King of the Hill/The Substitute Spanish Prisoner

The Substitute Spanish Prisoner
Season 6, Episode 10
Airdate	March 3, 2002
Production Number	5ABE21
Written by	Etan Cohen
Directed by	Kyounghee Lim & Boowan Lim
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King of the Hill — Season Six

The Substitute Spanish Prisoner is the tenth episode of the sixth season of King of the Hill, and the one hundred fourteenth episode overall.

Starring: Mike Judge (Hank Hill, Boomhauer, Dooley), Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill), Pamela Segall Adlon (Bobby Hill, Clark Peters), Brittany Murphy (Luanne Platter, Croupier), Johnny Hardwick (Dale Gribble, Tug)

and Stephen Root (Bill Dauterive)

Also Starring: David Herman (Jimmy Witchard), Lupe Ontiveros (Anne), Patricia Place (Betty)

Special Guest Voice: Jeff Goldblum (Dr. Robert Vayzosa)

Plot Overview

Doubting her intelligence, Peggy takes an IQ test online and is declared a genius. When she begins giving the makers of the test money, Hank suspects she's being conned.

Notes

Stinger Quote

Jimmy Witchard: Ah! She pulled her thumb off! Call a doctor!

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The title of the episode is a play on the 1997 film The Spanish Prisoner.

Goofs

• When Hanks knocks on the door, Vayzosa takes the money from the briefcase on the bed and into the safe. When Hank walks into the room, the briefcase is gone.

Quotes

• Dooley: I got number four wrong. Explain it, please.

Peggy: Okay. (opens book and begins drawing) "True or false? A circle of diameter 3 has a larger area than a square of side 3." And the answer, of course, is... "False".

Dooley: Why?

Peggy: (begins flipping pages) Well, just look at it. It's got the, uh, areas and your diameters.

Clark Peters: You can't show your work.

• Peggy: You think I can't do basic math? Is that why you've always handled the retirement account?!

Hank: Well, that's crazy. You know I just enjoy going to the bank.

• Peggy: Oh, Hank, I'm sorry. The truth is, something else is upsetting me.

Hank: Oh. Well, okay. You feel better?

• Peggy: What if I'm really not as smart as I think I am?

Hank: Aw, come on, Peggy. You've got an IQ of 170. You've said so lots of times.

Peggy: Yes, but there could be a margin of error, especially when it's just my own estimate.

• Dale: My Nancy's a genius, too. A genius at having a great can!

• Dale: So, they administer the test and they sell the books. Sounds like she is getting ripped off by they... em.

Hank: Now, wait a second--

Dale: You're getting scammed! I should know. I lost a bundle to that gypsy modelling school.

• Hank: I'm just saying if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Peggy: The books are almost $40 each. That is not a very good deal.

• Jimmy Witchard: If I was Doctor Jimmy, no one would call me stupid.

Peggy: "Doctor Jimmy" does have a ring to it.

Jimmy Witchard: Hey. I thought of it first.

Peggy: Well, I know--

Jimmy Witchard: Give it back! Give it back to me!

• Hank: They could have rigged that test so anyone would look like a genius.

Peggy: Anyone, Hank?

(smash cut to later)

Luanne: I'm a genius!

• Hank: I'm gonna leave you two geniuses right here while I clean up your mess.

Peggy: Hank, I do not need you to clean up my messes. And this is not a mess! And I'll clean it up!

Hank: It's over, Peggy. Let me put this in words even a genius can understand. You are not a genius. Look, what I mean is... Okay, you've got what they call "book smarts." Now, if we wanted to write a story about you losing our money well, hands down, you're the one for the job. But if we want to do something that needs "street smarts," like getting our money back from the jerk who stole it, then I'm the guy.

• Betty: Vayzosa's already taken us for $8,000. If I lose this, I'll have to be buried at sea.

Peggy: You have my word they will put you in the ground. And that goes for all of you!

• Dr Vayzosa: Pretty good. Pretty good. But like my ex-wife used to say, "Anybody can do it once."