King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

[Tasty Tatty]

I haven't gotten to that point yet, but I don't see how that would fit Connie's personality.

Nah, girls like Connie are the ones who get caught up the most with progressive bs. Same as when Luanne was into communism when she first heard of it, except Connie is smarter, so the scam has better words and Hank is a much better father figure.

 

[The Last Stand]

Nah, girls like Connie are the ones who get caught up the most with progressive bs. Same as when Luanne was into communism when she first heard of it, except Connie is smarter, so the scam has better words and Hank is a much better father figure.

I'd figured the joke would be that Luanne is easily influenced without any consideration of the bigger picture. "I'll just vote again next year." You could spin that as voters being easily manipulated or ignorant of the whole political process or just Luanne being naive and clueless of what's happening. It works either way.

Light bulb, that's why KoTH's humor works so well. The characters work WITH the jokes. How would Hank understand or react to what's happening? That's the punch line.

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

If it makes anyone feel any better, Twitter is mocking the new diversity recasting.

 

[Colon capital V]

It genuinely cannot be understated how utterly fucking cucked and dickless [current year] white people are if they let kikes and shitskins walk all over them and let them ruin what was once fine because literally voicing pixels on a fucking screen is """"offensive"""" to some brown faggot (read: other libshit cumskins).

 

[Kris]

On episode 10. The episodes flew by a little faster than I thought they would but I mostly just put em' on while I do stuff. For Khan and Dale's VAs they should've legitimately just gotten AI.
Writing feels kinda hit or miss at times, some episodes feel like KotH trying to adapt for the modern age, other episodes feel like something else wearing KotH's skin.

I'm aware it's to give themselves places to go but it feels a little miserable for some of the established things from the original seasons to just have turned out negatively(Kahn and Mihn's marriage, Connie dating Chang, etc.)
Also a little painful seeing Hank fall for the same shit a million times over, though I know that's just kind of his lot in life as one of the central characters in the series.

A lot of the odd things just stand out a lot to me because I rewatch KotH a lot even if I just have it on in the background, it's better background noise than youtube or the office.

 

[30+GameOvers]

See I gave the manosphere grifter a pass because it was more a pastiche of Richard Cooper and that one bald guy who ended up being a cuckold who was shoving dildos up his ass - the name escapes me but he got a decent amount of coverage on Kiwifarms a few years back.

You're thinking of Jack "Murphy" Goldman

 

[Jace on ice]

I don't care that Andrew Tate is a massive retard and a rapist. It's still fucking cringe to put an actual literal virgin vs Chad meme and use terms like "beta soycuck" unironically in King Of The Hill of all things.

 

[WuTangClan2299]

On episode 10. The episodes flew by a little faster than I thought they would but I mostly just put em' on while I do stuff. For Khan and Dale's VAs they should've legitimately just gotten AI.
Writing feels kinda hit or miss at times, some episodes feel like KotH trying to adapt for the modern age, other episodes feel like something else wearing KotH's skin.

I'm aware it's to give themselves places to go but it feels a little miserable for some of the established things from the original seasons to just have turned out negatively(Kahn and Mihn's marriage, Connie dating Chang, etc.)
Also a little painful seeing Hank fall for the same shit a million times over, though I know that's just kind of his lot in life as one of the central characters in the series.

A lot of the odd things just stand out a lot to me because I rewatch KotH a lot even if I just have it on in the background, it's better background noise than youtube or the office.

The Kahn and Mihn episode kind of pissed me off mostly due to how they treated Hank and Peggy in it. They actually chilled out a lot during the show so having them go back to season 1 levels of condescending assholes while ignoring all the character development they had comes off really shit to me.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I am not pleased that Chad Redemption Arc Bill did not happen (not even close)

 

[Brenda Holiday]

This was my favorite little reference

I also liked the gag with the Megalo Mart employees and the bath mat, I swear Mike Judge must have bad experiences with store employees because there was the same joke in Beavis and Butthead where proto-Hank Tom Anderson can't get help at the hardware store.

 

[Cryogonal2]

i think it's funny they did a cultural appropriation episode when disney brought the hammer down on white actors voicing nonwhite characters in the show. like, even they're saying "man this shit is retarded huh"

 

[Tasty Tatty]

It's not just that Kahn sounds like a white guy. He sounds like the whitest dude trying to sound vaguely Asian.

I'd figured the joke would be that Luanne is easily influenced without any consideration of the bigger picture. "I'll just vote again next year." You could spin that as voters being easily manipulated or ignorant of the whole political process or just Luanne being naive and clueless of what's happening. It works either way.

Light bulb, that's why KoTH's humor works so well. The characters work WITH the jokes. How would Hank understand or react to what's happening? That's the punch line.

In the case of Luanne, it's that she's naive and easily influenced. They play a lot with this and her character, because as sweet as she is, she's really not the brightest. It took her some time to grow up a spine and be less innocent, and that went along with her growing older and learning from good figures.

