| Luanne Platter | |
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 Luanne Platter (Left), her aunt Peggy Hill (Right) |
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| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1. Margaret "Peggy" Hill ( née Platter) is the wife of Hank Hill and the mother of Bobby Hill in the Animated series "Pilot" is the first episode of the FOX Animated television series King of the Hill. 01) |
| Portrayed by | Brittany Murphy |
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| Gender | Female |
| Age | 22 |
| Occupation | Hair stylist at Jack's Barbershop |
| Spouse(s) | Buckley (deceased ex-boyfriend) Rad Thibodeaux (ex-boyfriend) Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt (husband) |
Luanne Leanne Platter Kleinschmidt (voiced by Brittany Murphy) is a character in the animated series King of the Hill. Brittany Anne Murphy (born Brittany Bertolotti on November 10, 1977) is an American actress and Recording artist. Brittany Anne Murphy (born Brittany Bertolotti on November 10, 1977) is an American actress and Recording artist. An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer King of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels for the Fox Broadcasting Company She is the niece of Peggy Hill and Hank Hill (her father is Peggy's brother) and a cousin of Bobby Hill. Margaret "Peggy" Hill ( née Platter) is the wife of Hank Hill and the mother of Bobby Hill in the Animated series Hank Rutherford Hill is a Fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. Robert Jeffrey "Bobby" Hill is a character on the animated series King of the Hill and is voiced by Pamela Adlon (sometimes as Pamela Segall She is drawn voluptuously, with an hourglass figure that she highlights with her standard outfit of green tank top, red spandex cycling shorts, and white athletic shoes. Many shapes have metaphorical names, ie their names are Metaphors these Shapes are named after a most common object that has it A sleeveless shirt, tank top or singlet (or sometimes Vest) is a Shirt manufactured without Sleeves or one where the sleeves Spandex or elastane is a Synthetic fiber known for its exceptional elasticity. Cycling shorts (also known as bike shorts or bicycling shorts) are short skin-tight legwear designed to improve comfort and efficiency while Cycling In more professional settings, she may wear a reddish orange t-shirt with jeans, or a low-cut yellow dress for church. Jeans are Trousers made from Denim. Mainly designed for work, they became popular among Teenagers starting in the 1950s. A dress (also frock, gown) is a garment consisting of a Skirt with an attached Bodice or with a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece
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Character
Luanne, as a character, has undergone some drastic changes as the show progressed. In the first season, she was portrayed as being somewhat intelligent (in one episode, she easily diagnosed and repaired a complex vehicle malfunction), had a husky voice that closely resembled Joseph's (perhaps due to Murphy also providing the voice of Joseph at the time), and would easily stand up to people who wronged her (she even threatened the lecherous Cotton Hill at one point).
However, the show has since changed her character significantly, raising the pitch of her voice and portraying her as a completely naïve character who is easily swayed by ideas presented to her. She has almost become a dumb blonde stereotype. A stereotype (from Greek: stereo + týpos = "solid impression" is a generalized perception of first impressions behaviors presumed by a group She is unaware of even some simple words such as the meaning of "ignorant" (at one point in the show she attempts to assert herself by stating that she is a "proud, ignorant woman"). She briefly joined a Jack Chick/Fred Phelps-inspired evangelical movement, registered as a Communist when a recruiter informed her that George W. Bush devours puppies, and was lured into a cult that wanted her to work on a farm, growing fruit to make jelly. Jack Thomas Chick (born April 13, 1924) is an American Publisher, writer and comic book artist, and has been called the most published Fred Waldron Phelps Sr (born November 13 1929 is an George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. A puppy or pup is a juvenile Dog, generally less than one year of age that has not reached sexual maturity This article does not discuss "cult" in the original sense of "veneration" or "religious practice" for that usage see Cult (religious practice
During the initial seasons of the show, Luanne was presented as somewhat promiscuous, though in an episode midway through the series run ("Luanne, Virgin 2.0"), she became a born again virgin who puts on a puppet show (she is a Methodist, like most other characters on the show) and vowed not to have any more premarital sex. This is a list of episodes of the FOX Animated television series King of the Hill. A puppet is a representational figure manipulated by a Puppeteer. Methodism is a movement within Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations However, in a 2006 episode she announced to Hank, Peggy, Bobby and Lucky that she was pregnant with Lucky's child. Throughout the course of the show, her character and that of Joseph Gribble (who hit puberty in Season 5) are two of the few characters on the show to "grow", and Luanne is arguably the only character to have a character arc. Joseph John Gribble (Redcorn is a character on the animated television series King of the Hill. A character arc is the status of the character as it unfolds throughout the story, the Storyline or series of episodes
Coming to live with the Hills
In the pilot episode, Luanne stays with the Hills while her parents sort out some marital issues; near the end of the episode, a tearful Luanne informs Hank that her mother stabbed her father with a fork and that their trailer home has capsized. A television pilot is a test episode of an intended Television series. Mobile homes or static caravans are prefabricated homes built in factories rather than on site and then taken to the place where they will be occupied She apparently moves in with the Hills permanently between the first and second episodes, turning Hank's beloved den into her bedroom, and remained with them for the majority of the series' run.
