@Martin-xh8pf brother with how everything has been politicalzed. You bet your ass that's gonna come out from the peripheral and come to the forefront. The reboot, really continuation since it's picking 15 years later, ain't gonna be as neutral as it was before.
The real story: Cotton hill finished his military service after the battle of GuadaCanal and his transport home was ambushed by a japanese U-Boat. He was injured in the ensuing attack and lost a portion of his legs. He slent the next 2 years recovering in a field hospital and the crazy stories were a result of Morphine induced hallucinations
@@JovanaSanchez000 i guess it would depend on his role. If he was just infantry then probably not but if he was a machine gunner I could see it as possible
@@JovanaSanchez000if I remember correctly when he was hallucinating in the sweat lodge there were five or six men that he killed. But then again you can't get fifty men in a sweat lodge so who knows.
Or since one of them was killed by a bazooka, probably destroyed a bunker and made a rough estimate (with some poor sod who was unlucky to be on rocket’s path). Plus since part of me feel that the first story was him waking up and attacking a pile of corpses out of shock (either machine gun or transport explosion).
I don’t get why they even bothered reattaching them especially how they thought he wasn’t gonna walk again Making him into a tiny little man seems undignifying
I always loved seeing the contrast between the WW2 Veterans and the Vietnam Veterans , the WW2 Veterans act like their time at War was the most fun they had and the Vietnam Veterans are just miserable
Ww2 american felt that they had purpose to fight a War for a better future Meanwhile. 'Nam Vet dont feel the same as said war doesnt have any purpose other than fighting a pointless proxy war over flimsy reasoning
The Silver Star is the third highest decoration for valor. The ones above are the branch specific Crosses and then the Medal of Honor. I'm not sure what to make of Cotton's MoH because I would think if it were legit, he and others would mention it, probably often. Perhaps he obtained a replica as part of one of his delusions.
@@dlxmarks Well, he had served from 43-45 in both the European and Pacific theatres, and apparently saved the lives of his friends (the ones he still talks to long after the war), possibly was a PoW or more likely just brought his friends back to friendly lines by himself, sustaining extreme injuries in the process. The MoH has been awarded for less, honestly.
@John.McMillan Cotton is clearly lying about being in the European theater, likely some of the other stories in this video as well (like hiding in a barrel of sake). The episode where Peggy pieced it together showed that some of Cotton's dates conflicted. Which is crazy because he has presumably real medals. So why lie about valor?
That episode of Peggy's recovery was one of my favorites. Two characters that live off of hating each other, and if it weren't for Cotton's drill tactics and constant self-embellishing tall tales she would have never had the willpower to get up off of that wheelchair. Shows like King of the Hill were masters of conflict in story telling, nowadays you can't have two characters hate one another without trying to make some kind of public statement.
Very well said. If two characters hate each other in modern shows it always has some kind of racial or sexist narrative. It can never be two characters that just don’t see eye to eye. This is why I hate new shows. The writing nowadays is trash.
It's a very harmful tactic to instill in people's heads, that they need to go out of their way to personally uproot anything they can't agree with. I think Cotton puts it best when he tells Hank he's willing to exist on the same world he exists.
Personally I hate most blk people because they are lazy, unintelligent, and annoying/childish. It’s not racism. It’s just not gelling with their culture. We have different philosophies.
Later King of the Hill absolutely made public statements about people the creators didn't like. There's literally a whole episode just getting mad at the concept of a hippie. Also on a related note Mike Judge is apparently personal friends with Alex Jones, which may have influenced later directions.
@@justalurker3489 Mike Judge is obviously a right leaning libertarian. Most free thinking wealthy people are. He’s a high intelligence and traditional values guy. He’s not into the woke crap or whatever the leftist elite pedals to the masses to gain more control and manipulate them more. Mike Judge’s whole deal is trying to show people how stupid people who don’t think for themselves and mindlessly conform are.
I just look at the unit history to kniw where he was. Cotton was in the 77th Infantry Division, so we can conclude he served on Guam, The Philippines, and Okinawa.
@@suspicioususer Cotton did say that he lied about his age when he was 14 so that he could join. You could argue he may have left Texas and joined the National Guard in New York at 14, but there is a plaque in this shadow box that says he retired as a colonel. Did he spend 20 years in the military and work his way up from enlisted to officer?
@@inlikeflynn7238 back during World War II and since they’ve had these things called battlefield promotions. The way it often works for these scenarios is the officer for a croup is killed in the line of duty or is injured and subsequently removed, leaving the highest enlisted man in charge. If it becomes a big enough issue, and he succeeds that he is promoted from enlisted to the rank of officer.
