Little Horrors of Shop

Little Horrors of Shop
Air date	October 31, 1999
Written by	Kit Boss
Directed by	Adam Kuhlman
Episode guide
Previous	"Bills are Made to be Broken"
Next	"Aisle 8A"

"Little Horrors of Shop" is the sixty-fourth episode of King of the Hill. It was first aired on October 31, 1999. The episode was written by Kit Boss, and directed by Adam Kuhlman.

Summary

When Hank is forced to take vacation and learns that the middle school shop teacher is not available, he volunteers to be the new shop teacher and quickly becomes the most popular substitute teacher; making Peggy nervous that she will not achieve her goal of winning substitute teacher of the year for a third time.

Plot

Buck Strickland forces Hank to take two weeks off from work. Hank during his time off has trouble staying busy. Visiting the school, Hank learns the school's shop class has been suspended due to the existing shop teacher taking a vacation. Hank volunteers to substitute for the class while he is off work, working for free. Peggy offers Hank advice for teaching, but soon finds that Peggy's advice is useless. He uses his own instincts to teach the class, and soon his class ends up becoming the talk of the school.

Peggy meanwhile is still recovering from her fall from the airplane and is forced to teach classes she's not accustomed to. The Substitute Teacher of the Year vote is coming up, and Peggy fears she is going to lose to Hank. However, before the vote, Hank gets suspended from teaching when he allows his students to walk around the school with tools. Thus Peggy is left running alone for the award and wins it. During her speech, Hank walks out on the stage and receives a standing ovation from the students. Peggy, in all her naivete, believes the students are cheering her on, and proclaims "I accept this award for all those who have fallen out of a plane and lived to win their third straight substitute teacher of the year award." However, after Hank leaves the stage, the auditorium falls into awkward silence just before Peggy exclaims "I am king of the school!"

Characters

• Hank Hill
• Peggy Hill
• Bobby Hill
• Luanne Platter
• Dale Gribble
• Jeff Boomhauer
• Bill Dauterive
• Buck Strickland
• Unnamed male student (voiced by J. Evan Bonifant)
• Principal Carl Moss
• Susie
• Joseph Gribble
• Clark Peters
• Stuart Dooley
• Emily (non-speaking)
• Judy (non-speaking)
• Shawn (non-speaking)
• Jack Shermer (mentioned)
• Mr. Shipley (mentioned)

Stinger Quote

• Bobby: "Yeah, the big yahoo."

Trivia

• When Peggy makes toast, she says she is the perfect band leader, saying: "I wish I could stay and help, but until they invent a machine that can stand in front of a band and keep the beat, I am it." However, a Metronome is close enough description.
• In the poll Peggy took, she mentions votes for Lara Croft the character from the popular video game Tomb Raider. This episode was aired the same year as the third game in the series was released.
• The title is an anagram of the cult horror film Little Shop of Horrors.
• In the bathroom scene, Hank comes across some vulgar graffiti but never finishes reading it. The graffiti probably reads "Here I sit, brokenhearted, came to sh*t, but only farted".
• When Peggy gets her third Substitute of the Year Award, she yells, "I am king of the school! Woohoo!" This is a reference to the famous line "I am king of the world" said by Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) in Titanic.

Goofs

• When Hank and Clark Peters run down the hallway, Hank's pants are brown. Just before Hank stops, his pants suddenly become blue.
• Hank tells Strickland the last time he took a day off was when Bobby was born. However in the Season 3 episode "Pretty, Pretty Dresses," Hank says he had to use all his vacation and sick time to watch Bill while he was trying to commit suicide.

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