King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Well that’s a bad sign.

https://x.com/_boomhauer/status/1943126373637218483

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

This was deliberate.
I'm not entirely on board with Dale's new voice. It sounds almost there if you raise the pitch by 5, 10%. Bill turned into Stallman, and what the fuck is even going with Bobby 15 years later and that boy still ain't right.

 

[Jace on ice]

Well that’s a bad sign.
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https://x.com/_boomhauer/status/1943126373637218483

The Norwood Reaper got Redcorn!

 

[Chin of Campbell]

I don't know what it is but something about the way they're drawing Dale makes me think of Peter Weller as Alex Murphy in Robocop.

 

[Shekelslovakia]

Nothing that a little bit of AI voice tweaking can fix most of the cast.

 

[Tepes Thot]

Wow, so Joseph is spending time with John Redcorn? Since Nancy is back seeing him too, I’m guessing we’re going to get that storyline addressed finally.
I’m 50/50 on that.

Peggy’s narcissism leading her into cluelessness is still hilarious. I was wondering if they’d forget it’s not a good trait of hers, and looks like they didn’t.

Bobby reminded me of Carl, that chef that he loved. It might be overthinking it to call it a callback, but I got reminded of it.

 

[WonderWino]

So, I wonder what the odds are that bobby picked up on a few of boomhauers ladies man habits and sleaze talks the vegan to get into her pants. I can see it now

girl: I don't eat meat i'm a vegan
bobby: you just need some B12. that'll fix you right up
girl: B12?
bobby: yeah. Bobby's 12" that'll have you hooked on meat again in no time I tell you what

Now tell me you couldn't see boomhauer pulling that one at some point as well

That said looking like that you'd think the beetus would have killed bill by now. or at least left him in a propane powered vader like suit to survive. I don't know why they made him look like some creepy guy who lives in a shack in the woods and creeps around schools

and heres to hoping theres no polycule going on with redcorn, nancy and dale

 

[Stardust_Ziggy]

I liked the trailer. Seems good so far. Hank is still adorably clueless, but I agree with him on the 5 stars. I also got a chuckle out of “they’re just doing it in the streets” in regards to soccer. I’m looking forward to the first episode.

 

[Nameless One]

It's pozzed up the neghole, Bobby ends up with a purple baired side shaved DEI "woman". Hank Hill faces gender neutral bathrooms without the bite and backlash a father like him should have much like any modern reboot/revival. All reboots neuter characters. What they'd have to say about the state of things. I know KOTH always had some progressivism in it but there were great stories and characters and arcs beyond it and I'm not seeing any of that here with the new characters. Bill got even worse, I hate that shit. I wanted Bill to come back strong not in a far worse position than he was in the last episode, you'd think they would write positive arcs but NOPE it has to go wrong because it's juicy nostalgic drama. "Bill is at it again lol! Look at this fat greasy POS!"... I'm very disappointed. It's just MODERN, there's no bite or stinger. Nothing memorable here. I like that Bobby is a chef and seems to have a rough start, I like Dale kidnapping Hank it looks like... but the dialogue here seems flanderized heavily and that's a bad sign. I know Mike Judge is pozzed up the gills and it's the only way his show could continue but it's just absurd. Clone High's long and anticipated reboot was a fucking dumpster fire without soul and this seems to be following tge same pattern of "this should have come out in 2020/2021 on HBO Max but these new deals are fucking our shows up so here's some late COVID DEI era infested garbage we could muster up without rewriting the script, sorry for the 4+ year wait".

I can't say I was expecting anything different but I sure as Hell will avoid this like the new futurama season for my own sanity. The "Nepo baby" line at the end gives me some hope but it's probably from an episode that was made or rewritten more recently.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

Bobby getting with a side shaved crystal girl tracks completely with his history of girlfriends and love interests. Now if she was a permanent girlfriend, that's different, but it doesn't appear so.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

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.

It's not much the "left" as is "progressive" people and views, which Hank of course is gonna hate as a conservative who's spent so many years in a place that ain't exactly liberal.

 

[Slap47]

Peggy centric episodes were always my favorite. Her unwarranted self-importance always got her in some hilarious situations. My favorite one was when they go on a church retreat to a country music festival and believes Randy Travis stole her song.

I hope we get a decent Peggy episode in this revival.

Peggy is an extremely underrated character.

