Bill Dauterive

William Fontaine de la Tour Dauterive, also known as Bill Dauterive and BillDozer, is one of the main characters from the King of the Hill series.
== Charactah Account ==
Bill, one of Hank's closest friends, Bill Dauterive is a Cajun Louisiana native with a promising start as a high school football player who later joined the Army with big hopes and dreams. He married someone he thought was the perfect woman, but that relationship soon went south and never looked back, and Bill found a new companion in the throes of laziness, regressed to a washed up and rotund balding man. Now middle aged, broke, and divorced, Bill's constantly depressed and full of self-loathing. The guys try to put up with him as best they can.
Bill is considered by those who know him to be the personification of pathetic and the type of person who others hope to avoid and/or become. He is described as being nice but often depressed and lonely; his overwhelming need to make people like him makes him easily taken advantage of, particularly by Dale. Because of his lonely lifestyle and the fact that he has not fully accepted his divorce, when Bill is shown any positive attention/affection by a woman he tends to do whatever he can to keep their attention although it often drives them away when he becomes incredibly clingy or tries to propose marriage shortly after the first meet.
This same behavior can be seen when Bill finds himself in a positive role and he tries to hang onto that role as long as he can, as seen in "Après Hank, le Deluge" when he is placed in command of the shelter because he had been wearing his military uniform and turned into somewhat of a dictator and intentionally withheld that the storm had been over for nearly an entire day because he wanted to stay in power and admiration.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* King of the Hill
* King of the Hill Season 2
* King of the Hill Season 3
* King of the Hill Season 4
* King of the Hill Season 5
* King of the Hill Season 6
* King of the Hill Season 7
* King of the Hill Season 8
* King of the Hill Season 9
* King of the Hill Season 10
* King of the Hill Season 11
* King of the Hill Season 12
* King of the Hill Season 13
=== Video Games ===
* King of the Hill
== Trivia ==
* Back in Arlen High, Bill was nicknamed the "BillDozer" (Bill/Bulldozer) for his unstoppable play on the offensive line for his high school football team.
* Bill is almost always seen wearing his white messy tank top.
* Bill currently works as a United States Army barber. His rank is shown on his sleeve as a Sgt.
* When Bill is wearing his dress uniform in S3 EP9 "Pretty Pretty Dresses", he is shown to be wearing an ARCENT patch.
* Bill sees himself as fatter than he actually is, and with less hair. This can be seen in S3 E10 "A Firefighting We Will Go" when Bill shares his perspective of how the fire started at the Arlen Fire Department.
* In "Tankin' It to the Streets", it is shown on Bill's medical form that he was age 18 at the time in 1982, making him born in approximately 1963 or 1964. This is inconsistent with Hank's birth year (since the guys are the same age in childhood), who was born in 1953 as alleged in "Hank's Dirty Laundry".
* As shown in a few episodes, Bill has the ability to regain some of his previous physical prowess if he consistently applies himself, but simply chooses to remain lazy and neglectful of his appearance.
* According to Gilbert, he and Bill are the last of the real living Dauterives due to frauds, deaths, and barren female family members.
* Bill drives a Marine Blue 1987 Ford Escort with an "Army" bumper sticker on the back.
* Bill has the first line in the series.
* Bill speaks fluent Cajun French.
* Bill owns a blue shirt which Dale says he loves.
* There are several instances where Bill prospers and breaks out of his pit of misfortune, but then something goes wrong and he just falls back into it.
* Bill tends to get hit in the groin a lot.
* Bill is known to root through trash and eat it as well as eat things like dog hormone biscuits.
* Bill had many different pets including a Rottweiler named Rex and an iguana named Lenore.
* Bill's voice actor, Stephen Root, originally auditioned for the role of Dale Gribble, which "didn't feel right" so he then auditioned for the role of Bill. Root commented: "Mike Judge got a hold of me because he knew I'd done a lot of Southern plays and Southern characters. He wanted me to audition but he didn't know what for. I auditioned for Dale but I didn't feel good with it, so then I auditioned for Bill, and that one felt right. Voiceover work is a hard circle to break into, and King of the Hill really opened the door".
* Bill Dauterive was named after the King of the Hill writer and executive producer James Thomas "Jim" Dauterive.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Bill Dauterive at King of the Hill Wiki
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