Nancy Hicks-Gribble is Dale's wife, Joseph's mother, and weather-girl-turned-anchor for local news station Channel 84. Nancy and Dale are an odd couple; Nancy is a beautiful, curvaceous blond. Her husband Dale is scrawny, balding, and is rarely seen without a cigarette or his baseball cap. Nancy is successful in her job, whereas Dale is a high-strung conspiracy theorist who started his own pest control business which just pays the cable bill. Dale admits that Nancy earns more money than he does, and she keeps a tight reign on their household expenses. In one episode, Dale exclaims "I support this family!" and Nancy replies "I support this family, you pay the cable bill." She had a fourteen-year affair with John Redcorn, which produced her son, Joseph, although he eventually broke off the a