The Animation Nation- King of the Hill Season 14 Review

On this episode @Travis_156 reviews King of the Hill Season 14

Episode Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Animation Nation.
We take a look animation across a multitude of fandoms.
Today we're taking a look at not Justice League Unlimited.
Like I said at the end of last episode, but
because we've been on fire watch here. Because we've been
on firewatch here, I ended up yesterday we're out of

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evacuation for wildfire here. So I watched all the episodes
of King of the Hill season fourteen, and I don't
even think I've watched all the episode to King of
Hill before that either, So this is I watched saw
obviously I know the players and but the whole concept,
but no, I don't think I have before that watched

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the entire thing. I'm pretty sure I didn't, but I
wanted to check it out, and I blew through the
ten episodes in the season yesterday and I thought, why
not talk about it here? So we'll get back to
Justice Leage Unlimited was also supposed to do a season
eight recap podcast with Chris Balga from Marvel Alliance, but
unfortunately this weekend Elson last minute had to go on

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a flight for a funeral and it's in another province,
so I had to be Dad Duty. Luckily, Chris was
very reasonable about me not being able to make it,
which appreciate you for that, Chris. So yeah, I watched
King of Hill, ready to talk about it. Before we
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well before I jump into King of the Hill, the
prelude before, there's a wildfire going on in the town

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next to us. Up to a little bit of my
town has been evacuated. It will be really funny listeners
as we've only got this new house two weeks ago,
or something like this to happen. We have insurance, of course,
but still the market is tear so getting in the
house is always the tough thing. Let's just hope the

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wind is good today. Yesterday when I walked out in
the back air yesterday evening, it all could smell smell
like trees round fire and we were advised to be
prepared to evacuate the small climber area which we were
in last night. Nothing happened. Basically eighteen twenty to thirteen

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hundred cps Highway ore coulm seconds in that area would
have to evacuate, and anything eighteen twenty going forward already
had to evacuate, so we were prepared to evacuate. We
didn't have to evacuate, thankfully. Yesterday Oliver is at daycare
which is not closed, which is run by my cousin,
first cousin, so that's always great. And Allison does that work.

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And I'm working too on munch break right now. I
have no issues. The internet still working fine. And I
go out from back there today and it does not
smell like fire is like twenty feet away from me.
Just smells like nice, not too bad comparative, like, yeah,
it's it's crazy, it's and there's not a whole lot

(05:09):
of wildfires on this island, to be honest with you.
There was a big one around my home area. Oh
in the nineties. Yeah, in the nineties, And yeah, there
hasn't been a whole lot that it would be the
first thing that leads to news if it was. So. Yeah,

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and there's two fires burning and they're like fifty hectares apart,
and hopefully they don't connect. That's kind of the problem.
But we have water bottomers going out. I'm fairly cabinet,
especially with the wind today, and hopefully it doesn't change.
The wind doesn't change. That is something that tends to
happen on the small island in the Atlantic Ocean. So
let's just cross our fingers that that's not something that

(05:50):
ends up happening in this case. And it's all positive
for me. So we don't have to leave anymore. I
don't really want to go anywhere. We would go to
my cousins, but you know, I do have time, so
I was like, why not record my episode now instead
of later this evening, So this is my lunch break,
So let's jump into this now with King of the Hill. So, yeah,
there was a pretty long break from the last time

(06:15):
this show aired to what we have now. So there's
ten episodes in this season. It was obviously covered by Hulu,
and it precedes the events of season thirteen, which I
can thoroughly admit I did not watch all of that,
so I wouldn't have known. But two thousand and eight
was the last time this show was on. So and

(06:37):
this got your standard twenty three twenty four episode. It
does build on it. You can tell here the last
episode Hank discovers Bobby's like skill for meat and stuff. Yeah,
so we're jumping into season fourteen, and off the top,
I will say I enjoyed this. It was pretty fun.