@@Kiryu That's true. There is a chance that he was given a battlefield promotion, but a promotion from enlisted to officer was not very common. There are Medal of Honor recipients who weren't given a promotion to officer. Would the military really have promoted a 14-year-old boy up from enlisted to officer who lied in order to get in the military? The admin guys might be fooled, and the recruiters might not have cared and recruited everybody they could get their hands on, but the officers in charge of Cotton and fought with him would not have been fooled and would have cared that he was 14. Now, it is a cartoon, so credibility and reason might be moot points, and Cotton was created as an absurdist creation meant to illustrate how WW2 veterans seem to other people (badass but with standards impossible to live up to), but this discussion is about how realistic this portrayal of Cotton's military career is and whether it would have been possible?
A lot of people are saying that he had PTSD and hallucinations, but they're wrong, he did everything he said, and probably more. And he killed not 50 but 51 men.
Given that Cotton actually does seem to suffer from PTSD regarding the men he killed, it seems like he likely did have to have battled some Japanese soldiers.
I think he may have killed more than fifty. The man's KD might go far into triple digits and he just can't remember because of possible brain injuries.
Even if all the stories are field hospital morphine hallucinations, He still lost his shins, so in all those story's, lays a small amount of truth from which the story's were derived from.
A subtile but good bit at the end is that American Campaign Medal. To get that medal, you had to be stationed inside the US for at least a year during world war II. The only things known for sure are that whatever happened to his legs had to have happened near at the very end of the war and that he served in the US army in Japan during 1946 (where he spent most of his time in the hospital for his legs).
I’d say most combat stories from the pacific are probably true, the exaggerations are laid on pretty heavy so that’s obvious but I don’t think he was in Europe at any point
To be fair he has a Silver Star and Medal of Honor, saved his friends lives and got the rank of Colonel. All of that is confirmed. So at the very least he was on some level considered a hero.
I like to think the explanation for Cotton being in multiple places at the same time is the cartoon timeline of KOTH. I mean, nobody ages between Y2K and the invention of MySpace, is it really so hard to believe that in the same universe Cotton could have traveled between Munich and Okinawa in less than a day?
If kinda annoys me how the characters stopped aging early on in the series. For example you might remember Joseph started to go through puberty and references were made to Bobby becoming a teenager and things like that. It’s kinda disappointing they abandoned that idea early on but I get why they did it
I like the detail to his uniform. The eagle on his Charlies uniform’s chest is an honorable discharge insignia, awarded to those who have been honorably discharged after the WWII
"I could save only three of my buddies: Fatty, Stinky and Brooklyn. They were like you three except one of them was from Brooklyn." Cotton basically called Boomhauer, Dale and Bill fat and smelly.
Anyone who joined the military knows that MEPs had some of the funniest moments ever seen... For example have you ever seen a group of guys trying to balance on one foot while their arms are forward? Ankles poppin!
There needs to be mike Judge's masterpiece: live action full length feature movie of Cotton Hill's life. I'm seeing Clooney as older Cotton, maybe Christian Bale as post-war (1945-1960) Cotton, not sure who plays young Cotton...
Cotton was probably in the pacific front that the brutality he has to committed and endured has twisted his mind in order to still function thus some stories are all over the place.
No, the Japanese woman he was in love with actually said it was expected that his legs would fall off. That implies that they are like that because of medical intervention
Don't forget Sardinia/Anzio, remember he fought Nazis in Italy 🇮🇹 first before he was sent to the South Pacific- his 1st flashback shows them in Italy.
I never looked at that case with Cottons record. A full bird Colonel, A Silver star and Medal of Honor, and apparently stayed in the military for quite a while after WW2 considering he wasn't a Colonel when he lost his shins and was taken off of Japan.
I know I'm taking his stories a bit too literal but I'll just leave this here anyway: For taking 50 bullets in the back his shirt was nearly pristine without a drop of blood. Sake should not be green. It's a cloudy white. If it was green it probably was not safe for consumption, even by desperate soldiers' standards. Sake is low in alcohol content typically being close to wine, though stronger sakes could reach around 20% alcohol. Either way, that's way too low to hibachi someone with. You need something no less 40% to do that.
