This was a stain on the later seasons. Some old man wanted to self-insert and bang Luanne.
This was a stain on the later seasons. Some old man wanted to self-insert and bang Luanne.
This was a stain on the later seasons. Some old man wanted to self-insert and bang Luanne.
How much money did Tom Petty throw around to get his waifu?
Like you sick fricks wouldn't do the same thing for your waifus.
Not the first or last time.
You don't self insert as the old guy in your fantasy, you do what the nuPPG guy did and create an appropriately aged proxy. People clown on that guy but at least he didn't make his insert a grown dude.
Luanne was pure redneck trailer trash.
Lucky was her best option.
Yep. Lucky is the best man for Luanne, loves her, and treats her right.
And he's set for life. Lucky is the best and only option for her.
Hank said something along the lines of "It's not like Lucky's ruining her chances of becoming a surgeon"
Lucky was kind, loyal and had money. He was the best Luanne was ever going to get.
I can't remember if Luanne met Lucky before or after her college attempt failed.
It felt like the show just didn't know wether they wanted to make something out of her or just have her go on being a dumb blonde.
It was WAY after.
Luanne and Lucky bought a house in a suburb. Luanne had a job and Lucky vowed to get a job once his back healed. How did she end up trailer trash?
But she went to college... TO COLLEGE!!!!! Don't you understand how important it was to Luanne's character that she went TO COLLEGE!!! That automatically made her a GOOD PERSON!
>But she went to college... TO COLLEGE!!!!!
And she flunked out.
But she went TO COLLEGE!! That makes her a GOOD PERSON!!
The people who voiced them are dead.
They should have a montage of Lucky and Luanne in the new KOTH series with American Girl playing in the background
>Early seasons
>Luanne is naive but determined not to become trailer trash like her parents
>Later seasons
>Luanne becomes trailer trash like her parents.
Art imitates life.
And in fairness, Luanne isn't even 20 at the start of the series? So by series end, she's something like 23-24 with a husband, a house (with a slab foundation, not a trailer home), and a kid.
That's outperforming a lot of Cinemaphile and the greater internet. Luanne was determined not to be trailer trash and realized you can accomplish that goal without becoming a congresswoman or astronaut.
You can tell Lucky was a self insert because there is no way Hank would want a lazy, dimwitted Redneck like him anywhere near his family on a permanent basis.
I can't imagine Lucky being a lazy dimwit is a self insert for 15x platinum musician/singer Tom Petty
I hated how it completed ruined Luanne’s development. They were building her up to become self sufficient and educated, only to make her a white trash homebody.
I hated how they desperately tried to force this idea that Luanne could be come some kind of self sufficient educated person when in reality she was always nothing but trailer trash.
Dude, by the end of the series she owned her own home, her own business, had a loving husband and had started a family. She got everything she ever wanted.
>I hated how it completed ruined Luanne’s development.
Luanne was hard countered by mid IQ and upbringing; she was never going to graduate college. KOTH did right by Luanne for giving her a good end where she's happy and didn't feel like she should constantly try to prove herself as good person to society.
Most Cinemaphile posters have zero idea who Tom Petty is
I daughter just gave me my first grandchild and I don't know who Tom Petty is. Is that something important we need in our life?
*My
You're probably not from the anglosphere
For most Gen Xers and above from English speaking countries he is simply part of shared cultural knowledge and I don't think you can really "get" Lucky without understanding he's meant to be Tom Petty if life took him down another less fortunate road.
It's like those many characters that are basically meant to be Freddie Mercury or Michael Jackson but in the world of the cartoon, and not recognizing that is just missing a joke
Sorry I'm not familiar with your random texas hick nobodies.
I think perhaps you're trying to make me rage but I don't like Tom Petty or anything. I just understand he's a near universally-known figure. He outsold Nirvana, Bob Marley and Green Day. He was in the Travelling Wilburys with bandmates I'm sure you will also say are nobodies like Bob Dylan and George Harrison. I don't own anything he's ever released. I'm just telling you he is a household name in most of the world and it's surprising you wouldn't have heard of him
Tom Petty only has 5 good songs, I don't get why he was so massively popular
5 REALLY good songs and one that inspired an entire generation of music.
Which song?
american girls
He sold that much because he had a long career in multiple bands, and if you were in music you very likely knew of The Heartbreakers. But thinking someone who doesn't know him isn't from the Anglosphere? He isn't exactly a frequent figure on British TV.
He was ubiquitous at one point. I say that as an oldgay brit. Everyone with a passing awareness of rock music knew who Tom Petty was. Similar level as Bruce Springsteen or Bryan Adams
Plenty of well-known musicians have long careers in multiple bands without coming close.
Of the Wilburys mentioned by
I think Jeff Lynne is more likely to be not recognised than Petty
Important? No. But he's got some pretty good stuff. Lucky's probably prettier than Tom though. My favourite
4 more than most famous bands and 5 more than anyone these days.
Lucky was just underwritten and boring was his problem, he wasn't even a real character originally, just a random loser in another episode.
They should have kept the gag early on that Luanne was a better mechanic than anyone else in the neighborhood, but didn't acknowledge it because she didn't care and it made all the neighbors uncomfortable. Would've been in-line with the show's usual humor.
Lucky just sucked, has nothing to do with Luanne for me.
He just wasn't funny. Every time he opened his mouth it was done stilted delivery of a joke you'd expect to hear from the blue collar comedy tour and it felt totally out of place with the established tone and style of the more down to earth suburban setting.
It's like he represented what people assumed King of The Hill was before actually watching.