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Fox’s best sitcom, Mike Judge’s “King of the Hill,” concludes its 13th and final season tonight with two stronger than average episodes.
The last, “To Sirloin With Love,” feels a lot more like a season than a series finale, save for one detail: Jeff Boomhauer’s shocking profession is finally revealed. (Hint: he’s not a speech therapist.)
Both of tonight’s installments are Bobby-centric. The first, “The Boy Can’t Help It,” finds Bobby throwing in with a trio of hot mean girls who lure him into “Freaks and Geeks” territory. When Hank learns where they’re headed for the episode’s climax, he reels: “Under the bleachers? Oh no, that’s where kids at risk gather!”
There’s a b-story centered on what Boomhauer calls a homeless man’s “dang ol’ Battlecart Galactica.”
In “Sirloin,” a chance encounter with Roger Stiles, professor of meat science at Heimlich County Junior College and coach of their insanely competitive meat examination team, creates a new bond between Bobby and his pop. When the boy asks what a “meat examination team” is, Hank explains: “It’s like debate team, but instead of doing something useless, they compete by judging cut and quality of meat.”
The episode is thick with great lines, so I’ll share two more that come out of Hank:
“What you’re seeing is what’s called ‘Team Spirit.’ It’s like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.”
“If I had a nickel for every time I buckled under pressure, I’d have five nickels!”
The series ends with a shot that starts at a propane grill and ends at the Arlen water tower.
After tonight there's room enough for that third series from the creator of "Family Guy."
8 p.m. Sunday. Fox.
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King Of The Hill has been a great series that has provided a great deal of entertainment.
I still think my favorite episode is the one where Hank Hill doesn't have insurance for the weekend. Dale and the medicinal bee-stings had me in tears! -
This show is great, and is what sucks me in to watching Adult Swim when I should be sleeping.
I will miss it, and hope that Cartoon Network steps up to the plate and brings it back.
"I stabbed 50 Nazis." - Cotton Hill -
Sep 13, 2009 8:09:34 AM CDT
I wish they would've done the prerequistite "future" episode...
by ronald raygun
Not once did they ever do a look into the future episode, seeing as how every animated family sitcom has to do at least ONE (Simpsons has done it, what, seven times already?). Would have been a nice finale, especially since Bobby is supposed to be about thirty by now.
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I remember hearing this series was canceled but the "finale" called itself a season, rather than a series, finale. I didn't realize there were more episodes. Why the delay? In between tonight's and the last KOTH episode, Judge aired a new series and had it canceled. Oh well, I guess it's nice to have another two eps.
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I will cook "SpaPeggy and Meatballs", in honor of the Hills.
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I really really liked King of the Hill back in the day, and it definitely still had the capacity to be brilliant, but in all honesty, I think I probably did wear out on it in the past few seasons. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about the tone of the show changed - maybe around when Lucky showed up, a character I've just never warmed up to.
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Will all the new characters sound just like that damn dog too?
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Was it the usual reason? Low ratings?
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Dickheads, cowards and fuckwads. They end a series in the fucking summer with little to no promotion. I really hope Judge's agent got him a good deal on the syndication terms.
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There was that episode where they dealt with Bobby not maturing as quickly as Joseph and I thought that they might actually age the kids on the show. I would have liked to see Bobby get older and Joseph look more and more like John Redcorn.
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Had its ups and downs. More ups though. Better than most of the stuff on tv today. Sorry to see it go.
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Sep 13, 2009 11:42:59 AM CDT
i can finally keep watching tv between 8:30 and 9:00. awesome.
by bouncy x
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The last few seasons have been awful. Hope it goes out on a high note!
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and the cleveland pilot was weak.
koth deserved a 14th season. shame another network didnt jump on it. -
I will watch if there's nothing else on, but it was never appointment viewing. But anything from the Family Guy team is friend gold baby! Suck it, haters. Giggitty.
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Just like Futurama and Family Guy, this show didn't really grow on me until I started watching reruns every night on Adult Swim this year. It's a shame there won't be anymore new episodes. We needed to see a "future" episode to show what happens to everyone, and of course Dale needed to find out the truth about his son.
