Buckley: A Generational Stereotype

[@popuppete]

“They don’t want me making keys anymore” Line cracks me up. Sending someone who can’t handle making keys to manage propane is that perfect amount of absurd but believable

[@Uzdefized]

Feels realistic when I heard that line, retail in a nut shell

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

I don’t think it was because he couldn’t do it. I think it was because he was _too_ good at it.

[@LeoMidori]

I always interpreted that as he was making keys to break into and steal things

[@popuppete]

@@LeoMidori I love how it’s left up to the viewers imagination. I figured he either was suspected of burglarizing the customers like you suggested . Or he repeatedly messed up. Making copies of keys labeled do not copy. Giving keys to the wrong people. In their eagerness to get him out of one department they put him in charge of something even more dangerous.

[@queenbeebuzz5075]

i never thought that line meant he was incapable of doing it but because they didnt want to give his a chance to copy keys for himself, yk for robberies and such

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

I can imagine Buckley walking up to the pearly gates with the same bored, unimpressed expression and just introducing himself to St. Peter with "hey"

[@squirreltactics]

Or before Buckley can say anything, Saint Peter says "hey".

[@-James-A]

OR St. Peter is on a break and doesn't say "hey" until he finishes his break.

[@lucamckenn5932]

-St Peter and some angels chuckling like Beavis and butthead -Buckley arrives 'Hey uh huh huh 😏 what's up dork?'

[@abbeyhackney1584]

Buckley looks like Butthead

[@Ribbons0121R121]

@@squirreltacticshey

[@troperhghar9898]

I always found that fact that Khan bonded with Buckley to be really interesting, I cant remember which episode it was but Minh tells Connie that when she and Khan met he was a pompadour wearing, vespa riding, bad boy and suddenly it all makes sense Khan bonded with Buckley because Khan saw a lot of his younger self in Buckley

[@janette2691]

I think it was the episode when khan bribes bobby to break up with connie and they rent a motel room

[@yeetithceetith]

I cry river of tears for buckley!!!

[@dizzy6799]

Kahn liked Buckley because Hank hated him

[@abbeyhackney1584]

@@yeetithceetith why not u?

[@AmyNumberSeven]

When I was little, I thought Khan was making all that up as an excuse to dunk on Hank.

[@Jared_Wignall]

Buckley, the man who was so much of a dope that he accidentally blew himself up at the Mega Lo Mart. What a character.

[@wolfbones666]

Hey Jared!

[@wolfbones666]

Never knew you were also a King of The Hill fan, but it's always cool to see you in the comments.

[@Jared_Wignall]

@@wolfbones666hey! Yeah, King of the Hill is amazing.

[@wolfbones666]

@@Jared_Wignall Yep, it really is. As someone who was pretty much raised by television, I practically grew up in the Hill household. 🤠

[@Jared_Wignall]

@@wolfbones666oh cool. Same here!

[@brandonloaiza8595]

"No theyre for me for later" is the best Buckley line

[@alessemsek1573]

😂😂 great line - I was expecting them to be for Luanne.. a very Buckley line

[@mommalion7028]

Me to my kids when they see I have chocolate on top of the book shelf 😂 they get their own sweets damn it those are mine

[@abbeyhackney1584]

@@alessemsek1573 I call Luanne girl Beavis

[@Saiyef96]

Whenever I think of the phrase “too dumb to live”, I think of Buckley’s death from dragging propane tanks by the valve

[@squirreltactics]

He won the Darwin Award that year I'm sure.

[@mwelite1706]

Ahh, OP, a tvtropes reader I see!

[@athfcoz]

Mike Judge actually received a letter from a fan about Wings of the dope. This fan was a survivor of the Columbine massacre and there was this guy who she had a crush on. She decided to tell him how she felt if they both survived. Not only was among the death but he was also one of the perpetrators. Because of this she felt she didn't deserve to be able grieve. The episode aired a week after the shooting and it helped to grieve.

[@maddymooo]

Oh my god. I felt like I caused an ex friend's suicide and that I shouldn't grieve because he wasn't a good person. When in fact, I was grieving badly. I wanted nothing but to see him again. Wings of Dope taught me that seeing him again wouldn't help me. It would have been cathartic at first, but he would have been back to his old ways.

[@ZeranZeran]

@@maddymooo It's beautiful that this message has reached so many people, and seems to have done what the writers wanted.. to let you know, sometimes life is harsh, and it's not your fault at all. For all the hell life can be sometimes, that is truly beautiful. I'm sorry you felt that way, and glad you came to terms with it.

[@travismcnasty51]

I don't understand they way you're telling that story.

