24 Hour Propane People

"24 Hour Propane People" is the 198th episode of the FOX animated television series King of the Hill, and was the 12th episode broadcast in the 10th season. This episode is rated TV-PG S.
Plot
Buck Strickland gets banned from his favorite strip club, Jugstore Cowboys, after an argument with the club's owner, Keith. With nowhere else to spend his mornings, Buck turns up at Strickland Propane, where he becomes despondent at how boring work is. Hank promises Buck that work can be fun, and proposes surprising the staff with ice cream. They go to an ice cream parlor called the Frozen Cow, where the employees greet and serve patrons with cheerful songs. Buck, enamored with the atmosphere of the Frozen Cow, continues to spend all his time there until he decides to make Strickland Propane a 'fun' place to work and to buy propane in. The new measures to this end, including songs, costumes, facepaint, and fundatory' outings, only frustrate Hank and his co-workers, however; things come to a boiling point when Buck requires everyone to attend an inventory 'sleepover' at the workplace, even handing out Strickland Propane pajamas for the occasion.
As the sleepover progresses with Buck engaging everyone in endless boardgames, Donna, Enrique, and Joe Jack all grow increasingly agitated and Hank struggles to keep the peace while being fed up with the situation himself. Hank reasons that since business has been up since the implementation of all the new 'fun' policies they all need to just tough things out, until he realizes that the only reason Strickland Propane has more money than before is simply that Buck hasn't been helping himself to the business' cash drawer for tip money since getting banned from the strip club. Now determined to put an end to the 'fun', Hank sneaks away from the sleepover to try and convince Keith to allow Buck back into the club; Keith agrees to consider it if Buck apologizes. Hank then lures Buck to the Frozen Cow (allowing his co-workers the chance to escape) and prods him into admitting how much he misses the strip club and had wanted to apologize in the first place; whereupon Keith comes out of hiding and accepts his indirect apology. Buck returns to the strip club, and Hank, to the relief of his co-workers, returns everything at Strickland Propane to normal.
Cultural references
* The episode's title is a reference to the film 24 Hour Party People.
* The ice cream shop, the Frozen Cow, references Cold Stone Creamery.
* Strickland Propane's new motto, "It's a gas, gas, gas!", is the chorus to the Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash" .

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