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Some of the voices didn't sound the greatest. Bobby's was
still Bobby's, which I loved, but some of the some
of the voice acted and Hank and Peggy sounded fine.
Dale sounded a little rough. But now I'm thinking back
on it, and the voice actor passed away, you can
tell why. John Redcord sounded perfect. Bill sounds great. Boom

(07:20):
Hower you can never understand him anyway. So yeah, that
was the main cast, and I was wondering if we'd
see some characters, and we did see some some other
ones we did not see, so yeah, I'll just jump
in to talk about this now. So overall, essentially the
story is of Hank and Peggy returning from selling propane

(07:46):
and propane accessories. They basically went to the Middle East
to do this, and he came back to They had
this compound that they lived in that was I don't

(08:06):
know the best way to put it. It was basically a
nineteen fifties American subdivision in in present time. So yeah,
it was it was smart thing to do because you now,
Hank didn't like technology back in the day, and now

(08:27):
he's a fish out of water for all the new
technology as well. So but he has expanded him. Hank
has grown in a character quite a bit compared to
the others. Like they they left, they went to Saudi Arabia.
What is what the place was now that I think
about it, just to Bill basically a retirement. Next day,

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I was hoping it was because Buck Strickland sold pro
Paane Strickland propane to them, But no, and they come
back and we have Bobby runs his own runs his
own restaurant. He is fifteen percent owner with the Wassana Sans,
And I'm this is where my knowledge. I wouldn't have
known those characters were in the previous seasons unless they've

(09:10):
mentioned it after Like I was essentially blissfully unaware. Like
I didn't see any I don't remember any episodes with
those guys. So yeah, it that was the main thing there.
So they're all on their separate past. The one frustrating
thing about that whole thing is what do I do
remember from the old King of Hill is that all

(09:30):
the stories were in the same area, and because now
we're jumping from Bobby's restaurant to whatever Hank and Piggy
you're doing most of the time in their area. So
normally you'd have something that in your hit that with
tie these together, but oftentimes it's just two different episode.
The story's going on in the episode, and they don't

(09:51):
converge at any time. But again, I do like Bobby
having his own thing. He's robalishans like, it's like a
Japanese inspired restaurant with also American fusion to the two
of his cultures of his childhood, he says, And he
got a cool shoe shoe shift named Emilio. That's another

(10:13):
interesting character in this a new universe. There's a couple
and we'll get into a few of them. So let's
take our only at break of the evening before we
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let's jump into this and talk about a few of
the episodes, and I'll be brief on some and more
elaborate and others, depending on which ones I liked. So
the first episode is a Return of the King, and
like I said, this takes place I want to say
eight years after, so that that kind is long as

(11:06):
our thought, but it takes place eight years after the
end of the original show. And like I said, Hank
and Peggy were in Saudi Arabia and then they come
back to Ireland, and yet it's not the same Ireland
that they knew before, and so it's very funny. Essentially,
I thought Peggy has his truck in storage and all

(11:29):
that time they have a uber guy, Muhammad, and Peggy
tries to speak Saudi Arabia like Arabic to him, and
he doesn't want to have anything to do with that.
He's like really confused. And I do love how the
people back in Sai area would like refer to Peggy
as the angry wife. Hilarious and on the plane to

(11:52):
Peggy's telling everyone to Hank has been on the plane
for a long time in the bathroom trying to pee
and his near a Urethra is not letting him do it,
and she just tells her of playing absolutely mortifying for Hank. Hanks,
could you please stop that. And somebody rent at Hank's
house while he was gone. You see it in the title.
His name is Brian Robertson and he shows up every
once in a while with the guys, not a whole lot,

(12:16):
though I wish it was more because Keith Davidson voices him.
But he does show up I want to say at
least four of the episodes, because he does come with
a son in soccer episode and stuff. And that's another Really,
that's one of my favorite episodes of the Whole Show.
A whole Revival, I guess we'll call it. So yeah,

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we have Bobby in running his restaurant. Everybody's there, all
these young people like loving his food. They really turn
off the fact he's not going to college. But he's
twenty one and he has his own restaurant and he
listens to his shoesef chef and turns down the temperature
two degrees so he can get out of there. They

