The climactic scene in the Larsen processing plant takes place during Trip’s Halloween party and is exceptionally harrowing and violent for an episode of “King of the Hill.”
His death comes just after Trip tells Luanne why he dyed her hair and destroyed her clothing, replacing it with multiple versions of an outdated dress. He explains that he wanted to make her look like the girl in a Larsen pork products ad that had hung in his nursery during his traumatic, neglected childhood.
Fans weighed in regarding the episode in a thread on the r/King of the Hill subreddit, with most expressing delight that the writers took such a bold detour with the episode. U/Sabrefudge used a clever porcine pun in praising the episode, writing, “It takes something already weird and subverts expectations and goes REALLY hog wild with it.”
U/4Ever2Thee was thrilled by how far afield from their usual fare the “King of the Hill” writers went for “Pigmalion,” writing, “I love that they went there with it. I love shows that aren’t afraid to entertain dark ideas like this in the writer’s room.” U/EcstaticCinematicZ pointed out exactly how much “Pigmalion” differed from the rest of the series up to that point, writing, “The weird thing about this episode is that there really aren’t many jokes in it. It’s just creepy and morbid. It’s really the only horror episode of King of The Hill.”
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