The Monster Called Cotton - King of the Hill Review

[@megabladechronicles962]

The thing with Cotton and Kahn can actually be explained historically. U.S. soldiers learned about the physical differences between different Asian ethnicities to avoid confusion between allies from enemies. Cotton is the only one that knows what a Laotian person looks like because he was trained to do so.

[@Tokuijin]

That, and Minh's father is implied to be a war criminal.

[@BobtheExile]

Y'know, it's funny...I always assumed this was the case, but I never knew 100% for sure that it was part of their training.

[@allenxav4754]

Thank you for explaining!

[@cadejust6777]

​@@allenxav4754😊

[@cadejust6777]

​@@BobtheExile How Dare You Say That Dont Be So Raven Transphobic 🤬😡😠

[@cmndrkool321]

Fun fact: There is a city named Hell in Michigan. You can also pay to buy the tile “Mayor of Hell” for a single day.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Chris Sabin is a wrestler in Impact and he grew up near there

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

How much

[@pendremacherald6758]

“Your wife divorced you.” Dang, that kid no chill the entire show.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Dooley was great from the start

[@gaylewinds4808]

There was a "blink and you'll miss it" throw back to Luanne fixing cars in the last season. It was the episode when Hank is trying to finish Cotton's death list and Bill and Dale fight over a beer can. At the start of the episode, Luanne is looking at Bill's broken car and tells him "I'd say give it to charity, but charity people have enough problems".

[@NotSureJoeBauers]

Cotton isn't just using visual cues to determine Kahns ethnicity. If you listen he is sniffing while looking him up and down. He makes Kahn as a Laotian by the smell of his hair product. Thats later confirmed in the "COP" episode where he smells Kahn when he and Mihn are going into the Hill residence and doing a weird reckneck roleplay thing. Laos is a very french influenced country and Kahns hair style (pompadour) and his pomade make him identifiable from other south asians.

[@SpencerLemay]

That doesn't explain why he doesn't think he is Vietnamese.

[@NotSureJoeBauers]

@@SpencerLemay I think its fair to say that Cotton, who is basically blind at this point is smelling something that can identify him as Laotian. Cotton has been cheating on eye tests for his driver license since Regan was a Governor (1967) so we can assume that 30 years later hes blind as a bat. So rule out visual clues. If I smell someone wear Stetson cologne I could make a pretty educated guess as to where they are from

[@anon2427]

@@NotSureJoeBauersthe point the other commenter was trying to make us that that hair pomade is also common in Vietnam, as Vietnam was a part of French indochina as well.

[@Dragoncam13]

because Cambodians and Laotians are much darker and distinct looking than Viets@@SpencerLemay

[@mrhamneggs5295]

He also is aware of the man's name and accent.

[@oddiocurtiss]

What I always thought about the self-sabotage of the vehicle was that Cotton wanted to stay with his family, but wasn't emotionally stable enough to just ask. He was the product of a different time. It reminds me of my own grandfather. He always wanted help, especially given his deteriorating health. But he would never, ever ask. He just expected you to help and would raise hell when you didn't.

[@cctomcat321]

Yeah... I had to take care of my grandpa and ended up laying down the law, so to speak (I just yelled at him to quit being such an a-hole), because of his weird old guy stuff that seemed deliberately mean. Too bad he was old, he forgot after a week and slipped back into his old behavior. But he did shape up for that week. He'd also pretend to be more frail than he was. He'd ditch his walker and we'd catch him walking around, then he'd pretend like he forgot and would say, "I don't know how I got this far!" He was a sh*t.

[@sanchisan6997]

I don't think this is the last time Luanne proves her intelligence with cars. I'm honestly SUPER disappointed that her storyline didn't go in that direction after college didn't work out. There are also other things😮‍💨👀

[@SamLemont]

She is shown working on a few cars throughout the series. She rebuilds hanks trucks engine, and had also worked on Bill's car. Also, in the episode opening, she is shown changing car tires with Peggy.

[@scottoleson1997]

I remember Lucky wouldn’t let her help him with his truck or wouldn’t let her go stumping or hang out with his friends. That disappointed me

[@rollanddev]

I think that was the whole point of her being super-good doing mechanic work. She's constantly portrait as a ditzy air-head, over and over, even to extremes, but then we just *totally casually* learn she's some kind of expert mechanic *and never go anywhere with it or so much as openly acknowledge it* . If she were in the revival, I'd expect her to have casually picked up some other crazy technical knowhow... "Oh aunt Peggy, that web page has an error because someone forgot to implement monetary unit localization and it's interpreting that period as a thousands separator; here, I'll just write you a quick script using globalizejs and have it automatically reinject the value into the page's form for you..."

