The first (and most important) thing that should be noted about the revitalized North Texas cultural artifact that is King of the Hill , which debuted a new season on Monday, is that it does feel linear to the show's original run.

When watching the new 10-episode season, it becomes obvious quite quickly that new showrunner Saladin K. Patterson did his research before working on the highly-anticipated 14th season. The cadence and style of jokes are a 1:1 match to the beloved cartoon's previous seasons . From the first episode of the new season, Hank is still ostensibly old-school, bitching about bike lanes and failing to understand how a hybrid car operates.

The jokes are nothing we haven't seen before — an old guy complaining about wokeness, or liberal ideas and the like has been

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