King of the Hill/Texas City Twister

Texas City Twister
Season 2, Episode 2
Airdate	September 26, 1997
Production Number	5E02
Written by	Cheryl Holliday
Directed by	Jeff Meyers
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King of the Hill — Season Two

Texas City Twister is the second episode of the second season of King of the Hill, and the fourteenth episode overall.

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

and Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble)

Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble, Cashier) Neil Giuntoli (Wheezie), Cheryl Holliday (), Maurice LaMarche (Radio Announcer, Soldier)

Uncredited: Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Plot Overview

When Hank learns Luanne's trailer is still there, he tips it back upright and promptly urges her to move back in. However, his lack of emotions leaves he and Peggy to a fight that Hank regrets when he learns a tornado is headed for the same trailer park.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Bill: I can't hear you!

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• It's revealed that Luanne's trailer was simply tipped over. Hank sets it right and sends her packing, but after the tornado tips it back over, Hank pretends it's unlivable and agrees to let her continue living with them.

Characters

• Bill admits he doesn't mind the teasing, but demands respect when he puts on his uniform. After suffering continued mockery, he lords his power over Hank when given the opportunity.

• Once again, Hank's unwillingness to emote comes back to bite him and is forced to confess his feelings.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• As Nancy reports outside the National Guard Armory, you can see in the background a suited man shuffle into frame and just proceeds to stand there.

• After being told about a tornado so powerful it can send an egg through a brick wall, Bobby takes one with him and when given the chance, he throws it... and it is immediately sent flying back into his face.

Goofs

• In the wide shot that zooms in to the tornado forming in the background at the end of Act One, Peggy's top is purple.

• In the eye of the storm, Hank looks to his right and left to have to choose between the Texas flag and a cactus, but in the wide shots there's nothing remotely near him.

• After Hank joins the others in the storm cellar, the wind is so powerful it picks up a car, but there's still light debris like a stick that's not even being moved by the same winds.

Quotes

• Hank: 6:00 AM and already the boy ain't right.

• Collector: Sir, if you're calling me a liar, you better be holding something stronger than an umbrella.

Hank: Nine-iron.

Collector: Ya'll have a nice day.

• Peggy: Well, they asked me to substitute for a German class, and I said, "nein," which I thought meant "yes," but apparently "nein' means "no," so I blew a big opportunity.

• Dale: You know how the Egyptians untipped the pyramids, don't ya? With a winch, a cinder block, and 50,000 Hebrew slaves. You got a cinder block?

• Bobby: Goodbye, Luanne. I just wanted you to know that I never read your diary, even though you secretly suspected I did on June 18, 1995.

Luanne: I was wrong to doubt you, Bobby.

Bobby: That's okay.

• Peggy: Did you even happen to notice that Luanne was crying when she left here?

Hank: Well, when isn't she crying? She cries at weddings, she cries at funerals. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

• Peggy: Luanne loves you and you have no emotions for her at all?

Hank: I've got plenty of emotions. I was afraid she was gonna hug me. I was worried that she wouldn't leave and I was happy when it was over.

• Hank: Now, just in case I am incapacitated for some reason, do you know how to start a man's heart with a downed power line?

Bobby: No.

Hank: Well, there's really no wrong way to do it.

• Luanne: So many bad memories. There's the fork mama stabbed daddy with. Oh, and the empty bottles from that awful night. And, oh no, those mango-coloured palazzo pants that made my butt look big.

Peggy: Oh, this is gonna be harder than I thought.

• Peggy: I am so mad at him and his precious self-control. "I surely am not unfond of you, Peggy, I tell ya what." What kind of marriage proposal is that?

• Dale: All right, twister, it's just you and me now. Ten years ago, you took my shed. Did you think I'd forget that? Come on, bring it on!

(a few drops lightly hit the windshield)

Dale: No, please! Let me go!

• Hank: You're my best girl! You mean everything to me! When we were apart today, that was hell! I couldn't wake up in the morning without your beautiful face beside me! I love you... and Bobby... and Luanne... to a lesser extent!