[@sanchisan6997]

@@rollanddev 🤣 I love that.

[@lucasmartinez5703]

I think the point of Luanne's mechanical knowledge going unacknowledged was the fact that women in general have a hard time getting into businesses that are traditionally male-centric. Luanne's potential for employment in mechanics getting squandered and the guys in the show not giving her much credit because she's a woman is probably part of the joke.

[@rougesunset]

Cotton probably sabotaged his car cause he’s a deeply lonely old man but too proud to ask to stay longer

[@gh0rochi363]

Cotton is actually a complex character. He's a bad person and bad father, but craves the love of his son even if he doesn't admit it.

[@stevelucky7579]

I like how even the girl students are shouting woman’s work and smashing their trays. Its just kids being kids and doing things for no reason at all or to be silly.

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

Girls aren't women.

[@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254]

Well technically they aren't women yet

[@jacobitewiseman3696]

I thought it was them getting mad at the boys

[@HappyNoob17YT]

​@@jacobitewiseman3696 maybe both, kids always do stuff like this.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

​@@HappyNoob17YTanything to get out of a test

[@haroldasusus4684]

I don’t think Bobby is that inconsistent. He always was kinda odd and has this flamboyant or creatively goofy mindset that doesn’t conform to tradition. But if he looks up to someone he can easily be convinced. Kids are just like that they’re figuring out who they are without realizing they’re often copying people

[@Colonel_RamRod]

Yeah and Bobby and Cotton have always had a special bond

[@rollanddev]

Agreed. Bobby is a kid; he's malleable and influenceable. We see him swing to and fro between views constantly. He went full-on pro-cannibalism-woke or zealous-environmentalist before - all over some figure of authority influencing him and winning him over on some view. He even let a girl his age push him into activism once... despite clearly having zero actual investment in any of the causes. His consistency is in his interests and base demeanor - he's a low-to-mid-level couch potato who aspires to be a comedian and to make his father proud (goals which, sadly, are often in conflict with one-another). That part of his character, and his influenceability, are always present.

[@iceluvndiva21]

Still extremely concerning

[@lucasmartinez5703]

Well the thing about kids is that they're naturally inconsistent.

[@sunteeththegenderpunk6414]

i was gonna say, it makes sense to me because hank isnt ""Funny"". cotton has a big ridiculous personality and to a kid who doesnt have a firm grasp on why its wrong his sexism can seem funny, like a silly cartoon trait. slapping people on the butt and telling your mum to do the cleaning herself is funny when youre not old enough to critically engage with the underlying attitudes at play, its why a lot of young boys these days have an interest in andrew tate. both of these people seem like goofy exaggerated caricatures. bobby has mimicked hank for humour before but hank is understated, responible, and serious, not someone that a kid that cares about making people laugh would want to emulate. cotton has a lot of traits that a young boy could find "cool" before they are old and experienced enough to recognise it for the Loser Shit it is, so it makes perfect sense tbh

[@caprinespectre]

"The old Oedipus handshake" absolutely killed me

[@zeldamaster52]

From a meta perspective, it's interesting that Cotton's debut episode shows him much less hostility from Hank than later episodes would. Being 40 years old with the documentary's worth of traumatic flashbacks Hank has about Cotton, you'd think he'd be a lot more apprehensive, and in later Cotton episodes, he is. Cotton's bad influence over Bobby must've been the straw that broke the camel's back for Hank. He was around Cotton enough as a boy to instinctively know to not be like him, but Bobby, being a bit older and only around Cotton for family events, never saw Cotton's awfulness on full display the way Hank did.

[@krongusblung8305]

or its season 1 and the showrunners changed their decision lol

[@Park-jf1wc]

That and cotton actually shows love toward Bobby.

[@JoseLopez-gi9sf]

Bobby gets a lot of love in the show by both his parents and his grandfather. I loved the line if it is a competition on who the better daddy is, you win, you made Bobby and all I made was you. But there are small things here and there that make it seem like Bobby is and will grow up to a horrible person. He does have a lot of guilt. But at the same time he is reinforced to be spoiled. Like when he burned the church down. Also every now and then he is shown to be very selfish like his grandfather. To the point he can be a bit crazy like him. It is my theory, thay Bobby will grow up to be someone that cheats or talks down to his wife. It was sad when Luane became nothing by trailer trash exactly like something she didn't want to be and said so. But the show was very realistic that way. And Bobby has that personality and is spoiled that future Bobby may be a scumbag. Cotton is a monster but is isbalso understandable after what he went through and lived.

