King of the Hill

[AuroraStar]

I love this show to an embarrassing degree. I Tivo it every time it airs, which is surprisingly a lot considering that it's one of those shows that you either watch or have never heard of (in my experience, anyway).

It recently became even more funny when I realized that my grandmother IS Peggy Hill.

I'm not such a big fan of them bringing together Lucky and Luanne. Luanne may be a dimwit, but she has such a good heart, and I was hoping she'd end up with someone better. The episode where she wanted so badly to go on a date and he was adament that it had to be guy's night (like it was every week) just drove home that I'm not sure how much he really cares about her. But I guess they have to end up together since she's pregnant. And they just got married.

I'm also excited that the new Fox schedule has KOTH scheduled behind The Simpsons and before Family Guy. I think this is a good slot for it. Hopefully they won't change it.

[mariposalabrown]

Oh hooray!! King of the Hill is one of my favorite shows on tv right now. And yes, I think that is a great timeslot for it. I think my favorite epsiode is the Dancing with Dogs one, where Bobby says "What was I supposed to do? NOT dance with a dog?!?" Oh sweet, sweet Bobby.

And I don't want Lucky and Luanne together either. He needs a haircut. I think they have done a lot with Peggy's character over the years, and now think she gets some of the best one-liners.

[hobocamp]

I don't know you! Gimme back my purse!

[mariposalabrown]

Hobocamp!!! My boyfriend says that at least once a day!!!

[Mugsy]

Yay, more KOTH fans. How long has this show been on? I think it had its bad seasons a couple years ago, where they made Peggy so obnoxious she was almost unwatchable, but it's better now. And yeah, I always thought it belonged between the Simpsons and Family Guy; it would get way more viewers there.

Dancing with Dogs makes me uncomfortable.

I love some of the early eps: the one where Peggy is in a Boggle championship comes to mind. Until that show, I thought my family was the only one who ever played Boggle.

I also love their depiction of church. The traditional church that the Hills attend, and Hank gets in a snit because his regular seat is taken by a new family. It's so silly, considering that a good churchgoer would welcome a new family. So they go to the Arlen MegaChurch, which is a great riff of some superchurches I've heard of that try to be all things to all people. Its own coffee bar and football field? Priceless.

I do wish Bill would just end up with the minister already. It's not like he's going to do better. Oh, and the minister's Minne-sooda accent!

Oh, and the ep where they went to New Aw-leans to visit Bill's weird family, and how Bobby just blended right in. I think Bobby Hill is one of my favourite TV characters ever.

[hobocamp]

Is it just me, or was there one season where everyone's voices sounded a little... off? Like the cast went on strike and they had to get scab impersonators or something? But the next season everything was back to normal.

[AuroraStar]

I think Bobby is definitely one of the best characters on TV. He's hilarious.

I grew up in the South, and their depiction of church and the Hills' attitudes toward it really seems spot on to me. I can totally see my parents being ticked that their pew wasn't free. Although for my parents, it would be the back pew.

One of my favorite episodes is the one where Bobby joins the punk-Christian group and how at the end Hank tells him he doesn't want religion to be a fad for Bobby. And Bobby's dinner time prayer makes me laugh everytime.

I like how they've evolved the characters. Peggy has tried a few different occupations, Luanne has been in several different relationships, the Nancy/Dale/John Redcorn triangle. That doesn't always happen on sitcoms, especially cartoons.

One thing that bothers me is that they can't seem to settle on one background for Peggy. They show flashbacks where she and Hank dated in high school (specifically thinking of the time when she was supposed to make Hank dinner and Hank got sick or something and it showed her mom there), but other episodes show she grew up in Montana and her family is still there (and has Henry Winkler for a neighbor).

[thingamajig]

I think Bobby is definitely one of the best characters on TV. He's hilarious.

Me too. I adore him. My husband and I will, at odd times, randomly say, "There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad...and there it goes."

My husband grew up in a Dallas suburb, and his parents still live there. A somewhat more expensive neighborhood than where the Hills live, but so many of the little details are still spot-on.

[Mugsy]

In the one where Bobby joins the Christian punk group, Hank has one of the all-time best lines. After going to one of their outreach concerts, Hank says to the leader of the band, "You're not making Christianity better; you're making rock and roll worse." Classic.

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Mugsy, that is definitely one of my favorite lines from tv.

I like Luanne winding up with Lucky. KOTH is great for giving characters exactly the outcomes they deserve. Luanne is a charming dimwit, but she's really too stupid and incompetent to attract a better man than Lucky. Bill Dauterive is a self-defeating loser who is determined to sabotage any normal relationship with a decent woman, therefore he doesn't get Minister Shroop, no matter how much we viewers might like him. Peggy will never get a better job, Hank will never leave the propane company, and Bobby will never go through puberty. Such is the world of KOTH and it's one of the best written shows on tv because of it.