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Drama can keep going year after year (see Law and Order) but comedy always gets stale after a while. It happens again and again: characters who were once three-dimensional and real turn into parodies of their former selves that just repeat a few personalities tics. One of the worst examples of this is Friends, which was really good for about the first three seasons, but by the end was just Monica screaming "I LIKE WEDDINGS AND CLEANING STUFF" and Chandler screaming "I MAKE JOKES BECAUSE I'M INSECURE" and Ross screaming "I'M UPTIGHT AND NERDY". The humor gets broader more absurd, more slapstick and less character based. I cannot think of any case where a sitcom has run for more than 5 years without this happening.
Sadly, this is also true for King of the Hill. But it had some truly great episodes in its time: how about the one where Luanne becomes a born-again virgin, and then Hank finds out that Peggy wasn't a virgin when they got married because she had sex with a gay guy so he could see if he was gay, and then Hank doesn't think he can forgive Peggy, and she tries becoming a born-again virgin, and Hank doesn't buy it but he gets so turned on when she gets baptized and comes up in a wet shirt that he stops being mad? Or the one where Peggy gets arrested in Mexico and the lawyer has to figure out how to defend her by showing that she doesn't really speak Spanish, despite the fact that she's a middle school substitute Spanish teacher? Or the one where Peggy gets tricked into thinking she's a genius by an online test, and then gives all her money to Jeff Goldblum and Hank has to run a "The Sting" type scam to get it back? Or the one where Cotton and his WWII vet buddies square off with the Vietnam vets? People have already mentioned the "I don't know you; give me back my purse" episode.
Wow, now I'm really nostalgic; in its prime, what a great show KOTH was. -
What were we talking about again?
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Sep 13, 2009 4:11:41 PM CDT
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, King of th
by tall_boy66
Hey, I don't wanna see The Cleveland Show either, but, Jesus Christ, 13 years of this terribly, TERRIBLY unfunny shit on TV? I'll take a test-pattern. It'll get more laughs. What an awful show. I don't know a single solitary soul who likes it. Aside from Herc. but he's a pathological contrarian hipster anyway so he'd OBVIOUSLY love the show, right?
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Maybe Seth McFarlane can suck some helium so that his voice sounds different. Ass. Anyway, King of the Hill is still one of best comedy series ever. I will miss it.
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Sep 13, 2009 5:37:33 PM CDT
It had a great run - at least they won't drag it out Simpsons st
by juansanchez
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Sep 13, 2009 5:38:03 PM CDT
Style. Fuck you, AICN with your fucking cutoffs, you fucks!!!
by juansanchez
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in the same timeslot as the Cleveland show and see what people would rather watch...
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King Of The Hill was a great show. I haven't watched it much recently, but its peaks were way up there. I too wish they'd aged the characters...when Joseph starting growing (wasn't that because whatshername wasn't as available to do his voice and they recast?) I hoped they'd age the kids...coulda been pretty cool. Has any animated show ever done that? It seems like it would have been a natural for this show. Oh well.
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I have missed episodes from time to time the past few seasons, but it seems like only Kahn shows up any more, but you never see Minh and Connie (both voice acted by Laura Tom). Whatever happened with them?
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Watching the series finale, and Minh just had some dialogue, and Connie is there too..... I really had thought they were disappeared or something. Still, I don't think I'm crazy in thinking their roles were minimized.
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Boomhauer and Walker, Texas Ranger........
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at least that episode made for a fitting finale. I hope the other four episodes they produced at least show up on Adult Swim at some point.
As I was watching the finale, they kept showing previews for the Cleveland Show and it blew my mind how terribly unfunny it looks. Every commercial I saw failed to get any laughs out of me. Nice to see Fox gives a shit about their long running franchises as to give it a proper send off... -
the start of the 1st episode should have been part of the last ep though with the whole 'we fixed boomhauer's care, we've fixed Bill's house, etc" but that final shot was great, set up if Adult Swim or someone picks it up but it was good
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...if Kurt Sutter had been writing KOTH, Dale would have finally gone on that inevitable killing spree, Bill would have killed himself and Hank would have made that long overdue powerplay to run Strictland Propane. Alas no. King of the Hill should lick Kurt Sutter's Balls!
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I'm a big Family Guy fan, but that last line made me laugh big time...
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'Yes,Dear', 'Wings', 'Coach', 'Just Shoot Me', and 'JAG'... as "how in the fuck did these shitty shows stay on air as long as they did?" Congrats.
