Season 1: 1997
| # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate | Production code |
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| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Wes Archer | Mike Judge & Greg Daniels | January 12, 1997 (1997-01-12) | 4E01 |
| When a baseball hits Bobby in the eye during a Little League game, the resulting black eye and Hank's short temper (from dealing with a teenage Mega-Lo-Mart clerk) cause a social worker to suspect Hank of child abuse. Meanwhile, Hank's friends, cuckolded conspiracy nut Dale Gribble, down-and-out Army barber Bill Dauterive, and fast-talking womanizer Boomhauer, try to fix Hank's truck, while Luanne Platter moves in with the Hills after her trailer trash parents get sent to jail over a domestic disturbance. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Square Peg" | Gary McCarver | Joe Stillman | January 19, 1997 (1997-01-19) | 4E02 |
| Peggy is mortified and tongue-tied when she finds out she has been chosen to teach the middle school's sexual education class, while Hank does everything he can to keep his son from learning about sex. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Order of the Straight Arrow" | Klay Hall | Cheryl Holliday | February 2, 1997 (1997-02-02) | 4E03 |
| Hank, Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer take Bobby and his friends on an Order of the Straight Arrow camping trip where the men send the boys on a snipe hunt...and Bobby ends up killing a whooping crane. Meanwhile, Peggy sneaks out to buy special shoes for her large feet. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Hank's Got the Willies" | Monte Young | Johnny Hardwick | February 9, 1997 (1997-02-09) | 4E05 |
| Hank is worried that Bobby does not have a role model in life—and things get worse when Bobby accidentally hits Hank's idol, Willie Nelson (voiced by Nelson himself) with a golf club during a day on the green. Willie later explains to Hank that Bobby had the best role model all along. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Luanne's Saga" | Pat Shinagawa | Paul Lieberstein | February 16, 1997 (1997-02-16) | 4E04 |
| When Buckley breaks up with Luanne and Luanne goes on a days-long crying jag, Hank sets out to find Luanne a new boyfriend (guest-voiced by Mando Navarro) in 48 hours—which backfires when Hank sees Luanne with Boomhauer. Chuck Mangione also guest stars. |
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| 6 | 6 | "Hank's Unmentionable Problem" | Adam Kuhlman | Greg Daniels & Mike Judge | February 23, 1997 (1997-02-23) | 4E07 |
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Hank's ongoing constipation causes great concern for Peggy and, much to Hank's embarrassment, everyone else in Arlen. Note: This is the only episode other than the pilot written by series creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. |
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| 7 | 7 | "Westie Side Story" | Brian Sheesley | Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger | March 2, 1997 (1997-03-02) | 4E06 |
| When a new Laotian family moves in next door, problems ensue when the new neighbor's family dog goes missing and the Hills fear that the stereotype about Asians eating dogs is true. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Shins of the Father" | Martin Archer Jr. | Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland | March 23, 1997 (1997-03-23) | 4E08 |
| Hank's brash, sexist father, Cotton Hill, crashes Bobby's 12th birthday party—and stays over the Hills' house, which does not sit well with Peggy when Cotton's misogyny begins rubbing off on Bobby. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Peggy the Boggle Champ" | Chuck Sheetz | Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger | April 13, 1997 (1997-04-13) | 4E09 |
| Hank's promise to coach Peggy at the Texas State Boggle Championship is jeopardized when his buddies try to lure him away to the Ninth Annual Dallas Mower Expo. Meanwhile, Bobby and Luanne freak out when they leave a condensation ring on the new coffee table, but their efforts to fix it cause even more trouble. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Keeping Up With Our Joneses" | John Rice | Jonathan Collier & Joe Stillman | April 27, 1997 (1997-04-27) | 4E10 |
| When Hank catches Bobby smoking a cigarette in a gas station bathroom, Hank punishes him by making his son smoke an entire carton, but the plan backfires when Bobby, Hank, and Peggy all become addicted. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "King of the Ant Hill" | Gary McCarver | Johnny Hardwick & Paul Lieberstein | May 4, 1997 (1997-05-04) | 4E13 |
| After telling Dale never to spray insecticide on his lawn again, Hank's expensive new lawn becomes mysteriously infested with fire ants. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Plastic White Female" | Jeff Myers | David Zuckerman | May 11, 1997 (1997-05-11) | 4E11 |
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Bobby is invited to his first boy/girl party, and Peggy is horrified when she discovers him playing Spin the Bottle with one of Luanne's plastic beauty school heads. NOTE: Beginning with this episode, a quote from the episode is used on the closing Deedle-Dee vanity card. Deedle-Dee Tag: Bobby: "Yo Sherice, you stone-cold fox, what up?" |
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