She is petty, vindictive, dishonest, prideful and unreasonable. Most of the time it sucks, but it comes in clutch when Hank needs somebody stand up for him or scheme for him. All of those negative traits came out at their best

Spoiler

when she lied to Hank about Cotton's last words.

Not to spite cotton (she had basically made up with and had some mutual respect with him), but because she loved Hank.

Notice all the jabs at the modern left.

I am taking this with a grain of salt. Society as a whole has moved to the progressive left on social issues, but right now at this very moment it is the conservative reaction to last few decades of progressive politics that is popular. The makers of the trailer could just be leaning into that.

 

[Flexo]

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).

It's one of the few times we see Peggy & Hank show affection on screen.

 

[Zaryiu2]

It's one of the few times we see Peggy & Hank show affection on screen.

It's great when bad characters have to suffah

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

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

So just like how the original run of KOTH where old fashion Hank was confronted with a turn of the century ever evolving cultural and technological world that went against his traditional hard worker no nonsense attitude. There was an episode where Peggy got an iMac G3 as the Y2K episode in 1999, Strickland Propane setup a Myspace account, Hank and family buying an HDTV in 2008 ect... Seeing Hank come back from overseas and juxtaposed to an Arlen that has been absorbed into the great metropolitan of central Texas (just like its towns in real life) and being bewildered by how much has changed is completely fitting to the nature of the premise of the original show.
And I do question how many people who are blindly bemoaning this reboot on the internet legitimately watched the original show or just had very vague remembrance of it from channel surfing and maybe saw a DurhamrockerZ YTP of it over a dozen years ago. I'll come to judge it when I see the first few episodes, but so far the only major complaint is the stiff animation.

Bill got even worse, I hate that shit.

Oh yeah, Bill's totally worse. The fact that his overall health declined because he lost his co-dependency to Hank while he was away is truly absurd. Just wait until those gosh darn writers write an episode where Bill has a mental breakdown and starts crossdressing as his exwife after attempting to kill himself multiple times when Hank didn't invite him to a Christmas dinner. Oh wait that actually happened in Season 3 in 1998...

 

[SandyCat]

So just like how the original run of KOTH where old fashion Hank was confronted with a turn of the century ever evolving cultural and technological world that went against his traditional hard worker no nonsense attitude. There was an episode where Peggy got an iMac G3 as the Y2K episode in 1999, Strickland Propane setup a Myspace account, Hank and family buying an HDTV in 2008 ect... Seeing Hank come back from overseas and juxtaposed to an Arlen that has been absorbed into the great metropolitan of central Texas (just like its towns in real life) and being bewildered by how much has changed is completely fitting to the nature of the premise of the original show.
And I do question how many people who are blindly bemoaning this reboot on the internet legitimately watched the original show or just had very vague remembrance of it from channel surfing and maybe saw a DurhamrockerZ YTP of it over a dozen years ago. I'll come to judge it when I see the first few episodes, but so far the only major complaint is the stiff animation.

I mostly liked the show because a lot of the show was about Hank, being the square he is, finding himself in odd situations and how he dealt with them. There was an occasional [relatable thing] episode but that wasn't the majority of the show. The new show makes me worried the majority of it is going to be "haha covid am I right? More than one gender, whoaaa wacky! Infaltion, am I right fellow boomers?" instead of Hank finding himself in retarded situations he has to work his way through in funny ways.

I hope I'm wrong but if its just a constant bombardment of retarded [relatable thing] it's going to be shit. If they do go that route hopefully they burn through it in the first season and go back to the more classic approach in the second

 

[SIMIΔN]

I was pesimistic about the Beavis and Butthead remake, but it ended up being as good as ever.
I'm quietly optimistic about this, the only redflag is the Khan recast, but at least the didn't fire the original.

 

[Jace on ice]

I'm willing to give it at least two seasons because as good as the original run was the first season was very rough and somewhat experimental.

They hadn't decided whether to be a whacky far out there show or something more grounded.

Remember when Bobby was being mind controlled by a fire ant?

 

[cactus]

I'm willing to give it at least two seasons because as good as the original run was the first season was very rough and somewhat experimental.

They hadn't decided whether to be a whacky far out there show or something more grounded.

Remember when Bobby was being mind controlled by a fire ant?

I'm just hoping it's nothing like the last 2 or 3 seasons.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Remember when Bobby was being mind controlled by a fire ant?

Any time Dale does something silly, I remember that he took that bullet for Bobby without hesitation.