"Bobby Gets Grilled" is the third episode in the fourteenth season, and the 266th episode overall. It is scheduled to air on August 4, 2025. This episode was written by Anthony Del Broccolo & Norm Hiscock and directed by Allan Jacobsen.[2]
Summary[]
Bobby is accused of cultural appropriation while searching for authentic robata charcoal for his restaurant grill. Meanwhile, the Hills and the Gribbles go to the Bush Presidential Library, where Dale incites an incident.
Plot[]
At Robata Chane, Bobby get a call from his parents, revealing that beside going to Dallas to check out Bobby's restaurant, Dale and Nancy tag-a-long to the Bush Presidential Library. However, Hank wants to stop by to test out the propane tank used for the restaurant. After the phone was hung up, Bobby revealed that he never told his dad that he does not use propane but rather charcoal due to wanting the restaurant to be authentic with Japanese/German food. While trying to figure out a way to make sure that his dad won't get upset that he was not using propane, Bobby came up with an idea that he was robbed but decide to tell him the truth.
Later as The Hills and the Gribbles arrived at Robata Chane, Hank wanted to see the propane tank, only for Bobby to reveal that he used charcoal for cooking, which upsets Hank as he thought that Bobbby would use propane like he used when Bobby was a kid but Bobby pointed out that he wanted the food to be authentic. Feeling betrayed and upset that his son doesn't use Propane, Hank and the other left to the museum. Just then Bobby discovered that his supplier for the Charcoal has gone out of business and attempted to found a new one. He found one but the owner refuses due to Bobby not being Japanese.
Characters[]
- Hank Hill
- Peggy Hill
- Bobby Hill
- Dale Gribble
- Nancy Gribble
- Joseph Gribble
- Ted Wassanasong
- Chane Wassanasong
- Emilio
- Miguel
- Sandra
- George W. Bush (mentioned)
- Hitachiya (mentioned)
- Mr. Yoshida
- Museum tour guide (voiced by Jack McBrayer)
- Makoto Yamamoto (mentioned)
- Junko Yamamoto (mentioned)
- Museum patron (man) (voiced by Brian Huskey)
- William Rehnquist (pictured)
- Ban Ki-moon (mentioned)
- Museum patron (woman)
- Laura Bush (mentioned)
- Jub "Jubya" Bush (fictional; mentioned)
- Cappatelli
- Italian guy (Cappatelli Italian Restaurant)
- Tony Soprano (The Sopranos character; mentioned)
- Speedy Gonzales (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character; mentioned)
- Sylvester the Cat (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character; mentioned)
- Mel Blanc (mentioned)
- Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character; mentioned)
- Porky Pig (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character; mentioned)
- Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character; mentioned)
- John F. Kennedy (mentioned)
- Ted Kennedy (mentioned)
- Chair of the Federal Reserve John Paulson (fictional; mentioned)
- David Rockefeller
- Elizabeth II, Queen of England (mentioned)
- Lyndon LaRouche (mentioned)
- Juan Epstein (Welcome Back Kotter character; mentioned)
- Barack Obama (mentioned)
- Representative (elderly man) (Dallas German-American Cultural Association)
- Representative (woman) (Dallas German-American Cultural Association)
- Representative (man) (Dallas German-American Cultural Association)
- Cotton Hill (mentioned)
- Monsignor Martinez (voice on radio)
Stinger Quote[]
- Peggy: "I once saw him dip a fruit pie into some tuna fish."
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode featuring Toby Huss voicing Dale Gribble after the death of his original voice actor, Johnny Hardwick, in 2023.[3]
- In addition, this is also the first episode featuring Kenneth Choi voicing Ted Wassanasong (due to the push to have more racially diverse voice actors and not rely on having white people play non-white characters) succeeding the role from Huss.
- This is the second episode where Bill and Boomhauer do not make an appearance, after Season 7 episode "An Officer and a Gentle Boy".
- Hank getting a shoe thrown at him is a reference to a shoe getting thrown at George W. Bush during a press conference in protest of the Iraq occupation, which had followed the Iraq war in 2003.[4]
- One of the German critics is the grandson of one of the fifty Nazis Cotton Hill killed, something that Bobby was surprised by.
Goofs[]
- The museum tour guide mentions that Fed Chair at the time of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis was John Paulson. The actual Federal Reserve chairman at the time was Ben Bernanke. The writers may have been thinking of Hank Paulson, then Secretary of the Treasury.
Quotes[]
To be added.
Gallery[]
Images[]
Videos[]
References[]
- ↑ King of the Hill - Season 14 (2023 - 2024). (n.d.). Writers Guild of America West (WGAW). Retrieved January 4, 2025, from https://directories.wga.org/project/192694/king-of-the-hill/
- ↑ https://comicbook.com/anime/news/king-of-the-hill-reboot-episode-titles/
- ↑ ‘King of the Hill’ Revival Casts Toby Huss to Take Over as Voice of Dale Gribble (EXCLUSIVE)
- ↑ George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident on Wikipedia
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"Return of the King" • "The Beer Story" • "Bobby Gets Grilled" • "Chore Money, Chore Problems" • "New Ref in Town" • "Peggy's Fadeout" • "Any Given Hill-Day" • "Kahn-scious Uncoupling" • "No Hank Left Behind" • "A Sounder Investment" | ||