In an early episode ("Texas City Twister"), Hank, wanting to get Luanne out of his den and help her become self-reliant, tried to get her to move back into her trailer. He, Dale Gribble, Bill Dauterive, and Boomhauer attached a winch to the trailer and righted it, much to Luanne's consternation. Dale Alvin Gribble (voiced by Johnny Hardwick) is a Fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. William Fontaine DeLaTour "Bill" Dauterive (born Guillaume Fontaine de la Tour d'Haute Rive) is a character in the animated series King of Boomhauer (voiced by Mike Judge) is a character in the Animated series King of the Hill. A tornado struck shortly thereafter, tipping the trailer back over and nearly killing the Hills and Luanne in the process. The near-death experience changed Hank's views on his niece staying with him. Nevertheless, Hank wanting Luanne out of his den became a recurring theme (though he does love her).
Puppetry
In another early episode ("Meet the Manger Babies"), a glum Luanne discovers a box of cheap sock puppets at a garage sale and uses them to create a Christian-themed puppet show called "The Manger Babies", about the adventures of the animals who witnessed the birth of Jesus Christ. A sock puppet is a Puppet made from a Sock (or similar garment which is placed over the hand of a Puppeteer. A garage sale, also known as a yard sale, rummage sale, tag sale, attic sale, moving sale, or junk sale, is an informal Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Oddly, the Manger Babies include a six-legged octopus and a penguin. The popularity of Luanne's show lands her a part-time job performing weekly shows for local TV station channel 84, a job she has maintained throughout the run of the series. A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and Video to Television receivers in a particular area
Relationship with Buckley
For the first two seasons, Luanne dated Buckley (voiced by David Herman), a monosyllabic, rude, and idiotic clerk at the Mega Lo Mart. David Herman (born February 20, 1967) is an American Actor, Comedian and Voice actor. King of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels for the Fox Broadcasting Company Their relationship was apparently based around sex, as Buckley's romantic zenith was presenting Luanne with a birthday present that consisted of some old CDs that he didn't want anymore. Sexual intercourse, in its biological sense is the act in which the male reproductive organ (in humans and other higher animals enters the female reproductive tract A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio They were rarely seen speaking, and when they were presented engaging in conversation, it usually consisted of Buckley making vague sexual remarks. It was very clear throughout the series that Hank did not like Buckley and thought of him as a degenerate.
In the second season's finale, Buckley ignores Hank's advice not to drag around propane tanks by their nozzles, causing a gas leak that eventually blows up the Mega Lo Mart. Propane is a three- Carbon Alkane, normally a gas but compressible to a liquid that is transportable Luanne, Buckley, Hank, and Chuck Mangione are trapped inside and, in the third season premiere, we learn that Buckley was killed in the explosion. Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione (born November 29, 1940) is an American Flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1978 Luanne survives, though the flames vaporize her hair. She claims that because she "did not look back" at Buckley after she broke up with him seconds before the blast, that she was able to retain her eyebrows. She was more upset at the loss of her hair than Buckley's death, but she came around at the end of the episode.
