Does King of the Hill have the most dry, subtle sense of humor out of any Western adult animated show? Almost every adult cartoon has an over-the-top style of comedy, often for shock value, but King of the Hill has a much more subdued sense of humor.
>>81481261
it has the largest cast of criminals of any show
>>81481261
Home Movies might come close.
>>81481261
i enjoyed it, my friends from southern states of america love it
Yes, and that's why it was never renewed.
Mission Hill is kind of there, maybe. I'd also have to agree on Home Movies
>yfw the show was canceled before Judge got to do the episode he really wantedwhereLadybirddies
>>81483629
At least he didn't have to do an episode where Luanne dies.
>>81481261
I dunno, but it's a damn good show
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>>81481261
Dr Katz almost makes it, but it probably has too many loud annoying guests which ruin an otherwise perfectly comfy show.
Yuorofag here, I've marathoned this series few years ago and I enjoyed it a lot.
As far I've asked, this show is supposed to present actual state of mind in south america. Is that true?
>>81484643
It's very much about texas specifically. Suburban Texas is a whole different animal then say Georgia.
>>81484643
>this show is supposed to present actual state of mind in south america. Is that true?
at certain points, the show definitely expresses a southern state of mind through hank, but there are some episodes that go into full-on parody of the south, especially in the earlier seasons
Lets see where yous guys are froms
KoTH is Fantastic, PAfag here
>>81483607
It had 13 seasons that's more than it deserved.
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>>81484842
As stated >>81484643, Poland
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>>81485165
That's hardly a troll. It is good, when show ends before it goes zombie mode. Look at the Simpsons.
>>81484842
CT with family in PA. Love it.
Never watched it when it was on. Started watching it on [adult swim] a few years ago and love it now. I watch it like every night.
>>81483498
God tier non edgy adult humor in no order
Bob's Burgers
Home Movies
Mission Hill
KotH
Honorable mention goes to Morel Orel as it can be edgy sometimes but doesn't do it for shock laughs
>>81484842California,Hank is one of my favorite tv dads.
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>>81484842
NCfag
Everyone I know loves the show for one reason or another
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>>81483724
I couldn't handle it, even sadder than whenHank's truckdies.
>>81484842
AZfag here. I watched as a kid, even though I probably shouldn't have, up til even now. Got my father into the show were as before he wouldn't even give the show a chance.
>>81485831
You, I like.
>>81483576
Texasfag here, I've never met anyone in the south who doesn't love KotH, Hell, I've met people in their 70s and 80s who watch it on a regular basis.
I'm not even joking.
It's a beautiful day
Yay
>>81483629
>show cancelled before killing off a dog
In my book, that's considered a W.
The last few seasons were weak as fuck anyway.
>>81486594
I've actually heard some people from Texas say that most of the jokes work only if you're familiar with Texas.
>>81486639
Some kinda crazy tennis
TENNISboggle
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>>81486700
I wish people here actually liked King of the Hill for its own merits and not epic maymays and YouTube Poops.
>>81481261
yes.
>>81486594
>>81483576
Kentuckyfag here and I have to agree
I have never known anyone who actively dislikes KotH. If it was on as a kid it got watched by anyone in my house
What's your guy's opinion on the life and times of Tim?
https://youtu.be/o1zWM7FgcGA
>>81484842
Louisianafag here, I love KotH
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>>81485969
Fellow NCfag reporting in.
>>81486376
>AZfag
My negroid!
>>81486660
>last few seasons were weak as fuck anyway
Fucking thank you. This meme unfortunately isn't as widespread as with other shows.
King of the Hill peaked in season 4, and then repeaked in 7-8 (5 was kind of shitty although had some 4-tier episodes, 6 was just weird... trying to be something that it wasn't).
Then 9 and 10... they were ok I guess.
11-13 might as well not even be the same show. The tone shifted so dramatically, and they kept making all these status-quo changing episodes cause they had no real ideas of their own.
