King of the Hill: RIP Johnny Hardwick, like dang ol' dust in the wind

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get that OUT of my face: Feb 10, 2007

So they're not content with just pulling the show in favor of a Family Guy spin-off, they canceled the DVDs and won't show the last four episodes. And yet they're trusted with Futurama again when Adult Swim and Comedy Central both handled it better. They won't learn.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2009 04:42

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 05:26

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Jetstar posted:

Fox will eventually be taken over by Family Guy knock-offs anyway.

If The Simpsons falls to the Seth MacFarlene empire, I'll be upset even though the show has been in decline for a decade.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2009 22:51

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BlueBayou posted:

Is anyone else sad that adult swim stopped doing "King of the Hill is brought to you by <some local Arlen business>"

They've been doing it on some commercial breaks, just not all of them.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2009 19:04

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It's amazing how Fox continually screws over Mike Judge, with this and with Idiocracy. If he does another TV show, it should be with another network.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2009 06:59

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livingfruitvirus posted:

He just tried that.......didn't go so well.

Did he do it with a cable station? Of course you're not going to get as much money or viewers working for them, although the quality will definitely be higher there than on Fox.

Is he planning on doing anything after Extract?

Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:

I'm guessing Fox might be planning on licensing out the DVDs. Of course, this assumption comes from the first and second seasons of KOTH being available as a pack for $20 at my local Wal-Mart.

I hope so, since there's no real point in holding on to the DVD licensing rights to King of the Hill but not releasing any past season six. Other than petty spite, of course, something that probably isn't a foreign concept to Fox.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2009 08:27

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FlyingCheese posted:

Perhaps, it did also resurrect Futurama recently.

And that's also going to Fox, right? If so, that makes Adult Swim look like a shelter for shows abused by Fox. After nurturing them until they're ready to go back into the world, the show runs back to Fox where it's subjected to more pain.

That's a real :smith:

metaphor, I apologize.

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It always gets brought up but, I love how gracefully KotH handles having its guest stars. They almost never play themselves (Ann Richards and a few others excluded) and when they do it's not like The Simpsons where it's like HEY WE'RE GREEN DAY. WHATS UP BART. You get Jeff Goldblum as a con artist, or Brendan Fraser as David Kalaiki-Ali'i or Sydney Pollack as Grant Timble, foot fetish video maker or Snoop Dogg as white pimp Alabaster Jones and so that I don't mention every guest star the show has ever had I'll stop now.

The closest time that King of the Hill flaunted a guest star voicing himself was Willie Nelson, but even then they didn't whore him out like a typical Simpsons episode; he was actually an important part of the story.

Two of my personal favorite guest voices were Carl Reiner (of The 2,000 Year Old Man fame) as the Jewish boyfriend of Hank's mom and Brad Pitt as Boomhauer's brother.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2009 19:54

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CaptainHollywood posted:

I'm laughing just thinking about that episode. While there aren't episodes I can say are outright "bad", there are a few awkward/weird episodes. Like the one where Luanne gets that new gig with the pig... thing. I forget what really happens, but it's where she works for a psycho who dresses her up and tries to get her to marry this guy. In the end the psycho dies a pretty brutal death.

That's a great episode, but also a creepy one. Something out of a horror film.

It also takes Luann's character to the extremes of her naivete.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2009 20:16

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BlueBayou posted:

Its great because Luanne's naivete sometimes works to get advantage. For example the cult never really converts her.

"Well, it's cold, and you locked me in a closet and yelled at me, but I have made a lot of new friends, so yes."

In that sense, she really is a lot like Bobby - the pile of mush that can't be built up or knocked down.

Blame it on the Platter genes.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2009 01:15

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JethroMcB posted:

The scene from the volunteer firefighters episode (that whole drat episode, I tell you what) is phenomenal.

"My name is Dauterive-comma-Bill. I am also insane."

Boomhauer's recollection of what started the fire makes that episode.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2009 23:26

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Your Proud Pal posted:

The Connie-gets-her-period episode plays host to one of my favorite Hank lines:

How many cows do you people eat in a year?
Wait, we figured this out once...

