Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.
This tv show contains 91 potentially triggering events.
A dog doesn’t die but the neighbors think their new Laotian neighbors kill and eat dogs.
When meat is shown it is implied it is dog meat, but later that assumption is cleared up.
Bill gets weird with several women throughout the series including scenes like him waking up early trying to give coffee to a jogger which she refuses then digging holes in the alley so she’ll get injured during her next jog and he can contrive a rescue.
In the Pilot, Hank's out of context actions lead a member of the Child Protection Agency to the Hill home, but it is concluded Hank is not abusive. Cotton however was abusive to Hank as a child in some flashbacks, and Bill's father is stated to be as well.
In the 'High Anxiety' 2-episode saga, Hank accidentally smokes marijuana which is a big theme in the episodes. In 'The Son Also Roses', the shopkeeps of Stems n' Seeds sell supplies for weed growers and are explicitly under the effect. Bobby is put on ADHD medication in 'Peggy's Turtle Song', which causes him to act rather slowed down and overfocused. In 'Junkie Business,' the episode revolves around a drug addict who suffers from the effects of the drugs through the entire episode. Hank accidentally inhales wood varnish in 'Hillenium' and hallucinates. In 'Night and Deity,' a pigeon eats a hallucinogen and Bill and Boomhauer try to help it through a 'bad trip' as they would a person.
Multiple times animals are killed.
Insects by Dale.
A deer is hit, after going out hunting. Other deer are shown dead. Some blood is shown.
Hank helps “rescue” a cow he later calls delicious.
Dale and another exterminator talk about killing animals.
Dale talks about setting up traps to catch mice, rats, and what he thinks is a monkey.
There are fishing scenes that later shown cooking the fish.
A chickens head is cut off when Peggy accidentally takes the kids to Mexico. This happens twice.
A cat is accidentally ran over and is killed.
A bird is shown distressed after its nest had been ruined.
Bobby eats a giant steak as a point to make his vegetarian ex angry.
A woman accidentally runs over her cat and later puts the dead cat on the desk in a town hall meeting. In another episode, a beheaded pig is put on the Hills’ doorstep. In the same episode, there are several dead pigs in a slaughterhouse. In another episode, Dale digs up what he learns to be his buried housecat, which is now a skeleton/mummified. Also, Dale is an exterminator so he kills animals and bugs throughout the series.
Most notably in 'serPUNT,' where a large snake is let loose into the sewer causing fear among the citizens of Arlen. Skip this one if you have problems with snakes!
Luanne and Bill both frequently work with haircutting scissors and razors. Sometimes Hank is seen shaving his face, such as in 'Good Hill Hunting.' Shaving and cutting of lumber happens periodically, though the only time this happens to a human is in 'The Texas Silksaw Massacre,' where Dale's finger accidentally gets chopped off by Hank's woodcutting saw.
Bobby makes a cannibal-themed Thanksgiving dinner. Later, Dale assumes that he's going to be cannibalized by John Redcorn due to Bobby's misguided teachings about native Americans.
In 'Death of a Propane Salesman/Propane Boom,' a character dies in an firey explosion offscreen, and Hank develops a traumatic fear of propane, often imagining it will burst into flames.
Dale digs a tunnel from house to house in the neighborhood and he’s down there when a large vehicle comes by and it collapses, but he escapes. Bobby, Connie, and Joseph get lost in an underground cave
Peggy falls from a plane, but survives. Whether she survived was unclear until the next episode, and the idea of death by falling is talked about quite a bit.
Nancy Hicks-Gribble is a serial cheater and her husband is not the father of her son. There is a fan theory that Hank is not Bobby's biological father, either, but it's only fanon.
There’s an episode where Joseph keeps trying to peep on Luanne and Connie, and then Kahn accidentally sees Luanne in the shower through the window. Kahn purposely removed his privacy fence/shrubs and shows off after a shower through the window.