(12:59):
asked him to go to the party and he says
no first because he has to do all the dishes,
like being super responsible, which is great to see from Bobby.
And then he goes out. After he meets up with
Amber and they he hits it up. He's really cool
with her. His like chill demeter really works well for
adult Bobby and his comedy and his chef ability. And

(13:19):
she goes home with him and then she basically is like, yeah,
this is one time thing. You gotta get out of there.
At one point, Bobby butt dials her Peggy while he's
having sex with the girl, and Peggy's like screaming and
he she calls back and was like voicemail and yeah,
it's funny to me. So yeah, that essentially we get

(13:40):
caught up. We Hank goes and sees the guys at
the Alleyway boom Hoower First Dale used to be was
mayor for a time for I think thirty six hours
before he was removed from office, we'll say, and by

(14:01):
his own self, he went an election denial spree essentially,
and Brian, the guy who rent the house, and Bim
Mauer both revealed that they voted for him. And then
we find Bill and Bill is stuck in the house.
He's been there since COVID. He doesn't want to leave.
He can get everything delivered to him, and Thank's like,
we'll get you back on track Bill and goes off

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and he's like, can you please take it Peggy to
the window. Bill is super weird on Peggy and this
last season, this revival season. So at some points too,
Hank and Peggy wonder if they should have went to
they should have went to went back to Saudi Arabia,
and that becomes the thing that's the potential for him.
In a couple episodes, so Hank's grilling back home, Bobby

(14:50):
shows up, they shake a hand. He's like, come here
and give you this old man a big handshake. And
then Bobby wants a grill obviously possess his and stay
at shots. And then we saw the thinging the trailer
about that, and yeah, everybody like they used to meet.
Bill smells to me and he comes out because he
can smell it, and everyone's like yay Bill, and Bill

(15:13):
looked like a gandalf, a giant giant gandalf. Also, John
Redcorn and Nancy have this like realtor like fix off
home show in Ireland, and I don't know if they're
together again or not. I'm not one hundred percent sure
about that. So yeah, it was it was. It was fun. Ah.

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I liked that. It was a good way to jump
back and like I said, a couple of voices were
a little different, but for the most part this that
was a good way to start the season. The next
one is the Beer Story. I won't talk too much
about that. That's essentially that both plots do intertwined as
Bobby and Hey have a beer competition. Hank puts in

(16:02):
his own beer. He's trying to find a hobby for
after retiring, and he finds it and in beer making beer,
he makes a good brew first one and one like
the Alma beer they used to drink but they don't
make anymore, and or it's like Almo A lot of
the guys say. Bobby thinks it's really like just a
blaand beer and he wants to make his own or

(16:24):
make it a little bit better. And yeah, he goes
in this the restaurant like spatters him, including Shane and
his father, but basically Bobby hest Wigan and they go
through the whole thing. I do like how Joseph and
Dale spy and separate judges to try and further beau

(16:45):
both of them a Babby and Hank's side, respectively. So
it's an enjoyable episode. There's that much to the story here,
although it is to basically just Hank trying to find
a habby from being retired, and I expect that's what
a lot of people go through and winter. At the
end and getting judged, Hank pulls his beer because he said, like, yeah,
I could have, Like, ultimately, this should have been a

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time I spent with Bobby and my son doing this,
and I was too stubborn thing I couldn't learn anything.
He definitely knows a lot, and he's like, I'm pulling
my beer out, and then Bobby does the exact same
thing with his and then they both sit down after
and get each other to try the beers that they
both decided like they wanted to do before they got feedback,
and they both don't like each other's beers, but that's okay,

(17:27):
and Piggy loves both, and Piggy's getting quite drunk. So yeah,
that was the beer story. That was a okay episode.
It was a nice father son in moments there that
we didn't get a whole lot from Hank and Bobby,
but that is what makes Hank's character good in the
previous iteration, So the third episode is Bobby gets grilled,