[@dreamsprayanimation]

So who was it? Eric or Dylan? Also how did she not realize it was them as it was happening?

[@ZeranZeran]

@@dreamsprayanimation If I recall correctly, it was Dylan, and she wrote in detail about knowing him. It was really sad.

[@SurferRosa]

i don't think Buckley was *bad* at making keys but instead were insinuating that he was using that skill for nefarious purposes

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338]

Oh that makes a lot of sense , it didn’t click for me but now that I think about it someone could easily make copies of someone’s keys and use it to break in without any suspicion or setting off alarms

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338 There's something deeply sinister about the idea of people with seemingly mundane jobs using their resources for evil. Reminds me of One Hour Photo, the Robin Williams movie where he plays a photograph developer turned stalker when he becomes too obsessed with the daily lives of his customers.

[@officiallilsideshow]

He definitely knows what a Honda key looks like, probably jacked a few accords in his earlier years

[@carultch]

@@officiallilsideshow Usually, hardware stores don't have the equipment to copy car keys. You'd have to go to a Honda dealer to order a copy.

[@nickrustyson8124]

​@@carultchThough I do know of s key machine at my local store that can make GMC keys

[@claymenefee6999]

Can we talk about how even though Buckly is an incompetent idiot who doesn't know how to direct someone to the hardware department, he was still legitimately trying to help Hank with his questions.

[@squirreltactics]

Funnily, I commented one time on a YT video of this clip defending him for answering questions and half-way trying to upsell like many retail employees are taught to do, but I got so many negative reactions that I kept that defense to myself in this video.

[@joeydavid8911]

I'm with Hank lmao. Buckley should just say he doesn't know and apologize

[@TJDious]

@@joeydavid8911 A lot of places will insist you never ever do that.

[@JamesBrown-td8no]

​@joeydavid8911 there's also a lot of customers that will ream u a new one for saying that

[@unnamed715]

No he wasn't, he was just trying to stall him 😂

[@Daxdiv]

The one thing I always liked about Wings of the Dope is how open to interpretation Buckley's Angel is. Is he real supernatural angel that was sent by Jesus to help Luanne out in life or was he the result of a hallucination brought upon by being sleep deprived and stressed out about her beauty school exam. I find that the episode itself leaves enough evidence for both to be valid takes.

[@gaugefox2443]

I like to believe that’s what the point of him showing back up to walk away from the trampoline and put on his halo is about, to hint towards the fact that he was real even after Luanne went back inside. Just a quick nod at the end to prove she was never just seeing things.

[@Artretha]

I think the episode is intended to be ambiguous in that regard so we as the audience can come up with their own conclusion.

[@Galamoth06]

@@gaugefox2443 I agree. If we're only seeing him through Luanne's hallucinatory perspective, we shouldn't be seeing him at all after she goes inside. But despite that I think it's still also meant to be left to interpretation, if that makes sense.

[@ciscornBIG]

The trampoline scene is so cringe and if I wrote that I would bury myself after everyone saw it. Ew ew ew

[@michaelgraham9774]

@@ciscornBIG Ok

[@michaelcampion3207]

Always thought him yelling for help and someone to "get this skank off me" was one of the funniest lines in the series

[@lizzydanger8521]

So dang funny😂

[@1_star_reviews]

I just watched that episode yesterday

[@Colonel_RamRod]

I mean she’s quite skanky so yeah 😂

[@tiannacarson3076]

Nothing pissed me off more then when Leanne picked up the fork to stab Buckley and all Luanne did was scream instead of be like “ get your hands off my man” like she should have mom or not …. Luanne can be such a wimp sometimes

[@minichou]

@@tiannacarson3076 The girl was scared, fear makes people do stupid things

[@ultimate_pawnch]

When Dale yells "FOOOORK!", it sorta sounds like he's yelling Mark (which he's obviously not. ) I'm like 90% sure that's where the "Mark" Buckley misunderstanding comes from.

[@abbeyhackney1584]

MAAAAAARK

[@katrinamaniscalco6821]

I thought I heard mark, but re listened and heard fork!

[@comettamer]

I mean, I haven't seen the episode in awhile and this was my first time hearing the audio since I last watched it. First listen I heard "fork" but that may be because I saw the image of Leanne grabbing the fork and realized what he'd said because of it.

[@mrkrazedkillers6008]

I love dale's reaction to seeing buckley's body just instantly turns white

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

What body? I'm pretty sure they say all they found was his name tag because, you know, there wouldn't be much left after standing directly beside an exploding propane tank

[@ianfinrir8724]

​@@TheOneManWhoBeatYouThat's what They want you to think.

