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TalKing of the Hill - Junkie Business (Patreon)

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2022-08-15 04:00:13
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This month, Hank's nemesis Twig Boy returns in this wrong-headed episode about the hidden terrors of The Americans with Disabilities Act. When Strickland needs a new employee, Hank hires a man who ends up having some serious addiction issues; and thanks to the tyranny of Twig Boy, he simply can't be fired! Will this plucky small business survive under the draconian laws of the federal government? Listen in as we discuss an episode that's more Libertarian than that one kid in your first-year political science class who wouldn't shut up!

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Kat Heagberg

I get it, Henry (née, Max). When I was a kid, I used to be known as Cooky (with the Y — that was important somehow). My mom, whose name is Laura, used to go by “Susie.” We called my Aunt Linda “Jenny.” And my Grandma Lorraine was actually named Maxine.

T

Very good coverage of a very cringe episode!

Tyler M.

This is one of the few episodes of KotH that I’ve seen and I feel like it’s solely responsible for the show never jiving for me. Either way, I’m excited to dig into my first episode of TalKing of the Hill.

Echo Cimarron

Yeah, a lot about this episode sucks, but I'll always laugh at Twig Boy listing being gay as a disability covered by the ADA.

Frank Grimes

As someone who's job hunting right now...in general they haven't asked about employment gaps

meldriccc

Some great jokes in this episode, mostly drowned out by libertarian related groans

Sean Riley

i dont know if it was intentional but "twig boy" is basically synonymous with "straw man". i dont hate this ep as much as other folks, it seeems, but it is for sure one of the weakest and mean-spirited ones. to me the whole situation is 100 percent hanks fault for being stupid/naive, and he is ultimately punished (he loses his health insurance!) by the idiot Small Business Tyrant he works/capes for as a result.

Brian Hortin

Jimmy James on NewsRadio is a very LBJ character too. Root really knows how to play that type I guess.

Chris Dobson

As a lefty pescatarian lawyer in Texas, it's good to know that I'm basically Mike Judge's idea of "twig boy". I'm glad y'all pointed out that in addition to being mean-spirited, that it's also just outright wrong about the ADA. Snow Job covered some of the same ground without resorting to making Hank incredibly unsympathetic, and the ending is like something out of an early 90's sitcom it's so lame.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I am by no means as big of a fan of King of the Hill as Simpsons or Futurama, so I had not seen this episode before, so I was kind of shocked by how tasteless and out of touch this one was. As Bob and Henry so aptly discussed, it's just so mean spirited and wrong about disability support. ~25 years later, folks with disabilities often still have such a stupidly difficult time with BASIC SHIT that Mike Judge et al saying the supports in place for them are bullshit and abused by the lazy is just laughable. I work at a supposedly "accessible" university, where many of the buildings don't even have handicap buttons to let you inside, and many classrooms are just a nightmare to attend class in because they don't leave enough space for wheelchair bound students to comfortably sit. From an employee perspective, I can't imagine the university is great at making things accessible for people who work there 8 hours a day, and lord knows managers do not like you disparaging the "great" bureaucracy we're trapped in. All this is to say, fuck this episode's "work hard, lazy bitches" attitude coming from an able bodied dude working on a goddamn Fox cartoon with a staff of sitcom and Simpsons writers. Talk about out of touch...

Joe Hodgson

As someone who has been to Disney World quite a bit, I will say Animal Kingdom is a solid half-day park to visit. There are zoo elements, but what the park goes for is a safari theme with the actual safari ride being the main attraction. Or it was until Avatar came around. There's also a good roller coaster, but the water ride is essentially the same as the one at California Adventure and the Dinosaur ride, based on the film of the same name that no one remembers, is just a re-themed Indiana Jones from Disneyland. If you're spending a week at Disney World, certainly check it out, but expect to be done with it after lunch and you probably won't feel the need to return to it unless you just really love Avatar (and it is a great ride). Which is actually good because it's the park that's the most removed from the others which means the only way to get there is via bus or car and unless you're staying at the nearby resort (I would not) it's going to feel out of the way. This is definitely the most "South Parky" King of the Hill episode. It's very much trying to do the whole "both sides are bad" thing by having Hank encounter an exploitive employee while also showing that Strickland is a real piece of shit and even Hank looks bad since he's incapable of not being misogynistic while acting as a hiring manner. Just an all around unpleasant episode as this is a show that should allow the viewer to actually like Hank, but here he's pretty unlikable and unlike other episodes that detail a personal failing within Hank, there's no lesson learned at the end. He doesn't emerge any better than he started, and if anything he actually comes out worse as he probably views all disable individuals as lazy, exploitive, etc.