Wh, for the sake part could have just been Cotton's ignorance on the sorts of liquors the Japanese drank and just called all of them sake. Also I think the green coloration was due to the barrel and weird color filter used for that flashback. Or just a goof by animators
Orr cotton went into a gasoline induced rampage and little snippets of it come out time to time. If he hid inside of a barrel of fuel as a legitimate method to sneak into camp then he might also be in a high psychosis by the time he got in. Lol. The japanese find him surrounded only by many dead japanese with his own shin hand after passing out from killing the last. Cotton probably honestly gleaned this from the japanese resoect/actions towards him with 50 being his most conservative answer. If cotton was a liar he wouldve easily stated a higher kill count. That was his low ball lol. This makes the other stories quite bizarre in retrospect. Theres other war stories of meth induced soldiers etc doing insane things as well so cottons story is probably meant to reflect that.
Wana Hear the Story Fattie..!! Bill.: Sir Yes Sir..!!! 😂 I love How Bill and Cotton Both have Military Ranks and Bill Automatically Addressing him as His Commanding superior
The reboot just won't be the same without Junichiro's dad.
Maybe they could have some flashbacks with him
Even if he was I expect it to be a dud.
I just hope the reboot isn't lopsided on making fun of the left. Rightoids needs some love too my man.
@JoeMama-bj9jw if they just keep it the same I'm happy not too right not too left and woke😂 and I hope they don't get rif of khan too
@Martin-xh8pf brother with how everything has been politicalzed. You bet your ass that's gonna come out from the peripheral and come to the forefront. The reboot, really continuation since it's picking 15 years later, ain't gonna be as neutral as it was before.
The real story: Cotton hill finished his military service after the battle of GuadaCanal and his transport home was ambushed by a japanese U-Boat. He was injured in the ensuing attack and lost a portion of his legs. He slent the next 2 years recovering in a field hospital and the crazy stories were a result of Morphine induced hallucinations
I do believe he did kill several men. I doubt his kill count was fiddy men, though.
@@JovanaSanchez000 i guess it would depend on his role. If he was just infantry then probably not but if he was a machine gunner I could see it as possible
@@JovanaSanchez000if I remember correctly when he was hallucinating in the sweat lodge there were five or six men that he killed. But then again you can't get fifty men in a sweat lodge so who knows.
Or since one of them was killed by a bazooka, probably destroyed a bunker and made a rough estimate (with some poor sod who was unlucky to be on rocket’s path).
Plus since part of me feel that the first story was him waking up and attacking a pile of corpses out of shock (either machine gun or transport explosion).
Oh, his stories are complete bullshit.
"I tend to look older because the Japanese shot my shins off in the war!"
The raw enthusiasm he has for saying that.
"Gulf war?"
"Called it JUNGLE RICE...tasted fine" 🤣🤣🤣
Basically rice wine
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That shit was wild
I've randomly said that in restaurants for years.
I'm the only one who laughs.
I have zero friends lol
Before cotton lost his shins he was 6'4, now he's only 5'0 even.
I don’t get why they even bothered reattaching them especially how they thought he wasn’t gonna walk again
Making him into a tiny little man seems undignifying
@thegreatmaljabroni9860 it's better than not walking at all.
@@beachaddict76536 ft 4 then 5 ft 0.
@@robertisham5279man he was tall
He was 8’6” now he’s 3’4”
I always loved seeing the contrast between the WW2 Veterans and the Vietnam Veterans , the WW2 Veterans act like their time at War was the most fun they had and the Vietnam Veterans are just miserable
Cuz Vietnam is gay
Ww2 american felt that they had purpose to fight a War for a better future
Meanwhile.
'Nam Vet dont feel the same as said war doesnt have any purpose other than fighting a pointless proxy war over flimsy reasoning
@@qhethacoalspitter8935 It was decent enough reasoning, it's just that the war was run by morons (sounds familiar)
@@qhethacoalspitter8935it wasn't for nothing, Vietnam became unified and freed Cambodia from the terror of pol pot.
A big part of that is likely the reception they got when they returned home.
He earned a silver star, the United States 2nd highest honor so he was a war hero and definitely saw some action.
This man earned the Medal Of Honor.
Look at his medals he has the medal of Honor
The Silver Star is the third highest decoration for valor. The ones above are the branch specific Crosses and then the Medal of Honor. I'm not sure what to make of Cotton's MoH because I would think if it were legit, he and others would mention it, probably often. Perhaps he obtained a replica as part of one of his delusions.
@@dlxmarks Well, he had served from 43-45 in both the European and Pacific theatres, and apparently saved the lives of his friends (the ones he still talks to long after the war), possibly was a PoW or more likely just brought his friends back to friendly lines by himself, sustaining extreme injuries in the process.
The MoH has been awarded for less, honestly.
@John.McMillan Cotton is clearly lying about being in the European theater, likely some of the other stories in this video as well (like hiding in a barrel of sake). The episode where Peggy pieced it together showed that some of Cotton's dates conflicted. Which is crazy because he has presumably real medals. So why lie about valor?
