TalKing of the Hill - To Spank, with Love
Added 2023-09-18 04:00:01 +0000 UTCThis month on TalKing of the Hill: it's spanking season, and Peggy's got a hankerin' for some spankerin'! When the vile Dooley finally crosses the line in Spanish class, Peggy stoops to using corporal punishment, and soon becomes the talk of the town. But after adopting the moniker of "Paddlin' Peggy," will she forget the Substitute Teacher of the Year she used to be? Listen in to find out what happens and hear scandalous information about Spatula Tuesday!
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Wild how many of us can remember being hit, but often forget the “reason” we were hit. I’m lucky that I was only ever hit a few times, and only by my parents, but I only remember what initiated it once. Got caught crawling out of my bedroom window in the middle of the night while going to see my friends. As it turned out using violence had the opposite effect on that problem.
Whitney Dziurka
2023-10-17 01:03:07 +0000 UTCSeconded, we have royalty (for some reason) here dammit! Also if you're legit looking for a Legion-esque experience for those of us who have not killed one (let alone fitty) men, there's a bar called Hero's Welcome on Main. Can't guarantee the same level of camaraderie over shared trauma, but they do have pool and don't allow wearing hats inside. Just missing some sad VLTs in the corner for the complete experience.
Stephen Kiazyk
2023-09-29 19:09:21 +0000 UTCMy high school's old principal, who thankfully retired the year before my freshman year, was the spitting image of the Jeter (sp?) the Beater. He was a big, stern old WW2 Marine who used to hang out at the VFW. Wanted to instill military discipline on the youngsters. Later I would work with his son, who loved KOTH. Once the son made an oblique, indirect reference to this episode, talking about how observant Mike Judge's eye is, and I knew exactly what he was talking about lol. Must have been a lot of those guys in schools in those days. I think I'm a year or two older than Bob and Henry so a lot of really bad beatings had gone away by the time I came around. But the teachers and admin like in my parents' time wouldn't only spank kids on the butts. Occasionally a boy would try to rebel and fight our Jeter then it was straight ass kicking time for the kid. My dad had adhd and he was choked in the principal's office for some minor offense. There was another teacher who was known to throw his keys at students, and he was a PE teacher so he had a huge wad of keys he'd throw as hard as he could. They all retired honored members of the community. Small town, post war golden age American values 🫡🇺🇲
Neil Harris
2023-09-23 19:46:43 +0000 UTCA little late to the party here but I had to share. This episode has always stuck with me and I appreciate how they ultimately come down on the right side of the issue. I was spanked as a child and it still has effects on me as a 32 year old adult. I hated it so much and when I knew it was coming I begged and pleaded, crying and screaming for my parents to spare me but they did it anyways. I learned from those experiences early on that I could not trust my parents because even at my most vulnerable moments they abused me and told me it was for my own good. I do believe this is one of many reasons I stayed closeted for so long. I didn’t see my parents as protectors, I saw them as cruel tyrants so of course I didn’t feel comfortable sharing with them my deepest anxieties. As an adult I am estranged from my family and I’m better for it. I’ve come to find that my intuitions about what was happening were correct and I wasn’t just a bad kid who deserved to be violated like that. I am much happier now but it took years to come to terms with it all.
Saya Clarke
2023-09-23 11:48:29 +0000 UTCIt's not VFW in Canada, It's the Royal Canadian Legion. 3 Laps every time you Canada wrong Bob.
Alex Forsyth
2023-09-22 00:45:24 +0000 UTCLiterally got tearful at the final send off. Goddamn, guys! 😭
VGreenGoblinV
2023-09-21 21:04:35 +0000 UTCOn the subject of teachers using weapons to spark student interest... My 8th grade history teacher in 1991 loved US history; especially the revolutionary war. So much that when it came time to cover it, he came to class in a full redcoat's uniform, then demonstrated the packing and firing of a musket replica. No live rounds, of course; just the gunpowder. He also aimed it toward the open classroom door instead of anywhere in the class. But I'm sure that was the last era where a teacher could discharge a firearm in class and not make the news.
