He wasn't going to take the blame for any old schmuck off the street thats for sure!

@@ionstorm66 certainly no man with a terrible smell.

Bobby specifically to be fair. I doubt he would have done that for anyone else

MAAAYBE Hank (though he never would have let him forget it till the day he died).

@@tnerbtnerb5136 no he would think he taught Hank to be tough and smart enough. He gives Bobby slack because Hank raised him lol.

I love how it's a strange testament to how much the Hills care for their youngest, Cotton rarely respects anyone but is willing to throw himself under the bus for Bobby While Hank rarely ever goes against his Father, but the moment he calls Bobby a name he's ready to fight about it.

Yes it’s actually kind of heartwarming to see that despite Bobby’s actions in that moment Hank was sticking up for him in terms of getting called names by Cotton

He calls his war buddies that.

You forgot how he was also about to kick Khan’s ass for calling Bobby a loser in the Fiddle contest episode

@@LilNicky109 Yeah, that episode is the epitome of "hindsight's = 20/20" The whole time Hank was a dick to both Connie AND Bobby and by the end of it he realizes and was like "Damn, I'm a Jackass" which I can VERY heavily respect because so few people can even catch on and even fewer have the balls to admit it after realizing it.

He tells Hank the only good thing you ever did was give me a grandson 😂

Haven't watched King of the Hill in about 15 years, but I vaguely remember an episode where Cotton tries breaking Bobby. By the end, Bobby bounces back like it was nothing. Cotton has this new found respect for him, and says he wishes Bobby was a POW with him because he believes that he'd drive the guards mad.

​@angelcanez4426 cotton also said hank was a better father cuz he made Bobby

That's every grandparent honestly. (As in, adoring their grandchildren... not being awful to their kids, although, that sadly is also pretty accurate)

I think Cotton respects Bobby for being Bobby. That he doesn't care about others thinking he's weird, he's out there living life on his terms. Cotton is exactly the same - he is who he is, and you can either love him or get out of his way.

Cotton was very aware of peggy's uselessness, he even said on his death bed that she wasn't good enough for his son, and I think he always sort of thought hank deserved better, he definitely thought highly of hank, more so then we are lead to believe in the show's beginning.

Hank's wife has a name: Peggy.

I'll call Cotton Hank's Dad

@@kenm2709 He was hard on his son cause he loved him and he just didnt know how else to raise a child. Its a real world issue that comes up all the time, parents focus more on turning their kids into beating their kids into obdient wage slaves rather than teaching them to grow up and become parents themselves.

@@kenm2709 No he's... he's just sexist. Peggy isn't useless, she makes Hank happy. And sometimes it's as simple as that. Sometimes things don't need to be any more complicated than that. He was raised in a time which de-valued women to baby making, and nothing else. If he had a shred of care for the world, he'd call her "Mrs. Hill" or "Peggy", but instead - because he's sexist - he calls Peggy "Hanks Wife".

That’s true. Bobby didn’t intentionally set the church on fire

That's for the fire marshal and the police to decide.

@@ianfinrir8724 And given that the police in KotH are morons, Bobby would be called an Arsonist.

You really think a hick town like Arlen will believe that?

Not quite..

Man with the terrible smell? Bill Dauterive.

I want to know what the hell thats supposed to mean in the context of Cotton 0_o

How you make your-? SEND'EM'IN!

@@Gojiro7if anything he probably meant he uses his face to see the enemy hear the enemy and bite the enemy

​@Gojiro7 I think we're meant to assume he was a gigolo especially with the way he wasn't willing to let Hank talk about it.

​@Gojiro7 being good looking is what brings in the dollar dollar bills.

Agreed

Only to then give her the biggest middle finger to be flushed down a dive bar toilet, and clog it. Old man was laughing his ass off alongside Topsington, Stinky, Fatty and Brooklyn in Heaven😊

i think he is a pretty straightforward character. most people just take verbal way too seriously.

Cotton was always my favorite character. He's a hardass but does have a heart.

I’d argue that he always looks out for his family… he is a complicated character for sure, had moments but he is a racist, sexist SOB who emotionally abused his son.

Sendemin

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She a real one

About 84 cents per person per meal

Contrary to popular belief they do not try to keep you alive in prison

@@Waxxumus only if you're gang affiliated or Jeffrey Epstein they don't try.

