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King Of The Hill Notes
Just keeping some stuff straight…and gay.
- 84.372 is Dale's pirate radio station, “Gribble Talk”
- Dale listens to a couple of 50's songs
- “I Fought The Law” by The Bobby Fuller Four in Soldier of Misfortune Season 6, Episode 2
- “Under The Boardwalk” by The Drifters in Father of the Bribe, Season 6, Episode 5
- Draw Dale's teeth either big and white and fucked up cuz he has veneers, or really fucked up and yellow cuz he smokes.
- Dale regularly bakes. Macaroons in gun club election episode. Mentioned in olympic torch episode. He also has makes films of Nancy.
- Bobby calls out Hank for being uptight all the time because if he lets himself feel good he'll be punished, like his football injury after showboating
- Get screenshots of Dale as Hank's “loyal towel manager”… You excreting, me absorbing…
- “My oral fixation!!!” Bobby leading dale with the cigarette…
- Dale shares a birthday with Van Cliburn: july 12th.
I'm working on a Nancy/Dale/John playlist:
It's full of songs that shocked me cuz the lyrics are so explicit about your baby girl cheating but also the dude just crying instead of being mad. And also songs from Radio Gribble :) Will keep adding as I hear more things that remind me of Them… and also songs that Dale listens to or sings in the show!
Het shit
KOTH is one of the first times I've felt invested in “canon” relationships, especially hetero ones! I think Peggy/Hank, Nancy/Dale, and Nancy/John are all cute 🥺 and of course that doesn't stop me from investing in yaoi coin too. They can all coexist with their wives and jerk each other off after baseball…
Something about how they portray the married couples feels very natural and endearing, compared to other shows. I feel like other shows, hell other ADULT cartoons like Simpsons or Family Guy or Rick and Morty or whatever, or live action sitcoms, will treat the marriage as a punchline! Like oh haha the crappy husband and the bitchy wife. It's really refreshing to watch King of The Hill and to giggle when Hank tries to say “I'm not unfond of you Peggy” with his emotional constipation. It's cute to see couples treat each other kindly!
Thinking about when Hank was making coffins for the family, and instead of being freaked out Peggy demanded that he make her coffin better. It's in character, it's still funny, and it's really nice that they can be freak4freak for each other. And all the times Peggy sees Hank do something vaguely risky (cuz his personality is so wooden!!!) and give him bedroom eyes. And it's really funny to see Nancy and Dale constantly making out like sneaky high schoolers after they get back together. “Can we make out now…”. Plus Nancy and Dale are both psychos, Nancy's hardly normal when she's making smiling and making death threats to co-workers… mirroring how Dale very callously fires people when he gets the HR job. She just has to temper her own psychosis when around Dale's full blown mental freakouts. Something very sweet about Nancy genuinely being sad about the possibility of Dale cheating, but Dale actually being clueless and running home to Nancy to tell mommy what happened…
That's why people like Morticia/Gomez so much right? Cuz they actually express their love for each other! Not just verbal “I love you”, going along with the motions. But they FREAKY, they would KILL for each other, they would squeeze each other's asses in public!
Nancy/John is something a lil different cuz we hardly see them just enjoying a date or hanging out together. There's something cute about both John and Dale saying “Happy birthday baby” at the same time in the magician episode. And something that makes you think when John tries to get back with Nancy and she says “Let's just get right to the sex”. It feels more one-sided on John's side fr fr. Nancy uses John as a stress relief mechanism whenever she's freaked out by Dale, but John obviously wants something more than pumpin' n' dumpin'. Why else would a supposed lady's man keep trying for the same lady for 14 years (the lady's getting in her 40's too!!! Usually dudes go younger and dump girls when they get too old!) instead of just moving on to the next one after the weekend like Boomhauer? And almost every positive comment Nancy makes about John is about his body, like his muscular arms or smooth broad Native American chest. Or how he looks sexy all beat up like “some wounded bear”.
Girls in KOTH
That reminds me - there's A LOT of interesting femdom characters in KOTH.
