This show wasn’t just a sitcom about small town Texan, it was a quiet funeral dirge for the American white middle class. Set in the twilight of the 20th century, the Hills and their neighbors represent a generation of white Americans facing cultural, moral, and economic decline, completely unequipped to handle the shifting world around them.
The contrast between the Hills and their Laotian neighbors says it all. Kahn is a striver, arrogant yes, but his family wins. Connie is the smartest student in school, destined for success. Bobby by contrast is fat, effeminate, talentless, and constantly adrift. He’s the future of white America: disconnected from his roots, mocked by his elders, and yet coddled into mediocrity. Peggy, the self-declared "substitute Spanish teacher" who barely knows the language, is a perfect symbol of unearned confidence masking total ignorance.
Dale Gribble is the conspiratard right winger, deeply suspicious of authority and smugly certain he knows the truth, yet blind to the most obvious reality in his life: his wife has been cheating on him for years with a man who is literally everything Dale fears and resents: a virile, competent, brown man. Bill, the depressed veteran, is a tragic stand-in for all the broken men the country sent off to war and discarded. He lives in squalor, yearning for the past, ignored and emasculated.
And then there’s Hank, the show’s beating heart and most tragic figure. A man of principle and tradition, but increasingly unable to cope with the modern world. He doesn’t understand his son, his neighbors, or the changes reshaping his hometown. He clings to propane and firm handshakes while the world turns weak and incomprehensible around him. King of the Hill was never just about Texas. It was about a culture watching its own eclipse, one well manicured lawn at a time.
The new show is going to be terrible
Did some ricecel write this? Dale didn't resent John Redcorn and wasn't some raging racist.
Good post
Cotton ties into this too. He represents the older generation, the older America, but as it was rather than how Hank imagines it to be. He's tough and abrasive, but has morals and is willing to fight for what he believes. Hank can be seen as the post-Soviet War internationalist: he might whine, but ultimately he doesn't want to upset his comfortable life, so he tries to go around the problem or talk things out. And this means he never protects his life, and it slowly gets taken away from him by the forces you mention. He convinces himself that this is because he's a good man, a gentleman even, one of the old school. But Cotton is right there to show us that back then people stood up for themselves and their community.
Hank is the villain.
>>213011254 (OP)I want my minute back, what a low IQ post
>>213013140It’s 10 year old pasta moron
>>213011254 (OP)Kahn is living paycheck to paycheck and buys beyond his means.
Yeah, but it reminded millennials a lot of their own parents. My mom is exactly like Peggy Hill, those narssism and all.
Thanks for ruining my life you retarded cunt.
>>213013176A system analyst makes almost $90,000 a year in 2025. But the show went on for years, so trying to find an accurate time for a better idea of what he made was hard. But almost $90,000 in the late 90s was a lot of money. He was just an arrogant, insecure, peice of shit.
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I literally started watching this show for the first time a few months ago. It escaped me when I was young for some reason. People say it's this heartfelt show about a real middle-class southern family, but I can't help shake the feeling that it's all just a bunch of Jewish writers shitting on hicks the majority of the time.
>>213013363Its not, and thats a dumb way to watch it.
>da joosFaggot
>>213013359it’s 15 year old pasta dipshit
>>213011254 (OP)what about boomhauer? what does he represent
>>213011305The spirit of the Chud lives on in the hearts of every man and woman who feels that the way things are going isn’t the way things ought to be, that the ‘progress’ being promised isn’t progress at all - one day, you’ll look in the mirror and you’ll see a shadow of the Chud in your own face!
>>213014168>>213013333He represents hedonism - an empty life, ultimately fruitless with no wife or kids, but comfortable
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>>213011698I think people forgot the episode where he went out of his way to help redcorn with FOIA.
>>213011254 (OP)>middle classThey were white trash. However, in today's economy (thanks Trump!), they seem like middle class to zoomers.
Explain Hank's Cowboy Movie and its unshakeable faith for the future then.