[@Park-jf1wc]

@@JoseLopez-gi9sf How the hell is Bobby spoiled? Bobby's a great kid. Or did you forget the time he saved that pig from drowning?kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4qtc5yFacqtbMU

[@Fatherharu]

​@@JoseLopez-gi9sfJesse what the hell are you talking about

[@myiachanmagicalgirl]

I initially chalked up Luann's struggle with Beauty School to her being in the wrong profession because it's so obvious she should be a mechanic instead. I hoped the moral of the story line would turn out to be that people should be in jobs they are skilled at and enjoy instead of the ones that fit certain norms. When I first watched the show, I really assumed they were going to do an episode or arch challenging that and forcing the characters to change

[@moonbeam9142]

the pigeon rat reference! I can't! 🤣🤣🤣 Also, Luanne does show her mechanic skills in the episode where Hank mistakenly buys crack.

[@geoffnaggie961]

Bobby is inconsistent because he's impressionable. And he WORSHIPS his grandfather because he's even more of a "man" than Hank and loves Bobby unconditionally. Never forget Cotton told Hank the only reason he tolerates his existence is because he made Bobby.

[@gh0rochi363]

"If it's a competition of who's the better dad it's you. You made Bobby; all I made was you!"

[@sunteeththegenderpunk6414]

a small side note, i dont think its necessarily about cotton being more of a "man" than hank, its that cottons behaviour and personality make for a stronger personality for him to imitate. if you observe bobby throughout the show he frequently makes up strong characters to embody for comedy or just for fun; the way he acted dressed up in a bathrobe in a hotel, how attached he was to his cane, and a million other things without the age and wisdom to recognise cottons behaviour as shitty, he can seem like just a cool and funny guy who gets what he wants through being confident, has all this cool stuff and stories, a strong distinct voice and mannerisms, etc as a kid your grampa taking you to a bar instead of school is awesome, even as an adult would recognise it as irresponsible. bobby doesnt see the sexism in "womens work" except as a funny phrase you can say to get out of doing chores. slapping people on the butt makes them get you that snack you wanted. you need age and experience and critical thinking provided by good role models to recognise these things as shitty instead of a funny superpower to get what you want

[@kojeb]

it does irk me that somehow the only person bobby is never influenced by is his dad

[@geoffnaggie961]

@@sunteeththegenderpunk6414 these are great points.

[@laurorrichie7788]

Cotton is by no means my favorite character, but one of my favorite episodes of the show is the episode where he helps Peggy walk again after the skydiving incident. 2 characters who blatantly hate each throughout the series both pushing to help the other. Not softening and coming around to start to like the other person, but there is complicated sense of respect and support. Cotton essentially bullying Peggy and pushing her past her breaking point when she’s feeling weak and pathetic in a way she hasn’t before, feeling helpless like she might not ever be able to stand/walk/feel independent like she used to. Cotton pushes her down and riles her up to remind her she can stand up for herself, kinda strengthened by her anger towards Cotton. She opts out of physical therapy and asks for Cotton’s help instead to regain her strength and mobility. In exchange Peggy helps Cotton secure a grave plot in a cemetery for veterans and war heroes. She learns a lot about him through doing this and comes to understand him to some level in a way she hadn’t before. She questions his stories and is skeptical, but she fights for his right to be laid to rest in the veterans cemetery because despite her feelings about him and what a dick he often is he risked his life fighting for their country, and came back half the man he was before and she believed he deserved to be remembered that way. At the end when Cotton gets his cemetery plot, they go to the location and the plot is on top of a hill. Peggy is still badly injured with extremely limited mobility, and she says she’ll just stay and look from afar because she doesn’t believe she can get to the hilltop. That’s when Cotton tells her his last bit of motivation, if she gets up that hill he will let her dance on his grave. Peggy throws herself out of her wheelchair and crawls, clawing her way up the hillside to the top, using every bit of her strength and at the top she looks exhausted, but shakily stands and Cotton takes her hands, she falls into his arms leaning on him as they silently dance together on his grave.

[@Anastas1786]

I'm suddenly reminded of how Adult Swim's _King of the Hill_ rerun block was "sponsored" in part by Arlen local businesses. _"King of the Hill_ has been brought to you by the Hotel Arlen: Hotel Arlen! We're not _that_ kind of hotel anymore!"

[@andrewdeluca7352]

"The Get in Get out. When you need food real fast, but don't need it to be real good."

[@pixiewixiechu]

I'm pretty sure the reason Bobby was so easily influenced by Cotton was because Hank idolized Cotton, and Bobby looked up to Hank.

