Season 2 Episode 23: Propane Boom (May 17, 1998)

Rusty and Mike talk about their love of King of the Hill and what you can expect from this episode-by-episode podcast.

In this extra Friday episode, they talk about some minor reoccurring characters in King of the Hill with the help of Matt Savage and Mason the Producer:

• Tom Chick (voiced by Phil Hendrie) – The manager of the Channel 84 news division.
• Nguc Phong (voiced by James Sie) – A Laotian who is one of Ted Wassonasong's friends.
• Fred Ebberd (voiced by Chelcie Ross) – A member of the city council who also works at a movie theater. He appeared in only two episodes, but is mentioned by Hank in several others. Hank mentions voting for him and having no regrets about it even though he has expressed disappointment with his performance.
• Anthony Page (voiced by David Herman) – An ultra-liberal social worker from Los Angeles. Physically frail, as he considers carpal tunnel a disability (nicknamed "Twig Boy"). In the pilot episode, he is assigned to investigate the allegation that Hank is beating Bobby. He appears in a later episode as Leon's advocate when Hank fired him for drug-abuse.
• Carl the Restaurateur (voiced by Dennis Burkley) – Owns and operates the Showbiz Deli in the episode Love Hurts and So Does Art. He indicates in this episode that before switching the menu to New York style deli food, his restaurant had served Italian food. Carl is not a stickler for quality in his cuisine, noting that he orders chopped chicken liver in a large drum. His restaurant is not popular and often Bobby Hill is the only customer. He also seems to be a lazy cook, noting, "Did you know you have to heat up Italian food?". After the apparent failure of the Showbiz Deli, we encounter Carl again in Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?, again having switched his menu, this time to sushi, another food that can be served raw. In this later episode, it appears that Carl's business is doing much better, as the scenes of the sushi restaurant show many customers inside. He is not to be confused with the similarly named school principal Carl Moss, who was also voiced by Burkley.
• Collete Davis (voiced by Christina Applegate) – Collete is the Owner of Hottyz in the episode "My Hair Lady" and a trendsetting hairstylist responsible for bringing the messy ponytail to Arlen. She hired both Luanne Platter and Bill Dauterive to work at her salon shortly after Luanne dropped out of college. Both become popular stylists until Bill admits to not being gay. Collete fires them both despite an impassioned speech by Luanne about acceptance and is not seen again until appearing in a non-speaking role during the episode "Lucky's Wedding Suit."
• Cane Skretteburg (voiced by Tré Cool) – Cane Skretteburg is the lead singer of a punk rock garage band and one of the main antagonists in the episode "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg". Hank confronts this character with his band (voiced by Green Day) because their music was too loud. Later in the episode they have three paintball wars, the first two Hank, Boomhauer, Bill and Dale lose but win the last one. Cane and his band later appear in the episode "Master of Puppets".

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