"Lucky's Wedding Suit" is the two hundred-thirteenth episodes of King of the Hill. It was first aired on May 20, 2007. The episode was written by Jim Dauterive and directed by Julius Wu.
Summary[]
While goofing around with Dale, Lucky becomes injured and threatens to sue wherein he hopes to use the money to pay for his upcoming wedding with Luanne who keeps planning bigger and more expensive things.
Plot[]
With Lucky and Luanne engaged, the couple has begun planning their wedding. Luanne believes that Lucky's lawsuit settlement mean that they can have a lavish wedding, despite Lucky telling her that he doesn't have much of his settlement money left. Willing to do what it takes to make Luanne's wedding dreams come true, Lucky seeks advice from Hank. Hank, despite objecting to Luanne's extravagant desires, refers Lucky to Dale, who with a citywide bedbug epidemic on his hands has more pest control calls than he alone can handle. When Dale gives Lucky a gas mask and goggles for his new job, he says that the equipment makes him look like a bug, and the two have a mock-swordfight with spray wands. However, Lucky sustains a fall as they do so and suffers a back injury, regretfully deciding that he'll have to sue Dale's Dead-Bug in order to afford Luanne's dream wedding. After Lucky's tort lawyer Edward Johnson determines that there's no money to be made in suing Dale, he convinces Lucky to instead sue Strickland Propane after using convoluted logic to pin blame on Hank, as a Strickland employee, for having referred Lucky to Dale in the first place.
Luanne remains indifferent to Hank's disgust at the frivolous lawsuit; however, Lucky continues to regret the situation. After discussing things with Hank, Lucky goes back to Johnson and asks to drop the lawsuit, but Johnson guilts him out of dropping by saying that it would be malpractice to do so. Dismayed, Lucky relays Johnson's refusal to the guys, and Dale comes up with a plan: have Lucky fake not being injured so that there will appear to be no grounds to sue. Hank, Dale, and Lucky film a video of Lucky teeing off at the golf course (with Lucky barely suppressing his pain long enough to make it look convincing) and bring it to Johnson, who agrees that the footage is enough to destroy the case.
However, Lucky drops a tire pressure gauge on the floor of the law office, and Johnson waits with a smirk for the "man with the perfectly healthy back" to pick it up, watching as Lucky struggles to reach it. Thinking quickly, Lucky tells Dale that he looks like a bug, and Dale catches on, grabs a nearby umbrella, and knocks Lucky down. With Lucky in pain on the floor of the office, Hank tells Johnson that they could now sue him using the same jargon with which he had intended to sue Strickland Propane, since they have the video footage of Lucky appearing healthy prior to coming to his office. Furious, Johnson cuts Lucky a check for $53,000 on the spot.
Luanne's delight with the new settlement money quickly changes to indigence when Lucky proposes to instead use the money to buy a house and have a simpler, less expensive wedding. Her mind decidedly changes, however, when Lucky also shows her that they will have enough left over to buy baby clothes as well. On the day of the wedding, which is being held in the Hills' backyard, Hank goes to Luanne who seems a bit depressed over how basic the wedding is and apologizes for the simplicity of the ceremony, and she forgives him when he presents her with a wedding gift of two airline tickets and hotel fare to anywhere in the continental United States. Reverend Stroup arrives, and Luanne and Lucky are happily wed before a large audience of family and friends. Afterward, as Lucky's truck pulls into the driveway of the newlyweds' new home across the street, Hank and his friends contentedly sip beer in the alley.
Characters[]
For characters that appear at the wedding, see the Trivia section.
- Hank Hill
- Peggy Hill
- Bobby Hill
- Dale Gribble
- Bill Dauterive
- Jeff Boomhauer
- Luanne Platter
- Lucky Kleinschmidt
- Edward Johnson
- Kahn Souphanousinphone
- Minh Souphanousinphone
- Connie Souphanousinphone
- Nancy Gribble
- Joseph Gribble
- Octavio
- Buck Strickland
- Joe Jack
- Enrique
- Donna
- Maria Montalvo (non-speaking)
- Hector (non-speaking)
- Jimmy Wichard
Stinger Quote[]
- Strickland Propane employees: "With liberty and justice for all."
Trivia[]
- Peggy refers to Lucky as "a thirty-eight-year-old snaggle-toothed slip-and-fall man."
- This episode was originally scheduled to be King of the Hill's final episode (explaining why the AABE production line is so short and why this episode contained many secondary characters).
- In July 2022, Jim Dauterive posted the original ending to the episode on Facebook, which involved Hank and friends recapping events in the series. This ending would have revealed that the entire series had taken place over the course of a single year, and that several episodes such as "Tankin' It to the Streets" (Bill stealing a tank from the Army base) and "Yankee Hankee" (Hank discovering that he was born in New York City) -- both considered Jim Dauterive's least favorite episodes -- were all just vivid dreams Bill had after eating at a Hungarian restaurant in McMaynerbury.[1]
- We find out in this episode that Hank makes everyone at Strickland Propane recite the Pledge of Allegiance before the workday starts.
- In Buck's "Trouble Bag," one can see the clear outline of a handgun.
- The tire pressure gauge falls out of Lucky's pocket in the lawyer's office, even though the angle was clearing pointing up and nothing would have caused it to slide out.
- As well as all the regular characters from the neighborhood and Hank's work colleagues, the following recurring and minor characters were at Luanne's and Lucky's wedding:
- John Redcorn
- Cotton Hill, Didi Hill and G.H. Hill
- Mack Walker (the repairman from "Racist Dawg")
- Tilly Garrison (Hank's mother) and her boyfriend, Gary Kasner
- Junichiro (Hank's Japanese half-brother)
- Reverend Stroup
- Chuck Mangione
- Ted, Cindy and Chane Wassanasong
- Patch Boomhauer (Boomhauer's brother) and Meemaw (Boomhauer's grandmother)
- Lane Pratley (the car dealer)
- Dooley and Clark Peters
- Principal Moss
- Tammi Duvall (from "Ho Yeah!")
- Anthony Page (the pencil-neck social worker from "Pilot")
- Mud Dobber and Elvin Mackleston
- Eustace Miller
- Leanne (Luanne's mother)
- Eduardo Felipe (the Monsignor Martinez actor)
- Maddy Platter (Peggy's mother)
- Miss Kremzer (dean of the Arlen Beauty Academy)
- Sharona Johnson (student at the Arlen Beauty Academy)
- Colette Davis (from "My Hair Lady")
- Audrey (from "My Hair Lady")
- Claude Stokes (from "Husky Bobby")
- Bob Jenkins
- Ernst (Peggy's hairdresser)
- Marie (from "And They Call it Bobby Love")
- Roger "Booda" Sack
- Luanne obliquely references Buckley when she asks, "why do my boyfriends always die?" This marks the final time that the series mentions him.
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