I always thought King of the Hill was some weak ass shit. I'm personally surprised it lasted this long.
Well, at least it had a pretty good run and bowed out without going completely to shit (sup Simpsons).
EDIT: On the plus side, Judge's new show looks like a fitting replacement - the blue state answer to King. Here's hoping it's good, and that it can survive away from FOX (seeing as no non-children's cartoon has done so on broadcast TV).
Last edited by Space Pirate Roberts; 16 Nov 2008 at 01:36 PM.
I always thought King of the Hill was some weak ass shit. I'm personally surprised it lasted this long.
Rumors are it may get picked up by another Network. I hope so, that show takes a massive shit on the current Sunday Animation Block. And it has ever since Futurama went off the air.
Maybe they should have re-wrote the characters like ranting retards in hopes to compete with American Dad or Family Guy. Or throw 10 years of great writing in the dirt, and dumb down the show to the Nth degree like Simpsons.
Pretty amazing how a show about Right Wing Texans could be one of the smartest shows on Fox.
Barf! Barf! Barf!
That new show doesn't look like it will last long. Not because cartoon's on other networks do poorly. Because it looks boring and inaccessible.
Originally Posted by rezo
But I found King of the Hill to be very boring and inaccessable. Like an animated Roseanne dramedy or something. The only episode I thought was remotely funny was the one with the super-fish bait, which ended up being crack cocaine I think. Can't remember.
Hopefully the new show will be more Beavis and Butthead style social-satire mixed with booger and fart jokes. And little things hitting each other. THAT'S WHAT I LIKE!
Like Larry the Cable guy and everything else making fun of rednecks, it eventually just became what it was intending to parody.
As much as it made light of Rednecks, it also made them endearing and tried to cast the humanity of a people that tend to get looked down on by the country. It was more so Mike Judge trying to defend his home state within a medium that tends to frown on it. It also addressed a lot of social and political issues in a common sense manner, rather than fallowing hard lines left and right. Both sides got their ways depending on the episodes, and eventually blurred the line.
Its a great show.
Barf! Barf! Barf!
But you're wrong, Frog. And Clash! is right. King of the Hill is the best animated program on television since the Simpsons was good. There have been a few bad episodes, but even the worst season (12) was still entertainment and was never nearly as bad as any of American Dad or Drawn Together (WHICH THOUGHT IT WAS LOL WITH ITS KING OF THE HILL BOREDOM HELMET).
If you don't like King, you haven't given it a chance. Or maybe you just have an awful sense of humor and you're retarded and you're racist and you eat kittens. It has fart humor, there are entire 3 Stooges episodes, and there are also those episodes where you feel like you're smarter because YOU GOT THE JOKE. Even if a particular episode isn't funny, it's still fun to watch what happens in good old Hank's life.
I know Hank Hill, and you know Hank Hill. He's not Joe the Plumber, he's Hank, the guy who'd pull you up after you fell down, would always (eventually) make the right decision, and would be the only man you'd trust to take care of your dog.
It's good that it's going so it doesn't go retarded and it's fitting that it's being replaced by The Cleveland Show. You assholes deserve that shit. You're not fit to live in McMaynurbary.
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