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Inescapable Duck posted:There's a few episodes showing Buck is a greedy idiot who takes advantage of Hank's loyalty and skill. I think there's an outright episode where the fable of 'the goose that laid the golden egg' finally gets to him when he's pushing Hank too hard. There's also the episode where Hank opens a general store in the country and is fantastic at is and way happier and more fulfilled but is eventually guilted back to Strickland Propane. To be on topic, King of the Hill is one of the many, many 90s sitcoms to dedicate an episode to the evils of medicine and how kids with developmental issues or behavior problems are just lazy/need to be disciplined/are just being kids maaaan. KotH's episode is especially bad because it's about Bobby being misdiagnosed with ADHD because eating sugar was making him hyper, which is a myth that has been actively disproved over and over.
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Safe to say King of the Hill has aged very well. I'll be damned if I can see Bobby as anything close to an rear end in a top hat (he's a pretty sweet, sensitive kid) and Strickland as anything but one though. Hank's a conformist who needs "The Rules" to feel secure and cedes to authority and tradition while Bobby is off center and whimsical, which has Hank thinking he's "not right". I'm not sure how anyone could have any other takeaway but whatever. One of the things I liked about King of the Hill was that it actually made an attempt at continuity for the most part, even though no one really aged. It'd be funny to see an animated show that actually aged the characters in real time.
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This thread is really fascinating and I like it. I like the obsolete technology thread too -- it's just neat to see how we used to do things, even if how we used to do things was terrible and off-putting. The episode of The Cleveland Show where Rallo and Junior take a video of Cleveland that they edit into a song & upload to YouTube is probably the most topical episode of any show I've ever seen. It was meant to parody the whole Songify The News bit, which started in 2009 (apparently they're still doing it but still). The episode aired in 2012. edit: and that's not even getting into how the show treated trans people YeahTubaMike has a new favorite as of 16:58 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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BiggerBoat posted:It'd be funny to see an animated show that actually aged the characters in real time. I heard that was the original goal for Mission Hill. Shame it was sent out to die on the WB.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:55
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Imagine if the Simpsons had aged in real time. Maggie would be 25, Bart and Lisa would be in their mid-30s and Homer and Marge would be 60.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:02
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Thinking about that "future" episode where Lisa is president and talking about the massive debt they inherited from Trump.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:06
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Guy Mann posted:There's also the episode where Hank opens a general store in the country and is fantastic at is and way happier and more fulfilled but is eventually guilted back to Strickland Propane. The episode has probably the funniest bobby hill moments ever even if the message is dumb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BwV26j9iY0
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Aug 11, 2017 17:16
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An animated show where the characters age in real time seems like it would defeat the purpose of having an animated show.Guy Mann posted:There's also the episode where Hank opens a general store in the country and is fantastic at is and way happier and more fulfilled but is eventually guilted back to Strickland Propane. I think you either imagined that episode or are confusing King of the Hill with another show.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:27
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YeahTubaMike posted:
Seth Macfarlane has serious issues with trans people. In Family Guy there's an episode where Quagmire's dad changes sex and Brian has sex with her without knowing it. When he realizes it he then spend the rest of the episode throwing up.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:34
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Gaunab posted:An animated show where the characters age in real time seems like it would defeat the purpose of having an animated show. True, but it'd be a novel idea anyway. Not sure it's ever been tried.
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BiggerBoat posted:Safe to say King of the Hill has aged very well. That's the obvious, surface-level setup. A strict, old-fashioned dad who just doesn't get his fun-loving son. But King of the Hill isn't that trite and simplistic. When Hank goes full Dad on Bobby's rear end he's usually proven to have a valid reason based on genuine concern for his son's well-being, and Bobby's kooky, "harmless" whimsy masks extreme selfishness and a mean-streak that manifests whenever he finds himself in a position of power or authority (much like Bill). If Bobby wasn't a doughy midget he wouldn't be so well-liked given his actual actions (much like Cotton).
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Aug 11, 2017 17:48
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Gaunab posted:I think you either imagined that episode or are confusing King of the Hill with another show. There was the episode where Hank joined the co-op, which sounds kind of like what this guy is describing. Which was a good episode. McFarlane definitely seems to dislike trans people, or else the writers do. There was a joke in a recent episode where Quagmire and his mom are out to dinner, where she mentions the restaurant they're at named a sandwich after her; it's an inside out hotdog slathered in ketchup. It's not only unnecessary, but mean-spirited.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Thaterton!  Thatherton!
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Leavemywife posted:There was the episode where Hank joined the co-op, which sounds kind of like what this guy is describing. Which was a good episode. Family Guy is a really unpleasant show
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Aug 11, 2017 17:59
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Gaunab posted:I think you either imagined that episode or are confusing King of the Hill with another show. People before pennies.
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yo rear end is grass posted:People before pennies. General stores are "Ma and Pa." If you're not there, people are gonna make assumptions, like "Did Pa kill Ma?" They aren't gonna want to buy batteries from me if they think you're back in the freezer hanging from a meat hook.
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Gaunab posted:
He has it kind of right, Hank WANTED to open a general store after quitting Strickland Propane when Buck passes him over as a temporary manager after Buck has yet another heart attack. He never gets further than dreaming about it before he goes back to work.
