I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories

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Published August 30, 2026

"I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories" is Hank Hill's stock reply about his job at Strickland Propane on King of the Hill. What started as a running character line turned into a long-running "I sell X and X accessories" snowclone after 4chan and FunnyJunk users started swapping in Pokemon, Breaking Bad and other properties in the late 2000s.

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Overview

The line works because of the redundant tag "and propane accessories," which pokes fun at the way tradespeople oversell a narrow specialty3. Fans took that structure and turned it into an "I sell X and X accessories" snowclone, usually paired with a photoshop of Hank Hill's face swapped onto another character or product2.

The joke lands on the deadpan pride Hank puts into the reply, which he fires off almost as a reflex any time someone asks him what he does for a living1. Most edits either preserve the exact rhythm of the line or splice Hank into another franchise so the punchline is the character mismatch.

Origin & Background

Platform
King of the Hill / 4chan (viral spread)
Creator
Mike Judge and Greg Daniels
Date
2010

Hank Hill, protagonist of the Fox animated series King of the Hill, first said a version of the catchphrase in the pilot episode, telling a stranger he provides the people of the community with propane and propane accessories1. The polished version, "I sell propane and propane accessories," became a running gag across the show's original 1997 to 2010 run, deployed as Hank's automatic answer whenever his job at Strickland Propane came up3.

How It Spread

One of the earliest King of the Hill demotivational posters landed on eBaum's World on December 21, 2007, uploaded by user jacobeatscake, though it didn't yet lock in the propane phrasing6. Search interest for the exact line jumped between September 2009 and 2010 as 4chan users started posting Hank Hill edits to the archived boards7.

The snowclone format hardened in late 2010. On November 24, 2010, FunnyJunk user SuperJesusPump posted "I sell Pokemon and Pokemon accessories," photoshopping Hank's face onto Squirtle2. Two months later, on January 28, 2011, FunnyJunk user slapyourshit uploaded a fake Law For Kids PSA in which Hank warns a school about a propane leak nobody listens to, with tragic results4.

A Breaking Bad crossover from Redditor u/kopo27, posted to r/BreakingBad on August 26, 2012, picked up more than 450 upvotes over the following years5. In 2017, Pinterest user Colton Edwards ran a Berzerk-themed variant that kept the "I sell X and X accessories" beat intact8.

How to Use This Meme

The template swaps "propane" for whatever a given character is known for selling, brewing, or hoarding, then drops it into the "I sell X and X accessories" frame. A common convention is to photoshop Hank Hill's face onto that character, or vice versa, so the punchline is the mismatch between his mild-mannered pride and something absurd like Pokemon, meth or medieval swordplay.

Frequently Asked Questions

I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories

2010catchphraseclassic

Published August 30, 2026

"I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories" is Hank Hill's stock reply about his job at Strickland Propane on King of the Hill. What started as a running character line turned into a long-running "I sell X and X accessories" snowclone after 4chan and FunnyJunk users started swapping in Pokemon, Breaking Bad and other properties in the late 2000s.

catchphrase memes snowclone memes king of the hill memes photoshop memes late 2000s memes

Overview

The line works because of the redundant tag "and propane accessories," which pokes fun at the way tradespeople oversell a narrow specialty3. Fans took that structure and turned it into an "I sell X and X accessories" snowclone, usually paired with a photoshop of Hank Hill's face swapped onto another character or product2.

The joke lands on the deadpan pride Hank puts into the reply, which he fires off almost as a reflex any time someone asks him what he does for a living1. Most edits either preserve the exact rhythm of the line or splice Hank into another franchise so the punchline is the character mismatch.

Origin & Background

Platform
King of the Hill / 4chan (viral spread)
Creator
Mike Judge and Greg Daniels
Date
2010

Hank Hill, protagonist of the Fox animated series King of the Hill, first said a version of the catchphrase in the pilot episode, telling a stranger he provides the people of the community with propane and propane accessories1. The polished version, "I sell propane and propane accessories," became a running gag across the show's original 1997 to 2010 run, deployed as Hank's automatic answer whenever his job at Strickland Propane came up3.

How It Spread

One of the earliest King of the Hill demotivational posters landed on eBaum's World on December 21, 2007, uploaded by user jacobeatscake, though it didn't yet lock in the propane phrasing6. Search interest for the exact line jumped between September 2009 and 2010 as 4chan users started posting Hank Hill edits to the archived boards7.

The snowclone format hardened in late 2010. On November 24, 2010, FunnyJunk user SuperJesusPump posted "I sell Pokemon and Pokemon accessories," photoshopping Hank's face onto Squirtle2. Two months later, on January 28, 2011, FunnyJunk user slapyourshit uploaded a fake Law For Kids PSA in which Hank warns a school about a propane leak nobody listens to, with tragic results4.

A Breaking Bad crossover from Redditor u/kopo27, posted to r/BreakingBad on August 26, 2012, picked up more than 450 upvotes over the following years5. In 2017, Pinterest user Colton Edwards ran a Berzerk-themed variant that kept the "I sell X and X accessories" beat intact8.

How to Use This Meme

The template swaps "propane" for whatever a given character is known for selling, brewing, or hoarding, then drops it into the "I sell X and X accessories" frame. A common convention is to photoshop Hank Hill's face onto that character, or vice versa, so the punchline is the mismatch between his mild-mannered pride and something absurd like Pokemon, meth or medieval swordplay.

Frequently Asked Questions