King of the Hill: Season 3

1998 · 25 episodes · ★ 7.4

What Season 3 of King of the Hill

The season opens with the explosion at the Mega Lo Mart, from which Hank and Luanne escape alive. The accident awakens a new fear of propane in Hank and forces him to find a way to face his fears. From there, the Hills deal with everyday problems. Bobby takes his relationship with Marie very seriously, Peggy writes columns for the local newspaper, and Hank becomes obsessed with getting her pregnant. Dale, Cotton and the rest of the friends complicate every plan with their antics. Hank, loyal to his values, keeps clashing with the changes coming to Arlen.

25episodes

Sep 15, 1998premiered

May 18, 1999latest episode

9.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Death of a Propane Salesman
Sep 15, 1998 · 22 min
Hank and Luanne survive the Mega Lo Mart explosion, but Buckley is no more. Hank finds that he is scared of propane, and tries to figure out how to deal with his fear of dying. Meanwhile, Luanne, who lost all her hair in the explosion, decides to become an activist like Sinead O'Connor.
Directed by: Lauren MacMullan · Starring: David Herman, Dan Butler, Chuck Mangione, Eloy Casados
3x02 And They Call It Bobby Love
Sep 22, 1998 · 22 min
Bobby starts dating Marie, a girl who's two years older than him. Bobby takes the relationship more seriously than Marie does, and is heartbroken when she dances with other guys. Marie decides to "move on" leaving Bobby an emotional wreck. Meanwhile, Hank and the guys find an abandoned couch in the alley, and grow to depend on it.
Directed by: Cyndi Tang · Written by: Norm Hiscock · Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, J. Evan Bonifant, Joanna Gleason, Dave Thomas
3x03 Peggy's Headache
Oct 6, 1998 · 22 min
When Peggy starts writing "musings" for the local newspaper, the pressure gives her a headache, so she goes to John Redcorn for a therapeutic massage. When she finds out that Dale's wife Nancy is having an affair with John Redcorn, she is so horrified that she decides to tell Dale about it.
Written by Joe Stillman · Starring Ashley Gardner, Jonathan Joss
3x04 Pregnant Paws
Oct 13, 1998 · 22 min
Hank wants to breed Ladybird, but the veterinarian says that she has a narrow uterus and probably can't have children. Hank becomes obsessed with finding a way to get Ladybird pregnant, which annoys Peggy, because she's the one who really wants another baby. Meanwhile, Dale becomes a bounty hunter and is assigned to hunt down a man with several unpaid parking tickets. He decides that he needs a hound to accompany him on his first bounty, so he nabs Ladybird, to Hank's horror.
Starring: Jim Cummings, William H. Macy, John Ashton
3x05 Next of Shin
Nov 3, 1998 · 22 min
Hank tries several different methods to improve his sperm count so he can get Peggy pregnant. The frustration of not being able to have another child becomes worse when Cotton shows up and announces that he got his wife pregnant. But Cotton becomes so nervous at the prospect of having a baby at his age that he flees to Las Vegas, and Hank, Bill and Dale go after him.
Directed by: Jeff Myers · Starring: Iqbal Theba, David Herman, Jonathan Joss, Ashley Gardner
3x06 Peggy's Pageant Fever
Nov 10, 1998 · 22 min
A beauty pageant offers Peggy the chance to win a truck. If she can endure a series of rigorous makeovers to impress the judges.
Directed by: Tricia Garcia · Written by: Norm Hiscock · Starring: Kathy Ireland, Carol Alt, Erik Estrada, Maurice LaMarche
3x07 Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men
Nov 17, 1998 · 22 min
Hank is outraged when he attends a lawn mower focus group and discovers that the new model of his favorite mower has been turned into an upgraded "yuppified" version.
Directed by: Shaun Cashman · Written by: Jim Dauterive · Starring: Beth Grant, David Herman, Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam
