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Yard, She Blows!

Season 9, Episode 4, Aired Jan 23, 2005

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Peggy becomes jealous of all the compliments Hank gets on his lawn. She tries to put her own imprint on the front yard by starting a garden, and to make it stand out, she buys a large, horrible-looking "Garden Gnome" that drives Hank crazy.moreless

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Beth Grant

Blanche
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Cynthia Mann

Sally

Mike Judge

Voice of Hank Hill, Boomhauer
Kathy Najimy

Voice of Peggy Hill
Pamela Adlon

Voice of Bobby Hill
Brittany Murphy

Voice of Luanne Platter
Johnny Hardwick

Voice of Dale Gribble
Stephen Root

Voice of Bill Dauterive

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Just below average, if you dont like peggy then dont see this episode!

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By thomasmj99, Sep 06, 2010

By the shows standereds I would say this is just below the ussualy high standereds. However as the score justifies this is still a good episode. I have never been a massive Peggy fan (but who is) although I do think she has been unfairley treated by many fans of the show (on this board in particular). I still prefer he to Marge, but in this epiosde she is at her weakest. In combination with a poor bobby performance, and a strange to say the least storyline, this episode faulters. However Hank is funny and some nice jokes make this episode wortg saving.moreless
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Jealous of the attention that Hank's prized garden gets, Peggy tries to grow some plants. When all the plants die, she instead buy a garden gnome, much to Hank's dismay. A simple but nice episode...moreless

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By Jay-Spacedust, Nov 19, 2007

I really enjoyed watching this episode. It has quite a simple but enjoyable plot, which reminded me in many ways of some of the early greats.

Peggy is her usual competative self as she struggles to find something as popular as Hank's beloved lawn. Hank in return is dismayed when she brings home a not particularly attractive garden gnome.

There is a nice, subtle gag at the end, when Jospeh, after spending the episode racing around on a power bike (he won it from Dale in a poker game!), walks past in the background on cruthes.

If Season 9 offers up some more stories as likeable as this one, maybe it won't turn out to be so bad after all. Not one of the show's most complex of plots, but a nice one.moreless
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- When Hank is holding the glue it changes to blue then back to yellow, when the shots change
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QUOTES (12)
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- Hank: I need a gnome. But not just any gnome. I need a Winklebottom. Salesman: A Winklebottom? You might as well ask me to move a rainbow! Hank: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just weird.
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- Hank: Come on, Peggy, it was just a garden gnome. Peggy: Yeah, and propane is just a stupid gas!
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- (Hank buys a gnome named Figgleforth) Salesman: Come back and see us any time. Hank: Yeah, I don't think so. Salesman: I was speaking to Figgleforth!
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- Dale: So, is that a ceramic gnome or did Peggy kill a real gnome and take it to a taxidermist?
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- Hank: Why would anyone do drugs when they could just mow a lawn?
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- Hank: I'm not a dork, I sell propane.
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- Peggy: Excuse me, do you know of a plant that can withstand over-watering, inadequate fertilization, and perhaps some overzealous pruning? Garden Store Clerk: Yeah, they're called weeds.
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- Hank: Yeah, Peggy's fixin' up the front yard a bit Dale: Gee Hank, if your wife wants to screw something up, why can't she just stick to Bobby?
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- Bill: (about the garden gnome) Gosh, Hank, what will people think when they see that thing out here? Hank: God willing, they'll think Peggy's a widow.
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- Luanne: Ooh! An estate sale! Pull over, dead people have tons of clothes that they don't want anymore.
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- Hank: Well, it's just that people are starting to, you know, say nasty things about our house. Peggy: Like what? What are they saying? Hank: Like yesterday, I heard the Fed Ex guy call our house `the one with the gnome out front`.
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- Hank: I tell you what, how 'bout we repaint the kitchen? You can pick out any shade of white you want.
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- The German tourist town, "New Hoffensheim," is based on a real place on I-35, New Braunfels. In the script, the town is actually called New Braunfels, but it was changed to a fictionalized name.
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- Tagline: "Hank likes the gnome." - Bill
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- Kathy Najimy and Cynthia Mann previously worked together on Veronica's Closet.
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- Peggy (about her drapes): I bought these the day John Lennon was shot! That would have been December 8, 1980. Singer-songwriter, activist and former Beatles guitarist John Lennon was killed in New York City by a severely disturbed young man who had a bizarre obsession with him.
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- Title pun: Thar, she blows! A line from Melville's Novel Moby Dick.
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- The song Hank is singing while watering his lawn is the theme tune to a classic TV show 'Green Acres'.
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