King of the Hill is finally back on the air after a 15-year hiatus. I’ve been binge-watching it, and I can’t put my finger on it, but I love it. Maybe it’s that feeling of nostalgia of kicking back behind the screen and watching The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Robot Chicken, and other shows of my childhood. Maybe it’s because the reboot feels like a real continuation of the original, which reboots oh so often fail at.
Anyway, Matt wrote about how Lordstown Assembly in Ohio, formerly the site of a General Motors production facility, then the home of Lordstown Motors, then a facility for Foxconn, and now it’s going to be an AI data center. A. Barth:
An AI Data Center And Data Center Equipment
Hank: I sell data centers and data center accessories. That’s what you want, I tell ya hwat.
Bobby: What if someone asks about the cloud?
Hank: Then we ask them politely yet firmly to leave.
NC Miata NA:
The Lordstown plant site will exist forever, constantly shuffled between companies promising to build the latest buzzword product and create local jobs to extract maximum government subsidies before “market conditions” causes the project to be abandoned. Rinse and repeat every handful of years.
Matt also wrote about the tired clichés that automotive journalists use, including your favorite Autopians. Mrbrown89:
“Holy Grail” meaning a specific package or equipment combination that ran in low volumes. Oh wait…
Hello, police? I’d like to report a murder.
Alexk98:
“Whopping” : Followed by a number about 20% above average, be it power, weight, price, etc.
I’m definitely guilty of this one!
Finally, Thomas wrote about how there’s a new Dodge Durango Hellcat out there, and it’s just Dodge playing the hits, really. MikeInTheWoods:
Selling about 14 of these will really keep Dodge afloat.
They should offer new colors like Ashes Grey, Dodgey Brown Stripe, Firesale Red, CEO Blues, Clutched Pearls White Metallic.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
(Topshot: Hulu screenshot)
Who knew the plot of The Producers would actually turn about to be a go-to money making scheme for real estate and development industries? Create LLC, come up with fake project, get investors (be it private or government), pay yourself a huge salary, declare project infeasible, dissolve LLC and declare bankruptcy. Repeat.
Binged the new King of the Hill episodes this weekend. Bringing the characters forward to 2025 with some growth without changing their basic personalities has been brilliantly carried out. It allows gentle commentary and satire on the state of the U.S. across social, political, financial, and sexual stratification’s, while still treating the characters with love and respect along the way. Refreshing. Best part: the closing credits music which is expanded with incredible guitar playing, as well as banjos and a fiddle. Cant get it out of my head.
…and on cue this past Friday at the Autopian Detroit Woodward meetup – lordstown pickup rolled right by us. Photos on the discord.
Hank being in tech sales isn’t so far fetched especially in Texas. For a while both Amazon and Microsofts cloud sales in Houston were the top globally from oil and gas companies. You get guys from the oil and gas companies from tech and just from sales all selling it.
I’m just watching King of the hill season 4 having never watched it before, Quite enjoying it so far 🙂
Woohoo – thanks, Mercedes!
Fun fact: that exchange was based on a conversation Hank and Bobby had while preparing for a steak cookout at their house. Bobby asked “What if someone wants theirs well done?” and Hank gave that reply. 🙂
Click, click, click dot com man
Glad people liked my color wheel names. Now I can add COTD to my resume and get a marketing job at Nissan next.
As far as “whopping” in relation to 20%, it’s all relative. I got a call from my boss who told me I had gotten approved for the merit increase. I calculated it out and it was a non-whopping 2.63% wage increase. Less then inflation, less then just about everything else that’s going up. But !Hey! at least I have a fairly decent healthcare insurance plan. Ironically, our co-pay is 20%. Does that make it Whopping or non-whopping?
I think the word you’re looking for here is “whelming.” That COL increase was decidedly whelming.
The King of the Hill continuation works on so many levels. Honestly, Bobby’s weird brand of self-confidence in the original series paying off as he develops into a (somewhat) successful chef and entrepreneur (and ladies’ man, rowrrr) is my favorite aspect of the new season. The rest of it feels like old times, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
Yup, Bobby’s growth is a big draw of the new series. Everyone else seems to be stuck in their old habits. And I can finally understand Boomhauer with CC enabled.
How Bill lost all that weight between the first and second episodes is a mystery.
Bill . . . with one weird trick seen on tiktok
I dunno. Hank was pretty quick to figure out that renaming Samoas was a good thing to do. I don’t think OG Hank would have been so fast to give up his tradition.
And, hell, he was also relatively quick to accept that Bobby cooks with charcoal, and not just for an “affair” on Lady Propane. 😉
Hank being exposed to a different culture in Saudi Arabia and causing him to open his mind in some ways is also a running theme this season.
Yep. Literally watching it as I read this.
I haven’t seen the new King of the Hill yet, but I did watch a bunch of the Beavis & Butthead episodes, and Mike Judge did a great job of bringing them into adulthood.
Wow, TIL about B&B, now I’ve got a full watchlist!
Hard to believe Hank Hill was really (mostly) a spinoff of Tom Anderson, even though the show isn’t officially a spinoff.
“Large fries. Pie. Large coffee.”