3x08 Good Hill Hunting
Dec 1, 1998 · 22 min
All the kids in the neighborhood are going on their first hunt, but Hank is unable to get a hunting license for him and Bobby. Bobby is so upset about being denied the chance at a rite of passage that he starts to regress into acting like a little kid. Hank reluctantly decides to take Bobby hunting at the La Grunta Resort.
Directing: Klay Hall · Writing: Joe Stillman · Starring: Tara Strong, David Herman, Jonathan Joss
3x09 Pretty, Pretty Dresses
Dec 15, 1998 · 22 min
At Christmastime, Bill becomes even more depressed than usual, because it's the anniversary of when his wife Lenore left him. Bill tries to commit suicide, and when that doesn't work out, he dresses up in Lenore's old clothes and declares that he is Lenore.
Directed by Dominic Polcino · Written by Paul Lieberstein · Starring Janet Waldo, Dennis Burkley
3x10 A Firefighting We Will Go
Jan 12, 1999 · 22 min
Hank and his friends become volunteer firefighters. They manage to wreck a fire hydrant, ruin a funeral, and finally burn down the Arlen firehouse. When the Fire Captain comes to ask what happened, the trio turns the story around to match each of their scenarios.
Directed by Cyndi Tang · Written by Greg Daniels, Mike Judge · Starring Earl Houston Bullock, Buddy Ebsen, Barry Corbin
3x11 To Spank, With Love
Jan 19, 1999 · 22 min
After being taunted and pantsed by one of her students, Peggy loses it and spanks him. She is immediately fired, but Cotton and his old buddies start a campaign to get "Paddlin' Peggy" reinstated. Once she is back teaching, Peggy uses her reputation for violence to scare her students, and takes things too far, in true Peggy fashion.
Directing: Adam Kuhlman · Writing: David Zuckerman · Starring: Cheryl Holliday, Dennis Burkley, Jill Parker, Beth Grant
3x12 Three Coaches and a Bobby
Jan 26, 1999 · 22 min · ★ 5.4
Hank gets his tough old football coach to lead Bobby's football team. When the coach proves to be a tyrant, Bobby decides to quit football and join the soccer team, much to Hank's disappointment. Meanwhile, Peggy tries to fit in with the other soccer moms, and takes a crash course from Minh on Soccer-mom etiquette.
Writing: Johnny Hardwick · Starring: Julie Hagerty, Stephanie Hodge, David Herman, Tara Strong
3x13 De-Kahnstructing Henry
Feb 2, 1999 · 22 min
Kahn gets a great new job and invites Hank over to the office, hoping to make him jealous. While bragging about his job, Kahn gives away government secrets, swearing Hank to secrecy. Hank talks to Bill about Kahn's job, and Kahn gets fired for it.
Directed by: Klay Hall · Written by: Paul Lieberstein · Starring: Chuck Mangione, Maurice LaMarche, Glenn L. Lucas
3x14 The Wedding of Bobby Hill
Feb 9, 1999 · 22 min
Angry that Luanne cost him his job house-sitting Boomhauer's house, Bobby replaces her birth control pills with candy.
Written by: Jonathan Collier · Starring: Matthew McConaughey
3x15 Sleight of Hank
Feb 16, 1999 · 22 min
Hank and Peggy go to a magic show where Peggy gets to be the volunteer in the best trick. Hank tries to figure out how the trick was done, and Peggy won't tell him. Meanwhile, Bobby is looking for a way to liven up his Sunday School report on Jesus, and when he sees the magician, he incorporates some of the tricks and patter into the report, calling it "The Amazing Jesus."
Directed by Jeff Myers · Starring David Herman, Jonathan Joss
3x16 Jon Vitti Presents: "Return to La Grunta"
Feb 23, 1999 · 22 min
Hank gets Luanne a job as a golf course drink girl at the La Grunta resort. In gratitude, Luanne gets Hank a chance to swim with a dolphin. Hank pets the dolphin, and the dolphin becomes aroused and tries to become sexually intimate with him. In return for his silence, the hotel pays him off, and Hank tells Luanne never to talk about what happened. Luanne gets sexually harassed by one of the golfers, she decides to follow Hank's example and not talk about it.