Nancy is her own thing, she takes on the traditionally masculine roles in a sitcom family. She works all day, she comes home tired. She pays all the bills and supports the family by herself. She cheats on her spouse because of the stress of being the sole breadwinner. But she's still very feminine with pink shirts and high heels and big poofy hair. And she's almost always the one who dictates her and Dale's sexual activities, with her pulling a yelping surprised Dale into bed almost every time!
Then you got Didi and Cotton. Didi's memory of meeting Cotton was her saying “oh you look so cute and helpless. Like a little baby. COOCHIE COO”. And that's how she rediscovers her attraction to Cotton too… Very freaky relationship there, lots of strange reversals. She's half Cotton's age (indeed, she's Hank's age and was his classmate!!“, but she's the one treating Cotton like a baby and being his caretaker… but also she's the one being abused by Cotton. There's a lot of reality to that age gap relationship, it's not always just a perverted old guy!! You gotta think about the girl having her own issues too. I love when we get to explore those fucked up issues in girls… We don't know much about Didi's backstory but it feels very juicy. Especially if she likes to baby Cotton, but is fucked up and depressed about giving birth to an actual baby and having to take care of that. Roleplay is not real life I tell you hwat.
There's another episode with another woman who expresses attraction to her man for being injured, but I forgot what characters those were. Me and Shane gasped when we heard it though. The show's writers got something going on with their like.. woobie hurt/comfort kink.
Hank also gets sexually harassed in SO many episodes. Miz Liz, his boss's wife, tries to get him in the hot tub. Debbie, his boss's mistress, tries to seduce him. There's the episode with the girl cop trying to fuck on him. An employee he hires grabs his ass. He got mono from a girl forcing him into a kiss in high school. A dolphin tries to have sex with him!!! It's mostly played off as laughs because of Hank's fear of sex, but there's something that feels very poignant to him relating in the show to Luanne's constant sexual harassment too.
And thank god Luanne doesn't get sexually harassed by any of the main cast members. She gets hit on by mostly greasy guys, dudes you aren't supposed to like. But I fear if it were another show, you'd have Boomhauer be a Quagmire and try to fuck her. But B-Dog said it himself, he ain't no Woody Allen, she's a teenager and Hank's relative!!! No one in the main cast makes comments on her, even Peggy says she shouldn't worry about other people thinking she's a slut. Hank actively tries not to hug her or look at her! Dale just tells her off for hanging around too much! Bobby doesn't want to see her naked (that's her cousin!!!)! Lonely ass Bill doesn't even try to make a move on her, Bill's too busy being in character trying to watch Peggy and Hank fuck! And even when Kahn accidentally sees her taking a shower, he just screams in fear.
Luanne's one of my fav characters in the show, and I like when main girl characters aren't going through constant sexual harassment for jokes. That shit turned me off Uma Musame's first episode so hard lmao. Hank takes it all like the soldier meme taking all the bullets. There's still jokes about her sexuality of course, from Joseph staring at her bouncing boobs, or shit people like Buck taking advantage of her bouncing boobs. But at least it fits in the narrative, and someone like Hank or Peggy will step up to tell people to fuck off. Like yes we can acknowledge that girls get sexually harassed, but will anyone defend them?? If not in reality, at least in cartoons you got friends and family that'll help ya… yeah…
Yaoi Math
A ramble I wrote on blorbo last night… adding it here.
DaleJohn
Enjoying DaleJohn because Shane has set me firmly in my “shitty ass horrible shrimpy pathetic drooling begging pleading for a whiff of that pussy top” and “lovely voluptuous reluctant big booty bottom” ways.
JohnDale
JohnDale is a off-the-path route - Dale is constantly afraid of things being put inside him (whether it's alien probing or when he's knocked out from the fire ants!!! he asks Hank if anything was inserted into him!!!), but there IS a huge character connection between John and Dale in that Dale completely trusts John. More than his best friend since 2nd grade Hank! More than his own wife Nancy!!! John would never betray Dale by inserting something into him, let alone inserting phalanges into his shriveled butthole… Not when he's asleep, not when he's unconscious, not when he's awake!
