CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i never got the thing where people thought that koth was an endorsement for conservative ideas. I hear ya, but I had to give up trying to explain it to people. Some folks have to think the characters in a story are their friends, and they're not wrong. The same people boo hardest at the heavy and that's an essential ingredient in some stories. But I totally understand, the section of the audience that needs to like the characters makes the idea of flaws (the most important part of any character) for heros tough to navigate. That's why people who attempt it are brave, they know they're gonna lose some of the audience by presenting a more nuanced character, one you can't agree on everything with. TL;DR Hodgeson's law: "Don't worry who will get this. Know the right people will get this."
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Detective No. 27 posted:The episode where Dale is hired to exterminate rats from Megalomart is one of the most pitch perfect episodes. i wonder whatever happened to that mongoose...?
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 21:04 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:The episode where Dale is hired to exterminate rats from Megalomart is one of the most pitch perfect episodes. "You're releasing rats into the store?"
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:I hear ya, but I had to give up trying to explain it to people. Some folks have to think the characters in a story are their friends, and they're not wrong. The same people boo hardest at the heavy and that's an essential ingredient in some stories. The reason people think KOTH endorses conservative ideals is because Hank isn’t presented as a nuanced, flawed character in the latter half of the series. Like 75% of the plots from season 8 through 13 can pretty much be summarized as “Hank battles a liberal straw man and is eventually proven to be right”. Like the trans fats episode (literally titled “Trans-Facism”), Hank is 100% right and his point is proven exactly. KOTH, at its best, was a give and take between Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. Judge has always been pretty blatant about putting his political beliefs in comedy, while Daniels has a long history of character based comedy. I’ve always considered seasons 2-4 the golden age of the show, and Hank is characterized as you describe, with flaws and nuances. Like the episode where Bobby gets a job at the race track, and Hank pushes the idea of being a hard worker so much Bobby risks his life trying to cross the race track because his boss said to. Hank wasn’t totally wrong, but he also wasn’t totally right. In season 8, new show runners take over and they go back to the Judge style for the remainder of the show.
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 21:35 |
Detective No. 27 posted:The episode where Dale is hired to exterminate rats from Megalomart is one of the most pitch perfect episodes. I still call people Mega-lo chumps
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JB50 posted:Hmmm a former football player turned blue collar worker in Texas. I literally said it was set in texas you dummy. Which episode was it had hank extolling the virtues of canned beer vs bottle? I think it "keeps it a few degrees cooler" or something
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 23:15 |
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Hank says beer from a can always tastes 2 degrees cooler than beer from a bottle in this song on the King of the Hill soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrNQjReV0gw I don't recall him ever saying it in a real episode
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Detective No. 27 posted:The episode where Dale is hired to exterminate rats from Megalomart is one of the most pitch perfect episodes. It's really good. My perfect episode is ho yeah
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JB50 posted:Hmmm a former football player turned blue collar worker in Texas. He's a fictional character you loving moron. CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i never got the thing where people thought that koth was an endorsement for conservative ideas. You are forgetting how many episodes there are where Hank owns a liberal strawman. Coincidentally, those are almost all from the seasons where Mike judge was more personally involved. Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Dec 6, 2018 |
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:your dream date is here No, these are for me.
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 23:42 |
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:I like how Bobby thinks Gary is the way he is because that's what Arizona is. As someone from Arizona, I loving wish. Worked with a guy like that, but he was Jewish and from New York.
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 00:31 |
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you want I should pass you the potatoes? Its the cool way people from Arizona talk
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 00:35 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:The episode where Dale is hired to exterminate rats from Megalomart is one of the most pitch perfect episodes. I don't think I remember that one
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 02:29 |
Who What Now posted:I don't think I remember that one There were no rats. It was Chuck Mangione
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 02:31 |
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Hank has a sort of business friendhsip with the manager of Megalomart. The manager tells Hank that the store has a rat problem and he needs to get it taken care of on the downlow and asks if Hank knows a good exterminator. After some convincing, Hank hesistantly suggests Dale. Dale uses all his rat killing traps but comes up empty. So he decides to spend the night in Megalomart on the suspicion that there's a babboon on the loose. But that's a lie he tells the manager because Dale believes the true culprit is Chuck Mangione.
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 02:46 |
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What's the episode number?
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 02:53 |
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Season 7, E10- Megalo Dale
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 02:58 |
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Nooner posted:you want I should pass you the potatoes? Its the cool way people from Arizona talk Huh. You say you I like instead of I like you.
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 03:03 |
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Megalomart manager voiced by Tom Arnold!
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 03:16 |
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well, maybe that's because it "feels so good" to be alive.
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 03:50 |
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No, that’s not it.
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 03:59 |
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I call you "Full Tank Hank"
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 04:16 |
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I just remembered that this happened, and laughed at the memory, then even harder at the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1_srb7wcTA
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 09:44 |
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The episode with the Mega-Lo Mart explosion is one of the best of the whole series. I loved the scene where Mangione is being led away by the paramedics and says, "I don't feel so good!"
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 19:07 |
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'Chick' Mangione? I'm not a chick, I'm a dude! *brains anger management teacher with flugelhorn*
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# ? Dec 7, 2018 19:50 |
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I found a shrink-wrapped Chuck Mangione cassette at my college last year
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# ? Dec 8, 2018 10:02 |
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All day yesterday, I've had, to the tune of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock & Roll", Hank singing "I Will Tell you What" and it's both funny and maddening. Today is looking to be more of the same, but now I need to make up more parody lyrics.
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# ? Dec 8, 2018 12:29 |
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https://youtu.be/nFuwS9M7jkQ
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 16:31 |
The moment I knew something real was happening with this show. I take care of disabled seniors as my day-job and have been privileged to care for a few WWII vets. They definitely had some outdated views but they were also way way more knowledgeable about world history and other cultures than I expected. The 90 year old career car salesman who refused to sell German cars right up to his retirement had some BMW jokes that would knock you out if you weren't careful.
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 16:58 |
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:...BMW jokes that would knock you out if you weren't careful. You had better share
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 17:04 |
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People backing off after sensing how dangerous hank is is still one of my favorite gags.
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 17:06 |
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ChazTurbo posted:People backing off after sensing how dangerous hank is is still one of my favorite gags. https://youtu.be/QZHM41ntOLc
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 17:14 |
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ChazTurbo posted:People backing off after sensing how dangerous hank is is still one of my favorite gags. The one where he barks at Bobby to get to the living room and Bobby just turns like a puppet possessed by masters vapors Then he immediately does the same to Peggy Lmao
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 17:19 |
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Oh and khan is taking medication for manic depressive disorder but based on his symptoms (specifically the time frame) he is more likely to have borderline
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 17:30 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:
I always saw it as Hank owns some nerds, who rightfully deserved it.
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 19:14 |
Improbable Lobster posted:I found a shrink-wrapped Chuck Mangione cassette at my college last year i couldnt stop my buddy from buying the record when he found it at a flea market he just had to have it his love for koth is so strong and hes a consumer whore
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 19:31 |
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The Saucer Hovers posted:i couldnt stop my buddy from buying the record when he found it at a flea market The true test is buying a Raymond J Johnson album.
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 20:04 |
i have a pokemon named Ray'or'Jay and thats as close as ill come
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# ? Dec 9, 2018 20:10 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:All day yesterday, I've had, to the tune of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock & Roll", Hank singing "I Will Tell you What" and it's both funny and maddening.
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