Animation Damnation - King of the Hill
Added 2023-09-21 10:00:03 +0000 UTCOn this episode of our cartoon recap show, we're chatting about an episode of the most excellent King of the Hill!
In "Aisle 8A," which first aired back on November 7, 1999, we see Kahn and Minh heading off to Hawaii for a business conference, while the Hill's agree to watch Connie. Bobby gets nervous about his girlfriend staying at the house, and Hank gets nervous about having to walk down the 'terrifying' aisle 8A to help Connie buy hygiene products after she has her first period. Meanwhile, the rest of the guys admire Dale's glorious, new garbage can!
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
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I had to pull over the car to get this out because it’s sincerely, truly one of the most unbelievable things ever that not only did Eric never watch it, he actively thought the show was jokeless! Eric struck me as the person who would be the biggest KOTH fan. When I was 12 waiting for Simpsons on Sundays I thought it was a jokeless but to think that as an adult? My worldview is blown. I was thinking, and Andrew threw it out there and explained it perfectly how Eric should check out a Dale episode/s. Also helps to “know” the character more and watch a few episodes I think of Eric have the show a chance he’d loudly sing it’s praises. Dale seems like a character written by Eric Also surprised this was the most requested episode. Soldier of Misfortune, Megalo Dale, My Own Private Rodeo (“Enjoy your camp” being the greatest line in the entire show) etc.
RJ Cunningham
2023-10-13 17:10:11 +0000 UTCMy take on the show is in between Eric's and Steve's views they express in the podcast. The episodes I saw of King of the Hill, I always wondered where I was supposed to be finding humor. There's a lot of characters saying cliched lines in a post-ironic tone, but a lot of the time there doesn't seem to be anything funny about what they're saying. And the tone of the episodes doesn't really help me work out what's funny––but at the same time, when I recall episodes, the things I recall and try to explain to people really do seem funny. And I do appreciate, like Steve says, all the things they don't do with Bobby, that could've made him more of a stereotype. That said, the aesthetics of the show never worked for me, and the more imaginative, goofy humor on The Simpsons spoke to me a little more than this show did. So I appreciated the diverging opinions on Animation Damnation this time around.
Alan Geoffrey James Lawrence
2023-10-04 21:37:44 +0000 UTCBelieve it or not they don't do rape jokes with quagmire anymore , Now his character is guy who's Fed up with one else's bull shit.
Mark D Myers
2023-09-30 01:23:55 +0000 UTCThe thing that made me stop watching this show was all the episodes were a character who didn't do anything wrong keeps getting shit on by life.
Mark D Myers
2023-09-30 00:40:19 +0000 UTCThe AD gave me nostalgia, so I went back to season 6, and that was ep2, with 1 being where Bobby learns to fight… by groin kicks. I did a back to back and I think those two give you the full range of what the show does for the kids and the adults.
Matthew Garcia
2023-09-26 13:09:20 +0000 UTCThe best Dale episode is "soldier of misfortune" and it's an episode about adults so it might resonate more
Paddy O'Rourke
2023-09-25 20:37:52 +0000 UTCthe only uptight one is hank. How are the other characters like Bobby, Peggy, Dale, Boomhauer, etc. uptight? The humor is in the mundaneness and sometimes absurdity, or sohwing how uptight hank is, and how it's "wrong". Check out some of the episodes recommended here, like Hank's dirty laundry or Bobby goes Nuts. Then there's the foot fetish episode, Sexual harassment ep, the legendary firefighter episode. You can't tell me you didn't find a firefghting we will go funny. Even before Talking Simpsons broke it down.
Frank Grimes
2023-09-24 19:27:05 +0000 UTCI honestly don't get it. Eric was right with the question "where are the jokes?" Bob and Henry cover the show monthly on the Talking Simpsons podcast, they're into the third season now and every month I watch the episode and listen to their coverage of it. They'll cover the episode in depth and my reaction every time is "that was supposed to be a joke?" The show is supposed to be "grounded", but I find all the character to be way too uptight and unbelievable, totally unrelatable.
Phillip
2023-09-24 14:39:41 +0000 UTCYeah this is possibly one of the worst first episodes! Eric should watch the pigmillion episode in season 7
Swaggypeepaw
2023-09-23 19:04:45 +0000 UTCI can't believe no one has suggested S7E2 "The Fat and the Furious" it's got everything. A great Bill and Dale centric episode featuring competitive eating, Kid Rock, and DOUBLE DOGGING🌭🌭
Stormy
2023-09-23 17:03:51 +0000 UTCKOTH rarely had celeb guests who were just there to play themselves. You were usually getting an actual acting performance out of their guest stars, with much less fanfare than Simpsons guests.
Erin Hardy
2023-09-23 16:20:33 +0000 UTCMy father also had a hard time understanding where the humor was in KOTH. It seemed like he was unable to get how some people are so uncomfortable with sexuality that they get terrified of it. Also, some people don't find the humor in sad-sack characters... Regardless, those people are wrong.
Jordan Dollak
2023-09-23 12:15:08 +0000 UTCThe first Co/n Hill epiis amazing
James C Harris
2023-09-23 01:24:46 +0000 UTCYou’re going to love Husky Bobby!!!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2023-09-22 20:24:47 +0000 UTCI started watching the show because of this episode and just finished season 1! When it aired I just imagined it was the kind of show I wouldn't enjoy, and I was wrong...
