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Heads up for King of the Hill fans

Super Grover said:
Hey Propaniacs, Well Jack Bauer comandeered the lineup last Sunday. But we're back this week with another new adventure.

It looks like Bobby is trying to Be Prepared this Sunday as he gives the Order of the Straight Arrow another chance.

Straight as an Arrow 11/30/08
Hank tries to help Bobby become a member of the Order of the Straight Arrow, but he disagrees with the "Arrowmaster" who is a new member of Arlen. Meanwhile, Peggy gets involved in the disagreement as she is the local Welcome Wagon representative.
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Notes: The last time we saw Bobby as a member of the Order of the Straight Arrow was in Episode 3 of the first season titled "The Order of the Straight Arrow"

guest voice: Andy Richter as Wesley Cherish

I thought Bobby was already a member of the Order of the straight Arrow? I guess that whole whooping crane incident looked bad for him, or he talked too much and Bill ate all of his Silent stick.
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One TNG ep I never liked was 'Suddenly Human', wherein all these real-world signals were offered about the boy's adoptive father being abusive, only for it all to be a lesson to the E-D crew about presumption.

Point on KOTH is, this ep reminds me of that TNG ep. Wesley Cherish is broadly presented as a vastly overprotective father, only for his sons to really have conditions (according to him, anyway - the boys seemed fine under Hank). Meanwhile, he objects to Hank scrutinizing how he raises his children, but he is all too willing to impose his safety beliefs on every other boy. And don't get me started about the Luanne/Lucky subplot. Unfunny selfishness from two people who got a better wedding than they deserved, Luanne's fantasy wedding (that was turned towards the house they now live in) aside. Reffing yet another show, it reminded me of an MTM wherein Rhoda fixes Mary up with a loser who won't let her be ( a comedic stalker before we knew the term), then laughs at her plight as though she did this to herself. To me, KOTH's first real clunker in a long while. I've seen other KOTH eps with frustrating endings, some more so than this, but never one that to me, failed so hard.
 
I'm going to have to go back and watch it again as I was watching it while making dinner that night.

Yeah, Hank did make some mistakes with not knowing about the Cherish kids conditions. Just like on Andy Griffith, sometimes Sheriff Taylor didn't always have the right answer, but he learned something as well. But I think for the most part Hank did the right thing. Kids need to go outside and get dirty and hurt and have real experiences. If Straight Arrow is anything like Scouts, then it is an outside kind of organization and they need to actually get outside. Wesley Cherish might not have liked it, but his kids seemed to enjoy it and the rest of the kids benefitted as well.

I could have done without the Lucky and Luanne storyline, it might have helped the A-story develop better without it, and it just seemed like they were just giving them something to do .
 
This was a lackluster Episode..and the B storyline was just mean for no reason..but even KOTH can't avoid a bad episode every now and then.:lol:
 
I was checking out some of the Adult Swim messageboards just to see how well KOTH's arrival is being recieved. I was suprised, some positive, some negative. I had figured that the response would be mostly negative.
 
Hey my propaniac friends. Just letting everyone who is interested know that there is going to be a new King of the Hill Sunday night. Don't blink, you might miss it.

It does not seem like there is going to be a lot of Hank this time around as we focus on Lucky and Luanne's relationship.

King of the Hill: Lucky See, Monkey Do: 2/8/09


When Peggy meets Lucky's sister Myrna, they argue over how Luanne and Lucky should raise their baby.
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btw, I'm enjoying getting my KOTH fix nightly on adult swim.
 
Hopefully one of them feels they should have someone else raise it for them. Its like the kid's only hope. :D
 
It's been awhile since we got a new episode.

I know there was talk of ABC picking up King of the Hill, has anything else been said about that one way or the other?
 
Super Grover said:
I was checking out some of the Adult Swim messageboards just to see how well KOTH's arrival is being recieved. I was suprised, some positive, some negative. I had figured that the response would be mostly negative.
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The one thing I like about it being on AS is they show the complete episode without the syndication cuts.
 
jep316 said:
Super Grover said:
I was checking out some of the Adult Swim messageboards just to see how well KOTH's arrival is being recieved. I was suprised, some positive, some negative. I had figured that the response would be mostly negative.
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The one thing I like about it being on AS is they show the complete episode without the syndication cuts.
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Yeah, that is pretty cool. There is a lot of things in there where I'm thinking, "I don't remember that."
 
Ok. 'Lucky See, Monkey Do'. I liked it a lot. Well, maybe except for the Bill subplot. Kinda creepy on all fronts, that one. But Hank was not placed in danger or embrarassment, and he made only one insistence, that actually came to pass. Peggy's foolishness (and maybe some hints at why Bobby 'ain't right') was fully balanced by Myrna's zealousness in leaving her upbringing behind. Loved Bobby's snark at the robo-kids. The last time I saw such robo-kids was on Daria, based on an MJ creation but not done by him. Are they really that prevalent?

Luanne actually evolved. Don't know if they'll keep to it, but Peggy for once seemed to agree with Hank that its time to cut back on the mothering - save for saving the baby's name. Bonus : No Dale ass-baggery, though I'm sure he'll deserve and not get a few more beatings before all is done. I would seriously like to see Hank deliver that ass-kicking before the finale. The early reruns on FX and AS alone have Dale a corpse several times over, as far as deserving it.
 
My local Fox aired this episode in widescreen (even though it's an SD channel). Is this the first time King of the Hill has been shown in widescreen, or have other episodes been filmed in widescreen but cut down to 4:3 for SD viewing?
 
During the new episode yesterday, a commercial ran saying to catch other new episodes on Sundays, so I guess it's back until they run out of the contractual episodes.
 
I'm pretty sure that was the first widescreen episode, as it immediately stood out to me and looked very different (in a good way!).
 
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