King of the Hill/My Hair Lady

My Hair Lady
Season 8, Episode 11
Airdate	February 15, 2004
Production Number	8ABE09
Written by	Wyatt Cenac
Directed by	Allan Jacobsen
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King of the Hill — Season Eight

My Hair Lady is the eleventh episode of the eighth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred sixtieth episode overall.

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

and: Toby Huss (Customer, Kahn Souphanousinphone)

Special Guest Voice: Christina Applegate (Colette Davis, Attorney)

Special Guest Voice: Brian Doyle Murray (Jack)

Also Starring: Amy Adams (Misty), David Herman (Professor, Rico, DJ), Danica McKellar (Sharona)

Plot Overview

Luanne drops out of college and gets her hairdressing degree where she soon gets a chair at the fashionable Hottyz. To repay him for his help and to pay for rental, she offers to share the chair with Bill. In order to fit in, he passes himself off as gay.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Dale: Pirate. Waiter. Pirate waiter!

Seen, But Not Heard

• Boomhauer

• John Redcorn

Music

• Donna Lewis - "I Love You Always Forever" (remix)

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Luanne drops out of community college and finally passes her test to be certified. After a stint at Hottyz, she begins working in Jack's barbershop. Peggy offers to let her move back in with she and Hank to save money.

Trivia

The Show

• It's curious that Jack is in business since the events of "Hank's Bad Hair Day" implied that he had lost his mind.

Allusions and References

• The title of the episode is a play on the 1956 stage musical My Fair Lady, which was later adapted to film in 1964.

Quotes

• Luanne: You really shouldn't let your hair get so knotted. Unless you want it to fall out. If you wanted it to fall out, I'm sorry for fixing it.

• Professor: Uh, Miss Platter, you in my class to learn history, or, uh, do hair?

Luanne: Hair!

• Bobby: The mashed potatoes aren't as buttery as usual, mom. Did we go poor?

• Luanne: I learned something really important at college today! I don't want to be there!

• Peggy: There are bigger things in life than hair. You have to stay in college and develop your mind.

Hank: Well, I don't know, Peggy. She's been at that college for two-and-half years and it's a two-year college. Seems like they had a whack at her and nothing took.

Luanne: It's true. Nothing did!

• Hank: You know, cutting hair might be good for her. My barber Jack always says, "Hair grows, even during a recession."

Peggy: Well, that might be true for licensed barbers. But may I remind you both that Luanne Platter, hairstylist, failed her cosmetology test. Luanne Platter, history student, would have known that.

Bobby: Maybe Luanne Platter, dinner guest, could send the butter this way?

• Bill: Yeah, college wasn't for me. They made that very clear.

• Bill: If there's one thing I've learned in my 20 years of barbering, it's this: it will grow back. If you did a great job or a bad job, it will grow back.

• Hank: Well, look at her, getting ready for a career. Next thing, she'll be complaining about how high her taxes are.

• Luanne: Mister Dauterive, if you don't take a chance, you'll end up miserable like Mister Dauterive. I mean... just someone else.

• Bill: Last night, I dreamed about hair! But it was a good dream this time, not the one where it forms a noose and hangs me.

• Luanne: Mister Dauterive got kicked right in his... Well, I didn't see where her foot went, but she said, "bullseye!"

Peggy: That's the real world for you - Mister Dauterive getting kicked in the groin.

• Bobby: Hello. Which hair gel do you suggest for my hair type? Virgin or Dirty Girl?

Hank: Bobby. Truck.

• Hank: Bill?

Bill: Hank?

Hank: Bill?

Bill: Hey, Hank. I can't talk now. Little busy. See you at home.

Hank: What happened to you?

Bill: What? You mean last night? You don't own me. Does your wife know you're here?

Hank: Well, no. I'm on my lunch break.

Bill: (cries) I can't keep living like this, Hank! You've got a wife and a family at home and I've got nothing.

• Hank: I just don't understand why everybody is going to that nuthouse, Hottyz, instead of here. Are you sure your pole is working?

Jack: Hottyz is the future, Hank. Who wants a haircut from Jack, when some pretty girl with all her teeth can do it?

• Luanne: But I belong here. I already failed out of college. I cannot fail out of the real world. There are no other worlds for me to go to.

• Hank: So you used Bill up and you cast him aside. Do you have any idea how hurtful that is every time it happens to him?

• Luanne: Mister Dauterive can't help that he's straight. It's just the way he was born. It's in his DNAs! Now, hair does not know gay from straight. It just wants to be loved. Shouldn't we all be more like hair?

• Luanne: It's great to stop pretending I'm someone else so I can go back to pretending I'm me again.

• Jack: All right! I stole Hottyz first chair away! And so the scales begin to tip for Jack. Hmm, maybe I'll start paying back the muscular dystrophy jar.