King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

[Tepes Thot]

Yes but in the early seasons she was consistently written to be extremely bad at styling. Like failing at rinsing the hair bad. She maybe intrested but no talented. Her dropping out of beauty school wasn't because it's a bad career but because it was a bad fit for her. She had other things she was good at like fixing cars and performing so there was places for her to go but no. Suddenly she just good at hair and can finnish beauty school no problem.

But even that can be realistic. Sometimes you try for something at the wrong time in your life, and it doesn’t click, but when you’re more secure and try it again, it does.

It’s probably not so much that she’s immediately great at hair, so much as she tried it again in a better place. She was really at peace cutting hair in a low stress environment. The cars thing seemed more like a gag than a genuine interest since we never heard her take an interest in auto-mechanics outside of it.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Because you undoubtedly inhaled the cigar fumes. With cigars and pipe tobacco you just puff away. If you treat it like a cigarette you will get sick to your stomach.

Hank and and any parent would be retarded making a kid smoke a carton. Jesus Christ how long that would take? But it’s a cartoon and the point was to show how Hank got back into smoking.

Well no shit. I was underage and had never smoked. No one told me shit, but my point was that it worked. I still can only barely smoke cigars and have never touched a cig.

That said, pipe tobacco is incredibly relaxing which always confuses me since Nicotine is a stimulant. Tastes better to me too. Pair it with some whisky with a campfire going on a cold winter night if you really want to relax.

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

It always seemed to me like the writers could never agree on what to do with her. In the commentary track, they explained that the joke was that she had a marketable talent, but Hank and the gang were too conservative and close-minded to even recognize that a woman could be a mechanic and that she was wasting her talent in beauty school. (Which she sucked at.)

They had Buckley come back from the dead and tell her that Jesus wants her to go to community college. At the time I was thinking, "Whoa, where are they going with this!" But it really went nowhere.

I feel like one of the things the show did, either by mistake or on purpose, was capture specific archetypes but never actually give us the viewers character arcs for them. We don't really get to see where things go for them, it is more about highlighting who these types of people are. We'll have individual episodes that teach us moral lessons in relation to them, but never actually receive a resolution to what they have to overcome.

Luanne captures a lot of different people: someone young that doesn't really have their life together. Someone who tries to pivot to fix it and get back on track via the community college thing. Someone who maybe is a redneck and a moron, but that doesn't make them a bad person. Someone who wasn't given the best childhood and is trying to overcome the issues from that.

The cars thing seemed more like a gag than a genuine interest since we never heard her take an interest in auto-mechanics outside of it.

There is probably a joke with the car gag about people often having exceptional talents or skillsets but not really realizing it. Or capitalizing on them. Like Luanne could go very far with her mechanic knowledge but she doesn't take advantage of it for a variety of reasons.

It also highlights how people despite their lot in life or initial impressions of how other people view them will often have far greater ability that people underestimate.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

But even that can be realistic. Sometimes you try for something at the wrong time in your life, and it doesn’t click, but when you’re more secure and try it again, it does.

It’s probably not so much that she’s immediately great at hair, so much as she tried it again in a better place. She was really at peace cutting hair in a low stress environment. The cars thing seemed more like a gag than a genuine interest since we never heard her take an interest in auto-mechanics outside of it.

Wasn't it also more or less implied that it was how Luanne tried to bond with her father by helping him with car repairs?

Kids who develop skills to bond with dysfunctional parents often turn their backs on those skills as they grow up, or even actively hate them.

 

[cactus]

Wasn't it also more or less implied that it was how Luanne tried to bond with her father by helping him with car repairs?

Kids who develop skills to bond with dysfunctional parents often turn their backs on those skills as they grow up, or even actively hate them.

I've seen KOTH multitudes of times and I've never heard this. The closest thing is when Hank got Bobby a car down at the dump and wanted to fix it up with him in that episode where Bobby became a peer counselor.

