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• Factual errors: In one episode, Hank explains that tow truck drivers don't need to have a Hazardous Material license to tow the propane trucks. In fact tow truck drivers are required to have all endorsements on their license in order to tow commercial vehicles.
  
  
• Continuity: In the early episodes, Luanne clearly has automotive skills - she is seen repairing cars and even ordering Hank parts he needs to fix his truck at one point. From "Jumpin' Crack Bass" on she has little to no knowledge of cars.
  
  
• Continuity: The picture of Cotton Hill in Hank and Peggy's bedroom changes from episode to episode. In some episodes it doesn't even resemble Cotton.
  
  

• Continuity: It's clearly implied that Hank and the guys graduated from high school in the seventies, yet when Bill runs off to join the Army, the Quarterflash song Harden My Heart can be heard. This song was released in 1981. The episode "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying" is about Hank being unable to shoot. But in the episode "Luanne's Saga" a skeet trophy from 1975 can be seen on the shelf in Hank's den.
  
  
• Continuity: In the episode "Love Hurts...And So Does Art", Hank is stuck refilling the ice cube trays for the freezer. But in "Hank and the Great Glass Elevator", the freezer has an automatic ice dispenser.
  
  
• Continuity: In scenes that were cut from Leanne's Saga, Buckley's hair changes from red to black several times during the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: In one episode Hank refers to his mother as a widow when she is actually a divorcee.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Hank was a senior in high school in (what according to his calendar is) February 1975, he had a Jaws movie poster on his bedroom wall. Jaws wasn't released until the following summer.
  
  
• Continuity: Hank's senior year of high school was 1974 according to some episodes and 1979 according to others.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hank passes out from varnishing the grandfather clock in Hillennium, when he falls over he leaves a varnish streak down the clock face. But when he wakes up, this streak is gone.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In Propane Boom I, Bobby asks Hank if he should throw out a certain tissue box. Bobby said the tissue box was not from Mega Lo Mart, despite the fact that the box clearly says "Mega Lo" on it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The Returning Japanese two-parter states Hank inherited his narrow urethra from his father, while Cotton distinctly says in another episode he inherited it from his mother. Of course, Cotton says a lot of things, including the claim that he can pass a bowling ball through his urethra.
  
  
• Continuity: In Bobby Slam, Clark Peters is clearly a member of the wrestling team. Yet when the coach is assigning matches by last name for the upcoming meet, we never hear him say the name "Peters."
  
  
• Factual errors: In many of the shots of Game Boys and video game controllers, the buttons are on the wrong sides.
  
  
• Continuity: In earlier episodes, it's stated that Peggy grew up in Arlen and her mother was basically an older version of her. Later episodes change her backstory to say that she grew up in Montana, with a mother who was a harsh rancher.
  
  
• Continuity: In "To Spank With Love," Stuart Dooley's mother speaks in the same monotone voice as him. In "Behind Closed Doors," she speaks in a normal tone of voice.
  
  
• Continuity: In "Peggy's Turtle Song", Tom Landry Middle School is stated to be in the "Heimlich County School District" according to the bus Bobby rides. But in later seasons the buses list it as the "Arlen Independent School District."
  
  
• Continuity: At the end the episode where Hank is having issues with Bowel movements, he rushes to the bathroom, and pulls Bobby out. Bobby is wearing PJ's and has toothpaste on his mouth. After Hank passes a movement, the shot is of Peggy and Bobby, and Bobby is now wearing his usual attire. When Hank emerges from the bathroom, Bobby again is wearing his PJ's.
  
  
• Continuity: In "Cotton's Plot" Cotton had intended to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery. In "Serves me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key," Cotton was cremated and had intended to be flushed down a toilet.
  
  
• Continuity: In certain episodes, the Hill family goes to the hospital called Heimlich County Medical Center. In other episodes they go to the same hospital (according to looks) and the sign outside reads Arlen McMaynerbury Medical Center, not Heimlich County Medical Center.
  
  
• Continuity: Early on Hank states that he was born in 1953. Then in another show Hank says that he graduated Arlen High in 1974, which would make him born in 1956. Later Hank learns that he was born in New York on the day that Fidel Castro visited Yankee Stadium, which was April 15, 1959.
  
  

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