They did a lot of damage to the brand in the last 3 seasons, and unfortunately a bunch of filthy casual plebs who never bothered watching it until it was on le dult swim don't realize that those last 3 years (and season 6 to a much lesser degree and for different reasons) shouldn't be considered canon.
>>81486686
Eh, it's not a necessity, but it makes the humor a little richer if that makes sense.
Funny story actually,
>few years back
>playing Halo 3 with some dude from Pennsylvania or something
>tell him I was eating What-a-burger
>"Wait... That's a real place? I thought that King of the Hill made that up."
>mfw he goes on to ask if Mega-lo Mart is real too
In his defense "What-a-burger" does sound like a name made up for a cartoon.
>>81486735
You do know you can like both, right?
>>81486735
>implying I don't like both
>>81486948
I didn't know Whataburger was real until I moved to Orlando about ten years ago.
>tfw it closed down
>>81484842
Texas reporting in. So where is Arlen. My buddy and I think somewhere in west central Texas. And don't you say Austin or Allen, those are both very wrong
>>81487132
Arlington.
>>81487132
closer to DallASS than Houston
>>81487132
apparently, Arlington area. I come from a suburb of Dallas called Garland, which I always thought was interestingly close
>>81486922
>le dult swim
Quit being a faggot.
You wanna talk about doing damage to the show, let's talk about the finale,
>the 4,000th "Bobby and Hank find common grounds" episode
>Bobby magically knows everything about steak thanks to a 10 second montage
Come to think of it, has Hank ever been shown to know a lot about beef like he did in the finale? Preferring medium rare doesn't count, anyone who knows a pair of grill tongs from their own dick knows that medium rare is God tier.
>mfw the only saving grace was revealing Boomhaurer's job
What a fucking wasted opportunity. They should've called it quits after Cotton's death .
>tfw the guy who ran the Hank Hill facebook page died
I mean he was kind of an anime-watching meme-loving faggot, but he gave me some keks in spite of that.
>>81487270
Hank knows his way around beef retard, you weren't paying attention
Showing Boomhauer's job was stupid, as was giving him a name. I don't consider that or anything they did in the final 3 seasons canon.
Cotton's death was also just going for the shock value, it was a pleb-tier episode.
I love the episode where it starts snowing during the BBQ. Texans don't know how to handle temperatures lower than 40
>>81487270
I agree with you.
The finale sucked dick.
There was no saving grace to it, the job reveal was just wrong.
>>81484842
Michigan here. I love Koth and will move to Texas in the future
after koth mike judge made a liberal version called the goode family which was cancelled after one season. that's all.
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>>81487231
See, I don't know why, but I've always assumed Arlan was a stand in for Arlington, but to answer this anon >>81486686 that was one of the big appeals of KotH for Texasfags, Arlan could be litterally any small town in Texas. This is coming from someone who lives in a small town in Texas.
>>81487345
Give me a few examples, I'm drawing a blank. I know he knows his way around a cow sometimes but I can't remember any time he shown to have a fucking encyclopedic knowledge on beef aside from the finale.
KotH was okay. Some inconsistent writing, though. Peggy grew up in three different parts of Montana with two or three different kinds of mother.
>>81487459
Nothing like KOTH. The Goode family sucked dick, and was a shitty show designed to make fun of liberals. I say as a conservative, designing a whole show around making fun of an ideology is a bad idea (see: American Dad).
KOTH at first had slight jabs at conservative values, but they did away with that type of thing pretty early on. And even though it sucked at first there was always more to it than "see how dinosaur these texans are" which like I said, they got rid of relatively early.
>>81487549
The show was inconsistent, but the episodes/seasons that were good were GOAT.
>>81487347
Is Judge from Texas? Because good God that's spot on.
Same with rain, whenever we start getting heavy rain, people lose their fucking minds.
