So they're supposed to in their mid 30s and they own houses, cars, have families, careers?
So they're supposed to in their mid 30s and they own houses, cars, have families, careers?
So they're supposed to in their mid 30s and they own houses, cars, have families, careers?
That’s normal?
In 1997, maybe. I'm in my early 30s and half the men my age I know are living at home. My parents bought their home in 1994 for $70k, that same house is like $500k now. Wages overall have gone up like a fraction of that. Shit is fricked.
I'm in my early 30s and I have a house, wife, and good career. Live in upstate NY in low cost of living area. My friends are bums and neets for the most part though.
There was a huge real estate crash in the early 90s that rebounded around 1993. For example that 70k house was probably 30k just a couple years earlier. Another one coming up soon without a doubt.
Dipshit. That’s when you’ll find all these “cheap houses” are suddenly rental properties. Private Homeownership will be a thing of the past in the next ten years.
That's why I'm voting RFK. checkmate Black Rock no re
Zoomers will never know what middle class life was like
May God have mercy on your souls
Bill and Boomhaur don't have families. They were ahead of their time depicting men incapable of growing up and getting real jobs (I reject outright that Boomhaur was a Texas ranger the whole show, worst fricking ass pull and emblematic of the rot that permeated the HD seasons)
When do the HD seasons start? I remember the show noticeably going a bit downhill towards the end, but it's been like 15 years.
Season 9, 10 is usually where I stop, that's when the bad episodes outweigh the good ones imo
Season 8 .. with a few episodes in season 8/9 I think being done the traditional way
i think season 8 was the first season of south park i got in 1080p
someone or something has since gone back and upped the first 7 seasons into 1080p, season 1 looks awesome and terrible at the same time.
>I reject outright that Boomhauer was a Texas ranger the whole show
That was an awful reveal and the show lost its soul during those seasons.
Bill was an army barber. You saying being a barber isn't a real job
Boomhauer was always kind of wealthy/succesful though. He could've had a decent sales job, maybe real estate?
Not really, he still lives in a middle class neighborhood. He has some nicer things like a cool car and a hot tub, but those were easy enough luxuries to afford if you have no kids 20+ years ago when the show took place
he's just the Quagmire of KOTH
i think he was supposed to be an electrician
Where'd you get that from?
dang ol workmans comp man.....tax free too
I thought Boomhaur was a racecar driver
The finale with the meat competition is fantastic. Ending the show with a neighborly BBQ was perfect. Later seasons are weaker but there are still tons of solid eps
The concept is stupid because it acts like Bobby and Hank aren't close and don't share interests. They both like shooting, hunting, golfing, propane, Texas and Bobby looks up to Hank. The idea that this is them finally bonding despite them having a loving and caring father son relationship throughout the show is stupid
Hank didn't like shooting or hunting and Bobby didn't like golf or propane
Hank loves shooting and hunting it was his idea to have Bobby do it because of that. He just had weird PTSD over it but he still bonded and related to his son over it. And Bobby liking golf and propane is more niche info but it's true, it's randomly mentioned throughout the series.
The point is anyways though that the finale of the season doesn't need to be a "Bobby and Hank find common ground" type episode when they've shown to respect each other and have similar interests quite a bit
one line in that final episode is even "you're never interested in anything GOOD" i believe. it's been a decade since i was obsessed with KOTH so i'm paraphrasing
It's just not that true to the characters and also since when is Hank suddenly an avid meat enthusiast? He likes grilling with propane. His family even cooks better food with charcoal. But suddenly he's a Jiro Dreams of Sushi type character with his fricking meats?
>taste the meat, not the heat
He has been saying this the whole series.
