We're taking a quick look at Leanne Platter, ex-wife of Hoyt and mother of Luanne, who enjoys drinking, manipulation, and rubbing feet. You, yes you, can support us on Patreon: / squirreltactics
Hey folks, just a quick peak behind the curtain here, it took four days and over 20 cycles of upload video, get copyright blocked, edit video and so on to get this thing finally loaded. The video was originally over 25 minutes long and included every word of dialogue Leanne had, but a lot of it had to be cut. So, if you're wondering why some of your favorite parts are missing, well, that's why.
"Leanne's first husband is hiding out on an oil rig and he swears he's not coming ashore until I fax him her death certificate" is the most hilariously terrifying burn I've ever heard.
Having just rewatched that just now and thought about Hoyt makes me think he opted to go back to the "oil rig" before ever facing Leanne again hence the retcon in his only appearance.
@@SuperWolseyI believe the Oil Rig Hoyt & Just got out prison Hoyt are 2 different characters. It feels that in the early seasons Hoyt actually was hiding on a Oil Rig & was in regular communication with the Hills especially Hank & Luanne. Where as in the late series episode where Hoyt makes his introduction, Hank never met the man, Hoyt hasn’t seen his daughter since she was little & doesn’t say anything about his ex wife or the trailer home. My theory is the original Hoyt still existed for awhile after Peggy’s family got reconned (you know, the new mama platter) up until his introduction episode. The line “He’s not coming to shore until I fax him her death certificate” & if “oil rig” really did mean prison, that is not how the prison system works. You can’t just leave because you know your ex wife is dead or use the place to hide from her until then.
@@AddableStone13 Maybe it's better to think that King of the Hill in general just split into two different canons after a certain point. I mean, there was supposedly a severe change-up in writing staff towards the end (and given all the retcons that were happening, it shows).
I love how this episode avoids the "women abusing men is funny" double standard by portraying Leanne as the abusive drunk that she is and having everyone be horrified by the way she treats Bill. It's aged really well.
Same. Similarly, I always felt for Dooley when he got felt up by Serena in Get Your Freak Off. He clearly looked and sounded violated and disturbed. The other kids looked quiet and shocked. Just because some kids want to go too far doesn't mean they all want to/should. Harassment goes both ways.
Yeah, as a parent, I would say she is worse than Hoyt. At least he somewhat cares about Luanne and went back to prison so that her husband would be free. Leanne was an abusive asshole who even Dale thought was a menace.
@@megamanj2004X I always thought that was funny. I think he said "Nothing ladylike about her, all over me like a dang 'ol cat, talkin' bout 'No means no.' " Boomhauer's a player, but he has standards. Update: I quoted this before watching the vid with the full quote. Nvm lol.
It’s such a small detail, but the fact that hank trusts dale with his son’s protection is pretty great. Dale may be a nut but hank knows he’s a good father.
I remember a later episode where Joseph gets an offer to join a new school on a football scholarship because he’s an athletic prodigy. Hank, desperate to have Joseph stay in Tom Landry to play football there, tries to convince Dale to not have Joseph go to the school. Dale looks at Hank and asks him honestly if he’s thinking about what Joseph wants or if he only cares about football. And Hank goes silent.
@@NeedlessExpositionif I remember right wasn't dale pressuring/forcing him to go to that school? I usually just put on the show in the background and it's been a few years and it was only twice I watched
Hank having an immediate concern for his son's safety is parenting gold! I love how even before Peggy his mind goes to protecting Bobby. Plus as it's shown in later scene Peggy really can take on LeAnn. But gotta love Hank being a great dad!
I'm pretty sure Leanne was lying about her age. She was always trying to come off younger than she was. It was also implied that Hoyt was not her first marriage in The Company Man when Hank said Peggy wore a dress to "one of Luanne's mama's weddings". I hope a 15 or 16 year old hasn't been married. Let alone more than once.
Same, I’m pretty sure she’s lying since she claimed “most people think me and Lulu are sisters.” Folks like that tend to always be chasing the “glory days” of their youth.
she clearly looks 40. . but then again, so does Hank, and according to the the show, Hank is 34 as well. so it may be more a commentary on teenage pregnancy and how she is trailer trash. to add even more tragedy to the daughter Luanne's backstory. edit : aaand now i looked on the wiki and says hank ks 41. . .i dunno. i could swore i saw somewhere said that Hank was 34. so then, maybe she is in her 40's. she certainly looks like it.
@@gaylewinds4808 that's what i'm saying is that i always thought hank was 40, but then i coulda swore i read somewhere he was 34, but now i can't find it
The older I get, the more I love luanne. The fact that she just lived a horrible, sad, tragic early life and still grew up to be such a beautiful, kind, pure, innocent person....just such a testament to how inherently good people can be.
So we ignore her betraying Bill in the beauty salon episode, her taking Bobby behind Hank/Peggy back to the crazy Christian lady, her taking cash advances and trying to blame Hank for it, and her trying to ruin Dale then Strickland to have a fancy wedding. She not a saint like you say
@@kidferocious not booksmart, but she clearly understands mechanics to the point there's no way that she has a low IQ, although for some reason that part about her got dropped. Remember in season 1 when she fixed Hank's truck, identifying the issue by sound alone, when 4 men including the truck's owner / lover (you know how Hank is with his truck) spent all day stumped? At least early on she seemed like she had a LOT of untapped potential as a highly skilled mechanic. She was tragically smart tbh, if her talents were nurtured she could have been a child prodigy mechanic or maybe machinist. I know a lot of clearly smart (quick to learn, open minded) people who could have been successful if not for their circumstances.
Fun Fact: Luanne got her name because she was supposed to be named after her mother, but Leanne immediately got drunk after the birth and wrote the wrong name on the certificate. Leanne could have had it changed, but there was a $50 fee to legally change the birth certificate and Leanne figured Luanne was technically a name so why waste the money?
