King of the Hill/Master of Puppets

Master of Puppets
Season 13, Episode 10
Airdate	March 1, 2009
Production Number	DABE03
Written by	Blake McCormick
Directed by	Tony Kluck
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King of the Hill — Season Thirteen

Master of Puppets is the tenth episode of the thirteenth season of King of the Hill, and the two hundred forty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Adlon (Bobby Hill, Boy, Girl), Brittany Murphy (credit only), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

and Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone, Waiter)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble, Hostess), Breckin Meyer (Joseph Gribble, Clerk)

Plot Overview

After Hank and Peggy make a date night instead of game night and then forgetting to pick him up, Bobby finds he can manipulate them to vie for his forgiveness.

Meanwhile, Dale sets out to proves how much of a survivalist he is.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Clerk: We're getting the bike? Not getting the bike? What am I doin'?

Seen, But Not Heard

• Minh Souphanousinphone

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• Bobby wants to go to a Cane Skretteburg, the rocker featured in the episode "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg".

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The episode shares its title with the 1986 Metallica album.

Memorable Moments

• As Dale makes a small shelter to rest his under, he laments how much he misses his family, just as Nancy pulls up in the driveway only a few feet away.

• Dale claims he'll need to hunt for feed in order to live and watches Kahn and Minh carry groceries out of the van. Dale chunks the spears at them, but instead of hitting them, he was aiming for the bag still in the van... and he does virtually no damage at that. He nevertheless grabs them, but then runs back to put back a head of lettuce.

Quotes

• Hank: Dale, the man braves the world's roughest terrain, armed only with willpower and a knife. He's the greatest American hero ever born... in Canada.

• Dale: I'll even postpone date night.

Hank: Date night?

Dale: Every Friday, Nancy and I share a romantic evening on the town. And we don't go home until Nancy's out of money.

• Hank: I haven't taken Peggy on a date since... Huh.

Boomhauer: Hank, man, you talkin' about that thing about women, man, you got to keep that dang ol' flame alive, man, pitchin' woo, too, man.

Hank: Woo, huh? Well, I did see a coupon to the Pasta Garden in the Sunday paper. A free iced tea with the purchase of any appetiser. I'd love to take advantage of that.

Bill: I hope Peggy knows how lucky she is.

• Hank: Come on, we could make this a regular thing. Like cleaning the gutters or re-grouting.

Peggy: Hank Hill, if you treat me as tenderly as you treat those gutters, it's gonna be quite a night.

• Joseph: My dad and I never do stuff together. He says it's safer if we spread out.

• Peggy: So, Hank Hill, do you promise to have me home by curfew?

Hank: Well, sure. Unless the service is slow, I don't anticipate there being a problem.

• Peggy: Complimentary salad and bread sticks? Hank, did you call ahead and set this up?

Hank: I wish I could take credit. This place just seems to specialise in class.

• Hank: Bobby, where are you?

Bobby: I'm at the Get In/Get Out. I hope you're happy. I'm watching prostitutes buy panty hose.

• Peggy: I don't leave my sunglasses in the car overnight, but I leave my boy in a parking lot? If he takes a hammer to our heads while we sleep, I would not blame him.

• Dale: Sweet, helpless Hank, you wouldn't last one day in the wild. Any skilled outdoorsman knows the female of a species is always the most fierce and calculating. That's why you never fight a lady monkey.

• Joseph: Dude, your parents are competing for your love! You're like a child of divorce!

Bobby: Wow! I didn't know kids with divorced parents had it so good.

• Bobby: It's awful, Joseph. My only moment of privacy today was in the bathroom. And even then, my mom sat outside the door and sang to me.

Joseph: Dude, that's pretty weird. Unless... What song was it?