Hank often come off as self-righteous bully that the show bent over to make right

KotH often championed pragmatism over feelings. The classic episode where Bobby becomes a fat kid model really drove the idea home that just because it feels good doesn’t mean it’s good for you. It’s a ballsy lesson in today’s “be yourself” social landscape now even more so than when it first aired.

A lot of Mike Judge’s work was about warning society not to become too permissive with strange people, because strange people don’t thrive in a structured world. That said, a lot of episodes did prove Hank wrong that the old ways were the best, like when he gets his old high school football coach to coach the middle school and realizes the dude wasn’t actually just a hard ass but a psycho.

Over all, the show grew to be about finding the middle ground, which isn’t really something you see anymore.

>The classic episode where Bobby becomes a fat kid model really drove the idea home that just because it feels good doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
That was a complete asspull though.
Just out of nowhere at the end the kids just decided to start assaulting the models, and this happened a lot, Hank has a problem with something Bobby's taken an interest in, and then something happens at the end to vindicate him

>Just out of nowhere at the end the kids just decided to start assaulting the models
everyone else saw it a mile off, user. theres nothing more laughable than a proud fatty.

Ok so you're just trolling

>Hurr why the characters bad choices end up with realistic consequences???
(You)

Nah kids are mean. If they didn't assault him they'd bully the shit out of him in school.
Koth was middle ground.

What the fuck is realistic about teens going to a mall and randomly disrupting an event by hitting people with donuts?

>Don't do this thing you enjoy because some people might make fun of you
That's not a middle ground

I honestly get more of an autistic fogey vibe from him. He's often kind of brusque and weird, but usually ends up at least partially yielding by the end of the episode.

He's someone who's used to being right most of the time and having to clean up other peoples' messes for them. People like this tend to be less open to opposing ideas because they assume they're right and can even lean on their intuition as a measure of validity. But the people who are bothered by this tendency just ain't right.

>why would kids bully other kids for doing something ridiculous
were you home schooled?

You might ask yourself why you're enjoying it and why you're getting bullied for it e.g. 'because it feels societally validating' and 'because society doesn't actually validate it' respectively.

Middle ground shows you can be yourself and feel empowered an happy, but people are still people and will bully the shit out if you for it. Nothing wrong with expressing yourself. But not everyone behaves this way.
Have you never met a child?

I don't need to be homeschooled to see the absurdity of kids disrupting an event by beating people with donuts.
There are a thousand different ways that episode could've gotten the message across without going full retard.

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So kids would randomly throw donuts at everybody during a charity event? Nah, asspull, just let the kid live his life, he’s making money off it, which brings up the episode where Hank threw a tantrum over Bobby becoming a guy who cleaned up puke. Like, Jesus, Hank works for a guy like Buck who commits a lot of crimes and has the gall to say his job is more respectable

Jesus have you legitimately never been to a public school? You sound like someone who unironically watches Enter videos

Damn you're autistic. You act like kids have never done some fucked up shit like this before.

Sounds like something the drop kicks in my grade would do

You don't even have an argument here, all you keep saying is "Kids do dumb things" as if that's some universal explanation and not an asspull to make Hank right.

But it is a universal explanation. Doing gay shit will get you bullied. Don’t be a fag. That’s the moral, and it’s a righteous one.

Because it is. You just don't understand kids you aspie.

And even then, that just teaches Bobby he should just always follow what the crowd wants and rely on others to tell him what to do which contradicts a lot of other episodes

How many public schools have you been to where kids randomly start assaulting each other with donuts?
Never happened at mine

And all you've done is prove me right, you don't have an argument besides "kids totally do this all the time in real life"

Your autism is blinding you dude seriously. Just saying asspull over and over dosen't help make your point it just makes you look like a tard. It's not a "asspull", its something you don't like because for whatever reason your brain can't comprehend it and that bothers you. So you come here to post the exact same thing over and over desperately trying to get some validation by having people engage with you so you're not just left alone endlessly thinking about a cartoon episode that you can't get out of your head.

Now you're just screeching autism and insulting me.
Which just proves my point.

Teenagers are shitheads. When I was in middle school I knew a guy that called me a faggot because I read books. Being a fat underwear model was always going to end badly for Bobby.

Nah.
There's a bunch of episodes that show both Hank simply being a stubborn ass as well as him coming around to different views once he gets over his close mindedness.

I've seen kids throwing books erasers rocks at each other. You're a tard.

You're telling me kids throwing erasers at each other is the same thing as disrupting a public event?

>How many public schools have you been to where kids randomly start assaulting each other with donuts?
Not in that oddly specific way, no, but kids would assault and bully other kids regularly, using whatever methods or objects they felt like using. How sheltered you must be.

Why would they care whether it's a public event or not? You think teenage boys give two shits about decorum?