King of the Hill/Nancy Boys

Nancy Boys
Season 4, Episode 21
Airdate	April 30, 2000
Production Number	4ABE20
Written by	Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger
Directed by	Tricia Garcia
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King of the Hill — Season Four

Nancy Boys is the twenty-first episode of the fourth season of King of the Hill, and the eighty-first episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill), Brittany Murphy (credit only), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble), Stephen Root (Mister Winston, Bill Dauterive)

and Toby Huss (credit only)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Nancy Gribble), Jonathan Joss (John Redcorn), Phil LaMarr (Bartender)

Plot Overview

When the Hills invite the Gribbles to a couples' night out, Nancy finds it's rekindled her feelings for Dale and put her relationship with John Redcorn in trouble.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Dale: Love train! Whoo! Whoo!

Music

• Silver Convention - "Fly, Robin, Fly"

• The O'Jays - "Love Train"

• Judas Priest - "Living After Midnight"

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Nancy and John Redcorn's affair comes to an end and she resumes her monogamous relationship with Dale who remains oblivious to their affair.

• Thanks to Dale, John Redcorn receives information to help him recover his peoples' land.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• Dale gives John Redcorn an opportunity to make it up for hitting him in the head with a lamp. Not only does Dale give him a pillow, but he even braces for impact.

Quotes

• Mister Winston: Why don't you come back this weekend? I'll give you dinner for two on the house. Oh, what am I saying? You saved my life. Dinner for four!

• Dale: Sorry to interrupt your healing session - hey, John Redcorn - but Hank and Peggy invited us to dinner Saturday night.

Nancy: But Saturday is one of my John Redcorn nights. Sorry, sug.

John Redcorn: But, Nancy, maybe you should go.

Nancy: What? No! I have an appointment with you... for my migraines.

John Redcorn: Yes, I know. It's just I've healed you three to five nights a week for many years. I could really use a night off.

Nancy: I don't understand. Did I do something to upset you... as a patient?

John Redcorn: No, of course not. I love treating you... for migraines.

• Peggy: They're not even a real couple. Did you know she only sleeps with him on his birthday and Christmas? That's why she gets so depressed around the holidays.

• Dale: Boy, her can looks so sexy when she's walking away, it's almost a shame she's gonna turn around and come back.

• Dale: (sniffs) You smell good.

Nancy: Thank you. (sniffs) I like your tie.

Dale: Found it on the ground.

• Hank: This place sure is special.

Peggy: Hank, would you like to dance?

Hank: Oh, no thanks. I'm on my feet all day.

• Dale: Boy, if they gave an Olympic medal in sexual gymnastics, I would've taken home the silver last night.

• Peggy: Is something wrong?

Nancy: I slept with Dale!

Peggy: Oh my God! We forgot his birthday.

Nancy: Oh! What if John Redcorn finds out? Fourteen years we've been together and I throw it all away for one night of reckless passion.

Peggy: Nancy, now, you know my position on monogamy. I am in favour of it. This is your chance to give up the excitement of an affair and have a normal life with your husband.

Nancy: I'm sorry, sug. Maybe monogamy works for you and Hank, but it does not work for me and Dale and John Redcorn.

• Dale: Wait a minute. Every time I leave, you call John Redcorn. I know what's going on here. Your headaches are a desperate bid for my attentions. But what do I do? I pawn you off on some Indian healer so I can have my Dale time at the gun club, or breeding show turtles, or on the Internet investigating unexplained phenomenona. God, I am so selfish!

Nancy: Oh, stop blaming yourself, sug. In some ways, this is my fault, too.

Dale: I don't deserve you.

Nancy: Of course you do. You are a sensitive, trusting, sweet, trusting man, and I don't deserve you.

Dale: Are you sure you're not an alien? 'Cause you just abducted my heart.

• Bill: I thought you were withholding intimacy to preserve your life force.

Dale: I was. But then Hank had to go draggin' me and the old lady to some Italian romanceria. Next thing you know we're on our second honeymoon, only this time no cruise ship and I only vomited once.

• Dale: I think I've finally gotten to the point where I actually love her more than my mother.

• Nancy: I have to cancel tonight's session.

