![]() ![]() Determined to remain an integral member of the news team, Nancy, with Dale and Peggy in tow, drives a stolen news van into a raging wildfire, aiming to scoop the competition. When Channel 84 hires a new meteorologist, Irv Bennett, Nancy and her less-than-accurate weather reports are left out in the cold. Peggy really did look like Sarah Palin, ten years before we all knew who she was.When Nancy fears she will be replaced, she starts doing what she can to keep her job.īobby is tormented by a school prankster. The show was prophetic at times: Mega Lo Mart and its effect on small business in Arlen (A, social media - in one of their final seasons they had an episode about MySpace (!) and one of Hank's coworkers was obsessed with it, even Hank's hesitation to vote for Bush Jr in 2000 (because of his 'limp handshake'). My favorites included the Mexico episode (if only Peggy had known what 'mitad' meant in English), the Japan two-parter, Port Aransas with his mom and her old lady friends (with Bill aggressively hitting on Peggy in Hank's absence), the mini-saga of Hank's coworker Debbie and her death, Connie/Khan Jr getting her first period while staying with the Hills, Peggy making friends with a woman who (unbeknownst to her) is a prostitute running away from her pimp (voiced by Snoop Dogg)*, Hank hiring a drug addict instead of a woman who he was attracted to, Peggy pretending to be a nun just so she could teach full-time, Hank using crack for bait, Bobby Goes Nuts, all the Hills can't stop smoking ("close the damn door, can't you see that I am knitting?").ĭale would absolutely be a QAnon loon today, and the only way he'd have been registered to vote would be under Rusty Shackelford - R96 is correct. So many excellent episodes, some already mentioned here, some not. Oh man, despite never having been to Texas and don't live anywhere near there, I've loved this show since the early 2000s. Mike Judge makes the family both an American success story and he shows them as being assholes too (except for the daughter who is cool). In other shows, the creators would dumb the family down by insisting they are unflawed and "pure" just by virtue of being immigrants and foreigners. And as an immigrant, I think it's really cool one of the main families on the show is a cuthroat Laotian family. King of The Hill never condescends to its audience the way, say, the Lady Gaga Simpsons episode does. Dry humor is very hit or miss and it needs to be done with precision, otherwise, it can come off as condescending. But as an adult, I really appreciate the humor. That is not something that appeals to kids and when I was younger, I thought it was really dumb. If it has never had the huge following of The Simpsons, it's because it is a very dry show. He loved the show and said that it has some of the most realistic characters he has ever seen. I am a first generation American (my parents are from South Asia) and I was watching the show in our living room when I noticed my dad was really distracted by the show while he was doing some paperwork. ![]() It's not as good as the very peak years of the Simpsons, but it also is not nearly as bad as any of the Simpsons episodes that came after the first 8 seasons. I'm watching King of the HIll and I'm blown away by how much better it is than the Simpsons (in many ways). ![]()
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