In a rare instance for an animated series, Luanne's hair did not "magically" regrow by the next episode; instead, each successive episode features Luanne's hair steadily becoming longer and longer until it had grown back to its previous length. Her hair did realistically regrow within the episode from smooth bald to fuzzy stubble over a couple days. She decided to quit beauty school and stop "making the world look pretty," and instead became a photojournalist. Photojournalism is a particular form of Journalism (the collecting editing and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast that creates images in order to tell She briefly becomes an outspoken activist for starving Irish children in a send-up of Sinéad O'Connor. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnɚ (born 8 December 1966 is a Grammy Award winning Irish singer and songwriter Eventually she realizes her anger was a result of her pain over Buckley's death.
Later relationships
Following Buckley's demise, Luanne briefly dated self-proclaimed genius Rad Thibodeaux (TIB-uh-doh, though he pronounced it phonetically as Thi-bo-DAY-ux), voiced by Matthew McConaughey. Matthew David McConaughey (məˈkɑnəˌheɪ born November 4 1969 is an American Actor. She later became a "born-again virgin", participating in a church ceremony in which she vowed not to have any more premarital sex. Initially, Luanne buckled under stress and nearly married Rhett Van Der Graaf (Owen Wilson), an insecure, neurotic boy of 22 just so that she could have sex again, but eventually decided against this and remained celibate. Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award -nominated American Actor and Writer.
She nearly got married a second time to a meat-packing tycoon named Trip Larson (Michael Keaton). Michael John Douglas (born September 9 1951 better known by the stage name Michael Keaton, is an American Actor, known for his early comedic roles in Luanne eventually learned that Trip was attracted to her because she was a dead ringer for the woman in the company's advertisement featuring a Swiss girl and a mountain climber posing with a pig. Trip, a schizophrenic, had fantasized since childhood of being the pig in the advertisement, and planned to turn Luanne into the Swiss girl by dying her hair red and forcing her to dress in a frilly blue and white pinafore, so that she could care for him. Schizophrenia ( from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν "to split" and phrēn A pinafore (colloquially pinny in British English) is a Sleeveless garment worn as an Apron Trip was subsequently killed in a bizarre accident in the slaughter shed when he tried to lure Luanne into committing suicide with him. In a bit of tragic irony, he finally became sane after suffering an electrical accident which served as ad hoc electroshock therapy seconds before his death. Electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT) also known as electroshock, is a controversial psychiatric treatment in which Seizures are electrically induced
In Seasons Ten through Twelve, Luanne became the girlfriend, then wife, of Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt (Tom Petty), a bucktoothed, sleazy, lazy, stereotypical redneck who makes his money by intentionally injuring himself inside stores and then suing the owner. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950 is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist A stereotype (from Greek: stereo + týpos = "solid impression" is a generalized perception of first impressions behaviors presumed by a group Redneck refers to a Stereotype of usually Rural, Caucasian (i He sometimes also plays in local rock bands, including the one led by John Redcorn, he dropped out of school in 9th grade because he wasn't allowed to smoke. John Redcorn (originally voiced by Victor Aaron, later by Jonathan Joss) is a character in the Animated series King of the Hill. Luanne is apparently attracted to him because of his resemblance to the trailer people with whom she grew up. Lucky consistently shows his devotion and love for Luanne, such as in "Life: A Loser's Manual" when he protects her from her from discerning her father's criminality.
Luanne is often seen with "in" girls who wear trendy clothing. On one occasion, Luanne seems to mutter "Lucy" and a blonde, trendy, teen turns around but she goes off into a group of more girls before a conversation ensues. After a time, Lucy can be seen as a background character in mall scenes, school scenes and so-forth. No other friends have been named personally by Luanne other than Lucy.