Corruption old oligarchs don't think so.

@@Waxxumus they just feed you, provide shelter, clothing, and general medical care if it's necessary. Talk about anarchy.

Peggy was honestly a decent character up until she told Hank to never "risk his life again" (he saved a guy from a freezer). And that's coming from someone who couldn't stand her as a kid.

Peggy really wasn't that bad of a character, I just wish that they balanced her morals better. Sometimes she would do stuff like this and it would be awesome, but sometimes she would completely miss the mark. Kind of like in that one episode where Luanne moved in with that weird pig farmer guy. She genuinely cared about Luanne but Peggy was standing on a pedestal and not allowing Luanne to make her own decisions or learn organically. All while insisting that Peggy herself was always in the right as Luanne's teacher in that episode, even when it effected Luanne negatively or went too far.

@@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 She's a flawed woman. It happens.

Confessing to the police is ruining his life. It's not doing what's right

Not his comrade, his family. Yes in this case, there is a difference for you military crazies.

@@EmptyMan000 We're all family, you just don't know it yet.

Cotton wouldn't want to ever be called Comrade. 😂

@@vlada it has other meanings than that. Which is WHY communists use it.

Cotton had many, MANY faults. But when he finds out it was Bobby, every word out of his mouth is designed to protect Bobby. Even when he was calling him "Stinky", to convince Bobby not to confess. He was an awful person, but he truly did love Bobby

@@triiti-NOC Meh still a better person that Hank's Wife. She kidnapped a kid, tried too screw over a man who wanted too better himself, thinks she's God's gift too humanity, tried too screw over her own son out of spite, etc. Cotton, at least, has principal's (however flawed they maybe) Hell Cotton actually helped her after her skydiving crash and not out of sadistic pleasure either

I mean in the last episode he basically just came out as the absolute biggest pile of dogshit ever, which this doesn't erase

I think KotH gets better as one ages. I hated this show when I was a kid, but as I get older, the jokes get better and I identify with Hank more

@@zenjon7892 I agree. It taught a lot of lessons that we don't value or even realize until much later in life.

The smell he made was a man's smell

who

@@bh7969 you can argue John Redcorn, Buck Strickland to a certain extent. Besides those, I can't think of many main characters under sociopath.

@@speakerroach4015 Nancy Gribble

John Redcorn isn't a heartless sociopath. He cares about Joseph, is friends with hank and gives him good advice, patiently puts up with Bobby after Bobby becomes weirdly obsessed with Indians, helps save Bobby when he's in a cult, and cuts it off with Nancy when he feels guilty after Dale befriends him and helps him use FOIA for his land claim. Adultery is wrong but early series Dale is a negligent husband in a lot of ways. (Dale only became an attentive husband as he grew as a character. At first he ignored her for 12 hours a day to research conspiracy theories in his basement.) Comparing John Redcorn to Buck Strickland, who rips off his customers and steals gambling money from his workers' coffee fund, or Cotton, who emotionally and verbally abused his son for years, is absurd. Fans who just identify too closely with Dale for sad reasons are insecure about cucked by a handsome American Indian chad.

@@user-ig4dl4iv1j I was referring moreso to Nancy for the way she acted towards her coworkers (her cheating on Dale is the tip of the fucking iceberg with her) and Peggy for what she did to Lucky but sure you die on that hill. John Redcorn is despicable but at least he stopped going after Nancy after Dale helped him navigate the stupid bureaucracy of our government to help get him what he was owed. Peggy sabotaging Lucky's GED and Nancy acting like a goddamn gangster when she got that position on the major news station were two of the shittiest things out of any character on the show to ever do.

Something that would have made the episode even better if they showed that.

Also they can't prove the case. They know he didnt do it. Yet he confesses. It would be two police vs three of the family. And One confession

I got the impression that the new priest decided not to press charges, as she publicly forgave Cotton after he apologised and was made to hug the other parishioners.

I think they let him go because the church dropped the charges

Hell yeah.

ditto. Sometimes extracting it is more painful than the most infected root canal sans anesthetic you've ever had - but it's in there. The way I always think of it is, even after all the bullshit, Hitler still married Ms. Braun before their final moments together. Though I don't think he brought the dog into the bunker... Hope they just let him go but I doubt it.

