Hank discovers that Dale and Boomhauer take yearly vacations together, and assumes that they are trying to avoid Bill. He invites his family and Bill along for a weekend at the beach, but during the trip, Hank realizes that his friends are actually trying to avoid him because he’s uptight and bossy. Peggy advises Hank to throw caution to the wind and have some fun with his buddies, but the results leave Hank and the guys overboard.
When the Arlen Bystander newspaper gets a new editor, Peggy gets a job writing a household hints column (even though Peggy does not know any household hints and has to get them from Minh). Meanwhile, Hank makes Bobby get a paper route, but Dale, who's always wanted to work a paper route, takes over when he sees how the paper route negatively affects Bobby.
After Bill nurses Hank, Peggy and Bobby through the flu, he starts to feel lonely when there is no one else to take care of. Hank gets Bill to volunteer at a halfway house for alcoholics, and Bill invites the residents to stay with him. As more and more houseguests show up, Hank becomes determined to find them a permanent residence. Meanwhile, Peggy makes a promise to God that if she gets over the flu, she'll learn to ride a bike, and Bobby makes her keep her promise.
While researching for an article, Peggy discovers that Arlen's founding mothers were prostitutes (and Arlen was originally called "Harlottown"), which embarrasses Hank and prompts the city manager to cash in on the sleaziness rather than celebrate how empowered the women were back then.Guest Stars: Gary Cole as Vance Gilbert and Shannon Elizabeth as Candee
Hoping to get Bobby to stop cracking jokes in school, Hank enrolls Bobby in a clown class at the local community college. The pretentious instructor teaches Bobby classical comedic theory and sucks all the fun out of him.
Upon being told that he is too Americanized and called a "banana" (an Asian person who acts white), Kahn vows to return to his Laotian roots, which doesn't sit well with Minh and Connie, who are used to living the excessive, pop-culture-obsessed American life. Meanwhile, Hank, Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer help Kahn build a pool in his backyard.
In order to raise money to save the Tom Landry Middle School baseball program, Hank invites a Harlem Globetrotters-type softball team to compete against his community league Arlen Zephyrs. But Hank ruins the show by deciding to take the game seriously.
Hank tries to get Bobby interested in working as a propane salesman during Tom Landry Middle School's Career Day, but when Joseph beats him to the punch, Bobby shadows a young, handsome man (voice of Johnny Knoxville) who makes his living picking up animal (and human) waste.Guest Stars: Johnny Knoxville as Peter Sterling
Kahn buys the local car wash as part of a get-rich-quick scheme he saw on TV, and Hank finds himself working for his disrespectful, money-obsessed neighbor when Buck takes a stake in the business as well. Meanwhile, Peggy sees Nancy screen a phone call from her and tries to figure out why.
Buck Strickland hires the Teutul family from the reality show American Chopper (who voice themselves) to perform at Strickland Propane in order to win a price war with Thatherton Fuels, then gets into a price fixing conspiracy with the other propane companies in Arlen which attracts the government's attention—centered on Hank.Guest Stars: Paul Teutul Sr. as himself, Paul Teutul Jr. as himself and Michael Teutul as himself
When the Hill family finds out that their pew of many years has been given away to another family at church, they abandon their staid Methodist church and come about to worship at a new megachurch, but, while Bobby and Peggy enjoy it, Hank begins to miss his old church.Guest Stars: Big Boi as Reverend Nealy
Buck Strickland is banned from his best friend's club after they have an argument, and after spending his days at a gimmicky, Coldstone Creamery-esque ice cream parlor, decides to make his workplace a fun place to live so that he will enjoy being there.
When Hank refuses to buy Bobby designer faded jeans, Bobby gets a job as a sign spinner -- but quits when he realizes that he can get more money by begging on the street.Guest Stars: Dax Shepard as Derek, Justin Long as Adam and Andrea Bowen as Sandy
Hank gets bullied by a boy named Caleb, whose parents seem fine with their son pushing around an adult. Meanwhile, Dale and Peggy enter a taxidermy competition.Guest Stars: Paul Butcher as Caleb, Ricki Lake as Lila
When Lucky asks Peggy to help him get his GED in the hopes of improving his chances of marrying Luanne, Peggy must choose between teaching him the right answers and making him pass or misinforming him so he fails. She chooses the latter, but a surprising announcement from Luanne and an equally surprising insistence on his own merits from Lucky cause a crisis that Peggy has to fix immediately.