• Kichae
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    So, the article this is pulling from is a 2003 academic paper on class, race, and gender representation in American sitcoms. It’s not an LLM produced bit of of insanity, nor is it someone who has never watched the show saying something unknowingly unintelligible.

    It’s a joke. Some dry humour, possibly put in there to see if peer reviewers had any idea about the then current television sitcom landscape.

  • @MrJameGumb
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    1021 year ago

    My favorite line from that show is from the episode with the Christian rock group when Hank says “you’re not making Christianity any better, you’re just making rock n roll worse

        • Horsey
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          I legitimately think it’s arguably one of the most consistently funny and well aged TV shows ever made. It’s amazing how different the world is 26 years after this show started airing, yet the jokes consistently stand the test of time.

  • @[email protected]
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    571 year ago

    They’re standing in front of a charcoal grill so I assume he sells charcoal and charcoal accessories. Taste the heat, not the meat .

  • @[email protected]
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    261 year ago

    I’ve never seen a single episode and I know he does something with propane and grilling.

    • @ummthatguy
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      211 year ago

      Propane and propane accessories intensifies!

    • @pivot_root
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      11 year ago

      I wouldn’t give it the credit of calling it a LLM. With sentences that incoherent, it’s more of a backpropagating Markov chain.

  • qyron
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    191 year ago

    I never watched a single episode of this series yet I got acquainted with Hank Hills catchiest phrases through the Starcraft Terran Firebats.

  • @confusedbytheBasics
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    181 year ago

    He sells propane and propane accessories for Stricklan propane in Arlan Texas. Everybody knows that!

    • @TehWorld
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      131 year ago

      Arlen. With an “e”. I’ve heard from multiple sources that it’s taken after “Garland TX” though, so it’s an easy mistake to make.

      • nfh
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        51 year ago

        The city King of the Hill’s Arlen is based on is Richardson Texas, which is the next city over from Garland. It’s close enough it’s an easy mistake, and probably not a coincidence.

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      1 year ago

      deleted by creator

  • The Barto
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    141 year ago

    Yeah I don’t think they’ve ever once mentioned what he does for work, I always assumed he was a plumber.

    Hopefully the new seasons he will tell us what he does.

    • @cm0002
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      41 year ago

      I would hope so, to think otherwise brings me despair for our species

  • Darkrai
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    It might be an AI generated article making stuff up.