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....so what is new? Bet the Family Guy rerun ratings after are bigger. Season premier will eclipse any Hill episode ever, ever. Sure, ratings don't matter much for taste (see: Two And A Half Men), nevertheless, Hill sucked ass.
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the old episodes of King of the Hill are priceless. Like all cartoons though, the show got shittier with time. Family Guy is a piece of shit. And that twat now gets 3 shows on air. While Fox's fucking priceless Matt Groening couldn't even keep his second show on the air. Fucking joke.
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Family Guy is funny but that is the limit of Seth MacFarlane's talent. American Dad is crap. Black (in this case African-American) humor is rarely well done (Boondocks is the one exception) and he doesn't have it in him.
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Anyone who has already seen the episode of The Cleveland Show that is floating around the Internet can attest to the fact that is is absolute garbage. King of the Hill was getting a bit pricey for Fox to keep producing although the ratings were acceptable. So what do we get now from the McFarlane? A spin-off involving the least interesting of his already tired Family Guy cast. I did not laugh or even chuckle once during my three viewings of Cleveland, I watched it twice more hoping it would grow on me. The Cleveland show will do well enough because of it's time slot but if it is 2 get a second season it will have to attract the largest audience of 11 to 14 year old boys in the history of television because no one of intelligence will be watching McFarlane's most recent bowel movement.
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There must be at least 6 shows that couldve taken off from it... My fav being one on Moe.
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is an unusual display of taste on his part
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I watch when there is absolutely nothing else on, but often switch channels within 10 minutes.
Can only take so much of hank going ahhhh, the fat kid, peggys moronic way of talking, the retarted cousin living with them -
For all the attention grabbers like Dales nonsensical ramblings and Kahns over the top hate speech, this was a show about fathers and sons, and a man trying to make sense of a world (and son) that are not what he expected. Insanely long story arcs, changing relationships and depth of charaterization that you don't see in many programs, live action or animated. This show never jumped, and I'm a little glad that it ended before it did.
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That was just another episode(s), no sense of being special at all. I can understand that when faced with a surprise cancellation, but they had plenty of time to prep a proper send off episode. WTF was up with that? It's no way to close out an institution.
The clips I've seen of the Clevand Show make it look awful. And this coming from a guy who can stomach (and even occasionally like) American Dad. I guess I'm not too surprised, it seemed like a stupid premise from day one. Dude needs to just stick to Family Guy. -
The reason there's been n o simpson spinoffs, pax256, is because even though the show itself is tired, the people behind are creative -- so when they want to do something new, they actually do something NEW instead of just a rehash of the same thing.
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For awhile.
Give it a chance if you haven't watched since the first season.
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Tucking away the series finale like this... Honestly. The show has consistently provided excellent character-driven comedy for many years. At least give it a proper send-off.
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just looking at the schedual over the years, it got moved around a lot and for a few years was often pre-empted by football. i think it even disappeared for almost a whole year at one point. not sure why they kept it while Futurama was let go but yeah. they should be proud to say it lasted 10-11yrs on Fox.
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",,, and less character based. I cannot think of any case where a sitcom has run for more than 5 years without this happening.I can: WKRP in Cincinnati. Greatest sitcom ever!My all-time favorite line from King of the Hill came in one of the early seasons. Hank was being lectured in his home by a very religious woman who, to make her point, quoted a Bible passage. Hank replies with "Get out of my house - Exodus".
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That's generally true, but I don't think KOTH fell victim to it as much as most shows. It got more stale rather than outrageous, but that earned it a warm spot in my heart, in contrast to the disdain I now feel for the Simpsons (although that's started to pick up a bit lately).
Another comedy that broke that rule was MASH. It actually got less broad and absurd in the later seasons. I'm not saying that was a good thing, just noting it. -
I never watched KOTH all that much, but lately I have been catching it every now and then on Cartoon Network, and I gotta say, Hank Hill is simply a dick. Always wanting to tell his kids they are no good, always sees the negative in everything. Never wants anyone to get ahead, just lets everyone know they are worthless rednecks who will never be anything more. An asshole, nothing more. Maybe that's the point, but is is far from likeable IMO.
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Everytime I saw it, it was always the kid acting like a shit. Or the Dad acting like he was shit. Or the mom acting like a shit.
