King of the Hill/Luanne Gets Lucky

Luanne Gets Lucky
Season 11, Episode 4
Airdate	March 25, 2007
Production Number	BABE04
Written by	Jonathan Collier
Directed by	Ken Wong
← 11x03 Blood and Sauce	11x05 → Hank Gets Dusted
King of the Hill — Season Eleven

Luanne Gets Lucky is the fourth episode of the eleventh season of King of the Hill, and the two hundred fifth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Adlon (Bobby Hill, Kevin's Brother), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Special Guest Voice: Trace Adkins (Elvin)

Special Guest Voice: Brian Doyle Murray (Jack)

Special Guest Voice: Tom Petty (Lucky, Mud Dobber)

Also Starring: Andrea Bowen (Teenage Girl), Jack De Sena (Kevin), Randall Reeder (Security Guard)

Plot Overview

Feeling neglected as Lucky devotes his attention toward stumping, Luanne accepts an invitation from a 15 year old to go to the Arlen High School Prom.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Luanne: Summon your amazing strength!

Music

• "La donna è mobile"

• Kellie Pickler - "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You"

• Chicago - "25 or 6 to 4"

Arc Advancement

Characters

• It's revealed Luannne missed her prom to testify against her mother.

• It's revealed that Lucky's fateful accident at the Costco came when he needed to get another cable for his winch he needed to uproot a 48 inch stump of burled walnut.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• Lucky recounts the story of how his grandfather strayed from a church picnic when he found the stump, but took the location to his grave when he took ill. However, the visuals we see betray that as it's shown he was actually an escaped prisoner and was presumably caught and executed via electrocution.

Quotes

• Hank: Yep

Dale: Yep.

Boomhauer: Mm-hmm.

Bill: I've had it since I was 12 - a constant, high-pitched ringing in my left ear. I guess it's something I'll just have to learn to live with.

• Mud Dobber: What I know abouts dogs. You need something done about a dog, I'm the one you see.

Dale: Lucky, your - your man's making me nervous.

Lucky: Mud Dobber didn't mean to scare you. Did you, Mud Dobber?

Mud Dobber: Not at present.

• Hank: Boy, I've never heard of a 48 inch stump of burled walnut. You're talking diameter, right?

Elvin: He don't talk nothin' else.

• Lucky: That stump was worth $15,000 and that's in back-then dollars.

• Luanne: Don't worry, little boy. I'm going to give you the best cut ever! Because prom pictures are forever. As are not prom pictures, which are all I have.

• Kevin: I'm not going to the prom. I can't.

Luanne: Of course you can. Everyone goes to the prom now, even the crippled and the gay.

• Lucky: I'm not saying stumping isn't risky. When you're out there with nothing but chains, beer, and a winch, you could rip your arm off and there ain't no one out there to sue.

• Lucky: No way, Luanne. You will not wear another man's wrist corsage.

Luanne: If you are not going to take me out on a Saturday night, or ever, why shouldn't I go?

Lucky: Because I've seen the movies and I know what goes on at prom.

• Peggy: I cannot believe someone in this family is finally going to their prom. I could have gone with an ugly or unpopular guy, but I stuck by my principles.

• Luanne: Sometimes I wish my leg was a stump so Lucky would pay attention to me. Is that wrong?

Peggy: Yes. You should not be fantasising about being a hunk of wood.

• Luanne: Oh, Kevin, don't worry. What you wear is so much less important than what I'm wearing.

• Hank: We've been off road for a while now, Lucky. Do you have a map?

Lucky: Uh-huh. (points to his head)

Dale: Must be an implant. I wonder who did his. The guy who did mine did not inspire confidence.

• Hank: Uh, when you're stumpin', you don't talk about relationships, right?

Lucky: Nope.

Hank: Well, all right.

• Luanne: A tiara. It's so beautiful.

Peggy: Just take good care of it. It has been in the family since Halloween of 1973.

• Hank: Five men, one stump. This is the sort of thing they write books about.

• Luanne: Oh, my God! Kevin isn't taking me to the prom. I used to have a fiance who loved me! Then he left me, and I thought, "Oh, well, I get to go to the prom. At least I'll get to be happy one night!" But now, I'll never be happy ever again! Why is this happening, Kevin's little brother?

(beat)

Kevin's Brother: Do you have any candy?

Luanne: I have no candy, either!

• Luanne: Kevin, you've got nothing to worry about. Elvin and Mud Dobber are not going to do anything to you. Not when they're already on probation for violent crime.

Kevin: What did they do?

Luanne: I don't know. Something with a nail gun.

• Dale: I'm so cold.

Hank: We're all cold, Dale.

Bill: If we huddle together, we'll retain our heat and we won't get hypothermia.

Hank: Not a chance.

Bill: Come on, Hank. No one will ever know.

Hank: I will. And that's enough.