[@janette2691]

​@@ianfinrir8724sir, we are they

[@eddytheengineer]

​@@TheOneManWhoBeatYouWhile you're mostly right, it takes a lot more heat and longer exposure to cremate remains. Just his clothes & skin alone kind of slowed that down, so a charred body (or body parts) is totally possibile and rough to see/smell the first few of times. Source: family business - morticians

[@ianfinrir8724]

@@janette2691 Gih!

[@surprisedchar2458]

“This is a picture of what a hungry Irish child looks like” has to be one of my all time favorite moments from the show.

[@sakurashy8492]

Whatever you feel about Buckley, he was still Luanne’s first (boyfriend, steady boyfriend, or love) and she still loved him.Luanne had a tough homelife before her Aunt Peggy took her in. The relationship she had with Buckley was probably the one outside of family that was positive which isn’t saying much. Buckley’s Angel did the right thing by telling Luanne to move on and letting him go. She didn’t finish community college but she still managed to love again and settled down with someone who truly cared for her and treated her like a person. Not to mention getting to live in a nice neighborhood with a beautiful baby girl.

[@ZeranZeran]

I watched that episode when I was pretty young and even then I thought it was funny, but also really beautiful. I think that's one of the first times I remember getting choked up from a tv or movie. I really felt for Luanne. She's so sweet. I hope to meet a woman like her someday.

[@ChrisLeeW00]

He didn’t say he was bad at making keys, but “they don’t want me making keys anymore”. There’s a different way to interpret that 😅

[@-James-A]

I've always interpreted the joke as Buckley is such a dud he can't even make keys. Guess, I could be wrong. It is open to interpretation.

[@SJNaka101]

My assumption was that he copied other people's keys. It's pretty hard to mess up keymaking. But then again, maybe he was just that dumb. But I lean a little more towards malice in this situation with this character. He seems like the kind of idiot to think it was clever to copy other people's keys.

[@JaguarCats]

Yeah Buckley's own ignorance and disrespect towards Hank was what got him killed. Though the real question is this! Can you imagine what this did to Megalomart's reputation when that propane exploded and the questions that were asked? Like why was some one so unconfident put in charge of that department along with all of the other mistakes that were made!

[@Canaris4]

Everyone assumes it was Hank that blew up Megalow Mart and Buckley. Hank was angry that Megalow Mart closed down Strickland Propane. Also Hank was a trainee at Megalow Mart, and trainees always make dumb mistakes.

[@TJDious]

Disrespecting Hank is deadly, I tell you what.

[@ZeranZeran]

You could ask this about so many real people, places, stores, and even military actions..

[@TheFatestPat]

Nothing will happen. Megalomart will put out some BS statement about how it was an accident, then after a week everyone will forget about it. Thus is life.

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

True. Probably brought on some kind of changes in protocol. What a martyr. R.i.p. Buckley

[@LowellLucasJr.]

I still can't believe Kahn, of all people, was the only one to shed a tear about Buckley! Even calling out Luann's Narcissism, for the sake of wanting to release her pain! Definitely did not see that coming at all!!!!

[@TJDious]

IS A WORLD WITHOUT BUCKLEY A WORLD WE WANT TO LIVE IN???

[@Artretha]

I always interpreted her grieving for her hair as a transferance of the grief she felt for Buckley, especially since denial is one of the stages of grief. It was easier for her to face the fact that her hair was gone because of how trivial that is in comparison, and that she knew it would grow back. Facing the fact that her first serious boyfriend was dead was much harder to face. What Kahn was calling out was her denial, not her narcissism. But, again, that's just my interpretation.

[@TJDious]

​@@ArtrethaAnd also her weird Sinead O'Connor vibe.

[@Artretha]

@@TJDious True that

[@-James-A]

Yeah, but telling a joke at a funeral was uncalled for.

[@RoninRen]

Did anybody else get the vibe that, when they made episodes with antagonists that were teenagers/college kids, it felt like it was Mike Judge, saying he was glad to be done with Beavis and Butthead,

[@dougiefreshh0019]

I think that Buckley looking so unenthusiastic on the trampoline is indicative of the fact that Luanne only ever knew him to be very impersonal in the first place and it was her brain creating the hallucination.

[@Neogears1312]

It’s kinda weird they decided to kill him off and make an arc around it. He’s such a minor character in the series that’s it’s weird to think they’d even bother giving im him the opportunity to imply the afterlife is canon to KotH.

[@michaelhowell2326]

I really don't like "Wings of the Nope" episode. That damn song stuck in my head every time.