(17:49):
so Bobby essentially is accused of cultural appropriation because of
this was one of my least favorite episodes. Hank and
Piggy and they all go to the Dale and Nancy
go to the George Bushmam. That was just so boring,
and Dale just spamn off conspiracies the whole time. This
is apparently the first episode that the new voice actor

(18:12):
was doing the voice of Dale, because he didn't do
all the lines in six episodes, but some of them
is some so, uh, I didn't notice that much of
a difference in Dale, to be honest with you, I
just found he said it a little older, which is
not the worst thing. I guess it just took me
a while to get used to it. Yeah, there's not

(18:33):
much to that. Essentially, Hank supports Bobby Bobby without it
to use charcoal and to grill the bitter flavor, and
Hank's mortified. He thought he set him up with a
good propane system. So moving on, we'll go to the
next episode here Chore Money, Chore Problem. So this is

(18:55):
about an app that Boomhower uses to do chores for
handyman toards for people whenever he wants to, and Hank
loves it because he had he's still trying to find
something to do after retirement. He goes and does the
work while boom howerd taks to the people and it
seems to be a good gig. Boomhoer doesn't mind to
work as much as Hank does, and eventually boom Hower

(19:16):
gets hurt a concussion. Hank takes over and he realizes
that boom Hower's customers are giving him five star ratings
because he taxed them too. Not only does the do
the handywork, but he gets personal and he encounters a
couple that's having a hard time with a kid. I
could have when they first had a new baby. I
definitely could relate to that at one point, and Hank
taxs them, tries to relate to him, gives him a

(19:36):
personal story of Peggy, and they end up posting that
on their YouTube. Peggy gets mortified, but not for a reasons.
Do you think it's because Hank won't share anything with her,
like personal like feelings like that, And Hank's like, I'm
from a different generation. He opens up and shares that
he's scared a bit retirement and all that, and then
he's like, I don't do that, That's not me and
he goes to the band and she's like thank you, and

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then they have this is a really cute moment for
two of them, and they decide not like we're gonna
have to talk about it to get get along. And
I loved it. I loved it. Thought it was great.
And then in the be Well on Bobby's side, he
finds out that Connie and Chane are dating, but they're
in an open relationship eat HM or E and H

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or something like that, and Connie tries to set him
up with one of her friends and he doesn't might
have anything to do with it. When she als she
wants is a casual relationship, he just basically runs away.
So yeah, that was an okay episode. Probably my favorite
of the of the season is New Reffentile and this
is where Hank becomes a soccer riff and he doesn't

(20:39):
mind tell anybody because he's always been against soccer. Him
and all his friends. They make fun of it and
he's like, that would make me a hypocrite Peggy, so
he tries to do it on the download just makes
Peggy super hot and they have six several times because
he's doing this, and Dale and Bill start to catch
out when Dale starts to catch out or something up
and brings Bill into it and think that he's five

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because he plays soccer. And on the other side of things,
Bobby's trying to buy a car and asks everyone like
should I get help? People are telling him getting his
mother's help because he's too nice. His mother even says that,
and Bobby goes in and says like, nope, I'm gonna
get the deal. He goes in with the right information,
ready to get the deal, but then he gets swindled
by an old man to take a horse, and the
horse is very friendly, it's pretty nice to him and Joseph.

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Ultimately they give the horse to John red Cord, who
takes it because he thinks that him and Joseph will
go riding out of one day, and Joseph loves the horse,
so maybe that will actually happen. And the other side
of it, Bill and Dale kidnap Hank just before the
big soccer game that he's supposed to do, like the
one in Ireland or one in Dallas wanted two and

(21:44):
the Mayor's there and everything, and ultimately Hank tricks Dale
into thinking that he's a double agent for USA, and
he lets me and thanks for his service, and Hank
leaves is like and Peggy drives him super fast to
get there. He gets there and helps. He goes to
rest the game and boom Hower basically got it turned
into UFC plus football plus wrestling and everyone's loving it.