Bottom!Dale means complete trust and horrible forbidden intimacy!! Especially considering this character's entire personality is paranoia and conspiracies and misguided compensated masculinity down to slinging guns as a penis substitute (peggy said so!!!) and trying to flex about having sex with his wife for the first time in 14 years.
I do believe that Nancy gives Dale the strap on the reg, because well that's his wife, he can at least trust her that much. And what kind of husband would he be if he didn't let his wife be the breadwinner and pay all the bills and take care of all the housework and put fingers in his butt? A terrible excuse for masculinity, I tell you hwat.
JohnDale could only be true in the forbidden gay gay homosexual emotional moment that Dale dares (whispers) asks for a penit in the butt. John could NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER push his peepee on Dale's paranoia!! John's not interested!!!! He's passive to Nancy, doesn't actively hit on girls (unlike boomhauer!!), always waiting to make the 2nd move, tired from his job anyways!!!
The equation would go then that Dale would ask for the strap from John because it reminds him of getting the strap from Nancy. And John would pensively give the strap out of obligation, a sense of service, guilt, and cuz it reminds HIM of giving the strap to Nancy too. 🙂↕️
Also John wouldn't nut 90% of the time 🙂↕️ cuz it's hard to nut when you're being used as a substitute, and also when Dale is no good (don't turn me out hank i'm no good!!!), and also he's not particularly aroused, and also I like it that way. And also he's used for his nut so much at his day job, he probably has really crappy used-up empty nut to be honest. That's what the gingko bilboa on his necklace is for…. now you know /headcanon /truthbomb /erectiledysfunctionfetishism
and thAT's. THE BOTTOm line. cuz stone butch steve austin said so 🍻 hwat
KOTH hair
I am diagnosing the King of The Hill alley boys's hair, because I drew some 70's Dale/Hank and need good reference.
Hank
1969 Elvis
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1969 Elvis
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a bunch of 60's hairstyles with side-part.
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70's football Hank
young-hank-hill-hairstyle-v0-nnxppy4qeipb1.jpgHank's 70's hair was the hardest to diagnose actually! I can't quite find the words for it - a short moptop with pomp'd up bangs? The closest I can think of is Elvis in the 1969, with his pomp drooping a bit but still puffed up for a fringe. His hair is a bit old fashioned for the time, but goes well with his conservative behind-the-times personality.
Hank's short curly hair
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Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys
roger_staubach.jpgHank's current, most well-known haircut is explicitly stated to be based on Roger Staubach's haircut. Which is a lovely detail, cuz Hank loves the men of sportsball, and can't move past his high school football days. Again, behind-the-times!
Bill
70's Bill mullet
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70's Bill long hair
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Messiah Marcolin of Candlemass
tumblr_6c2b7f0a53759a43241a0506798dc477_4d9bbbff_1280.jpgBill has very curly long hair, much like the singer of Candlemass. It ranges from a shapely mullet with his ears visible, to a messy beautiful mop hair.
There's not really a word for Bill's current bald-on-top with sides hair. I think they just call it male pattern baldness.
Dale
A dude with thin bangs and wet medium-length hair that comes up if you go through searching "70's bangs hair men"
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Chop Top from Texas Chainsaw Massacre with his wig on
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Dale's thin bangs and wet medium-length hair
dale_70s.jpgDale's 70's hair is a moppy shag. It's inbetween hippie and rock n' roll. If it was on any of his other friends, he'd have feathered voluminous hair. But he's dale, so he's thinning and wet looking. I'll also take this opportunity to say that Chop Top and Dale are psychotic brothers from another Texan mother.
Dale's marriage hair
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Jimmy Hart, an 80's wrestling manager
jimmy_hart.jpgDale's later 80's hair is a pomp'd up, slicked back mullet similar to Jimmy Hart's. Gotta show that hairline while you have it!
There's not really a word for Dale's current bald-on-top with sides hair. I think they just call it male pattern baldness - thought not yet as advanced as Bill's. It's in the U-hairline shape for now…
Boomhauer
70's Boomhauer has a beautifully feathered mop, with that rebellious edge certain to make the ladies swoon and the guys goon. It has a bit more of a surfer quality to it than George Michael's more meticulous hair, but it's about the same shape.
