![]() Peggy's twin brother, Hoyt, is Luanne's father. In both versions her mother tends to be critical of her, albeit for different reasons.Īccording to Bill, Peggy had a crush on a boy named Bob Cecil when she was in the tenth grade and they apparently went to a basketball game together, but it never went anywhere because he didn't like her ( Pretty, Pretty Dresses). In fact, the suggestion in the later episode is that Peggy left her parents behind when she went to Texas, which is a significant alteration. These appearances are discarded by " A Rover Runs Through It". Platter is seen visiting in the Hills' home, implying that she lives in or near Arlen, Texas, and is on speaking terms with her daughter (although the episode " Happy Hank's Giving," in which she appears in her original incarnation, implies that her mother either still lives in Montana or moved back). These portrayals of her parents, from the episode " A Rover Runs Through It", are actually a retconned version differing quite noticeably from the homemaker mother – and presumably equally suburban father – displayed in flashbacks in earlier episodes, " I Remember Mono" and " Transnational Amusements Presents: Peggy's Magic Sex Feet". Peggy's mother was extremely critical, and her father was aloof and spoke in obtuse, nature-based metaphors that were the foundation of Hank's admiration towards Doc. Her family includes Doc Platter (father), Maddy Platter (mother), Leanne Platter (ex sister-in-law), Luanne Platter (niece), Hoyt Platter (twin brother), Laverne (aunt) and Boppo (uncle). Peggy also uses a catch phrase "Ho yeah!" when she feels accomplished.īorn in Montana to cattle ranchers, she moved to Texas for her high school years. She also responded affirmatively when Hank asked if she was reading her "rabbi mysteries", a probable reference to the novels of Harry Kemelman. Peggy is a fan of Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner. Nancy once described Peggy as always wanting to see the best in others, explaining some of her gullibility and naivety, which she attributes as the reason why Peggy was the only one not to figure out about Nancy's affair with John Redcorn until Hank pointed it out to her in " Peggy's Headache". This may explain her overachiever status and egomania (Narcissistic personality disorder) and her tendency to react spitefully out of fear when her power roles (good mother, good citizen, good teacher) are challenged by events. Her personality appears to be ironic, considering her rough relationship with her abusive mother, who never thought she was good at anything. She was also adamant about impressing her new boss, Chris Sizemore, when she worked at Chris Sizemore Realty, which (despite a few hiccups) eventually allowed her to use her cleverness to succeed. Like her husband, she has an impressive work ethic coupled with mediocre intelligence and minimal ambition: the greatest achievement of her career as an educator was to win Tom Landry Middle School's "Substitute Teacher of the Year Award" three sequential years, despite the award being a meaningless vote-based self-promotion (created by Peggy herself) that nobody else really cared about. ![]() In " Hank's Bad Hair Day," after learning that Bobby wants to use Hank's barber instead of having Peggy cutting his hair, she throws out Bobby's untouched glass of chocolate milk, spitefully saying, "You're much too old for chocolate milk." When her authority is challenged in the slightest, Peggy often takes her anger out in petty, childish ways, suggesting she actually has a poor self-esteem and relies heavily on her family and community's perceptions of her as a good wife and mother. The often-humorous conflict between what Peggy thinks she knows and what she actually knows is a common source of plot drama in the series, and the trouble caused by a negative aspect of her personality is often repaired in the end by a positive aspect of her personality. Peggy's primary characteristics are her helpful gregariousness and her highly inflated sense of self-worth: she always has a proactive, can-do attitude, but she rarely recognizes when she is wrong or ignorant and will often become bitter or stubborn and refuse to admit it until the last minute. She is an average framed woman standing at about 5'7" who wears a disproportionate size 16½ shoe on her left foot and size 16 on her right- which has been a constant source of her misery. Peggy wears square, rimless glasses and is generally seen wearing cut-off blouses and culottes. She has been said to be beautiful (mostly by herself and Bill) despite being considered frumpy due to her granny-beehive and unfashionable glasses, not to mention her tendency to wear culottes.
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