King of the Hill

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— 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmSORFI2XzU

Verdict from the 15-year old is positive! Doubt it will be her first choice, but she definitely liked it, and Greg Daniels' name definitely made an impression, fwiw. .

feel like I quit watching it in real time right before Lucky showed up. I could probably stand to rewatch from the beginning. 13 seasons is a lot tho

im watching this through for the first time - i watched it at the time but not consistently every week and only for the first 5 or 6 seasons. caught the odd episode of the later seasons but only very few. it holds up tremendously well. it is much better than i remember it being even. i feel that perhaps the family relationships and emotional moments were probably wasted on me as a teenage boy and now "hit different" as i approach middle-age. i am on season 4 and wondering when the it will start to lose its lustre.

id forgotten just how sociopathically narcissistic peggy is

another reflection: this show is wonderfully directed and its depiction of its specific geographical place in the world is exceptional. when i think of the quality of recent popular animated shows - especially something like big mouth, which looks like utter shit - it seems even more exceptional

I fell off after watching most of the first two seasons but you are inspiring me to pick it back up.

agree with all that. when KotH came out I was barely a teenager, the show didn't make sense to me then but I really love it now. I can't think of an animated comedy series with more three-dimensional characters. I love that none of the main characters are caricatures, they all seem very real in a way you don't see often in a sitcom.

maybe this is just curmudgeonly grumbling of a 90's kid but growing up I remember every animated show having its own very distinct style; The Simpsons, KotH, Rugrats, Rocko, Home Movies, all the weird MTV shit...now everything looks like an ugly Family Guy crossover.

Yeah, kind of really hate that 'overly-slick digitally-animated replication of 2D hand-drawn animation, oh and P.S. every character must have Garfield-style eyes' shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JH4YIXfNeA

"Es esta Juan occupado?"

'Now, Luann is gonna look different. Maybe even hypnotically grotesque.'

I keep mistaking this show as low-key chuckleworthy but then there's at least one line per episode that nearly prompts an outright spittake.

“Buildings explode. It’s just what they do.”

The episode where it snowed has been on my mind as of late.

"Ashes!"

I think Monsignor Martinez is my favorite fictional show within a show in TV history.

#OneThread

The song was initially inspired by King of the Hill character Hank Hill and his passion for propane and propane accessories, as Todd is a huge fan of the series, with the song being originally titled "I love that propane". He later changed "propane" to "cocaine", after receiving a cease-and-desist from Fox, who owned the rights to the series. Todd subsequently re-wrote the lyrics to describe his time using the drug.

Imagine suing someone for enjoying your product and being inspired by it.

propane = fossil fuel

https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/34/346797/3042813-todd%20ianuzzi.jpg

Sound familiar?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/europe/trout-drug-addiction-scli-intl-scn/index.html

watched all of S3 over the last few days. the scene where all four of them are trying to explain how the fire station burned down and in Boomhauer's flashback everyone *except* Boomhauer talks exactly like him = GOLD. second favorite bit, where Hank goes on the dolphin excursion and the dolphin gets frisky with him, after which Hank says "No one should have to go through what I did! Except for a female dolphin!".

guess I have a lot more to get through but this show might have more great episodes than even The Simpsons. I forgot how many great one-off characters this show had. Matthew McConaughey playing a sleazeball concert promoter named "Rad" = classic

also classic: Peggy Hill's Fat Albert impression every time she's trying to be personable

the scene where all four of them are trying to explain how the fire station burned down and in Boomhauer's flashback everyone *except* Boomhauer talks exactly like him = GOLD

I think about that scene so often!

Of the 90s/00s Fox animated stuff (Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy) I think King of the Hill's run has aged best and is the most consistent in terms of quality, laughs per episode, and character actions/motivations. Definitely appreciate it more as an adult - I was 13 when the show started and didn't see the appeal, but I guess I got to grow up with it, sort of, and eventually got into it in later seasons.

Thank y'all for keeping this thread afloat. I think I finally finished season 2 but I really need to get back into it.

I've seen that Boomhauer clip before, but thought it was some sort of gag reel sort of thing. The context of it makes it so much funnier.

Shoot, here's the clip right here, itellyouwhat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyGfiIirD8

The day before Thanksgiving is, in my opinion, one of the busiest travel days of the year

iirc that's my favorite episode of the show

really need to get my rewatch going again

I am partial to the exchange with the Christian fundamentalist in the Halloween ep

"The complacency of fools will destroy them - Proverbs."

"Get the hell outta my house... Exodus."

Apparently King of the Hill is coming back, too.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/greg-daniels-mike-judge-animation-king-of-the-hill-revived-1235076296/

that article is not encouraging; way too much at once

They asked me if I wanted to substitute for a German class, and I said “nein”, which I thought meant yes. But it turns out it means “no”, so I blew a big opportunity

Well speaking of Hell, if I wasn't so in control of my emotions, I might be inclined to say that's the sort of place you might wanna consider making a uh....visit towards

why isn't this on Disney+ ffs