[@RK-ej1to]

Well if you want to do a story arc around the death of a character, a minor character would be the safest bet, no one wants to lose a character they like, especially in a comedy. And I don’t think they made the after life cannon, as far as I know only Luann ever saw him as a ghost so it could just as easily imply her own personal trauma of him dying right after breaking up with him and wanting to have something else to say other then their last fight. More then likely it was just a shtick, since KOTH has never been super concerned with cannon. Crazy that people these days can’t just appreciate the fact some shows are written on a case by case basis with out an over arching medium in which all reality with in the show must adhere to precedent.

[@notcardlinsytaccount1355]

It was a ratings thing. All the promotional material leading up to the two-parter kept teasing whether Hank, Luanne or Buckley would die to get viewers excited.

[@pptemplar5840]

​​@@RK-ej1toI mean, weather there is heaven or not in KotH doesn't really imply much continuity, like we know Hank's neighbors are, I wouldn't expect that to change between episodes. Not every show needs hard continuity, but when you end up following characters through years worth of content and sometimes development I think it's fair to expect some consistency. Doesn't really matter, as far as I'm aware weather Heaven exists or not is pretty much irrelevant to the show beyond this episode and they didn't even feel the need to give a hard answer to it.

[@Neogears1312]

@@RK-ej1to but he’s so minor that making it an arc and not just a kill off is the thing I find weird. Even Maude Flanders only got an episode about it.

[@TorridPrime217]

Social media has proven the world is full of unironic Buckleys

[@possummagic3571]

Hey

[@alfredhinton8792]

Another KZbinr theorized the reason Buckley dumped Luanne was because he thought he could get a better girl but failed and that’s why he tried to get Luanne back.

[@Gabiscis]

you mentioned the joke about megalomart not wanting buckley making keys anymore, i think the joke is that he was absuing the power and keeping keys to peoples houses, not that he wasn't capable of it. although i guess it could be either!

[@squirreltactics]

I can see him as the kinda guy who'd screw up making keys.

[@ianfinrir8724]

Could be he was making free copies for his friends, but I could also see people thinking Buckley was making extra copies to break into their houses.

[@timtimmonsmusic]

I actually feel kinda bad for luanne, she has a hard life, everything she loves winds hurting her but yet she’s always trying her hardest to have a positive outlook on life. I’m very positive she’s got some ptsd going on.

[@Birdsflight44]

That's the joke

[@ianfinrir8724]

In "King Of The Ant Hill", Luanne says Buckley wanted to bring his .38 to shoot off at the block party. So he was fated to accidentally "unalive" himself someday.

[@anglosaxiphone8246]

Love how Megalo mart was seen as an antagonistic force in Hank's life. Later Hank accepts the super store is never going away and lives with it.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I went through this in my life.

[@anglosaxiphone8246]

@@ChristopherSobieniak We going through it now with Amazon. They have a hyper efficient bussiness model that squeezes their employees dry. We just accept it as that and live alongside it lol.

[@bluedesks6629]

@@anglosaxiphone8246 I wonder if Amazon will eventually fall like Sears

[@gabbababa]

greatest character in fiction

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

Forgot how much I hated Buckley.

[@kelllee7647]

Still better than Peggy...

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

@@kelllee7647 You got me there! but he treated Luanne like dirt.

[@kelllee7647]

@@nolagospeltracts8264 I'll give you that... he definitely a bottom 5 character

[@101Volts]

@@kelllee7647 Peggy still scammed a scammer, though (with luck that Hank helped in a way he didn't intend.) Then again, she tried a bunch of nonsense, too. But between Jimmy Wichard and Buckley, who is worse, or are they on the same level?

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

You don’t hate Buckley. You heyte Buckley

[@ItsAVolcano]

In hindsight I wonder if the motorcycle dumping was just so that Buckley could do so outside of retaliation distance from Hank.😅

[@squirreltactics]

Makes sense

[@rickylucas6503]

i don't think he was smart enough to have that foresight.

[@metrowater2819]

It's funny how hank fired Buckley in the first episode, but at the time of his death he was Hanks manager at the Meg lo mart. The irony.

[@heathazezero3967]

"Help,get this skank off me" that was the funniest line from Buckley

[@abbeyhackney1584]

Mark

[@awill3454]

I always thought the “Life in a Northern Town” was a strange song for the appearance of Buckley’s angel, considering it’s about the collapse of industry in the UK. But the melody of the song was perfect for that scene, and when you consider it was a dream sequence and the band’s name is The Dream Academy, it fits

[@CoasterMan13Official]

What? I thought it was about a friend of theirs (Nick Drake).

