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Summary: AWESOME!!!!!
Review: this show rocks. everyone should buy it. warning before buiying it: the government has but a secret micro chip into the dvd so they are watching you!
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Summary: The start of the best show on television.....
Review: While I have the DVD, I have yet to be able to watch it yet, so my commentary will here will be reserved for the episodes themselves. If you already love King of the Hill, then I probably don't need to go over why this series is so great, but for the uninitiated, or those on the fence, I will try to explain what makes one of the, if not the most, well made and writen show on television today. Unlike the souless "Family Guy" and the Simpsons of today, King of the Hill is more about characterization and subtle humor than anything else. There may not be as may laugh out loud moments, but thats not what its shooting for. The humor is not nearly as contemporary or absurdist as the previously mentioned shows either. The characters of KOH are not vehicles for running gags, but rather they are they gags themselves. In this way the show is a lot like the greatest sitcom ever, Seinfeld, in that what is happening may not be inherently funny, but it is funny because it is happening to characters we are familiar with and have developed an understanding of. There is a also lot of commentary in the series about normality, middle class America, and relationships between fathers and sons. In a nutshell, the show is about Hank's trying to achieve American "normalness" with every fiber of his being, his son Bobby's constant attempts to be anything but, and his wife Peggy's seemingly unending quest to prove herself better than everyone at most everything. Few shows have ever touched upon these subjects as poignantly as KOH, and few have developed such an effective characterization of its main "actors" as well. Unlike most other sitcoms, the characters in KOH are not caricatures (save perhaps one or two), but rather are at times complex and flawed. In short they are very human, despite the animated medium. Provided you are willing to give the series time to grow on you, and are not looking for rapid-fire thoughtless humor that will seem outdated in two years, then you should not be dissapointed in King of the Hill. As far as animated series goes, I'd rank KOH slightly below the peak earlier years of the Simpsons, slightly above Futurama, and light years ahead of Family Guy and, sadly, most of the current Simpsons episodes. Luckily for us KOH still does not seem to have started the downward spiral of most long running shows, lets just hope it stays that way.
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Summary: Great DVD set!
Review: Yep, it's a great set ...I tell you whut!
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Summary: The best kept secret on television!
Review: Yes - EVERYONE knows about the Simpsons. What most people don't know is that the for the last 7 years, Hank Hill and company have been riding shotgun on Sunday night. The show is laugh out loud funny. This first season was hysterical. The characters are three dimensional and the plots are good.
Picture a nice guy in his late 30s from small town in Texas. Grew up in a divorced family - raised by his war hero father - a man that is four feet tall because the Nazis blew off his shins. He married his high school sweetheart and lives next door to his best friends from high school - two fellow football players (a womanizer on disability and an army barber whose wife left him) and the team's manager (a conspiracy theorist exterminator whose wife is having an affair with an indian spirit healer). And one asian neighbor that was kicked out of Anaheim. He has a son who really isn't that athletic and loves fruit pies more than sports. The son's best friend - the nutcase's son - look ALOT like the indian spirit healer. Sounds depressing at first. The son's girlfriend is the asian neighbor's daughter. Sounds confusing? Nope. It's perfectly executed and - by the end of the first season - you feel like these could be real people. (Note for my family - I KNOW THEY AREN'T REAL!)
BUT - in the first two or three episodes alone - you come to love these people. They make you laugh :)
Buy it - enjoy it - just don't tell anyone!
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