[@ryanmaclean1720]

Medically speaking the thing that happened to cotton is technically possible and is somewhat done today. There is a style of leg amputation that can occur where the shin and knee are damaged but the foot is fine. What doctors would do is get rid of the broken areas and stitch your foot on what remains of your femur where it would then act as a knee. This intern eliminates the need for prosthetics with knee joints which is incredibly expensive and hard to make

[@jacobcrowder2600]

Didnt Luanne show her knowledge of cars the time Hank's truck was broken into and the police completely took it apart to search for drugs? I seem to recall her spending the whole episode reassembling the truck from scratch

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Yeah. She was naturally gifted with machines but chose to do beauty school. Even though she's really bad at it

[@KnucklesxReala911]

Luanne wasn't bad at beauty stuff, but she did had a natural thing for mechanics, i hope we see her returning to that in the revival series as a main thing

[@odinvolk6973]

I'll have to rewatch it but I think she had some big words in the episode where his truck dies on a railroad. I also think she did a bunch of work on Lucky's truck in the later seasons. correction: she's not even in that episode.

[@cadejust6777]

​@@odinvolk6973 How Dare You Say That Dont Be So Raven Transphobic 🤬😡😠

[@odinvolk6973]

@@cadejust6777 don't be so using terms I've never heard of. seriously though, what's that mean?

[@REDEEMERWOLF]

Season 1 Hank is inconsistent from his later seasons, but it's character development. -True that Hank is happy to see his dad in this episode, but it's because he's in denial about his father being a horrible father and influence. By the end of this episode, he grows and comes to terms that his father was a bad one. Then after this episode, hank isn't happy to see his dad.

[@davidperkins7782]

Honestly, I've noticed that they've made Luanne dumber for later seasons. In the beginning, Luanne was intelligent, assertive, and self aware. But later on she becomes ignorant, naive, and very religious. Yet they continued to sexualize her and it made me feel uncomfortable. When I see someone be sexualized, and they're either too young or too naive to know what's going on, I just feel dirty.

[@rootfish2671]

I hated she got with Lucky and just hate lucky in general

[@greendiamondglow]

No, I get why Bobby would be more susceptible to be swept up in his granddad's nonsense than Hank's. Hank keeps Bobby at arm's length and is so obviously put off by his son's quirks. Cotton embraces Bobby's weirdness in a way that Hank refuses to, so it makes sense that Bobby would be more open to Cotton's influence.

[@gh0rochi363]

Cotton loved that boy

[@brennanc4321]

He won't be running the family gas station

[@MaybeDHitHim]

1, Hank doesn't engage in nonsense. In fact, he hates it. 2, Bobby is just a mellow spirit. So unless there's some severe history, he wouldn't possibly have any acrimony toward his grandfather.

[@DyslexicGamer]

Cotton Hill is legit one of the best characters out there and one of my favorites with him delivering what could be the best line in television history in my humble opinion if not one of the best lines in fiction period. Hank: please stop disrespecting mother while bobbies in the room. Cotton: you heard him Bobby, leave the room. Best line ever! Also no way in hell could he be betrayed nowadays both on the way he treats women physically and verbally

[@montymole2]

how is "you heard him bobby, leave the room." the best line in television history? get outta here lol

[@dylansearcy3966]

May Luanne’s voice actress rest in peace

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I have a feeling deedee was severely abused as a child so she's been conditioned to cotton's personality type and now she's drawn to men like him, kinda like how I'm drawn to women like my mother but that's only a theory

[@emanuelespinoza9325]

Just reading this makes me sad for Didi.

[@TheSuperstar]

A FILM THEORY

[@17nero44]

King of the hill, a great voice and charisma and fascinating art that I can’t quite stop being fascinated by for some reason? Yep, found a new fave channel.

[@boofloof1996]

Cotton would without a doubt throw Hank into a Volcano and still call him a sissy for taking so long for crawling out.

[@tiy4301]

Cottons medical operation is real, I watched a video on it a while back. Keep posting more and I'll keep watching.

[@brianm7287]

If you lose a shin and have your foot intact, they will sometimes do a rotationplasty, which is where they put the foot on backwards. They do that so that they can align the heel with the knee and match the points of articulation. the backwards heel is the new "knee" with the prosthetic.

[@dataobsessedfatguy]

I love your videos and opinions on King of the Hill. I do want to share a bit of mine with you about Bobby and his impressionableness. I've actually seen this happen in many children. When they see a loophole that allows them to move outside of their parents/guardians framework they will jump on it if it appeals to them. In Bobby's case, Cotton is his dad's dad and he sees his dad as being great. On top of this, his dad allows for things to occur while Cotton is around that he wouldn't allow normally. That and Hank has a limited means of forcing Cotton to change and doesn't outright rebuke him and his actions enough, let alone often in front of Bobby. So there's a lot of leeway there for Bobby to be open to Cotton and his methods. For example, Bobby doesn't harbor disrespect for women but respect for Cotton. When he mimics the butt slapping, he likely just sees it as something cool or natural. Bobby isn't always noticing how people respond negatively to Cotton and when he does there often isn't much of a negative consequence to it. Bobby as a child is missing a lot of subtext and life experience. He isn't dumb and he knows that Cotton isn't going to do and allow for all of the things that Hank and Peggy would, but he knows that he's allowed to act in certain ways around each person. As far as I can recall, the negative stuff that Bobby picks up has not been outright banned or spoken about. Hank and Peggy have never exhibited Cottons awful behavior and their norms are so far from it that no one would expect them to have to tell him. Bobby could probably guess that it's wrong in some way, but not completely why. The loophole and fascination would beat that out and allow him to act out.

