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Hank, relative to Bobby, is a totally different species generation-wise. Hank believes strongly in masculinity and men winning bread. Bobby just wants to be himself, which happens to be the opposite of what Hank wants in a son.

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  • Ideology/Recurring Themes in King of Hill
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  • Hank, relative to Bobby, is a totally different species generation-wise. Hank believes strongly in masculinity and men winning bread. Bobby just wants to be himself, which happens to be the opposite of what Hank wants in a son.
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  • Hank, relative to Bobby, is a totally different species generation-wise. Hank believes strongly in masculinity and men winning bread. Bobby just wants to be himself, which happens to be the opposite of what Hank wants in a son. Hank despises the new generation and the way it's going. He believes that society as a whole is going soft and spineless, which he believes is taking its toll on Bobby. Bobby has many atypical and feminine behaviours for a tweleve year old boy (in backwater Texas), such as listening to boy bands, dancing to girly music and collecting Troll Dolls. This behaviour is a constant source of disappointment and angst for Hank. In Husky Bobby, just prior to the Little Junior Plus fashion show, which boasts "Clothes for the new Millenium" Hank Hill furiously forces Bobby to leave. When Dooley and the other teenagers pelt the show with donuts, Hank doesn't even chastise them for bullying, but writes them off as "human nature". The fashion show arguably represents the common generation Y acceptance of weaknessess, and Hank being the baby boomer he is, believes that it's not in society's nature to be that open-minded and forgiving. In Hank's Bully, Hank is confronted by the child of a younger couple who believe in yell-free parenting. The boy, Caleb, runs totally amok, and when Hank takes it upon himself to discipline him by taking his bike, Caleb calls the police. Caleb's parents discount this as him having a "wild sense of imagination". At the end of the episode, Hank finally coerces the parents into sternly ordering Caleb to stop destroying Hank's lawn. The episode can be interpreted as illustrating that though the children of today can shirk consequences by depending on one-size-fits-all faculties such as the law, the government and education, discipline must reach them in the end or they can do totally the wrong thing, which must come from non-synthetic intimate social parties such as parents.
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