80's Boomhauer
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Nick Carter
nck_carter.jpg80's Boomhauer has the cool 90's 50/50 curtain hair. Another heartthrob hairstyle that gets the babes. It's interesting to note that Boomhauer is much more fashion forward than his friends with his hairstyles, being a decade ahead of the trends. Dang ol' dandy.
I'd like to do some of the girls next, like Peggy's inscrutable granny hair and Nancy's giant 80's hair.
Old Web Nostalgia
Copy/pasted this from my fedi account, cuz I posted it unlisted but it got too much shares for my liking :P I do wish there was an option to disable shares for public and unlisted posts!
Summary: I have fond memories of some of the late 90's/early 2000's internet, but I'm glad we've made SOME sort of social progress in 2025. Some people just think old web was all good though, and everything about the current internet sucks. Those people may not have been on the receiving end of the meaner aspects of that time. Lots has changed (censorship and surveillance as EVERYONE is on the internet now vs a smaller subculture back then), and lots (cyberbullies, random people getting fixated on you to the point of e-harassment) hasn't.
⚠️ There will be mention of bigotry like homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc. I will paraphrase bigoted language.
Yappin'
You can tell when someone's an internet noob cuz they'll be like “omg it was so much better in the old days!!” whether they're talking about fandom or art or whatever. You think it's hard to post gay fanfiction nowadays, do you guys remember the general culture being so homophobic you'd get a bunch of ppl screaming at you for posting gay fanfiction outside of your specially designated “yucky gay zone”.
Or how about when it was the default culture for people to “spork” or otherwise publically make fun of ppls art and fics for being cringe or bad grammar or whatever. And if you didnt like it, the oldheads would go like “boohoo you stupid kid you should be GRATEFUL for my unsolicited “critique””. You can still hear those oldheads around ao3 or dw complaining about “kids these days” or sometimes using “puriteens” as a blanket term for wokelets…
Or do you remember when half the “shock sites” that people would send under the pretense of being EW GROSS were just gay and trans porn. Like meatspin was supposedly SO NASTY NEED EYEBLEACH but its just a girl with a wiener twirling. Or lemonparty being oh so BARFO But its just three naked old dudes. A lot of that survives to this day, like channer memes that were Just Gay Porn like gachimuchi or kuso miso tech, versus the equally cringe straight porn equivalent theyd jerk off to. There's like a thousand heterosexual lolicon animes with very disturbing premises, but for some reason Boku No Pico was the one gay one that became the one to send to people for shock value… tinfoilhat.jpg.
Or do you remember when faggot was just the default insult for everything, and every single show on mainstream TV just said faggot (derogatory) casually no bleeps. Even gollum said faggot at the mtv awards or whatever! If you were in polite company you could substitute faggot with “gay” or “homo” as an insult though… And lets not even talk about the common racist and ableist slurs on like any web forum lol forums were NOT paradises of the web despite what some folks want to say
Idk what my point was, i autoplayed a video about now-defunct shock sites yesterday and they made the salient point that half of them were actual real murder and the other half was just “gay and trans = gross” and people considered them equivalently “shocking”.
I'm halfway thinking “how could these shock sites navigate the current internet being moderated by government and laws and corporations and payment processors and whatever?”. And of course all the shit with Current Politics on the backswing back to gay/trans stuff being taboo again. Other half of brain being like “well at least theres more public support for gay/trans stuff and people say to each other maybe you shouldnt say the r slur or the n word and stuff”. I dunno, this should have been a blog post 😝 but i have 3000 characters and i am going to use them!!