Sean Ryan
2023-09-20 19:53:46 +0000 UTCHoly crap! Kinda an A+ prank were it not for the homophobia tbh. I hope he's able to look back at it with good humor these days but ouch.
Ron Sterling
2023-09-20 03:12:35 +0000 UTCI was in school two years before they outlawed corporal punishment at school in my state. The principal, who proudly displayed a paddle with holes drilled thru it in his office, retired the very next year.
Ron Sterling
2023-09-20 03:02:21 +0000 UTCsilence kid hitter
burro
2023-09-19 18:38:55 +0000 UTCWas this recorded before or after the death or Arleen Sorkin? If before, that Harley Quinn reference at the beginning is almost eerie. I'm guessing that unfortunate passing will be talked about whenever the next Blabbin' 'Bout Batman is released, but that was another one that really sucked to see. Her passing coupled with the reveal that she had MS casts new light on her retirement as the character since it could have been for health reasons. I'm not sure when she was diagnosed. If being a parent has taught me anything it's that there's no template for raising a kid. What works on one won't necessarily work with another which is why you can have something as divisive as spanking exist since there are plenty of people who claim it worked fine on them or their kids and just as many (probably more) who can attest that it does not. I am definitely a no-spank parent and I do like that this episode shows Peggy strike Dooley as an emotional response. Those are always the least effective ways to respond to a child or even a pet when you're trying to correct unwanted behavior and it frames the act of spanking as more vengeance than anything. It's also another example of how King of the Hill isn't the show that I think a lot of outsiders view it to be. There really isn't a "both sides" on display here. Yeah, Dooley is a punk and deserves punishment, but the episode makes it pretty clear that spanking does not correct bad behavior and can also inflict some pretty severe emotional trauma that can last into adulthood for some. And it's another terrific showcase for who Peggy is and why it can be fun to both root for her and against her.
Joe Hodgson
2023-09-19 16:15:11 +0000 UTCThe first and only time I cut class was when I had a substitute Spanish teacher. We were about to watch Field of Dreams, (en Español of course), and we were allowed to change seats to get a better view. I moved over by the door and when the moment was right, I grabbed my bag and quietly hurried out of the room. I'll never forget looking back and seeing the shock on the faces of the students that saw me, the unassuming quiet guy, doing such a thing. Looking back on it now, I should've cut class more...
Andrew O.
2023-09-19 13:43:51 +0000 UTCLook at all these teaches getting busted for drinking this year. Kids suck and parents nowadays seem to not wanna grow up and raise their kids, so it’s out in these teachers. It’s also funny listening to two people with out kids talk about disciplining kids.
Michael Branson
2023-09-19 00:17:01 +0000 UTCMy middle school Spanish class name was El Diablo Lobo but oddly enough the teacher refused to call me that.
Callum Roper
2023-09-18 23:00:26 +0000 UTCNot my topping of choice but I don't mind it
Frank Grimes
2023-09-18 22:00:05 +0000 UTCI went to a christian school that had a "spare the rod, spoil the child" policy and it didn't stop us kids from doing bad things, it just made us hide mistakes out of fear of being hit.
T
2023-09-18 21:30:21 +0000 UTCI was never spanked as a child as it was definitely outlawed in area schools (I remember a teacher got either moved to another school or fired, I was young so I don't know what really happened but he WAS gone immediately after, because he threw a chair one day when a little shit was egging him on) and my parents didn't believe in it either. I THINK once it was threatened, but it never amounted to anything, so I'm sure that was just a massive bluff that worked because of whatever devil energy I was on that day. -- Related to the cruelness of kids, while I enjoyed teaching at the university level while I was a grad student, I can't fathom how teachers can exist day to day at elementary or high school level with how fucking mean kids can get (not to mention all the fucked up regulations in terms of queerness and personal expression that are still going on these days of course). -- As for the brief talk about the "two dads" and belief that not educating kids about gayness will turn them straight, I fucking hate that shit so much. I'm both bi and non-binary, and while I at least knew what bisexuality was so I could recognize it in myself as a teen (even if I stayed closeted until I was like 22), I had no fucking idea what non-binary was until university. I don't remember ever specifically learning about the idea of being transgender outside of 11th grade sociology/anthropology class telling us about David Reimer, but I could grasp what it meant just by being someone alive in the 2010s. But there was absolutely bupkiss about non-binary people in school until the uni level and media representations of us has been borderline non-existent until the last 5 years more or less, so I was at least 20 before I could even reasonably comprehend what it meant, and fucking 25 before I started to recognize it in myself, and needless to say, there's a lot of shit growing up and living life that would have been better and happier if I understood my own gender long ago. THANKS CONSERVATIVES
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2023-09-18 20:48:33 +0000 UTCGonna get eviscerated but... pantsing a woman is sexual assault. Dooley needed a tire iron upside his head.
