Spoilers are ahead. Please don't read if you enjoy the show but didn't see this episode.
...wow. Just wow. For a long time I've been one of the few people I know that enjoy the TV show King of the Hill. I love it not only because it's a very clean, yet entertaining show to watch, but because the characters are so very human. They're flawed. They grow. They learn. The characters in KotH have developed more than any characters in the Simpsons or South Park ever have. Only Futurama has shown a level of emotional of development to equal it.
Today...a major character in the series died, and the episode was outstanding, especially for a cartoon. It wasn't a bright and sunny event where everyone moves on in their lives, it was a realistic episode showing the worse things people are capable of in dark times. There was anger, death, spite, regret, and remorse. And just like in real life, the characters didn't handle the situation nearly as well as they could have. I won't reveal who died, but it was one of my favorite characters in the show.
I should also note that of the shows in the usual Sunday block, three of them "killed" characters. Of the three, only King of the Hill didn't retcon it. Simpsons and Family Guy used the death of a character as a cheap tactic to generate an emotional response. I expect that kind of crap from Family Guy, which is among the worst shows ever made, but I honestly expected better from the Simpsons. The sad thing is that on any other week, I wouldn't of minded, but the "fake outs" cheapened the true piece of art that was shown this Sunday.
It was also very fitting that this animated death coincided with Veteran's Day. A nod to the troops of America.
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