I love this show, and I have a strong feeling this isn’t going to add anything to it. Have any of these “new” seasons for long canceled shows ever been good?
with a different family dynamic maybe they’ve got some new ideas for it, but idk Hank was always like a liberal’s conception of what a moderate conservative would be like if they actually existed and I feel like there’s going to be some extremely cringe and out of touch commentary in this season as a result of the writers trying to square that circle with modern conservatives.
or maybe they’ll knock it out of the park and conservatives will be frothing about how Hank went woke because the show perfectly dissects their worldview and shows them how pathetic they are.
Yeah the hank hill “normal” republican doesnt exist anymore (or never has tbh)
They exist in like Canada, Australia, UK instead now as they also shift right but try to do it non-Trumply.
if Bobby doesn’t have some kind of LGBTAI+ arc, it’s going to be really mid
i will die on this hill (pun inescapable if not necessarily intended): bobby should be trans. the voice actor is a woman and it would fit perfectly with his character’s constantly bouncing off the gendered guardrails of small-town texas life in the original series. that’s a perfectly clear narrative arc.
Seriously. I saw Bobby looking like some hot couch guy and I’m gonna be real mad if he doesn’t have a trans arc.
the payoff of an adult bobby bringing back “that’s my purse! i don’t know you!” would be hilarious
Excuse me, it’s Bobbi now
It would be just as valid for Bobby to be not trans but still struggle with gender and masculinity. Gender is a struggle for the whole of society, even cis genders.
bobby should be trans. the voice actor is a woman
Aren’t most young boy characters voiced by women? Like Ash Ketchum and all that
Timmy turner lmao
All animated children are Kristen Schaal, yes.
Even in the original run the show had completely lost its juice by the time they added Lucky. Big fan of the show but I’m going to pretend this doesn’t exist and continue live in my pristine mind palace where the show ended after season 7.
i disagree
Might be different if you didn’t grow up in a town very similar to Arlen, but those first several seasons felt like a documentary of so many people I actually knew, but then it just kinda became disconnected from the setting and started to feel like a more generic cartoon set in Everywhere USA. Those first several seasons though are straight up magical in their ability to accurately channel the feeling of small towns in that region at that specific time.
No i hated it at first because i was a teenager and didn’t get satire and it’s like why would i watch a show about my dad. But that’s what makes it good, it really nails that cracker suburbia. And i disagree it never lost its magic
The new season for x men 97 was pretty dang good, I thought
That’s true.
bobby get tiktok
The last seasons of KOTH weren’t that great plus Dale’s VA passed away, so I don’t have high hopes. At least they aged the characters, so they can’t completely rely on nostalgia.
But now that I think about it, if Hank’s retired, then wouldn’t most episodes be about Bobby? There’s only so much you can do with Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer since you can’t use Dale, and Dale is the one who drives the plot in the latter seasons. Having Joseph and Connie be his coworkers would be completely contrived, so I guess the characterization of Bobby’s coworkers would be what makes or breaks the new season?
Edit: I saw the new intro. I laughed when Bill got Covid, so I guess they haven’t completely lost touch.
I will miss Dale. His VA died, and I’m not sure i can handle it without Dale.
I think I heard he was already recording some episodes before he died.
It’s a huge loss for sure. Rusty Shackleford is one of the best animated characters in the history of TV.
Pocket sand!
cries in Luanne
Oh, I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be good for libs to be reminded that they can’t call people slurs as they report their neighbors to ICE, because that would be uncivilized.
They’re going to have an episode with Khan getting taken by ICE, aren’t they?
The Beavis and Butthead reboot (both of them) were pretty good. Futurama was ok too, I still say “oh my yes, well that’s where you’re wrong!”
Mike Judge doesn’t seem to have lost his way too much. Doesn’t really do the “fuck cancel culture!” Thing. Still makes fun of chuds like he always has.
Apparently a new Phineas and Ferb is also coming out, felt completely ancient when I found out that the first episode of that came out in 2007, 18 years ago…
Crazy how both Phineas and Ferb have graduated and gotten jobs at Lockheed Martin now
Can anyone name one show revived for streaming that wasn’t forgettable at best??
Like there’s clearly a difference in quality and outcome between a show brought back from cancelation (on streaming or otherwise) and a show log finished being yanked from the grave. Futurama had too many banger endings to be the former. I still have a modicum of hope for the new gumball episodes.
Arrested Development had some great bits in the revived season 4. Tony Wonder, And As It Is Such, So Also As Such Is It Unto You
It still fell off though.
Started watching AD again and I gotta admit, even I was too hard on Season 4. I think we got ourselves all hyped up for the movie over the course of 6 or 7 years and when it wasn’t as good as the product in our heads, we turned our backs on it. Season 4 isn’t the magnum opus, it’s the Greatest Hits album/farewell tour, and it’s exactly as good as it needed to be.
…doesn’t excuse Jeffrey Tambor’s behavior, though. Or Jason Bateman and Will Arnett for defending him.
Does The Expanse count? Cause I loved every second of it.
Wait, we almost didn’t get the full show? Or are they planning on finishing the story?
E: just checked and Amazon picked it up after S3 and continued through S6. No confirmation on new seasons :(
Dont fuck up the ending of my favorite book series Amazon… just leave it alone.
This is why I’d rather read the books at this point. The show is good as it is I think, but from what little I spoiled of the last 3 books, I can see them turning it into a dumpster fire. They’ve already ruined Wheel of Time by season 2. I don’t see why people can’t just stick to the original material more.
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So much of the ending is almost… almost Lovecraftian. That I really don’t think they could do it justice.
This is What I’m getting at lol.
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I ruined what Holden becomes at the end for myself
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If I’m remembering the end of his story, thats kinda part of the Lovecraftian thing I was getting at.
It was mentioned earlier in this thread but the Beavis and Butthead reboot is pretty good.
But, I’m also a middle-aged man child, who thinks farts are funny.
the Party Down revival was actually pretty great
with bob and david maybe (essentially mr. show)
Hulu somehow ruined Futurama worse than comedy central, and with their weird bans on stuff like alcoholic imagery, this is going to be a massive disappointment.
I try to keep in mind the old phrase “ain’t nothin’ so bad it ain’t good for somethin’”
…OK I’m pretty sure that’s just a Norwegian phrase that I calqued and then convinced myself was a thing people actually say. But the point is in any case that although I’m not expecting a new season of KOTH to be good television – the new season of Futurama wasn’t IMO – making an animated TV show is still a collaborative, semi-chaotic and laborious effort between loads of people. The people working on this KOTH reboot, we can only hope, will take the skills they built and lessons they learned from it, and use them to make something better. For the rest of us, if we don’t like it, we can just call it officially-licensed fanfiction, or some slop to beget more slop in the form of reviews and overly-long video essays.
"ain’t nothin’ so bad it ain’t good for somethin’
Well you’ve anglicized it well enough, that goes without saying
That being said, I say good luck for the show Ig.
The phrase in Norwegian is aldri så galt at det ikke er godt for noe, for reference. Usually translated as “every cloud has a silver lining” but to me the vibes are different.
I think the phrase with the closest meaning in english would be “every dog has its day”.
another doggo: even the sun shines on a dog’s ass some days
If you say so.
I wanna see Hank sniffing propane like Saw huffing rhydo…
The new Beavis and Buttheads seasons are fairly decent. Have actually never seen King of the Hill so no idea if this will be the same.
