Peggy Hill - Biography

Biography

Peggy is the matriarch of the Hill family, and the wife of series protagonist Hank Hill, mother to Robert Jeffrey "Bobby" Hill, and aunt to Luanne Platter. Other relatives, including her brother, mother, and father, are featured in the series at various times. She was born in Montana, but moved to Texas as a teenager, where she met Hank Hill. She wears glasses and is generally seen wearing sleeveless blouses and culottes. She is self-centered, most likely caused by her overcompensating for her poor relationship with her mother. Her self-centered attitude often makes her the butt of jokes. She sees herself as smarter than most everyone, but her intelligence and common sense come in to question on several different occasions, as she often makes ridiculous and senseless remarks. For instance, in the episode "The Substitute Spanish Prisoner," Hank reminds Peggy that her IQ is 175, but a flustered Peggy reveals that is only her own estimate. She also has a habit of claiming obvious facts as her own opinions, such as in "Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men" when she says that in her opinion, the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year, though this statement is commonly accepted as fact. She also gloats about her bilingualism, as she claims to be fluent in Spanish, but her inability to speak and understand the Spanish language is obvious. While Hank is an athlete, Peggy is herself both a scholar and an athlete. Although she has relatively normal height for a woman, she has abnormally large feet – she wears a size 16½ shoe on her left foot, and a size 16 on her right—the one trait she is horribly insecure about. Although it's been said that such feet give her the great exceptional athletic ability she has. She is gifted at baseball, among other sports. She is also skilled at playing Boggle, and once won the Texas State Boggle Championship.