This is one of the messes I can’t blame Peggy for getting herself into. She was faced with a hell of a choice; Luanne dropping out of school to take care of her mother, or housing Leanne. Peggy clearly had to choose the lesser of two evils. This was the epitome of a rock and a hard place decision and she has every right to be angry about it.
It is 100% reasonable why Peggy made that choice. The problem arises when she complains about the consequences of HER actions. But yet again, it is Peggy we're talking about.
@@toms.a.savage7232 But that brings me to my original point; what OTHER choice did she, Luanne’s only responsible mother figure, have at that moment in time? Leanne was hopeless and Luanne was too enamored with the idea of having her mother around to hear otherwise. And at that point in time, just dimbulb enough to actually drop out of school on an impulse. Peggy kinda has every right to complain. She made the worst choice to protect Luanne when it’s not a choice she should ever have HAD to make. Yes, it was her choice, but the alternative was watching Luanne screw her life over by leaving school to take care of her deadbeat mother. That’s a hell of an awful choice.
@@toms.a.savage7232tbh, I don't really think it's unfair to vent or acknowledge a situation even if you had a hand in it. We as people do it all the time like complaining about being late for work but not planning ahead for heavy traffic on your commute.
It’s amazing that Hoyt and Leanne stayed together for as long as they did without somebody getting killed as well as Luanne being as good of a person as she is.
yeah that seems completely out of character, Bill was waaaaaaaaaay outta pocket there, dear god, he's lucky the fire department didn't have to scrape him off the pavement 💀
“Bill is the best thing to happen to me since I met your daddy” She tells Luanne bluntly right to her face that she cares more about a date than her daughter.
She may be lying about her age but it is a small possibility that she's younger than she looks because smoking, drinking, and drama (at least the kind that ladies like Leanne and Lenore causes) can cause people to age horribly.
She could be. Smoking and drinking way too much can really do a number on you. I think it’s more likely that she was also traumatized at a young age and wants to avoid being anything but a young party girl.
@@hippothehippo yeah she could be, also it's not mentioned but she was obviously no stranger to meth, that shit will age you on fast-forward, especially when combined with ciggies and booze.
The fact Luanne grew up to be as stable as she could be is a miracle. Plus with all that untapped potential like being great with cars I'm glad her parents aren't in her life after she had her daughter. They don't deserve to be grandparents
@@JimMilton-ej6zi i mean we see the exact moment her parents messed up in the first episodes. Luanne basically had to carry that and have relapses much like Hank and his parents
LuAnne used her experiences with her parents about what not to do. When the Hills got hooked on cigarettes she told Hank, Peggy and Bobby that she came from a dysfunctional household and wouldn't allow that to happen again.
Leanne reminds me of my mom. I watched king of the hill literally every day for several years as it aired on adult swim, and every time this episode came on, I felt deeply for Luanne, and still do. The false promises, the addiction, the violence, the boundary issues from prison. Props to the writers for getting this aspect of this sort of thing right.
Leanne was CLEARLY lying about her age. Also, am just now realizing that Leanne was probably trying to entice Hank by doing her ablutions with the bathroom door open😮
Lets really look at the line "Bill's the first good thing to happen to me since I met your daddy" which implies that Leanne saw Luanne as a burden, not considering her a silver lining in her terrible life. Also my theory for why Leanne was arrested again is either Hank or Peggy or possibly Dale called the cops for Bill, it sounds in character.
I love episodes where Peggy goes into "mama bear mode". This and her confronting Buck Strickland over Hank's suspsension were some of mu favorite moments in the series
Yeah, people not reacting to the abuse of Bill as hardly as they would've an abused woman is reflective of reality, but at least this show didn't depict it as cute and funny; you're meant to be horrified. Also, can we talk about how much physical strength Peggy has? She stopped a stabbing hand in mid-flight with little effort, then sent Leanne flying with a kick. Her athleticism is pointed out in many episodes, yet she never brags about it.
Her athleticism might be the only thing Peggy DOESN'T brag about. Good Lord, she calls spaghetti and meatballs spaPeggy and meatballs like she freakin' invented the dish.
@@Eric6761 Yeah, she freaked out about that one kiss, which was beyond hypocritical considering that she lied to Hank about being a virgin when they got married, even knowing how important that was to Hank.
My theory for Bill claiming not to know Leanne despite them both being at Peggy and Hanks wedding is maybe Bill didn't speak to her or remember her, I've been to parties and didn't speak to specific people, then attend another party and notice that person better, and they've said we've met before without me remembering.
Honestly they are both bad equally just in different areas. Luannes dad is a con man so he brings problems from the outside in while her mom traumatized Luanne with how much she didn't want to go back to the trailer inner wise. Also Hank can definitely relate with how bad his parents are
It isn't too surprising Leanne and Bill never met, considering Bill is known to drink and eat himself sick at weddings. I think they mention that in Dale's wedding episode
The part about Bill and Leanne not just staying at Bill's makes even less sense when you notice Bill is in his robe, meaning he had have gone home once already.
If I had a nickel for Bill being in toxic relationships with ladies that includes their name starting in the letter “L”, I’d have a dime. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.
He's like Superman and his LLs. Lois Lane, Lana Lang, some mermaid who also has the initials L.L. initials. And 50s TV Superman actor George Reeves' fiancée (who probably is the one that killed him) was named Leonore Lemmon.
It always made me so sad when Leanne said to Luanne that Bill was the best thing to happen to her since Hoyt 😢 It made me feel sad because my mom always told me that I’m the best thing to ever happen to her. That should be every mother’s mantra ❤
I do appreciate he chooses Dale. Boomhauer might be a better choice, but he’s clearly not a very tied down family man that understands kids. Bill is useless - but I could see Dale accepting his role as “guardian” seriously. Plus at least there he has a friend in Joesph to hang out with
I’ve met many people like Leanne, and their early lives were too awful to repeat. This drama is tame compared to the hell they raise on the daily. “We’re not sisters anymore” is how they feel when it all falls apart, because they never got away from the past.
