Posted on 09/13/2009 8:07:49 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Tonight Fox will run the series finale of King of the Hill, the saga of Hank Hill and his gang of associates living in their exurb paradise of Arlen, Texas....
The beauty of King is that while it pokes fun at Hank’s myriad foibles, it understands the creepy nature of those who dedicate their lives to interfering in the lives of others, always claiming the moral high ground yet inevitably maximizing their own personal power and advantage. From snooty school guidance counselors to pompous college professors to lazy municipal clerks, Hank is constantly beset by nimrods trying to force him to conform to their personal vision of how he should be...There were probably more than a few Hank Hills at Lexington and Concord....
The beauty of King is that it made no apologies for the Hanks of the world. Liberals with a wide range of life experience living on the coast tend to think of those parts of America that stretch between Manhattan and Manhattan Beach as a sinister breeding ground of banjo-strumming inbreds aching to drag their terrified meterosexual victims off to a revival meeting. Not quite – if you really want to take a risk, hang with a liberal icon. Hank Hill wouldn’t have left a passenger in his truck at the bottom of a pond – but he wouldn’t have been heading to the beach with a gal pal for a personal pork barrel project in the first place. If your daughter’s car broke down on the side of the road at night, you’d pray for one of the Hank Hills of this country to be the one to pull up beside her...
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
One of my all-time favorite TV shows. So long, Hank....
Might be of interest to the South Park conservatives
I guess it has been on the air, for what, 12-13 years now?
Happy Trails” to Hank Hill and the gang.
Love the episode where he sees Ronaldus Magnus and says “I miss that man”. I teared up.
Me too.
yep...
now look at what lurks in the White House...
:(
You know, I was always hesitant to start watching King of the Hill because I thought it would be another lefty parody of what a conservative family looked like (and here I live in Southern California, so I’m not even a Texan!).
Boy was I amazed when I started watching it! I haven’t watched the show regularly in a long time, but I occasionally catch it on reruns.
All of the characters have their foibles — but they love their country, their fellow man, and their common sense always triumphs against the “grand architects” of government and liberalism.
Very endearing show.
The show could really be real in some areas of Texas. I swear I think I know some people exactly like those characters - I love the junior high school being named after Tom Landry...
God Bless the Hank Hill’s of this world.
Might be of interest to the South Park conservatives
or Rusty Shackleford! ;)
Of course “the names are changed to protect the innocent”. Thank you Sgt. Joe Friday.
Extraordinarily well done show.
I have given their new attempt at doing virtually the same show from a liberal perspective (The Goode Family) every chance. I watched every episode waiting for it to 'find its legs' and found it painfully unfunny.
A little Hank wisdom:
Bobby, I didn't think I'd ever need to tell you this, but I would be a bad parent if I didn't. Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.
I love that!
I’ll miss this show.
I think FR has more than its share of ‘Hank Hills,’ who have been great online help to some of us single women out here.
I might be a mother, but I'm still a woman and I know a girl repellent when I see one. Hank, I want grandchlidren. Fix this.
Love that show.
Hey Hank, can I have the propane and propane accessories?
I think the quote was “I miss voting for that man”
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