# I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories "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. ## Origin 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 accessories[1]. 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 up[3]. - **Platform:** King of the Hill / 4chan (viral spread) - **Creator:** Mike Judge and Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) - **Date:** 2010 ## Overview The line works because of the redundant tag "and propane accessories," which pokes fun at the way tradespeople oversell a narrow specialty[3]. 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 product[2]. 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 living[1]. Most edits either preserve the exact rhythm of the line or splice Hank into another franchise so the punchline is the character mismatch. ## 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 phrasing[6]. Search interest for the exact line jumped between September 2009 and 2010 as 4chan users started posting Hank Hill edits to the archived boards[7]. 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 Squirtle[2]. 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 results[4]. 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 years[5]. In 2017, Pinterest user Colton Edwards ran a Berzerk-themed variant that kept the "I sell X and X accessories" beat intact[8]. ## How to Use 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 ### What is I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories? It's Hank Hill's catchphrase from Fox's King of the Hill, where he explains his job at Strickland Propane, and the snowclone meme built around it[1]. ### Where did I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories come from? Hank first said a version of the line in the 1997 King of the Hill pilot and repeated it across the show's run before it caught on as a meme around 2010[3]. ### What does I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories mean? The redundant "and propane accessories" tag mocks the way tradespeople oversell a narrow specialty, which is why the snowclone works with any product[2]. ### How do you use I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories? People plug their own subject into "I sell X and X accessories," often with a Hank Hill face swap, like SuperJesusPump's Pokemon Squirtle edit from November 2010[2]. ### Is I Sell Propane and Propane Accessories still popular? The snowclone kept generating new edits through the 2010s, including a Breaking Bad remix on r/BreakingBad in 2012 and a Berzerk-themed Pinterest version in 2017[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FA__4fLBos]() 2. [https://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1181296/It+s+ma+first+face+so+im+not+a+pro/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-sell-propane-and-propane-accessories]() 4. [https://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1272040/Propane/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/ywvhu/meth_and_meth_accessories/]() 6. [https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/hehe-propane/80057/]() 7. [https://archive.4plebs.org/]() 8. [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/hank-hill-x-guts/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/i-sell-propane-and-propane-accessories Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library