 

[Psyduck]

KotH has this anti Family Guy thing with me, i'm perfectly fine just watching those random "Family Guy moments" and leave it be, if anything, FG works better in short, dumb, out of context bursts. But when i watched a couple of "King of the Hill moments", i just found myself wanting to rewatch the whole episode. What led to this clip? What happened after?

Started watching the whole series again and i just find it even cozier now. Child me thought it was boring as hell, i can't get enough of it nowadays.

Will probably avoid Season 14 though.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

My dad gave me the biggest cigar you can think of on vacation before I was legal to smoke. I got through half of it, glad to be part of the man's club, and spent HOURS sitting on the bathroom floor just WISHING I could throw up.

I never touched a cig after that, rarely smoked cigars only when I was with my dad just for an excuse to hang out with him, and many MANY years later bought a pipe to smoke tobacco maybe once every 3-6 months when I needed some stress relief that only smoking and whisky can provide.

The strategy works.

Nah you're just a puss.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

 

[Jace on ice]

The gags look ok but the animation still looks off, like it's too stiff or something, especially the faces.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

The gags look ok but the animation still looks off, like it's too stiff or something, especially the faces.

I feel like if the gags are funny enough I can forgive the animation. Not a bad trailer, but the cowbell could be hypnotizing me into laughing.

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

Dale's voice is definitely a little off. I wasn't expecting to notice it but I ended up doing so anyway. Other than that it looks okay. The animation is definitely jarring. I like the idea of Hank being retired and suddenly struggling to figure out what to do with his daily life now that he doesn't have to work.

I hoping the joke with Bill being in crippled in bed is an obvious dream sequence or something like that.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Notice all the jabs at the modern left.

 

[Jace on ice]

Notice all the jabs at the modern left.

I'm not sure if I like that to be honest. The original run wasn't explicitly political or at least it didn't blatantly pick a side.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Notice all the jabs at the modern left.

I mean are we really surprised that he disapproves of Vegans?

But you know that the plot is going to consist of Hank having to come to terms with some Vegan food tasting good only for him to be brought back to par when she ends up being an absolute lunatic anyways and Hank has to help Bobby navigate a nasty breakup.

 

[Jace on ice]

I mean are we really surprised that he disapproves of Vegans?

But you know that the plot is going to consist of Hank having to come to terms with some Vegan food tasting good only for him to be brought back to par when she ends up being an absolute lunatic anyways and Hank has to help Bobby navigate a nasty breakup.

Haven't they done the Bobby dates an obnoxious vegan plotline before?

Edit: They did indeed in the episode "They call it Bobby Love." S3E2

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Haven't they done the Bobby dates an obnoxious vegan plotline before?

Edit: They did indeed in the episode "They call it Bobby Love." S3E2

Oh right! And the plot resolves by Bobby eating an entire 72oz steak as revenge while his then ex watches on in moral outrage because her parents were normal and brought her to a steak house despite her being vegetarian (not vegan, but who gives a shit about different shades of retarded self-imposed moral dietary constraints).

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

Dale's voice is definitely a little off. I wasn't expecting to notice it but I ended up doing so anyway.

To be fair, Season 1-3 Dale sounds completely different then what he started sounding like by season 5-6. Lot more higher pitched and nasally to match his increasingly eccentric behaviors via flanderization. I'm sure it the change will be far more noticeable when they move from the prerecorded audio of Johnny Hardwick.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Hank and the gang were too conservative and close-minded to even recognize that a woman could be a mechanic and that she was wasting

That sounds like bullshit to me.

if Luanne legitimately helped Hank fix a Car that he was having issues with he would 100% have been impressed and appreciated the effort.

 

[SandyCat]

I called it, its gonna be a bunch of modern day [relatable thing] nonsense. Another show being brought back only to be ruined

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Notice all the jabs at the modern left.

Hard not to talk about them when they act blatantly insane.