Mainly, i really dislike net nostalgia in this way i guess? I love old shit like boomer rock and 50s doo wop and the way windows 98 looks, but I don't exactly want to time travel back to internment camps and casual wife beating yknow. Yeah whatever
Addendum
Please don't reply to my post about my own personal thoughts saying “acktually you're wrong because this is not MY own personal experience”. As I said above, maybe you were not on receiving end of the meaner aspects of that time. Maybe you thought it was fun actually to be on Encyclopedia Dramatica and 4chan. IDK. Go make your own post!!!!
astro attempt
- You have to install a bunch of shit - https://docs.astro.build/en/tutorial/1-setup/1/ I'm following this tutorial
- I already forgor how I installed it
- Opened up VS Codium
- Opened up terminal
- ran
npm create astro@latestas per tutorial - gave it a folder to build in ``Z:\sites\big-mountain-fudgecake``
- said yes to everything like installing dependencies and initializing git
- choose minimal theme
- ok the folder is created. open that in vscode
NEXT!! MAKING THE SITE
- run
npm run devin the terminal to preview your gay site - your site preview should be on
http://localhost:4321/` by default - find
src/pages/index.astroto edit your front page - edit it
- save
- use the git panel to upload to your github acct lol
- log into vercel to make a new page
- deploy that gay shit
- link domain via porkbun…
- wait for it to generate SSL certificate
- ok it's live: https://fudgecak.scumsuck.com/
- make a new page in
pagescalledabout.astro - type some shit in there, copy/paste what was in
index.astro - Did the markdown tutorial i already know that
- on the "dynamic content" part so I can add their band roles…
- doing components so i can make the nav and footer
- blah blah i dont want a blog tags i just want the RSS using the blog as a RSS feed lol
- ok it works
- Skipping the shit about islands, going to the part abt light/dark themes
- uhh but i want to do the simple one click toggle with dark/light color-scheme meta…
- whatever I'll learn that later
- upload dat shit to git (i should get off github some time)
- it's up i guess https://fudgecak.scumsuck.com/about/
Stylize it tomorrow
Color toggle
I'm copying this guide: Setting And Persisting Color Scheme Preferences With CSS And A “Touch” Of JavaScript by Henry Bley-Vroman
I am specifically using this guide because it uses the default light/dark css themes that don't require any CSS, and allows the user to override it if they want to choose another theme.
I specifically want the ability to change background images, not just background color. I want the default mode to be “dark mode” so there's no “FART”1). And I want the ease-in-ease-out color transitions to be optional. So this is in my global.CSS:
:root {
/* dark style, dark = default */
color-scheme: var(--color-scheme, dark);
--bg: url('/img/bg.jpg');
transition-duration: 200ms;
transition-property: background, background-color, color;
/* page preference is "dark" */
&:has(#color-scheme option[value="light"]:checked) {
--color-scheme: light;
/* any additional dark styles */
--bg: url('/img/bg-light.jpg');
}
/* page preference is "system", and system preference is "dark" */
@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
&:has(#color-scheme option[value="system"]:checked) {
--color-scheme: light;
/* any additional dark styles, again */
}
}
@media screen and (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce), (update: slow) {
transition-duration: 0s;
}
}
And this is in my Toggle.astro, which is contained in my SidebarLeft.astro component and makes up my navigation.
/*
* If a color scheme preference was previously stored,
* select the corresponding option in the color scheme preference UI
* unless it is already selected.
*/
function restoreColorSchemePreference() {
const colorScheme = localStorage.getItem(colorSchemeStorageItemName);
if (!colorScheme) {
return;
}
const option = colorSchemeSelectorEl.querySelector(`[value=${colorScheme}]`);
if (!option) {
localStorage.removeItem(colorSchemeStorageItemName);
return;
}
if (option.selected) {
return;
}
option.selected = true;
}
/*
* Store an event target's value in localStorage under colorSchemeStorageItemName
*/
function storeColorSchemePreference({ target }) {
const colorScheme = target.querySelector(":checked").value;
localStorage.setItem(colorSchemeStorageItemName, colorScheme);
}
const colorSchemeStorageItemName = "preferredColorScheme";
const colorSchemeSelectorEl = document.querySelector("#color-scheme");
if (colorSchemeSelectorEl) {
restoreColorSchemePreference();
colorSchemeSelectorEl.addEventListener("input", storeColorSchemePreference);
}
Don't ask me what any of this means LOL I just copy/pasted someone else's code in the places that make it work on my site…
Dale Gribble's Playlist
We don't get to see much of Dale's taste in music, compared to John Redcorn's obvious taste in classic rock. So we must interpret and headcanon what Dale's favored music would be like! And like many good things, this begins with a fic rec.