That episode was on tonight's Adult Swim, it's a classic. I also remember seeing commercials for it on Fox when it was a new episode.

The first episode I remember seeing was the one where Bobby was diagnosed with ADD. I want to see it again for old time's sake.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2009 06:44

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More "King of the Hill has awesome guest voices" fodder: the skateboarding preacher is voiced by the lead singer of Sum-41, and his dad is voiced by Gene Simmons. It's the little things that make the show great.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2009 03:42

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LividLiquid posted:

Peggy started out more naive than narcissist and I was sad to see her become such an egomaniac. I can't loving stand Peggy episodes despite knowing that they all end with her getting her comeuppance.

Luann and Bobby already fill the show's naive quota.

I don't hate her as much as many people do, even though Mike Judge has said that she's not supposed to be a likable character.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2009 19:50

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Your Proud Pal posted:

I'm fairly certain I've seen a Pocket Sand! avatar before, and I know someone has one of Hank sparking up a j with Gail.

bobservo has an avatar of Hank Hill smoking a joint.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2009 04:51

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That ending was perfect. The only way it could have been better was if Hank told Bobby, "You're gonna turn out all right" (shamelessly stolen from a poster early in this thread).

# ¿ Sep 14, 2009 02:05

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NightGoat posted:

I'm wondering if there is going to be a spinoff now - Boomhauer, Texas Ranger.

Seth McFarlene is the Fox cash cow, not Mike Judge. Here's hoping.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2009 02:07

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robot roll call posted:

it got an actual kind of promoted sendoff with a great conclusion.

Really? I didn't get that at all, considering that the Giants-Redskins game had three seconds of a sidebar telling us to watch King of the Hill tonight at 8:00 and no announcers telling us about it.

I could blame that on Joe Buck being a horrible announcer, but I dunno.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2009 03:09

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CaptainHollywood posted:

Actually the announcers said "Stay tuned for the shocking one-hour series finale of King of the Hill!"

The only part I didn't see was the first half of the third quarter, was it during then? If it wasn't, then I can blame myself for tuning out the announcers.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2009 04:29

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I saw Boomhauer's badge in the end and didn't think much of it at the time. It was only looking here that I found out what it's all about.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2009 07:33

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muscles like this! posted:

The "joke" is that McFarlane was supposed to be on one of the planes that was hijacked but overslept and missed his flight.

Speaking of which:

I know that producing doesn't mean you have complete creative control over the show, but honestly, how can anyone but Mike Judge do a revival/reboot?

# ¿ Aug 12, 2017 02:21

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Neon Noodle posted:

fake as hell

Fooled me, it got the couch chat thread all riled up and another friend of mine heard about it.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2017 02:52

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Mike Judge doesn't really put his personal political views into his work. As long as that continues to be the case, I'll keep watching his stuff. Political posturing is too common in comedy shows these days to begin with, we don't need a potential KotH revival to have that as well.

Wasn't Dale Gribble directly inspired by Alex Jones? I seem to remember Judge has been friends with him for a long time.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2017 17:37

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Ches Neckbeard posted:

Counter point: The Goode Family.

Hopefully he never makes that mistake again.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2017 18:42

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A MIRACLE posted:

I mean Seth is behind American dad which is one of the best shows ever made so I'm cool with it

He didn't do all that much for it except for the songs and the voice of Stan. One of the songs is this one, and it's a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFV1uT-ihDo

Seth can be funny when he wants to be, it's just that he can't be assed to be that way most of the time.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 06:54

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My friend lives in a rural area outside of Stillwater, Oklahoma with her boyfriend- a guy who she had an affair with many years ago when she was married. She says he talks like Boomhauer and has the wackjob beliefs of Dale. Even though Hank has issues with Oklahoma, King of the Hill seems to be relatable to people in that state too.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2017 22:47

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 05:26

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Happy final five minutes (from EST) of International Womens' Day! "I am a proud, ignorant woman and no one is going to change that." -Luanne Platter

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# ¿ Mar 9, 2018 05:56

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