Peggy Hill

Peggy Hill née Platter is the wife of Hank Hill and the mother of Bobby Hill in the animated series King of the Hill. She is also the Paternal Aunt of Luanne Platter. She is a substitute Spanish teacher at Tom Landry Middle School.

Related Topics:
Hank Hill - Bobby Hill - Animated series - King of the Hill - Paternal Aunt - Luanne Platter - Spanish - Tom Landry

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Born in Montana to cattle ranchers, she moved to Texas for high school. Her mother was extremely critical of her, while her father was aloof and spoke in obtuse nature metaphors.

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She was extremely self-conscious about her unusually large feet. In one episode she has to drive to Lubbock (which it seemed was a long way from Arlen) to buy a new pair of size 16 shoes, but in another she just went to a specialty store nearby. In that episode, after being informed by a clerk that she now needs a size 16 and 1/2, and that she quite possibly could reach the "Big 2-0," she is approached by a woman who gives her the card of a man who will make her feel "secure" about her huge feet. It turns out he was a fetish producer displaying her feet on the internet. By episode's end, Peggy has comes to accept her large feet. (In one episode she wins a fight against Luanne Platter's mother thanks to her outsize feet.)

Related Topics:
Lubbock - Arlen - Luanne Platter

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Peggy Hill unseated Cissy Cobb as the Boggle champion of Texas. She claims to be very intelligent, though is often naive. Interestingly, Peggy's intelligence swings wildly, depending on the situation. Her Spanish (she pronounces "buenos dias" as "buenos DIE-as") is one of the series' running jokes, and would make her appear to be something of a simpleton. However, in several episodes, Peggy has saved the day through some quick thinking, as in the episode where she finds the loophole in Robert's Rules of Order that allows Hank to filibuster a town meeting to prove his point about low-flow toilets. Similar scenes occur in the aforementioned Cissy Cobb episode, when Peggy wins with a 16-letter Boggle word, and in an episode where she gets the Alamo beer company (a series staple) to recall a batch of tainted beer.

Related Topics:
Boggle - Running jokes - Robert's Rules of Order

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As the series progressed increased emphasis was put on Peggy's superiourity complex and her egocentricity. She frequently aggrandizes her own accomplishments which is often unintentionally fueled by others (such as her continual recognition as substitute teacher of the year.) Her belief that someone can do anything if they put their mind to it often leads her into trouble when she takes the philosophy too literally; she often literally believes she can do something which she has no skill or background in doing. It is perhaps not the fact that Peggy thinks so highly of herself, but in her assumption (and expectation) that everyone else thinks equally highly of her, which leads her into predicaments. In one episode Peggy assumes that a man is madly in love with her and wants to have an affair with her not because of anything he does, but because of her presumption that she herself is irresistable. Despite this Peggy is, in fact, extremely intelligent and skilled at thinking "outside the box" to find an unexpected solution to a dilemma.

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Proud and egocentric, in later episodes she tends to come off as arrogant and a know-it-all, and quite often has to be taken down a peg (no pun intended). Although she once became extremely jealous that Hank kissed another girl--from which he caught mono--in high school before they were married, she was forced to confess in a later episode to have lost her virginity to a gay male friend. She also was the last on the block--except for Dale Gribble and Joseph Gribble--to realize Joseph's true parentage ... and would have told him, but for a last-minute change of heart upon seeing Dale and the boy interact and realizing that sperm may make a man a father, but a heart makes him a dad.

Related Topics:
Dale Gribble - Joseph Gribble

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Her song lyrics were "stolen" by country singer Randy Travis, though Mr. Travis (who was a guest star on one episode) claims to have written them independently.

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Peggy once ran for the school board, along with Minh Souphanousinphone and Nancy Gribble to save the after-school program. However, as the episode continued, Peggy, Minh, and Nancy began to turn on each other to win. In the end, they all lost to a Christian zealot, who plans to get rid of biology, geometry, the after-school program, and all "offensive" encyclopedias.

Related Topics:
School board - After-school program - Christian - Zealot - Biology - Geometry - Encyclopedia

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After not having seen her parents for years, Peggy went to Montana at the request of her mother to see her childhood home one last time. To save the ranch, Peggy looked for a very old law that was still on the books.

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Peggy drives a light brown four-door Buick Regal. She was apparently very proud when she rolled over it's odometer.

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