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Didi doesn't get enough credit, her lines are almost always gold. HANK: She is not my mother. Hell, we went to kindergarten together! DIDI: Hey Hank. Do you still like finger-painting?
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Punkinhead posted:Didi doesn't get enough credit, her lines are almost always gold. "I'm lucky. Cotton is so easy to shop for. Either he likes what I get him, and he's happy, or he hates it, and he shoots it, and he's happy."
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Sorry I'm late, I had to take three buses. One to get here, one to go back and get GH, and one to get here.
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It's probably just as well Cotton is basically a cartoon character (well, you know what I mean) because otherwise a lot of the poo poo he does is way too real.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's probably just as well Cotton is basically a cartoon character (well, you know what I mean) because otherwise a lot of the poo poo he does is way too real. I always threatened my son that, if my wife and I had another son, I would name him Good Jayden.
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Dec 8, 2023 12:02
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That's not just what I think, it's what Cotton told me to think
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Szyznyk posted:I always threatened my son that, if my wife and I had another son, I would name him Good Jayden. I think I'd just kinda embrace being Evil Jayden.
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Didi was happier for Cotton's death more than anyone else
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Star Man posted:Didi was happier for Cotton's death more than anyone else When I did a rewatch with my wife, she was extremely happy he died.
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Peggy being the one who calls out Cotton on his deathbed is also her being absolutely right, how he couldn't show the slightest amount of gratitude or contentment with everything he'd been handed and almost entirely squandered.
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Szyznyk posted:I always threatened my son that, if my wife and I had another son, I would name him Good Jayden. you cant call him goodhank that makes it sound like im badhank. well you burnt my burger didnt you bh! that exchange and jimmy carters HATE A BABY?! are my two favorite things in koth
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Star Man posted:Didi was happier for Cotton's death more than anyone else For sure… she even marries well afterward supposedly iirc lol. I believe the writing of her character was done on purpose so that she’d get no real sympathy from the audience. If we had, we’d have been saddened by the hellish life she must have had living with cotton lol. I always wondered what her deal was. Like her two character traits are: simpleton and post partum depression. “I don’t care… you name it” - didi right after the birth of her (supposedly?) first child
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Fishstick posted:That's not just what I think, it's what Cotton told me to think Don't be too sure. I been known to give a girl amneezy!
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snergle posted:you cant call him goodhank that makes it sound like im badhank. Mike Judge is so great about making the mundane noticeable without ever really leaning on stereotypes to pull it off. His humor is almost always understated and borderline subtle/deadpan, but he finds the humor in the regular, ordinary behaviors that largely define people, how others perceive them and that viewers can instantly identify with. Beavis and Butthead is a great example. Buckley is another. Same with Milton from Office Space and several characters in Extract and certainly Silicon Valley. EVERYONE knows (or knew) teenagers like B&B or Buckley but none of them are written in a way that's a hard sell or reduced entirely to a simple catch phrase (even though they have them) or reduces them to being one dimensional. He can also seamlessly write and introduce characters that seem utterly bizarre but remain relatable; since people ARE bizarre and strange but usually not in over the top ways that can be printed on a BAZINGA t-shirt.
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namlosh posted:For sure… she even marries well afterward supposedly iirc lol. drat right she did, she married a professional!
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I just felt my Chakra open, honey
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I call this one The Modified Roger Staubach.
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There's a great gag in that episode where Peggy encourages Pete to try and meet a woman and he says "heck, who would want a 40yr old supermarket manager?" and Peggy brutally goes "hmm, good point." And then Strickland Propane Assistant Manager Hank Hill comes running up.
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Another Bill posted:
it is really no surprise that Peggy had a kid with Bill, football legend and army hero
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And former harmon-oholic!
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Code Jockey posted:it is really no surprise that Peggy had a kid with Bill, football legend and army hero That didn't happen Bobby vaguely resembles Bill because Cotton slept with Bill's mom and he and Hank are half-brothers
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namlosh posted:And former harmon-oholic! You gotta spend money to make mmmmmmmmmmusic
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Asterite34 posted:That didn't happen are you suggesting that marital infidelity takes place in KOTH of all places ??
