TalKing of the Hill - Shins of the Father

I think Cotton recognizes Kahn's ethnicity because he was in the military and saw all kinds of ethnicities. I knew loads of military vets like that

nalem

Hi, resident Zorn animator here again haha! You were right, you talked to Eric Appel, very nice guy! I remember when Zorn was on the bubble, I was a huge idiot speaking to him, saying "I'd rather "Making History" gets canceled if it's between it and Zorn"... Not knowing Eric ALSO worked on that show! Whoops! I do hope you guys end up doing a "What A Cartoon" for Zorn in the future. "Taste of Zephyria", "The Battle of Thanksgiving" or "Radioactive Girlfriend" would probably be good choices for episodes to cover. I still carry a torch for that fucking show, I still think about it a lot. BTW, "The Company Man" may have been delayed until season two because it had extensive retakes and rewrites, including replacing the original ending with Mrs. Holloway after footage had already been completed. If you guys haven't seen it, it's on the Season Two DVD. Because of how late in the season the episode is, I like to imagine a weird scenario where there were animators already involved in production on season two having to go back and edit that episode while having to adhere to the season one designs. Conjecture though.

Daran

I think I only watched the first two or three seasons of King of the Hill when it aired on Fox so I don't know much about what followed in regards to Cotton Hill, but I always liked to assume his war story was just an elaborate lie to cover for the fact that he's just a really short man. I may not be super familiar with the show, but this has always been the most memorably, and most humorous, episode for me.

Joe Hodgson

Once he conquers Queens, NY

nina matsumoto

When is titular king going to show up on this show?

Micah

you definitely should continue watching after S1. Some of the best episodes are post S1. There's a great 2 parter where, like the Simpsons, the Hills travel to Japan. Then there's the episode where we see Bill take charge during a natural disaster...and Season 3 has the all time classic episode where they become firefighters...and they tell their version of events...you'll have a great laugh with that...and then there's the meme'd to death episode of Bobby kicking mpeople in their privates, proclaiming "that's my purse!"

Frank Grimes

These last two episodes might be my favourite so far and if they've indicative of the rest of the show, I'm gonna have to keep watching even after TalKing is over for the time being

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I swear they created Cotton just so they could use this episode title

nina matsumoto

get Johnny Hardwick

i want you to do allen gregory as Jeremy had that same desperate need to pretend that they really do care

Toushin

Regarding the piñata at Bobby's party, while the "Bobby's weak" read on the joke makes sense, I actually took it as a joke about how hard to break piñatas can sometimes be. I had a friend whose parents once made him a piñata, and it wound up so tough his dad had to get at it with a hacksaw to actually open it. Under the right conditions papier-mâché makes Bobbys of us all.

SomeBloke

Fair enough. Maybe its a good chance to ask us our thoughts/ memories in the comments. One of the best parts about them being Patreon exclusive is that everyone listening has access to them.

Curtis Bostick

We currently don't have access to Texans, sorry!

Bob Mackey

I'm really enjoying this series so far, but every time something Texas specific comes up, there's always just a little part of me wishing there was someone there who has been to that chain regularly to give a bit more insight. Having lived here my whole life, there's a slight culture shock that these places are at best somewhere Hemry went like once. Then again, if I were hosting a show about a show that took place in California, I can really only say that I have only eaten at an In-n-Out once and spent just a few days on LA, but otherwise have no context for some of the stuff.

Curtis Bostick

Oh man Hanks comment of "He lost his shins defending Texas in WW2" always made me laugh because its so odd to hear him say that instead of "America". WW2 is one of my favorite subjects to study, and I don't think I've ever heard someone describe their service as "defending this state" as Americans really stopped thinking along those lines by that point in 20th century. Now I get that this is a joke about Texas and Texans, but this got me thinking, there are a few instances in WW2 of the Japanese attacking the mainland US, and it turns out, one of these instances was in Texas. According to the Texas Almanac and some other Texas sources (but ironically not the official texas state government tourism guide to WW2 Texas) two towns in texas were "bombed" by the Japanese but no damage was done. It turns out that two paper mache bombs, made by japanese school girls, had been floated across the pacific and landed in Texas. "The Japanese figured that the Fugo balloon bombs, about 70 to 80 feet high, 30 feet in diameter and filled with hydrogen, would ride eastward on the jet stream, each carrying a couple of incendiary bombs and a 33-pound antipersonnel bomb. When they descended, they would explode, start hundreds of fires, and frighten – and perhaps kill – Americans in the process. About 360 bombs were eventually found in North America, from the Aleutian Islands south of Alaska to Mexico and as far east as Detroit, Mich" So, you could say Cotton was defending Texas in the very literally sense, since it had been attacked by the Japanese. Given that WW2 was a global total war, its full of insane things like that, including using pigeon guided missiles, exploding bat bombs to burn down tokyo, bombs that skipped on water to blow up damns, and dogs trained to be anti tank bombs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_balloon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_balloon</a> <a href="https://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/bombing-texas" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/bombing-texas</a>

Andrew Giachetti

Oh man, Hank's comment of "He defended Texas in WW2" has always made me laugh, because its so weird to specifically say texas rather than the USA. WW2 is one of my favorite subjects to study, and it always struck me as odd to talk about the war in terms of the state (I get this is a joke about Texas/Texans) since by and large people recounting the war didnt talk along those lines. But it got me thinking, there are these rare occurrences in the war of the mainland US being "attacked" by the Japanese in a few instances. And it turns out, Texas was one of those instances. According to the Texas Almanac and some other texas focused sources (but for some reason, not the official Texas Gov't WW2 tourism guide) , "On March 23 and 24, 1945, Woodson and Desdemona were "bombed" by the Japanese, though no damage was done in either community." It turns out two paper mache "balloon bombs" made by japanese school girls had been floated across the pacific. The plan was to float giant hydrogen filled balloons and float them across the ocean on the jet stream with "each carrying a couple of incendiary bombs and a 33-pound antipersonnel bomb. When they descended, they would explode, start hundreds of fires, and frighten – and perhaps kill – Americans in the process." So you could say Cotton was defending Texas because Texas was actually attacked. Given that it was a global total war, WW2 is filled with all sorts of nonsense like that, such as using trying to use pigeons as missile guidance systems and filling bats with basically napalm and sending them to tokyo. <a href="https://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/bombing-texas" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/bombing-texas</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog</a>

Andrew Giachetti

The one moment in this episode that really stuck in my mind was how he knew Khan was Laotian, especially since the previous episode Hank &amp; Co. couldn't decipher what his ethnicity was.

Frank Grimes