{"id":8124,"date":"2020-02-04T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:11:27","slug":"lets-laugh-at-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8124","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Laugh At Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve never really been a fan of King of the Hill. I would sometimes watch it (or have it on in the background while playing video games) on Sunday nights when it was on between all the other shows I wanted to watch. But it was never something I would have said I liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which makes one wonder why I&#8217;ve recently decided to dive in and see how far into the series I can get before getting tired of it. There are thirteen seasons! I would have guessed ten at most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the point, I&#8217;ve finished the first season, and it&#8217;s been&#8230; okay. I like the idea of exploring how ignorant Americans are, but it isn&#8217;t terribly funny. Mostly just groan-worthy and\/or uncomfortable. That said, it seems like there&#8217;s one exceptionally funny punchline in each episode. The best example, and easily my favourite moment in the series so far is this line: <\/p>\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NGiE0kqe7N8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I cracked up <em>hard<\/em> at that. I hurt myself laughing. It&#8217;s not the funniest line, but the whole scene really made it work. Something about the perfectly flat delivery and how unexpected it was. Peggy immediately leaving without saying a word was the perfect response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will season two have a similar moment? Will it have more than one? I don&#8217;t know, but I&#8217;m <s>sure as heck<\/s> probably going to find out <s>soon<\/s> eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never really been a fan of King of the Hill. I would sometimes watch it (or have it on in the background while playing video games) on Sunday nights when it was on between all the other shows I wanted to watch. But it was never something I would have said I liked. Which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Laugh At Americans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiot-box","tag-king-of-the-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8126,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}