[@dongojangle106]

Look who just hit their first 500 subs! Numbers going quick, congrats!

[@MegaZzZeux]

Thanks algorithm...now I have 7 more videos to watch before the next one comes out. Keep up the good work!

[@samuraijackoff5354]

8:26, Asian people can tell apart other asian people. I can't do it well but my parents can tell a Hmong person from a malaysian to Chinese and Japanese person just at a glance or the way they talk. Cotton probably got that skill from being injured with his Japanese lover.

[@Ghostarduster]

. . . Oh man, this was gnawing at the back of my head the entire time watching your video, but at the second watch to try and get it, it came to me. The music in this is Costa Del Sol from FF7!

[@mikeyder344]

My dude, how do you only have 760, well now 761, subscribers? You have a damn good presentation and voice for this kind of stuff. Keep it up dude, it's good stuff. WE NEED TO PROMOTE THIS MAN'S WORK.

[@Monochrome_I]

YOU THOUGHT I WOULDN'T NOTICE FOO FIGHTERS LMFAOO

[@fossilartstudios5878]

If my memory isn’t wrong, the reason cotton can tell the difference was cause he had to sort dead bodies between friendly and enemies and had to be tell which was which with just a glance.

[@SnowyWolborg]

Also, people from Southeast Asia really don't look the same as the Chinese/Japanese(as Hank and friends put it) if you've ever seen or met both.

[@foxymetroid]

Or he was trained to spot the differences before being shipped off to fight in the Pacific.

[@ocikat239]

Wow my wish for more uploads was granted way sooner than expected!!

[@MaxOakland]

Cotton is the villain of King of the Hill. It’s crazy there are more people who hate Peggy than Cotton

[@adventureflyz]

9:09 I agree, she kind of freaks me out. She makes me think she has a concussion or she’s high af 😭 and nobody talks about it so I felt alone in that feeling

[@buruzn09]

I’m really enjoying your videos. There are a number of good KZbin cartoon reviewers and essayists, and it’s cool to get in early an a new good one.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

My grandpa is as old as cotton and still alive. His main flaw is his racism but he keeps his distance. He never fought in ww2 because mexico didnt have much involvement despite how much their old german allies screwed them over.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

My abusive stepdad's grandpa is a worse version of my stepdad, he's extremely selfish, manipulative and there's rumors of him being a pedophile but nobody knows for sure, I don't like him, he doesn't do anything for me and I barely talk to him, I'm not even speaking to my stepdad after he beat the shit out of me

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

​@@AbrasiousProductions I call bullshit.

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

@@AbrasiousProductions I am sorry your stepdad and grandfather are real scumbags. I hope in time you find a positive grandfather/father role model to hang out with and do fun things with.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

@@bonefetcherbrimley7740 I've lost all hope of ever having a father figure in my life, my boyfriend just abandoned me and I looked at him as my true father, that's it, the ONLY father I need is God, he'll never abandon or abuse me..

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

@@AbrasiousProductions Well I am very sorry to hear that, you have my sympathies. I hope you have a happy life, and I hope your faith brings you joy!

[@MCKevin289]

My friends dad worked for toys r us corporate. He got a 35 dollar severance check after working there for over 20 years.

[@VibinWitch]

My parents watched this show so much as a kid i kinda learned to like it but boy i HATED Cotton so much i was glad when Hank finally stood up to him and gave him a dressing down about how awful he is even if it didn't do much to change his sexist views. We should all be more like that

[@rollanddev]

Rest assured my friend, we still live in a redeemable world - many of us *are* like that. No amount of dressing down anyone has given about how awful I am has ever done much to change my sexist views! :)

[@anon2427]

@@rollanddevbased

[@paladintorie]

So you're telling me Santa isn't real? 🤨 Absolutely have been LOVING your content dude. Keep up the amazing work!

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Love the empty beers and root beers together 🤣

[@dimbusjenkins]

that Joffrey, Kai Winn, etc. point def hits her becoming Kai and getting all that power hit emotionally in the same way as watching your team lose in game 7 of the finals

[@autistaemaximi983]

you have one bizarre upload schedule man

[@SqueeaakyB00ts]

I thrive in his chaos!