>>81484842
Frenchfag, love it. Still need to watch the quebec dubbing though.
>>81485831
I had hoped that the spectacular burnout of the seth le macfarlane edge factory would push the edgy adult animation trend closer to irrelevance, but it's still going strong.
At lease a decent amount of kids shows these days have crossover appeal
>>81487479
kek well now I look like a faggot I'm drawing a blank too.
IDK it just feels right but I could be wrong. I'll have to pull out my dvds.
If you check this board on sunday april 10 1200pm california time there will be a post with either examples of this or with me admitting defeat on this subject for good.
>>81487707
and for the record I don't even remember that much/care about the finale (I don't consider it canon). I didn't remember him having an encyclopedic knowledge of beef. I was responding to my misinterpreted reading of your comment that said he didn't really know his way around beef that much, which felt wrong.
>>81487549
If you wanna talk inconsistent shows you could do a Hell of a lot worse than KotH.
But yea that did bother me a bit.
>Hank: Peggy can you call Buck? He's under "Peggy's mother"
>Peggy: Mom can I come stay with you for toni- Oh, hi Mr. Strickland.
Peggy was going to drive all the way the fuck to Montana to spend the night with a woman she hated. Ok.
>>81487707
You'll forget.
>>81481261
King of the Hill had humor?
>>81487790
The whole "peggy hates her mom" thing started in 6, which had new showrunners behind it who didn't seem to care about contradicting earlier seasons (I mean contradicting 1 and even 2 isn't always a bad thing in my mind but 3 and 4 is).
Then they were fired and 7-8 were based af.
Then 9 and 10 were kind of mediocre and they of course revitalized that peggy thing mentioned in season 6.
>>81487823
nah i won't but like i said here >>81487787
I probably don't disagree with you. I just didn't remember the finale that well and didn't remember him having an encyclopedic knowledge of beef in it, so I misunderstood your comment and thought you were saying he was a beef pleb all around (which idk maybe you are and i'll try to dispute that cause he's definitely not a beef pleb, just not a super-autist savant either).
>>81487863
It had humor, it must've been too deep for you and flown over your head.
It's Hank-kino.
To be fair, most southern states never get snow, save for once a decade or so. It sorta makes sense they have no clue what the fuck to do about it.
Hell, 7 or 8 years ago in New Orleans, it snowed about maybe half a foot, and everyone went insane about it.
>>81487987
He probably likes South Park and Family Guy
>>81481261
>Does King of the Hill have the most dry, subtle sense of humor out of any Western adult animated show?
That would be Family Guy.
>>81488009
>le South Park is bad meme
Did they mock something you like?
>>81488016
>family guy
>dry
>family guy
>subtle
M8
I don't think OP Was insulting KOTH at all.
I agree Family Guy sucks dick, but it's not subtle or dry (though I'm not sure dry is the right word for koth, not that it's inherently a bad thing).
>>81488016
Shitposting in a KotH thread? For shame, anon.
>>81487990
>2010
>senior year of Highschool
>it starts snowing in the middle of class
>first snowfall since like 2004 and before that, 1994
>mfw a shit ton of 17 and 18 year olds ran outside and started playing in the snow
The teachers didn't give a hot fuck, and even if they did, they couldn't stop us.
Shit was apocalyptic.
>>81488043
Probably, but I haven't watched in years to see if they ever did.
I just hate it cause it's "crude depth" is actually just overrated simplified pseudo-intellectual shit, and the voices and animation are boring/annoying af.
I hear it's gotten worse, that they've doubled down on the whole "wacky random plot mixed with current events" trick.
I'll pass.
>>81488009
Not him but I liked pre-cancellation Family Guy
>>81488009
It was a joke, but hey take offense to it if you want.
>>81486639
SUNDAAAAY!!!
>>81488220
Everyone does, it was great, but remember, anon, it's popular and cool on /co/ to hate family guy so we can't say anything positive about it.
