King of the Hill/Peggy's Pageant Fever

Peggy's Pageant Fever
Season 3, Episode 6
Airdate	November 10, 1998
Production Number	3ABE07
Written by	Norm Hiscock
Directed by	Tricia Garcia
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King of the Hill — Season Three

Peggy's Pageant Fever is the sixth episode of the third season of King of the Hill, and the forty-first episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter)

and Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble, Cathy Shears), Maurice LaMarche (Choreographer), Lauren Tom (Minh Souphanousinphone)

Special Guest Voice: Carol Alt (Marci)

Special Guest Voice: Erik Estrada (Mexican Judge)

Special Guest Voice: Kathy Ireland (Sylvia)

Special Guest Voice: Mary Kay Place (Helen Shell)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland)

Plot Overview

Peggy enters Mrs. Heimlich County beauty pageant. Unfortunately, she soon becomes overwhelmed by the other contestants and keep upping herself.

Notes

Music

• Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "Takin' Care of Business"

• Spice Girls - "Wannabe"

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Bill's attraction to Peggy is reinforced.

• Peggy unable to answer the Mexican judge's question in Spanish is a sign that she is not as fluent in the language as she has let on.

Trivia

The Show

• Luanne's hair appears to have grown back, but is short again in some subsequent episodes. This inconsistency seems to be due to a mix of production order and scrambled airing order.

Allusions and References

• In revenge against Peggy, Luanne twice hums "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.

Quotes

• Peggy: Hank, do you think I could win the Mrs. Heimlich Pageant if I entered?

Hank: You see, Peggy, that's what you call a loaded question. No matter how I answer, there's a bullet in every chamber designed to blow my brains out.

• Luanne: Oh, I already have some ideas for styling you. I've always wondered what would happen if you let your hair dry naturally.

Peggy: Okay, let's not go crazy, Luanne.

• Bill: Peggy's gonna win. She's every man's fantasy.

Hank: Okay, Bill, I'll take over from here.

Bill: I mean, she's got the A-plus brain and an A-minus body, but if she wears one of them push-up brassieres--

Hank: Bill!

Bill: She'll have have a body that just won't quit.

• Peggy: When you look at me now, you can't see somebody who's beautiful. You just see a mother.

Bobby: I don't know. I think Connie's mom is beautiful. And Mrs Gribble--

Peggy: All right. All right.

Bobby: Hey, there's me standing next to the world's largest roadrunner.

Peggy: Are you still having those nightmares where he pecks out your eyes?

Bobby: I forgot about those.

Peggy: Good.

• Minh: Hey, Bozo. Where your clown car, Peggy Hill? Hey, hey, hey. You look like the Ronald McDonald, you Bozo, Peggy Hill. (Peggy drives off) Gee, she stuck up. Not even say hello.

• Bobby: Woah, mom, you look like you could star in a headache commercial.

• Hank: I know you're a feeling a little miffed, but you have to understand your aunt has always had a lot of confidence about her looks, which is good. But now she's got herself in kind of a bind. She's either got to admit to herself she can't win the truck and quit or stay in the pageant and, well, probably lose. Either way, it's going to hurt.

Luanne: Well, I guess I should feel bad for her... but I don't.

• Peggy: Honey, you bought us a new truck?

Hank: No, I painted my old one.

Peggy: Well, she's beautiful!

Hank: Yeah, but she was before.