"Peggy's Gone to Pots" is the two hundred-tenth episode of King of the Hill. It was first aired on May 6, 2007. The episode was written by Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh, and directed by Robin Brigstocke.
Summary[]
Peggy and Dale find themselves entangled in dire situations brought on by their ego and ignorance: Peggy volunteers to sell kitchen supplies for a scam company after trying to sell houses in the gated community of Arlen Heights, while Dale is on the run from the man whose name he uses as an alias (Rusty Shackleford).
Plot[]
Peggy, after only selling houses in Belcher's Grove, is invited to the Wassanasong family's house at Arlen Heights for the purpose of showing the house off for a potential sale. However, the invitation is actually a sales plot by Ted Wassanasong's wife, Cindy, to sell some kitchen appliances from Cozy Kitchen. Cindy ends up convincing Peggy to take over her contract with Cozy Kitchen and Peggy begins giving out free samples. Soon after, Judy Barnes, a representative from Cozy Kitchen, ends up visiting Peggy and explaining to her how the contract is more serious than she realizes. Reading the contract, Peggy realizes that she is required to sell so much inventory a month or has to pay Cozy Kitchen herself. Peggy ends up visiting the Wassanasong's by climbing over their fence, and they explain to Peggy that they just used her to get out of their contract with Cozy Kitchen and had no interest in selling their house. Peggy, along with Dale, comes up with a plan to get out of her contract. She stages a fake explosion death with Dale, but the hoax is discovered. However, the Cozy Kitchen's reprsentative allows Peggy out of her contract by agreeing to pretend she died in the explosion as well.
Meanwhile, it is discovered that Dale's fake identity for years, Rusty Shackleford, actually never died, but instead just moved away when the boys were young. Rusty ends up paying Dale a visit due to Dale continuously causing problems in his life by using his identity. After his staged fake death with Peggy, Rusty has Dale sign a form freeing him from all the trouble Dale has caused him over the years.
Characters[]
- Hank Hill
- Peggy Hill
- Bobby Hill
- Dale Gribble
- Bill Dauterive
- Jeff Boomhauer
- Rusty Shackleford
- Judy Barnes
- Ted Wassanasong
- Cindy Wassanasong
- Luanne Platter
- Kahn Souphanousinphone
- Minh Souphanousinphone
- Chris Sizemore
- Candi & Roger
- Walker Lee (non-speaking)
- Dee (non-speaking)
- Nancy Gribble
- Joe Jack
- Buck Strickland
- Donna
- Enrique (non-speaking)
Stinger Quote[]
- Cindy Wassanasong: "They have motorboats, Peggy."
- Ted: "Motorboats!"
Trivia[]
- The real Rusty Shackleford reveals that Dale has been smoking Manitoba brand cigarettes since he was in 3rd grade, indicating that Dale has either been smoking since the 3rd grade, or that he smoked a different brand prior to the 3rd grade.
- It is heavily implied Dale was always a conspiracy nut, even as a child when he explained that he thought Rusty died, rather than moved away. If he was able to figure out adults lied about death, Dale more than likely also figured out other things like Santa were not real.
- The dummy that Peggy had to use for her fake death had socks on. It might be a reference to season 1 where Peggy used to wear socks on her loafers until in season 2 where she abandoned them.