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On this episode of our cartoon recap show, we're chatting about an episode of the most excellent King of the Hill!

In "Aisle 8A," which first aired back on November 7, 1999, we see Kahn and Minh heading off to Hawaii for a business conference, while the Hill's agree to watch Connie. Bobby gets nervous about his girlfriend staying at the house, and Hank gets nervous about having to walk down the 'terrifying' aisle 8A to help Connie buy hygiene products after she has her first period. Meanwhile, the rest of the guys admire Dale's glorious, new garbage can!

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Phillip

I honestly don't get it. Eric was right with the question "where are the jokes?" Bob and Henry cover the show monthly on the Talking Simpsons podcast, they're into the third season now and every month I watch the episode and listen to their coverage of it. They'll cover the episode in depth and my reaction every time is "that was supposed to be a joke?" The show is supposed to be "grounded", but I find all the character to be way too uptight and unbelievable, totally unrelatable.

Frank Grimes

the only uptight one is hank. How are the other characters like Bobby, Peggy, Dale, Boomhauer, etc. uptight? The humor is in the mundaneness and sometimes absurdity, or sohwing how uptight hank is, and how it's "wrong". Check out some of the episodes recommended here, like Hank's dirty laundry or Bobby goes Nuts. Then there's the foot fetish episode, Sexual harassment ep, the legendary firefighter episode. You can't tell me you didn't find a firefghting we will go funny. Even before Talking Simpsons broke it down.

Paddy O'Rourke

The best Dale episode is "soldier of misfortune" and it's an episode about adults so it might resonate more

Mark D Myers

The thing that made me stop watching this show was all the episodes were a character who didn't do anything wrong keeps getting shit on by life.

Mark D Myers

Believe it or not they don't do rape jokes with quagmire anymore , Now his character is guy who's Fed up with one else's bull shit.

Alan Geoffrey James Lawrence

My take on the show is in between Eric's and Steve's views they express in the podcast. The episodes I saw of King of the Hill, I always wondered where I was supposed to be finding humor. There's a lot of characters saying cliched lines in a post-ironic tone, but a lot of the time there doesn't seem to be anything funny about what they're saying. And the tone of the episodes doesn't really help me work out what's funny––but at the same time, when I recall episodes, the things I recall and try to explain to people really do seem funny. And I do appreciate, like Steve says, all the things they don't do with Bobby, that could've made him more of a stereotype. That said, the aesthetics of the show never worked for me, and the more imaginative, goofy humor on The Simpsons spoke to me a little more than this show did. So I appreciated the diverging opinions on Animation Damnation this time around.

RJ Cunningham

I had to pull over the car to get this out because it’s sincerely, truly one of the most unbelievable things ever that not only did Eric never watch it, he actively thought the show was jokeless! Eric struck me as the person who would be the biggest KOTH fan. When I was 12 waiting for Simpsons on Sundays I thought it was a jokeless but to think that as an adult? My worldview is blown. I was thinking, and Andrew threw it out there and explained it perfectly how Eric should check out a Dale episode/s. Also helps to “know” the character more and watch a few episodes I think of Eric have the show a chance he’d loudly sing it’s praises. Dale seems like a character written by Eric Also surprised this was the most requested episode. Soldier of Misfortune, Megalo Dale, My Own Private Rodeo (“Enjoy your camp” being the greatest line in the entire show) etc.