>>81488287
ON HEDGERS AND CLIPPERS AND HEDGERS AND CLIPPERS AND HEDGERS AND CLIPPERS
>>81488173
For hating pseudo-intellectual junk, you're filling up the buzzword quota A LOT.
>they've doubled down on the whole "wacky random plot mixed with current events" trick.
That's been since more than ten seasons ago.
>>81488298
To me, Family Guy actually got more watchable after the cancellation.
It's still not great but I'll watch it every once in a while.
>I like something that a lot of people shit on. It can't possibly be that a lot of people see something differently from me. They must be doing it for hipster points but I bet they secretly like it.
I mean honestly get fucked anon. I don't even hate Family Guy but this cancerous attitude needs to go.
>>81488336
>buzzword quota
How so, faggot? None of my words are something a 6th grader couldn't follow.
>more than ten seasons ago
I stopped watching it 8 years ago, but everyone tells me its gotten worse in this regard. Maybe their judgement is wrong, I can't say cause I haven't watched it in 8 years. But if it's even remained stable, that's enough to keep me away.
>>81488171
Pretty sure that year was 2008. I was in the 7th grade at that time and every class in the school immediately stopped what they were doing and ran outside in the snow. I got home and saw the entire neighborhood block outside. That day was ridiculous.
>>81488336
he's not using any buzzwords that the fandom of pretentious college kids don't use themselves.
>>81488465
I strictly remember being a senior and I'm class of '10. Might've snowed in 2008, can't remember.
If It helps to paint the picture a bit clearer, I lived just south of Houston at the time.
>>81484842
NY. used to watch it. its a good show. It doesnt try to be a sitcom. it isnt a sitcom. it has humor, but it also has drama some times and deals with suburban life issues.
its unique for an adult cartoon in the US, when the standard bearers are Simpsons and Family Guy. (although simpsons itself started out as satire and devolved into meaningless sitcom)
>>81484842
I live in Illinois and I love KotH.
>>81484842
I live in korea and never been any other country, I enjoyed KotH a lot. No joke.
>>81487287
tfw indeed
>>81487287
Really?
Ah man I used to love that page. I got rid of my normiebook so I didn't keep up with it the last few years but still.
Facebook is a worse place without him.
>>81484842
nebraska here.
Hank and his friend are real. they're here...they're everywhere.
the show just feels soooo good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dg8vRDM68
>>81486922
The show peaked in season 3 and anyone who says 4 was the best is a moron.
4 isn't a bad season but when you watch it straight through it just feels like such a letdown after 3.
>>81483498
>>81484432
>>81484464
>>81485831
Pretty much everything Loren Bouchard makes is as dry as American humor gets.
>>81489347
Episodes like Little Horrors of Shop, Bill Are Made To Be Broken and A Beer Can Named Desire are on a higher level than anything in 3.
3 still had a little bit of the old spirit of the show, and 4 is where the Hank character came most full into his own. You saw a lot of it forming in 3 but 4 is where it peaked.
I mean then 5 lost some of all this besides a few select episodes, and 6 was just weird.
7-8 were a bit different from 4 but God-tier in their own respects.
3 is certainly good but 4 is undoubtedly better.
3 has more of the meme episodes though, so I guess I could see why viewers who are a little less mature gravitate toward those (A Firefighter We Will go in particular, which is a good episode, but KOTH was on the top of its game with the more low-key episodes of 4, 7 and 8 (I mean by vibe not necessarily by plot).
>>81489552
Nah I don't like it for the "meme episodes."
I think the continuity was stronger with shit like Luanne's hair growing back and Peggy and Hank trying to have another kid, which after the skydiving two-parter never really came up again (and both parts of that were produced during season 3 anyway).