[@razalees]

Not bizarre my friend, consistent. He's been uploading every 3 days ever since he's found his niche (KOTH reviews) and Im here for it. There's sooo many episodes that he has a lot of content that he can do for a while and KOTH video essays and reviews are some of my favorite content to follow so I'm most definitely here for fthe the upload schedule my friend 💪🏾

[@Retro_GamerA]

At least he has a schedule

[@dylansearcy3966]

3:02 Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking cold in this scene

[@KewneRain]

I've seen this show so many times and I've never been able to work out what the joke about the "elderly jewish man" is referencing. I feel like I'm missing one of the biggest in-jokes in the series not knowing about it.

[@zeroxwarrior]

I took it as a Jackie mason reference or just older Jewish comedians in general. But to be fair I don’t know for sure.

[@vincentfranklin17]

Cotton may be loud, abrasive and sexiest, but he does love Bobby. His one saving grace with me.

[@gloryhound]

immediate thumbs up at the sao and friends jabs

[@ian-wy5fw]

keep em coming, man

[@ItzSyther]

Quick thing: We do see Luanne involved with cars again although it was in a dream of sorts by peggy and in said dream Luanne is working on Lucky's car although there could of been scenes prior to that (I'm pretty sure she doesn't get with Lucky till wayyyy later in the show)

[@SplendidCoffee0]

I hear that Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack. Great video!

[@Bluelagann45]

You sir, have earned a subscriber.

[@moonlitfirebugs]

Just now realizing the hotel arlen turning from a place with sex work to a place with ppl working as lawyers ties in really well with the Harlotown plot in a later episode :0c

[@EmilyCaissie]

First of all: your content is SO polished I was shocked to see how fresh you are to the game, massive props. Second: you used super Metroid music in this video and I would subscribe a second time if I could but i appreciate you making use of one of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time

[@KickUpHammyDude]

I’m really impressed by the abundance of reviews! Hope l you’re treating yourself well in between!

[@electrofonickitty823]

Cotton is the Clay Puffington of King of the Hill. He's more insane than that too.

[@lucasmartinez5703]

It makes him look more insane because Cotton's world is far less insane then Clay's where Clay can almost appear normal in.

[@dwaynemontgomery1851]

"Boggle" - Hank Rutherford Hill

[@pk5727]

Actually…I forgot Lu Ann was good at anything. Why didn’t she become a mechanic especially when lucky is introduced.

[@NatCosplaysBae]

Dude everytime I Watch a new vid, you’ve got like 300 more subs than the last time!! I hope it continues to go up, you deserve it!!!!

[@michaeljordanpeterson8590]

I don't think its so much that Bobby is written inconsistently - I think Bobby is just consistently impressionable, whether from Cotton or John Redcorn or random clowns and dungeon masters. Bobby loves finding new versions of himself cause while he's mature for his age he is still very childlike

[@isopod5215]

Congrats on 1k subs 🎉

[@tylertheguy3160]

Even if he's already had his feet connected to his shins, couldn't Cotton have just gotten the feet amputated and gotten prosthetics anyway? I'm probably overthinking it but it just seems weird to me that someone in his position would never think of that.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

That would've hurt as Hell

[@tylertheguy3160]

@@MASTEROFEVIL I mean yeah but it would've been bearable if he got it professionally done, and I think having prosthetics would be infinitely better than having to hobble around like a penguin and being incredibly short.

[@FrancisR420]

Maybe The medics were planning on him getting prosthetics but didn't follow through. Sometimes ankles are grafted as replacement knees and prosthetics are attached to the foot, maybe the medic was trying to save as much of his legs as possible and then the VA fell through when he got home.

[@FrancisR420]

​@@tylertheguy3160 Do you have a prosthetic how do you know how bearable one would be for a specific undefined injury? People who've had professional amputations have lifelong issues with prosthetics And this was 50 years ago post Vietnam, Vietnam vets are not known for their prompt comprehensive medical treatment,

[@tylertheguy3160]

@@FrancisR420 1. Yes I know phantom pain is a thing. I would rather take that over hobbling around like a penguin. 2. Cotton was in World War 2, not Vietnam. And soldiers have been fitted with prosthetics as far back as the Civil War.

[@Uay778]

Not only do I love this series. But your mascot is really cute! He looks so squishable while at the same time the little star thing on the front makes it look really cool

[@Bala_Niranna]

man the production value of this channel is so slick, like up there with saberspark and alphajay and whatnot, i cant believe you dont have more subscribers welp, guess i gotta binge the whole backlog now

[@leejtam0914]

I think Cotton is hilarious because of what you said that he's not around much.

