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Mike Judge’s KING OF THE HILL Gets Season 12!!
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“King of the Hill” is getting a little respect!
Starting with its 11th season premiere this Sunday, Fox has moved the animated saga of Texas propane maven Hank Hill to the much better 8:30 p.m. Sunday timeslot, between “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy.”
And now comes word that Fox’s best sitcom has been renewed for a 12th season. “Larry Labia” writes:
Hey Guys,
On the official "King of the Hill" myspace page (www.myspace.com/officialkingofthehill), they have announced that the show has been renewed for a 12th season beginning in 2008. This hasn't been announced in the trades yet, so it's a nice scoop for us fans.
By the way, this is a surprising move, considering Fox really butchered the release of Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" last fall.
Nevertheless, it's still the funniest, most sublime show on television and I'm glad it's back for more.
Read about it at:
blog.myspace.com/officialkingofthehill
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On the official "King of the Hill" myspace page (www.myspace.com/officialkingofthehill), they have announced that the show has been renewed for a 12th season beginning in 2008. This hasn't been announced in the trades yet, so it's a nice scoop for us fans.
By the way, this is a surprising move, considering Fox really butchered the release of Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" last fall.
Nevertheless, it's still the funniest, most sublime show on television and I'm glad it's back for more.
Read about it at:
blog.myspace.com/officialkingofthehill
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I remember when the show first started out. Sobering to most Judge fans, who had followed the man from Beavis and Butthead, with it's stodgy animation and square cast. But as the years have passed each character has carved out a marvelous array of unique and affecting backstories, emotional depth, and healthy, and sometimes dark, eccentricities. It's worn well and has gotten wonderful with age. If William Faulkner's corpse could see an episode, surely it would re-animate in the presence of such American art.
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Ah lemme tell ya dang 'ol whaddyacallit freedom fries
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I also loved Idiocracy. If Idiocracy is Mike Judge's worst work yet, then he is a master.
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Okay, and when will Season 3 - 12 come to Germany? Don't make me use Bittorrent!
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King of the Hill making propane funny since 1901!
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I need sleep! SLEEEEEEP!!!!
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HOO YEAH!
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It's 2007, people! Haven't we all figured out that Fox Films is different from Fox TV, which is distinct from the Fox Network and Fox News despite all being ultimately controlled by a secret Cabal (using Murdoch as its ass puppet)? So butchering Idiocracy had nothing to do with KOTH.
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Or is it done? Or is it going to be on at 9:30, replacing The War at Home? I need help!
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the Simpsons, despite its (I think relatively small) decline in quality over the past few years. But King of the Hill has always stayed fresh. It's amazing they've done it this long...
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A fan of a great show sends us a scoop and chrth poops all over him.
The guy may have been off a little bit, but to call him an idiot comes across a little bitter.
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Nigga what
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The addition of Tom Petty to the cast made a already great show better.
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To some degree, at least in my experience. A lot of IT people at my various jobs all had goatees. (Maybe it's a way to make them look tougher.) Sorry if I offended you, but I hate when people slam others when then they give us a GREAT piece of news.
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"Oh Uncle Haaa-aaaaank...!"
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King of the Hill is incredibly smart without trying to tell the audience it is (Family Guy).
It would be too easy for the writers of a cartoon to set the show in outlandish situations, and this show is a perfect example of how intelligent writing can make even the most ordinary of situations HILARIOUS. (All without resorting to simple "pop-culture" references.)
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Kahn rules. I laugh at you all, you are all so inferior to Kahn!
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Although I get the feeling they are running out of storylines. At least they are sticking it in between FG and Simpsons. It might get more viewers that way.
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I really dont think that show is even the least bit funny. They should air it after the O' Reilly Factor or some other crap show on Fox News.
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Look at what quality it is still putting out, and how far the Simpsons has fallen in the same 11 year time period. Mike Judge is one of the most reliable names in comedy.
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convincingly do a live action episode. Just get some actors who resemble the characters and dub over their dialogue with the regular voice actors. Highly unlikely as this would be, I'd like to see it.
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*smacks waitress's ass*
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All the baseball players started growing them. But I suspect that the resurgence among the stereotypical nerdy IT professional has a lot to do with an indy film character named Dante.
As for King of the Hill, its success is its ability to entertain the whole family, whereas American Dad's requirement to be offensive, crude, and politically timely will wear it thin and make syndication difficult. It would be like watching syndicated reruns of a cartoon that poked fun at President Carter. In a word: unfunny. -
Where was the smallville talkback? I know that show is pretty bad sometimes but how does it not rate as cool news when they have J'onn J'onzz the Martian Manhunter make an appearance.
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Just made my face look dirty.I did not give KotH a chance for a long time, but it's fucking funny.