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Been thinking a lot about Cotton lately. I think there's an interesting thread that runs through the show about inadequacy and not living up to your potential. Bobby resolves one of Hank's great traumas by winning his state finals, but there is a sort of prelude to it with Cotton. Cotton is a great war hero. He killed fiddy men. Cotton loves the fact that he's a war hero and he isn't a loser like Hank who's a pump jockey and works for tips. Hank only broke an ankle and lost (because he's a loser), Cotton lost his shins and came out a winner. The irony is that he's a loser too. Cotton probably came home a hero. Probably got free drinks for a few weeks, probably a parade, but back then war heroes were everywhere. Many people served and while he got a lot of respect, I'm sure it started to evaporate quickly. Then he was just like many other men after the war a regular guy. The only thing Cotton loved, he can't do. Cotton's career as a soldier is over. He can't serve without his shins. However decorated he may be, he'll never move up the ranks, never fight another battle. He's washed up. He doesn't get the girl either. His romantic life is tied up in the war. He doesn't get happily ever after, but gets to leave yet one more thing behind in the Pacific. Cotton is doomed to live out his days in Arlen like anybody else. No fame, no glory, just some guy with no shins. He takes a job installing asbestos and probably marries the only woman who can stand him. Everything he probably imagined would happen as a young cadet at Fort Birk didn't happen for him. All's left is to rage at how lovely the world is for being mediocre and not what you really wanted. Hank lives life wondering what could have been, Cotton knows exactly how it ends up.
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I mean, Cotton was a colonel and apparently got there from enlisted status, which is one helluva thing to do. Post military life was pretty garbage though yeah.
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Ches Neckbeard posted:I mean, Cotton was a colonel and apparently got there from enlisted status, which is one helluva thing to do. Post military life was pretty garbage though yeah. I believe he's only a colonel of the Texas state military, in the Army he's apparently still only a private after WW2 ends.
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Yeah it's like colonel sanders or a Nebraska admiral
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Testikles posted:Been thinking a lot about Cotton lately. I think there's an interesting thread that runs through the show about inadequacy and not living up to your potential. he seemed pretty happy about his career installing asbestos post-war
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I grilled with charcoal my whole adult life until my wife & I bought a propane grill. You know, with the big tanks you refill/swap at the store. I was dubious but almost immediately changed religions after I realized how much more convenient propane is. Three years ago we moved into our (please, Jesus) final home, and it has a grill fed by natural gas piped directly into the home. No swapping out tanks. I have, for the final time, changed religions.
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That rich smoky taste is the taste of carcinogens!
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He had enough pull with old war buddies to get that military school dude fired. He didn’t even get to keep his Aeron chair
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namlosh posted:He had enough pull with old war buddies to get that military school dude fired. You know, considering he was sent there back when they WERE still all about beating kids with sacks of frozen oranges and locking them in concrete sheds for days at a time, no wonder Cotton ended up so... Cotton.
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namlosh posted:For sure… she even marries well afterward supposedly iirc lol. You get people like that everywhere, dumb enough to be barely functional, going with the flow and never really thinking about anything, usually cheerful in that oblivious way but then struggling with any personal crisis because they have no idea how to cope, since usually they deal with bad things by just not bothering to think about them. (Hence why she pretty immediately starts to forget about Cotton) Unfortunately also likely to attract the shittiest people with confidence and who don't care about anything but their looks and someone who'll touch their genitals. BiggerBoat posted:Mike Judge is so great about making the mundane noticeable without ever really leaning on stereotypes to pull it off. His humor is almost always understated and borderline subtle/deadpan, but he finds the humor in the regular, ordinary behaviors that largely define people, how others perceive them and that viewers can instantly identify with. The emphasis on the normal and everyday is key, I think. You see just about everyone in King of Hill doing normal everyday things their way, with their own mild quirks or just the way that works for them, and they talk about that stuff in ways that make even the most normal characters have quirks AND the most weird characters have relatable traits. Beavis and Butthead are similar, they have their nearly profound stupidity, running on pure id and getting into improbable shenanigans for a couple of teenagers, but they also literally just hang out and watch TV, riffing on it and talking about it just like a couple of people showing an interest in the world they live in. Indeed, the world is a weird and silly place and you barely need to exaggerate much for some good jokes. I do wonder if that kinda thing has been an influence on broader fiction; a lot of recent animated stuff has been all about contrasting wacky fantastic adventure with the mundane everyday life stuff that happens in between, and sometimes gets mixed up in it. Finn and Jake sometimes are basically a slightly smarter Beavis and Butthead where one happens to be a magic talking dog.
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naem posted:are you suggesting that marital infidelity takes place in KOTH of all places ?? THANK YOU. Bobby's background is no different than Joseph's. Just two boring white guys fathered by aliens impregnating their mothers with their fathers' DNA. Joseph got Dale's partially Jamaican DNA and Bobby got Bill's. No need to inject such sordid elements into the show. No one would watch a show about an adulteror. The Bible fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Bible posted:drat right she did, she married a professional! ...wrestler.
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https://youtu.be/qBG3iyr5N70?si=k92dzK3nZayRr7T9 Axel Foley gonna find those drugs
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He'd lean on a desk with both hands and swing his leg at you. Then, when you were standing there shocked that a one-legged man had kicked you.. He'd bite ya.
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