King of the Hill/Cheer Factor

Cheer Factor
Season 8, Episode 13
Airdate	March 7, 2004
Production Number	8ABE07
Written by	Christy Stratton
Directed by	Kyounghee Lim & Boohwan Lim
← 8x12 Phish and Wildlife	8x14 → Dale Be Not Proud
King of the Hill — Season Eight

Cheer Factor is the thirteenth episode of the eighth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred sixty-second episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Dooley), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill, Teacher), Brittany Murphy (credit only), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Special Guest Voice: Mac Davis (Announcer, Sports Jock)

Special Guest Voice: Peri Gilpin (Jo Rita)

Also Starring: Amy Adams (Sunshine, Merilynn), Dennis Burkley (Principal Moss), David Herman (Pat Flannery, Tyrell), Ashley Johnson (Emily), Phil LaMarr (), Danica McKellar (Misty), Breckin Meyer (Joseph Gribble), Lauren Tom (Connie Souphanousinphone)

Plot Overview

Peggy offers to help the cheerleading coach seeing how detrimental it is to the football team. Principal Moss makes her the coach, but she has trouble replicating her success.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Peggy: I really did stay sweet.

Seen, But Not Heard

• Boomhauer

• Clark Peters

Music

• Run-D.M.C. - "It's Tricky"

• Salt-n-Pepa - "Push It"

Trivia

Goofs

• Peggy is seen reminiscing over a Arlen High School yearbook. However, previous episodes established that she attended West Arlen High.

Quotes

• Announcer: And Joseph Gribble is sacked for another loss.

Dale: Common name. No relation.

• Hank: Come on, we're still in this game. Just two touchdowns, a couple of two-point conversions, an onside kick, and we're just a field goal behind. Come on, let's make some noise!

• Peggy: Alice Bullard. She was the best cheer coach I have ever seen. And she was 98 years old. I wonder whatever happened to that woman.

• Peggy: Hank! Dinner!

Hank: Excuse me, fellas. I've got to go have dinner with a cheerleader.

Bill: Why does everything good happen to Hank?

• Connie: Your mom's a cheerleader?

Bobby: Wow! I thought that was just more of her big talk. Maybe she really did see Dan Rather at the mall.

• Connie: It's amazing! I put on this outfit, and it's, like... What's the opposite of invisible? I've never had to know.

• Jo Rita: What I do need is for you to find my purse.

Peggy: Find your purse?

Jo Rita: Yes. Oh, and go tell Karen Smelko I said hi. She's on the fourth row up, not counting the first row.

Peggy: I will get the purse, but I am undecided on the greeting.

• Principal Moss: Sorry I'm late. Took longer than I thought to wash the eggs off my car.

Dale: Sorry I'm late. It took longer than I thought to egg Moss's car.

• Principal Moss: I can't have bored kids at an assembly. It's asking for trouble.

• Peggy: Ladies, I have learned something today. People like violence.

• Peggy: There's no mascot we can't torture.

• Flannery: Now, I can take a joke as well as the next person, but Peggy Hill has gone too far. What she did on that field is no different than what the British have been doing to our brothers in Ulster for the last 800 years. The forced labour, the seizure of property, the stifling and oppression of our precious mother tongue. Longadh beatha Eire a Cliamhuinn a Eire!

Peggy: I have no idea what he just said, but I do know that McMaynerbury refused to play. They forfeited the game.

Flannery: And after the game, someone called me "Pat" in the parking lot. It is my name, but they had no way of knowing that.

• Peggy: You were all behind me when it was the Cougars and the Bears and the Mudhawks. It would have been disrespectful of me not to bludgeon the Irishman.

• Principal Moss: Good news, Peggy. They let us keep our "W". We're going to the playoffs!

Peggy: Woo-hoo! The big dance! Well, don't worry, my team is ready.

Principal Moss: Sorry, Peggy. I'm going to have to ask you to stop using words like "team" and "my". I'm putting Jo Rita back in charge.

Peggy: What? Jo Rita?

Principal Moss: Now, you can keep teaching Spanish, but we're going to have to keep an eye out in case you decide to go after those people.

• Principal Moss: We'll need you to turn in your vest. You know, for future coaches named Peggy.