Thad Komorowski
2023-09-18 18:23:14 +0000 UTCThe Texas principal at my school had two paddles. One with no holes, and one with holes depending on severity of misbehavior. I got "Johnny" for not doing my homework for a month. On the bright side, that big piece of shit got fired for pretending to go to the Iraq War as a way of getting paid vacation.
Shane H
2023-09-18 17:47:51 +0000 UTCHey guys, I wanted to share my experience with being spanked as a child. My siblings and I were spanked quite a bit growing up, we were raised in a pretty conservative christian home. My father never spanked us, he left that up to our mom; though he did make the paddle that she used on us. I cannot really recall any specific reason I was spanked, but I’m sure most of the time it had to do with my older brother messing with me and we would start fighting; we would both get in trouble and be spanked. Also being a kid with ADHD I feel I got in trouble for not paying attention or not doing what I was told, which was difficult for someone that had a hard time focusing. I don’t believe it had the results that my mom thought it did, being spanked just caused me to be more sneaky and find ways to get my older brother in trouble as payback for him getting me in trouble. The thing that always stuck with me was my mom saying the stereotypical line “this hurts me more that it hurts you.” I always thought that was bs. I can make jokes and laugh about it now, but as a kid it felt like torture. P.S. In my high school Spanish class we also got to choose our names, being a 90’s kid I loved the Ninja Turtles and I picked Raphael.
Seth
2023-09-18 17:06:59 +0000 UTCI took it as another instance of Peggy thinking she knew more than she actually does.
Andrew Wiley
2023-09-18 16:10:37 +0000 UTCIn high school I had a classmate who had a watch that could control the tv. He turned it on and off and changed channels etc. teacher ended up losing it and ran out crying.
Andrew Wiley
2023-09-18 16:09:44 +0000 UTCoh man. very interested to hear 'Three Coaches and a Bobby' next month. whenever my wife and I do a re-watch, that's always one of the ones that stands out in the classic era in terms of the crankier Mike Judge viewpoint of 'what's with all these soft kids playing SOCCER?' still some funny jokes but some eye-rolls in there too.
Blake R.
2023-09-18 14:35:29 +0000 UTCWanted to share a very quick "Middle Schoolers are monsters" story. In 8th grade my speech teacher was an extremely young guy who was very conventionally attractive. Naturally, this started a rumor that he was gay. There was also a rumor he had a side job as a male model. One day I came into class and there were probably 100 copies of a page out of the Sunday newspaper's catalog with our teacher modeling winter fashions with another guy, both wearing festive sweaters, all over the desks and on the whiteboard at the front of the class. The teacher had come back from lunch, saw the pages everywhere, and just left, and didn't come back. The next day instead of a sub we had the vice principal yell at our class for the whole period, and we ended up having a permanent sub for the last month or so of class.
Chris Dobson
2023-09-18 13:45:25 +0000 UTCThe snake joke at the beginning is that the snake is actually one of the highly deadly variety.
Thorgrim
2023-09-18 09:28:42 +0000 UTCWhat’s everyone’s view of Pineapple on a pizza, I love it. Whoyeah!!!!!
Michael Branson
2023-09-18 04:03:00 +0000 UTC
