While attending a Nashville music festival with Hank and the guys, Peggy claims that Randy Travis stole lyrics from a song she wrote years ago.
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Actor-Shared Background: Vince Gill voices Assistant Pastor Larry who like Vince, had life spent in Nashville, TN where Larry went to divinity school. - Adam Westing: Randy Travis; most of the other guest stars, such as Charlie Daniels and Wynonna Judd, do this too.
- Cameo Cluster: Numerous country music artists make cameos while Adam Westing. Peggy confronts Randy Travis about stealing lyrics from a song she wrote. Wynonna Judd, Brooks & Dunn, Clint Black, and Charlie Daniels appear as well. Vince Gill, a recurring voice actor on the show, provides the voice of the group's assistant pastor.
- Clear Their Name: In order to persuade the cops that Peggy had nothing to do with Kix Brooks' food poisoning (see below), Hank eats a bite from the Brown Betty she made that Bobby didn't drop in the grass.
- Crying Wolf: Peggy's Know-Nothing Know-It-All tendencies have made people doubt her claims of Randy Travis stealing her song, including Hank himself.
- The Food Poisoning Incident: One where none of the sides know about it until it actually happens. Bobby is set to give Brooks & Dunn a Brown Betty, only to accidentally drop it in the grass on the way to deliver it. He scoops as much of it back into the pan as he can, unaware that it's become contaminated with horse manure until Kix Brooks gets sick from eating it and has to go to the hospital. Peggy only finds out about it after the Nashville police identify her as the maker of the Brown Betty, all while she swears up and down that she had no knowledge of the incident even as the cops try to arrest her. This is one of the few times she's actually right in the episode, as she had made two of them and had nothing to do with Bobby taking and dropping one.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Hank shows that while he loves Peggy, he's getting exhausted by her (at that point, ignored but true) claims that Randy Travis stole her lyrics.Peggy: I'm just going to sit here and boo.Hank: Would a couple of beers help?Peggy: (sees Randy Travis) Boooooooo! Boooooooooo!Hank: ...sure would help me...
- Jerkass Ball: Peggy's arrogance is cranked up in this episode to the point where she assumes she automatically knows about Nashville, TN just because she got a letter from Randy Travis than the Assistant Pastor who went to divinity school there. She was the one who got Hank's friends to vandalize Randy Travis' trailer and when it got knocked into the lake, she thought it was what he deserved even though she did not know that he was inside and in danger of drowning.
- Karma Houdini: None of Hank's buddies get called out for helping Peggy vandalize the trailer. Nor is Dale found out when he interferes with an arrest on Peggy by the Nashville police force.
- Randy Travis, unsurprisingly, gets away with "stealing" Peggy's song.
- Luanne gets away with telling Bobby to clean up the Apple Brown Betty mess that inevitably leads Kix Brooks to the hospital.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Just before the end credits, when Randy Travis says that he saved Hank when it was the other way around, Hank wants to knock him out, but Peggy, apparently learning her lesson, says that it’s no use.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Peggy, need I say more?
- Plagiarism in Fiction: Peggy is exited to travel to the Country Music Festival, especially after she received a letter from Randy Travis when she sent him a copy of a song she composed. When she and Hank line up to meet him at the autograph section with the hopes of selling the right to the song, she carefully listens to his new single, which causes Peggy to march ahead of the other, irate, concert goers and when Travis blandly tells her she can't cut in line, Peggy knocks Travis to the ground and angrily accuses him of stealing her song. When they have a meeting with Travis in his trailer, he tells her the letter she received in the mail was just a standard letter his team of lawyers send in response to fan mail, and he has no recollection of seeing her lyrics, especially considering how much fan mail he gets. During a concert, Travis remembers listening to Peggy recount her youth, and claims he spent his childhood in Montana being made fun of his large feet, all the while Hank is away getting some snacks when Peggy has proof that Travis was lying. At the very end, after Travis tells the story of how he save Hank from drowning, in reality it was the other way around, Hank says he should punch Travis but Peggy just tells Hank it's no use.
- Sanity Slippage: Peggy goes crazy trying to prove that Randy Travis stole her song.
- Special Guest: Probably the most egregious example of the whole series due to the setting being that of a country music fair. In addition to all the musicians (and Tony Danza) that are Adam Westing themselves; Vince Gill voices Assistant Pastor Larry and Terri Clark voices Randy Travis's manager.
- Write What You Know: An In-Universe example, Peggy's song "This Is Just the Way God Made Me" is about her large feet and the bullying she went through because of them.
