King of the Hill/Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall (2)

Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall (2)
Season 4, Episode 1
Airdate	September 26, 1999
Production Number	3ABE24
Written by	Paul Lieberstein
Directed by	Klay Hall
← 3x25 As Old as the Hills (1)	4x02 → Cotton's Plot
King of the Hill — Season Four

Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall (2) is the first episode of the fourth season of King of the Hill, and the sixty-first episode overall.

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

and Toby Huss (Cotton Hill, Doctor)

Also Starring: Ashley Gardner (Didi Hill, Nancy Gribble, Nurse), Beth Grant (Nurse), David Herman (Instructor) (archive audio), Lauren Tom (Minh Souphanousinphone)

Special Guest Voice: Diedrich Bader (Doctor, Paramedic)

Plot Overview

Peggy has an upbeat deposition while being being immobilised in a cast while Cotton and Didi seem unwilling to take care of their new child.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Cotton: A Nazzy Nazzy-squazzy?

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Peggy survives her fall having landed in mud, but her body is broken and put in a body cast.

• Hank feels guilt about Peggy's condition as he believes he urged her to jump before she remembers it was hearing about Didi giving birth that compelled her because she was jealous. She feels helpless, being incapacitated while Cotton and Didi don't want anything to do with their baby. This is relieved when she's able to use her toe to rock the baby and stop it from crying.

• Cotton's son is born and he names it G.H. for Good Hank.

• Didi suffers from postpartum depression.

Trivia

The Show

• Stephen Root is credited in the series beginning with this episode.

Allusions and References

• Bobby rocks his uncle singing the theme to the 1981 film Arthur.

Quotes

• Hank: Uh, what colour is the cast?

Doctor: What does that matter, Mister Hill?

Hank: I - I don't know. I've never been through this before. I'm just trying to ask the right questions.

Doctor: It's white. Sponge bath. Bedpan.

Hank: Thank you.

• Peggy: I have had a near-death experience. Most people never get that, except when it's right next to their death experience and then they can't appreciate it.

• Peggy: Your mom is one of only sixteen people who have survived parachutes not opening. Now, sixteen is my estimate. I'll double-check my numbers later.

• Cotton: (seeing Peggy in a body cast) Hank, what'd you do to your wife? I didn't teach you that.

• Cotton: I'm calling him Hank. Always wanted a boy named Hank.

Hank: Uh, dad, Hank is my name.

Cotton: Not anymore. I'm takin' it back. He's Hank.

Hank: You can't take away a grown man's name.

Cotton: All right, I'll call him G.H. - Good Hank.

• Hank: Dad, this isn't right. You call him Good Hank, it's gonna make it sound like I'm "Bad Hank".

Cotton: Well, you burnt my burger, didn't you, B.H.?

• Cotton: What the?! The - The kid is leakin' out of his chest!

Nurse: That's from his nipples. It's a form of lactation.

Cotton: Dang it, you said it was a boy!

Nurse: He is. He's simply been ingesting a lot of female hormones from his mother. It's so common it has a name - Witch's Milk.

Cotton: Oh, Lord, what did I do?! Was it the fitty men I killed?!

• Doctor: She may experience a second crash when she feels her own limitations.

Hank: Well, there won't be any second crash. As long as I'm around I won't let her feel any limitations.

Doctor: There's no need for you to feel this guilty. You didn't make her jump.

Hank: Uh, yeah. Uh, do you think you could put that in her chart?

• Hank: Uh, Luanne, I think you got two people sitting in the same chair there.

Luanne: But that's Aunt Peggy's place. I can't just put someone there like she doesn't exist. She's still alive. I think.

• Hank: Sorry, Peggy. I was just washing your unmentionables here. You know, towels, washcloths, that sort of thing.

• Peggy: You know, I thought I'd be spending more time doing some - some hands-on baby care. I guess that was just a little unrealistic, huh?

Hank: Well, you know, Helen Keller was largely useless, but look how we remember her: first lady of the American stage.

• Bobby: I am a twelve year-old boy! I am this child's nephew! I cannot do this! I... cannot... do... this! If anybody makes any dinner, I'll eat. But that's it! All I'll do is eat!

• Peggy: Didi? Didi, are you leaving? No, please. Someone has to watch the baby because unless it's flying above my head, I cannot do it.

• Cotton: I ain't getting near that child. He's possessed!

Hank: He's just leaking a little milk. Sure, it's disturbing, but he'll grow out of it.

Cotton: How do you know? Are you a leaker? Are you leaking on me right now, leaky?