King of the Hill/Hanky Panky (1)

Hanky Panky (1)
Season 4, Episode 13
Airdate	February 6, 2000
Production Number	4ABE13
Written by	Jim Dauterive
Directed by	Jeff Myers
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King of the Hill — Season Four

Hanky Panky (1) is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of King of the Hill, and the seventy-third episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland)

and Toby Huss (Joe Jack, M.F. Thatherton)

Also Starring: David Herman (Gayle)

Special Guest Voice: Phil Hendrie (Jewel Crawford)

Special Guest Voice: Lane Smith (Charlie Fortner)

Special Guest Voice: Kathleen Turner (Liz Strickland)

Special Guest Voice: Reese Witherspoon (Debbie Grund)

Plot Overview

When Buck goes through a divorce, Hank finds himself in the middle when Miss Liz takes over Strickland Propane.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Joe Jack: (coughing) Boy toy.

Seen, But Not Heard

• Boomhauer

• Enrique

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Miss Liz tries to seduce Hank in an effort to get back at Buck.

• To evade losing everything, Buck sells Hank Sugarfoot's. Peggy owns half and promptly takes it over.

• Humiliated by Miss Liz, Debbie tries to seduce Hank, but he rebuffs her advances. She later threatens to tell Peggy and he reluctantly agrees to meet her. Peggy later finds Debbie's body in the dumpster behind Sugarfoot's.

Characters

• It's revealed that Hank met Buck Strickland while working at Jeans West.

• Elizabeth Strickland divorces Buck after getting fed up with his infidelity. However, Hank gets the two to reunite at Sugarfoot's.

Trivia

The Show

• Despite many previous appearances, this is the first and only episode in which Debbie has extensive dialogue. She was only ever heard before in "Peggy's Pageant Fever" with only one line.

• First appearance of Sugarfoot's. While sparse, it will be seen several more times throughout the series.

Quotes

• Luanne: Mister Strickland's wife is beautiful.

Hank: That's not his wife. That's Debbie from work. A pretty girl like that should have been able to find a date.

• Peggy: With the power vested in me by the great state of Texas, I hereby notarise this beer coaster. Congratulations, Hank, you own a barbecue restaurant. And because we live in a community property state, I own half. So, in addition, congratulations to me.

• Buck: Debbie, you stay here. I need you to be my eyes and ears.

Debbie: I'm his eyes and ears.

Miz Liz: Yes, but your butt belongs to me. Because from now on, I am the Strickland in Strickland Propane.

• Miz Liz: I need you on my team.

Hank: Hmm. Well, I do love teamwork.

• Miz Liz: Hank, what's the worst job on this team?

Hank: Worst paying or most degrading? Aw, hell, it's the same for both - tank wipe.

Miz Liz: Debbie! You're on tank wipe!

• Hank: Huh. You know, Debbie's place is right next to Sugarfoot's. That's a coincidence.

Buck: No coincidence. I like to eat, I like to hump, and I don't like to drive. So I built Sugarfoot's next to the singles complex.

• Hank: Uh, what would you recommend if none of this looks good?

• Miz Liz: I can forgive my husband's benders, and the profanity, and his inappropriate comfort with all aspects of the human body. But it's the women, Hank. My purse of forgiveness is finally empty.

Hank: Please don't make me choose sides. Mister Strickland's been very good to me and I've worked for him as long as he's been cheating on you.

• Peggy: Now, this is our new suggestion box. It is a way for each of us to anonymously suggest ways we can whip this place into shape without fear of losing your job. Oh, someone's already made a suggestion. This is exciting. (reading) Sweep out the sawdust and put down carpet. CarpeTex is having another going-out-of-business sale." Excellent. Approved.

Little John: You know, that box'll work better you cut a hole in the top.

Peggy: Mm-hmm. Possibly.

• Peggy: Elvin, when customers walk into Sugarfoot's, what's their first thought?

Elvin: "I'm hungry"?

Peggy: Uh-uh. It's "Why isn't this place good enough to be a chain?" Now, my own experience tells me that people are willing to sacrifice individuality for comfort and familiarity and in his own autobiography, Wendy's founder Dave Thomas agrees.

• Hank: "Boy toy?" I don't even know what that means.

Joe Jack: It means you're Miz Liz's Debbie.

• Debbie: Well, I'm tired of wiping tanks all day to support this home while you sit there like a king, watching All My Children with Gail. Geez!

Buck: Now, I am not a history buff, but I tell ya, I don't remember Louis XIV spendin' his days pullin' hippie hair out of drains!

• Bill: Poor Peggy - doesn't suspect a thing about Miz Liz.

Hank: There is nothing to suspect. I haven't done anything except my job.

Dale: Well, you can kiss that goodbye unless you kiss Miz Liz... in a pleasing manner.

Bill: You could call the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Dale: Or you could just put out.

Bill: Six of one.

• Hank: Dale, give me a cigarette.

Dale: I thought you quit because "cigarettes cause death." They do, you know, so pace yourself.

• Debbie: This ain't over! Nobody rejects Debbie Grund!

Hank: (cracking window) Well, I just did.

• Hank: Sir, we go back fifteen years and in all that time I have only had one mistress, and her name is propane. Peggy and I have an understanding about that.

Buck: Oh, heck, Hank, I believe you. I know you don't have sex.

Hank: Well, that is not exactly accurate.

• Buck: I had it all, Hank. I had a good wife to mother me, I had a pretty young girlfriend. I was living like a Frenchman. But I blew it. I lost my wife and my money. And now... I want my wife and my money back!

• Miz Liz: Buck and I have been doing the same dance for 32 years. I needed to dip him for a change.

Hank: I've never seen a man so dipped in his life.

• Hank: (answering phone) Hello.

Debbie: (imitating an old lady) May I speak to Peggy?

Hank: No, I'm sorry. Peggy's at Sugarfoot's. Can I take a message?

Debbie: Tell her that Debbie Grund slept with her husband.

Hank: Who is this?

Debbie: (normal voice) It's Debbie. Remember me?

Hank: Put that old lady back on. Maybe she can talk some sense into you.

• Debbie: Sugarfoot's is right across the street. I'll tell your wife myself.

Hank: No! No. Uh, you, uh, you don't want to do that.

Debbie: Why not?

Hank: Well, uh, because then it would make it even harder for us to, uh, uh... pursue our relationship.

Debbie: So we're going to do it?

Hank: Uh... Uh, y-yes, we are going to do it.

Debbie: I like it when you talk dirty.

Hank: Therefore, I am now going to drive over there... baby.

(Hank hangs up phone)

Hank: (disgusted) I just had phone sex.