King of the Hill--sitcom

[DRZinn]

A guy breaks into your house, but you don't have a gun. How are you going to shoot him?

Good question.

 

[Farnham]

<--- Shackleford, Rusty Shackleford...

 

[Eric Bryant]

The show is offensive. All it does is reinforce the stereotype of the dumbass, redneck, bible thumpin', narrow minded southerner. People believe that garbage.

I'm from the Midwest, so what I don't know or understand about the South could fill many books. But I see little that's offensive about KotH - in fact, I see characters that remind me a lot of myself, my friends, and my family. If I had children, it'd be one of the very few shows I'd let them watch.

I recall catching the very first episode while in college, and when it opened up with the guys drinking beer and standing around a truck with a raised hood, I figured this was the first show to actually catch the true essense of the suburbs


DALE: I know what's wrong with your truck. It's your quote unquote pollution controls. I heard on talk radio you don't even need 'em, they're just an egghead government plot.
HANK: How is cutting down on pollution a government plot, Dale?
DALE: Open up your eyes, man. They're trying to control global warming. Get it? "Global?"
HANK: So what?
DALE: That's code for U.N. commissars telling Americans what the temperature's going to be in our outdoors. I say let the world warm up, let's see what Boutros Boutros Ghali Ghali has to say about that. We'll grow oranges in Alaska!
HANK: Dale, you giblet-head, we live in Texas! It's already 110 in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter, I'm going to kick your ass!