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Was King of the Hill a "Villain of the Week" show?


More than often, you had people with alternative lifestyles presented in a negative light, people who seemed good but had ulterior motives, and those who just were wrong because they don't know better.

The show did have recurring antagonists (Cotton, the social worker at the beginning, and later Thaferton), but they mostly invented characters to be obstacles.

Even family members (Peggy's mother and Boomhauer's brother) come to mind.

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Cotton was an ass, but not a villain. He was funny despite being a jerk. He reminded me of Eustace Bagge from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

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Barring a handful of episodes, KOTH was never a villain of the week show. Part of the show's appeal was that it was so....ordinary. Even in the episode's where Cotton or Dale take on a more antagonistic roll, it's usually an instance of hilarious misunderstanding...or Cotton really, really wanting to kill Castro.

Thatherton never came off as very villainous to me. He was Buck's unscrupulous competitor, sure, but Buck was fairly unscrupulous myself.

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Do you seriously not know the difference between "roll" and "role"?

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