King of the Hill/Daletech

Daletech
Season 8, Episode 16
Airdate	March 28, 2004
Production Number	8ABE12
Written by	J.B. Cook
Directed by	Dominic Polcino
← 8x15 Après Hank, le Deluge	8x17 → How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Alamo
King of the Hill — Season Eight

Daletech is the sixteenth episode of the eighth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred sixty-fifth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Second Officer)

and: Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone, Cotton Hill)

Also Starring: Katherine Crabtree (Social Director), Pat Fraley (Customer), Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble), Scott Klace (Officer), Lauren Tom (Minh Souphanousinphone)

Plot Overview

With Cotton staying over for some indeterminate time, Hank and Peggy try to keep him busy, eventually leading him to be given the role of an auxiliary policeman. With his insistence on patrolling the neighbourhood, this puts a wrinkle in Dale's home security company.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Cotton: I'm... not... sleepy!

Seen, But Not Heard

• Joseph Gribble

Music

• Deniece Williams - "Let's Hear it for the Boy"

Trivia

Allusions and References

• When Cotton watches him, Kahn is singing "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo.

• Cotton refers to Peggy as "Manimal", a reference to the short-lived, but rather infamously bad sci-fi series of the same name.

Quotes

• Kahn: Hey, Hank. Interested in lap dance?

Hank: No, Kahn. I am interested in you putting a privacy hedge in front of your bathroom window. We all have them.

Bill: Hank made me plant two hedges.

Kahn: I agree. The ugly and the working class should have privacy hedges. But you don't keep a Ferrari in the garage.

Hank: Can Daletech do anything about getting me a privacy hedge?

Dale: To be honest, we're more into the invasion of privacy business than the creation of privacy business.

• Peggy: Can't you stay with anyone else? Your war buddies? Stinky, Stanky, Smelly?

Cotton: They've all been shoved into retirement homes. Got useless and got locked up. All except Topsy.

Peggy: Topsy? Perfect! You guys could hang out at his place, play checkers, at his place.

Cotton: He's playing checkers with worms. Died six months ago.

Peggy: Damn him.

• Dale: Damn that Cotton. They'll never pay for my Daletech service now that he's working for free. Nope, Cotton's got to go. But he's got Hank behind him and Hank's the alpha-neighbour. I'm gamma or delta at best. Well, I didn't get to be president of Daletech by playing by the rules. So Operation Turn Everyone Against Cotton is in motion... now.

Nancy: Sounds good, sug. Could you add the softener when the washer dings?

Dale: (sinisterly) Oh, I'll add the softener on the ding.

• Peggy: I don't know, Hank. Cotton working as a cop? He has a terrible human rights record.

• Bill: Now I understand why lion tamers get mauled every so often.

• Luanne: It took me 16 years to get my first driver's license. I'm too old to start over!

• Dale: So who wants the new introductory surveillance package? For an extra 30 bucks a month, you'll get a closed circuit feed of Bill's house. It puts it all in perspective, believe me.

Bill: I believe you.

• Dale: Daletech's a bust. Guess it's the wrong economic climate to be an expensive, poorly trained visionary.

• Dale: You really shouldn't feel so worthless. I'm much more of a burden on my family and I feel great.

• Kahn: (as Hank) You look as sexy to me as propane tank, I tell you what.