I can understand having sentimental value and attachments towards inanimate objects like vehicles or places. There's a theory that Hank may be autistic. Maybe, maybe not. But, Hank is loyal. Anything that gets him or his family through hard times or something he values, he takes care of. Not many people like Hank exist.
For the first couple seasons, they were both the dumb dad archetype but meant well. Like when Peter stood up to his dad at the end of one episode about his wife. Hank Hill did the same thing with his dad trash talking his mom (and mower.) Or when Homer Simpson gave up his dream job to provide for his family.
His speech runs in the family with his brother and mother.
Not to mention that sometime later family guy ripped the little kid plotline off..and somehow made it worse. Like the kid doesn't even bully Peter the way Hank was, he just calls him fatass then Peter goes apeshit on him because an adult beating a minor to a pulp is supposed to be funny, then Peter being Peter just up and walks away runs home then hides in a tree like a toddler and even talks like one when Lois confronts him about it and even though the scene ends with him saying "I'm going to jail aren't I"..the next scene he's more or less suffered no consequences for his actions even having to apologize, again exactly like a child should.
I can only wonder how many takes they had to do in order to get Brad Pitt to nail the voice of Boomhauers brother.
Hank does express his feelings though. Only its for things that can't express their love back, stuff like his truck, his dog, propane, Texas, America, Tom Landry. Maybe Hank was traumatized by his relationship with his Dad that he learned to express his feeling to inanimate objects because they wouldn't call him a sissy when he said he loved them.
What's odd is that I distinctly remember Boomhauer speaking fluent French and Spanish without the same unusual speech habits he has when speaking English.
That's saying a lot considering how miserable his adult life is.
Yeah, that's the feeling I always got. That Cotton drilled into Hank's head that real men don't express feelings like love and sadness, and especially not toward other people. He was also a shit role model in general so that explains pretty much all of Hank's awkwardness with Bobby especially as well.
They do show Peggy's parents. It's the episode where they go to Montana to visit her childhood home and Henry Winkler won't let the cattle through. Hank thinks Peggy's dad is talking cowboy wisdom when really, he's just going senile.
Peggy's mom also got into an argument with her over the phone wether to use margarine or butter in an apple brown Betty, it was during the airport episode
Don't forget the big detail that his father made him wear dresses. I think it suggests that Bill's father thought Bill was going to grow up gay so he horribly abused the fuck out of him to try to force him to be straight.
Dale being a conspiracy theorist, yet is completely oblivious of his wife's affairs is pure comedy.
Yes, this is something I wish they would have addressed. It could have made a great episode.
