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« Reply #30 on: January 07, 2005, 09:54:19 AM »
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I tell you what makes King of the Hill so funny, it's basis in the truth. The characters are painfully accurate models of real Texans. Being a native Texan I can put real peoples faces on each and every one of them. If I did'nt know better I'd swear Mike Judge went to school with me.


I've never stayed long in Texas, but these people live all around me here in rural NE Pennsylvania.

I don't watch the show, but I've seen it a couple times. The one show that really hit home was the one where the guy is put on disability and his friends congratulate him as if he'd hit the lotto. I know people who have made it their life's goal to collect permanent disability.



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« Reply #31 on: January 07, 2005, 09:55:21 AM »
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that boy ain't right.


Unquestionably the funniest statement I have ever heard on a television show.
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« Reply #32 on: January 07, 2005, 10:02:45 AM »
KOTH not only represents life in small town Texas but it has a common thread with all small town areas throughout the US. Some folks really do live like those characters in KOTH. Its great because I can relate to the way its written because I grew up in a similar community here in Alabama but had the common sense to get out of there before doing something stupid that would have kept me there till I died.
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« Reply #33 on: January 07, 2005, 03:45:01 PM »
KOTH is one of my favorites.  One of the best things I like about it is, unlike the typical sitcom of today, where the husband is a handsomehunk without a clue, the wife is always the brilliant level headed long suffering one, and any minority on the show is full of wise sayings, KOTH makes fun of them all, and the husband is probably as bright and together as anyone.

Even in a cartoon, it is nice to see a show go against the unimaginative grain of hollywood and make the wife an egotistical deluded handsomehunk.

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« Reply #34 on: January 07, 2005, 04:15:39 PM »
Not to mention weirdly competetive.  One time her son Bobby bests her at something, so she makes a comment about how he used to have nightmares where he imagined his stuffed bear poking out his eyeballs or something.  Bobby, reminded of this, is suddenly knocked down a notch.  Later in the episode, Peggy and Hank are talking in bed when they hear Bobby yell something like 'No, Mr Snuggles, not my eyes!' and Hank says "Funny, I thought he stopped having those dreams a while ago."
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« Reply #35 on: January 07, 2005, 04:16:55 PM »
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I never know when the show is on, but whenever I watch it, it is always funny."

agreed...
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« Reply #36 on: January 07, 2005, 05:18:13 PM »
Great KOTH scene:

Tornado hits and Hank doesn't make it to storm cellar. He clings to a flag pole and all clothes get ripped from him leaving him butt nekid as wind dies down. Rest of folks are coming out of storm cellar so Hank looks quickly for something to cover up with: on his right, a Texas flag caught in the bushes. On his left, a small potted cactus. The next time you see Hank, he's holding the cactus over his privates.
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« Reply #37 on: January 07, 2005, 05:22:35 PM »
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How can this show be so consistantly hillarious?

They are so dead on correct/ funny about everything. I'm watching the episode where they are in Tokyo with Hank's step brother.

Fuggin funny as hell.

I never know when the show is on, but whenever I watch it, it is always funny.


a lot of it is the delivery.....  very well done
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« Reply #38 on: January 07, 2005, 05:31:20 PM »
I'm from Arizona and I don't find KOTH very funny either. Not near enough humor in it to spend any time to see if it gets any better.
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« Reply #39 on: January 07, 2005, 07:21:57 PM »
n/t
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« Reply #40 on: January 07, 2005, 07:22:07 PM »
n/t (double post)
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« Reply #41 on: January 07, 2005, 07:24:39 PM »
some great sound files from that show too.

my favorite was one I had used to replace the windows "program error" tone.

It had Dale saying "computers don't make errors.  what they do, they do on purpose"

btw-  anybody have that one lying around?
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« Reply #42 on: January 07, 2005, 08:08:50 PM »
Love KOTH.

 Same guys who developed Bevis and Butthead.
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« Reply #43 on: January 07, 2005, 08:28:55 PM »
I have to say I enjoy the simple but wise approach the characters have.

"daddy can I put a gun rack on my bike"

"Son, do you know how long I've been waiting for you to ask me that?"


bomhower (sp?) is my favorite

man that ole internet than ole man just get on there and www . click click click

I was commuting home from dallas when I worked their 2 years ago and was listening to love line (another one of my favorites) and they had the GIRL that does Bobby hill on it.  Yup a female does his voice.  She was pretty funny talking to the call in guests like bobby.
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« Reply #44 on: January 07, 2005, 08:57:47 PM »
That show sucks.  It has some good characters:  Boomhauer, Dribble, Hank's crazy Dad.  But the show usually revolves around the other characters, who are all annoying.
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