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King of the Hill/Gone with the Windstorm
From The TV IV
| Gone with the Windstorm | |
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| Season 9, Episode 13 | |
| Airdate | May 1, 2005 |
| Production Number | 9ABE08 |
| Written by | Wyatt Cenac |
| Directed by | Yvette Kaplan |
| ← 9x12 Smoking and the Bandit |
9x14 → Bobby on Track |
| King of the Hill — Season Nine | |
Gone with the Windstorm is the thirteenth episode of the ninth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred eighty-fourth episode overall.
Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Dooley), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (credit only), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Assistant Director), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Husband)
Special Guest Voice: Brendan Fraser (Irv Bennett, Jimmy Bearden)
Special Guest Voice: Phil Hendrie (Tom Chick, TV Announcer, Fireman Gennaro)
Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble), David Herman (Miguel Hernandez), Scott Klace (Mr. Beardon, Engineer No. 2), Lauren Tom (Wife, Engineer No. 1, Connie Souphanousinphone)
Contents |
Plot Overview
When Channel 84 sidelines Nancy for a more competent weatherperson, she tries desperately to get rid of him and resume her position.
Meanwhile, Bobby is being terrorised by a student who jumps out at him and barks like a dog.
Notes
Stinger Quote
Dale: Peggy, you go die over there.
Seen, But Not Heard
Arc Advancement
Happenings
Characters
- Nancy is removed as Channel 84's weatherperson by Irv Bennett and is placed as a co-anchor.
Referbacks
- The Gribbles are seen enjoying the hot tub Nancy got Dale for their wedding anniversary in "Sug Night".
Trivia
The Show
Behind the Scenes
Allusions and References
- The episode title is a play on the title of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.
- Chick mentions going to News Team Coverage after "this Seinfeld ends." When it cuts to the next scene with Hank, you can hear a pastiche of the show's music playing.
Memorable Moments
- Nancy sees the new Doppler radar machine and she proceeds to punch a few keys while it's unplugged and speaks into the d-sub cable to ask for the forecast.
- Bobby comes home in a pair of purple sweatpants after peeing in his original at school. Hank has him get in the truck, but shudders when Bobby turns and sees that the seat of his pants says "cutie" (complete with the "i" dotted with a flower) and Hank has Bobby change his pants first.
- Nancy, Dale, and Peggy being carried out of the fire like the horses.
Goofs
- The banner of Nancy we see at her booth changes when we see it again in a wider shot moments later. Not only is the signature on the picture of her different, but the picture of her seems to have more of her in frame in the second shot.
Quotes
- Hank: I can't believe another Heimlich County Pork Festival's almost here. This year we're gonna have to get Bill's cholesterol tested every hour.
- Bill: Just remember to keep your fingers away from my mouth. Once I'm in the zone, I can't tell the difference.
- Peggy: Did you realise I make your B's just like a serial killer?
- Husband: I look forward to the Pork Festival all year and your weather ruined it!
- Wife: Can you accurately predict what my finger's going to do?
- Nancy: It's not my fault I got the weather wrong. I just read it off the TelePrompTer. My job is to pronounce it, not predict it.
- Miguel Hernandez: Wait, what about the Super Doppler we're always advertising?
- Tom Chick: We don't really have one. We just wrote "Doppler" on the air conditioning unit on the roof.
- Nancy: Are the puffy clouds good or bad?
- Tom Chick: Hey, why don't you man the weather phone?
- Nancy: But everybody knows the weather phone's just the fax machine.
- Dale: Weather can be tracked? He's good.
- Dale: How could we be defeated by a man named Irv?
- Hank: Huh. I never really knew what they meant when they said mild weather, but dang if it doesn't feel mild out here.
- Dale: If he keeps this up, they're gonna fire Nancy. If they fire Nancy, she won't be able to keep paying me to sit around the house and do nothing.
- Hank: You know, Dale, you could help out by cutting down on your expenses. Maybe instead of buying more guns you can enjoy the ones you have.
- Dale: Or maybe I could just help Nancy get rid of this guy. It's time to give him a scare like so many possums have given me.
- Bill: Last night I watched the news and pretended Irv and I were talking. He'd say, "How 'bout that weather?" and I'd say, "It's fine, Irv. Would you like some Swiss Miss pudding?"
- Nancy: I don't even know if I want to work in an industry that values brains over beauty.
- Peggy: So you're just gonna give up? That's not the Nancy I know. When are you going to learn that the real Doppler is in here? And that if you want to keep your job, you're going to have to do everything in your power to fight for it.
- Nancy: What do you mean? Kill Irv?
- Peggy: No! Use the fire.
- Nancy: To kill Irv?
- Nancy: Dale! Get out of the hot tub! We're stealing a news van!
- Dale: It's the perfect crime! How will they ever report it?
- Dale: You can barely see the fire from here. Let's go where you can hardly see here from the fire!
- Dale: It's like smoking every cigarette I've ever smoked all at once. (inhales and begins coughing) That's smooth.
- Dale: Either my eye or my eyepiece is melting!
- Tom Chick: I want to see this footage on every promo from now until the Christmas toy drive. And someone probably should tell the fire department about them.
- Dale: Baby, I always hoped we'd die together. Peggy, you go die over there.
- Peggy: Don't be silly. We can't die if we're on TV. They'd never air it!
- Nancy: I don't care anymore! I'm scared! And I don't want to go to Heaven with brown roots!
- Tom Chick: I want to reposition Nancy Hicks-Gribble as an integral part of the Channel 84 team.
- Nancy: So, I'm back on weather?
- Tom Chick: No. It turns out people really do care about accurate weather.
