King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.
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I never realised how cutting edge KOTH was on society but watching it now and realizing this was written decades ago it never ceases to amaze me. Its refreshing that something written 20+ yrs ago is still relevant with today's issues
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I kinda like this song. You know, the YMCA has terrific facilities.
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I was watching Season 3 the other day. I absolutely love the detail that Luanne’s hair slowly grows back as the episodes progress.
Most animated sitcoms would have had her go from Bald to back to Normal by the episode after. Hell I don’t even think Peggy is crippled for long after she fell out the plane without her parachute. But that can be rationalized by thinking there was a time skip.
My point is the attention to detail in KOTH is exquisite.
Most animated sitcoms would have had her go from Bald to back to Normal by the episode after. Hell I don’t even think Peggy is crippled for long after she fell out the plane without her parachute. But that can be rationalized by thinking there was a time skip.
My point is the attention to detail in KOTH is exquisite.
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Then there's the time where Peggy gets a new mom without any explanation.
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Peggy has PTSD from her cowboy Mom and dreamt up that she had a bad relationship with a totally different woman entirely but one who was far more like her and only disagreed on more mundane things like Butter vs. Margarine. This just show how deep KOTH is..
Okay seriously though when Greg Daniels and Mike Judge both stopped working as hard on King of the Hill and had those other two guys step in as show runners (probably forgetting their names Dave Krinsky & John Altshurer?) the show declined in quality. Flanderization happened and you just had a lot of stupider plots.
The thing is the weakest season of King of the Hill still feels amazing compared to decades of horrible Simpsons. But the show that cared so much about detail and had the most complex character studies ever was gone.
There will never be another King of the Hill. Just like how there will never be another 90s Simpsons. Be happy to appreciate the 2nd golden age of television. Even if the networks wanted to they could not budget a cartoon like they did.
On this editorial note I really liked this interview segment of Jason Lee talking about My Name Is Earl. Earl was one of the last sitcoms with real heart. At the surface level it was a silly sitcom about White Trash but it was one of those few shows like KOTH that got philosophical and delved into the human condition. How our actions have consequences that we’ll never comprehend. For Jason Lee making Earl was a bitch, a season took 7 months of filming on location. It got cancelled because it was expensive to make and the ratings dropped. Lee says it himself that level of sitcom production is relic of a finished era of television. A sitcom of such nuance is gone. What’s tragic is how it just feels like no one wants to really make comedy like that. It’s hard work.
On a related note remember the episode when Dale sues Manitoba Tobacco claiming his chain smoking damaged Nancy’s appearance? That’s based on the Matthau-Lemmon comedy “The Fortune Cookie.” And it’s a classic from one of the greatest to ever make entertainment Billy Wilder, written by him and the genius I.A.L Diamond. If you love KOTH and you want to know who the writers were taking inspiration from it’s definitely coming from classic Hollywood.
I can’t even blame the millennials in the industry who I’ll argue just have failed spectacularly in making great work. Good writing requires high intellect, and not just that finding people who understand it and deliver it. Modern audiences would rather watch a comedy like “Barbie” over something that made with real heart like “The Holdovers.” I hate to sound so pessimistic I hope a new age of great mass media is in the immediate future, but I just want to encourage everyone to appreciate what has been made and seek out the old stuff you haven’t seen.
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The first few seasons are pretty good, until Earl goes into a coma and the show falls off a cliff after that.
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I’m just mad we never got a finale. The creator told us how it would end and it would have been a perfect way to conclude the show. Basically:
>Earl is stuck on the final list misdeed
>He tries his best to fix it but it’s literally impossible
>It puts him in a crisis and he’s about to give up
>Then someone from Earl’s past encounters him and reveals he made his own list and came to right a wrong he did to Earl
>Earl discovers that through this whole quest people he made amends with told others about it. There’s lots of people with their own list trying to put themselves in good karma
>Earl realizes he’s helped bring good karma into the world. He tears the list up and starts a new life feeling he’s achieved his goal
Yeah bit of a ripoff of Pay It Forward but it’s fitting.
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The most we got was a line from a news report on the first episode of Raising Hope and then in... the last season IIRC there was an episode where all the actors from My Name is Earl came onto the show and gave us a pseudo finale.
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For one of the Season 1 DVDs they included a supplemental book that showed the "Do's and Dont's" for drawing and animating King of the Hill. Found it in it's entirety from this site that I never heard of. Sadly doesn't seem like I can just download the PDF so if you're one of those lurkers who is reading this in a year well sorry. Remember do not make Peggy sexy you damn horny artists.
I just love looking through this stuff because it elaborate on how much care was put into this cartoon. Oh and a true must watch, Infowars full interview with Mike Judge. It's a good video I think it's the most Mike ever just talks about making KOTH.
So damn funny to remember that Alex Jones once was recognized as a mere Texas goofball since Judge had no problem interacting with him and neither did director Richard Linklater. Those days are long over.
I just love looking through this stuff because it elaborate on how much care was put into this cartoon. Oh and a true must watch, Infowars full interview with Mike Judge. It's a good video I think it's the most Mike ever just talks about making KOTH.