoal master race

He broke his ankle

In an alternate timeline, Hank would have developed a propane powered rocket company or something.

Hank could've been the best basket weaver in Texas

Thats a retcon. Hank had no interest in propane until Buck bought some jeans from him when he worked at jeans west. From then on his love was propane.

They were both number 33 on the team.

Yeah people are pretty stupid to think you need a degree to make money. Hell grocery store managers make like 60-80k plus more if your store does well. I know a coke merchandiser that pays worse than pepsi but hes still bringing home 40k a year. No degree required.

I cut meat and make more than your jackass friend. Who the fuck goes to college for history?

>Yeah people are pretty stupid to think you need a degree to make money

Any job in distribution brings in money. Pros: Its not an industry that attracts talent so youre job security is safe if youre a decent worker but Cons: its an industry that does get looked down on

>its an industry that does get looked down on
i would be ashamed of myself if i gave a shit about that

Narrow urethra

Or He'd actually go through with developing propane powered robots with his Japanese half brother

You miss the point. There are characters all throughout the show who had much, much higher ambitions than Hank and they were all miserable. He found meaning in a normal life. Hank was happy being average.

His foil in the show was Khan, a man so blinded by ambition and envy that he regularly ran himself ragged and didn't take the time to enjoy what he had. Keep in mind, Khan was better off than literally everyone on the street. He was a businessman who was successful and talented, well educated and had a thriving home life. His wife and daughter were both ideal. He "made it", but couldn't stop lusting after more. He couldnt escape the rat race.

One of those 6'2" 210lbs 4.99 40yd dash high school running backs that absolutely trucks kids at that level and can't transition to defense in college.

many such cases

And his ankle snapped in the final and he couldnt play anymore. it was a whole episode

They lost state because his ankle snapped

You can't honestly tell me Hank wouldn't have been happy as a construction engineer or even as a skilled laborer.

Khan tried to find happiness in the image of success, while Hank finds happiness in the work itself. Even at a higher level, Hank still wouldn't be in the rat race.

>i would be ashamed of myself if i gave a shit about that
Not gonna lie, since you work in retail areas customers, especially those who just became middle class will have that high and mighty attitude when they see you. they dont know how much we actually get paid. Also Target is probably the best store ever

Its not that the degree guarantees more money it just opens up more options.

Like I know someone who got a history degree, but isn't in a field related to History but without a 4 year degree he would not be eligible to get the job he has, and he is making low 60s for salary.

That’s actually the retcon, the scene he’s talking about is from the Order of the Straight Arrow episode and it’s like the second or third episode of the whole series

Pretty sure it was meant to be a one off gag back when everything was fresh and they weren’t worried about being serious with continuity or anything though

Khan
Hank

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Hank has zero ambition. He would work the same job until he dies because he never plans for anything better. Khan and Minh actually talk about this a couple times. He also hurt his knee and could not take the team to state, his father blames him for that a couple times too.

Buck is his surrogate father figure, so Hank would never do a single thing to hurt him, and Buck is 100% aware of this.

I guess that’s true, I feel that way every time I see the dude who refills the vending machine.

I still wouldn’t give a fuck about that though, try being a CNA and have everyone tell you you’re such a good person for wiping geriatric ass for $20k a year and tell me how much random people’s attitude sucked lol

>it's a shame that Hank is a successful assistant manager of a company he loves and cares about
he's also only 34 years old during the series. his career is still young and Buck is more than likely going to hand the reigns off to him at some point. I don't understand your mindset

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dumb phoneposter

t. posts from a laptop

Being a 34 year old assistant manager of a single branch of a larger company, plus with a young family, does not bode well for his career advancement. Secondly, Buck many times has passed Hank over in favour of other people, Buck knows Hank is too loyal to leave.

When Hank "SEC Speed" Hill played ball, the conference in Texas to play for was the SWC and there was quite a bit of paying players going on so being hurt like he was really damaged his chances to play college ball. SMU got really hammered for it with the "death penalty", but every team did it. The longhorns poke fun of the aggies over a few things, but the longhorns did it as well and there were no hard feelings about it since the aggies helped the longhorns with the baylor situation when the Big XII formed and the longhorns repaid that favor when the aggies went to the SEC recently and baylor threatened litigation. That one has bit them in the ass since the longhorns acted a bit too indignant over the matter and refused to schedule the aggies and now they want to play again but the aggies are having a rough go of it in the SEC and there is honestly no reason for them to schedule another "big" school late in the season when LSU is looming. Last year their game went to seven overtimes.

>HS football star in Texas
>doesn't immediately go into pro wrestling after graduating
Whut in tarnation?

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>Hank is only 34

What in the fuck, he seemed like late 40s.

Hank is in his 40s. There's a quote where they bring up turning pop's house into a clubhouse and Hank says
>A clubhouse? Isn't that somethin' you do in your 30s?

