So you're a Bill?
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
pretty, pretty dresses ...
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― Boring, Maryland, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
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, 2 September 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
I will test it on my kids tonight and see what they think.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
I had forgotten how complex the politics on this show could get
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKOKYrKRjwQ
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
― 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
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
It was legitimately shocking for me to discover recently that this thing was on the air until 2010.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
this was consistently great when it was on and remains by far the best thing mike judge has ever done
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
Guns: The security video showing the "last seen alive" of Reese Witherspoon's character was great.
https://i.imgur.com/DdXzXQd.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmSORFI2XzU
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
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. .
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 September 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
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
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 3 September 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
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
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Monday, 11 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
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
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
I fell off after watching most of the first two seasons but you are inspiring me to pick it back up.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
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.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JH4YIXfNeA
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 February 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link
"Es esta Juan occupado?"
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 February 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
'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.
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
“Buildings explode. It’s just what they do.”
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:49 (three years ago) link
The episode where it snowed has been on my mind as of late.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
"Ashes!"
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
I think Monsignor Martinez is my favorite fictional show within a show in TV history.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
#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.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 July 2021 04:17 (two years ago) link
Imagine suing someone for enjoying your product and being inspired by it.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 July 2021 04:50 (two years ago) link
propane = fossil fuel
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Monday, 5 July 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/34/346797/3042813-todd%20ianuzzi.jpg
― earlnash, Monday, 5 July 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
Sound familiar?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/europe/trout-drug-addiction-scli-intl-scn/index.html
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 06:01 (two years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
also classic: Peggy Hill's Fat Albert impression every time she's trying to be personable
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
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.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
Thank y'all for keeping this thread afloat. I think I finally finished season 2 but I really need to get back into it.
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
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
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
The day before Thanksgiving is, in my opinion, one of the busiest travel days of the year
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 05:54 (two years ago) link
iirc that's my favorite episode of the show
really need to get my rewatch going again
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
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."
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
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/
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
that article is not encouraging; way too much at once
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 4 February 2022 06:13 (two years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 4 February 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
why isn't this on Disney+ ffs
― nashwan, Friday, 4 February 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
I assume rights, right? Oh, wait, it's on Hulu, same dif.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 February 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
I bought the first 3 series on disk some time back, I think I may as well eventually buy the rest physically too. specially as seems the whole digital world is destined for the dumps but i'll be safe in me bunker with me KotH set and tins of beans!
― Ste, Friday, 4 February 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
https://screenrant.com/king-hill-show-revival-peggy-bad-mom-problem-fix/
what the hell is this take?? why would you want to fix what made her one of the funniest sitcom moms ever? am I wrong to think there's actually something progressive about making her the inept/overconfident one?
― frogbs, Monday, 7 March 2022 22:39 (two years ago) link
i want to unread what i just read
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 7 March 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
It's gonna get to the point where we can't have realistically flawed characters anymore...
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link