John Redcorn: What?

Nancy: I... I have a headache.

John Redcorn: So? Just take an aspirin.

• Hank: I just think there are better things the four of us could be doing together.

Dale: Are you suggesting we swing? I'm sorry, I don't share my Nancy with anyone.

Hank: I was not suggesting that at all!

Dale: You can't go back on it now. It's already out there.

• Peggy: Nancy, I am so glad you finally took my advice and decided to love Dale.

Nancy: And you know what? I don't even mind doing the right thing when it's this much fun!

• Dale: Damn my cat-like reflexes. Sh-sh-sha!

Nancy: Stop with the "sh-sh-sha," sug!

• Hank: Hey, look, we're brushing our teeth together. You think we should invite Dale and Nancy to join us? Wouldn't that be fun?

Peggy: Obviously not, but I think that was your point.

• Hank: You know, Dale thought we wanted to swing.

Peggy: Swing? Absolutely not! You get Nancy and I end up with Dale? Who's the clear winner there? Hmm? Dale.

• Nancy: It's just seeing you like that passed out on the floor, so vulnerable, like a sexy, wounded bear. We've been through too much together to end it like this. I want you back.

John Redcorn: I'm 36 years old. I don't need this crap.

• Dale: All he ever did was make your head feel better and I go and make his head feel worse. It's almost ironic.

• John Redcorn: You know, over half of Arlen used to belong to my people.

Dale: You come from money?

• John Redcorn: Ten years ago, I filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but to this day, they refuse to return the land that's rightfully ours.

Dale: Huh. Have you tried using FOIA?

John Redcorn: What?

Dale: Enacted in 1966, the Freedom of Information Act - or FOIA - gives any citizen the right to request access to federal agency records or information. It's what I used when I took on the IRS for disallowing my status as a tax-exempt church.

John Redcorn: Would you mind?

Dale: Bringing down the federal government? Not at all.

• Hank: Geez, I hope he's not dead or we'd have to cancel our couples' date at the lake.

(Dale pulls up)

Hank: Damn.

• Nancy: Where have you been? I've been worried. Well, not worried. Lonely.

Dale: Oh, I was at John - uh, at the gun club, playing Russian roulette.

Nancy: Oh, did you win?

Dale: You're not really familiar with the game, are ya?

Nancy: No.

Dale: (sniffs) Yeah, I won.

• Dale: Fifthfully, we don't live in Communist China and our Indians have rights, which are...

• John Redcorn: Dale, you are a good man. All this effort on behalf of my struggle and you're not even a Native American.

Dale: Isn't it time we put aside our differences? On behalf of the white man, I would like to formally apologise for everything my people have done to your people.

John Redcorn: And I would like to apologise for everything I've done to you... and your people.

• Nancy: Well, he's not coming. And you wonder why I need two men? One is always letting me down.

• Peggy: Nancy, going back to having Dale and John Redcorn is not the answer. There's an expression that I once heard, it goes something like "Two's company, three's a crowd." Hmm?

Nancy: Well, I've heard another expression: "The heart wants what it wants." - Woody Allen.

Peggy: Nancy, wait! He married his daughter!

• Dale: And done. All it needs is your John Hancock, John Redcorn.

• Nancy: I made a mistake. I had it all and I threw half of it away. All I want is it all again.

• Dale: Okay, Nancy, here's the deal. I know I promised I wouldn't come here, but 15 years of patient-healer relations, and I shatter it like so much lamp on scalp. I can't fix that lamp - I tried and I got a really bad shock - but maybe I can put you two back together.

Nancy: You came here for me?

Dale: For both of you. What do you say, John Redcorn? Will you heal my wife? Please?

John Redcorn: No. I'm sorry, but no.

Dale: You bastard! After all the help I've given you!

John Redcorn: Dale, you've become a true friend. Which is why it would be... unprofessional of me to continue seeing your wife.

Nancy: I understand.

Dale: Wait, I guess I could treat you. I may not be a licensed New Age healer, but I think I've walked in on you guys often enough to know what goes on in there.

• Dale: (to Nancy about John Redcorn) I was gettin' a weird vibe in there. Do you think he's gay?