>Being a 34 year old assistant manager of a single branch of a larger company, plus with a young family, does not bode well for his career advancement.
it doesn't even matter what Buck plans to do with the business once he retires. Hank has an impeccable record at Stricklands and his contacts in the texas propane dealers association and the fact that he lives in an area that is clearly low cost of living means he'd be fine no matter what.

>Hank has zero ambition
Hank was a hard worker and skilled in a variety of things. His problem was father issues that lead him to idolize Buck instead of moving on past him.

And no one cares what you did in high school after high school.

>I still wouldn’t give a fuck about that though, try being a CNA and have everyone tell you you’re such a good person for wiping geriatric ass for $20k a year and tell me how much random people’s attitude sucked lol

yeah, my brother is an NP and he tells me the CNAs make $15 or so dollars an hour, but you know if an merchandiser for pepsi and a CNA were walking side by side, people would respect the CNA more and assume theyre getting paid more

Hank is 34 when the series begins and other characters' ages (like bobby) either don't change at all or only change by maybe a single year throughout the series, so I'm going with his original age and not a one-off joke

Hank would be fine because he's Hank. That's my point, him basically being underemployed is a pity considering his ample skills and intelligence.

Are Hank Hill and Don Draper two of the biggest losers in television history? If their bosses didn't feel sorry for them and didn't hire them they'd never would've made it otherwise.

>never been to Texas
He always seemed mid 30s to me. Bobby is only 13 or 14 and he and Peggy had him young. People who get married right out of high school tended to not wait around to pump out kids. My own parents were older than a lot of other parents because I wasn't popped out until they finished college and there weren't many educated people roaming around my home town.

ok, I guess that's fair but I don't see it as being a shame really. If it negatively affected his family's wellbeing then I'd be more inclined to agree

Hank wasn't a sexy boy though.

He has a pretty good honest job yo. He obviously is doing really well for himself.

he broke his ankle in HS, never went to colelge(baffling, couldve probably gotten a scholarship at UT/A&M easily) and was woo'd by strickland and selling propane

I'll bet that cow peggy wanting a baby tied him down too

>You can't honestly tell me Hank wouldn't have been happy as a construction engineer or even as a skilled laborer.
I mean he could have, but you're missing the point. He loves propane and usually loves his job when nothing's going horribly wrong. He doesn't want to advance because he's happy how he is.

Yeah no, his injury was severe and UT and A&M are perennial top 20 football colleges

>perennial top 20 colleges

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His first job was at the gap

Wasn't it at Jeans West?

Fuck Plebsi, Coke all the way, fag

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People who don't want to play around with other people's meat everyday

>tasting the heat
I bet you pay spics to mow your lawn for you too

Well something soul-crushing like that

>never been to Texas

I lived there for 8 years, King of the Hill was literally my life. I actually kinda want to go back

He was born in the 50's and the show takes place at the very turn of the millennium

My father was in the same position, and by 40 he was a general manager and was being poached by multiple companies. He has, in the past 15 years, more than quadrupled his salary by making some great business moves, shaking hands with corporate officers and politicians, and become an invaluable subject matter expert that holds numerous licenses in a field that does not encourage permit vertical career growth. Where Hank is at in his mid-30's is where plenty of successful 50 year olds were at.

Where did you live?

Coke sells more than Pepsi but they pay shit compared to Pepsi

That’s fair, how much are you making?

Formerly Buck's

already posted in this thread

You just know she looks great naked and shags like a demon.

To be quite honest, Buck Strickland is a shitbag and Thatherton is likely a better man, we just don't see his side of the story.

I'd like to see an ep where Hank had to go work for Thatherton like that Spongebob ep where he had to work at the Chum Bucket.

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You just know Buck underpays him too, Buck has 4 or 5 branches and he doesn't pay Hank for shit.

i wish this show was on netflix or somethin

Buck actually seemed like he was a decent man when he first got into the business. It seems like that lifestyle of upperclass propane is full of debauchery and he fell into it.

he owns a house, with a new truck on basically a single salary since Peggy is always off, and raising Bobby and a dog. hes getting paid more tbqh

Negro, please.

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I'm always amazed when they air those serial killer documentaries with guys who barely got out of high school and ended up buying houses and raising families while working the bluest collared jobs AND murdering people on the side
Of course this was all between 1950-1990

If they are smart, people on their way to law school.

too have most people who do major in history dont

They actually had an ep like that, same setup too where Buck gambled Hank's contract and lost.

There's a lot of comparisons to be drawn between Spongebob and Hank.

>There are less serial killers because people can't afford it anymore

Hank's life is great though. It's just practical instead of glamorous.

Used to be. It got taken off years ago, but between this, and Reno 911 getting taken off, I finally cancelled my account.

No place to store the bodies

Damn that sounds pretty sweet

I used to be a merchandiser, and no its not.that extra pay they get is basically for the shit they have to deal with from retail managers and customer