King of the Hill/Escape from Party Island

Escape from Party Island
Season 3, Episode 17
Airdate	March 16, 1999
Production Number	3ABE16
Written by	Jonathan Collier
Directed by	Gary McCarver
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King of the Hill — Season Three

Escape from Party Island is the seventeenth episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the fifty-second episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

and Toby Huss (Cotton Hill)

Also Starring: Phil Buckman (Chad), Dave Buzzotta (Waiter, Frat Guy), Dena Dietrich (Tillie's Friend), Beth Grant (Tillie Hill), Rich Rinaldi ()

Special Guest Voice: Phyllis Diller (Lillian)

Special Guest Voice: Uta Hagen (Maureen)

Special Guest Voice: Pauly Shore (Deejay)

Special Guest Voice: Betty White (Delia)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Lyle Neff)

Plot Overview

Hank accompanies his mother and her four friends to a miniature museum on Port Aransas, but are soon surrounded by Spring Breakers. While Hank is away, Bill attempts to take care of Peggy.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Lillian: I know your kind.

Seen, But Not Heard

• Joseph Gribble

• Dooley

Music

• The Offspring - "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"

• Rob Zombie - "Dragula"

Trivia

Allusions and References

• While cleaning the glass doors, Peggy is singing "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel.

Quotes

• Dale: What's with Hank?

Bill: Why, I think he's worried about his mom. Are you worried about your mom, Hank? He's worried about his mom.

• Bill: Well, maybe she stopped on the way to make herself look nice. That's something ladies do. I was married to one once.

• Hank: I hate miniatures. I've hated them since I was a kid. Mom only took them out when she was heading into a funk. Like between the time I was 10 and 14.

• Hank: Very funny, guys. I can't think of anything funnier than a man having to take care of his mother. Ho, that's just hilarious. You think your mother would find that funny, Dale?

Dale: Not the way you tell it.

• Bill: It must be nice having a man around the house again, huh, Peggy?

Peggy: Actually, Hank has only been gone an hour and a half.

Bill: I tell you, Peggy, I'd never leave you for an hour and a half.

• Lillian: The problem with you is, you never know what to do.

Hank: You just met me.

Lillian: I know your kind.

• Hank: Well, looks like we might have gotten here a little early. (chuckles)

Delia: What's the big joke?

Hank: It's not a joke.

Tillie's Friend: Then it's us, isn't it? Apparently, we amuse you in some way.

Hank: I wish.

• Hank: That's a nice-looking... uh, seal.

Delia: It is an otter! Lyle Neff would never waste his time on seals! Seals are trash mammals. Everybody knows that!

• Tillie: Six cucumber sandwiches, please.

Hank: Uh, I'll have the hamburger sandwich instead.

Tillie's Friend: The cucumber sandwiches are delicious here.

Hank: I don't like cucumber.

(the ladies gasp)

Tillie: I apologise for my son.

Hank: Come on, mom. You don't have to apologise for me.

Tillie: Apparently, I do.

• Luanne: Why is he hugging our trash?

Peggy: As long as he does not take it into his house, we're okay.

(Peggy and Luanne watch as we hear the sound of a door open and close)

Peggy: Oh, no.

• Hank: Mom, that fella asked you to show him your "high beams". Now, do you even know what he meant?

Tillie: Of course I do. I've been driving longer than you.

• Bill: You know what I'm shopping for?

Luanne: Food?

Bill: I didn't ask you, all right? I'm having a barbecue this afternoon. See you there.

Peggy: No, you will not.

Bill: Okay, then. 4:00.

• Hank: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to let that happen.

Lillian: The problem with you is you never mean to let anything happen. It's a horrible, empty way to live.

• Bill: This is Peggy's. She's got no one to do her barbecuing now that Hank's left her.

Dale: Left her? He's only on a two-day trip with his mom.

Bill: And four other single women.

• Hank: "How's my driving?" I'll tell you. Mom, write this number down: "1-800-E-A-T-S-H..." Uh, never mind.

• Tillie: Oh, Delia was right. Hank, you are impossible.

Hank: Which one of you is Delia?

Lillian: (pointing to Delia) She is!

Hank: I could commit you like that.

• Hank: Damn those stupid miniatures! They're gonna get her killed.

Lyle Neff: You don't know anything.

Hank: What?

Lyle Neff: Miniatures probably saved your mother's life.

Hank: What's that supposed to mean?

Lyle Neff: Do you know how hard it is to be a woman in this world? I do. Women come in here all the time, and they are sad, and they are lonely, and they are frumpy, and they tell me how my tiny individually hand-crafted investment-grade art is the only thing keeping them sane. Do you understand? Does that sound like your mother?

Hank: No. Well, maybe, when her marriage to my dad was breaking up, but... So, uh, so this little glass crap really helped her out, huh? Huh. I guess I owe someone an apology.

Lyle Neff: Accepted.