King of the Hill/Board Games

Board Games
Season 7, Episode 14
Airdate	March 2, 2003
Production Number	7ABE08
Written by	Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin
Directed by	Kyounghee Lim & Boohwan Lim
← 7x13 Queasy Rider	7x15 → An Officer and a Gentle Boy
King of the Hill — Season Seven

Board Games is the fourteenth episode of the seventh season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred fortieth episode overall.

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

and Toby Huss (Kahn Souphanousinphone, Angry Parent, Shady Man)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble, Mrs. Chapman), David Herman (Board Member, Concerned Parent, Miguel Hernandez, Dog Owner), Breckin Meyer (Joseph Gribble), Lauren Tom (Minh Souphanousinphone, Pedicurist)

Plot Overview

After the kids' after school program has been cut, Minh, Nancy, and Peggy try to fill a vacant seat on the school board to save it. However, they each try to vie for the seat, going at each other in the process.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Peggy: It's for the freakin' children!

Seen, But Not Heard

• Connie Souphanousinphone

• Boomhauer

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The scene of Bobby and Peggy talking as the camera follows them is a send-up of the "walk-and-talk" technique developed by the political drama The West Wing.

Quotes

• Peggy: My memory trick is usually fail-safe. When we got out of the car, I associated the parking section with William Shakespeare. So, naturally, the car should be parked in 2B. Unless I was thinking of "not 2B."

• Minh: No after-school program? Now who Connie gonna tutor? Bums in rail yard?

• Peggy: The people who cancelled that after school program are going to wish we never found our car. Where is that frickin' thing?

• Nancy: We have a real issue here. That after school program is important.

Peggy: Absolutely. Our kids get out of school in the middle of the day when they air all those sex and drug-filled after school specials.

• Nancy: Oh, I bet this must be very exciting for you, Minh. Where you're from, you probably didn't have the freedom to criticise your government.

Minh: Why would I criticise government in Laos? My father was general. I do what I want. I was peasant's worst nightmare.

• Board Member: Thank you, Mrs Chapman. Your request to ban sections "F" and "S" from the library dictionary has been noted.

• Minh: Oh, one little thing, though, Peggy Hill. Keep it short. Sometimes you go on and on and on. I find it charming, but you might lose other people.

Peggy: Good advice. And you probably should not call anyone hillbilly. Or redneck. Or dumb monkey.

Minh: Check.

• Minh: Oh, great. Now Connie gonna end up smashing carts like brain-dead delinquents. No offence.

Peggy: None taken. I wasn't even listening.

• Peggy: The secret is to find a group of voters that feels overlooked, then look at them.

• Hank: You've got the most school-related experience, the best interpersonal skills, and a smile that lights up a room. Yep, Peggy, I got to say, I agree with all your reasons why you should be the one to run for school board.

Peggy: Well, thank you, Hank, but let's not lose sight of why I'm doing this. It's for the children. Now, I'm not saying Minh hates children, but I really love children. They are three out of the five points in my five-point plan. I haven't quite figured out the other two yet. I'm thinking something about America.

Hank: Wow! Dynamite!

• Peggy: And I can't help but think that Minh did it on purpose. Those pecan sandies were astonishingly dry.

Hank: Come on, Peggy, they're not shy people. If Minh wanted to choke you, she would have just reached over and done it with her hands.

Peggy: I will give her that.

• Peggy: "Minh to win." I don't get it.

Minh: What not to get? I'm Minh. I want to win.

Peggy: Huh. Maybe we should focus group that. (thinks) Nope, no go. Women 18 to 45 will be turned off.

• Dale: I'm all for Minh running for office, but she better not take my guns away.

Hank: She's running for the school board.

Dale: Then she better not take Joseph's guns away.

• Bill: You know, my lawn is already dead. Maybe we could put all the signs there.

Hank: No offence, Bill, but this campaign is about hope.

Bill: Oh. Right.

• Mrs Chapman: I'm not saying you have to use the moment of silence to pray. The kids who don't believe in God can just sit quietly and smirk about how they've got it all figured out.

• Peggy: How dare she? I groomed her, I taught her everything, and she has the nerve to stab me in the back. That is just not done in politics, Hank.

• Peggy: There's no way I'm going back to college. I'm a teacher. I'm done learning.

• Peggy: Hank, the phone poll numbers are not good. The projections show Nancy with four votes, Minh also with four votes, and Peggy Hill zero. Now, I can increase my margin of error to five votes, but even then, I am just winning by the skin of my teeth.

• Dale: I'm here for the voters.

Shady Man: Votin' truck already done come and took 'em.

Dale: But - But I'm the one who was supposed to have done come and took 'em.

Shady Man: Hang on there, mister. I want to talk to you about that fancy hat you got on your head there.

Dale: Uh, but I don't want to talk about my fancy hat.

• Minh: Maybe we should spend some time with the kids today. We could be their after school program. Maybe we take them to...

Nancy: A museum.

Peggy: Or the zoo. Which is a museum of animals.