[@awill3454]

@CoasterMan13Official It’s actually both about Nick Drake and the collapse of the shipping industry in the UK, according to Wikipedia

[@abbeyhackney1584]

That song played at Walmart and Menards

[@slashbash1347]

Luanne: "I'm not gonna be trailer trash!" **has shotgun wedding with Lucky**

[@Birdsflight44]

I feel like society has since developed a difference between trash (snickers salad, turning a truck tailgate into a pool, wearing inappropriate attire, etc. Redneck shit) and garbage, (inappropriate gun handling, threats of violence, casual theft, and worse) and some trashy qualities doesn't make you a garbage person. It kinda is modern Americana at this point lol. She is a bit "trashy" sometimes, but she isn't the picture of trailer trash that she's talking about and that's what matters.

[@richborn6700]

His whole note from Jesus bit is probably in my top three funniest KOTH moments ever

[@LeoMidori]

It's awesome. KotH Jesus being 1: A guy who loves parties, 2: Not especially eloquent or kind with his words is a funny combination of traits

[@lebomakhubedu6376]

It's the "love Jesus" at the end 😂

[@arkansaslibertarian5051]

For over 20 years, I've been randomly yelling "is a world without Buckley a world in which we want to live"? One of the best Khan quotes ever

[@pettykittyfam]

Luanne was truly an inspiring character... she proves you can come from the worst childhood and still find love and happiness in life... while being a wife and mother ❤ I love Luanne and I adored her voice actor Brittany Murphy Rest in peace 🕊️✌️❤

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

I too liked that char. Although on some occasions you could be a jerk, usually when she found even a smidge of "power" or influence ( like being Bobby's babysitter or weilding a megaphone.. ^^; ) that's the scenes when she became really weird... sad actually, what it says about the character. But not unrealistic.

[@LethalSaliva]

Luanne's my favorite character. I love Brittany Murphy😭!

[@chloegordon1716]

For a while, I despised Buckley but after re-watching Wings of the Dope and then re-watching the first 3 seasons, his death does kind of make me a little sad. Mostly for Luanne. There's something emotional about the idea of thinking you never got to have closure or say your goodbyes and then, when you think it's too late, you're granted that chance. Realistically, none of us will be visited by an angel for that to happen but sometimes, new information reaches you that finally allows you to move on. Also, it's a beautiful episode in that Buckley is given a chance to be a good(ish) boyfriend to Luanne by guiding her in a new, more productive direction that's gonna serve her better in the future. Buckley finally does right by her, Luanne comes to terms with her grief and both can finally move on.

[@Lunarbutterflytarot]

In real life it she would've been seeing number numbers and shit 😂

[@KamikazeDreamer]

If they weren't back together, Buckley and Luanne were at least hooking up in the episode before the Man Who Shot Cane, Husky Bobby. Because Hank was in a crisis situation he instructed them to take turns kicking each other's asses

[@QX1138]

There's one other time Buckley shows up. In Husky Bobby, Hank Hill discovers him and Luanne sleeping together while looking for Bobby and orders them to kick each others asses while he goes to the Mall to stop Bobby.

[@ianfinrir8724]

Somebody might've already pointed this out, but when Hank fires Buckley, he's standing next to lightbulbs meaning he's already _in_ the hardware department.

[@theparodychannel7842]

Cld b electrical...

[@frwystr]

yeah that would be electrical and not hardware but nice essay

[@thegoodolddays9193]

I like to think that Buckley eventually became Xavier, renegade angel.

[@lastotallyawesomebleach204]

Take the pain!!!

[@BrickZero]

Buckley the definition of failing upwards.

[@Artretha]

I remember the extreme hate that older generations had toward Gen-Xers. It was just as ridiculous as the hate for Millennials and Gen-Zers is now. Sure, every generation has its share of idiots and/or assholes, but the intergenerational hatred gets old pretty fast.

[@Galamoth06]

There's a term for disliking the newest generation: Juvenoia.

[@KudokuMaoh]

Then you got Matt Groening, a Gen-Xer who made the Simpsons as a critique to older generations and their false image of the "good ol days"

[@seanmatto2258]

He’s actually a boomer..

[@somebodysomewhere6770]

Boomers and Gen Xers had similar grievances against the greatest and silent generations.

[@Chineseisntalanguageapparently]

Depends how old you are and how tired you’d get

[@khristian625]

I don't think Buckley was *bad* at making keys. I think he was making... unauthorized spares.

[@greendiamondglow]

To be fair, there was probably a store somewhere that taught Wal-...I mean Megalo Mart not to stock full propane tanks. After all, every OSHA regulation is written in blood. I guess in this case it was Buckley's.

[@ianfinrir8724]

There's a big sign saying no full propane tanks are allowed in the building. Although they still have those little ones you hook up to a camp stove in the sporting goods section.

