King of the Hill/Full Metal Dust Jacket

Full Metal Dust Jacket
Season 7, Episode 8
Airdate	January 5, 2003
Production Number	7ABE04
Written by	Dan McGrath
Directed by	Adam Kuhlman
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King of the Hill — Season Seven

Full Metal Dust Jacket is the eighth episode of the seventh season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred thirty-fourth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer, Dooley, Enrique, Radio Voice, Monsignor Martinez), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill, Clea), Brittany Murphy (credit only), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Student #1), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland, Burly Customer)

and Toby Huss (Cotton Hill, Joe Jack)

Special Guest Voice: Peri Gilpin (Mary Ellen)

Special Guest Voice: Allison Janney (Laura)

Also Starring: Amanda Carlin (Matriarch), David Herman (Student #2, Muscular Man, Wounded Man), Nicky Katt (), Joel McCrary (Officer Benson), Mike McShane (Ox), Lauren Tom ()

Uncredited: Dan McGrath (Jamaican Radio Rapper)

Plot Overview

Wanting to join a book club, Peggy buys a bookstore to run. However, due to poor business, she is forced to allow Dale to use the store to sell guns.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Peggy: Take your apple--
Dale: It's a Braeburn.
Peggy: And get out.

Seen, But Not Heard

• Joseph Gribble

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• As Hank makes his way to the bookstore's basement, he passes by the safety instructor from "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying".

Trivia

The Show

• Guest star Mike McShane also appeared in Mike Judge's Office Space.

Quotes

• Peggy: Today we'll be discussing A Tale of Two Cities, a terrific book by that most Dickensian of authors, Charles Dickens.

• Peggy: And if I'm in your book club I can assure you you'll never have to worry about long awkward pauses.

(awkward pause)

• Dale: Uh, here at the Book and Gun, we're trying to maintain a certain - What do you call it, Peggy?

Peggy: Ambience.

Dale: Right. Ambience. So we're having cappuccino.

Mountain Man: That's like coffee, right?

Dale: I don't know. Oh, and if some well-dressed ladies come in, you're just here to move a piano.

• Hank: Clea, Huntress of - Ugh. I told you to get an adventure book.

Bobby: But it is adventure.

Hank: (reading) "The Elf-Lord Fylfendell knelt upon the bed of dandelions. 'Young wanderer,' quoth he, 'I have woven you a magic breastplate--" Ugh. Bobby, television.

• Dale: Sometimes the boys like to go down in the basement and test their piece. But don't worry, I shut off the gas valve. Well, shot off the gas valve.

• Bobby: You won't let me read a book that I want. Mom makes you read a book that you don't want. That's what the elves call "Justice of the Unicorn."

• Buck: Boy, that Cassie reminds me of someone. Hey, how big did you guys picture her ta-tas?

Enrique: It said she was slender as a willow, so grapefruits?

• Hank: Come on, let's go. If we stay in the truck too long people are going to think we're making out.

• Peggy: As Cassie said while the farmhouse burned brightly behind her, "I am an onion." Good day to you.

• Burly Customer: Oh, I got that one yesterday with my last gun.

Peggy: Oh, my God, how many guns do you need?

• Dale: Excellent grouping, Colonel. Plus, those hollow-points penetrated Shakespeare all the way into the so-called "Joyous Comedies". As You Like It? Well, I like it plenty.

• Dale: And so, a farewell to A Farewell to Arms.

• Peggy: Travis makes an excellent point. Cassie's lighthouse can symbolise hope, but who's to say it doesn't also symbolise the government's intrusion into the lives of private citizens, as suggested by our friend here who won't give us his name.

• Ox: Well, can't we at least agree that Mary-Elizabeth's baby was her own lighthouse?

Moustached Man: Whoever heard of an illegitimate lighthouse? Got-dang it, Ox, you're confusing realism with symbolism again.

Ox: I'm about to symbolise my gun to your head.