Many episodes, virtually all offscreen with sound. Worst episodes for this trigger: Beer and Loathing, Bill's House, Trans-Fascism, all having multiple triggering instances and unavoidable themes of it. The only time it is shown is when Hank pulls a Spring Breaker by the shirt in 'Escape from Party Island.'
In "Pigmalion," the episode villain gets struck with an electric taser that is presumably meant to kill pigs. He mentions "the voices are gone" and he can think clearly, but he dies in the meat process soon after.
There's an episode where Dale, Boomhauer and Bill are in a mental hospital, and somebody gets stuck with a needle.
Season 8 Episode 14, Dale gets sedated in the hospital.
Will update this as I go through the series
Several. Didi gives birth while Peggy is stabilized after falling out of a plane in the same hospital. Cotton gets seriously injured and dies in a hospital. Lucky hurts his back and lands in the hospital. Hank and Peggy go to the doctor a few times throughout the series for issues like fertility, large feet, and no butt.
Nobody intentionally self harms but Bill will do injurious things to himself with no regard for his safety because he just doesn’t seem to care about his own well being
Cotton gets violent during PTSD war flashbacks more than once and ultimately dies from injuries he gets during a flashback. A man who apparently hears voices kidnaps LuAnne and tries to put her through a slaughterhouse conveyor belt and ultimately dies himself this way
Bill makes several attempts at suicide in "Pretty Pretty Dresses," and says things along the lines of "I'm just up here to kill myself." He survives all of his attempts.
There’s more than one episode that revolves around Peggy not liking her big feet, in one she unknowingly becomes a foot fetish model and in another she gets mistaken for a drag queen and asked to perform in a drag show. Other characters also have image issues ranging from hair loss, being overweight, wanting more muscle, sudden growth spurt during puberty, etc.
Dale is trapped under a house with a raccoon, Bobby is stuck in a bunker for three days (but doesn’t find it traumatizing), and Dale and Bill and stuck in a flipped over bulldozer in a ditch overnight. Someone gets trapped in a burning car during a demolition derby and has to be cut loose.
Peggy and Hank try to have a baby and they have fertility issues. They are never able to get pregnant and it is hard on Peggy. May be triggering if you’re in a similar situation.
The ADA/disability accommodations are portrayed as exploitable or loopholes to avoid work or make unreasonable demands. Peggy says to Hank, “anybody's disabled if you think hard enough”.
There’s an episode where a school administrator comes in to help Bobby plan a carnival but instead tries to make it a poorly run diversity program where they hand out gold stars and talk about Jews and the holocaust in a really ignorant way
There’s an episode where boys dress up as girls to cheer for powderpuff girls football. Bobby insists the comedy isn’t really funny but does it anyway. In another episode, Bill has a breakdown and puts on a dress, so Hank also puts on a dress to snap him out of it.
S9E5 "Dale To The Chief": Hank is frequently misgendered throughout the episode after his license is mistakenly marked as female. There are also multiple transphobic comments and reactions made in this episode.
Cotton is a WWII vet and especially toward the beginning of the series talks trash about Asian people a lot, played off for comedy as him being an old, traumatized curmudgeon
Cotton (Hank’s father) is in his 70s and remarries Didi, a volunteer/nurse in her 30s/40s. They have a child together in Season 3. Didi is typically depicted as unhappy and lacking support from Cotton, who frequently verbally abuses and objectifies her.
There are several car crashes throughout the series, mostly people weaving and running into poles at low speeds for comic effect. But there is one scene in a demolition derby where someone gets trapped in a flaming car and has to be cut loose.
There is a scene where Cotton has a PTSD flashback on a plane during turbulence, but it doesn’t crash. Peggy jumps out of a plane, her parachute fails and she is severely injured.
In "Propane Boom" the plot heavily revolves around a large propane explosion that destroys much of of a large warehouse store, although not nuclear can be upsetting.
A character accidentally shoots themselves with a shotgun when their foot activates the trigger. The character dies. It is non-graphic but a corpse is shown for about five seconds (when it is discovered)
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When meat is shown it is implied it is dog meat, but later that assumption is cleared up.