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Race and class demographics are not the only dimensions to a show. A working class conservative family in the suburbs of Dallas is pretty different from the hig
by freehunter 8y ago
Race and class demographics are not the only dimensions to a show. A working class conservative family in the suburbs of Dallas is pretty different from the high tech and high paid world of Silicon Valley is different from uneducated teenage slackers giggling at poop jokes.
What Bevis does/thinks/likes versus what Hank does/thinks/likes versus what Richard does/thinks/likes could not be farther from each other. Just because they're all white doesn't mean they're all interchangeable.
- Fricken 8y agoIn office space Peter Gibbons, our white Alpha, and the only guy with any sense, tries to stay sane and hold it together in a world that has gone haywire. In King of the Hill, our white Alpha, Hank Hill, the only guy with any common sense, tries to stay sane and keep it from all falling apart in a world that has gone Haywire. In Idiocracy, our White Alpha, Joe Bauer, the only guy with any sense, tries to stay sane and keep it from falling apart in a world that has gone haywire. In Extract, Joel, our down to earth White Alpha, tries to stay sane and hold it together in a world that has gone haywire. And in Silicon Valley, well- you get the idea. I love Mike Judge films, he is an astute observer and hilarious. but his ouvre is not broad. He's got a formula, and it works, and that's fine.
- freehunter 8y agoYeah it's really easy to overgeneralize if you boil it down to nothing and ignore everything that isn't convenient to your point.
- Fricken 8y agoAnd it's easy to say things like Mike Judge has breadth if you're in a circle jerk thread and oblivious to storytellers who actually exhibit breadth. Judge doesn't have breadth he has bread. White bread. White wonder bread. There's no rye, no baguettes, no sourdough, no pita. Just white bread.
- fromthestart 8y agoThere are more dimensions to life than race and gender in which to find breadth.
- Apocryphon 8y agoHow does Beavis and Butthead fit into your model
- jackcosgrove 8y agoLike Cornholio fits in a t-shirt.
- sodapopcan 8y agoOr Daria
- tokyodude 8y ago> In King of the Hill, our white Alpha, Hank Hill, the only guy with any common sense Ah, that's not my memory of King of the Hill. In it Hank is the biggest idiot and it's only those around him that have any common sense. I probably only watched the first season but I remember one episode in particular where some Laotians moved into the neighborhood and Hank couldn't except that they weren't Chinese or Japanese. His father who fought in South East Asia knew immediately that they were Laotians but Hank refused to acknowledge any kind thing other than Chinese or Japanese. Hank's wife went on to bake a "Apple Brown Betty" (I think that's what it's called) and got upset when the Laotian neighbor made it better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CaZ4EAexQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CaZ4EAexQ
- macintux 8y agoOr the fact that Hank was tricked into paying MSRP on his vehicles for decades.