That episode of Peggy's recovery was one of my favorites. Two characters that live off of hating each other, and if it weren't for Cotton's drill tactics and constant self-embellishing tall tales she would have never had the willpower to get up off of that wheelchair. Shows like King of the Hill were masters of conflict in story telling, nowadays you can't have two characters hate one another without trying to make some kind of public statement.
Very well said. If two characters hate each other in modern shows it always has some kind of racial or sexist narrative. It can never be two characters that just don’t see eye to eye. This is why I hate new shows. The writing nowadays is trash.
It's a very harmful tactic to instill in people's heads, that they need to go out of their way to personally uproot anything they can't agree with. I think Cotton puts it best when he tells Hank he's willing to exist on the same world he exists.
Personally I hate most blk people because they are lazy, unintelligent, and annoying/childish. It’s not racism. It’s just not gelling with their culture. We have different philosophies.
Later King of the Hill absolutely made public statements about people the creators didn't like. There's literally a whole episode just getting mad at the concept of a hippie. Also on a related note Mike Judge is apparently personal friends with Alex Jones, which may have influenced later directions.
@@justalurker3489 Mike Judge is obviously a right leaning libertarian. Most free thinking wealthy people are. He’s a high intelligence and traditional values guy. He’s not into the woke crap or whatever the leftist elite pedals to the masses to gain more control and manipulate them more. Mike Judge’s whole deal is trying to show people how stupid people who don’t think for themselves and mindlessly conform are.
Cotton Hill served the entirety of the Pacific campaign and even had spare time to fight in Italy, what an American patriot!
4:06 I always loved how Topsy groans “DYING!”
Young Cotton looks a hell of a lot like Bobby, those Hill genes are strong
lol and if you look at cottons newest baby, it’s just a little Bobby/cotton. Hank looks like his mom.
I love Cotton Hill. One of his favorite lines of mine is "You don't deserve no Hitlers Canoe", when the VFW was shutting down to lack of funds.
I just look at the unit history to kniw where he was. Cotton was in the 77th Infantry Division, so we can conclude he served on Guam, The Philippines, and Okinawa.
Ironic because that's a New York National Guard Division
@@suspicioususer Cotton did say that he lied about his age when he was 14 so that he could join. You could argue he may have left Texas and joined the National Guard in New York at 14, but there is a plaque in this shadow box that says he retired as a colonel. Did he spend 20 years in the military and work his way up from enlisted to officer?
The Fat Electrician did a great video on those guys
@@inlikeflynn7238 back during World War II and since they’ve had these things called battlefield promotions. The way it often works for these scenarios is the officer for a croup is killed in the line of duty or is injured and subsequently removed, leaving the highest enlisted man in charge. If it becomes a big enough issue, and he succeeds that he is promoted from enlisted to the rank of officer.
@@Kiryu That's true. There is a chance that he was given a battlefield promotion, but a promotion from enlisted to officer was not very common. There are Medal of Honor recipients who weren't given a promotion to officer. Would the military really have promoted a 14-year-old boy up from enlisted to officer who lied in order to get in the military? The admin guys might be fooled, and the recruiters might not have cared and recruited everybody they could get their hands on, but the officers in charge of Cotton and fought with him would not have been fooled and would have cared that he was 14. Now, it is a cartoon, so credibility and reason might be moot points, and Cotton was created as an absurdist creation meant to illustrate how WW2 veterans seem to other people (badass but with standards impossible to live up to), but this discussion is about how realistic this portrayal of Cotton's military career is and whether it would have been possible?
A lot of people are saying that he had PTSD and hallucinations, but they're wrong, he did everything he said, and probably more. And he killed not 50 but 51 men.
Given that Cotton actually does seem to suffer from PTSD regarding the men he killed, it seems like he likely did have to have battled some Japanese soldiers.
If there’s two people that can make PTSD look funny it’s him and major pain
Yea he wasn't hallucinating in WW2. and he would never agree to your ptsd diagnosis
He rarely exhibited symptoms: 3 times in fitty years
Well yeah, he got his shins blown off and he had a son with a Japanese nurse.
Never forget the sweat lodge. All the soldiers he killed coming into give him a death glare before he ran out of the sweat lodge.
I think he may have killed more than fifty. The man's KD might go far into triple digits and he just can't remember because of possible brain injuries.
This is really hilarious if you watch it back to back with Tom Andersons war stories.
Even if all the stories are field hospital morphine hallucinations, He still lost his shins, so in all those story's, lays a small amount of truth from which the story's were derived from.