Women that casually PUNCH men in the arm like that are weirdly common. (Not a friendly jab, but a full on angry punch) just taking their anger out on a random man. I think they deserve equal treatment. Enjoy that bruise little lady!
The funniest thing about Luanne is how she's written when it comes to her family. Shes able to talk about her mother's trial but they had to protect her about her dad's jail time and to some extent, Hank too.
Damn, Hank and the others turned out decent despite have such crappy parents: Cotton Hill, Maddie Platter, Eric Dauterive, Hoyt and Leane Platter, General Gum.
@@carlycrays2831she's definitely her daughter to Peggy. Peggy even wanted more kids, so I don't think she ever struggled to see her that way once she'd moved in, if not before.
@@carlycrays2831Especially as Luanne may've been a baby around the time Peggy and Hank were having fertility issues too. Though, even in her childhood, the Hills could've took Luanne in whenever Hoyt or Leanne got in a mess.
I love Stephen Root so much, the way he reads "Dohhh, that's jus' a lil' fungus" is so fun like you can hear Bill relaxing around Leanne for one moment before disaster
Did the show ever go into Bill's childhood much? I know his dad was abusive in some rather vaguely defined ways, but I don't think I know anything about his mom.
Here a continuity error for you. How could Luanne miss her prom testifying against her mom. But in the first episode of the show, she is also crying about her wig in beauty academy? Prom is high school, and there is no way she could pass how she is. But to the point. She couldn’t be in beauty school already if she missed her prom. I understand too for court cases being days or months away. But there is showing that this would be way after her graduating high school.
Actually it could have been like when middle &high-schoolers start submitting things to academies just so they'll get accepted after they graduate high school,
@@RoninRen That could be. But I just thought of something. Before lucky, how could Luanne not just ask another man around her age at the time to go to prom. I’m sure there wouldn’t be many that want to go but don’t have a date.
I paused the video and call that lady a b word four times and pressed play only to have you have a clip of Hank calling her b word. Thank you very much for being on the same page
You know another reason (completely coincidental)why Leanne was in Hank &Peggy's wedding video, was that animators probably accidentally drew Luann at their wedding, but then edited her design to make it look like Leanne was there, also keep in mind that Lenore probably kept Bill from talking to other party guests(as wasn’t it implied that she would get jealous when she'd see Bill talking to other women?), also that statistically lots of divorcees, that even though they don't reconcile, for some reason they just live together,
I figured the same thing about Lenore not letting Bill near Leanne at the wedding. There's also a good chance he was just too drunk. He drank so much at Dale and Nancy's wedding that he got sick.
I really feel bad for Luanne she truly had a horrible mother who never loved her im glad she had peggy and hank in her life to me they became surrogate parents to her i also feel bad for bill in this episode he always end up in situations like this
Realistically on the domestic abuse comment, no one says nothin about it when men do it to women in that kinda scenario, either. Decision paralysis there is VERY common regardless of the gender of the individuals involved and southern families have a habit of keeping it quiet and to themselves
I agree, however I have also seen this type of thing go down and the guy was promptly dragged behind a shed by a group of guys and beaten within an inch of his life.
Can confirm. Hell, I was I victim of abuse and a witness to DV as a child and teenager and even I chickened out and didn’t call CPS as a 17 year old when the little boy across our street was getting abused worse than me and his single mom might have been using. I still feel awful about that, I hope he’s doing better but I doubt it. It’s hard to report it, you always worry that either the foster system will be worse or social services won’t do anything and then the kid will get abused even more because they visited and it pissed the parents off. Or if it’s two adults that the abusive partner will up the violence if they think people are finding out and they might lose their victim.
Re Leanne's age - she's clearly lying about her age. Remember, makes jokes about her and Luanne sisters. It's very obvious she is lying about her age when she says 34.
I know someone who got married at 14 to a 25 year old, this was in rural america back in the 60s. The man wanted his 15 year old wife to give birth to thier child in a log cabin that was located on an island in the middle of a lake. So this shit with hoyt and Leanne is totally plausible.
So glad I stumbled upon on this channel. I do love that you drop the relevant real-world tidbits like Real Stories of the Highway Patrol in your vids because that unlocked a part of my brain I haven't thought about in a minute.
Huh, never noticed before, but the part where Dale says "FOOOOOOORK!!!" and then moves, we briefly see bill in his apron, apparently no longer wearing any pants.
You have a point. But some people age slowly or age horribly especially if they're drug addicts or abuse alcohol 😅. I have a cousin who is my age who drinks a lot and looks older than me. My dad often drank alcohol on most days and didn't take care of himself and looks older than 56. While mom is 54 and people often mistake her for my sister 😅
If Bill was smart enough not to freakin offer alcohol to a recovering alcoholic and had a tiny bit of a spine and control... Who am I kidding, its Bill. Unfortunate... since if they both stayed Sober they'd make a good couple, Bill loves giving attention and fawning over women, perfect for Leanne
I will say without a shadow of a doubt Leanne is WORSE then Hoyt. This is all do to the ending of their respective episodes, and how Luanne interacts with them both. To Luanne, her dad is her hero. Looking up to him, and seeing him as a good person, with Leanne it seems more like Luanne wants her attention more. Luanne knows her mom has issues but would rather ignore them for her attention, unlike her dad where she genially sees him as a good person. Finally their endings. Leanne's is self explanatory as she makes a fool of herself, abuses Bill, steals his car and abandons her daughter. Hoyt however I feel realized he really fucked up this time, and how much of a pos he's been to everyone especially Luanne. Him knowing how much she looks up to him, and what her finding out the truth could do to her. While its scummy to hie it from her, he's doing it in the end to protect her. Which is an admirable thing. Both cut themselves off from Luanne, however Leanne did it for a selfish reason. Hoyt cut himself off for her(not just because he was being locked up) but also because Luanne is better without him. But maybe Im looking WAY to deep into this.
What's interesting to me is that Leanne seemed fine with Bill running out of money. Not like I think she really loves him, but I think she was willig to hold out til next paycheck. So, if Bill had just told her he had no money left and still got his cream, it's possible she would have been his next toxic marriage.
