King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

Besides the episode being generally good the thing that really elevates it is how it takes a really overused sitcom plotline ("a side character suddenly becomes a center character" with the best example is Apu from Simpsons) and turns it around
The show was good about that stuff, taking cliched plotlines and turning them on their heads to be funny. Like the episode where Bill becomes Santa, it starts out heartwarming with Bill spreading the joy of Christmas to poor children, then he takes it too far by continuing to dress as Santa even after the hollidays, and scares everyone away. Then the "heartwarming orphan" Bill takes in is just a deadbeat moocher who steals and gets Bobby drunk. Its not a mean-spirited deconstruction like you would see on a bad episode of Rick and Morty, its just having fun with a cliched plotline and making it funny.


And let's hope they'll do an other nod to Chuck Mangione because it's feel so good. :story:
Apparently he's still alive. Hopefully Chuck is still squating in his toilet paper fort at the Arlen Mega-Lo Mart and can visit Hank and the gang again.
 
Just gonna say this, with Cotton long dead, are they gonna even reference him in the newer episodes?
 
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Just gonna say this, with Cotton long dead, are they gonna even reference him in the newer episodes?
Ya know, they could always say Cotton faked his death. He did admit to being able to stop his own heart to get the Japanese to stop torturing him, and purposely "died" out of spite for Peggy. it's not beyond belief that he simply keeps doing that when the doctors check him, then a bribe here or there to the right people and next thing you know Hank is flushing an urn of cement mix down a bar's toilet.

"Cement mix!?"
"Damn right! That unpatriotic sonofabitch was always whining like a woman about us flushing war heroes down his crapper! He should have been honored!"

They'd have to come up with a good reason why he did it, but it's possible.
 
I doubt they’ll go with a fake death. Cotton was born approximately in 1927, so odds are not great for him to still be alive.

As far as GH, Didi left with him in the final season and said she was getting remarried. I don’t see him being around very much, but they could have some fun episodes. If the show really takes place 10 years from the finale, GH would be 11 or 12. They could have him visit his grandparents brother and sister-in-law for the summer and cause all kinds of shenanigans.
 
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I doubt they’ll go with a fake death. Cotton was born approximately in 1927, so odds are not great for him to still be alive.

As far as GH, Didi left with him in the final season and said she was getting remarried. I don’t see him being around very much, but they could have some fun episodes. If the show really takes place 10 years from the finale, GH would be 11 or 12. They could have him visit his grandparents brother and sister-in-law for the summer and cause all kinds of shenanigans.
I still want another episode with Hank's Japanese brother and how he'll cope with both father's death after a decade.
 
I still want another episode with Hank's Japanese brother and how he'll cope with both father's death after a decade.
Let it be the episode Bobby becomes a weeb.

No wait! GH comes to visit and he's the total weeb. When he learns he has a half brother in japan, he drives Hank nuts to fly over there and visit. Shenanigans ensue!
 
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Let it be the episode Bobby becomes a weeb.

No wait! GH comes to visit and he's the total weeb. When he learns he has a half brother in japan, he drives Hank nuts to fly over there and visit. Shenanigans ensue!
More like Bill also becomes a weeb, and Hank sighs in disgust realizing that his dad was right about the Japanese and that two nukes weren't enough. Then Bobby gets disgusted to find out Bill has been addicted to these Chinese cartoons and has attended every anime convention in Arlen so far.
 
More like Bill also becomes a weeb, and Hank sighs in disgust realizing that his dad was right about the Japanese and that two nukes weren't enough. Then Bobby gets disgusted to find out Bill has been addicted to these Chinese cartoons and has attended every anime convention in Arlen so far.
Nah, while Hank & GH are away Bill becomes a simp for a VTuber and the street has to try and get him clean.

Like a darker version of the episode where he falls in love with the intercom girl.
 
Nah, while Hank & GH are away Bill becomes a simp for a VTuber and the street has to try and get him clean.

Like a darker version of the episode where he falls in love with the intercom girl.
And when Hank comes back feeling disgusted to find out that Bill is a VTuber, Dale will also claim in his series of conspiracy rants about modern day internet that Bill stole his money just to simp on the other VTuber just to be influenced to do his own.
 
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I honestly can't see them fucking this up. Judge is known to be a stickler for quality and both Do the Universe and the new seasons of B&B are quite good despite being a notoriously dated and hard to adopt 90's property.
 
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I doubt they’ll go with a fake death. Cotton was born approximately in 1927, so odds are not great for him to still be alive.

As far as GH, Didi left with him in the final season and said she was getting remarried. I don’t see him being around very much, but they could have some fun episodes. If the show really takes place 10 years from the finale, GH would be 11 or 12. They could have him visit his grandparents brother and sister-in-law for the summer and cause all kinds of shenanigans.
That's assuming that they decide to acknowledge any passage of time, which I kinda hope they don't. Would be more fun to me to see the same characters either in their original time, or even in modern day but still basically the same as they were back when. Basically do it the same way they did Beavis and Butt-Head, bring back the characters as they were.

Yeah, I don't much like change if you can't tell.
 
Unlike most reboots, Mike Judge is more careful with his characters. Most reboots are just made manipulative companies who would either ape the success of what Marvel's been doing or just pandering for nostalgia However, Beavis & Butthead has been revived twice and these characters have not changed since the 90s. So of course Mike Judge is gonna do well with the new KoTH revival.
 
That's assuming that they decide to acknowledge any passage of time, which I kinda hope they don't. Would be more fun to me to see the same characters either in their original time, or even in modern day but still basically the same as they were back when. Basically do it the same way they did Beavis and Butt-Head, bring back the characters as they were.

Yeah, I don't much like change if you can't tell.
I really hope the opposite. KOTH is a super grounded show where new tech, even in the 00s made fans wonder if it fit in. To jump from MySpace to TikTok and Bush America to Biden while characters remain the same ages would feel super off. It isn’t a show like Family Guy where you can pull a time travel.
 
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