[@alexs4307]

Could you talk abt mission hill?

[@WillK1349.]

“…when I woke up they were sowing my feet to my knees” gets me every time along with ‘shin jelly’ 😂😂😂😂

[@Kyle-gi2jb]

I've known many veterans to be able to tell differences in people due to them being well-travled and more worldly.

[@blue_is_not_sad]

dude i cant believe you havent blown up yet i found you the other day and am now obsessed keep that sweet sweet content coming

[@cameronbird118]

the feet reatachment is quite common and makes prostetics work a lot better you dont want a stump because theres no cartilage on the bottom and it makes using prostetics quite painful, theres an amputee girl on youtube who wxplains in more detail,

[@Stinkyboi]

I like that discussions you're creating, neat channel. I'm usually very wary of animated character KZbinrs with how alt right they tend to be

[@MegaRussell12]

Luanne’s diagnosis on the car was completely wrong. The starter was turning meaning no issue with the starting system, especially the starter solenoid. In fact anytime any of the characters are talking about cars, they are all wrong except boomhower.

[@jetkismet2345]

A procedure called a rotationplasty might have been an option for Cotton, although the surgery is usually performed on children who are still growing

[@rollanddev]

While invented in the 30s, it wasn't a very well known operation until the 1950s, making it unlikely the physician handling his case would have known about it (let alone how to perform it).

[@ararebeast]

R2D is going crazy on all sorts of forms of media in this video. Also, he says some folks have a Cotton Hill in their family, and while I can think of a few behaviorally, I don't think that any of them killed fiddy men. Bro, how many friends name Fattie did Cotton have over this lifetime? I feel like his later usual posse has one that also gets replaced by another one. Also, I know it's probably done in a fashion to put him down and make him lesser-than, but I always like the way Cotton says "Mister KAHN." And I wonder when we're going to be getting past the episodes I've seen KZbin poops of.

[@kyleward3914]

Hell is in Michigan. This is not a joke about Michigan. We have a town named Hell.

[@rootfish2671]

A frozen hell

[@I.C.Weiner]

Hell is in Wyoming too. Well a bunch of places with hell in it.

[@DrakeKnight99]

That What did you say is one of my favorite jokes becasue of how the punchline is

[@iceluvndiva21]

*scribbles down the Medusa bit* I have someone like Peggy as a mom. Who sadly shares said name. So yeah.... That's why I can't stand Mrs. Hill getting away with her antics. My mom NEVER was able to get away with half the crap this woman did. Also... I see it as both offensive and impressive. You can have a keen eye for something so niche but use it in offensive reasons. Though I like to think that the brief moment of cotton and Hank having fun was foreshadowing of what's to come later on. Cotton has moments where he can be fun and empathic but it's burried under years of spite, bitterness, and selfish selfhated. I mean the guy offs himself as a powermove over Peggy! As for Dee? Well I think she probably was like that WELL before she met Cotton. That kinda thing take time not only to take root but also to crawl out of. So it's possible she had been in abusive relationships or had a broken home life like Hank did.

[@SUPDevHead]

When I think about Didi, I can't help but think of Nurse Bendy from Moral Orel. She seems regressed from some traumatic event.

[@TnT_F0X]

6:45 Um... there are procedures where if the shin needs to be amputated they do attach the one foot to the knee. They rotate the foot 80 degrees though so the Ankle bends in the same direction as the knee, then the prosthetic straps on the foot and thigh, giving the amputee a functioning kankle joint. So... if they put cotton's feet on backwards, he would actually be able to walk near normal with prosthetics.

[@anthonyskata]

Laos helped the allied powers during WW2 that's why he's familiar with them

[@FrancisR420]

there is a procedure where the shin and knee is removed and the ankle is put on backwards at the bottom of the thigh and acts as a knee for an artificial leg. It basically looks like your picture of cotton with one leg shorter except the foot is backwards. It's called rotationplasty

[@Biscuit-Triscuit]

The Toys R Us bit really killed me for some reason

[@just_your_localguard9612]

Not gonna lie, I wished more Cottons existed, he easily best of King of the hill cast.

[@TheWedabest]

I always liked cotton. I never really had a problem with cottons personality. Also cotton had some good qualities.

[@Zeeboklown]

Fun fact, they actually regularly attached feets people's needs a lot. And they do it backwards! It more or less makes their heel and ankle their new kneecap and makes it able to work with a prosthetic easier

[@sirrobert3694]

Bro, the reason Cotton knows Kahn is Laocian (I hope I spelled that right) is because he was trained NOT to shoot his people.

