Originally published at: The King of the Hill cast is about to start table reads for the upcoming Hulu reboot | Boing Boing
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Good news, tellyawhat. It’s a smart move to let the characters age, since everyone is anticipating this as a true reunion.
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The time jump also gives them a number of possible ways to retool or update Dale’s character since red-baseball-cap-wearing anti-government conspiracy theorists don’t seem nearly as funny or harmless today as they did during the show’s original run.
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that’s SWEET LADY propane to you!
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King of the Hill is one of my favorite shows. I still watch it all the time. However, even though it had 13 seasons, I feel that the show has been severely unappreciated.
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Don’t forget “reckless gun nut” in that description!
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One funny approach would be if they took Dale’s character in the exact opposite direction for the revival. Like, maybe at some point in the last X years he underwent a spiritual journey so now instead of being a right-wing nut whose eccentricities are barely tolerated by his friends he’s now some hippie moonbat whose eccentricities are barely tolerated by his friends.
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That could work. As long as it doesn’t sink to the…humor, maybe?…that Judge was trying with The Goode Family.
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I thought he was killed in an industrial accident on that government job? /s
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Dale always came off as an anti-government nut - but not necessarily a right wing one. I don’t recall him ever mentioned Democrats or Republicans. I think he thought of both sides as “wings on the same bird”. I remember him finding kinship with John Redcorn because they both got screwed by the government.
Not sure if I’d consider him an anarchist in the old show, but I could see him embracing something like that in the new one. Hopefully they don’t go full Q-Anon with him or what ever. As you said, “don’t seem nearly as funny or harmless today”.
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His personality quirks didn’t necessarily align with what the Republican party was in the 1990s but they were very much in line with the American right-wingers of 2023. He just got there first.
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I am curious if they’ll be bringing Luanne back, since her voice actress, unfortunately, won’t be available…
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Considering Luanne’s husband is also dead, I hope not. I know they voice actors can do a pretty good job, but I feel like having someone who’s not quite Brittney Murphy and not quite Tom Petty would just make me miss them both more than I already do.
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Hank trying to relate to Luanne and Lucky’s zoomer child, old millennial Bobby & the Gribbles dealing with 23 And Me being a thing. There’s all sorts of potential for interesting stories with the time skip.
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