I'm not excusing hitler for shit. I'm a far leftist. But it shows a shred of humanity.

He loves Good Hank(GH) and Bobby and Dee Dee at least when he needs something.

Like when he helped Peggy walk again. Cotton reminds me of my great grandfather who my grandfather says I'm just like him

Cause the fuck does Redcorn do besides _EXIST_ ? At least Cotton DOES shit to earn whatever hate he gets

@@KamenRiderRaiden he's a whiny backstabbing adulterer. at least cotton has some worth as a human being.

@@stproducciones9140Well _CLEARLY_ I dont seem to remember King of the Hill quite so well, cause all I remember is he showed up, gave _NOT-Dolly-Parton_ "MASSAGES", then tipped out the doo -- I mean window, save for one time Dale vibe checked him with a lamp.

Or Nancy.

Or Peggy.

Wasn't the Cadillac Car destroyed by ZZ Top?

@@JoeSyxpack yes

they added it to Carhenge, I think

Maybe Good Hank got it.

@@TnT_F0X I would think Dede would have gotten it and probably sold it.

I mean dude got his shins blown off, and then later on we find out he had multiple other bullets still in him from other gunshot wounds, including one in his heart lol.

Hanks confusion about how cotton makes his livins adds a whole other level of depth to the funniness of that line 😂

I think he said "Makes" but aside from that? Agreed.

Same with my grandfather. According to my father, he was an, at best, ok father. But, as soon as my older brother became his first grandchild, something inside him switched and he became the sweetest father figure one could dream of. Just like my own father. So, my brother and I were blessed with two great and strong father figures. Same goes for my mother and grandmother. Needless to say, I wish every child, in the whole wide world, had a loving family like mine.

When the pressure is on someone else to ultimately raise them, kids become a lot more bearable to some people

My mother always said my grandmother was a terrible mother. However, while my mother was out doing drugs my grandmother raised me and was the only one who was ever kind to me, she was my light in the darkness when no one else was there.

My children love my mother, and i tell my children ” that is not the same woman i grew up with… That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.” - Bill Cosby

That seems to be the running theme. There's a huge difference between raising kids and caring for your grandkids. Raising kids is a 24/7 ordeal at times. Grandkids you can see them when you want and then leave when you want. Plus by then your life is probably more chill and stable since you're not the sole supporter of someone else. So they can be more at ease.

It's always irritated me that Hank's Japanese brother looks like him and not Cotton, as Hank looks like his mother and not his dad.

​@@rudolphclancy8293 hank looked like bobby as a kid in child hank flashbacks, so I think it's just how the genes work

That's why Hank's friends all respect Cotton.

You mean Hanks Wife

You're not the only one. It's painfully obvious considering Cotton saw Bobby as a blank slate compared to Hank who Cotton wasn't able to mold him into what he wanted as an ideal son.

@@user-xs5bl9dy6d I think that cotton understand he made a series of mistakes toward hank but his stubborn inability to lose a fight means he could never concede that. Because Bobby was a blank slate he could start a new "campaign" if you will and he puts that stubborn abrasiveness to use. It fits his sort of method of operations. Like how he can tell which race is what just by looks alone when most people can't. If he's going to declare war he is going to know his target and I think that is what happened with hank. But admitting he lost, admitting that he started an ill conceived campaign. Admitting that life isn't some sort of fight in every circumstance just forces him to retreat and try to desperately start a fight. I think that what he does when he see hank. He see him and it's like "shit. Feelings" and so instead he comes up with the most stupid stuff and acts douchey to start a fight. Because those are grounds he knows. I mean, I think this is shown when he literally declares that "everyone hated that baby" when talking about hank. He just can't NOT fight and with bobby he's become a wiser, older man and trying to put that giant flaw to some good use before he's gone. I feel like cotton is a good character. He's very flawed and he gets older he wants to put those flaws to use, but he's also so entrenched, so molded by them at this point that he isn't sure how to change. Maybe he thinks because of his age he CAN'T change.