Education
When the series began, Luanne was beginning classes at the Arlen Beauty College, with the ambition of becoming a Hollywood makeup artist and successfully hiding the bags beneath Michael Douglas' eyes. Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American Actor and producer, primarily in Movies and Television Following Buckley's death, she had visions of Buckley in angelic form, who informed her that Jesus wanted her to take a different path in life. During one of these visions, Luanne crashed her car into the parking lot of a community college, where she was mistaken for a student. Luanne took this as a sign to begin pursuing a higher education and dropped out of beauty school and enrolled in the community college. What she was studying was never made explicit, though in one episode she mentions "pre-med", in another she states she is a "pre-education major", and in yet another, implies that she's taking psychology, though her definition of the word to Peggy ("the disease of psychology") indicates she was probably failing the course.
Luanne's enrollment in college provided the impetus for her to move out of Hank's house, a move made easier when Bill's next door neighbor, an angry old man, suddenly died of a heart attack while mowing his lawn. Luanne moved into the home with a trio of arrogant slackers and radicals, who chastised her for not accepting their lifestyles and personal philosophies while at the same time refusing to clean up after themselves or pay the rent. Luanne's roommate problem was apparently solved when Cotton Hill arrived at her house in the middle of the night looking for his friend (the previous owner) and instead was greeted by one of Luanne's roommates (voiced by Andy Dick), who accused Cotton of being a Nazi; enraged, Cotton attacked the roommate. Cotton Lyndal Hill was a Fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. Andrew R "Andy" Dick (born December 21 1965 is an American Comedian, Actor, Voice artist, Musician and Producer Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German He is briefly seen in the fifth season episode, "Hank and the Great Glass Elevator" at Luanne's party.
Reduced role
Shortly after Luanne began attending college, her role in the series was diminished, almost to the point that the character was written out of the show (for an extended period, she did not appear in any episodes). This was due to Brittany Murphy's increasing popularity at the box office and her pursuit of a movie career. One prominent episode that came around the time of Murphy's temporary departure was a 2000 "election special" in which Hank encouraged her to become involved in politics so that she could vote for George W. Bush in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican During voter registration, though, Luanne was informed by a "lady in a poncho" that Bush ate puppies; Luanne took the woman on her word, and registered as a Communist.
Career fulfillment
After a few seasons, Luanne became a full-time character again, as she began working part-time at a hip unisex salon called "Hottyz" with Hank's friend Bill Dauterive, where her ability earned her the position of First Chair (the closest chair to the door, reserved for the best stylist in the salon). Bill was only permitted to work at the salon because the other employees believed him to be a homosexual, under the assumption that only gay men can properly style hair, and because they wanted to use him as a status symbol. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. When the manager of Hottyz found out that Bill was a heterosexual, he and Luanne were fired. Hank approached his mentally-ill barber, Jack, about giving Luanne a job. Upon discovering that he would be "stealing" Hottyz' first chair, Jack happily accepted. Luanne left college and became a full-time hair stylist for Jack, and moved back in with the Hills (after an offer from Peggy) in order to save money.
Trivia
- A running gag in the series is for Luanne to sob hysterically in front of Hank who has only the faintest idea how to react to a distraught woman while Peggy demands Hank deal with her without her assistance. The running gag is an often amusing Joke or reference that appears repeatedly throughout a work or series of works
- She is named after the "Lu Ann Platter" dish served by the Luby's Texas cafeteria chain (parodied as "Luly's" in the series). Luby's Inc (formerly Luby's Cafeterias Inc is a Cafeteria-style restaurant chain originally founded in 1947 in San Antonio Texas. InfosysElectronicCityCafeteriaJPG|thumb|250px|right|One of a number of cafeterias at Electronic City campus Infosys Technologies Ltd The dish is a half-portion entree with vegetables.
- In the Season 10 finale, "Edu-macating Lucky", Luanne's middle name was revealed to be "Leanne", apparently sharing her mother's first name.
- In several episodes, Luanne is seen driving a white 1997-up Geo Metro or Suzuki Swift two-door hatchback.
- Luanne is a member of the Propaniacs, a comedy troupe dedicated to making jokes and gags based around propane and related material.
In other media
A clip from Fox's Funniest Outtakes shows Luanne talking to Hank and her breasts popping out of her green top, accidentally exposing herself to Hank and his friends in the alley and causing Hank to remark "Come on, Luanne; you already got the job!"
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