King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

[Sicko Hunter]

Finished the finale episode. I'd give the revival so far a 6 out of 10. It's basically just above passable. The animation looks cheaper then the original (this is most likely a budget thing to be fair) but it's decent overall, the voice acting is frequently off enough that it's extremely distracting Dale being the worst example with his weird "I had a stroke and now have brain damage voice". The comedy is pretty true to the original but Dale the funniest person in the series voice is so off his joke frequently fall flat not because of writing but because of poor line delivery, Hank is still pretty funny and so is Peggy. It's alright. Nothing worth paying for.

 

[W00K #17]

It was okay. Not as horrible as I imagined it could be.

Not a single joke gave the classic KoTH belly laugh though, I chuckled at some, but not a single true side splitter to be found.

I won't say I'm disappointed in it because I really had no expectations and it could have been a lot worse, but I don't think this revival was really necessary.

The Beavis and Butthead reboot is so much better.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Nah. No way.

 

[Jace on ice]

People love the slop man, they're sloppin, they can't get enough of the slop.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Have watched three episodes so far and I’m enjoying it. A few things have felt a bit off, but overall it has the same feel the original show had. I like how Dale and Joseph’s relationship has developed, them both stalking the beer judge guy was a pretty sweet moment.

Haven’t reached terrible Kahn voice yet though.

 

[Dr. Butt]

I dunno, I hate "nitpicking", but the timeline problems are way more than nitpicks.

My attempts at plothole patching:

Bobby lived with the Gribbles while he finished high school. That's why he calls them "family" and why he's moved out with Joseph.

Connie went to a different high school and stopped messaging her old friends or going next door to hang out sometime around the end of 9th Grade (completely plausible post-internet-age). Maybe even got skipped ahead or graduated a year early. School on other side of the city + extracurriculars + night classes + teenage brain can make you not see the kid next door except for a few seconds some mornings if you both leave your house at the same time.

Hank and Peggy freedom 55'd like high-end pilots, maybe part of why they moved to Saudi was to make the kind of money that allows that. ETA - the other adults on the show are still working and not retired.

GH could be like...12 going on 13? Whatever, Jamshed went from age 5 to age 25 in the Simpsons, who cares.

 

[Pee Cola]

I've watched the first episode. It feels a little forced at times, but I guess the writers needed to cram 8 years' worth of catching up, along with 15 years worth of current year fuckery, into just 25 minutes. I like how Bobby is now on equal footing with Hank wrt screen time, and I look forward to seeing more focus on Bobby as man.

I'm not up to the episodes with Kahn in them, but the idea of a Malaysian-American playing a Laotian sounds weird, especially when it appears that sounds too much like an American putting on a bad Laotian accent. I guess I'll have that to look forward to as the season progresses.

Overall it's about what I expected so far. The first episode is enough to make me want to watch the rest of Season 14, but I can't see myself binging it in one weekend or anything like that.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I liked it.

Spoiler: Text wall

I expected nothing and got a little more than nothing. A few good jokes, nothing earth shattering. I'm glad Buck Strickland is back for part of an episode. Joseph is still a dork and I think that's great. They mostly stayed away from typical culture war talking points like the original run. It's hard to find new shows that don't make my eyes roll into the back of my skull from contact embarrassment.

I was kind of expecting an episode or a b-plot about getting Bill back on his feet, but they didn't get into that at all. Maybe that's too played out since we have like 4 of those episodes in the original run. A throw-away line about Bill straighten up so fast because he's used to it would have been funny.

It's interesting to me how Peggy and Hank are more romantic (holding hands in public) than they normally are. I like to think Hank had some growth.

Hank is a little too easy going sometimes for me. ex: when he saw Willow taking that dump, he got over it way too fast. Old Hank would have been traumatized

Connie being back was fun I can kind of relate to trying to find common ground with old friends and you can't really do the same stuff as kids. Also, I was really worried they were going to take the ENM thing seriously. It's mostly played for laughs. Bobby is a real gentleman and that warms my frozen heart.

Structurally, I was really happy they went with a mostly episodic format instead of the newer trend of making your show a long movie stretched across a season. There's more room for creativity if you don't have to follow a lot of arcs. You can mostly play these episodes out of order like the original run. With the rise of streaming and the downfall of TV, this style of show is almost dead. It really makes it a slog to get through a season and doesn't give me much of a desire to rewatch stuff since I have to remember everything that happened up to that point.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Bobby’s face really sells it.

I can't tell you how often I make that exact face.