The show felt most like it was developing its own world in 3 where actions and events of characters would be referenced again in the same season, but then with 4 it went back to being more like 1/2 where it was more of a (good, don't get me wrong) sitcom, with most episodes not having real connections to the others outside of the status-quo-changing ones. Like, Bobby's one-episode "girlfriend" and him being hurt by her not being into him was brought up by Bill in his suicide episode when he was trying to bring everyone else down, and Connie and Bobby's dance from one episode winds up in the yearbook in another.
I dunno, I just like low-key continuity shit like that and I don't remember it occurring much in any other season. 4 really is good though; I just think 3 is amazing.
>>81484842
Bamafag reporting for duty, Mobile area to be more precise
>>81484842
Southern California, which has a lot more redneck areas to it than you'd think going off what TV tells you, Hank would be right at home on Catalina Island or in Murrieta
>>81489789
I definitely remember thinking that shit was cool in 3.
But that's not the BEST part of the show. The best part of the show is the individual plots, which are not really sitcomy in rhythm/spirit/etc.
But ok in 4 there is a little continuity. Peggy's airplane crash, after the initial shock of the first 2 episodes, continues to get referenced off-hand. Peggy wins her third substitute teacher of the year award, after it being mentioned in 3 that she had 2 and after she beat Dooly that she was worried there wouldn't be a third.
Luann mentions her professor trying to fuck her, there's shit with bobby/connie.
Peggy's computer changes if you follow the production order and not the airdate order after hank buys her a new one.
Dale apologizes for his y2k over reaction in a later episode that season.
There's the 2 part murder episode, although it's hardly low key.
Luann moves out. That's referenced in the season and also in later seasons.
Nancy breaks up with redcorn, but again, hardly low key.
so yeah.
>>81490195
Yeah, but those are more of references to the status-quo altering stuff that naturally has to come up again, than to the smaller events that didn't NEED to be referenced again but were still taken into consideration by the writers, outside of maybe the Y2K stuff.
Peggy's substitute teacher award was mentioned a few times in the seasons before that instead of just once so it wasn't surprising they made an episode of it, I think the murder 2-parter was self-contained in those episodes (obviously Debbie stays dead but she was barely a character before that), and I don't think Luanne's professor was ever mentioned before or since, that's just a "yeah, she's in college" reference so again... status quo. Not claiming I watch it for the continuity or that the show stayed stagnant in 4, just that I felt it played with the world of the show and the timeline of events in a more interesting way at the time. Peggy's airplane fall and physical therapy, which should be a huge fucking thing, had one episode devoted to her recovery and maybe two offhand references later, then might as well have been forgotten. But with Luanne they went out of their way to show her hair growing back realistically by production order (same with Didi's pregnancy), and it just felt like they were working off a larger plan.
I guess beyond that it just comes down to personal preference though re: episode quality, and while at least half of 3 is easily among my favorites of the whole series there are maybe only 5 episodes I think are as good from 4.
>>81486922
The problem with later seasons of KotH is that they became more like earlier seasons of The Simpsons. They weren't bad, but the plot reached a level of outlandishness that wasn't there before. KotH was best with grounded humor. Less so with the guys hunting a giant snake in the sewers.
>>81487706
It's the opposite now. Look at Adult Swim. 90% of it is McFarlane reruns and they stopped airing stuff like Home Movies. The only original programming they seem to want to greenlight are gorey edge tests like Mr. Pickles.
>>81487231
texasfag here, also thought it was in garland.
>Where'd he get his ass?
>>81490576
Well I don't feel y2k or the computer had to be referenced again , but ok overall you make a good case. The recovery was rushed (I assume that was on Fox's part, but that doesn't change the end product.)
Alright fair enough fampai forgive my faggotry in my earlier reply:
>so I guess I could see why viewers who are a little less mature gravitate toward those
I really was just trying to get a reaction with that specific line that but good on you for not taking the bait
>>81491285
Eh, I said people who thought S4 was better were "morons," so fair's fair.
>>81486948
Megalomart is HEB right? sometimes it feels like a walmart most of the time