Yea that's about his love for propane more than anything else (and people throughout the show are able to cook much better than he does constantly) but for the finale Hank and Bobby suddenly have no common ground and Hank suddenly appreciates japanese Waygu triple A meat? It's all just a very contrived ending that on the surface feels very King of The Hill-y but it has no sentimental or deeper meaning. Hank's character isn't about loving meat, Bobby's character isn't about being an autist savant at things. The two have found common ground all the time and them cooking together isn't their first bonding moment. It just feels like a cheap way to end the show
Hank does have a Japanese brother
it is a cheap way to end the show. it wants to make you think every episode before where they did things together didn't matter.
despite them continuously bonding over things each episode treats it like they never have anything in common and the finale is not an outlier of that
I like the one where we find out Khan is actually a heavily-medicated severe manic-depressive
i think that was exactly the last episode produced
>reject outright that Boomhaur was a Texas ranger the whole show,
Why is that a big deal? What does it change about Boomhauer or the show?
If he were a Texas Ranger, the episode where he got pulled over for speeding would have played out differently. As well as the episode where he was thrown in a mental hospital. And the episode where the former Dallas Cowboys neighbor was harassing with all the other neighbors and the cops didn't do anything. Probably even more times where it would have influenced the story, those are just at the top of my head.
Good points. Maybe the badge was fake and he used it to get girls.
Unless he’s undercover to monitor Dale.
The problem with that theory is that he was close friends with Dale his entire life.
This makes the most sense.
How the frick does a group of lifelong best friends end up all living in houses directly beside each other as adults?
“But I’ve known you since the 2nd grade!? When do this happen? 1st grade?!” Boomhauer became a Texas Ranger in elementary school.
>How the frick does a group of lifelong best friends end up all living in houses directly beside each other as adults?
they specifically bought the houses to live by each other
People used to do that quite a bit, friends and family living close to each other. It used to be very common for a family to own two or three houses in a row. They would buy them as they became available. People like being close to their friends so if they get the chance they might take it.
>How the frick does a group of lifelong best friends end up all living in houses directly beside each other as adults?
Try that in a small town.
>The problem with that theory is that he was close friends with Dale his entire life.
He became a Texas ranger specifically to monitor Dale.
>As well as the episode where he was thrown in a mental hospital.
he was in a speedo, do you think he had a badge on him
If he was a ranger, it would have made more sense for him to call the Texas Rangers to get him out instead of Dale.
Probably didn't want to blow his cover
>I reject outright that Boomhaur was a Texas ranger the whole show, worst fricking ass pull and emblematic of the rot that permeated the HD seasons
nah it was based and you got filtered
>nah it was based and you got filtered
>LITERALLY THE LAST MINUTE OF THE ENTIRE FRICKING SERIES.
>Filtered
You are literally moronic.
I know, imagine making it that far and getting filtered at the very end. Embarrassing.
It was supremely obvious Boomhauer was not meant to be a ranger, hence
Don't forget he doesn't even recognize that Hank is using drugs as bait
>Don't forget he doesn't even recognize that Hank is using drugs as bait
Let alone testify as a reliable character witness that Hank very obviously doesn't do/sell drugs.
Not them, but sometimes you have to save yourself. Is the mere possibility of an inheritance worth sticking around for potentially decades more of abuse? Especially when they outright tell you to your face that they don't even know if there's going to be anything left from the literal fricking farm they inherited on one side of the family, and over $100k from the other because they're literal fricking boomers who want to waste it all away Diners Drive-ins and Dives style.
Yep, I'll just get a job, and a car, and this, and that, and have to spend >80% of my fricking paycheque on expenses because "frick you, you need to work, get a second job, and work even more overtime. How dare you suggest we add solar panels to our roof! Do you realize how expensive that's going to be!?!?!? Oh, we're going to buy a fricking $80,000 excavator JUST so your idiot father can dig a fricking pond in the front yard after paying another $5,000 to repair the fricking thing... Despite already owning a fricking backhoe (Do you know how much that would cost in gas to dig a pond with!?!?!?)
Not much considering he let me do exactly that as a fricking child....
>i'm mad because my parents wont give me money to live on my own
>i'm mad because my parents wont give me money to live on my own
>Shits on my suggestion to install solar panels
>Shits on my suggestion to just use the fricking backhoe he already owns
>Cites how expensive it is to install things that will SAVE money, or MAKE money
>Wastes $80k on a fricking hole in the ground
>Refused to have a high speed internet tower installed or cut down trees so a roof receiver can have LOS to a transmitter (muh expensive!)
