What in the absolute hell were they thinking with this character? Like he's not completely bad, but Lucky is really REALLY flawed.
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What in the absolute hell were they thinking with this character?
What in the absolute hell were they thinking with this character? Like he's not completely bad, but Lucky is really REALLY flawed.
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I kind of wonder if this would have been tom Petty's actual life had his music career not taken off.
“You ain’t tasted nothing until you’ve tasted a corn chip right off the line”
Lucky is a darling. You shut up and leave my country bumpkin alone!
It’s impressive how realistically ugly he is
It didn't really make sense to me because Luanne's previous love interests were nothing like that, like the guy who got blown up at the MegaloMart. Seems like some exec who kneyw nothing about the show other than it being "the hick show" told them to "pair her off with another pick".
IT specially doesn't make sense because Luanne's entire development is her trying to prove she isn't trailer trash, only for her to marry and have a kid with literal trailer trash. I think that's also why I hate Lucky as well, he's just way to fricking scummy and trashy. Like I wouldn't mind if he at lest worked some shitty ass job, in a way he's like the dollar store version of Hank but the fact that INSIST that he continues to be a dead beat just makes him unlike able and a bit confusing since Luanne and Bill both fill the roll out better.
I feel like the show wasn't about having arcs or that the arcs for the characters was the audience seeing every dimension of their character, which remained largely static throughout the series. Because to me, the point of the show boils down to the experience Judge had when moving to the suburbs in Texas where he was greeted with kindness from every direction which was entirely unexpected because he thought everyone was just a hick (and they were) but learned that it didn't exclude them from human decency.
Thus King of the Hill was about seeing the slivers of decency that existed in every person; or in some cases the slivers of good in horrible people like Cotton. Or seeing that people who outwardly appeared to be entirely good could in fact be rotten inside, like Peggy. You're meant to walk away from the show having a bit of understanding how complex people could be having seen all facets of these characters. I don't remember the exact moment but there was an instance in which even a total frickwad like Lucky was not a total c**t much like how Cotton took the fall for Bobby.
How they handle Cotton was stupid
>he end up apologizing to the emperor
>this get ignore since his final wish is to have his head sent to the emperor
>He get his own grave
>nope, he get cremated and shove in a toilet
This is mostly writers not binge watching older episodes or anything.
The show actually had consistent arcs and time progression until judge and the other original writers took the hands off approach. In season 7
Well, except for Bobby.
Well, that’s because if Bobby ever developed further, you’d either get to a point where Hank finally shows some level of support for his life decisions, or they reach the inevitable impasse they severed the relationship, which would be the end of the series as Hank’s struggle to relate to Bobby is the core of the series
Actually its because they just loved Pamela Adlon too much.
Who didn’t? She was hands down the best performance in the show. She took so many bland lines and made them hilarious
Lucky isn't even a c**t just a massive dumbass with horrible priorities and his "redneck philosophy" that the show tries to pretend is deep or meaningful when in reality it's shit like eating a corn chip or graduate high school with the intention of doing absolutely nothing with your diploma but he "has to do it"
Every character on King of the Hill is awful. That's why it's funny.
She liked his truck. Chicks dig trucks.
That's not true at all. It's not like Seinfeld or IASIP. It's not a show about awful people. In fact the main character, Hank, is a great guy but with a realistic amount of flaws.
He's dominantly boring. It's a terrible pair of characteristics.
It was weird that they kept showing how she was an amazing mechanic and then she never became one
I really wish he got a job, even a simple one. I mean Booda Sack was teaching driving and working on a comedy routine, but got a job at Strickland Propane. I liked that about Booda Sack.
>I really wish he got a job
He'd get injured within a week and be able to sue for more millions. It's safer for all the business owners of Arlen to leave Lucky be.
You can take a homie out the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out the homie. Literally life 101. Its a endless trap most never get out of.
Tom Petty was horny for Luanne and asked Judge to put his self-insert into the show as her love interest.
I think he was just a one off gag character featuring a celebrity guest star who happened to be popular enough to bring back again and again until becoming a reoccurring staple
>featuring a celebrity guest star who happened to be popular enough to bring back again and again until becoming a reoccurring staple
name one other fricking time this happens
I was saying what he was, not implying it was common
Sideshow Bob.
I want to say Bob's Burgers but it's a little weird since the show is full of D List Comedians already so Sarah Silverman, Bill Hader or Zack Galifinackis showing up from time to time hardly counts..
Adventure Time and Steven Universe have a few,
Family Guy likes to do it too, like Adam West, Carrie Fischer, and now Sam Elliot.
I think he's supposed to show that someone can be flawed, even detestable, and still be "good". Lucky never does anything immoral, he's kind to everyone, he's just not "normal".
>good
>literally sue someone that someone was helping him
He had a fully legal basis for it though.
I wouldn't say that. Lucky follows his own sense of morality. That only thing he does that's "good" is when he does the best for Luanne and their kid.
The only thing he did that was genuinely bad was creating a liability lawsuit to get Bobby the chip, and that was as a last resort and for someone else’s benefit, not his own. The man was even willing to go to prison if it meant Luanne keeping her father.
The problem is he is just to much of a loser hick. Everyone else comes off as a loser hick but either has a good excuse for it like with Bill's messy divorce or that's just the joke of don't judge a book by it's cover like with majority of the cast are actually pretty normal with good and stedy jobs and families. Lucky on the other hand is just a straight up sterotype who has no development or any sign that shows he's more than just a dumb hick. to make it worse is the fact that Luanne who's entire character is her struggeling to not be that person ends up shacking up with one, and instead of him becoming a better person or trying to teach a lesson that "just because I do XYZ doesn't mean I'm a dumb hick" he just continues to be a loser while Luanne regresses to the person she tried so hard not to be. The episode where Lucky tries to get his GED is really good example. As much as Peggy is a c**t for trying to sabatoge him, I still agree with her. The entire reason for him getting a GED wasn't so he could get a better job or anything, it was just some dumb, nonsensical "moral code" he had and doesn't actually have any actual desire to really better himself. Lucky can still have his weird moral code but when it supports him being a jobless loser it's just too much.
Lucky does have some development it's just he's at his core still a dumb redneck. Like he'll learn that it's wrong to chuck his trash in his Uncle-In-Law's Bin but it's through the logic of GOD I LOVE BEING IN AMERICA!
Like he learned that a constant string of frivolous lawsuits is no way to live life and resolved to get a real job.
I think people's biggest gripe was Lucky is they think it dragged Luanne down, ignoring that Luanne's life really only got better with Lucky in it despite him being a dumb redneck.
He went from dumb hick to still dumb but well meaning hick trying to be better.
I liked him.
after 1500 years of systemic marginalization by rich whites you would be pretty flawed too
Peggy Hill is a shitty person but people liked her because she was genuinely caring for her family and had some moments of self reflection.
Redcorn is a shitty person but people liked him because he has good character motivations and constantly makes mistakes but faces those mistakes heads on and accepts that he screwed up.
Cotton Hill is shitty but people like him because he is genuinely insane and has interesting interactions with people.
Lucky is a shitty person but nobody likes him because he constantly uses underhanded tricks and abuses the system which gets a lot of people upset. Lucky is supposed to represent "enjoying the simple things in life" which is fine but his negative personality largely overshadows this aspect of his and his few positive traits never benefits anyone else around him.