It's very possible. She wasn't a great person off of alcohol, but she certainly got a lot worse with it. If she stayed sober it's possible she could've straightened out incrementally, however unlikely that is
One rather depressing thing to think about is the implication that Leanne is so used to men using her sexually that she feels like she HAS to give Bill something sexual in return. It didn't even cross her mind that Bill would just be happy to hang out with her
point one the age difference makes a lot of sense based on the characters of Leanne and Hoyt. Point two: Leanne is very much the type to lie about her age
Hey folks, just a quick peak behind the curtain here, it took four days and over 20 cycles of upload video, get copyright blocked, edit video and so on to get this thing finally loaded. The video was originally over 25 minutes long and included every word of dialogue Leanne had, but a lot of it had to be cut. So, if you're wondering why some of your favorite parts are missing, well, that's why.
From what I've heard TH-cam is a bitch of a thing with their arbitrary rules
@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou it can get pretty ridiculous sometimes.
That sucks, but I'm glad you finally got it past those damn AI-powered tweakers.
I hate their stupid rules.
This is an A+ video man. Thank you for the hard work you put in.
Google's not holding the remote today, but it does have its cheeseburger grease from other companies?!
"Leanne's first husband is hiding out on an oil rig and he swears he's not coming ashore until I fax him her death certificate" is the most hilariously terrifying burn I've ever heard.
That's luannes dad
terrifying? I dont think you know what that means, mildly dark? sure.
Having just rewatched that just now and thought about Hoyt makes me think he opted to go back to the "oil rig" before ever facing Leanne again hence the retcon in his only appearance.
@@SuperWolseyI believe the Oil Rig Hoyt & Just got out prison Hoyt are 2 different characters. It feels that in the early seasons Hoyt actually was hiding on a Oil Rig & was in regular communication with the Hills especially Hank & Luanne. Where as in the late series episode where Hoyt makes his introduction, Hank never met the man, Hoyt hasn’t seen his daughter since she was little & doesn’t say anything about his ex wife or the trailer home. My theory is the original Hoyt still existed for awhile after Peggy’s family got reconned (you know, the new mama platter) up until his introduction episode.
The line “He’s not coming to shore until I fax him her death certificate” & if “oil rig” really did mean prison, that is not how the prison system works. You can’t just leave because you know your ex wife is dead or use the place to hide from her until then.
@@AddableStone13 Maybe it's better to think that King of the Hill in general just split into two different canons after a certain point. I mean, there was supposedly a severe change-up in writing staff towards the end (and given all the retcons that were happening, it shows).
I love how this episode avoids the "women abusing men is funny" double standard by portraying Leanne as the abusive drunk that she is and having everyone be horrified by the way she treats Bill. It's aged really well.
Sadly, I do still find myself chuckling at her smacking Bill when he announced their engagement. I blame TH-cam Poop.
Same.
Similarly, I always felt for Dooley when he got felt up by Serena in Get Your Freak Off.
He clearly looked and sounded violated and disturbed. The other kids looked quiet and shocked.
Just because some kids want to go too far doesn't mean they all want to/should.
Harassment goes both ways.
You know Leanne’s bad when Dale says that she’s a menace to society.
13:51 Or dropping a cigarette on sight
If dale fears you then you are a danger to society
Yeah, as a parent, I would say she is worse than Hoyt. At least he somewhat cares about Luanne and went back to prison so that her husband would be free. Leanne was an abusive asshole who even Dale thought was a menace.
Or even Boomhauer, a general woman chaser, thinks of her as unladylike.
@@megamanj2004X
I always thought that was funny. I think he said "Nothing ladylike about her, all over me like a dang 'ol cat, talkin' bout 'No means no.' "
Boomhauer's a player, but he has standards.
Update: I quoted this before watching the vid with the full quote. Nvm lol.
It’s such a small detail, but the fact that hank trusts dale with his son’s protection is pretty great. Dale may be a nut but hank knows he’s a good father.
Plus, Dale has quite the security system.
I remember a later episode where Joseph gets an offer to join a new school on a football scholarship because he’s an athletic prodigy. Hank, desperate to have Joseph stay in Tom Landry to play football there, tries to convince Dale to not have Joseph go to the school. Dale looks at Hank and asks him honestly if he’s thinking about what Joseph wants or if he only cares about football.
And Hank goes silent.
@@NeedlessExpositionif I remember right wasn't dale pressuring/forcing him to go to that school? I usually just put on the show in the background and it's been a few years and it was only twice I watched
Hank having an immediate concern for his son's safety is parenting gold! I love how even before Peggy his mind goes to protecting Bobby. Plus as it's shown in later scene Peggy really can take on LeAnn. But gotta love Hank being a great dad!
@@a_potato27It was still a very good school and would have opened up a world of possibilities for him
I'm pretty sure Leanne was lying about her age. She was always trying to come off younger than she was. It was also implied that Hoyt was not her first marriage in The Company Man when Hank said Peggy wore a dress to "one of Luanne's mama's weddings". I hope a 15 or 16 year old hasn't been married. Let alone more than once.
Same, I’m pretty sure she’s lying since she claimed “most people think me and Lulu are sisters.” Folks like that tend to always be chasing the “glory days” of their youth.
she clearly looks 40. . but then again, so does Hank, and according to the the show, Hank is 34 as well. so it may be more a commentary on teenage pregnancy and how she is trailer trash. to add even more tragedy to the daughter Luanne's backstory.
edit : aaand now i looked on the wiki and says hank ks 41. . .i dunno. i could swore i saw somewhere said that Hank was 34.
so then, maybe she is in her 40's. she certainly looks like it.
@@Femaiden I think you might be confusing Hank with Homer. The youngest Hank has ever been was 40 in the show. He ranges between 40 and 45 iirc.
@@gaylewinds4808 that's what i'm saying is that i always thought hank was 40, but then i coulda swore i read somewhere he was 34, but now i can't find it
I knew a woman who was married at 16. It's rare these days in the US but it is technically legal as long as the parents consent.
