“Get Away From My Mom” (season 1, episode 1; originally aired 4/26/1999)
Bearing the headline “Animation’s New Wave,” the cover of the July 12, 1997 edition of TV Guide finds three of the period’s cartoon icons—Hank Hill, Daria, and Dr. Jonathan Katz—riding high on a giant swell. (Noticeably absent: any of the kids from South Park, who were little more than a month away from making their debut on Comedy Central.) The magazine’s focus on primetime animation wasn’t a cheap excuse to fill empty pages during dead summer months—the mid-to-late ’90s was a legitimate boom time for cartoons on TV, particularly those aimed at teenaged and adult audiences. On Fox, King Of The Hill succeeded where shows like The Critic had failed, proving that fans of The Simpsons were willing to tune in for an additional half-hour of animated fare every ...
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