Posted on 10/30/2008 11:57:35 PM PDT by pissant
The animated mainstay "King of the Hill," the second longest lasting animated prime time cartoon, won't go beyond its 13-episode 14th season next year, Fox said.
The creation of Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, which will reach its 250th season this season, "King of the Hill" concerns a Texas family led by Hank Hill and a wife who looks suspiciously like Sarah Palin. Its well observed stories and relatively subtle humor increasingly set it apart from the more blunt and outlandish Sunday night Fox cartoons like "Family Guy," "American Dad" and the impending "Cleveland Show."
Cancellation is something that has long been hanging over the show's head, Judge said at press tour in July. "We have been completely cancelled and all different degrees of cancelled," he said. And now they're cancelled for good.
The news comes on the same day of the announcement that "American Dad" has been renewed for a fifth season.
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Too bad, one of the better conservative humor shows out there.
Yup.
It had a great run. 13 years? Wow.
and a wife who looks suspiciously like Sarah Palin.
ummm No.
It was a spin-off of Beevis and Butthead. I don’t know how conservative it was.
tell ya what?!
I’ve only seen a few episodes of King of the Hill, just like you. Great work. The only TV series I’ve ever watched and followed very consistently was Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Funny thing I’ve noticed with my grandparents vis a vis myself. The older I get the less TV I watch, and as my grandparents have gotten up there in years the more TV they watch. That’s more anecdotal than anything else, but I thought it was an interesting observation.
mike judge’s father is/was a history professor at my alma mater, fort lewis college. he is the most straight-laced guy you would ever meet. how he popped out a kid like mike is beyond me. that said, i will miss hank hill.
Compared to the obvious Dem/Obama love fest of the Simpsons, King of the Hill in it’s stories in everyday Arlen TX is pretty much conservative.
Truthfully, I;m getting sick and tired of the same old schtick from Family Guy’s Peter griffin with the predictable “this is like the time I was...”(kudos to South Park for noticing)
Trust me, I have watched them all. They take jabs at liberals and liberal causes all the time.
The liberal case worker who moves to Arlen from San Fran and drives a tiny car.
The Hills were a traditional family, football, guns, beer, saying what you mean. Proud of traditions. Proud of where they lived. Hard working. Patriotic, boy scout kind of stuff.
They made fun of the hippies, disrespectful lazy teenagers, college elites, artists, parents who don’t discipline their kids (oh that just means he likes you!), and a whole bunch of politically correct crap. The episode where Hank’s license has an “F” on it instead of “M” and the whole hassled of getting govt bureaucrats to make a simple change.
Taking subtle but good little jabs at union teachers and the political correctness at schools nowadays.
They definitely were conservative in nature.
Maybe Fox forsees 4 years of Obamanation and doesn’t want the hassles.
Sad to see that this great show is being cancelled.
When Mike J first did his Beavis and Butthead thing, Mr. Anderson, a late in age, no nonsense WW2 vet, Clashing against all odds with the idiot B&B boys, well, I just fell in love with its hilarity. I for one love B&B for what it really represented, I’ll also never forget the zany supporting charactors in King Of The Hill. “Office Space” was excellent too. I’d almost garantee I’d watch , and enjoy, anything MJ does in the future..
“Hank Hill” took on the problems of forcing a community to use inefficient “low flow” toilets that must be flushed multiple times to “clear the load”.
There are other such plots, King of the Hill questioned the liberal establishment.
And yet the pukific American Dad gets renewed.
“eavis and Butthead” also permitted them to get music videos on by performers like Lou Reed, Dick Dale, and the Cramps, that otherwise would never have been aired on MTV. It also gave them an opportunity to slam some of the content of performers that were being pushed by the network.
King of the Hill is too good, I bet a cable network picks it up.
It is already being shown on FX and local stations.
I mean a cable network that will pay them to produce new shows.
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