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I love this show, and I have a strong feeling this isn't going to add anything to it. Have any of these "new" seasons for long canceled shows ever been good?

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

with a different family dynamic maybe they've got some new ideas for it, but idk Hank was always like a liberal's conception of what a moderate conservative would be like if they actually existed and I feel like there's going to be some extremely cringe and out of touch commentary in this season as a result of the writers trying to square that circle with modern conservatives.

or maybe they'll knock it out of the park and conservatives will be frothing about how Hank went woke because the show perfectly dissects their worldview and shows them how pathetic they are.

[-] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

Yeah the hank hill "normal" republican doesnt exist anymore (or never has tbh)

[-] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

They exist in like Canada, Australia, UK instead now as they also shift right but try to do it non-Trumply.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

if Bobby doesn't have some kind of LGBTAI+ arc, it's going to be really mid

[-] rufuscrispo@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago

i will die on this hill (pun inescapable if not necessarily intended): bobby should be trans. the voice actor is a woman and it would fit perfectly with his character's constantly bouncing off the gendered guardrails of small-town texas life in the original series. that's a perfectly clear narrative arc.

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

It would be just as valid for Bobby to be not trans but still struggle with gender and masculinity. Gender is a struggle for the whole of society, even cis genders.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

Seriously. I saw Bobby looking like some hot couch guy and I'm gonna be real mad if he doesn't have a trans arc.

[-] rufuscrispo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago

the payoff of an adult bobby bringing back "that's my purse! i don't know you!" would be hilarious

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Excuse me, it's Bobbi now

[-] RION@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

bobby should be trans. the voice actor is a woman

Aren't most young boy characters voiced by women? Like Ash Ketchum and all that

[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Timmy turner lmao

All animated children are Kristen Schaal, yes.

[-] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hulu somehow ruined Futurama worse than comedy central, and with their weird bans on stuff like alcoholic imagery, this is going to be a massive disappointment.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago
[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Even in the original run the show had completely lost its juice by the time they added Lucky. Big fan of the show but I'm going to pretend this doesn't exist and continue live in my pristine mind palace where the show ended after season 7.

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago
[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

Might be different if you didn't grow up in a town very similar to Arlen, but those first several seasons felt like a documentary of so many people I actually knew, but then it just kinda became disconnected from the setting and started to feel like a more generic cartoon set in Everywhere USA. Those first several seasons though are straight up magical in their ability to accurately channel the feeling of small towns in that region at that specific time.

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

No i hated it at first because i was a teenager and didn't get satire and it's like why would i watch a show about my dad. But that's what makes it good, it really nails that cracker suburbia. And i disagree it never lost its magic

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

The new season for x men 97 was pretty dang good, I thought

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

That's true.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The last seasons of KOTH weren't that great plus Dale's VA passed away, so I don't have high hopes. At least they aged the characters, so they can't completely rely on nostalgia.

But now that I think about it, if Hank's retired, then wouldn't most episodes be about Bobby? There's only so much you can do with Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer since you can't use Dale, and Dale is the one who drives the plot in the latter seasons. Having Joseph and Connie be his coworkers would be completely contrived, so I guess the characterization of Bobby's coworkers would be what makes or breaks the new season?

Edit: I saw the new intro. I laughed when Bill got Covid, so I guess they haven't completely lost touch.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

bobby get tiktok

[-] Facky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

The new season of Aqua Teen was pretty well received afaik.

[-] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

I will miss Dale. His VA died, and I'm not sure i can handle it without Dale.

[-] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think I heard he was already recording some episodes before he died.

It’s a huge loss for sure. Rusty Shackleford is one of the best animated characters in the history of TV.

Pocket sand!

[-] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

cries in Luanne

[-] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Beavis and Butthead reboot (both of them) were pretty good. Futurama was ok too, I still say "oh my yes, well that's where you're wrong!"

Mike Judge doesn't seem to have lost his way too much. Doesn't really do the "fuck cancel culture!" Thing. Still makes fun of chuds like he always has.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

Oh, I'm looking forward to it. It'll be good for libs to be reminded that they can't call people slurs as they report their neighbors to ICE, because that would be uncivilized.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

They're going to have an episode with Khan getting taken by ICE, aren't they?

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

Apparently a new Phineas and Ferb is also coming out, felt completely ancient when I found out that the first episode of that came out in 2007, 18 years ago...

Crazy how both Phineas and Ferb have graduated and gotten jobs at Lockheed Martin now

[-] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

I wanna see Hank sniffing propane like Saw huffing rhydo...

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Can anyone name one show revived for streaming that wasn’t forgettable at best??

Like there’s clearly a difference in quality and outcome between a show brought back from cancelation (on streaming or otherwise) and a show log finished being yanked from the grave. Futurama had too many banger endings to be the former. I still have a modicum of hope for the new gumball episodes.

[-] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

Arrested Development had some great bits in the revived season 4. Tony Wonder, And As It Is Such, So Also As Such Is It Unto You

It still fell off though.

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Started watching AD again and I gotta admit, even I was too hard on Season 4. I think we got ourselves all hyped up for the movie over the course of 6 or 7 years and when it wasn't as good as the product in our heads, we turned our backs on it. Season 4 isn't the magnum opus, it's the Greatest Hits album/farewell tour, and it's exactly as good as it needed to be.

...doesn't excuse Jeffrey Tambor's behavior, though. Or Jason Bateman and Will Arnett for defending him.

[-] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Does The Expanse count? Cause I loved every second of it.

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[-] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

It was mentioned earlier in this thread but the Beavis and Butthead reboot is pretty good.

But, I'm also a middle-aged man child, who thinks farts are funny.

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[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

I try to keep in mind the old phrase "ain't nothin' so bad it ain't good for somethin'"

...OK I'm pretty sure that's just a Norwegian phrase that I calqued and then convinced myself was a thing people actually say. But the point is in any case that although I'm not expecting a new season of KOTH to be good television -- the new season of Futurama wasn't IMO -- making an animated TV show is still a collaborative, semi-chaotic and laborious effort between loads of people. The people working on this KOTH reboot, we can only hope, will take the skills they built and lessons they learned from it, and use them to make something better. For the rest of us, if we don't like it, we can just call it officially-licensed fanfiction, or some slop to beget more slop in the form of reviews and overly-long video essays.

"ain't nothin' so bad it ain't good for somethin'

Well you've anglicized it well enough, that goes without saying susie-nudge

That being said, I say good luck for the show Ig.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

The phrase in Norwegian is {aldri|never} {så|so} {galt|~wrong} {at|that} {det|it} {ikke|not} {er|is} {godt|good} {for|fоr} {noe|something}, for reference. Usually translated as "every cloud has a silver lining" but to me the vibes are different.

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[-] moss_icon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

The new Beavis and Buttheads seasons are fairly decent. Have actually never seen King of the Hill so no idea if this will be the same.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

No Gribble. No Lucky. No Luanne.

Ill watch it in a few years maybe.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

are they actually not in the show or just not in the advertising?

[-] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

their original voice actors are dead

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago
[-] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

The actors voicing them have all died.

[-] godlessworm@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

im excited regardless. koth is just such a great show even its lows are pretty good

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