>Just have 2 dedicated phone lines, AND dial up subscription, AND a mobile USB data stick complete with ass-raping usage rates.
>Somehow can't afford to heat the house with electricity despite having 2 fricking incomes, PLUS renting out the entire fricking farm (that was paid off before they even inherited the place)
>I'll just chop wood, b***h that you won't perform stupid menial labor for free, and fill the house with the fricking bugs that live in it
>Power goes out for 2 weeks, suggest we should buy a generator to keep the sump pump running.
>Nah, I don't want to waste money, I'll just force the entire family to hand-bomb buckets of water out of the basement 24/7 so the house doesn't flood.
>Power comes back on
>Okay now it's time to buy that generator!
>Buys movie on VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray
>Watches it on TV with 2 hours of additional commercials because they're too fricking lazy to get off their asses to put it on.
>The TV is a colossal >120"
>They don't have it set up properly so everything is zoomed in
>b***h that things look weird
>b***h when I try and set it up because they can't see a crappy game-show for the 5 minutes it would take when they were literally watching the EXACT SAME EPISODE last time I was there.
>Watches NASCAR
Yeah, it sure is just because they won't gibe me free money and not because they're fricking idiots.
settle down, okay? parents can be stupid, they're people too. there's no need for such resentment just because your dad makes bad decisions or watches a sport you hate. you're already working two jobs, right? just move out. it'll solve all of those problems even if it sucks at first.
>Yep, I'll just get a job, and a car, and this, and that, and have to spend >80% of my fricking paycheque
Between this and incessant b***hing about >muh inheritance, it sounded like you are living at home rent free. If you are actually well off and now trying to help your family then good on you.
>Let alone testify as a reliable character witness that Hank very obviously doesn't do/sell drugs.
No one can understand his testimony. All of this can be explained away with "people who don't know Boomhauer often can't understand what the frick he's saying".
my parents don't have a cent to give me because they're broke as me, I guess what I get instead is a good relationship with my father and parents who are still together
what is a 'real job' to you? because i suspect it means being a uni paypig sat behind a desk looking at screen.
no, he is supposed to be 41 or something. It shows his age in the episode with his ID saying hes a chick.
And he lives in a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom in texas, not that hard to get
Things were better before Biden and Covid.
Things were even better before Obama and Swine Flu
They truly weren't Zoom Zoom, it's been downhill since the 80s
Wrong. Things were great during Reagan’s presidency.
theyre in their late 40s.
>theyre in their late 40s.
Bobby was only 12 or 13
Yeah and Hank struggled for the longest time to have Bobby. Plus it's not too uncommon, at least nowadays, for 40 something year olds to have children about that age.
The show was in the 90s. It was rare back then
With Hank's fertility problems, I could buy it. I do see what you mean though.
Hell, I'm pretty sure the people behind the show wanted to put them in their 50s, but FOX said to stick with 40 and so they did.
Didn't Hank made fun of the blood drinking guy for living with Mom and not having a GF in his 30s
Nice try. He, is five-thousand.
>Yeah and Hank struggled for the longest time to have Bobby
on account'a his narrow hyurethra
Hank had his narrow urethra. They tried for years. It's not uncommon that after trying for 8 years they eventually had Bobby.
The bigger "wut" to me is Joseph. I understand Nancy was a career lady but Texas communities like Arlen is based on had and to a point still have that drilled in mentality of "family matters most" so they'd have kids on their mind. The most Texas relationship on the show is the one between Luanne and Lucky.
they're late 30s, early 40s about halfway into the show. even then, the Hills are the only wholly complete and functional family, and they're depicted as being very careful with finances and with both Hank and Peggy working.