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really?? shows that make me laugh are shows like south park, extras, scrubs, the office, entourage and pre-1997 simpsons. i ain't saying KOTH is a bad show but the kindest way i can think to describe it is to say that it's some of the gentlest humour on tv.
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Without a doubt, Mike Judge gets treated like shit by FOX, whether it be in movies, or with King of the Hill, and moving the show to 8:30, and giving it another season is the vote of confidence this show deserves. KOTH has been consistently funny over its 200 episodes, and actually has well defined characters, that the humor comes from. Yes, American Dad has improved, and I know a lot of people don't "get" KOTH, or think it's funny, but in my opinion, it's very well-written, and behind the Simpsons, is it not the longest running cartoon? FOX should be promoting that fact like hell.
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its best days are behind it. It has managed to maintain its peak level of quality longer than the Simpsons did (around 5 seasons or so) but its starting to suffer. The plots have become incresingly repetitive (Bobby discovers something new, Hank gets upset about it, etc.)
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I'll agree that a bunch of episodes have dealt with Bobby discovering something, Hank disapproves, only to like it in the end, but even if that formula is followed, it's still good writing. And somehow, when this show does outlandish episodes (Doggy Dancing, Lawn Gnomes, Guy Trying to Act Out the Label on a Barbecue Sauce), it still seems grounded. Best episode? Maybe the one with Jeff Goldblum and the safe. That one is wonderful. Or with Hank and the football throw/Bill and his cousins.
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I was very impressed with how they did it.
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He hasn't for quite sometime. He said in an interview with GQ (or Esquire) that he pretty much just goes in and does the voices and that's about it.
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When the fuck is American Dad on? That was a great 1.5 hours... Hopefully it'll replace that piece of shit show War at Home and there will be 2 hours of solid animation on...
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My favorite line, I tell you whut. And yeah, a Whataburger would be really good right now. With onion rings and the vanilla shake.
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i didnt even know KOTH was still around. ok show but too sentimental sometimes
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Actually, he does them from his house via an ISDN line I believe.
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Classic.
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but are ya' Chinese or Japanese.
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...to say KOTH is dead. HAHAHAHA
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the most self deluded character on TV, even moreso that Michael on the Office. Love when she mangles Spanish.
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Instead of it being cancelled every other week so that they can show the NFL recap show of all the games that they have already been talking about for the previous 6 hours... I wish they'd take the whole damn block of cartoons to another night, far, far away from the NFL.... Some of my favorite KOTH episodes, Bobby learns how to be a harlequin, Kahn becomes a hillbilly, Dale's dad is a gay cowboy, Chuck Mangione living in MegaloMart....P.S. screw Family Dad, American Guy, and their new show Suburban Dude.
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"In my opinion, the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year." Classic.
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Is anyone more adorable?
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I liked the episode where Randy Travis turned out to be a jackass.my favorite line? I get jokes. i like Tony Danza....(i like Tony Danza..I like Tony Danza...I like Tony Danza).
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Choked me up.
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One of the reasons the series works is that the characters are allowed to change and to grow somewhat. Some of that growth has come at the expense of continuity: Peggy's Mother, Dale's Father. I used to watch because it was fun to see what a twit Peggy was. I started to like her (a bit) after she confessed how "un-romantic" Hank was. "I think I like you Miss Platter I tell you what." Favorite moments gotta be the opening of one of the Christmas shows with Bill sobbing to Christmas music and Minh on that bed of quarters. Also Minh's reaction to Joseph kissing her.
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so is that Chinese or Japanese?
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I've never been a regular watcher, but the episode where Bobby fell in love with LuAnn's hair styling head was one of the funniest episodes of any show I've ever seen. I found it closer to the Wonder Years than the Simpsons though, a little too gentle for its own good.
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Fucking wonderful one. Along with the cocaine through boggle episode. And yeah, that one where Bobby is a Harlequin is fantastic. "Oh, it scalds." And I still think one of the most evil things ever done is in the finale, where Lucky wants to graduate, and goes to Peggy for help, and he she INTENTIONALLY teaches him wrong information, so he'll fail, and in doing so, not marry Luanne. That's just awful.
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That's my purse! I don't know you!
Glad to see King Of The Hill getting so much love. I think it's one of the funniest, smartest, shows on TV. It's funny that people I know who duck it because it is animated are missing some of the most three-dimensional characters on TV. Remember when Bill and Kahn's mother fell in love? Genius. -
...they find a way to handle drugs, alcohol, and a dead girl in a dumpster - all while making you laugh.
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A good two-part episode. And remember when this show would do cliffhanger finales? Like the explosion, or Peggy's parachute not opening? They had some balls.
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... but I just hate Peggy ... so much !
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"Bring your own eyelashes." "I always do."
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So in tonight's episode, after Peggy explained that Caroline wasn't a woman, was Hank just not paying attention? Did he just not understand? Or was he just ignoring that Caroline was the same person as that guy? weird.
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