[@aguy7848]

When I was working in a grocery store, I was told specifically we were never supposed to bring full propane tanks into the store. Apparently it was a state law. Not sure if that's a thing everywhere though.

[@LethalSaliva]

The grocery store I work at doesn't allow propane tanks inside. We exchange full tanks for empty ones outside.

[@Vulpes_Ailurus]

I had a coworker who reminded me of Buckley. He even looked like him. He wasn’t as arrogant as Buckley thankfully, but he wasn’t a great worker.

[@YourFoxFriendYT]

Buckley was a angel on earth. He never died, just faked his death.

[@mechajay3358]

Lucky was a definite step up from Buckley, for all his flaws he shown to really care for Luanne. Wish they changed the Intro from Buckley to Lucky when he became a regular character.

[@Whiteboykun]

Well, I think in various ways, the showrunners put less effort into the later seasons compared to the first 7(ish) seasons, so I'm not surprised they just said "fuck it" and didn't bother updating. Besides, I think the original intro also shows Peggy and Luanne fixing a car; Luanne was unusually good with cars for like exactly one episode and then the writers dropped that like two hot rocks. You could argue that that part should have been updated / removed from the intro much sooner. Also holy shit I'm probably reading too much into this but I just realized, Lucky and Buckley kind of not only rhyme but they use the same letters.

[@monkeycat48]

😂😂😂9:21 - 9:24 I swear when it comes to Buckley’s death this was hilarious. His funeral was the most hilarious Dale believes there’s nobody inside yet he goes up to the casket, opens it up and well surprisingly the body is in there. Probably burnt to a crisp so bad that even there’s a reason why Dale is vomiting. Along with the fact that he vomits inside the casket and then closes it up kind of like a final goodbye to Buckley. I’m sure hank would’ve laughed his socks off if he had seen that.🤣🤣🤣 I was pretty surprised that khan actually favored Buckley. I never even saw that coming at all. Then of course Buckley’s angel he seems to still be like in the episode of the funeral, still mourning Buckley’s death, and still wonders why he doesn’t appear to him. Now the only reason that khan ever liked Buckley was because he annoyed Hank. I think to Hanks annoyance he doesn’t realize it but he is hanging out with Jesus

[@bcubed72]

Hank would have been *very* awkward and uncomfortable about the social _faux pas,_ but yeah, he'd probably think it least a little funny.

[@celebrity292]

I love the prt when he on break as a greeter and only responds when hes off break.

[@Galamoth06]

There were a lot of episodes played out of order, I'm pretty certain that's exactly why Luanne mentions Buckley's Angel before he shows up. During season 3 her hair's length keeps changing randomly, rather than growing back out over the course of the season.

[@Galamoth06]

There are a couple of other examples that are kind of funny, but you're probably already aware of them. For instance, Hank gets Peggy a new computer in "Hillenium," but in the next episode that aired she was still using her old Kaypro 10. She can also be seen driving her old Buick right after the episode where she gets a new convertible.

[@lastotallyawesomebleach204]

It always bugged me on the episode when Hank needed a new truck and his old truck was a first generation Ford ranger, but his truck was a second gen ranger in all the previous episodes.

[@EpicAMV911]

"help get this skank off me" will forever be one of the funniest lines ever

[@jaysnk408]

I always assumed Buckley was making keys for himself for whatever teenage hijinks he'd be upto, and that being why he wasn't allowed to anymore

[@amethyst413]

The 2 songs associated with Buckley prominently feature the word "Hey": "Rock n Roll Part II" (pretty much the only word is Hey) and "Life in a Northern Town" (Hey oh ma ma ma...). This is just genius on the writers' part

[@WakeUpUniverse66]

People probably think his name is Mark because it sounded like that when Dale yelled "FOOORK" @4:34

[@abbeyhackney1584]

I edited bubbles (power puff girls) hugging buckly

[@DanQZ]

"They're for me for later" is so fucking funny. It would already be kind of funny as a sarcastic response, but Buckley being Buckley says it sincerely, which is even funnier

[@chikachika7782]

I wonder how much liability Mega lo Mart had since Buckley may or may not have known not to drag the tanks by the valve. They also kept the tanks inside where the blast contributed to a larger inferno though ironically if they had the tanks outside where the crowd was more people would have died

[@ExplorerDS6789]

And you're absolutely right about Buckley being in the intro for all 13 seasons. When the shows on Fox went HD, they all changed their intros, like The Simpsons' intro got a major overhaul, but with Family Guy and King of the Hill, they just traced over the old one. I mean, what the hell? With KOTH, that would've been a GREAT opportunity to add characters like Kahn, Minh, Connie, and Lucky! Or just have Luanne get in Lucky's truck instead of Buckley's bike. Why would they be so lazy as not to do that? They had a chance to remake the intro, and they blew it. Oh well, with the King of the Hill revival coming out next year, I'm sure we'll get a new intro. Sadly, one without Luanne and... well, I'm just going to say that Dale should be killed off, because NOBODY can replace Johnny Hardwick. Johnny WAS Dale. The character's mannerisms, quirks, jokes, those were all Johnny's creations. Just getting a soundalike won't work.

