King of the hill appreciation thread - Yup.

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It was okay. Not as horrible as I imagined it could be.

Not a single joke gave the classic KoTH belly laugh though, I chuckled at some, but not a single true side splitter to be found.

I won't say I'm disappointed in it because I really had no expectations and it could have been a lot worse, but I don't think this revival was really necessary.

The Beavis and Butthead reboot is so much better.
 
Nah. No way.

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Have watched three episodes so far and I’m enjoying it. A few things have felt a bit off, but overall it has the same feel the original show had. I like how Dale and Joseph’s relationship has developed, them both stalking the beer judge guy was a pretty sweet moment.

Haven’t reached terrible Kahn voice yet though.
 
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I dunno, I hate "nitpicking", but the timeline problems are way more than nitpicks.
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My attempts at plothole patching:

Bobby lived with the Gribbles while he finished high school. That's why he calls them "family" and why he's moved out with Joseph.

Connie went to a different high school and stopped messaging her old friends or going next door to hang out sometime around the end of 9th Grade (completely plausible post-internet-age). Maybe even got skipped ahead or graduated a year early. School on other side of the city + extracurriculars + night classes + teenage brain can make you not see the kid next door except for a few seconds some mornings if you both leave your house at the same time.

Hank and Peggy freedom 55'd like high-end pilots, maybe part of why they moved to Saudi was to make the kind of money that allows that. ETA - the other adults on the show are still working and not retired.

GH could be like...12 going on 13? Whatever, Jamshed went from age 5 to age 25 in the Simpsons, who cares.
 
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I've watched the first episode. It feels a little forced at times, but I guess the writers needed to cram 8 years' worth of catching up, along with 15 years worth of current year fuckery, into just 25 minutes. I like how Bobby is now on equal footing with Hank wrt screen time, and I look forward to seeing more focus on Bobby as man.

I'm not up to the episodes with Kahn in them, but the idea of a Malaysian-American playing a Laotian sounds weird, especially when it appears that sounds too much like an American putting on a bad Laotian accent. I guess I'll have that to look forward to as the season progresses.

Overall it's about what I expected so far. The first episode is enough to make me want to watch the rest of Season 14, but I can't see myself binging it in one weekend or anything like that.
 
I liked it.
I expected nothing and got a little more than nothing. A few good jokes, nothing earth shattering. I'm glad Buck Strickland is back for part of an episode. Joseph is still a dork and I think that's great. They mostly stayed away from typical culture war talking points like the original run. It's hard to find new shows that don't make my eyes roll into the back of my skull from contact embarrassment.

I was kind of expecting an episode or a b-plot about getting Bill back on his feet, but they didn't get into that at all. Maybe that's too played out since we have like 4 of those episodes in the original run. A throw-away line about Bill straighten up so fast because he's used to it would have been funny.

It's interesting to me how Peggy and Hank are more romantic (holding hands in public) than they normally are. I like to think Hank had some growth.

Hank is a little too easy going sometimes for me. ex: when he saw Willow taking that dump, he got over it way too fast. Old Hank would have been traumatized

Connie being back was fun I can kind of relate to trying to find common ground with old friends and you can't really do the same stuff as kids. Also, I was really worried they were going to take the ENM thing seriously. It's mostly played for laughs. Bobby is a real gentleman and that warms my frozen heart.

Structurally, I was really happy they went with a mostly episodic format instead of the newer trend of making your show a long movie stretched across a season. There's more room for creativity if you don't have to follow a lot of arcs. You can mostly play these episodes out of order like the original run. With the rise of streaming and the downfall of TV, this style of show is almost dead. It really makes it a slog to get through a season and doesn't give me much of a desire to rewatch stuff since I have to remember everything that happened up to that point.
 
Here's more inconsistencies. In the episode with the black Japanese guy there's a German guy that's says Cotton Hill kill his grandfather. But Peggy figured out Cotton couldn't have have been on the eastern and western front. It was one or the other. So Cotton only killed Japanese soldiers.
 
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Here's more inconsistencies. In the episode with the black Japanese guy there's a German guy that's says Cotton Hill kill his grandfather. But Peggy figured out Cotton couldn't have have been on the eastern and western front. It was one or the other. So Cotton only killed Japanese soldiers.
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Who says his grandfather wasn't Japanese? You know these "racially pure" types, they're never as genetically immaculate as they want to be.
 
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Here's more inconsistencies. In the episode with the black Japanese guy there's a German guy that's says Cotton Hill kill his grandfather. But Peggy figured out Cotton couldn't have have been on the eastern and western front. It was one or the other. So Cotton only killed Japanese soldiers.
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the only confirmation that peggy found out was that he wasn't in munich, not that he never fought in germany, remember he had some of hitlers personal items which back up some of his claims
 
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the only confirmation that peggy found out was that he wasn't in munich, not that he never fought in germany, remember he had some of hitlers personal items which back up some of his claims
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I don't believe he had Hitler's Canoe for the same reason there wasn't a Battle of Anzio. Just as I don't believe Dale bought Goering's falconry glove.
 
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I dunno, I hate "nitpicking", but the timeline problems are way more than nitpicks. Nothing makes sense, and it feels like it written by a bunch of different people, each of whom had vastly different visions and levels of understanding of the original series.
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I'm glad I'm not alone. The timeline was a little weird, and you bring up some good points. WTF was Bobby doing during the 8 years Peggy and Hank were gone? Did he go with them; then come back for college? Was he living with Deedee and GH? I know Lucky and Luanne have been written out because their VA's are dead, but was he living with them or something? I like Dr. Butt's theory he was living with the Gribbles, but why not at least have an off-hand mention of it?

There's a lot of questions that I figured would be answered, but never were.
 
I saw all ten episodes. They were just ok. The new Beavis and Butt-Head ones are better.

For KotH, I liked the third episode the most since we get to see Bobby deal with progressive morons interfering with his life just like his father experienced in the past. The worst episode is probably 9 because everything was resolved in such a pat way. That Velma writer was responsible for this one which explains a lot.

Khan's new voice is by far the worst because he sounds almost nothing like the original Khan. I can ignore Ted's since he was never a major character. Dale's voice isn't as good but I got used to it over time.

Since this is the first season I'll give it a pass. It wasn't terrible but it didn't blow my mind. Sometimes a series needs a little time to get off the ground, though I think the shorter length of each season might hurt this show since they don't get as much time for character and plot development. Beavis and Butt-Head, however, is meant to be a series of shorts so it doesn't require longer seasons.
 
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