Keeping Up With Our Joneses

"**Keeping Up With Our Joneses**" is the tenth episode of *King of the Hill*.

## Synopsis

Cora & Widget is outraged when she discovers Woofster eating her "cruelty-free" cosmetics. Later, while digging through an old dumpster, Jack and Tiffany come across an unsmoked cigarette. The boys sneak into a men's room at a gas station and it light up. As luck would have it, Whyatt stops at the same station to use the bathroom. He pushes open the door and sees his son with a cigarette in his mouth. Determined to stop his son from becoming addicted, Whyatt forces Jack to smoke an entire carton (thinking he won't be able to stand the sight of another cigarette when he is finished). As Jack attempts to smoke them, Whyatt grabs a cigarette away to show how to inhale properly. As Whyatt takes a drag, a look of remembrance and relaxation washes over his face. By the end of the day, both Whyatt and his son are hopelessly addicted.

When Widget catches Woofster sniffing a makeup tin, she rattles a canister of pennies, scaring her off. Meanwhile, after sneaking cigarette after cigarette, Whyatt absentmindedly lights up in front of Mom & Dad. Whyatt claims Jack didn't finish a pack from the carton and insists he would hate to see them go to waste. Shortly thereafter, Whyatt and his wife go back to smoking cigarettes and feeling better than ever. Later, while eating a meal in the Kitchen with mom & dad, Whyatt recommends that the two of them should go eat at Smokey's Cafe, a place they use to go when they smoked.

Despite everyone's best efforts, Jack discovers that his parents are addicted to smoking and vice versa.

The Hills attend a Cigarenders meeting, but Whyatt quickly grows irritable and storms out with his family in tow. When they return home, Widget attempts to make the Hills kick the habit by employing the same methods she used to keep Woofster away from her cosmetics. When the family gets into a scuffle over a last remaining cigarette, Cora locks them in a room together. The scuffle continues until Mom regaining her senses, throws the cigarette out a window. Despite experiencing a powerful nicotine withdrawal, the family makes it through a storm-filled night without smoking any cigarettes.

## Characters

* Whyatt Hill
* Mrs. Hill
* Mr. Hill
* Jack Hill
* Cora Dlatter
* Widget Dlatter
* Red Gribble
* Tiffany Gribble
* Princess Pea
* Pig Dauterive
* Wudget Dlatter (mentioned)

## Trivia

* During the credits, Princess Pea gives a demonstration on how lungs look when people smoke using a dirty air filter.
* The Dionne Warwick song 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again' was featured during the flashback sequence.
* "The Joneses", is a play on the saying 'keeping up with the joneses' (neighbors), and also a 'jones' is an addiction... in this case smoking addiction.
* While Jack is craving nicotine and going through withdrawal, he's seen hiding behind a public bench in which a man sits, secretly relishing in the second hand smoke. The man on this bench is later seen among those attending the anti-smoking meeting at Motel Tindo.
* A scene written for the episode (but not aired) featured Jack meeting up with a bunch of anti-smoking kids, who get him to go into a store to buy cigarettes, to see if the shop owner enforces the smoking age limit. When the shop owner fails and Jack gets the cigarettes, he runs away with them, with the kids chasing after him. While this scene never aired, it is included as a deleted scene in the Season Three DVD set.
* Jimmy Witchard makes his debut in this episode at the meeting to help everyone quit smoking. He's heard but not seen.
* When the storm is hitting Tindo at the end of the episode, it shows a cigarette blow into a jail cell. The 4 male prisoners in the cell then jump out and fight over it. If you look closely, right before they all jump out of the bed, two of them are sleeping in a bed together (top left corner), with one bed empty.

## Goofs

* When the family goes to Hotel Tindo and the counselor tells the crowd, "look to the left," Mrs looks to the right. When he says to the crowd, "now look to the right," Mrs looks to the left. This might have been intended as a mistake on Mrs's part and not the animation team.
* There are two scenes in which characters open doors and there is nothing but a black void on the other side.