KOTH also had the best "show within a show" ever: Monsignor Martinez. "Vaya con dios." Apparently Judge pitched it to FOX as a live-action spinoff, which would have been fantastic.

Also the one where Peggy winds up getting herself and Luanne into a cult where all the women call each other "Jane". And Peggy pretty much fits right in.

No doubt because true Republican beliefs would make the protagonist unsympathetic! "Let's take away everyone's health care" does not a good protagonist make.

There was that one episode later in the run where Leslie gets a bee in her bonnet about the guy who owns the video store, and Ron ridicules her, and she saves the video store, and the guy turns it into a porn shop.

I don't know. I think that the Western idea that animation should only be used for kid's stories or things too fanciful for live action is misguided. KOTH is all too rare as an example of a regular old show that just happens to be animated.

Oh yeah, Lucky was a huge Cousin Oliver. And Luanne was another big problem towards the end of the run. They had built a whole arc about how Luanne was going to go to college and make something of herself. Then they shitcanned all of that and had her marry Lucky, get knocked up, and go back to beauty school. Just…

Dooley was basically Butthead.

The first episode was Hank v. Strawman, when some Child Services dude got the idea that Hank was an abusive father.

And there was some gag from Peggy about how they'll move to Germany because freaks like Bobby are tolerated there.

Idiot Peggy episodes, anyone?

I kind of want to watch his Nazi movies. He made 12 before he got out of Germany in 1937.

And Luanne went Communist!

Why not?

Another great episode was the two-parter where they go to Japan and Hank meets his half-brother. Apparently that was originally supposed to be a KOTH movie.

If Bobby had hit puberty they'd have had to fire Pamela Segall.

"Oh, you're…still doing this."

Apparently the voice of Boomhauer was based on someone who called into MTV or whatever to rant about Beavis and Butthead in an indecipherable fast-paced Texas accent.

Man, that was a disturbing episode. Bill disconnecting from reality and putting on Lenore's dresses—that shit was dark.

Bill had a hard life, but he did have sex with two of the Dixie Chicks.

No one aged, really. Joseph and Connie both had puberty episodes and that was it.