King of the Hill/Square-Footed Monster

Square-Footed Monster
Season 13, Episode 3
Airdate	October 19, 2008
Production Number	CABE18
Written by	Jerry Collins
Directed by	Kyounghee Lim
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King of the Hill — Season Thirteen

Square-Footed Monster is the third episode of the thirteenth season of King of the Hill, and the two hundred thirty eighth episode overall.

Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Adlon (Bobby Hill, Clerk #2), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Cook), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive, Bulldozer Operator)

and Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone, Ted Wassanasong)

Special Guest Voice: Bob Elliott (Edgar Hornsby)

Special Guest Voice: Chris Elliott (Ed Burnett)

Special Guest Voice: Tom Petty (Lucky, Troll Man)

Also Starring: Abby Elliott (Clerk #1), Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble), Scott Klace (Eric Dwyer), Jerry Lambert (Judge Hawthorne), Breckin Meyer (Joseph Gribble)

Plot Overview

Ted Wassanasong buys a house in the neighbourhood so as to turn it into a McMansion, a thorn in the side of everyone in the block.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Lucky: (imitating a wailing guitar)

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• Edgar Hornsby is voiced by Bob Elliott, who was the father of Chris Elliott, who voices councilman Ed Burnett. Chris Elliott is the father of Abby Elliott, who voices Clerk #1. This is the only episode of the series to feature voices from three generations of one family of performers.

Memorable Moments

• The guys load into the back of Eric's truck and we follow it as it drives them almost directly across from where they were standing.

Goofs

• Eric assumes the guys are Mexican and don't speak English despite them all being obviously white.

• Bill says he never heard hammering during the construction of the McMansion, yet the construction scenes showed lots of workers hammering.

• When Lucky uses the winch to pull on a pillar of the house, it collapses as Luanne runs away, but it seems to fall in her way in the wide shot and she has no reaction and barely does anything to step over it.

Quotes

• Hank: Old Mrs Dwyer sure did like concrete amphibians. It's a shame one ended up killing her.

• Bill: I lived next door to your aunt. What a nice lady. We used to chat about puppies and serial killers through the fence.

• Lucky: (to Luanne) Now, stare at your belly and pretend it's not a baby, but something cute like a puppy.

• Hank: We're getting Dotty's place fixed up. It's gonna look pretty good once we strip away the layer of old lady.

• Kahn: Not to make light of old lady's death, but one redneck neighbour down, four to go.

• Dale: Lucky, looks like you officially have the worst house in the neighbourhood.

Lucky: Well, from an investment standpoint, there's no better place to be.

• Hank: Hey, you, shut it down!

Bulldozer Operator: I have a work order to demo the premises. Oh, don't tell me I got the wrong address again.

• Joseph: Bobby, look at those guys. They're not working. They're littering and peeing everywhere and - and scarfing junk food! Construction is a dream job.

Bobby: This is why they tell us to stay in school - so we don't find out how great working is.

Joseph: Man, that dude had a lot to drink!

• Hank: We've tried the gentlemanly route, now we get tough. May I please have the requisite forms for a legal petition?

• Bill: I'm not sure how much more I can take. I miss the sun. I'm tired a lot because my body thinks it's always night.

• Nancy: I'm going to get my camera. This story just might be tragic enough to be on the news.

• Peggy: It was an act of God, an angry, vengeful God.

Ted Wassanasong: This was no act of God! Look at those sledgehammer marks. It was the act of rednecks on a drunken rampage.

Hank: We don't have anything to hide. The only one who did something wrong here was you. Your shoddy McMansion was gonna destroy our homes. We only took it down in self-defence. And for the record, nobody was drunk.

Lucky: There's a chance I may not have been within the legal limits.

• Lucky: I know it's ugly, but living next door to a power station means our baby will probably grow up to have super powers.

Luanne: And that will come in handy. Lucky's always getting pinned under cars.