The older I get, the more I love luanne. The fact that she just lived a horrible, sad, tragic early life and still grew up to be such a beautiful, kind, pure, innocent person....just such a testament to how inherently good people can be.
At least Luanne came out okay, even though she isn’t very smart.
So we ignore her betraying Bill in the beauty salon episode, her taking Bobby behind Hank/Peggy back to the crazy Christian lady, her taking cash advances and trying to blame Hank for it, and her trying to ruin Dale then Strickland to have a fancy wedding. She not a saint like you say
@malfaroangel3896 that was all before she got married and had her baby tho she's young
@@kidferocious not booksmart, but she clearly understands mechanics to the point there's no way that she has a low IQ, although for some reason that part about her got dropped. Remember in season 1 when she fixed Hank's truck, identifying the issue by sound alone, when 4 men including the truck's owner / lover (you know how Hank is with his truck) spent all day stumped? At least early on she seemed like she had a LOT of untapped potential as a highly skilled mechanic.
She was tragically smart tbh, if her talents were nurtured she could have been a child prodigy mechanic or maybe machinist. I know a lot of clearly smart (quick to learn, open minded) people who could have been successful if not for their circumstances.
@@kidferociousthat was a retcon, she was pretty smart and VERY mechanically gifted in the early show, she even worked on hank and peggys vehicles
Fun Fact: Luanne got her name because she was supposed to be named after her mother, but Leanne immediately got drunk after the birth and wrote the wrong name on the certificate. Leanne could have had it changed, but there was a $50 fee to legally change the birth certificate and Leanne figured Luanne was technically a name so why waste the money?
Where'd you get that from?
Luanne's middle name is Leanne. It was intentional.
I don't think so cause Luanne's full name is Luanne Leanne Platter
considering addiction potential is heraditary, it's surprising that Luanne did never became an alcoholic herself.
@@britneylord2177maybe she wanted her name to be her middle name too 😂
Poor Luanne was robbed of her childhood, of her parents, of her voice actor and of her husband’s voice actor.
Damn 😢
Rip, and we’ve been robbed of dale’s voice actor to, rip to him too
This is one of the messes I can’t blame Peggy for getting herself into. She was faced with a hell of a choice; Luanne dropping out of school to take care of her mother, or housing Leanne. Peggy clearly had to choose the lesser of two evils. This was the epitome of a rock and a hard place decision and she has every right to be angry about it.
I know
It is 100% reasonable why Peggy made that choice. The problem arises when she complains about the consequences of HER actions. But yet again, it is Peggy we're talking about.
@@toms.a.savage7232 But that brings me to my original point; what OTHER choice did she, Luanne’s only responsible mother figure, have at that moment in time? Leanne was hopeless and Luanne was too enamored with the idea of having her mother around to hear otherwise. And at that point in time, just dimbulb enough to actually drop out of school on an impulse. Peggy kinda has every right to complain. She made the worst choice to protect Luanne when it’s not a choice she should ever have HAD to make. Yes, it was her choice, but the alternative was watching Luanne screw her life over by leaving school to take care of her deadbeat mother. That’s a hell of an awful choice.
She thought of Luanne's future over her own comfort, this was probably the most solid Peggy episode
@@toms.a.savage7232tbh, I don't really think it's unfair to vent or acknowledge a situation even if you had a hand in it. We as people do it all the time like complaining about being late for work but not planning ahead for heavy traffic on your commute.
I think Leanne is just lying about her age because she wants to be a young party girl so bad. Probably same reason she calls Luanne her sister.
That just sums up what kind of person Leanne is.
It’s amazing that Hoyt and Leanne stayed together for as long as they did without somebody getting killed as well as Luanne being as good of a person as she is.
Something tells me Luanne got dropped on her head when she was young. That’s not a joke, but a theory of mine.
I personally believe Peggy got involved in Luane childhood
Someone has to be the responsible one or carer
Kids will become the parent in cases like this
Lmao hank saying “what a bitch” had me cracking up, this whole episode with your narration was pure gold 😂
I'm so glad he put that clip in.
Every time Ms. Kremzer bullies Luanne, I think about it. 😂
"It got used last night, right after we took a ride on your mower."
I'm surprised Hank didn't kick his ass.
I would've.
yeah that seems completely out of character, Bill was waaaaaaaaaay outta pocket there, dear god, he's lucky the fire department didn't have to scrape him off the pavement 💀
“Bill is the best thing to happen to me since I met your daddy”
She tells Luanne bluntly right to her face that she cares more about a date than her daughter.
LeAnn is lying about her age. I never seen a 32 year old looking that old.
Yea, not to defend her, just that for some weird reason, even just being over 26 people make it a joke, that your not getting any younger,
She may be lying about her age but it is a small possibility that she's younger than she looks because smoking, drinking, and drama (at least the kind that ladies like Leanne and Lenore causes) can cause people to age horribly.
She could be. Smoking and drinking way too much can really do a number on you. I think it’s more likely that she was also traumatized at a young age and wants to avoid being anything but a young party girl.
I'm pretty sure she is either 40 or 42
@@hippothehippo yeah she could be, also it's not mentioned but she was obviously no stranger to meth, that shit will age you on fast-forward, especially when combined with ciggies and booze.
The fact Luanne grew up to be as stable as she could be is a miracle. Plus with all that untapped potential like being great with cars
I'm glad her parents aren't in her life after she had her daughter. They don't deserve to be grandparents
No they don't. Their horrible people and even worse parents.
At this point I'd say her parents were in her life, with her parents being hank and peggy.
@@JimMilton-ej6zi i mean we see the exact moment her parents messed up in the first episodes. Luanne basically had to carry that and have relapses much like Hank and his parents
LuAnne used her experiences with her parents about what not to do. When the Hills got hooked on cigarettes she told Hank, Peggy and Bobby that she came from a dysfunctional household and wouldn't allow that to happen again.
@@geraldframinghammer2626 She was the MVP in that episode.