>>213014924Hank was painfully oldfashioned and out of touch with the reality of the modern world. most episodes of the show revolve around this
>>213011254 (OP)>muh white genocidethis country sucks because CEOs shipped all the jobs overseas
>Trump's bringing them backno the fuck he isnt. we're paying the tariffs, the CEOs are gonna pocket the difference, and your shitty appliances are still gonna be built in South Korea and will be designed to break irreparably in 4 years
>>213014744ya it doesn't feel right in this day and age. I hope in the revival dale is more "realistic" and is a racist buffoon
>>213014744>>213015648both of these voice actors died recently anyways. so that pretty much kills this revival for me
>>213015722>>213015722the voice actors being alive doesn't mean shit anyway. See: 90's Marge vs Marge now.
>>213015722meh, we have AI these days.
>>213015784thats because the simpsons should have ended 20 years ago. king of the hill ended at the perfect time, its not a good idea to bring it back
>>213014862>middle class>white trashboth these things can be true
>>213016015You can take the white person outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the white person
>>213013333Boomhauer is the ghost of American masculinity. Suave, confident, swimming in women, yet utterly alone and emotionally unavailable. He speaks in a near incomprehensible mumble, a symbol of how the traditional male archetype can no longer communicate with the world around him.
>they were white trash
>hank and peggy hill are the white version of niggers
wow
>>213016125They're the uncle toms tbch. Boomhuar, Bill, and Dale are the real niggers
>>213016015luanne and her husband lucky were white trash. hank is just really old fashioned and has a southern accent. otherwise he would just be considered a standard middle class man living in the suburbs. ned flanders essentially
>>213013363It's the most realistic portrayal of suburban Texas that's ever been broadcast.
I say this as a lifelong suburban Texan.
>>213016174seriously. Giving us food poising with pasta that old
>>213013363It's an accurate portrayal of low iq middle class southern whites
>>213016709most of the people you're looking down on have achieved more in life than you ever will.
>>213016861I've already achieved more by not living in the south
>>213015839>king of the hill ended at the perfect timeit ended at least 6 years too late
>>213017152it was getting shit in the last few seasons. Running another 6 years would just turn it into zombie simpsons
>>213011254 (OP)>a virile, competent, brown manhow the fuck is redcorn competent, guy is a fucking loser whose only success in life is knocking up some whore
besides that his life amounts to nothing
>>213016861whatever helps you cope, cletus
>>213016875cope
>>213017377I own my home outright and have two rental properties. you are still struggling to find purchase in an economic system that left you behind.
>>213017456The important thing is that you fed him attention.
>>213011254 (OP)I lived in Garland TX for about three years, which is where Mike Judge went to college and based Arlen off of, and it’s far from a small town. It’s Dallas suburbs. McMansions as far as the eye can see.
>>213011254 (OP)mike judge is a libtard so nah it ain't that deep buddy
>>213017553it's the least I could do. I try to help the less fortunate
>>213011698Also he loves his dad's Latino boyfriend, Juan Pedro.
>>213017456big fish, small low iq dysgenic pond. gj loser
>>213017183>Reading comprehension Anon was saying the last 6 seasons were trash
>>213018236they were better then nu-king of the hill revival will be
>>213018708I fear this person is right. The HD season writers didnt really seem to grasp the characters and my instincts tell me whoever they bring in won't either
>>213011254 (OP)>everything Dale fears and resents: a virile, competent, brown manHard to take this seriously when Dale, despite his blindness, likes John Redcorn a lot and helps him out with obtaining land from the government
>>213013363The show was created by a high IQ white guy who looks down on the redneck community he grew up in.
>>213011254 (OP)>everything Dale fears and resents: a virile, competent, brown man.Redcorn is shown to be an aging "cool loser" type who peaked in highschool and is in rapid decline. Not to mention a scumbag. Dale considers him a friend.
>>213018183cope. I live in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country and I'm so attractive that I was pulling steady puss even when I was a brokie riding couches in my early 20s. seethe.
>>213016163No, lucky and his clan are the white trash.
