Lucky Kleinschmidt

Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt

Name

Elroy Kleinschmidt (birth name)

Lucky (nickname)

Gender

Male

Hair

Dirty blond

Age

38

Job

Unemployed; settlement funding recipient (currently)
Rock star (formerly)
Corn chip factory worker (formerly)

Relatives

Unnamed grandfather (deceased)
Unnamed grandmother
Unnamed father
Unnamed mother
Luanne Platter (wife)
Gracie Kleinschmidt (daughter)
Myrna Kleinschmidt (younger sister)
Jason (brother-in-law)
Unnamed nephew (Myrna's son)
Unnamed niece (Myrna's daughter)
Hoyt Platter (father-in-law)
Leanne Platter (mother-in-law)
Hank Hill (uncle-in-law)
Peggy Hill (aunt-in-law)
Bobby Hill (cousin-in-law)
Doc Platter (grandfather-in-law)
Maddy Platter (grandmother-in-law)

Debut

"The Redneck on Rainey Street"

Voiced by

Tom Petty

Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt^[1], age 38,^[2] is Luanne Platter's husband and Gracie's father. He got his nickname from an incident at a Costco store where he went in to buy a new winch, realized he had to use the restroom, and slipped in a puddle of urine. The resulting injury left Lucky in constant pain. He sued the store and received a $53,000 cash settlement, which caused his friends to see him as lucky, hence the nickname.

Appearance[]

Lucky has shoulder-length dirty blond hair paired with very apparent sideburns. He has notable crooked teeth. Lucky is typically seen wearing a light gray shirt with the sleeves torn off, blue jeans and work boots.

Personality[]

General: Lucky is a genuinely goodhearted man although he doesn't seem to realize the situations his own actions put others in. He is shown to enjoy racing his truck, spending time with Luanne, and often looking out for his next potential lawsuit.

Lawsuits: One of Lucky's trademark characteristics is his constant search for a new lawsuit to obtain more funds. Since winning his original suit against Cost Co, wherein he had slipped on pee and injured his back, he began trying to get into situations to sue for the same amount he had won, $53,000.00. Unfortunately, his desire to claim his next suit sometimes leads him to nearly sue innocent people.

Responsibilities: Prior to meeting Luanne, Lucky appeared to live a carefree lifestyle and had spent a large part of his settlement on numerous upgrades to his truck. Because of this and his admittance that he dropped out of high school due to wanting to smoke, he lacks many of the regular and necessary paperwork adults needed, such as social security cards, credit cards, or even a driver's license. Once Luanne became pregnant and they started plans for a wedding, Lucky came to realize he needed to be more responsible and secure more finances to support his family, although he nearly wrongfully sued Strickland Propane since he wanted to give in to Luanne's demands for a lavish wedding but thankfully wised up and made her realize and accept that they needed to do right for their child and secure a house rather than spend their money on an unnecessarily expensive wedding and other items.

Family: When learning he would be a father, Lucky was shown to be ready to do what he can to support his child. Once Gracie was born, Lucky is a loving and attentive father and tried to entertain her as best he could although his entertainment didn't always do the trick. Lucky did anything he could to support Luanne during her pregnancy and afterwards. He is a devoted family man and is always ready to support them. This trait extends toward Bobby as Lucky is the one who helped him through the rebellious and theft he committed in "Born Again on the Fourth of July".

Code of Honor: Lucky claims to live by a certain code that he appears to take very seriously. He believes in returning things he has borrowed with interest, he does not steal and will pay for anything he breaks, and wanted to get his GED to be worthy of marrying Luanne.

Relationships[]

Luanne Platter: Lucky's girlfriend and later wife and mother to his daughter. Since first meeting Luanne, Lucky was infatuated with her. They began dating shortly afterwards with each one showing true affection to the other. However, Lucky did struggle choosing between Luanne and doing things with his friends at first but eventually chose Luanne overall. Since then, he did whatever he could to make her happy and made sure she did not want for anything. This unfortunately caused him to nearly sue Strickland Propane at one point until Hank got him to realize that he was just doing this out of want instead of need and would be passing on a lesson of greed onto his child. Despite this, he is deeply devoted to Luanne.

Hank Hill: Before and after marrying Luanne, Lucky saw Hank as his family and began addressing him as Uncle Hank. Because of this, Lucky took this as automatic approval to be at the Hill house so often and assuming Hank would be okay with him using his garbage cans so Lucky could avoid paying the trash collection tax. Regardless, they have joined together for projects and Lucky has been stated by Hank to be the best of all the men Luanne has been with.

Bobby Hill: The two appear to have an almost brotherly bond. Lucky often looks out for Bobby and will engage in activities and situations that Bobby will like, such as figuring out a way to let Bobby eat a corn chip right off the line. However, he does genuinely look out for Bobby in other ways, such as when Bobby misread a preacher's sermon, and Lucky helped him realize he had things wrong and that the situation he caused in Born Again on the Fourth of July was because of this.

Trivia[]

Lucky has a very lax feeling towards religion, saying in "Church Hopping" when he tells Luanne to not judge Hank and Peggy's decision to switch churches.
- In "Born Again on the Fourth of July", Lucky is shown to attend a sort of church when he takes Bobby after the boy refused to go to church with Hank and Peggy, then used Peggy's money to buy himself pizza instead of going to church.
As revealed in Life: A Loser's Manual, he does not have social cards nor a driver's license.
- In the same episode, he deduced that Hoyt was in prison when he asked if he was in "State" or "Federal" Oil Rig, knowing he never worked there.
In "Strangeness on a Train", Lucky was the only person beside Hank and Peggy to know that they were the ones who had intercourse in the bathroom but kept it a secret as he wanted Peggy to have a good birthday.
He celebrates his birthday early, as he states the men in his family die young.
While Lucky's story of how he came into his settlement money has been mostly consistent, there have been three different variations as to how it came to take place:
- In "The Redneck on Rainey Street", Lucky states that he needed to use the restroom.
- In "Luanne Gets Lucky", he had gone to Costco to buy a new winch cable and had slipped in the bathroom.
- In "Arlen City Bomber", his reason for being at Costco was because he needed a cash advance.
In Edu-macating Lucky, Lucky claims that his code does not allow him to steal but in The Redneck on Rainey Street he went along with Elvin robbing a music store.