King of the Hill/Girl, You'll Be a Giant Soon

Girl, You'll Be a Giant Soon
Season 8, Episode 18
Airdate	April 25, 2004
Production Number	8ABE16
Written by	Dan McGrath
Directed by	Cyndi Tang-Loveland
← 8x17 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Alamo	8x19 → Stressed for Success
King of the Hill — Season Eight

Girl, You'll Be a Giant Soon is the eighteenth episode of the eighth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred sixty-seventh episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela S. Adlon (Bobby Hill, Amalia), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Dylan), Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

and Toby Huss (State Trooper, Ted Wassanasong)

Special Guest Voice: Phil Hendrie (Big Tex, Cooker Number Five, Rent-A-Cop)

Special Guest Voice: Mary Kay Place (Melly-Anne)

Special Guest Voice: Elijah Wood (Jason)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble, Loan Officer), David Herman (Cook-Off Official), Dax Shepard (Zack), Lauren Tom (Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone)

Plot Overview

Tired of being treated like a child, Luanne joins Hank's cause to combat propane being barred from the Texas State Fair cook-off.

Meanwhile, Peggy and the girls try to enter an open house to see the laundry room/crime scene.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Boomhauer: Talkin' 'bout dat ol' "propane, propane, propane," man.

Seen, But Not Heard

• Enrique

• Joe Jack

• Donna

Trivia

The Show

• Instead of the standard credit sequence, they're instead played over a shot of Big Tex as he gives out announcements.

Allusions and References

• The episode's title is a play on the Neil Diamond song "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon".

• Big Tex is in fact a real Texas icon and was previously seen in "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying".

• The mansion the women try to see was likely inspired by the murder of Daniel and Linda Broderick by his ex wife, Betty. Similar to the Baxters, Betty had worked to put Daniel through medical school early in their marriage, though he later left her for his assistant, Linda. Enraged, Betty killed the couple while they slept. Betty was portrayed by Meridith Baxter in the Lifetime film about her crime, which is where the name of the mansion may come from.

Quotes

• Hank: Son, look. There's Big Tex. He's like the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty rolled into one.

Bobby: He seems tough. But kind.

Hank: Yep. He always tells us what to do and see and eat. I've gotten better advice from him than from my own father.

• Luanne: (on the phone) If the election were held today, I would vote for... nobody! I know that elections don't happen today. They happen on Tuesdays in months ending in "vember." Why do you want to talk to my mother?

• Luanne: I am so sick of people calling and asking to speak with the woman of the house and then treating me like the baby of the house.

Peggy: Now, now, Luanne. Let's not be the crybaby of the house.

• Dale: Rules are rules, Hank. Without rules, there would be chaos. That's why we no longer visit the public pool.

• Hank: But this is blatantly unfair!

Bill: Yeah, poor, poor Hank. With his wife, and his son, and his... hair.

• Peggy: If we do not get to see that laundry room, then the victim will have died in vain.

• Luanne: We're a team. I want to celebrate. Toss another bucket of propane on the fire!

Hank: Uh, Luanne? Maybe I should get you some brochures.

• Dale: That could have been us protesting for propane with Hank right now. Gentlemen, we dodged a very boring bullet.

• Boomhauer: Yep.

Bill: Yup.

Dale: Yep.

Bobby: Okay.

• Dale: So, Bobby, are you upset by Luanne usurping your first-born male right of prima-grillature?

Bobby: Are you kidding? I'm just hoping she can throw a football, too, because then I'm home free.

• Dale: (to Bobby) You're as good at telling me what to do as your dad is.

• Hank: So I have to ask: Is Big Tex as amazing inside as he is from the outside?

Luanne: Yeah. You think you're gonna be really nervous, because, like, he's Big Tex and all, but, actually, he's very down-to-earth. Really, like being inside of a regular giant guy.

Hank: A man of the people. I knew it.