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Sep 14, 2009 3:59:30 PM CDT
Hank Hill is one of the least dickiest characters on TV...
by _maltheus_
...Peggy on the other hand, is one of the most foul. Hank may be a square, but I'll take that over all of the lying backstabbers you find and just about every other show out there. Just watch any NBC sitcom for the counterpoint. And he's always seeing the good in just about everything, from lawns to propane to whatever else they're yepping about. Again, certainly no more negative than any other character on TV.
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He's never told Bobby he's not any good. If anything he looks for the positive even when looks on in horror on whatever weird trend the kids gotten in to this week. He doesn't even condemn his dad or his boss or are simply two terrible people. Peggy's not so bad, self-involved, but not so bad since she did go out of her way to take in her niece.
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The last couple of minutes did have a finale feel to them. FOX probably gave them a little bit of cash to tack that on.
My favorite episode is probably the one where Hank accidentally becomes a pimp. I always end up watching that one whever it reruns. -
didn't get a proper sendoff after all those years, and that show made Fox, that lasted despite a narrow premise, the first to give them any ratings, and it gave them the outrageous identity. they moved koth all over the place, and placing them against football and 60 minutes, I'm suprised it got any ratings.
Also two shows that became less broad and more character based -- Mary Tyler Moore, look how broad the comedy is that first season, with the bad newscasts, and wacky neighbor stuff from Phyllis. By the seventh, that was gone, and it became about Lou's divorce after-life and Murray's adoption, and Ted
s marriage.
All in the Family/Archie Bunker's place. -- less arguing and no meathead jokes in the final three seasons, and more characters added with more character humor. -
Heh-heh.
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Sep 14, 2009 10:34:11 PM CDT
And as far as dramas "aging" better than comedies...
by nasty in the pasty
...that's kinda bullcrap. ALL televison shows inevitably start showing signs of strain around season five or the 100th episode (which usually occurs in season five). Actors grow older, creators grow bored, and audiences jump ship to whatever the "hot" new show that season is. Remember how HUGE Heroes was three years ago? Now it's a joke, and it's only moving into it's fourth season. 24 has gotten pretty rote and predictable by this point. Yeah, season 7 was better than the abyssmal 6, but that's not much of a feat. The X-Files got pretty dire in it's last few seasons, where everybody started getting bored as fuck and doing a shitload of "whacky" episodes until Duchovny left and they brought in T2 as Doggett and the show devolved into Scully crying every week with Gladiator-style wailing in the background while whining "Well, if MULDER were here, he'd say/do this...".Face it...five seasons is the last time ANY televisoon show, comedy or drama, will still be producing anything of merit (with rare exceptions). Lost was smart is announcing that it's sixth season will be the last, going out while on top. Hopefully Fringe will do the same thing.
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That's why Family Guy is beloved by so many morons and Seth McFarlane has three shows on the air.
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...with one of the talkbackers with Sith, Darth, or Jedi in their name.
I am so tired of Seth MacFarlane. -
"to tell his kids they are no good"... did you ever watch the show? obviously not. One son. narrow urethra. "kids? they?" don't critique what you havent watched, jackass. any point you might make is invalidated.
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I will catch up on season 6-13 on DVD or something, watched the finalie and I declare it was good.
Damn you fox.
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I never said I was a regular watcher of the show did I? I watched an episode where Bobby was playing baseball and his coach was trying to encourage him and all Hank wanted to do was to tell him he wasn't good at baseball and he shouldn't be playing. He even came in during a game as Bobby was about to catch or maybe not catch a ball and grabbed him, and Hank's reasoning was so he wouldn't fail, but the fact that he couldn't be bothered encouraging his son coupled with the pulling him out mid game shit is not cool, part of life is learning how to deal with failure (and there was no way for him to know if he was gonna catch the ball or not), and he took that away from Bobby. Oh yea so sorry he doesn't have "kids" but his niece lives with them or something, and when she wanted to do some kind of puppet thing for a living, all Hank could do is sit there and say how stupid it was and it was not going to work. Was that more specific for you? So sorry if I got a few details wrong, but guess what pal, you don't know me and you have nerve to call me a jackass, you want to criticize me that's fine, but calling me a jackass when you don't even know me pretty much makes you one as well. All that I am really saying is from the episodes I have seen, Hank comes across as a dick most of the time, I am so sorry if this upsets you, but that's my opinion, you don't have to like it and it doesn't matter if you do. Doesn't make KOTH a bad show, I just don't find the character of Hank all that appealing.
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