Missing: King Of The Hill

Before leaving for work today, Colby and I watched a couple episodes of King Of The Hill that had been recorded on the DVR. These were a couple of early episodes, ones that I consider a little better than later episodes. I was really hoping that ABC would’ve picked it up after Fox canned it, but it doesn’t appear that this will happen. Anyhow, the point of this post was to share an email that I received from somebody a while back who shared many of my views and opinions about King Of The Hill.

A bunch of us are men and women, black and white, in our 30s and 40s. We have been watching “King of the Hill” since it debuted on the air 13 years ago. We maintain that “King” is not only the best animated series ever on primetime television, that in many ways it is a little bit better, really, than the “Simpsons” (although that is NOT to dog on the “Simpsons”), and that, in many ways, also, “King of the Hill” has actually been one of the best situation comedies on television for the past 13 years. Really. One of the main aspects of “King of the Hill” that makes it an excellent show is, well, what makes any show or film good: good production, good direction, good writing and good acting. “King” covers all these areas on an above-average level, week after week, year and year. The show is about real people in real situations in a real town. You get a sense of real people, real businesses and homes and communities, and real life. Just everyday real life. And that’s what makes it special: it’s about real life. And there are messages, themes and morals–good ones, often, too. Hank Hill is Everyman, and the residents of Arlen represent a little bit of each of us, quirks and secrets and bad stuff and good stuff and all. The only negative we could come up with in regards to “King of the Hill” is that the morons and idiots at Fox have cancelled this show about seven years too early. We figure there’s still at least another seven years worth of stories to tell in Arlen, Texas. Don’t worry, Hank and Peggy and Bobby and everyone else — we love you, and Arlen and its citizens will always exist, just down the dusty road, somewhere in the Texas of our minds.