is a King of the Hill-centered YouTube channel staring a talking Texas squirrel that really likes to go on tangents. His content includes episode reviews, character analysis, lists, and other miscellaneous King of the Hill based content.
He runs a second smaller channel, Squirreled History👁 Image
, that focuses on history.
Boy, those Tropes...
- Creator Provincialism: Squirrel Tactics himself is a native of Texas, which allows him to explain the cultural easter-eggs in ''King of the Hill'.
- Damned by Faint Praise: In his review of "Three Days of the Kahndo", he discusses the meaning of "mitad" and follows it with:"It means half. We'll find that out later, but I don't blame Peggy for not knowing that because she doesn't speak Spanish."
- A Day in the Limelight: Many of his videos give focus on one particular character and details about them, including major and minor appearances. This includes minor characters like Bobby's classmate and occasional bully, Duddly and his regular partner in crime, Clark Peters.
- Furry Reminder:
- Squirrel Tactics mentions squirrels like him have a long standing hatred of cars.
- He mentions being lactose intolerant like all squirrels, despite occasionally indulging in his favorite cheese brand, Cabot Cheese.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- Despite not being a fan of Peggy Hill by any means, he did an entire list of five times she was in the right. Though he did follow it up with a list of (the most egregious) times she was in the wrong.
- He also points out that Lane Pratley was within his rights to forcibly repossess Cotton's car while he was going through hard times because he was multiple months behind on his payments.
- Mirror Character: In his video on King Philip, Squirrel Tactics claims that ironically, Philip could be seen as an almost Distaff Counterpart to Peggy. He points out that they're both know nothing know it alls when it comes to their supposed subject of expertise (the medieval times for Philip, Spanish (among other subjects) for Peggy), have overinflated but fragile egos, and both seem to enjoy lording their position over others whenever they can.
- Precision F-Strike: After hearing Hank get charmed by the prospect of meeting a football star's pool cleaner, we get this gem:"I'm a lifelong Giants fan, but I wouldn't give two flicks of a fiddlers f**k about meeting Phil Simms' pool cleaner."
- Retcon: Discussed in two videos covering Peggy's mother and Dale's father respectively. Squirrel Tactics uses the former as an example of retconning done badly and the latter as an example as a retcon that was handled well.
- Running Gag:
- He'll often respond to a particularly ill thought out plan by at first acting like it seems like a decent idea, before immediately showing it failing and saying “Of course it didn't/doesn't work, because of course it didn't/doesn't work!”
- Whenever an Arlen business gets mentioned, he'll play one of the fictional advertisements [adult swim] used to use as ad bumpers for the series.
- He'll often slip in the name of his favorite cheese brand, Cabot Cheese, somewhere in the video. This is usually accompanied by a clip of Hank saying "boy that cheese" from "Goodbye Normal Jeans". This can also be followed with him saying some variation of "They don't pay me to say it, it's just damn good cheese."
- In his video on Ward Rackley and his episode, “The Witches of East Arlen”, every time Ward mentions making Bobby a “white wizard”, Squirrel Tactics responds with an understandable degree of uncomfortability."Do not become a white wizard in Texas, Bobby, I honestly can not recommend you do that."
- Shout-Out:
- In the video on Emily—the Yellow Sash of Power school hall monitor—Squirrel Tactics describes Emily as “part student, part enforcers, possibly a dark variant of Dorothy-Anne from The Magic School Bus".
- The opening of his review of "Uh-Oh, Canada" has his lips animated in similar fashion to how South Park animates Canadians talking.
- In his review of “Born Again On The Fourth of July”, when Hank and the boys go to buy fireworks from John Redcorn and he's initially hesitant to show them the "real" fireworks. He makes a comment about Redcorn continuing the tradition of natives selling fireworks, but not "the good stuff", with a clip of Joe Dirt listing off “the good stuff” for good measure.
- He cites Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite as a good comparison to the one-off KOTH character, Big Willy Lane, as a former football player stuck in his glory days. He also adds that the same actor that played Rico also played The Wolfman in The Monster Squad—which he follows up by playing the scene of The Wolfman suffering a groin attack.
- Shown Their Work: Squirrel Tactics often puts a lot of research into his videos and often chimes in to add bits of trivia and information regarding things that come up in the episodes.
- He spends a good portion of his video on King Philip and his episode, “Joust Like A Woman”, picking apart all the historical inaccuracies in Philip's Renaissance fair.
- In his review of “The Last Shinsualt”, he responds to Cotton's final (and apparently successful) plan to get his license back by black mailing the Mexican government into giving him a Mexican driver license. He lists off all the situation in which an American can legally get a driver's license in Mexico—none of which Cotton meets—as well as the obvious point that Cotton's new Mexican driver's license isn't valid in his home country anyway.
- While talking about the traveling professional softball players Ace and his Jewels, he goes into detail about Ace and his team's real life inspiration, Eddie "The King" Feigner and his Court.
- Take That!: In his video on Big Willy Lane, Squirrel Tactics refers to the metric system as “peasant units” when giving Willy's height measurements. He later gives the estimated weight of the car Willy and his posse rolls over onto Hank's lawn in English Units, then adds the metric system version for “those of you who haven't been to the moon”.