I pit King of the Hill.

The BBQ Pit
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I too was wondering about KOTH’s portrayel of hippies. The public defacation joke definitely whooshed me, but some of the stuff made me bust a gut. My favorite part was when they were at the ranger station. The ranger said something about being mushroom season, and on the tv monitor in the background was Hank’s fat bald buddy all covered in mud acting a fool.

I have never been to a “gathering,” but I have done Flipsyde, make regular appearances at The Last Concert Cafe and Moses Guest shows (Houston happenings), and do enjoy the vibe of a good drum circle. I also know well the art car crowd, of which many attend burning man. I also work the Texas Renaissance Festival, so I gladly take freaks money.

Most of these hippies are the weekend variety. They hold jobs and normal lives, but are able to take a week or so off and attend these events. Kind of like a giant scout jamboree, but with booze, mushrooms, drums, nudity, silly skits, weird art structures and crap.

Contrary to what KOTH displayed, organized gatherings, while having a let it all out vibe, would require or strongly encourage everyone to contribute, even if it is just picking up trash, and to leave the place as you left it. Burning man related gatherings are quite good about that, I have heard. Making Bobby Hill clean the grounds as payment for the food would be more realistic, but not as funny.

This is not the first time they have parodied hippies. On the first season, they went camping, and got the kids on a “snipe hunt.” 99% of the people here likely know what that is, but it is a form of making the uninitiated look foolish by doing silly stuff chasing after a non-existant bird. Bobby bags a whooping crane. The hackey sack crowd kicks footbags at them.

As with most TV shows, and all animated ones, there is a suspension of disbelief. KOTH is more “realistic” than others, but it applies to KOTH as well. There was a LOT of it in yesterday’s episode.
Oh BTW, London Calling, if you read this, your verbal portrayel of hippie slang is way, way, obsolete. Hipponics have greatly changed since the early 70’s.

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I must thank you Prisoner for making my night. I haven’t laughed that hard in MONTHS!! :smiley: :rolleyes: :smiley:

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Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I’ll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes “click.”

(Damn you for taking my response! :wink: )

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Jesus Christ, man. I mean, just Christ. Jesus Christ.

Okay, if you really don’t think South Park is trying to teach you anything I would reccommend. . . no I can’t do it. Jesus Christ, you are a tool.

Let me clue you in on something. Remember “The Masses”? You are not smarter than they are; trust me on that.

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We are. We all also appear to be pretty much unanimously anti-you. Maybe you should stop for a moment and think about how you could combine those two facts into a conclusion.

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It’s OK, Miller. I used to feel that way every time I saw Eddie Vedder.

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To everyone involved in the discussion of the portrayal of Hippies on KOTH, I think you are missing the bigger issue (in fact, I think the very use of such an extreme portrayal was a deliberate attempt on the part of the makers of KOTH to draw the viewer’s attention away from the main issue). That is: The switch to computer animation on the show has caused a massive increase in the suck factor of the show. What was once an enjoyable show has now become, for me at least, an almost unwatchable monstrosity. And it will remain that until 1) they return to the hand-drawn animation, or 2) two or three weeks go by, and I stop noticing the difference.

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King of the Hill as a barometer for out society’s opinions on small groups of people?

No, I still can’t see it.

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Do Not Feed The Poles?

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I think he meant “Do Not Feed The Prisoner”.

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:smiley:

Whole lotta flappin in the breeze! Question: Why the extra 6?

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If memory serves, it was “Prisoner #6655321” in the book, and “Prisoner #655321” in the Kubrick film. (Possibly the other way around, though.)

We’ll just leave Prisoner #6 of it altogether.

Be seeing you.

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Huh. KOTH seemed like such an obvious satire of the people I saw every day growing up that I never even thought about it maybe being set somewhere other than the Midwest.

Ooops.