King of the Hill (TV Series) Father of the Bribe (2002) User Reviews

A bribe that backfires

[kathysdogs · 8/10 · 30 January 2023]

For about the 100th time in this series, Kahn is frustrated over Bobby & Connie's relationship - he's always trying to push her into a relationship with obnoxious but fellow Asian Chane who were wealthier and Kahn aspired to acquire Chane's parents' lifestyle. One day he manages to pull Bobby aside and bribe him $300 to break up with Connie. $300 was a decent sum for an early teen in 2002 & even in 2023 not chump change especially for a usually lazy teen such as Bobby. Bobby tells Connie what Kahn did and they decide to have their cake and eat it too by spending of it on a motel room after school (am surprised that a motel would rent a room to minors!) and just lay on the twin beds chastely separated, holding hands. To make it pay off, Bobby would pretend to break up with Connie who to Kahn's pleasure is appropriately distraught about the "breakup". To cement the picture she deliberately flunks a class, angering Kahn since they only found A+s to be acceptable, especially since she gets transferred into an easier class which Bobby's in. During an extremely boring lecture on ear cleaning, the teacher intercepts her passing Bobby a note saying "I'm so bored I could kill myself". (Of course she had no such intentions but the teacher didn't know that). The teacher erred on the side of safety and reported this to Principal Moss' office, fearing possible suicide or a suicide pact - since teen suicide is on the rise this was a prudent action to take. In short order both sets of parents are called in. Hank interprets the note as just a note from a bored teen which was correct. Peggy acts obnoxiously innocent of the whole affair (for once she's correct). Connie's parents act all contrite and are now pushing her towards Bobby in order to prevent a possible suicide. As a result of the crisis both sets of parents triple date with Bobby & Connie - sadly, all this attention of pushing the sweet couple together ends up in breaking up their relationship so they were now just friends for the rest of the series.