Leanne reminds me of my mom. I watched king of the hill literally every day for several years as it aired on adult swim, and every time this episode came on, I felt deeply for Luanne, and still do. The false promises, the addiction, the violence, the boundary issues from prison. Props to the writers for getting this aspect of this sort of thing right.
Leanne was CLEARLY lying about her age. Also, am just now realizing that Leanne was probably trying to entice Hank by doing her ablutions with the bathroom door open😮
She might have been telling the truth, she was drunk and , well, in vino veritas.
I always chalked her leaving the door open to her not used to having privacy since in prison she’d have to do “bathroom things” in the open.
Hank is too much of a tightass for a woman to try to entice him!
@@TheWedabest
Debbie: Nobody rejects Debbie Grund!
Hank: Well I just did!
@ianfinrir8724 lol, I was thinking the same! It sells so much about hank.
Lets really look at the line "Bill's the first good thing to happen to me since I met your daddy" which implies that Leanne saw Luanne as a burden, not considering her a silver lining in her terrible life. Also my theory for why Leanne was arrested again is either Hank or Peggy or possibly Dale called the cops for Bill, it sounds in character.
Poor Luanne. It's no wonder Peggy was so determined to raise her.
@@carlycrays2831The only problem I see with how Peggy had raised Luanne was that she was overprotective, to the point of being controlling.
@@kidferocious True, but I think this episode explains why. Peggy was terrified that Luanne would turn into her parents
@@carlycrays2831 Thankfully, Luanne turned out better than her parents, if not as dumb as Bill.
It’s just as likely she got arrested for drunk driving, and sent away for good when the cops found out who she was.
I love episodes where Peggy goes into "mama bear mode". This and her confronting Buck Strickland over Hank's suspsension were some of mu favorite moments in the series
Yeah, people not reacting to the abuse of Bill as hardly as they would've an abused woman is reflective of reality, but at least this show didn't depict it as cute and funny; you're meant to be horrified.
Also, can we talk about how much physical strength Peggy has? She stopped a stabbing hand in mid-flight with little effort, then sent Leanne flying with a kick. Her athleticism is pointed out in many episodes, yet she never brags about it.
Bill was warned by the entire beer alley crew
Her athleticism might be the only thing Peggy DOESN'T brag about. Good Lord, she calls spaghetti and meatballs spaPeggy and meatballs like she freakin' invented the dish.
@@truefanforum3273Remember, she threatened to attack an old lover of Hank just because they kissed even before their relationship were a thing
@@Eric6761 Yeah, she freaked out about that one kiss, which was beyond hypocritical considering that she lied to Hank about being a virgin when they got married, even knowing how important that was to Hank.
@@Eric6761Peggy punched a side of beef and broke a couple ribs in it.
My theory for Bill claiming not to know Leanne despite them both being at Peggy and Hanks wedding is maybe Bill didn't speak to her or remember her, I've been to parties and didn't speak to specific people, then attend another party and notice that person better, and they've said we've met before without me remembering.
Bill said he got very drunk at that wedding! And also ate two chickens, lol.
@@TheWedabestand we also see Bill drank to the point of getting sick at Dale's wedding as well.
@Mightymajin yes. The wedding and the second wedding, I forgot what's it's called.
Honestly they are both bad equally just in different areas. Luannes dad is a con man so he brings problems from the outside in while her mom traumatized Luanne with how much she didn't want to go back to the trailer inner wise.
Also Hank can definitely relate with how bad his parents are
Hanks mom wasn’t bad, but man his dad? Oh boy
Hank's mom was kinda bad too. She essentially let Cotton abuse him while she escaped reality with her miniatures.
Theory as to why bill didn’t know Leanne even though they were both at hank and Peggy’s wedding, he was too drunk to remember
he had two chickens
That’s what I figured 😂
@@byron4557Jake Blues diet 😂
It isn't too surprising Leanne and Bill never met, considering Bill is known to drink and eat himself sick at weddings. I think they mention that in Dale's wedding episode
4:00 Unfortunately, minors performing at adult clubs is known. It makes feel for her. With a childhood like that, she barely stood a chance.
12:40 Dude, I'm so sorry that you've gone through that, but congrats on surviving. I hope you've been able to get some help in dealing with that. 💖
Me too
@@daniapfel2825yup.
Same here. ❤✊🏾
I like how Luanne works a fork into her puppet show.
God, this makes Brittany Murphy's passing so much sadder
I find it hard to believe that Leanne was sober her entire prison stay.
The part about Bill and Leanne not just staying at Bill's makes even less sense when you notice Bill is in his robe, meaning he had have gone home once already.
If I had a nickel for Bill being in toxic relationships with ladies that includes their name starting in the letter “L”, I’d have a dime. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.
He's like Superman and his LLs. Lois Lane, Lana Lang, some mermaid who also has the initials L.L. initials. And 50s TV Superman actor George Reeves' fiancée (who probably is the one that killed him) was named Leonore Lemmon.
Why did I think the other L was Kahn's mom? Especially considering she was probably the least toxic relationship Bill had in the whole series.
It always made me so sad when Leanne said to Luanne that Bill was the best thing to happen to her since Hoyt 😢
It made me feel sad because my mom always told me that I’m the best thing to ever happen to her. That should be every mother’s mantra ❤
I do appreciate he chooses Dale. Boomhauer might be a better choice, but he’s clearly not a very tied down family man that understands kids. Bill is useless - but I could see Dale accepting his role as “guardian” seriously. Plus at least there he has a friend in Joesph to hang out with
I guess he assumed that Boomhauer would be out with a woman so Bobby would be all alone if he went over to Boomhauer's house.
It’s miracle an angel came out of those demons.
I was best man at a wedding. There is no way I could pick the vast majority of both the wedding party and guests out of a crowd 15 years later.
I’ve met many people like Leanne, and their early lives were too awful to repeat. This drama is tame compared to the hell they raise on the daily. “We’re not sisters anymore” is how they feel when it all falls apart, because they never got away from the past.
