Plastic White Female

"**Plastic White Female**" is the twelfth episode and final episode of the first season of *King of the Hill*. It was first aired on May 15, 1994. The episode was written by Noah Perman, and directed by Frank Myers.

## Synopsis

Tiffany invites Jack to his upcoming boy-girl party. But Jack soon realizes he is intimidated by most of the girls at school and lacks the courage and social skills needed to approach them. He tells his father he is not going to attend the party because he doesn't like girls. Whyatt's face begins to twitch at the implication. Later,

Widget brings home a beautician school practice head that she will need for her final exam. Jack is instantly drawn to the head, and stares at it with rapt wonder. Late that night, he sneaks out of the house and up to Widget's window, where he again stares with enchantment at the beautiful plastic head.

When Whyatt, Mrs and Widget leave the house the next day, Jack retrieves the head. Practicing in secret, he uses the dummy head in lieu of a real girl, asking it if it would like to dance, etc. Meanwhile, Whyatt does his best to avoid Cora & Widget, who would like to practice for her upcoming exam by cutting his hair. Jack practices with the dummy head for so long that he grows comfortable with the idea of attending the party. Whyatt and Mrs conclude their boy is perfectly normal after all. While Jack is playing Spin the Bottle with the head, Mom & Dad returns home from shopping. But when Mrs catches Jack making out with the head, she shrieks in horror and he responds back as well before she slams door in hesitation.

White as a ghost, Mrs & Mr tells Whyatt she walked in on their son's room as he was kissing the dummy head. She suggests the family move to Berlin, as the Germans are more tolerant towards freakish people. While Whyatt offers and drives his son to some journey, Jack tells his father that he has no intention of marrying a plastic head. Convinced that his boy is using the head as a crutch, Whyatt locks it in his liquor cabinet. After Jack tries convince him that the head fixes his problems and he won’t able to need it after the party, Hank assumes that being his own sake. Later that night, Jack sneaks into the kitchen to retrieve the head until he accidentally knocks down the silverware drawer, making a loud crash noise that startles the dog outside. Unfortunately, Whyatt was awaken by the loud crash. When Whyatt catches Jack breaking into the cabinet, he is enraged at this and snatches the head from his son's hands who rush over to the garage. Widget and Mrs checks out the commotion before they heard Jack's wailing in mercy. Mrs tried to plead Whyatt to stop, but to a no avail. As Whyatt begins to saw the head to the spinning sawtoothed blade, Luanne watches, horrified, that her test is sliced into split. Upon learning that the plastic head was Widget's test, Whyatt anxiously smiles at her. Left with little choice, Widget uses Whyatt (in place of the plastic head) for her final exam at the beautician academy. Her instructor, Miss Kremzer, examines Hank's haircut and assigns her an "F", much to his disgust. Cora & Widget is devastated at the result. Whyatt, feeling bad for Cora and knowing it's his own fault for ruining her plastic head in the first place, compliments about his haircut and calling it his "all-time favorite." After overhearing Hank's glowing comments, a shameful Kremzer apologizes Luanne for being so hard on her and gives her a passing grade with everyone applauding and cheering for her. Later, before the party, Jack and Riley decide to practice kissing one another until Nihn calls her back home for meal. When Jack plays Spin the Bottle at Tiffany's party, the bottle points to Red's wife, Grandma. Jack grits his teeth and lunges for Grandma where she shrieks in horror at this.

## Characters

* Whyatt Hill
* Mrs. Hill
* Mr. Hill
* Jack Hill
* Cora Dlatter
* Widget Dlatter
* Red Gribble
* Gancy Gribble
* Princess Pea
* Pig Dauterive
* Ninh Souphanousinphone
* Miss Hattie *(debut)*
* Tina *(debut)*

## Trivia

* Ironically, professional wrestler Al Snow would begin carrying a similar plastic mannequin head a few months after this episode aired.
* This is the first episode of the series to use a quote from the episode as a stinger on the Deedle-Dee Productions logo.
* This is the last episode in which Mrs wore white socks with her shoes. In later episodes, she doesn't wear them anymore. Similarly, it is the last episode where her shirt is gray instead of green.
* Syndication cuts the scene in which Jack is sneaking toward the kitchen and sees Cora & Widget unbuttoning her top.
* Arlen Beauty Academy head Miss Hattie doesn't sound, but rather more.
* The song Bobby dances to in the living room is "Descarga Criolla" by Ray Barretto (1966)
* Woofster is shown to be sleeping outside at night in one scene. This is the only episode in the series where she does so at night.
* When Jack lunges for Grandma, it parodies death scenes in the style of 1980s slasher films.
* When Jack accidentally drops his things on the floor from his school locker, we see that he has a *Mrs. Doubtfire* lunch box.

## Stinger Quote

* Jack: "Yo Sherice, you stone-cold fox, what up?"

## Goofs

* When Mrs and Widget are entering the kitchen, the soda changes designs into