[@Attmay]

I hated the redone version of the *Simpsons* credits. It was more bloated and less expressive than the classic version. A redone version of the part with Marge and Maggie shopping is embarrassingly bad compared to what it replaced. At least the others realized "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

[@ExplorerDS6789]

@@Attmay It was time to change it. That intro was from 1990 and didn't look like what the show had become.

[@ByteMe619]

that angel episode always makes me cry

[@MylingCyrus]

I love Buckley The scene with Buckleys Angel and Luanne has stayed with me from first watch It was stunning and I feel like a moment of growth for her (more Jumpstarting it)

[@robertanderson4921]

I just found this channel a couple days ago and I've been binging. Such a good King of the Hill fan account.

[@kyledodson2992]

Can you imagine how dumb their kids would have been?! Luanne and Buckley that is

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

Well, Lucky wasn't exactly Mensa material.

[@kyledodson2992]

@@nolagospeltracts8264 agreed

[@geraldframinghammer2626]

I don't consider Luanne dumb. She knew how to work on vehicles, she was Peggy's catcher and she learned from many of her mistakes. She just came from a childhood without structure that was full of chaos. One of my favorite Luanne lines is, "I am a proud, ignorant woman!"

[@AnAverageGoblin]

dumb and uneducated are two vastly different things.

[@shanethompson5262]

Hey. New Squirrel Tactics. And it's about Buckley. Cool.

[@EinDose]

It took me a whole day of singing Life In A Northern Town to myself before I realized why they picked that song for Buckley's Angel. It's a spiritual, meaningful song whose chorus is composed entirely out of 'hey's, it's brilliant!

[@ivanbluecool]

Don't be lazy or else you'll blow up the meglo mart

[@DragonRaiderX9]

Looking at it again, it really does start to feel like the sins of Megalo Mart, and its real life inspiration, are being put on the back of one not especially bright 20 year-old. There are lots of reasons why that explosion shouldn't have happened, and the higher ups are responsible for a number of them. Buckley wasn't very smart, and his lack of intelligence actively got him killed, but he never should have been in that position in the first place. I'm not sure how much the show seems to recognize that. He definitely wasn't a very good boyfriend, though. No argument on that one.

[@bcubed72]

I think the institutional failure of Mega-Lo Mart was on solid display that episode: how the staff are essentially untrained (don't even know what "hardware" is), the company doesn't reward knowledge and experience (unless "in-store"), etc. Even the name is a play on "Megalomania," meaning "pathologically power-obsessed." I mean, even a heel like Bud Strickland knew enough to recognize Hank's savant skills in propane, even if he was too petty to reward him properly. But MLM was too institutionally stupid to do even that.

[@claycarmine7466]

Mike Judge is a lot more self aware and a lot better at satire than people give him credit for. Regardless of how the boomers and gen-x-ers saw this and said "the next generation is so weak and dumb and gay and fucked" I guarantee he knew what was up

[@notcardlinsytaccount1355]

11:13 I like to imagine that the mention of Buckley’s angel in Pretty, Pretty Dressed was simply an off-handed joke that they eventually decided to run with and make into an episode. There are a couple instances where this happens, like in Good Hill Hunting when Hank and Bobby are at La Grunta and look at brochures for a museum of miniatures and swimming with dolphins, both of which went on to become the basis for episodes.

[@JediMaster362]

That party that Jesus was holding sounded pretty cool.

[@raggedyanarchist]

Life in a Northern Town was such a weird choice for a show about life in a southern town.

[@nickrustyson8124]

But yet it fits the mood so perfectly

[@kurisu7885]

Somehow I doubt they didn't want Buckley making keys because he was terrible at it, it likely had more to do with who he was making keys for, or how many he was making.

[@vodkadotka]

I love Luanne's ignorance. She's like "tell me something the real Buckley would know," while if he's a hallucination, he'll know everything she knows. This poor girl's brain can never make it to the finish line. 😂😂😂

[@No_Budget_No_Problem]

4:36 In your leannes video you point out people thought Dale said Mark when he said fork. That's probably why the wiki says Buckleys first name is Mark

[@LynnE507]

Cool thing is, Buckely shares the exact same birthday as Kurt Cobain: February 20th of 1967. Well...technically not Buckley, but his voice David Herman. :)

[@LethalSaliva]

Kurt Cobain's awesome!😃😞

[@isntchrisl]

Buckley wasn't bad at making keys. The joke is that management realized he wasn't trustworthy with the key machine. It's one of the funniest lines in the series, IMO.