Connie, OTOH, is smart and she knows well right from wrong due to her upbringing, but she feels like someone who is using modern speak to excuse her behavior rather than owning that she might be in a situation she doesn't like (I haven't seen yet the episode, but this I get from what I've seen so far). Kinda like how many people say "I'm in a situationship" rather then admit that you're lonely and are clinging to whatever is also clinging to you rather than being alone, but you're really not that into them.

The shock here doesn't come from Hank but Bobby who's always been more upfront about what he wants and does than people older than him.

 

[Neil]

Mr. Yoshida was voiced by Phil LaMarr doing his Samurai Jack voice. I wonder if he was in on the joke, considering the fact that the episode as a whole and this scene seems to be making fun of his own hypocrisy in being a black man known for voicing an asian despite repeated outcry and demands for race-based casting.

But if we are playing that game, why is ethnic Chinese actress Lauren Tom playing a Laotian, when Chinese have been stomping on Laotians for centuries.
But in Disney's racist antiracist world, all Asians are interchangable.

Apparently the new VA is not even Laotian. Knowing Asian cultures that is probably even more offensive to them if they are even offended at all.

This is the perfect example of why the push for race-based casting is so fucking stupid. It's infeasible to find an actor or actress to 100% fit each and every niche racial role in a TV show, especially in a fucking cartoon. It always inevitably leads to just vaguely casting people within the same racial category. IRL Laotians would be upset at being confused for the Chinese or Japanese (which is the point of this joke) which makes it extremely ironic that the replacement for Khan is a Chinese man and the replacement for Ted is a Korean.

Finding multiple Laotian-Americans with the same level of acting experience as Lauren Tom and Toby Huss, who would be able to replicate their exact voices naturally would be nearly impossible, so instead, Toby gets the boot (his family isn't from the Asian landmass) and Lauren keeps her job (because her family is from the Asian landmass, so not being Laotian doesn't matter).

There's a ton of factors necessary within voice casting, and race isn't one of them.

My soul died a little bit when I heard the term "non ethical monogamy" in a KOTH episode.

I feel like the point with that bit (aside from showing that Chane is still a total dickhead) is to show that Connie is lagging in maturity compared to Bobby, whereas in the original show Bobby lagged behind her. She's mocked for it in every scene it's brought up in and eventually discards it (and Chane) by the end of the season.

 

[Colon capital V]

The Kahn and Mihn episode kind of pissed me off mostly due to how they treated Hank and Peggy in it. They actually chilled out a lot during the show so having them go back to season 1 levels of condescending assholes while ignoring all the character development they had comes off really shit to me.

Since the Hills were gone for 8-ish years and in that time they both got divorced, I take it they're a bit more assholeish given Kahn and Minh aren't happy together, so seeing the Hills still married and loving each other must really sting, so they'll take their frustrations out on them and their hillbilly love lives still going well.

 

[Trilby]

This was my favorite little reference
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I also liked the gag with the Megalo Mart employees and the bath mat, I swear Mike Judge must have bad experiences with store employees because there was the same joke in Beavis and Butthead where proto-Hank Tom Anderson can't get help at the hardware store.

Yep, I know what this feels like.

 

[Tepes Thot]

Since the Hills were gone for 8-ish years

That was something I was confused about. Since Bobby is only 21, does that mean they took him overseas with them and he came back after he graduated?

 

[Neil]

I guess I'm on a KOTH kick now: Bobby's the best part of the new season. The juxtaposition between Bobby and Chane's worker-boss relationship to Hank and Buck Strickland's relationship is also nice. Both of them get screwed over by their shitty incompetent womanizing bosses, but Bobby keeps himself under Ted and Chane's thumb out of the necessity to keep his dream of being a professional chef alive meanwhile Hank stuck with Buck out of blind loyalty.

Worst part of the season aside from the voice recasting:

Spoiler

Kahn and Minh divorcing was dumb. They were the least problematic couple in the original show, they stuck with each other through everything, even when Khan got fired and decided to burn the rest of their savings to live like rednecks. The writers torpedoed their marriage to try and give Connie a new character arc and an excuse to be a noncommittal dumbass having flings with Chane and other fratboys (marrying young bad, and now she has an example of why) but it comes at the expense of one of the funnier duos in the show.

I would hope that Kahn and Minh get back together by the end of this version of the show's run but I won't hold my breath.

 

[Jace on ice]

Dale seems to be Flanderized pretty badly. In the original run he could still talk like a normal person and had normie interests like drinking beer and sports.

Now literally every single line of his dialogue is schizo conspiracy shit.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Reality is that Hollywood has a very narrow view of ethnicity:

A Nigerian can play a Ethiopian because both are black.
A Japanese can play a Chinese because both are Asian.
A Saudi can play a Lebanese because both are Arab.
A Mexican can play an Argentinian because both are Latinos.
A German can play a Spaniard because both are white.

Ask any of these people if they would like to be mistaken for the other and they might punch you in the face.

 

[Slap47]

Dale seems to be Flanderized pretty badly. In the original run he could still talk like a normal person and had normie interests like drinking beer and sports.

Now literally every single line of his dialogue is schizo conspiracy shit.

To be fair, we all know a person who became like that.