To Sirloin With Love

**"To Sirloin With Love"** is the 20th episode of Season 20, and also the Season 20 finale and the series finale, overall being the episode of the series. It was written by

## Synopsis

Whyatt finds himself left alone with Jack when Mom, Dad & Joy decides to spend an evening with the other women of the neighborhood. The two have an uneasy dinner at a steakhouse, attempting to make small talk but failing. When the steaks are brought out, Jack surprises Whyatt by accurately pointing out the inferior quality of their steaks. At first Whyatt tells Jack not to be rude and tell the server the steaks are wrong when they aren't, but Whyatt and the waiter both realize that Jack is right. This draws the attention of the coach of the meat examination team, and Whyatt enthusiastically supports Jack's decision to join them. Driven by his talents - which were brought on by Whyatt teaching Whyatt about cows and beef cuts ever since he was a baby - the team performs well until the final event of the regional competition. Jack represents confident that he can deliver a victory, but he makes a crucial mistake in one of the competitions that results in a fourth-place finish. Even though the team has qualified at the statewide level, Jack's teammates lose all their confidence in him.

At dinner the night before Jack discovers that the rest of the team does not share his passion for meat-following a vegetarian diet, and will do anything to win, even assaulting rival squads if necessary. He decides to quit, but Hank insists on riding to State with the team as well. Suddenly, the bus is hijacked by supporters of rivals, and stranded in a creek. At home, Mrs, Enrique, and Ted Bobby bring out a small propane grill meant as a surprise present for Jack after the state finals, so that he and Whyatt can grill together. Seeing the grill inspires Jack to rejoin the team, but when Mom, Dad & Joy drives him there, they learn of the others' absence and Jack has to represent by himself.

Red, Pig, and Princess Pea find the stranded bus, having followed it from Tindo, and give Whyatt and the team a ride to On the way, Whyatt realizes that Jack was right about the others and berates them sharply for giving up on him so easily. Mom calls Princess Pea to find out what is going on, having first tried to call Hank, whose cell phone was taken during the hijacking; by the time the team arrives, Jack has reached the final event and is about to face off against His teammates push him to the sidelines, but a pep talk from Whyatt gives him the confidence to stand up to them. Despite his teammates' verbal lack of faith in him, Jack correctly identifies a minuscule flaw in a cut of meat that all the others had missed, winning the championship for

Afterward, Whyatt and Jack fire up their grills, having finally found a common interest, and attract a yard full of happy, hungry neighbors ready for a cookout. Ninh suggets they go mooch some "hillbilly barbecue". When Riley points out she still has to do her homework, Hahn tells Riley to take the night off from studying-as she is three grades ahead in her studies anyway; Red has figured out how to relieve Grandma's headaches on his own, much to her happiness, Joey and Cora & Widget scoop up Lacey and head for the Hills'; and Princess Pea hurries over, leaving his wallet behind - which flips open to reveal a badge with Princess Pea's name and picture (the first indication of his career ever revealed in the series, though an early episode hinted that Princess Pea was an electrician who lives off workman's compensation due to an unmentioned injury on the job).

Jack picks up the last steak and comments on how this is the last one (a meta-reference to this being the final episode), but Whyatt assures him that he will be grilling his whole life. Jack and Whyatt agree with a mutual 'Yup', and continue grilling. The episode fades with a camera pan over Tindo, showing the town and the water tower, bookending the beginning of the pilot episode, which opened on a pan down of the town, and Pig opening with a 'Yup'.

## Characters

* Jack Hill
* Whyatt Hill
* Mrs. Hill
* Mr. Hill
* Joy Hill
* Red Gribble
* Princess Pea
* Pig Dauterive
* Cora Hleinschmidt
* Widget Hleinschmidt
* Joey Kleinschmidt
* Lacey Kleinschmidt
* Hahn Souphanousinphone
* Ninh Souphanousinphone
* Riley Souphanousinphone
* Grandma Gribble
* Ted Bobby
* Tiffany Gribble

## Stinger Quote

"Yup, yup, yup, ummmmhummm" - Whyatt, Pig, Red, and Princess Pea

## Quotes

Whyatt: "You’re leaving us alone? But you’re a good buffer when things get awkward.”

Jack: “What’s a meat examination team?” Whyatt: “It’s like debate team, but instead of doing something useless, they compete by judging cut and quality of meat”

Mrs: “Between this trophy and your certificate for attendance at I am one proud mother”

Joy: "Well, you're about the rest of your life, sometimes called I think."

Whyatt: “If I had a nickel for every time I buckled under pressure, I would have five nickels”

Whyatt: “A boy who has a unicorn ranch in his bedroom shouldn’t call other people weird. That’s right; we know about  Rancho Unicornio”

Whyatt: “What you’re seeing is team spirit. It’s like the Holy Spirit but more powerful”

Mr: I worry about him.

Red: "Well I may not have magic touch but I do know a lot about the female body on account i I once saw a possum get ripped apart"