Felipe Sobreiro
2023-09-22 17:40:43 +0000 UTCKOTH never reached the heights The Simpsons did, but KOTH at its worst (if you can precisely define what "worst" means in this case) was nowhere near the levels of embarrassment the latter show stooped to. There's merit to prioritizing characters over jokes, and that's why KOTH ended up being a far more consistent show quality-wise. I know Mike Judge's politics are complicated, but at least he never invited Elon Musk to guest star on his shows.
Z
2023-09-22 10:28:01 +0000 UTCThanks for giving the show a shot, Kemal! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-22 03:19:12 +0000 UTCSeason 5 ep 1 where Hank meets George Bush Jr when he's first running for president, shakes his hand and disgusted by his weak handshake is pretty great. He keeps watching videos over and over of his handshake like it's the JFK back and to the left bit.
Darryl Bowen
2023-09-22 02:13:12 +0000 UTCI never knew how much I needed Hank Hill impressions from the gang until now!
TDB
2023-09-22 01:39:27 +0000 UTCI love Hank’s crisis of conscience after Dubya’s weak handshake!
Brent Cowan
2023-09-22 01:19:38 +0000 UTCI would suggest any episode with Hank’s father, Cotton Hill. He is, without hyperbole, history’s greatest monster.
Brent Cowan
2023-09-22 01:10:23 +0000 UTCJust watched KOH last month for the first time. Really enjoyed it all as a whole but seemed to kind of dip around season 5 or 6. Still great and a shame FOX dropped it to bring in Cleavland show,
Darryl Bowen
2023-09-22 00:08:28 +0000 UTCBesides the always great "Bobby Goes Nuts" the other episodes I seem to remember most are the one with Hank's flat butt and the one where Peggy (accidentally) starts making foot fetish videos
Vicky I
2023-09-21 23:44:09 +0000 UTCOh God! Not a good first episode of King of the Hill to watch. I wasn't a fan until I saw season 3's "A Firefighting We Will Go". I then gave the show a chance & really love the series.
Pete R-Hill
2023-09-21 22:23:55 +0000 UTCYeah, Breckin Meyer did after Joseph went through puberty. I still have a soft spot for the episode where he realizes (spoiler.)
Lauren W
2023-09-21 21:58:02 +0000 UTCThere was just a reference to That's My Purse on a wrestling show I watch. A+.
Lauren W
2023-09-21 21:54:33 +0000 UTCKotH is one of the best slice of life anime to exist 😆 Related, it at least used to be the subject of dub vs sub fights in Japan. Eta: also never forget that Hank loved Ann Richards and hated Dubya.
Lauren W
2023-09-21 21:54:01 +0000 UTCFor another great KotH Dale episode, the one where he finds out the JFK assassination is actually PLAUSIBLE! "Dale to the Chief" Season 9, Episode 5. And "Bobby Goes Nuts" Season 6, Episode 1. "THAT'S MY PURSE!"
Scott
2023-09-21 21:20:25 +0000 UTCThis is so great!! Already listened twice! I went and watched another King of the Hill, my personal favorite: Husky Bobby. It has so many great jokes!!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2023-09-21 18:25:18 +0000 UTCI was 100% going to recommend that one. That’s a perfect Dale episode.
Efren Valenzuela Jr
2023-09-21 16:56:02 +0000 UTCAs for changing designs of characters, the only change is of Joseph. I think in season 3 or 4, he goes through puberty during the summer and is taller and has a little moustache (oh yeah, his voice changes and I don't think Brittany Murphy is the voice). The characters change and grow until like season 6 or so, and it just settles there for the rest of the run. It's still funny, but it's just not the same. The later seasons just doesn't have that massive nosedive that The Simpsons had. The nosedive was way smaller. I bet part of the reason why 3 of the hosts stopped watching was because KOTH always got pre-empted by the NFL on Sundays. That was so frustrating back then.
Dennis C
2023-09-21 16:20:36 +0000 UTCI think Eric would enjoy the episode where tha gang steals Dale's new lawnmower and make it seem like Lee Harvey Oswald took it.
Dennis C
2023-09-21 16:14:35 +0000 UTCThis is my first attempt at Animation Domination. Love KOTH.
Kemal Campara
2023-09-21 14:38:37 +0000 UTCI think that anyone can enjoy King of the Hill... but there is a lot of subtle humor that you would only really relate to if you lived in the South for any extended period of time.
Michael Daniels
2023-09-21 13:21:41 +0000 UTCHank opening a WD40 can with a backup WD40 can will never not be funny to me.
Gabryel Steinmetz
2023-09-21 12:26:21 +0000 UTCLMAO. Hank and his notes....
Frank Grimes
2023-09-21 12:01:17 +0000 UTCA great episode I’d recommend is Hanks Dirty Laundry, where Hank gets accused of stealing porn from a video rental store
Scott Gerrard
2023-09-21 11:08:41 +0000 UTCHank Trill is a dude that raps in Hank Hills voice. Covers the allure of running trap houses while addicted to street drugs.
Dan Craftwerk
2023-09-21 10:42:56 +0000 UTCi would argue King of the hill never jumped the shark. While not every episode was classic, the show was consistent as hell, even after they added Lucky and stuff. Looking forward to the continuation....RIP to Dale's VA.
Frank Grimes
2023-09-21 10:05:03 +0000 UTC