Fair but in no way an excuse
She reminds me of Carl from ATHF
Women that casually PUNCH men in the arm like that are weirdly common. (Not a friendly jab, but a full on angry punch) just taking their anger out on a random man.
I think they deserve equal treatment. Enjoy that bruise little lady!
They do it because they know most men won't hit them back, and if they DO, the man would likely get in trouble.
If Leanne wasn’t lying about her age, then Hoyt probably would’ve ended up being investigated by the FBI nowadays.
I don't think Leanne is lying about her age. She lived fast and that lifestyle caught up with her, hence looking middle aged despite being 34.
When you root for Peggy you know there's a problem.
Ain't that the truth
She wasn't insane in the early years yet.
@@nicoleackerman205the drop from the plane didn't scramble her brain yet.
Even the unflappable Buckley is terrified of Leanne.
That "I will tongue kiss bill" scene from Peggy is the real nail in the coffin for Bobby not being Hank's.
This episode made me sad but Peggy is just so badass in it
That "HOOYAH!" was primal as fuck!
Like a Marine Drill Instructor.
I know that there's unfortunate implications with what you said about Leanne's age, but I think it's more likely she's lying about how old she is
9:37 Bill lucky he didn't get knocked out. You don't admit to having sex on someone's personal property and expect to live. Like, gross.
It was worth it for the scene of Hank pushing the mower wearing oven mitts
The funniest thing about Luanne is how she's written when it comes to her family. Shes able to talk about her mother's trial but they had to protect her about her dad's jail time and to some extent, Hank too.
I think part of that was Peggy's own ego and, well, likely the result of her family giving in to Hoyt's demands.
Damn, Hank and the others turned out decent despite have such crappy parents:
Cotton Hill, Maddie Platter, Eric Dauterive, Hoyt and Leane Platter, General Gum.
Man, when Peggy is good she's FANTASTIC. That but where she whoops Leanne is cathartic, and implies that Peggy is really more of a mom to Luanne
Peggys finest hour
Peggy is her mom, that is clear. It must have been murder for Peggy to see Leanne have a beautiful child she didn't love
@@carlycrays2831she's definitely her daughter to Peggy. Peggy even wanted more kids, so I don't think she ever struggled to see her that way once she'd moved in, if not before.
@@carlycrays2831Especially as Luanne may've been a baby around the time Peggy and Hank were having fertility issues too. Though, even in her childhood, the Hills could've took Luanne in whenever Hoyt or Leanne got in a mess.
Come to think of it Luanne is actually a pretty tragic character, yet one of the most inspiring given her positive attitude and drive
Oy..... Luanne really got saddled with some losers in the parent department.
Up there with Will’s dad in The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air
Up there with Peter Quill’s dad
Leanne Platter is up there with Lou (Will’s dad) on Fresh Prince in worse tv parents
Yes they are 💯
I love Stephen Root so much, the way he reads "Dohhh, that's jus' a lil' fungus" is so fun like you can hear Bill relaxing around Leanne for one moment before disaster
Poor Bill is abused by too many people.
Did the show ever go into Bill's childhood much? I know his dad was abusive in some rather vaguely defined ways, but I don't think I know anything about his mom.
I don't feel bad for him in this ep because he started this and feed her bad behaviors.
Here a continuity error for you. How could Luanne miss her prom testifying against her mom. But in the first episode of the show, she is also crying about her wig in beauty academy? Prom is high school, and there is no way she could pass how she is. But to the point. She couldn’t be in beauty school already if she missed her prom. I understand too for court cases being days or months away. But there is showing that this would be way after her graduating high school.
Actually it could have been like when middle &high-schoolers start submitting things to academies just so they'll get accepted after they graduate high school,
@@RoninRen That could be. But I just thought of something. Before lucky, how could Luanne not just ask another man around her age at the time to go to prom. I’m sure there wouldn’t be many that want to go but don’t have a date.
I sort of thought it was for a separate incident
@@carlycrays2831 Who knows. There is a lot of errors. Like why Cotton complaining about a burial plot when he just ends up in a urn.
@@blackheartpopcultureCotton would still have a cenotaph at the Texas State Cemetery.
3:39 or she lied about her age, shaving a few years off, which I think lines up with her character...
With two horrible parents, it's such a miracle that Lueanne came out as a kind hearted person
After seeing both of her parents in your videos it's amazing Louanne turned out the way she did.
Leanne was lying about her age
she's 42
12:00 i like that hank didn't get mad at bobby, he was mad at the situation not being able to use his garage and do things properly
I paused the video and call that lady a b word four times and pressed play only to have you have a clip of Hank calling her b word. Thank you very much for being on the same page
You know another reason (completely coincidental)why Leanne was in Hank &Peggy's wedding video, was that animators probably accidentally drew Luann at their wedding, but then edited her design to make it look like Leanne was there, also keep in mind that Lenore probably kept Bill from talking to other party guests(as wasn’t it implied that she would get jealous when she'd see Bill talking to other women?), also that statistically lots of divorcees, that even though they don't reconcile, for some reason they just live together,
I figured the same thing about Lenore not letting Bill near Leanne at the wedding. There's also a good chance he was just too drunk. He drank so much at Dale and Nancy's wedding that he got sick.
@@michaelhowell2326 yea, because quote wise when they were watching the Hank and Peggy wedding video,"Bill: Boy was I drunk"
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I really feel bad for Luanne she truly had a horrible mother who never loved her im glad she had peggy and hank in her life to me they became surrogate parents to her i also feel bad for bill in this episode he always end up in situations like this
I love the reoccurring joke of Hank having his shop vacuum on hand to suck up the spills in his garage.
Realistically on the domestic abuse comment, no one says nothin about it when men do it to women in that kinda scenario, either. Decision paralysis there is VERY common regardless of the gender of the individuals involved and southern families have a habit of keeping it quiet and to themselves
I agree, however I have also seen this type of thing go down and the guy was promptly dragged behind a shed by a group of guys and beaten within an inch of his life.
