Big Jim was a middle-aged man who built doll house furniture for a living and befriended Hank during his time in an anger management class. He only appeared once in the Season 7 episode "The Texas Skillsaw Massacre".
Appearance[]
Big Jim was a middle-aged Caucasian man with a broad build, pale skin, and short, receding gray hair. He wore a black vest over a gray T-shirt, blue jeans, and dark-brown shoes.
History[]
Season 7[]
When he ran a woman off the freeway because she did not use her turn signal to change lanes, Jim was ordered to take an anger management class in court. In one of his classes, Hank Hill joined the class because he accidentally cut off Dale's finger and was accused of doing so intentionally. As the teacher Barry recalled Hank's incident, he also recalled Jim's incident and how each classmate should not blame others for their own mistakes. Jim retorted that the woman deserved being forced off the road because she had a cellphone and a magazine in her hands. When Hank did not want to try out Barry's silly humor method of anger control, he added that he was only angry about taking the class, turning to Jim and exchanging a silent nod with him. Seeing Barry try to persuade Hank to pet an imaginary cat as another anger control method, Jim defended Hank by saying that he clearly refused to pet the chat.
In a later class, Barry taught the students to try the "avoid dance" to shut the imaginary door of their children's rooms to not think about the hypothetical mess. When asked why he was not demonstrating the dance, Jim responded that he refused to merely because Barry was a "pencil-neck who's got diarrhea of the mouth." Politely advising him to control his anger, Barry suggested trying silly humor via imagining feces coming from his mouth. Jim stated that he could only imagine feces exiting his buttocks, then nonchalantly asking for a hall pass. He was allowed to take a break, so Jim went outside the school building and spoke with Hank. He joked to Hank that refusing anger at all times turned one into a doormat, claiming that anger was natural to humans because God was very angry in various Bible stories and created humans in His image. Hank replied that his sentiment was the only thing that made sense to him that day. Recommending that they ditch class because the teacher could not fail them for claiming to suffer from constipation, Jim offered to take Hank out to drink beer. Hank politely declined and clarified that he had to finish repairing his house as soon as possible. Jim told him that he built dollhouse furniture and offered to help him out, so Hank accepted.
On Hank's driveway, he helped Hank prepare some supplies when Dale, Bill, Boomhauer and Octavio came by. Dale warned them to leave due to his restraining order against Hank, and Jim stood by as Hank rejected his request because the alley was public property. When Hank threatened to injure Dale with the ditch-witch, Jim laughed and encouraged Hank. Hearing Dale threaten to have Octavio fight them, Jim retorted that he could try, declaring that the two things he enjoyed in life were building dollhouse furniture and kicking ass. Immediately after rhetorically asking Hank if he saw any dollhouse furniture around, the big man glared at Dale and warned him not to look in the eyes of a "junkyard dog", making pretend barks to intimidate him. As he continued furiously barking, Jim suddenly had a heart attack and clasped his chest, falling onto the ground and twitching. At that point, he had died. Later, the Hill family and others attended his funeral, and Barry used Big Jim's death story as a warning to his students who thought about refusing to control their rage.
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