Apart from Dale not knowing about Joseph, the Gribbles are a great unit. They all get along great, they aren't struggling financially, Joseph has no problems apart from being a little dumb
>being very careful with finances
Hank never buys a used car once and always spends way too much for basic shit because of his old school mentality
Not saying he's in the wrong but he's definitely not a financial wizard
He drove his pickup until it literally wouldnt drive anymore
A pickup he bought full price off the dealership
i always love it when fictional shows, especially animated, are strictly held to the standards of the real world.
still, the show was a satire of the working middle class. and yes, zoomers, there was once such a thing.
well its not like they are amazing careeres but they are simple guys, bills a barber and hank works with propane, and dale is a bug exterminator..........boomhaur is a texas ranger
Bill is an E-5 in the army. With BAS and BAH, he would have made around 2400 dollars a month in 1997, which is 4600 now. Pays for beer and a mortgage in Arlen, TX I suppose.
I pictured them all being about 40
I remember laughing at them for being flyover hicks now I would kill 40 babies barehanded for their lives
maybe
I find it stranger that they all live next to each other. In the same town maybe, but they're all next door neighbors. And they're not neighbors who happened to become friends, they've known each other since high school
only Hank and Bill were friends in in high school. the other 2 were just neighbors that turned into friends
No, they played football together
I suppose they bought houses next to each other that's not impossible
Yes it is. But not in Wichita Falls, the best city in Texas, where you make friends for life.
I wonder if they knew Mark Rippetoe
the literal dream
not true you must not watch the show much
you're drunker than me
They're some where in their late thirties to mid forties
Depends on the character and season
Hank is 42.
I am 31 and my house is much larger than Hank Hill's. None of what's mentioned in OP's post is that hard to obtain, if anything those characters are living at a comfortable lower-middle class. Also, they're in their early 40's, going by when they played football for Arlen High in the 70's. Don't remember the years mentioned on the show.
>they're in their early 40's, going by when they played football for Arlen High in the 70's
The characters don't age otherwise Bobby would finish marrying Joseph.
40s there’s an episode where Nancy turns 40 specifically and another episode where Hank says “clubhouse? Isn’t that something you do in your 30s?” And another episode he says something like “I’m not one of those guys who turns 40 and goes out and gets a fancy new toilet”. Exact ages aside it’s about 40year olds from the 90s/early 2000s which are people born in the 60s and yes 40year olds in the 90s had it financially very easy.
Its fairly easy if you have a good job and are willing to take risks. You buy everything on credit, banks in the USA give you mortgages without a down payment. Its a very risky way to live but it works if you dont get fired or divorced.
They're in their 40s, casual.
hank- combined income
rusty- combined income
broomhower- plant
bill- government job + rich family
I'm 35 and I own a home, car, both fully paid off and no other real debt besides monthly cost of living
It was given to me by family death and the fact I have a much better paying job then I deserve
Don't be mad cause you're Bill
WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING ME bill
What is this, the Democratic National Convention?
They're gainfully employed and bought their houses in the 80s/90s in a state with cheap housing
I'm in my late 30s and have none of those except the car and it's a 20 year old POS.
I'm completely demoralized.
I'm cutting my family out of my life soon. Their solutions to the problems of the world? Go to church. I never had a chance in life. I've tried to climb up from the gutter and now I don't even know how to try any more. Wish me luck. I need it.
why would you cut them out of your life for that
That’s not it. But they basically conspire to get me into church and constantly lecture me. I could deal with non acceptance if it were to be realistic and work hard and make something of myself but they have shit on every thing I’ve ever done. It’s a long story but I’m just done. They’re a millstone around my neck.
Sometimes the best thing you can do is to just move out. I've seen it almost completely repair or at least improve familial relationships because you're probably just at the age where you're not compatible living together anymore.
Pro tip: stop frog posting.
No. It’s fun.
They're middle class Americans Judge doesn't make them look like they have infinite money like in other cartoons but that's how people in this economic bracket are
people in that income bracket are vanishing rapidly
The advantages of not sitting on the sofa with lmao weed all day long.
In one of the episodes boomhauer says something about electrical engineering school. Then mentions workers comp settlement in another.
It was a different time then, a better time
>Mid 30s
Explicitly in their mid 40s
That's right, and soon they'll all be dead, and soon their whole generation will have to answer for what they've done.
What?
Maybe you should have focused your career on propane and propane accesories sales rather than going into film school.