King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

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BigBadBastich said:
Hank has to deal with zoomers at Strickland, running around his neighborhood quoting Fortnite, social media gimmicks and trends that Peggy latches onto, Uber, VR, the rising LGBTQ movements, Biden and Trump for 8 years straight.
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When you put it that way i'm surprised he hasn't ended up like his character in that GTA clone and trying to blow the town up with explosive propane tanks, and backhanding idiot zoomer tank wipes

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At least bill is ordering doordash and not working for them. Can you imagine bill doing that job? He'd creep on every woman he delivered food to and end up getting shot sooner or later. I'm sure dale will have some things to say about the 5G tower though and probably the drones

Hanks first run in with a danger haired they/them zoomer would be quite the thing to witness. As would his reaction to the 2020 summer of love, no doubt guarding strickland rittenhouse style out of concern some antifa loons would try to steal propane to blow shit up. All while dale sits in his basement watching the whole thing unfold from some spy drone he's had hovering over strickland, thinking he's about to watch the country implode. Hopefully he's smarter about keeping his emergency barrels of mountain dew safer this time

That said its a nice touch that boomhauer looks the worst out of all of them given how obsessed he is with tanning. I also noticed that hank is dressed an awful lot like hal was in the backhoe episode. Same shirt. Maybe thats a clue he's going to make an appearance?. But yeah, the time frame is a bit screwy for the doordash and drone stuff given its only been 8 years in universe

Lithos said:
Luanne Platter has been through years of beauty school, community college, and had a baby with a redneck.

And Bobby was still 13.
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I blame hank for that. I mean its obvious what happened - all that smoking he made bobby do in season 1 obviously stunted his growth and has doomed him to be 13 forever
 
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Was Buck ever given a definitive age in the original series? I know he was portrayed as having incredibly poor health with alcoholism, several heart attacks, and a pacemaker so he's probably not alive in the reboot.
 
Jace on ice said:
Was Buck ever given a definitive age in the original series? I know he was portrayed as having incredibly poor health with alcoholism, several heart attacks, and a pacemaker so he's probably not alive in the reboot.
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I could see a(n unlikely) situation where Buck improved his health and is still alive, since he was probably younger than his horrible habits made him look.
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Buck looks about Hank's show age when they met, and he's worked there for 15 (23) years, so on the higher end of the scale Buck would probably be pushing 70 by now. I also wouldn't be surprised if Buck had the devil's luck and was one of those old bastards who refused to die.

Not sure if it's been posted, but the wiki has an episode list. No idea where they got it.

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Bet you that last episode is where Kahn and Minh get back together.
 
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BigBadBastich said:
Peggy would be all for Hilary but Hank yeah he wouldn't vote for both. Trump is the antithesis of everything he stands for and hes from NYC. I don't really see any of the Arlen cast voting for those two, maybe Bill votes Hilary because a woman he met and has taken a liking to is voting for her.
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I had an autistic idea if there absolutely had to be a 2016 election episode, where Hank would be the mediator while tensions run high in the neighborhood while also feeling conflicted on who to vote for.
I liked to imagine Peggy getting really into campaigning for Hillary (which doesn't exactly track, but someone has to be the hillshill, and Peggy would probably see herself in Hilldawg), Kahn would be the second main aggressor, originally apolitical until he realizes Ted Wassonasong is running local campaigns for Trump. Dale would be the agitator, getting heavily into the conspiracies on both sides and aggravating everyone. Bill would probably get involved with a I'm With Her woman that gets out of hand. Boomhauer ends up an accidental third party candidate. It all culminates with everyone fighting and Hank making a speech that makes everyone realize how silly they're all acting, everyone calms down, Hank walks into the voting booth and its not revealed who he voted for.
 
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I could almost see some overcomplicated explanation like, now he can use the beast to see in 360 degrees at all times and spoof IPs so he reads that he's in Detroit
dunno how you could handwave the vape
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
dunno how you could handwave the vape
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I don't really think you need to handwave it. Dale is a special character in that you can come up with a reason for him to do anything you want. Even if you didn't want to make it a "real" reason to switch to a vape like "Nancy told him to stop smoking, this is a compromise" or "Joseph developed a condition because of all the smoking so he gave it up" (he would do anything for either of them so those are easy outs), you could just say that the government started putting nanomachines in commercial tobacco during coronavirus to harvest his superior flu-immune mutant lung tissue.
 
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Cryogonal2 said:
I agree, but nobody is perfect. Case in point: The Goode Family
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The thing that killed The Goode Family is that the first two episodes were really weak with their satire.

When I watched the whole run, you can see where the potential was, in that the self-righteous saviour-complex Goodes were actually REALLY shitty people. It just took too long for them to start showing it.

The inability of the average network TV viewer to grasp subtlety is what killed that show more than anything. I started it thinking "Man, a show about a family of Van Driesens is NOT fun to watch" and ended it thinking "Damn, they were onto something in showing the hypocrisy of these people in REALLY funny and cutting ways"
 
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Herman Throwaway said:
The thing that killed The Goode Family is that the first two episodes were really weak with their satire.

When I watched the whole run, you can see where the potential was, in that the self-righteous saviour-complex Goodes were actually REALLY shitty people. It just took too long for them to start showing it.

The inability of the average network TV viewer to grasp subtlety is what killed that show more than anything. I started it thinking "Man, a show about a family of Van Driesens is NOT fun to watch" and ended it thinking "Damn, they were onto something in showing the hypocrisy of these people in REALLY funny and cutting ways"
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OK well now I have to give this another chance. I never watched beyond the first episode during its original run.
 
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Herman Throwaway said:
The thing that killed The Goode Family is that the first two episodes were really weak with their satire.

When I watched the whole run, you can see where the potential was, in that the self-righteous saviour-complex Goodes were actually REALLY shitty people. It just took too long for them to start showing it.

The inability of the average network TV viewer to grasp subtlety is what killed that show more than anything. I started it thinking "Man, a show about a family of Van Driesens is NOT fun to watch" and ended it thinking "Damn, they were onto something in showing the hypocrisy of these people in REALLY funny and cutting ways"
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this sounds sorta interesting, but "a family of Peggy" isn't exactly a sizzle reel
 
BigBadBastich said:
Peggy would be all for Hilary but Hank yeah he wouldn't vote for both. Trump is the antithesis of everything he stands for and hes from NYC. I don't really see any of the Arlen cast voting for those two, maybe Bill votes Hilary because a woman he met and has taken a liking to is voting for her.
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IMO Peggy would likely be written as becoming a fan of Trump or a Trump stand-in (that's how they'd probably do an election episode, with an analogous character running for a position on the school board or something) until Hank helps her see the "error of her ways" by the end of the episode. I could also see Dale, Bill or even Kahn in that role.
 
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Terrorist said:
IMO Peggy would likely be written as becoming a fan of Trump or a Trump stand-in (that's how they'd probably do an election episode, with an analogous character running for a position on the school board or something) until Hank helps her see the "error of her ways" by the end of the episode. I could also see Dale, Bill or even Kahn in that role.
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An election episode involving Dale becoming mayor... (he wears a hat)

It would be amazing.
 
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