One of my most frequent complaints with King of the Hill’s final season is so much of it feels familiar, like we’ve seen it multiple times in the past. I was hoping the second-to-last new episode was going to change this, but it did feel familiar, even though I can’t think of specific episodes where the plot was identical.
There was a big dance at Bobby’s school and he and Joseph were without a date. Joseph found a date with a few days to spare, but Bobby wasn’t quite so lucky… at first, that is. Three girls saw him as a ‘project’ and took him under their wing.
I thought this was going to go in an entirely different direction, mirroring a few high school comedies with the girls doing a male makeover on Bobby for a change. Instead, they used and abused Bobby by having him be their gopher and source of entertainment. It was pathetic. I felt sorry for Bobby as Hank tried to get him to realize what the girls were doing to him.
It wasn’t until the end that Bobby realized what was going on and I did like how he was a gentleman through it all, standing up for the ladies. Hank’s words about waiting on women was nice, but it would have been great if the show had ended with Brad Paisley’s terrific song “Waitin’ on a Woman”.
Rating: 6
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