(22:10):
He box ways it gets is not to be in Texas.
The brisk are. Like I said, there isn't anything super
super great. Bobby gets a new girlfriend named Willow who
I think her last name is Landry. I think that

(22:33):
her because she joins him in fantasy camp for Dallas
Cowboys and she takes Doman Jerry Jones's desk. But she
fired her father, and Hank at the earlier part of
it recommitions that the only thing he didn't agree with
is he fired Tom Landry. And that's when she said, yeah,
he fired my father too. He fired my father, and
that's what I thought her telling her that her telling

(22:54):
him that she was Tom Landry's kid, and I'll be
really interested to see or grandkid. I can't remember now.
I think grandkids. I'll be very interested to see if
that's the case. She's really good at football. I do
like that one that fantasy can't fantasy camp one Bobby
tries to do like just spend some time with his dad,
but no, not the case, because a customer that's his

(23:16):
favorite customer in the same agent as his dad dies,
so h and Peggy tries to get the community together
by you having like a bookmobile in the front of
her house that you can take books on it and
bring them back. Books. I'll have the big bugs. So
it infests the whole neighborhood with bib bugs and then they
burn out the books and apparently this is that that's
the last episode to feature Johnny Herwick as the voice

(23:38):
of Dale, so that's something to note about. Also, there's
the episode where Bill lives to Bill's friends, but offinds
of people at the barbershop and he tells them all
that he helped Haye who has medical problems. All that
and Peggy's his wife, and it snowballs out of control
to the point where he makes a funeral. He says
she died. They had a big funeral party. But he

(23:58):
has such a nice warming speed Peggy, who is down
herself after getting rejected from a job, that she just
lets us slide Mark away. There's one about Cahn and
his wife. I don't can't remember her name even though
I've seen her min I think it's her name. And
they're actually divorced. They have a big thirtieth wedding party.
They're actually divorced, a sly kind of sleeping in the grage,

(24:21):
but everybody finds out. Yeah, and then we see Bobby
and Connie growing. Crook closes is another element of this
whole season. So yeah. This the final episode is one
with uh a business that boom. Howard starts a while

(24:42):
new wild hog killing and Hank is very reluctant to
invest because of his money. And then he goes attacked
to the one person that he thinks would know business
better than him, Bad Strickland. Bat Strickland, it was nice
to see him then and tells him that he doesn't
need to be involved in this. You're smart, like, don't
put rest your mind. Then he gets involved and the
stock goes up crazy and Hank regrets it, and then

(25:04):
Hank buys it on the hand on the handheld device
story and the hand on the handheld device and then
it goes to zero. But Peggy sold her all hers
just just before it crashed because of her Hank here
and Hank's voice in the head saying like this is
too good be true. It's all happening too fast. So
she got out and they got a whole lot of money,
and at the end they invest in John Redcorn's business,

(25:29):
which is John Redcorn's Bread Corn. And this was the
last episode with Jonathan Joss as the voice of John Redcorn.
And I hope he doesn't go away because he's set
up to be a little bit more involved in the
second season with him, with him investing in his company.
I don't think I even forgot any episodes in this.
Oh good Hank is in an episode two where Hank

(25:51):
mentors good Hank. He goes to a basically a Andrew
Tait style man club and yeah, that's hilarious. What a
riff find out. I love it, but I don't know it.
It was okay to see them with the relationship, and
the flashbacks of Cotton were nice to involve Cotton, but
it was just one of my okay episodes. So it

(26:13):
was the season ten of the season story fourteen of
King of the Hill. If you are a fan of
King of Hill, I recommend watching this. I don't think
they deviated much from the original people and what they
did and with what their motivations were to just grew
a little bit as people. And yeah, I would recommend
that if you're a fan of the show or if
you're looking to get into the show. They do a

(26:34):
good job. It's basically a fresh new premise with Bobby
being grown instead of stuff like The Simpsons does where
they just pick up and keep everything the same year
over and over and over again. I did like this,
so good thumbs up for me for check this out.
If won't get a rating out of ten, but it'll
get a thumbs up. So I've checked this out if
you enjoy King the Hill, and next week we will

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be back with more Justice League limit. Until then, see everyone,