Directed by: Gary McCarver · Written by: Jon Vitti · Starring: Dena Dietrich, David Herman, Louise Jaffe, Nick Jameson
3x17 Escape From Party Island
Mar 16, 1999 · 22 min
Hank takes his mother and her friends to a museum of miniatures in Port Aransas, and they get stuck in the middle of MTV's Spring Break. Meanwhile, Bill tries to put the moves on Peggy while Hank is away.
Directed by: Gary McCarver · Written by: Jonathan Collier · Starring: Phyllis Diller, Beth Grant, Phil Buckman, Dave Buzzotta
3x18 Love Hurts... and So Does Art
Mar 23, 1999 · 22 min
Worried at the prospect of going to a school dance with Connie, Bobby starts overeating at the local deli, and develops gout. Meanwhile, Hank goes to an art gallery in Dallas and finds that they are displaying an X-ray of his constipated colon.
Directed by: Adam Kuhlman · Starring: Dennis Burkley, Julianne Buescher, Jill Parker, Lisa Jane Persky
3x19 Hank's Cowboy Movie
Apr 6, 1999 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
After Hank and Bobby visit the Dallas Cowboys training camp in Wichita Falls, Hank decides to make a video that will convince the team to move their camp to Arlen.
Directed by Shaun Cashman · Written by Jim Dauterive · Starring Earl Houston Bullock, Jonathan Joss
3x20 Dog Dale Afternoon
Apr 13, 1999 · 22 min
When Dale brings home a new 'Super Mower' the neighbors are jealous, but his attitude leaves everyone with a bad taste in their mouths. To knock him down a few notches, the crew decides to hide his new mower, & make it look like a conspiracy, Peggy gets involved and it goes too far. Dale gets pushed over the edge & it is Hank that goes to help him back down.
Directed by: Tricia Garcia · Written by: Jon Vitti, Kit Boss · Starring: Billy West, Jonathan Joss
3x21 Revenge of the Lutefisk
Apr 20, 1999 · 22 min
Arlen's new minister is a woman, which everyone except Cotton seems to accept. When Bobby eats all of a Midwestern fish dish prepared by the minister, it somehow leads to him accidentally burning down the church. Everyone assumes that Cotton did it, and he is arrested for a hate crime.
Starring: Mary Tyler Moore, Maurice LaMarche
3x22 Death and Texas
Apr 27, 1999 · 22 min
Peggy gets a letter from a Death Row convict who says that he is a former student of hers, and that she had the most positive impact on his life. She starts visiting him in prison and bringing him what she thinks is timer sand for Boggle -- not realizing that it's actually cocaine. Meanwhile, Dale wants to become an executioner.
Directed by Wes Archer · Starring Glenn L. Lucas
3x23 Wings of the Dope
May 4, 1999 · 22 min
While studying for her beauty school exam, Luanne sees someone bouncing on Buckley's old trampoline. It's Buckley, who has come back as an angel. Hank and Peggy think Luanne was hallucinating after using too many hair-dying chemicals, but Hank's friends come to believe in the existence of Buckley's Angel. But Luanne finds that Buckley isn't much more help to her as an angel than he was when he was alive.
Directed by Cyndi Tang · Written by Johnny Hardwick · Starring David Herman, Jennifer Coolidge, Dawnn Lewis
3x24 Take Me Out of the Ball Game
May 11, 1999 · 22 min
When Thaterton stacks his Company softball team with Pro sports stars, Hank pulls Peggy off of her own Softball team to become the Ace pitcher for Strickland Propane. Unfortunately, Hank's over-managing causes her to lose her stuff, and cause her to lose the love for the sport.
Starring: Jane Wiedlin, Gabrielle Carteris, Chuck Mangione, Eloy Casados
3x25 As Old as the Hills... Season Finale
May 18, 1999 · 22 min
Peggy and Hank's 20th-anniversary party leaves the missus missing their youth; and a bottle of tequila is the highlight of their private revelry.
Directed by: Adam Kuhlman · Written by: Norm Hiscock · Starring: David Herman