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A quick question related to another Fox animated series.

I used to love King of The Hill but fell off after a certain point, did that show stay consistently good until it's end?
 
Dom Cruise said:
A quick question related to another Fox animated series.

I used to love King of The Hill but fell off after a certain point, did that show stay consistently good until it's end?
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KoTH had some weaker episodes in the later seasons, but I felt it stayed consistently good during its run, at least compared to other shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons.

Season 13 was probably the best point to end the show, especially when Brittany Murphy died a few months after the series finale aired.
 
The Pink Panther said:
lol. Least favorite of season 6 for me. Story felt off.
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Let's just say it moved me. To a bigger house!

I totally get the complaints though as the parts involving 'the critic' character do feel off compared to the rest of the season. Given the quality of the episodes that were in season 6 being last is still a high bar. I'd say the worst for me were ep 03 (clip show) and ep 22 (bleeding gums death).
 
Dom Cruise said:
A quick question related to another Fox animated series.

I used to love King of The Hill but fell off after a certain point, did that show stay consistently good until it's end?
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I think KotH got a little formulaic and flanderized towards the end. Every episode goes something like this: Bobby's into something weird. Hank get angry. Bobby cries. Hank feels bad. Hank comes around and supports Bobby. There's nothing wrong with that formula, per se, but its one thing when its slice of life things like video games and rock music, and its another thing when its "Bobby Becomes a Klezmer Musician" or "Bobby Joins a Jai Alai Team."
 
Jub-Jub said:
Let's just say it moved me. To a bigger house!

I totally get the complaints though as the parts involving 'the critic' character do feel off compared to the rest of the season. Given the quality of the episodes that were in season 6 being last is still a high bar. I'd say the worst for me were ep 03 (clip show) and ep 22 (bleeding gums death).
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well yeah, the clip show is objectively the worst, duh, i'm talking actual EPISODES here

Nah. I like The Critic scenes because I like The Critic, I just think some parts of the story did indeed lack the fine-tuning that most episodes did especially give how the episode makes it seem like it's a Burns episode even though (if I remember correctly) the plot doesn't shift to him until the beginning of the second act. I like cohesion when I watch me Simpletons episodes.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
I think KotH got a little formulaic and flanderized towards the end. Every episode goes something like this: Bobby's into something weird. Hank get angry. Bobby cries. Hank feels bad. Hank comes around and supports Bobby. There's nothing wrong with that formula, per se, but its one thing when its slice of life things like video games and rock music, and its another thing when its "Bobby Becomes a Klezmer Musician" or "Bobby Joins a Jai Alai Team."
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True, but even late King of the Hill was nowhere near as bad as Zombie Simpsons or post-revival Family Guy.

Seasons 11-13 were much weaker compared to the first ten, but keep in mind that Season 11 was supposed to be the very last season and the episode where Luanne married Lucky was meant to be the series finale.

At the very last second, Fox renewed the series for two more seasons and unexpectedly at that. So now the writers had to produce two more seasons after the finale and with a reduced budget on top of it all.

That goes a long way into explaining why the last two seasons of King of the Hill were fairly weak and flanderized compared to the earlier seasons. A lot of episodes in Season 12 and Season 13 were based on scripts from earlier seasons that were rejected initially but still in the archives.

The infamous "Lost in MySpace" episode was written in 2005, but produced and aired in 2008.

Although, there were still a few gems in those seasons.

The episode "Lady and Gentrification" was ahead of the curve, since it's all about mocking pretentious hipsters/proto-SJW's and aired in 2008, before they became a national epidemic in the 2010's.
 
Ooh, best celebrity guest character? My money is a Star is Burns if that counts. If it doesn't count. My 2nd and 3rd choices would be Homer at the Bat and Brush with Greatness.
 
The best celebrity cameo is Michael Jackson's only because they didn't go "Wow Singer Michael Jackson", he just voiced a character that isn't related to him which I feel most celebrity guests should be doing.


The best one where they are playing themselves is Mark Hamill.
 
Meryl Streep is pretty good as Bart's girlfriend because she's good at toning her voice down to sound like a cute little girl that's passionate and diabolical at the same time.

When I first watched that episode, the "and you're just white trash" line caught me so off guard to hear this cute little voice say some funny ass shit like that. She did a pretty good voice-acting job in that episode. Most Simpsons guest stars have stilted delivery, but she was perfect.
 
jellycar said:
Michelle Pfeiffer's performance as Mindy Simmons is one of the greatest performances by a celebrity on the show. Stupid to put that episode on the list. What about the one where he is accused of groping the babysitter after trying to grab the gummy venus de milo?
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In a 2008 article, Entertainment Weekly named Pfeiffer's role as Mindy one of the 16 best guest appearances on The Simpsons. She also appeared on AOL's list of their top favorite guest stars on the show. Brett Buckalew of Metromix Indianapolis wrote that Pfeiffer "gives arguably the best celebrity guest-vocal performance in series history." Total Film's Nathan Ditum ranked her performance as the 15th best guest appearance in the show's history.

Just saying. Therefore that list has issues lol

Also gotta throw shout outs to Dustin Hoffman, Mark Hamill, Lucy Lawless, Meryl Streep, Jan Hooks, Johnny Cash, George Takei, and Betty White.
 
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