Peggy enters a beauty pageant contest to win a new truck, but quickly finds she's out of her element and works hard to compete with the other women.
Tropes:
- Beauty Contest: Peggy enters one in the hopes to win a new truck. But when she sees the women who are more beautiful as well as more superior in other areas (like career and family), she becomes intimidated as well as not quite fitting in with the lifestyle.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Luanne doesn't take being fired as Peggy's stylist well, despite her attempts to sugar-coat it. She is seen later on trying to put her glasses in the sink disposal (she already done that to one of her shoes) before Hank catches her.
- The Stinger has Luanne trying to fix Peggy's hair but botches it, making her hair green and looking like a troll. Luanne then walks away, laughing evilly, showing the botch was intentional.
- Bribe Backfire: After a bad disagreement between Peggy and Nancy (who's serving as a judge for the pageant), Hank attempts to bribe the Gribbles by giving Dale a plate of brownies and even offers to lend him a ratchet set. Dale keeps demanding to keep it, aware of the situation, but Hank, having enough, crosses the hedge to kick his ass, making Dale run away.
- Brick Joke: Looking through the scrapbook, Bobby sees himself with the world's largest roadrunner, which prompts Peggy to ask if he still had nightmares where it was pecking out his eyes, to which he replied "no". Then the next scene, with Hank and Peggy talking about the latter's insecurities, Bobby is heard screaming, having another roadrunner nightmare.
- Call-Back: Hank catches Luanne before she drops Peggy's eyeglasses down the garbage disposal (in retaliation for firing Luanne as her hair stylist). Luanne has enacted vengeance against people in this fashion before: in "Propane Boom", she attempts to do this to Hank (for "stealing" her job at Mega-Lo Mart) by flushing his truck keys, but she mistakenly flushes Peggy's keys instead.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Buck Strickland speaks to Debbie Grund through a speaker-phone after he agrees to pay for Peggy's modelling expenses. He first thought it was Luanne he was paying for but after learning it was Peggy, he then inquires if Debbie finished writing the check. She says yes, much to his chagrin.
- Heroic BSoD: Happens to Peggy just as she heads for the contest, when her fake ass falls apart due to Buck Strickland (her sponsor) getting cheap duct tape and not wearing shoes, showing off her feet covered in duct tape. And on top of this, the make-up place locks its doors. She's about to break down, then Hank appears, with his truck painted white (just like the one she was hoping to win) and persuades her she's beautiful like she is and both head home.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: While before Peggy felt confident about her looks, she really finds herself out of her element with the other pageant contestants. She ends up dropping Luanne as her stylist and hires a professional that improves her looks, though the use of duct tape ends up messing everything up for her in the end.
- I Was Quite a Looker: Bobby looks through an old scrapbook and sees an old picture of Hank and Peggy, to which Bobby says she used to be beautiful, but Peggy counters.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Not as blatant as later episodes, but this is the first episode where we see that Peggy's Spanish is not as good as she says it is. During an interview with the judges, one of them being a Spanish-speaker asks her a complex question about the information superhighway. And she responds, with a "Si", which prompts a confounded gaze from him, then her adding, "Si, amigo?"
- Morton's Fork: How Hank feels when Peggy asks him if she would win if she entered a beauty pageant contest, to which Hank replies it's a loaded question; no matter how he answers, there's a bullet in every chamber to blow his brains out. He even has an Oh, Crap! face when she asks him.
- No Sympathy: Hank explains to Luanne about the bind Peggy is in with the beauty pageant; how she's not good enough and how she needs to realize this and quit or go through with it and probably lose, and how this will be a blow to her confidence. Luanne, still angry at Peggy over being fired, doesn't feel bad about her situation.
- Only in It for the Money: A variant. Peggy enters the beauty pageant contest, so she can win herself a nice-looking white truck.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: The professional stylist Peggy hires after dropping Luanne manages to make Peggy look quite pretty with a new hairstyle, makeup, and a blue dress. To be fair, Peggy isn't unattractive; it's mainly her styling choices (clothes that aren't flattering to her body, an old-fashioned hairstyle, and rather large glasses) that make her look older than she really is.
- Special Guest: Carol Alt as Marci, Erik Estrada as the Mexican Judge, Kathy Ireland as Sylvia and Mary Kay Place as Helen Pell.
- Uncanny Valley Makeup: Peggy hires Luanne as her stylist, though unfortunately, she's not that good at her job. Exemplified when she puts red highlights in her hair, with Minh making fun of her, saying she looks like Ronald McDonald.
