Is King of the Hill still accurate? (Garland, Richardson: movies, live)

[tcualum]

You're not missing anything. Why eat at Luby's, when like you said, Dallas has an awesome restaurant scene? I met my parents at Meso Maya on McKinney for her birthday last week and I had the worst trouble deciding what to order because there were way too many delicious things on the menu. I highly recommend their blueberry cake.

[Cinco Ranch]

Interesting thread, but to answer the OP, no king of the hill is not accurate or atleast not anymore. Texas as a whole has changed a lot since the late 90s/early 00s, lots of transplants and immigrants have moved here so Texas is really not much different from California or New York these days

[Babe_Ruth]

Originally Posted by edwinpa7

King of the hill..NO IT'S NOT ACCURATE. KING OF THE HILL SET TEXAS BACK TO THE 50S.
Typical Hollywood. Making Texas seem backward

I understand your skepticism about having outsiders depicting working/lower-middle class Texas.. but I don't think the series made the Hills appear backward (?)
Hank is a loving, responsible dad.. it's a tight knit neighborhood.. and if anything, Khan is the immigrant hostile to gracious hosts (not the other way around).
Even the goofy characters (Bill & Dale) are still likeable & depicted as basically good hearted. I thought King of the Hill was a fair, not demeaning, depiction.. my opinion.

[JJG]

KotH is accurate for small town Texas, for sure...

[Trainwreck20]

The show is not meant to show actual people and how they act. It is brilliant at taking small facets of people, enlarging them, and then focusing on the drivers for those facets. The setting in 'small town Texas' is almost irrelevant other than a backdrop.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by Babe_Ruth

I understand your skepticism about having outsiders depicting working/lower-middle class Texas.. but I don't think the series made the Hills appear backward (?)
Hank is a loving, responsible dad.. it's a tight knit neighborhood.. and if anything, Khan is the immigrant hostile to gracious hosts (not the other way around).
Even the goofy characters (Bill & Dale) are still likeable & depicted as basically good hearted. I thought King of the Hill was a fair, not demeaning, depiction.. my opinion.

Yeah, Hank is great. He's a good, honest, and mostly reasonable guy.

Compare Hank to other Cartoon Dads who are bumbling fools. Hank shows that you can be a working-class guy without a fancy education and not be forced to be a Homer Simpson. Hank has the best head of anyone in the show in a triumphantly average sort of way. Common sense.

KOTH offers one of the best depictions of working-class people. You laugh with them, more than at them. The characters are treated gently, they don't outright mock them, and they are treated with empathy when you do laugh at them, or more, rather chuckle.

The Characters flaws and exaggerated quarks are funny, just as they would be in real life, but the characters are more than these quarks.

The Texas element is also funny...It gets played for laughs both ways. Sometimes it is funny because of how absurd Texan's love of Texas is, other times the script is flipped....the episode where the guy from Boston visits for example.

Honestly, KOTH is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, cartoon or not IMHO.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by Babe_Ruth

I understand your skepticism about having outsiders depicting working/lower-middle class Texas.. but I don't think the series made the Hills appear backward (?)
Hank is a loving, responsible dad.. it's a tight knit neighborhood.. and if anything, Khan is the immigrant hostile to gracious hosts (not the other way around).
Even the goofy characters (Bill & Dale) are still likeable & depicted as basically good hearted. I thought King of the Hill was a fair, not demeaning, depiction.. my opinion.

Agree. It wasn't negative at all. And it did feel real.

It sure didn't seem like Richardson or Garland of the 70s. More like a small town of Corsicana's size.

[turf3]

"Accurate"?


"ACCURATE"?


It's an animated comedy cartoon.


That's like criticizing a Road Runner and Coyote cartoon because it shows the Coyote falling straight down when he runs off a cliff instead of in a parabola. I mean, come on.

[C24L]

Originally Posted by RJ312

I have lived in Texas since 2011 and I have not been to Luby's once since being here. I've never had anything against Luby's. There hasn't been an occasion where I thought that Luby's was what I desired most in that moment. Dallas has so many quality restaurants that Luby's just isn't a priority. Maybe I should make Luby's a priority this year.

I grew up enjoying Luby's.Its been quite a few years since ive been to one.Im sad that they are struggling big-time.I always want to go to Luby's when i go to one of the big Texas metros lol.

[ikoolu]

Saturdays you see the riding lawnmowers out all summer including me - i laugh my butt off when i look top and down the street and wave to everyone thinking i am Hank - i just need to add a sun shad to mine as i have to cup holders built in