King of the Hill: Season 2 (1997)

TV. Humor as dry and Texan as you can find on the tube. Almost every line has a subtle barb that says something ironic about conservative Texan attitudes about guns, football, childrearing, the workplace, the schools, emotional repression, etc. Disc 1: How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying (gifted Bobby and inept Hank enter a father/son shooting competition), Texas City Twister (Hank sends Luann back to the trailer park -- and a tornado), The Arrowhead (unethical academics excavate Hank's front yard), Hilloween (Hank puts on a haunted house as a fundamentalist calls him a Satanist), Jumpin' Crack Bass (Hank seeks custom fish bait but mistakenly buys crack), Husky Bobby (Bobby becomes a husky size model but Hank saves him from humiliation). Disc 2: The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg (teens cap Hank and his neighbors in several paintball raids till Hank & Co. study and outflank the enemy), The Son That Got Away (Bobby and friends explore a cave and get lost), Bobby Slam (Bobby takes up wrestling and so does Connie as their school exhibits gender discrimination), The Unbearable Lightness of Laying (Hank experiences psychosomatic blindness after seeing his mother in bed with her new Jewish lover), Meet the Manger Babies (Luann creates a church puppet show and forces Hank to choose between it and his Super Bowl party). Disc 3: Snow Job (Hank is disillusioned to learn his propane sales boss has an electric stove), I Remember Mono (Peggy learns how Hank really got mono in high school), Three Days of the Khando (the Hills go as guests on a Mexican timeshare vacation with their neighbors and the men get stuck south of the border), Traffic Jam (Hank takes a comedy defensive driving class where Chris Rock picks on him while inspiring Bobby to become a comic), Hank's Dirty Laundry (Hank cannot buy a clothes dryer and must exonerate his name after Arlen Video claims he rented and lost a porn tape). Disc 4: The Final Shinsult (Hank's obnoxious war-hero father steals Gen. Santa Ana's false leg), Leanne's Saga (Luann's mama gets out of prison and raises hell), Junkie Business (Hank hires a drug abuser rather than a qualified Hispanic woman), Life in the Fast Lane: Bobby's Saga (Bobby sells sodas at the racetrack and his boss nearly gets him killed), Peggy's Turtle Song (Peggy becomes a full-time mother and writes a song that confuses the feminists), Propane Boom: Part I (Hank, laid off, hires on in the Mega Lo Mart's lowball propane department until the store is leveled by a propane blast). Does Hank survive the cliffhanger ending? 4.5 stars.