Rich Hank, Poor Hank

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“Rich Hank, Poor Hank”
King of the Hill episode
Episode no.	Season 8 Episode 8
Written by	Etan Cohen
Directed by	Tricia Garcia
Production no.	7ABE21
Original airdate	January 4, 2004
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Rich Hank, Poor Hank is the one hundred and fifty seventh episode in the FOX comedy King of the Hill.

[edit] Plot

Hank takes Bobby wallet-shopping, and Bobby quizzes him about how much money he makes. Hank feels threatened and tells Bobby to mind his business. Later, Bobby hears Hank telling Peggy about his $1000 annual bonus from work and mistakenly gets the idea that Hank is wealthy.

Bobby tells Joseph and Connie about his suspicions, and the rumour that Hank is wealthy spreads like wildfire. Hank is completely in the dark about this. Even John Redcorn comes into his office with a blueprint for a New Age Retirement Home for aging baby boomers. Hank tries to teach Bobby the value of a buck by giving him his allowance and then taking it away by charging him for expenses. Bobby is peeved and takes Hank's emergency credit card and goes on a reckless shopping spree, thinking that whatever he spends is only "a drop in the bucket".

The credit card company calls Hank, and he goes to the mall to catch Bobby red handed. Frustrated, he explains to Bobby that he is not a millionaire, and finally shows him the family finances. They return all but one of the items Bobby bought, which was a jet-ski. They contemplate selling it at the nearby lake, but the one customer interested in buying the vehicle is a bratty rich kid. To show that it's not broken Hank takes for a ride and discovers how fun it is. He decides not to sell it right away, but rather carry it on his credit card for a while.

[edit] Trivia

• The title is a parody of the novel Rich Man, Poor Man.
• This was the last King of the Hill episode to use traditional cel animation. From this point on, the show remains hand-drawn but all painting and coloring is done digitally.^{[citation needed]}