[@enter_eagle]

usually when people attach the foot to the knee, they flip the foot backwards so it can be used to articulate prosthetics

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

A friend and I have been going back and watching KotH episodes for about 3 weeks now (before Hardwick sadly passed) and one observation I picked up from this was how Hank weirdly idolized his father up until this point. Even in the flashbacks where Hank mentions how his father mocked him for hurting his leg as a kid, the way Hank spoke of Cotton didn't present the same sort of over glorification Hank showed off in this episode. If anything, that prior flashback made it clear that Hank was 100% aware to how much of an asshole his father was and while not outright hating him, he pointed out how CRAZY he could be and how outlandish so many of his actions were. So this episode just felt a little weird with how oddly blinded by 'adoration' Hank was over Cotton. Even the whole thing with how it come off like it's been years since they've communicated felt off but hey, early episodes. And as much of an asshole as he is, Cotton is one of my favorite characters in the show because of how incredibly outlandish he is. I was raised by a WW2 (grandfather) and while he was no where near as insane as Cotton, there's just something about how exaggerated Cotton is in his ways that just....works. He's not an insult to WW2 vets he's seriously just Cotton Hill and from the way things seem he was crazy even before he 'gots his shins blown off' before he killed FIDDY MEN. Also, I want to point out that as much as Cotton is an asshole, the fact that he actually KNOWS a lot more about certain things still makes me laugh. He knew Khan as Laotian which stuns Khan into silence while the guys throughout the series STILL continue to get Khan's nationality and culture mixed up with so many different East Asian cultures through the course of the series. He also didn't make a big deal over Gary being Jewish in the episode where Hank goes blind even though the whole introduction sets it up as him getting ready to go nuts but instead he greets him and doesn't even make a big deal of it. The whole episode and the Cotton's character coming off this episode was great. It shows us that while Hank is very traditional, he's not the same level of crazy that his father is and in most cases, Hank will come to accept and learn new things but the problem isn't so much of his stubbornness but like a lot of us, he doesn't take well to be OVERWHELMED and FORCED into new things without warning which leads to his very understandable pushbacks but it's so satisfying seeing Hank find his place in new things or in this case, stand up for his wife and later on, stand up for his mom whom Cotton put through hell. And as far as Didi goes....she is....ummm. How can I describe her? I don't feel sad for Didi because she gives off this weird air about her where she SEEMS ditzy as hell but then she says and makes these weird ass observations that make you wonder what the hell she's seeing beyond sight. She comes off as very chill and is herself just a harmless person. She means well and doesn't want to hurt anyone which is why even in her attempts to get angry or say something mean, it's still said with an air of calmness to it and yeah, two adults shouldn't be shamed in loving each other with an age gape but DUUUUUUUDE. It *IS* weird if your dad married your CLASSMATE and then later got her PREGNANT, making her your STEP-MOM and it's even WORSE when he keeps FLAUNTING it but that's another observation. Cotton was the one flaunting Didi in front of Hank and Peggy while if anything, Didi just wanted to have some sort of normal conversations (as normal as you get with her) with everyone but she's stuck inbetween the family drama that Cotton starts and makes her an accessory over. If anything, that's a part I can feel sad about her for; she just wants some normalcy and she could have had that with the Hills....if not for the weird situation that brings them together. It's why I hate how they sort of wrote her and GH out of the show after Cotton died. Even without Cotton around, she is still a Hill and I would have loved to see things like GH and Luanne's baby growing up together and Bobby sort of helping both in his own ways. Plus, I wish we had gotten more flashbacks of her and Hank together especially when it comes to the infamous pinching incident. I wonder where Hank got that habit from. XD

[@Andiethehedgehog24]

Dede has always unsettled me especially when I was a kid and I used to watch king of the hill all the time. The episode when gh is born and she’s suffering severe depression is so rough and I always felt like the narrative wants us to be annoyed at her for it

[@anthonygillette]

13:26 I’m unsure if you’ve covered it yet, but Luanne shows it again a few times. My best example is when she puts Hank’s truck back together after it’s searched by police in the episode where he buys crack thinking it’s bait. Can’t remember the episode name

[@Retro_GamerA]

"No reason" Yeah I wouldn't exactly say Mr. Freeze trying to save his dying wife (which he does succeed every now and again in doing so) is "no reason"

[@ravendesk9912]

Breaking news skelly man with rad shades yells at a bunch of kids that santa isn't real at toys r us more news at 6

[@colin1177]

You can connect a foot to a thigh stump, but i think the foot faces backwards.

[@UnkindledTheUndying]

I saw Heihachi so I pressed like. Now I want an edit of Hank dropping Cotton off a cliff, Kazuya style. Seriously though, love the vids.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

I like the episode where Cotton sends Bobby to his old military school