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Aug 11, 2017 20:35
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Aesop Poprock posted:Family Guy is a really unpleasant show Family Guy had an episode where the running joke was that Quagmire's sister was being abused by her boyfriend.
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Aug 11, 2017 21:02
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Family Guy had an episode where the running joke was that Quagmire's sister was being abused by her boyfriend. And then finally there was the serious episode where Quagmire told his sister that she was a bad person because she let herself be abused.
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Aug 11, 2017 21:59
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The one redeeming thing about Family Guy being so long in the tooth and the people involved giving so little poo poo is that they do weird experimental things like a largely joke-free episode of them plotting to kill Quagmire's sister's abusive boyfriend on a camping trip or time traveling to the pilot episode or killing off Brian and even making entire episodes with their new dog to keep the prank going.
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Aug 11, 2017 22:18
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Family Guy had an episode where the running joke was that Quagmire's sister was being abused by her boyfriend. One of the only full episodes I've seen of family guy was about Quagmire being abused by his girlfriend
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Aug 11, 2017 22:34
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I haven't seen Family Guy in years. What are they doing now that Adam West died?
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Bryan Konietzko hated the cynical atmosphere while working on Family Guy that he quit and created Avatar The Last Airbender. The most sincere cartoon in a long time.
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Alhazred posted:Seth Macfarlane has serious issues with trans people. In Family Guy there's an episode where Quagmire's dad changes sex and Brian has sex with her without knowing it. When he realizes it he then spend the rest of the episode throwing up. drat. I thought it was because he was related to Quagmire in any way.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I haven't seen Family Guy in years. What are they doing now that Adam West died? Well, Peter is going to get a new boss since Carrie Fisher died, so I would imagine they'll get a new mayor. He/she will never be as good, but it's Family Guy.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Well, Peter is going to get a new boss since Carrie Fisher died, so I would imagine they'll get a new mayor. Maybe Michael Keaton can be the next mayor. Keep a theme going.
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Aug 11, 2017 23:43
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Someone mentioned The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy a few pages back, and it reminded me that show had a legit God Emperor of Dune episode featuring Mandy as Leto II and Billy as Duncan Idaho, and now I'm wondering how that held up.
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West had recorded a few episodes for the next season.
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RareAcumen posted:drat. I thought it was because he was related to Quagmire in any way. I would think it's because they're a dog fucker.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Someone mentioned The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy a few pages back, and it reminded me that show had a legit God Emperor of Dune episode featuring Mandy as Leto II and Billy as Duncan Idaho, and now I'm wondering how that held up. They also had the Gom Jabbar be part of a beauty contest, it was pretty good. Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue belongs in this thread. It perfectly captures the anti-drug strategy of the time, in that they had no clue how to deal with it so they just threw every cartoon character available.
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Gann Jerrod posted:
Holy poo poo, I thought that my memories of that were just the kind of confabulation that happens when you try to remember something from when you were in first or second grade. Finding out it absolutely exists is stranger than thinking my 7 year old mind cooked it up. E: holy poo poo, George C Scott voiced the villain. There is always more and it is always weirder. Ugly In The Morning has a new favorite as of 01:28 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Holy poo poo, I thought that my memories of that were just the kind of confabulation that happens when you try to remember something from when you were in first or second grade. Finding out it absolutely exists is stranger than thinking my 7 year old mind cooked it up. It blows my mind just how many people seem to share this mentality of thinking they imagined CASTTR. Like, iirc, they aired it many times, and that kind of thing wasn't a crazy one of a kind phenomenon at all...
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I never saw it on TV- I was born in 88, so it probably left that phase before I started watching it on TV. They showed it on VHS in one of my elementary school classes, and when you take how surreal it was with the young age people were at when they saw it, the fragmented memories definitely seem like something you just dreamed up.
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I love Seinfeld but it has a shitload of wacky foreign accents and apparently Jerry himself was kind of lovely about it. At least with Apu you get a lot of character background built up across the series.
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Aug 12, 2017 02:42
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I realized Seth MacFarlane was a complete rear end in a top hat when the Family Guy DVDs came out and he would have a phone conversation in the middle of a DVD commentary and just leave it in.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I realized Seth MacFarlane was a complete rear end in a top hat when the Family Guy DVDs came out and he would have a phone conversation in the middle of a DVD commentary and just leave it in. I realized Seth MacFarlane was a complete rear end in a top hat when he did a standup special on Fox that had a backing orchestra and celebrity guests.
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Aug 12, 2017 02:53
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It's funny that the big business George Bluth Sr is running into the ground is real estate development, but it gets adressed in Season 4 so I guess it doesn't count.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:I realized Seth MacFarlane was a complete rear end in a top hat when he did a standup special on Fox that had a backing orchestra and celebrity guests. I have never watched Family Guy but I saw ads for that variety show and I was like "This guy is a douchebag"
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Just watched the first two Columbo movies because of this thread, and they really hold up. He doesn't even get the person to confess. The first one he turns the accomplice and the second he gets the perpetrator to break out the ransom money for a payoff. Works really well.
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Columbo is great but probably the better episodes are the older ones where they could get recognisable stars.
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