King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

[Ruin]

I'm curious if Bobby is a moderately successful lower middle class man like Hank or if they go the stoned slacker route.

 

[Never Scored]

Two things I learned about the Hillennium episode:

Whack-A-Mole is a peg-and-gear type of game.
Y2K paranoia was real.

Anybody remember when the year 2000 hit? How was it?

A few pages back, but I was in grade 10 in Fall 1999, and we were doing that thing they make you do where you do research and write a speech and read it to the class. One girl did a speech saying generators at the hospital would shut down and shit due to Y2K. When she asked if there were any questions, I raised my hand and said a generator doesn't know the date. I got detention over it lol.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Two things I learned about the Hillennium episode:

Whack-A-Mole is a peg-and-gear type of game.
Y2K paranoia was real.

Anybody remember when the year 2000 hit? How was it?

I was only five, so I knew nothing about it besides what the Simpsons did to "celebrate" it.

 

[The Last Stand]

“I am sure Greg Daniels and Mike Judge will murder me for sharing this but… HELL YES. They are in hot negotiations to bring back King of the Hill. The Trump administration made it suddenly very relevant again. The characters have all aged 15 years. The project is sooooo good. Okay I’ve said too much ”

I'm sure the Trump administration (well now, even the Biden administration) has potential for jokes, but the appeal of King of the Hill were the characters being put in everyday situations. The political jokes would have the characters REACT to it, not be center stage of it.

I worry that it'll focus too much on making political jabs and forcing KoTH onto them.

Maybe a Samurai Jack final season that wraps up how the characters grew after that time, then let them be? In that case, you'd have to end it on a good note. Not go off on a cliffhanger because of lower ratings or cancellations.

Look at The Golden Girls and The Golden Palace as an example. Look at That 70s Show and That 80s Show as another example.

 

[The Last Stand]

I remember that Thanksgiving episode from Season 5. The Peggy subplot was corny.

Spoiler: S5 Spoilers

John Redcorn is quite entitled in this episode. Asking for reparations that happened centuries ago and taking it out on the neighborhood because they're White. Then when Bobby flips the script and calls John Redcorn a cannibal, Redcorn flips out.

And John tried to brainwash Bobby with revisionist, victim history. It left me with a sour taste. This episode is ahead of the curve.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Tears of an Inflatable Clown is the absolute perfect explanation of how Identity Politics works and it was written over a decade ago.

 

[cactus]

I remember that Thanksgiving episode from Season 5. The Peggy subplot was corny.

Spoiler: S5 Spoilers

John Redcorn is quite entitled in this episode. Asking for reparations that happened centuries ago and taking it out on the neighborhood because they're White. Then when Bobby flips the script and calls John Redcorn a cannibal, Redcorn flips out.

And John tried to brainwash Bobby with revisionist, victim history. It left me with a sour taste. This episode is ahead of the curve.

John Redcorn was bitter he couldn't share his heritage with Joseph, he took it out on the neighborhood because Dale was raising his son, not because they were white. Bobby just so happened to happily take the place John wanted Joseph to take.

 

[Slap47]

I just can't see shows like the Boondocks and King of the Hill getting good reboots. Obese white women from LA are almost always bad writers.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I just can't see shows like the Boondocks and King of the Hill getting good reboots. Obese white women from LA are almost always bad writers.

I agree and it's doubtful they'll offshore to writers overseas...

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Soooooooo.......
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This could either be really good or really bad.

Right. I'll check it out because I'm a fan of the show but I don't have high hopes. The Beavis and Butt-Head revival and Goode Family were both okay but both were below average compared to the later seasons of King of the Hill.

 

[Syaoran Li]

If it weren't for cancel culture and the payment processors possibly fucking with him, Mike Judge could make a KOTH revival work if he did it as a streaming exclusive (with a DVD release down the line) and have his crew do everything for the show in-house in Texas and not California

Still, I'm glad the show ended when it did

 

[draggs]

I'm curious if Bobby is a moderately successful lower middle class man like Hank or if they go the stoned slacker route.

I think the hills are on the border between regular middle class and upper middle class. I don't remember but I'm sure there is an episode or two where they have money troubles, but they have money for all hanks propane toys, they're always going on adventures that require time off from work and money to have (though Strickland no doubt pays Hank anyway), rider mowers, trucks, lots of tools, construction materials, they're the old style consoomers of the stuff that used to power murica's economy. Their lifestyle requires a decent sized pile of disposable income every year.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

Anybody remember when the year 2000 hit? How was it?

I was a high school student at the time: we were kind of paranoid, but in a not too serious way. Like, we thought shit would be bad, but at worst blackouts and looting, but not the end of days. Then absolutely nothing happened, and we shrugged and moved on. For the record, I was watching TV or playing N64 on Midnight January 1st, 2000, and since the TV didn't magically shut off, I knew the coast was clear.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

 

[The Last Stand]

"If I stole all that land, would I be living in a dang eighth of an acre?"

 

[MysticMisty]

John Redcorn was bitter he couldn't share his heritage with Joseph, he took it out on the neighborhood because Dale was raising his son, not because they were white. Bobby just so happened to happily take the place John wanted Joseph to take.

This. Hence why near the end Nancy couldn't take Joseph shittalking John anymore and thought of a roundabout way to explain that they're "distantly" related, and that makes his attitude towards him unacceptable.

If they're serious about a sequel series I'm going to go ahead and guess that Joseph grew up as clueless as Dale, but Bobby figured it out decades ago.

 

[James Roancrest]

Hanks rise up! We live in a propane and propane accessory-based society!

 

[Strange Wilderness]

This. Hence why near the end Nancy couldn't take Joseph shittalking John anymore and thought of a roundabout way to explain that they're "distantly" related, and that makes his attitude towards him unacceptable.

If they're serious about a sequel series I'm going to go ahead and guess that Joseph grew up as clueless as Dale, but Bobby figured it out decades ago.

Didn't they imply in an early episode that even Bobby knew about the affair? The one with the ants

BOBBY: Hey, look at that chubby white one. It reminds me of me before my growth spurt.
JOSEPH: That's the Queen, stupid. It looks just like the one on my dad's truck.
BOBBY: You mean Dale Gribble's truck?
JOSEPH: Yeah, my dad.

 

[Ruin]

Didn't they imply in an early episode that even Bobby knew about the affair? The one with the ants

BOBBY: Hey, look at that chubby white one. It reminds me of me before my growth spurt.
JOSEPH: That's the Queen, stupid. It looks just like the one on my dad's truck.
BOBBY: You mean Dale Gribble's truck?
JOSEPH: Yeah, my dad.

They do in Peggy's headache too

Peggy: My God does everyone in this house know except me?
Hank: (mumbles) yes

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I'm curious if Bobby is a moderately successful lower middle class man like Hank or if they go the stoned slacker route.

In a smart world, it will be about Bobby as a (less super wealthy, more middle class) Pewdiepie analog, Peggy dead and Bobby having to move back home to take care of his dad akin to the set up of Fraiser.