Lockerus

I guess Leon was hoisted by his own Petard.

Blargh

Interestingly, penn and teller bullshit introduced me to Michael Parenti lol. The opposite of libertarian.

PurpleComet

What's also "funny" about Twig Boy listing being gay as a disability under the ADA is that there were no employment protections for LGBT people at the time, not on the federal level and certainly not in Texas. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled employers can't discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in 2020, but there's no federal law that explicitly protects LGBT people from employment discrimination (or housing, public accommodations, etc). Ok I'm off my soapbox.

Kevin OReilly

A small gripe- I would take Entemann’s chocolate donuts over Dunkin any day of the week. Those things are great, regardless of the toxic preservatives

nick ef

Chiptune Chuck Mangione fuckin rules

Bellario Avogadro

Just a comment on Carpal Tunnels syndrome. While it has been the go to example of a “white collar” disability and people have been wrongly mocked for having it. It grew in prominence during the labor movement as a disability of people working in meat packing as demonstrated in the song “Carpal Tunnel” by John O’Connor So while no one should be mocked for a disability they have this one is by no means exclusive to office workers. https://youtu.be/1RaVu7RTpYw

Damien Hanigan

I've got my bingo card ready. Let's listen

Joe Hodgson
>>89792865

Electricians and other technicians get it as well. It's definitely not confined to the white collar world, but certainly is most associated with it.

twistedmentat

In the 90s I remember a lot of moral panics about people who were cheating the system, that you will try to help people but there will be lots of people taking advantage of it! You shouldn't have welfare, people who don't want to work will just live the high life on your hard earned dime! ADA will bankrupt companies trying to accommodate everyones disabilities, and everyone claims to be disabled so they can get away with no working! It reminds of a later sorta moral panic about transfats; "if they ban transfats, food will taste bad!" was both a late season king of the hill and early season American Dad episode. Also Drew Carey had an weird add complaining about the Nanny State telling you what you can't eat.

Jason Lew

Don't get me started on BART. We could have had BART around the Bay today if it wasn't for San Mateo County in the 60s and homeowners balking at "high costs" (and not wanting "poor" people from Oakland and the City to be able to use a train that could drop them off in their "nice" neighborhoods). Basically the same Libertarian attitudes of "why are you taking money out of MY pocket to fund a public transportation for other people? Why don't they get a job and a car?" It basically caused Marin and Santa Clara county to drop out so now we have increased traffic and a lesser BART system. And the people who got their way 60 years ago are now dead or in old folks homes so they don't care anyway now.

Rhomega

Mike Judge would be able to do the "People taking advantage and being lazy" with the Beavis and Butt-head episode "Bathroom Break" where Beavis and Butt-head realize they're still getting paid to use the bathroom, so they just stay in there all day, and the manager can't get them out because of a labor law, so he has to run the whole restaurant by himself.

Christian Kiddle

I was an HR generalist until this year. I don't know how you do it with a conscience, it weighed so heavily on me every day. I got conned into an HR degree because I was told it would help people. The bright side is now I'm using my degree in a way that feels less harmful, I only do hiring now, most of my job is convincing people to leave non union jobs for union jobs and I feel lucky to be only somewhat selling out my values now instead of completely selling out...

Christian Kiddle
>>90262380

it had gotten to the point where I was just telling employees how to use the law to get the most possible money out of the company because I knew nothing I could do 'legitimately' would have any positive effect. the EEOC is pretty ineffective, which kind of makes me laugh when libertarians act like Mike Judge did on this episode. Don't worry, folks, the employers still have 99.998% of all the power in the workplace.

SomeBloke

I've never watched King of the Hill in any serious way until you guys started covering it, the pilot was nearly unwatchable because of Twig-boy's strawman role, so I skipped this one outright in favor of letting this podcast episode just recap it for me. Life's too short for unfiltered libertarian screeds.