Dale's Depravity
Shane told me to read this extremely fucked up bisexual hentai fic, and you know what, he was right, it was pretty fucked up.
Dales Depravity by InebriatedGoose67
I truly believe Dale Gribble himself wrote this in-between huffing Sevin Dust and roach poison. I truly really do believe that Dale would happily zerk it to the absolute boner killers of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart while nonconning Nancy and John at the same time. I respect the author and now feel fear as well.
(I guess this is what people think about me LMAO but in my case I feel like my own stuff is totally tame crying necrophile yaoi… Es normale. I guess it's scarier to me when women are the ones being stalked and stuff :P Cuz that happens so much in a lot of fictional stories and on the news and stuff…)
It's funny that the fic includes a lot of songs directly in the script - up to and including full song lyrics! I think ff.net actually has rules against putting copyrighted song lyrics in the fic.. but I ain't telling no one. I haven't listened to many of the songs before, but I recognized many of the artists as punk bands. So I had to compile the music into a playlist for your and I's listening pleasure.
Dale's Playlist
Here's the Dale's Depravity playlist, enjoy Dale's disturbing taste in music while he licks John Redcorn's earlobe. Surprised Oingo Boingo ain't on here tbh:
Spotify:
Youtube
It'll start at Velvet Underground. Hover over the embed, and the top-right corner will have a button for the 7-song playlist.
Playlist Review
The songs are pretty good! 60's-70's punk that Dale would have grown up with, and thus internalized as part of his mentally ill + socially anxious adult personality. He wasn't a cool jock so he wouldn't have been into cock rock like Hank Hill or John Redcorn. It works as both music that fits the character, and music that.. well fits the story.
Velvet Underground - “Sunday Morning”: A intentionally saccharine 50's suburban feel for the music, contrasting with serial killer lyrics about feeling there's always someone after you. Of course it fits our bald little paranoid delusionist.
Frank Zappa - “Ms. Pinky”: Penis brapping music with a harmonica solo by Captain Beefheart, about a inflatable sex doll. Musically and lyrically, I would compare it to Alice Cooper - “Billionaire Dollar Baby” - being totally perverted to a doll cuz you can do whatever objectifying thing you want to she/her (not it!!!). Fits what Dale wants to do to Nancy and John, and perhaps what he thinks Nancy and John have done to him.
The Cramps - “Human Fly” : this choice made me shit myself because Shane fucking loves this song while he's cooking. So now I can associate it with Dale licking John's ear lobe AND shane cooking. Yayyyy. And this is why Dale's fursona has to be a pest insect like a cockroach or fly. Stinky! Yucky! Has built his entire ego on killing things smaller than himself.
The Cramps - “Garbage Man” : More psychobilly freakouts. Ironic because The Cramps are damn Yankees from New York, but they've appropriated the hillbilly trashiness for their own image. Hey, Dale would totally be a Texan trailer trash meth head if he didn't have Nancy as his sugar mommy. And a garbage man is much like an exterminator, they're dirty jobs that ain't respected. This is actually making realize that Dale Gribble and Weevil Underwood have similar parasitic nasal personalities… Huh. Well, guess that makes them semes.
Dead Boys - “I Need Lunch” : Quirky sexist glam punk anthem! It's about fucking girls, calling them bitch, and punching them. And then telling them to get you a sammich. Quite Cotton Hill in personality! And Dale has a strange obsession with Cotton, it fits that he would idolize this sort of masculinity while actually being Nancy's little cuck pet. And that makes me think how a lot of cock rock/hair metal anthems (ala John Redcorn's type) are very much in the vein of “i just want to fuck, no romance”, and get rightfully called out for misogyny, but they RARELY have explicit lyrics about violently beating your girl up… Girls have different tastes in dudes!