Nah he loves Bobby more than he loves the rest of his family. Hank wanted Bobby to tell the truth to the authorities while Cotton wanted to keep Bobby from being punished. Hank’s lesson is more important for a parent who cares about their child growing up to be an adult. Cotton’s choice is what you do if you don’t want your kid to learn that actions have consequences. That being said, it is uncharacteristically kind of Cotton to offer to take the fall for Bobby since he presumably wouldn’t have done that for Hank.

@@rabbitcouch15 True you're right a lot about what you said, but do you honestly think some hick town like Arlen is gonna let Bobby and his family live it down? Accident or not, burning down a church will make him a pariah for his entire life.

Oh I think we do. We brag about all the time. Greatest country in the world? Land of the free and home of the brave and all that? Have you not been paying attention?

To be fair as much as lying is a bad thing the world isn't black and white why should they tell Joseph that Dale isn't his dad Dale is his father Joseph as his son what good would telling otherwise do With Luanne its protecting her from the fact that a father she thinks the world off isn't a good person and for what honor hell the other two are to keep people safe the best thing in this world

She has a massive ego so of course she only cares about looking bad.

Well he didn’t frame him but he should’ve confessed sooner

@@tiablue9106 ok then bud.

If i remember right cotton just happened to be in the bathroom at the wrong time, and was complaining about the stink, and bobby lit some matches to try and cover the smell and it went alight, cotton got the blame by accident not because bobby intended to frame him.

@@damackabet.4611 OK then bud.

Umm no not at all.

@@dickhardpicard yes it is

@@EllaCBWalkersSpokeswoman alot of starving people. If you sacrifice yourself it would help world hunger. Do it ..

@@dickhardpicard Um not really I work in a Casino you wouldn't believe how much food gets WASTED on a daily basis. So yeah there's better ways to handle the situation.

@@codyhill2311 I was trolling bruh.

When has cotton ever been racist?

@@andymercado-ty2ib He could tell Khan was Laotian just at a glance, later in the same episode he clapped his hands and said “Mr. Khan, my bags.” As if he was expecting Khan to just be a bell hop. Called a Japanese hibachi chef a Tojo. And also kept calling the residents of Japan that whilst he was visiting their country. He also holds a grudge against Mitsubishi for building the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor and Italy due to their involvement during WW2, to the point he deems anyone that drives a Mitsubishi or Italian scooter a traitor.

@@lg6884 yeah, none of thats really racist, first of all minorities do tend to be in servant like positions, and lets be fair 95% of politicians say the same shit about mexicans and asians and the sort too(saying if we dont import them who will clean our toilets and nonsense). He gave enough of a damn to recognize what khan was instead of just calling him Japanese or chinese like everyone else does. Tojo is only a mild insult at best as far as im aware its about same level as calling someone a yankee, hillbilly, redneck, or some other minor offense in america, its a bit offensive but i dont think they really care. holding a grudge against a company that made the planes that fought against you in a war sounds like a pretty damn reasonable argument. Also he has a japanese son if you remember so he clearly doesn't hate the japanese. At worse cotton is mildly racist. although i dont think i can really remember him insulting anything about the japanese or other races in specific, just saying he dislikes them, or insulting them for being on opposite side of the war.

He cares about Hank too I think

@@lawrenceclifton38 kinda. He was pissed that Hank said he love buck Strickland, stopped Khan and minn from breaking into their house, made him pay for a fence and told Jimmy Carter he wouldn't press a button to kill Hank. But yeah, cotton sucked as a father.

@@stevemclovin1566 the fact that he said he wouldn't press a button to kill Hank is already nicer than anything my dad has said to me

@@stevemclovin1566look back at Cotton’s debut episode, he and Hank had a good relationship. In fact Bobby was initially the one who didn’t want him around. It’s not until the end of the episode that we’d see the family dynamic we’d know them for going forward.

It ain't underrated

"send em in!"

Uncle Buck style

Especially the Hank's wife part XD

@@D3xterJettster I don’t blame him nobody likes a nagger who thinks that knows it all.

A racist and sexist? Lol

@@HulktySSJ2 sexist yes, but racist no.

He raise hank to be tough which is why he was hard on him. Hell he lost his shins in ww2. He knew the world is a very cruel and rough.

You're comparing a slice of life comedy for adults to two adventure action shows made for children, man.