End of an Era

So, King of the Hill, the amazing show about a mother fluent in “es-pa-nole,” a father dealing in “propane, and propane accessories,” and son who “ain’t right,” ended on Sunday . Unlike so many shows, especially the animated ones, King of the Hill never went over the top, and really had no formula to it’s comedy. It was just an American family trying to make it by. It was never the coolest show, and never strove to be, it was just hilarious, consistently. In fact, I think the show would have hated being cool, or, at least it’s main character, Hank, would have despised it.

Below is one of my favorite clips from the series finale, so hard to chose just one. To me, this kinda sums up the show as a whole.

Creator Mike Judge really knocked it out of the park with this show, as he seems to do with everything he touches, Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, and Idiocracy. I haven’t had the chance to see his latest, Extract, but let’s hope that it lives up to the tremendous canon he has already achieved.

The trailer for Extract: