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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 31, 2007 13:14:55 GMT -5
Where does Hank Hill get his strong sense of morality from? Clearly it's not from his parents as his mother was a crazed collector of trinkets and Cotton was a horrible person. It can't be from his friends because they are either womanizers, insane consperacy theorist or pathetic losers. Even his former football coach is shown to be an over aggresive freak. Pretty much everyone in Arlen is in someway amoral except for Hank. How did he end different than everyone else?
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Dec 31, 2007 13:21:34 GMT -5
Maybe he's just a really good person?
That's all I got. I just kinda looked at it as "He always has been." Guess I never put too much thought into it....
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Post by The Scuba Guy on Dec 31, 2007 13:24:30 GMT -5
The propane fumes turned him into the person he is
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2007 13:31:44 GMT -5
I would think he saw the world around him and thought, "God dangit, this ain't right."
Hank has a strong work ethic, a belief in himself and the family unit; everything his parents didn't have. This is Hank's way of having a better life than what he was accustomed to. Cotton was a blatant womanizer and - based on the episodes at hand - a rotten father who never thought he'd amount to anything; mom was a nervous wreck. Hank is the complete opposite of all of those.
He has the perfect lawn, a nice truck, a great job he loves and believes in. Hank is the moral fiber that keeps everything together. People can trust Hank.
There are some things he doesn't understand (Bobby wanting to be a Buddist, a lady pastor at his church, Bobby doing anything weird, etc.), but in time, Hank just rolls with it. Because, I'm pretty sure Hank was looked at as strange.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 31, 2007 13:36:09 GMT -5
That could be, he the one person that all of his friend can rely on and all that. Maybe the point is that one can be moral even if everything around them isn't. Still Hank's moral core has been showen to exist in flashbacks to his childhood days when I don't know where he would have known was was right or wrong due to his surrondings
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Post by Randy Barber 4-Life on Dec 31, 2007 13:48:40 GMT -5
I think a lot of it probably did come from Cotton. Love of country, love of Texas. I have a feeling things didn't get that bad between them until Hank couldn't get into the army because of his narrow urethra and that made Cotton view him as a sissy. And lets face it despite what some episodes would have you believe things weren't all bad between them, they had their moments (hating Jimmy Carter, Cotton admitting he screwed up Hank's hard work with the Vietnam vets, etc.).
Also, football probably had a big influence. Hank put his coach on a pedestal, it wasn't until later they realized that coach (and over episodes almost anybody they had idolized as kids) was sort of a nut. He's got a lot of football heroes and they were hard work straight laced types he could emulate.
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Post by Bobby Womack on Dec 31, 2007 13:57:10 GMT -5
if he was really as moral as he claims to be he'd dump that hussy of a wife for lying about being a virgin
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2007 13:58:14 GMT -5
If Hank didn't love God, his country and Texas, I would assume Dale would have had him killed as a traitor years ago.
I do concur with the idea he had a sort of idol relationship with his football coach (and in some cases, the principal of Bobby's middle school). "If you're willing to work hard, good things will come your way."
Although his view of the coach became strained, the lesson learned was never forgotten. It's not like Hank gave up and said, "Screw it, he's a liar and everything he taught me was a lie."
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on Dec 31, 2007 14:02:23 GMT -5
If he's so upstanding and moral, why does he idolize Buck Strickland? Other than propane, the man is the opposite of everything Hank stands for, yet he turns a blind eye to all of it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2007 14:07:57 GMT -5
Hank worked there some 20 years. Sometimes you have to endure a lot of BS to just press on and do your job. He must get paid pretty well, or he really really loves working with propane.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 31, 2007 14:25:39 GMT -5
If he's so upstanding and moral, why does he idolize Buck Strickland? Other than propane, the man is the opposite of everything Hank stands for, yet he turns a blind eye to all of it. I think it's the same factor that causes some Michael Jackson fans to fawn over him as it were still 1984, despite his eccentricities and drastically-changed appearence. Some folks just choose to focus on what a person used to be rather than what they might be now. |
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