[@You-sw7tm]

Hank yelling: "You're fired" to Buckley is hilarious given the fact that Buckley never worked for him.

[@LethalSaliva]

I find it interesting that, in the final season, where the intro animation is updated, they still have Luanne running up to Buckley to get on his motorcycle. It would have been interesting if they had Lucky's truck pick her up instead. Aw well...

[@quanchi1795]

Imagine if Buckley's Dad never died and went into witness protection. Buckley's pops name being boomhauer

[@JosephShemelewski]

I remember the explosion being one of the big oh shit moments

[@Jago-Shogun]

It's pretty sweet how as an angel, he finally got on that trampoline.

[@susanborenstein1538]

Not dale screaming mark his first name at 4:45

[@squirreltactics]

he says "fork"

[@fsg2700]

​@@squirreltactics ah

[@ShaneReynolds0421]

It’s so funny I read the thumbnail with his voice.

[@versebuchanan512]

Buck wasn't bad at making keys. He was good at it. He prolly sold a few storage unit keys to people who didn't own those storage units, if you follow.

[@KennethMcCoy-v7w]

“I cry river of tears for Buckley… Why not you?”

[@thatone3270]

I don’t think Buckley was bad at making keys. I think he had more of a copy problem😂

[@Garfunkels_Funky_Uncle]

I loved the part of the episode of when Buckley dies, that when the store is blowing up Boomhauer is on the phone with 911

[@squirreltactics]

I almost used that part, but I previously used it in the video on Chuck Mangione, so choose against it.

[@inwyrdn3691]

I adore Buckley, but I know that's mainly because I had a friend in high school who looked and sounded almost exactly like him. I'd like to say he DIDN'T act like him, but seeing as he can only count to nine (and even that would be a struggle) due to homemade bottle rockets, that would be a lie.

[@99thJediWarrior]

To this day, Life in a Northern Town plays rent-free in my head because of Buckley's angel.

[@shanerulez79]

I get that David Kalaiki-Ali, aka the Flying Hawaiian is supposed to be in the wrong when he thanks God that he did get "asploded" but idk maybe he remembered that time half the Mega Lo Mart blew up. I'm sure it was all over the news.

[@alansims2918]

This show has inspired me to start watching the series again. Thanks homie.

[@jakeproven256]

Yeah, you're right about the propane thing, I worked at a Hardware store, and we sold the propane tanks outside, never inside.

[@Whiteboykun]

12:07 Buckley used to make keys at megalomart. Luanne has a birthmark on her butt in the shape of a key. Coincidence?!

[@cythatnerd]

FIGHT THE OCCUPATION! FIGHT! THE! OCCUPATION!

[@mkmike4903]

Hank didn't get to kick Buckley's ass, but propane did.

[@charliedavis7576]

Great video! This is my favorite YT channel, I hate that Johnny Hardwick is gone, but I hope they are still making new episodes.The show won't be the same without Dale, but I hope something horrible happens to Nancy and John Redcorn

[@squirreltactics]

Glad we can keep you entertained, we appreciate you watching. They supposedly recorded his parts for several episodes, so hopefully well at least get a handful of new ones.

[@arkansaslibertarian5051]

Wait what, no Dale?! WTF 😮

[@StefanBacon]

Megalomart reminded me a lotnof Menards. I had a roommate who couldn't install a shower head who got promoted to head of plumbing.

[@Corncan2]

I still quote Buckley to this day. Hey

[@-James-A]

Yester.... Hey.... day

[@EricHeidenAuthor]

Another excellent video. Even though you had to cut off the sound (probably for copyright reasons), the scene of Dale vomiting into the coffin is still as hilarious as it was when I first saw the episode two decades ago!

[@squirreltactics]

It's a mono issue on phones, which is odd because I set it to convert the audio to stereo for exporting.

[@wolfbones666]

Poor Kid. Buckley didn't deserve any of what happened to him.

[@somethingelse4424]

I mean he sucked, but he was also a victim of the circumstances he was born into.

[@jtblcksheep3376]

When you notice that Hank Hill bears a striking resemblance to Bill Foster from Falling Down, watching him get frustrated with bad service takes on a whole new meaning.

[@squirreltactics]

Very underrated movie.

[@icemanshiz]

I think that they didn't let Buckley make keys, not because he didn't know how to, but due to him making copies of keys he wasn't supposed to. Least that's my head canon