Lenny Burnham grew up in Missoula, Montana. From an early age, he was obsessed with TV and loved creating websites and participating in fan forums for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He attended New York University, where he studied Dramatic Writing with a focus in Television Writing.
King of the Hill has several brilliant Thanksgiving episodes, including the one where everyone is stuck at the airport and the one where Peggy Hill invents Spin the Choice. But, the Thanksgiving episode with the best emotional arc that truly captures the holiday is Season 3’s “Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men.” At the beginning of the episode, Hank Hill is excited to spend Thanksgiving with his mother Tilly , and then go to the mall for a focus group on a new model of his favorite lawnmower.
✕ Remove Ads The arguments the King of the Hill writers come up with for Hank to win over the rest of the group are clever. The episode does a great job imitating the tense legal drama with scenes like the one where Hank rolls up his sleeves and confronts Boomhauer over his love of the fancy seat warmer. Hank gets gasps of realization from the group as he reminds Boomhauer that he mows with his beer in between his legs.
Through defending the old mower against a newer model that his dad thinks is better, Hank gains catharsis. Two of Hank’s defining qualities throughout King of the Hill are his discomfort with talking about emotions and his love of home improvement and home maintenance, so the plot is perfectly suited to the character.
In the sweet final moments of this King of the Hill Thanksgiving episode, Tilly accidentally walks through the wrong door and ends up watching the focus group from behind the one-way glass window. She sees Cotton acting belligerent and complaining about her again. Now that Hank has worked up some courage from convincing most of the people in the focus group to turn against the new mower, he has a new attitude.
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