In this nightmarish episode (which originally was scheduled for season five, but was pulled due to violent content), Luanne dates a pork company magnate (voiced by Michael Keaton) who wants to model her after the woman on his logo.
Tropes:
- Big "SHUT UP!": Trip screams this to a squealing pig behind the closet...in German. "SCHWEIGEN!"
- Bittersweet Ending: Luanne escapes from Trip, who has regained his sanity too little, too late as he is immediately killed in the slaughterhouse.
- Brutal Honesty: Peggy's thoughts on Trip's gruesome ending.Luanne: Well, at least Trip seemed happy. And now he's in a better place.Peggy: Honey, Trip had a mental breakdown and is now a sausage. That is not a better place.
- Darker and Edgier: Easily the darkest episode in an otherwise light-hearted show.
- Delusions of Doghood: Trip is obsessed with becoming the pig from an old Larson Pork Products ad.
- Domestic Abuse: Trip terrorizes Luanne and tries to physically mold her into being identical to the original Larson Pork Products Girl from the old ad, to the point he dyes Luanne's hair in her sleep, threatens to shave her bald when she doesn't like it, and mentions the prospect of having her teeth surgically altered.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: When Luanne is attacked by the pig in the mansion, the camera shows a close-up of its face where we can see the snot running from its nose.
- Halloween Episode: The episode takes place around the holiday, and has the darker tone usually associated with episodes of its type.
- Hearing Voices: When Trip's sanity is restored he cheerfully states that he isn't hearing voices anymore. By then, it's too late and all he can muster before getting killed is a quick realization he's screwed.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: The electric shock cures Trip's insanity... unfortunately, the bolt pistol is up next.
- Killed Off for Real: Trip suffers a horrific death, though mercifully not shown on camera.
- Mr. Alt Disney: Trip Larsen basically looks like Mr. Disney himself.
- Rule of Symbolism: As the movers Trip hired take Luanne's belongings out from the truck, the camera pans to Trip's pigs being sent to slaughter, much like how Luanne is being led down a dark path by Trip.
- Special Guest: Michael Keaton as Trip Larsen.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Peggy's stubborn refusal to give Luanne a say in where she can work her own job ultimately ends up directly leading her to accept Trip's offer solely out of spite. Needless to say, Peggy is absolutely horrified when she realizes she nearly, albeit not directly, killed Luanne.
- Unexpectedly Dark Episode: Quite possibly the darkest episode of King of the Hill, and one of the darkest pieces of Western Animation ever made. Luanne is tricked into an abusive relationship with a mentally unstable man who Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality. It ultimately ends with the man in question falling into his sausage making machine, implied to have been impaled head first and, most disturbingly, was ecstatic that it was about to happen until just seconds before it happens when he manages to regain his sanity, at which point it's too late to stop it from happening.