@@squirreltactics I WISH that would’ve happened with my abuser 💔
Can confirm. Hell, I was I victim of abuse and a witness to DV as a child and teenager and even I chickened out and didn’t call CPS as a 17 year old when the little boy across our street was getting abused worse than me and his single mom might have been using. I still feel awful about that, I hope he’s doing better but I doubt it. It’s hard to report it, you always worry that either the foster system will be worse or social services won’t do anything and then the kid will get abused even more because they visited and it pissed the parents off. Or if it’s two adults that the abusive partner will up the violence if they think people are finding out and they might lose their victim.
I have multiple times but sadly your far more correct than incorrect
She quite literally did get lucky
Re Leanne's age - she's clearly lying about her age. Remember, makes jokes about her and Luanne sisters. It's very obvious she is lying about her age when she says 34.
I've seen this episode at least 100 times and this is the first time I noticed Leanne named them Lefty and Righty.
Thank you for the upload! Well worth it, especially with all the time and effort you put into it.❤
Still can’t believe she stole Bill’s pickup
I dont know why but hank saying g"what a bitch" is the most disarming laugh out loud moment from him ever
Leanne: "Billy is the first good thing since I met your daddy"
So guess the birth of Luanne doesn't count...
I would just assume that Leanne was lying about her age when she said she was "only 34." She's probably more like 40
I know someone who got married at 14 to a 25 year old, this was in rural america back in the 60s. The man wanted his 15 year old wife to give birth to thier child in a log cabin that was located on an island in the middle of a lake. So this shit with hoyt and Leanne is totally plausible.
So glad I stumbled upon on this channel. I do love that you drop the relevant real-world tidbits like Real Stories of the Highway Patrol in your vids because that unlocked a part of my brain I haven't thought about in a minute.
I think Leanne saying she was only 34 was meant to be an obvious lie to show how sad/pathetic she is for pretending she's much younger than she is.
Honestly saw alot of my sister Leanna unfortunately shes a "mother" too so I'm constantly worrying about my niece
I always knew Dale said FORK!!!!
We can only hope that she's lying about her age
The real winner is the pharmacist lady
Who the fuck thinks Dale is saying, "Mark!"?
Pretty sure the abusive mother and wife has no problems lying about what age she is to make herself look more attractive to more future victims
Hank with that ShopVac is killing me
Huh, never noticed before, but the part where Dale says "FOOOOOOORK!!!" and then moves, we briefly see bill in his apron, apparently no longer wearing any pants.
I Think Leanne Platter made her only appearance in King Of The Hill appearing in that one episode called Leanne's Saga
You have a point. But some people age slowly or age horribly especially if they're drug addicts or abuse alcohol 😅. I have a cousin who is my age who drinks a lot and looks older than me. My dad often drank alcohol on most days and didn't take care of himself and looks older than 56. While mom is 54 and people often mistake her for my sister 😅
If Bill was smart enough not to freakin offer alcohol to a recovering alcoholic and had a tiny bit of a spine and control... Who am I kidding, its Bill.
Unfortunate... since if they both stayed Sober they'd make a good couple, Bill loves giving attention and fawning over women, perfect for Leanne
As this video points out, Leanne was manipulative and subtly abusive even without alcohol. She was bleeding him dry.
I thought after the events of this episode Leanne would never see her daughter again much less than show up to her wedding
I will say without a shadow of a doubt Leanne is WORSE then Hoyt. This is all do to the ending of their respective episodes, and how Luanne interacts with them both. To Luanne, her dad is her hero. Looking up to him, and seeing him as a good person, with Leanne it seems more like Luanne wants her attention more. Luanne knows her mom has issues but would rather ignore them for her attention, unlike her dad where she genially sees him as a good person.
Finally their endings. Leanne's is self explanatory as she makes a fool of herself, abuses Bill, steals his car and abandons her daughter.
Hoyt however I feel realized he really fucked up this time, and how much of a pos he's been to everyone especially Luanne. Him knowing how much she looks up to him, and what her finding out the truth could do to her. While its scummy to hie it from her, he's doing it in the end to protect her. Which is an admirable thing. Both cut themselves off from Luanne, however Leanne did it for a selfish reason. Hoyt cut himself off for her(not just because he was being locked up) but also because Luanne is better without him.
But maybe Im looking WAY to deep into this.
Another interesting point about Hoyt is that he's a drug addict. This makes me question his motives about marrying a pharmacist
I love that at 2:24 hank immediately goes to get the shop-vac to clean up the dog foor without a second thought
Tbh I doubt she's actually that young, she's probably older and is just lying about her age
What's interesting to me is that Leanne seemed fine with Bill running out of money. Not like I think she really loves him, but I think she was willig to hold out til next paycheck. So, if Bill had just told her he had no money left and still got his cream, it's possible she would have been his next toxic marriage.
It's very possible. She wasn't a great person off of alcohol, but she certainly got a lot worse with it. If she stayed sober it's possible she could've straightened out incrementally, however unlikely that is
One rather depressing thing to think about is the implication that Leanne is so used to men using her sexually that she feels like she HAS to give Bill something sexual in return. It didn't even cross her mind that Bill would just be happy to hang out with her
@@carlycrays2831I'd feel the same way if she didn't use him as a middle class sugar daddy. A glucose guardian, if you will.
@@PixieWixieChu-hu9pzGlucose Guardian sounds like a diabetic superhero.
My only theory about Bill not knowing about Leanne is the fact its likely he was married to Lenore and was occupied with Lenore.
16:42 One of Peggy's best moments.
You can also see Leanns nipple at 15:30 😭
point one the age difference makes a lot of sense based on the characters of Leanne and Hoyt. Point two: Leanne is very much the type to lie about her age
Leanne seems okay when sober while Hoyt is generally terrible so I'd say Hoyt is worse
I think people forget that Hoyt was prepared to threaten Luanne's life and the life of her unborn baby.
Next video should be "Gary; The Dad Hank Always Wanted"