"King of the Hill" (1997) Série TV 1997-????

Note Générale:

7,7/10   

Créateurs:

Greg Daniels
Mike Judge

Saisons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | inconnu

Date de sortie:

12 janvier 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedie | Drame

Intrigue:

Show about a rigid redneckish propane salesman with a good heart and wacky friends and family.

Plot Keywords:

Texas | Propane | Beer | Suburban Life | Actor Playing Himself

Récompenses:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 7 wins & 40 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

It's alright to be a redneck

US TV Schedule:

Sun. Nov. 8	4:30 PM	Fox	You Gotta Believe	#10.7
Sun. Nov. 8	10:00 PM	TOON	Dia-Bill-ic Shock	#13.1

Ensemble

Mike Judge	...	Hank Hill / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
Kathy Najimy	...	Peggy Hill / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
Pamela Adlon	...	Bobby Hill / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
Johnny Hardwick	...	Dale Gribble / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
Stephen Root	...	Bill Dauterive / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
Brittany Murphy	...	Luanne Platter / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
Toby Huss	...	Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr. / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
David Herman	...	Buckley / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)
Ashley Gardner	...	Nancy Hicks Gribble / ... (Episodes, 1997-2009)

Durée:

30 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

1,33 : 1

Son:

Dolby

Classification:

UK:12 (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | USA:TV-14 | Australia:M (some episodes) | Denmark:15 | Australia:G (some episodes) | UK:PG (some episodes) | UK:U (some episodes) | USA:TV-PG (some episodes) | Argentina:16 | Singapore:Unrated (with warning)

Société:

Deedle-Dee Productions

Anecdotes:

The Hills' zip code is 78104. The code is real and is located in the town Beeville, Texas.

Goofs:

Continuité: In the early episodes, Luanne clearly has automotive skills - she is seen repairing cars and even ordering Hank parts he needs to fix his truck at one point. From "Jumpin' Crack Bass" on she has little to no knowledge of cars.

Guillemet:

Peggy Hill: Even if I do get Hank to see the doctor, he refuses to take his pants off.
Nancy Gribble: Oh, you don't take your clothes off at the doctor's any more, Shug! Anything they need to see, they do it with a new machine called an M-R-I!
Peggy Hill: Hm. Are you sure they can use it to look at Hank?
Nancy Gribble: They use it for everything! Heck, it's the same technology we use down at the station to predict the weather!
Peggy Hill: I thought you used the doppler radar.
Nancy Gribble: [laughing] Oh, Shug!
[chuckles]
Nancy Gribble: It's the same thing!

Connexions:

Référencé sur "The Simpsons: Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays (#15.8)" (2004)

Bande son:

Yahoos and Triangles

It's alright to be a redneck

Hank Hill, the hero of "King of the Hill", is the last of a dying breed in many ways. He's reasonably honest, reasonably moral, he works hard, he believes in American craftsmanship, and he loves his dysfunctional family. And he's a conservative. He's a bit repressed emotionally though; annoying him or getting him mad is easy, but expressing those tender emotions like love is hard for him, due mostly to his upbringing by his dysfunctional and tyrannical dad Cotton, an obnoxious old man who lost his shins in WWII and somehow had his feet sewn into his knees. Hank's conservative point of view doesn't always make him easily sympathetic in some cases though.

Hank's wife, Peggy, is a warm, loving and caring person at heart, but she's also a megalomaniac. Peggy is an over confident and under educated substitute Spanish teacher, quite rare in this day and age of "Women power". Peggy always strives to do her best, which isn't bad in and of itself, but her pride tends to exude control over her decisions which leads to Peggy making a fool of herself.

Hank's son Bobby is a dense, effeminate couch potato who's watched too much TV. Full of under developed desires and longings, Bobby is easily impressionable and easily gets caught up in fads when they shove their message in his face hard enough. As Hank puts it, "That boy ain't right." His initial goal is to be a stand up comic, but he later decides to be a magician. His friends are Connie (later a girlfriend) and Joseph.

Hank also has a live in niece, Luanne. She was raised to be trailer trash by her dysfunctional parents (her dad is Peggy's brother) and initially longs to be a Hollywood hair stylist. Like Bobby, Luanne can be easily caught up in fads.

Hanks friends are Dale, Bill and Boomhauer. Boomhauer is a motor mouth Lothario whom no one can really understand. Bill is a faded high school football star turned army barber who's wife has left him and appears to have a thing for Peggy. Dale is an exterminator and conspiracy theorist who's so wrapped up in his conspiracy theories that he would never suspect that his newscaster wife Nancy is having an affair with her Indian therapist John Redcorn and/or that his son Joseph is actually the son of John Redcorn and Nancy. The only other person who doesn't seem to notice this is Joseph himself. Hank's neighbor is an Asian man named Kahn (Connie's dad), the classic feuding neighbor scenario.

Despite the many frustrations Hank endures and the compromises he has to make, he trudges on, clinging to his ideals and doing the best he can.

Part of why this is still better than the Simpsons is that unlike the Simpsons, this show doesn't rely on anyone character to supply all the laughs and it doesn't rely on larger than life animated sight gags for all the laughs either. Hank is also probably the only TV Dad to have the dignity of being right anymore. And unlike Homer, even when Hank's efforts get ridiculous they're never as outlandish and moronic as the former's.