King of the Hill

My favourite moment ever: Kahn using Buckley's funeral as an opportunity to relate the parable about the monk, the tigers and the strawberry; and Hank's appalled "Can you believe this guy? Tells a joke at a funeral!"

The Sanglok Lama episode is unbelievable. Perhaps my favorite in the whole series.

Wait, that's not the episode with Buckley's funeral! Either Myonga is mixing up two eps or I am.

This past season's been pretty shitty.

also: "is an animated television program on the Fox network (snigger)."

I had a dream last night that Mike Judge and Mitchell Hurwitz were having a bitch battle over who got fucked worse by Fox.
Probably Chris Carter.

GOVERNMENT DENIES KNOWLEDGE

> This past season's been pretty shitty.

True enough, and also true of the several preceding it. I thought last night they were on classic form, though.

hmm the only memorable episodes I can recall from the previous seasons is one about Dale meeting the master exterminator (a woman) for the pigeon assault on Arlen. And she wanted to hook up with Dale.

I'm sure there had to be at least a couple others.

i was deeply dismayed when i made an offhand boomhauer comment at a poker game the other week and nobody at the table knew who "boomhauer" was. i've never been religious about this show, but i've still seen probably 100 episodes at various points over the years and i think of it as having a significant place in the pop-culture firmament. but that's obviously a variable thing. i wonder who its actual core demographic is.

or who it was i guess, since the show's over. (except for a few more episodes to maybe air in the fall?)

love this show

Not sure who the demographic is but it has been my favourite fox cartoon for a long time, sad to see it go.

congratulations on not fitting into any demographic

Anyone paid any attention to the Goode family?

I think Goode Family is showing potential, but there are a lot of traps in the approach, and it's falling into some of 'em. Maybe a lot.

Where do you live, Tipsy? Quebec City?

I watched couple, definitely showing potential, however I kind of expect it to die a death seeing as ABC have consigned it to friday nights over the summer and they seem not to be promoting it at all, (ABC's awful awful streaming player doesn't help either)

Where do you live, Tipsy? Quebec City?

nyc. i have no idea why my friends don't know king of the hill, except that maybe they think of it as some kinda red-state thing.

I'm pretty sure people in Quebec City would know King of the Hill (they even have it dubbed in french in Quebecand hank is changed to Henri)

So is it over or what?

apparently so, to make way for All Seth MacFarlane Sunday. I hope someone picks it up, the last series has been on great form.

The Propaniacs still rule.

I'm pretty sure people in Quebec City would know King of the Hill (they even have it dubbed in french in Quebecand hank is changed to Henri)

How in the hell do they handle the dubbing on Boomhauer?

I gotta try watching the dvds with the closed captioning on sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlbY18HDCYI

I'm pretty sure people in Quebec City would know King of the Hill (they even have it dubbed in french in Quebecand hank is changed to Henri)

omg I must find this

*Hank walks in looking through the mail"

"Bills, bills, bills. Why do we keep getting Bill's mail?"

On the dvd of the first season, there were a few eps that had "character commentaries". That ep had Peggy and Bobby;when that joke came up, they were all like, "Why does he try to be funny?"

I forgot how much I love this show.

man, the one where Hank mistakenly smokes a joint is so incredible

from "Blood and Sauce"

Bobby: Mr. Dauterive, there's a blender right there with a "chop" setting. I bet it could get through these onions in no time.

Bill: (chuckles knowingly) Well, that's fine if I'm grinding up old sandwiches for breakfast hash, but as my Uncle Honore always said, "Shortcuts taste likeun chien mart! (spits) Eh?"

http://imgur.com/a/PiJLk

Hank after sending Dale extra paranoid by kidnapping his mower: "We're putting pressure on a structure that wasn't up to code in the first place."

^^Possibly the greatest of all KoTH eps.

It's a good one for sure

pic.twitter.com/fhA9Ykpqbz

— Mike Judge (@MikeJudge) March 20, 2020

ice cold

I found a French Canadian fan dub of King of the Hill and Boomhower is just... pic.twitter.com/VKharSf8vd

— 🦌🎈Buckley🌹🌺 (@Chronoexpert39) June 30, 2020

lol

So, okay, I passively watched the first season of this when it first aired (in much the same way that I passively watched Ned and Stacy, which preceded KOTH in the mid-Simpsons/X-Files timeslot) and thought it was okay but, well, it was during a time of upheaval in my life just before my contemporaneous tv viewing largely came to a halt, so I never got any further. But I started rewatching from the beginning and...hey, it's actually a whole lot better than I remember. Probably too subtle and sly for me to have fully appreciated 20+ years ago. This is quality COVID-era viewing: at least one solid belly laugh per episode plus legit and unsaccharine feelings. Just what I need to break the monotony of staring at a wall as I quietly weep.

So you're a Bill?

pretty, pretty dresses ...

Reminding me I need to see the last couple seasons, I loved the show but didn't have time to watch and no VCR or Tivo.

I'm in the same boat as OL, I must've been like 13 when it premiered and I remember thinking "man this is really not funny", nowadays I can get easily watch 2-3 hours of clips on YouTube

I will test it on my kids tonight and see what they think.

I had forgotten how complex the politics on this show could get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKOKYrKRjwQ

also I feel like in retrospect they sort of pioneered the YTP/Vic Berger aesthetic before that was even a thing, a lot of these clips I have to remind myself that they're not edited

I'm in the same boat as OL, I must've been like 13 when it premiered and I remember thinking "man this is really not funny", nowadays I can get easily watch 2-3 hours of clips on YouTube

― frogbs, Wednesday, September 2, 2020 12:10 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

im in a similar boat. didn't hate it when it came out but was far from loving it. if I watch an episode now, 20 odd years later, I love it

It was legitimately shocking for me to discover recently that this thing was on the air until 2010.

this was consistently great when it was on and remains by far the best thing mike judge has ever done

I guess this must just be how I come to Mike Judge shows. I couldn't stand watching Beavis & Butthead when it was first airing because it reminded me too much of real-life dipshits in my high school. Then I revisited it a decade and a half later and realized, oh hey, this shit is genuinely hilarious.

Guns: The security video showing the "last seen alive" of Reese Witherspoon's character was great.

https://i.imgur.com/DdXzXQd.png