GG Allin - “Bored To Death” : Suicidal nihilistic kuso punk anthem! With a little bit of homophobia too - “I don't like faeries and I don't like fools”, which is funny when the story includes Dale forcibly kissin' John. I actually haven't heard GG Allin's music before, seems fairly standard 1 minute long punk music, not as sonically offensive as people have said it is. Listen, there's no such thing as an original idea, but there IS such thing as you being one of the two people on earth doing that thing. Like, now that GG Allin's dead, we don't have as many people eating their shit onstage and shooting themselves.
I think the point I was trying to make was related to yaoi - you'd be surprised how many people DO ship Dale/John and crave it, but how little actual work there is for it!!! So you will stand out a little bit if you do create that thing. The idea isn't that original, hell Dale/John is just what the episodes with them are, but making it explicit? that's rare! Do it! Make your weird rare yaoi! Also yeah, Dale would be thinking of himself as a avant-garde punk on the edge of society.. he is a maverick and a gun club president, and a sovereign rights truther…
Frank Zappa - “Carolina Hard-Core Ecstacy” : Another Frank Zappa groovin' jazz-rock joint, this time about fucking a lady and then engaging in consensual foot stomping on her until she looks like she's dead. Three big booms for Mr. Zappa for not only making some of the most sonically unappetizing penis music I've been suggested to listen to because I must love Frank Zappa cuz he's funny, but also the most sexually unappealing lyrics I've heard. I know that's the point too!! So good job on him for doing what he wanted to do, and doing it well.
I don't have a personal beef against Frank Zappa, I do admire that he's influenced some other artists I like like like Devin Townsend, Buckethead, etc. I'm just ?? that he gets suggested to me in the same way JJBA is suggsted to me LOL. There are some overlapping aspects of my art and personality with their work! But it's not quite a 1:1 fit :P Again, I'm more in the John Redcorn realm of big stupid cock rock. I like how stupidly up front it is about being stupid. You can't dodge around the meaning of “Smooth Up In You”… and there's less lyrics about beating women up, more about doing.
It does make you think about the characters! I wonder what John Redcorn thinks about Dale putting on penis music to rape him to??? This could be a form of psychological torture to him too.! What if a rift in Dale and Nancy's marriage is cuz Dale keeps listening to penis music? And all Nancy wants is kuso hair metal, like Warrant and Poison, with hot long-haired dudes that look like ladies, like John Redcorn??
Verdict: Three golden bananas 🍌🍌🍌 Great music and characterization, hurts my head.
Addendum
This blog post was cobbled together and slightly edited from a bunch of 3am blorbs on blorbo.social.
I know for a fact that Dale Gribble listens to Mr. Bungle in his goon basement, and Nancy doesn't like it, and that's why she gets headaches and has to go to John Redcorn's New Age Healing clinic.
Seriously, I think Dale was that eccentric nerd that was into not-so-cool music that would get him swirlied by jocks in high school. I'm not joking about him probably loving Oingo Boingo fr! My own experience with liking not-so-cool music is weird cuz my taste was a mix of the intentional sonic dissonance of Oingo Boingo and Buckethead and Strapping Young Lad, crossed with the same good ol' dad rock that John Redcorn listens to. In my case, I wasn't BULLIED really, but everyone thought I was weird for listening to “old” music, music without lyrics, and… well, just heavy metal in general. I distinctly remember some kid named Kai scoffing when I connected my ipod to the speakers being like “pffft. ch-CH-ch-Changes, that's so gay”. I think a lot of normie people like David Bowie now… especially gay kids calling him a bi icon or something.
Things were weird back then though. You'd say you like metal, and then get people asking if you watched Rock Of Love and I'd have to be like hell no I listen to Full Moon Bongzai, Poison is fuckin het!!!!!! I haven't watched Rock of Love until I caught some episodes with Shane. And people would call all metal music “screamo”, which is so funny when something as dad rock as Metallica gets called “screamo”.
I am truly the self-fufilling fanbaby of my headcanon Dale's socially unacceptable music crossed with John's lame outdated boomer rock… I AM THE JOSEPH GRIBBLE except I don't have a prescription for my illness.
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