2001 • 22 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1 • Nov 11, 2001
Bobby goes from bullied to bully after learning a counterattack move in a self-defense class--for women.
Episode 2 • Dec 09, 2001
After an accident at his gun club destroys Dale's confidence, Peggy proposes sending him on a bogus mercenary mission, which he fouls up.
Episode 3 • Dec 12, 2001
A female cop gets a hankerin' for Hank; Peggy accidentally brings back a native child after a school field trip to Mexico.
Episode 4 • Dec 16, 2001
Hank's emotional outburst pushes him further from his father, so Bobby drafts Jimmy Carter to broker a Christmas peace.
Episode 5 • Jan 06, 2002
After Bobby feigns taking Connie's father's bribe to break up with her, Connie lets her grades slip to show how upset she is without him.
Episode 6 • Feb 10, 2002
Bobby adjusts to his breakup with Connie, until Bill's depressing experiences break his spirit. So Hank sends him to ladies' man Boomhauer.
Episode 7 • Feb 17, 2002
Peggy nominates Bobby to carry the Olympic torch through Arlen, but it's Hank who wins the honor--and bungles it.
Episode 8 • Feb 24, 2002
Peggy leads a troupe of "wenches" to protest their unfair treatment at the Renaissance Faire, where Hank is trying to land a big-money propane account.
Episode 9 • Feb 24, 2002
Hank and the boys recruit Connie for a bluegrass fiddle contest, but Kahn insists that she focus on classical music.
Episode 10 • Mar 03, 2002
A con man offers "genius" Peggy an at-home doctorate course, which she finances with the Hills' retirement fund.
Episode 11 • Mar 10, 2002
Cotton's financially strapped VFW group moves into Hank's home, prompting Hank to recruit Vietnam vets, to whom Cotton doesn't exactly cotton.
Episode 12 • Mar 17, 2002
Unable to find a full-time teaching job, Peggy pretends to be a nun to land a position at a Catholic school, ending her budding career at Strickland Propane.
Episode 13 • Mar 31, 2002
After learning the Army used him as a guinea pig for an experimental drug, Bill gets drunk and steals a tank. And it's up to his friends to try to return it.
Episode 14 • Apr 07, 2002
When Hank and Dale find more interest in the activities of the other's son, Dale concludes he's not Joseph's father--and that an alien is.
Episode 15 • Apr 14, 2002
Kahn covets membership in an all-Asian country club, but it's Hank who's asked to join--as a token white to secure a PGA tournament.
Episode 16 • Apr 14, 2002
Peggy gets a job at Alamo Beer, but a clause in her contract prevents her from telling Hank why Texas is completely devoid of the brew for the next 36 hours.
Episode 17 • Apr 21, 2002
Oblivious to its cultlike ways, Luanne joins a sorority and gets Peggy in too; Hank and the boys rescue emus from death, but don't know what to do with them.
Episode 18 • Apr 28, 2002
Hank learns that the incident estranging Dale from his cowboy father was a cover to keep him in the dark about Dad being in the closet.
Episode 19 • May 05, 2002
Hank is shaken after having a dream about grilling burgers...naked...with Nancy. And the situation is stirred when Peggy finds out.
Episode 20 • May 05, 2002
Bill is heartbroken when the beautiful jogger he's pining for falls for Boomhauer, who is in turn heartbroken himself when the jogger dumps him.
Episode 21 • May 12, 2002
The Hills are off to Japan so Cotton can apologize to the widow of a soldier he killed in WWII, but something about Cotton's story doesn't quite add up.
Episode 22 • May 12, 2002
Cotton runs amuck in Tokyo when rejected by his newly found Japanese son.