King of the Hill/High Anxiety (2)

High Anxiety (2)
Season 4, Episode 14
Airdate	February 13, 2000
Production Number	4ABE14
Written by	Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland
Directed by	Adam Kuhlman
← 4x13 Hanky Panky (1)	4x15 → Naked Ambition
King of the Hill — Season Four

High Anxiety (2) is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of King of the Hill, and the seventy-fourth 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 (Kahn Souphanousinphone)

Also Starring: David Herman (Gayle), Phil LaMarr (Lester Payton)

Special Guest Voice: Mac Davis (Sheriff Mumford)

Special Guest Voice: Phil Hendrie (Various)

Special Guest Voice: Kathleen Turner (Liz Strickland)

Special Guest Voice: Reese Witherspoon (Debbie Grund) (archive audio)

Plot Overview

With an investigation underway to solve Debbie's murder, Hank is more concerned that he accidentally smoked marijuana.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Bobby: I said good day, Sheriff!

Seen, But Not Heard

• Boomhauer

• Enrique

• Joe Jack

• Nancy Gribble

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• An investigation discovers that Debbie accidentally shot herself trying to climb into the dumpster.

Characters

• With the Stricklands' reconciliation, Buck resumes ownership of Strickland Propane and Sugarfoot's.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• After calling in the Texas Rangers, Peggy claims, "I love your show! I love that Walker!" She is alluding to Walker, Texas Ranger.

Quotes

• Sheriff Mumford: So let me get this straight - Debbie was Mr Strickland's mistress and her murdered body was found at the same place where Mr Strickland and his wife just got done reconciling their differences.

Peggy: Uh-huh. My husband, Hank, set that up. Well, the reconciliation; not - not the murder.

• Hank: I'm too high to drive!

• Hank: How long was I sleeping? Why... Why am I running? Oh, God, I'm talking to myself. That's a side effect of the marijuana poisoning.

• Hank: Uh, I'm sorry. I lost a close friend and a valued tank wipe today. I got to go home right now. Peggy, you'll need to drive. I'm in mourning.

• Dale: That coroner in Heimlich County'll get to the bottom of this. He's a good man. He did the autopsies on two of my gun club buddies last year.

• Hank: You, uh, you don't think the police will want to run a drug test on Debbie's co-workers, do you?

Dale: Now that you mention it, I am positive they will. They'll drug-test everyone in Arlen. Price for a bag of clean urine will double.

Bill: What do you think'll happen to the price of poo-poo?

Dale: Unchanged.

• Sheriff Mumford: Afternoon, Hank. What ya cookin'?

Hank: Uh, nothing.

Sheriff Mumford: Well, my eyesight ain't what it used to be, but ain't that some kind of smoke coming out of there?

Hank: Um, that's the burger.

Sheriff Mumford: Strange smelling burgers. What kind of herbs you putting in there?

Hank: (thinking) "Herbs"? Oh, God, that's street talk for marijuana.

• Sheriff Mumford: You know, Hank, I spent the day gathering evidence over at the Casa Linda singles apartments and, well, I just thought you might want to know you are now a suspect...

Hank: Oh, no!

Sheriff Mumford: ...in the murder of Debbie Grund.

Hank: (relieved) Oh. Oh, that. (beat) Oh, God!

• Hank: So I was wondering if kids who are hopped up on drugs could do things they wouldn't remember when they, you know, hopped back down.

Counselor: Absolutely, Mister Jones.

Hank: So, my son, who will be attending Arlen High in a couple of years - God willing - he could get, uh, baked and leave his name tag in some bushes somewhere and then not remember?

Counselor: Yeah, yeah. We call that blacking out. Heck, I was in prison with a guy who was doing life for a murder he didn't even remember committing. Okay?

Hank: So someone could take dope, black out in a field, and kill a co-worker?

Counselor: Co-worker, cab driver, prostitute. It doesn't matter who.

• Buck: Evening, Hank. Whatcha busyin' yourself with there?

Hank: Uh, just throwing out some expired sand.

• Hank: I want you to promise me you won't ever, ever do drugs, Bobby.

Bobby: I promise.

Hank: A promise means nothing when a junkie tricks you into smoking a joint when you think it's a cigarette, which you shouldn't smoke either. Now promise me! Promise me, Bobby!

Bobby: Okay, okay, I promise.

Hank: Promises mean nothing.

Bobby: Look, dad, I'm not gonna use drugs because drugs are for losers and I'd never want to disappoint you. Plus, I want to be the first chubby comic to live past 35.

• Peggy: As I said, I know everything... about my husband.

Sheriff Mumford: So you know about your husband's relationship with Debbie.

Peggy: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. What relationship?

• Sheriff Mumford: Leavin' the get-in-get-out so soon, Payton? I'm sure there's some candy bars you haven't questioned. You better take them Three Musketeers into separate rooms. Maybe one of 'em will crack.

Ranger Payton: That's a good one, Sheriff. How'd Hee Haw ever let you get away?

• Sheriff Mumford: Debbie's roommate Gayle's got an interesting alibi for the night of the murder. Says he was with you, sparkin' up a J.

Peggy: In English, please?

Sheriff Mumford: Lighting up a J.

Peggy: (gasps) Getting high? He said that? Well, now you have a second crime to investigate, Sheriff: the attempted assassination of my husband's character.

Bobby: How dare you?! My dad would never use drugs. I said good day, Sheriff!

• Sheriff Mumford: I've never had a homicide go unsolved in Heimlich County and my record stands intact. Two for two.

• Hank: You know, uh, I'm not so sure this, uh - Gale, is it? - I'm just not so sure he's the right guy who did the murder.

Bill: Well, now you're just talking crazy, Hank. The sheriff arrested him. That means he's guilty.

Dale: Bill's right.

Bill: I should know. I've served on four juries and we did our job. Four convictions.

Hank: It is not your job as a juror to just convict.

Bill: Is, too.

• Bobby: I hope Gayle doesn't get off on some pothead technicality. Right, dad?

Hank: Well, those technicalities have a name, Bobby. They're called the Bill of Rights.

Sheriff Mumford: Oh, he's got a right. He's got a right arm for them to stick the needle in.

• Hank: All right. All right, that's enough. Gayle did not kill Debbie. That's right. He's innocent and I know that because at the time of the murder Gayle was with me. We were in Debbie's apartment... and like he said, we were smoking pot.

Peggy: Who are you, Hank Hill?!

Hank: Now, now, it was an accident. I didn't know it was pot and God knows I didn't enjoy it.

• Hank: Well, I guess I let you down, son, doing drugs like that when I've always told you not to.

Bobby: You know, if I did something like this, you'd punish me. Maybe I should be able to punish you.

Hank: Well, okay, son. What's my punishment? Am I grounded?

Bobby: That's too easy. You cannot mow the lawn for one week.

Hank: Aw, come on, son. It was an accident.

Bobby: You want to go for two?