@Catholic-fascist probably was his shins he was carrying or fatty
More of the truth is revealed in the Japan episode
"They opened fire and blew my shins off!" Makes me laugh way too hard 😂
I died when he said,"Then I beat them with a piece of Fatty" I laughed way too hard 😂
A subtile but good bit at the end is that American Campaign Medal. To get that medal, you had to be stationed inside the US for at least a year during world war II.
The only things known for sure are that whatever happened to his legs had to have happened near at the very end of the war and that he served in the US army in Japan during 1946 (where he spent most of his time in the hospital for his legs).
thanks! yea i got the idea for this episode, and while compiling footage, i saw the medals, and thought that would look good at the end..
@@ChuckleBucketBaby you done good
And at 5:53 Cotton has a Senior Parachutist Badge so along with his never mentioned Medal of Honor, who knows what's going on with him.
"Yep, I hi-bachi'd the whole squad" 😂
That one is my favorite.
Live by the hi-bachi die by the hi-bachi
Foreshadowing at its greatest
“Held my breath until they were good and drunk!….”
He got Hibachi’d in the end… by a🦐🍤
The way Dale worships Cotton is so beautiful.
Mickey Rooney would’ve made a great live action Cotton Hill.
im thinking Tim Conway, he does a character where he gets on his knees, on top of two shoes, like his feet are at the end of his knees, so funny lol
@@ChuckleBucketBabyDorf is the character Tim Conway used to play.
Unfortunately, Tim died a few years ago.
why not Wallace Shawn to portray Colonel Cotton Hill
😂
“I climbed the cliffs of Normandy with a fifty pound ice cream maker strapped to my back”
Of course knowing Cotton, that may have not been during Operation Overlord.
Not gonna lie, defeating an enemy squad with sake fire-breath is pretty badass.
I swear yo lol
"And they were sewing my feet to my knees" always gets me.
I wonder if Cotton and Tom Anderson ever met at the VFW and swapped war stories.
The WW2 Vet making old wife jokes always gets me
I'd love to see a history buff work out what parts of Cotton's stories are complete bs and which could be possible.
I’d say most combat stories from the pacific are probably true, the exaggerations are laid on pretty heavy so that’s obvious but I don’t think he was in Europe at any point
He POSSIBLY could have been in the African campaign/Invasion of Italy before going to the Pacific. It did happen.
I can't look at Cotton without seeing Bobby, and then I absolutely can't take him seriously.
Cotton is the exception to the rule that real heroes never brag.
To be fair he has a Silver Star and Medal of Honor, saved his friends lives and got the rank of Colonel.
All of that is confirmed.
So at the very least he was on some level considered a hero.
I like to think the explanation for Cotton being in multiple places at the same time is the cartoon timeline of KOTH. I mean, nobody ages between Y2K and the invention of MySpace, is it really so hard to believe that in the same universe Cotton could have traveled between Munich and Okinawa in less than a day?
If kinda annoys me how the characters stopped aging early on in the series. For example you might remember Joseph started to go through puberty and references were made to Bobby becoming a teenager and things like that. It’s kinda disappointing they abandoned that idea early on but I get why they did it
I’m only here because of Tom Anderson and his war stories.
Tom Anderson is a very meticulous soldier.
I like the detail to his uniform. The eagle on his Charlies uniform’s chest is an honorable discharge insignia, awarded to those who have been honorably discharged after the WWII
Lol I lost it way more than I should have when Cotton said the Japanese blew his knee's off during the Gulf War. 😂😂😂
"I could save only three of my buddies: Fatty, Stinky and Brooklyn. They were like you three except one of them was from Brooklyn."
Cotton basically called Boomhauer, Dale and Bill fat and smelly.
I think Bill is fatty, Dale is stinky, and Boomhauer is Brooklyn.
@@UNLebanonagreed
@@UNLebanon Bill is the fattest, Dale is the only one that smokes and Boomhauer is a fast talker.
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Anyone who joined the military knows that MEPs had some of the funniest moments ever seen... For example have you ever seen a group of guys trying to balance on one foot while their arms are forward? Ankles poppin!
There needs to be mike Judge's masterpiece: live action full length feature movie of Cotton Hill's life. I'm seeing Clooney as older Cotton, maybe Christian Bale as post-war (1945-1960) Cotton, not sure who plays young Cotton...
you mean a movie based upon the news article The Widow in the Wallet by Peggy Hill and Bobby Hill
We'll miss him. RIP Colonel 🫡
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"55 Gallon Drama Sake!" 😂
Loved the way he said it!!
"I ask the questions around here like MOVE IT MOVE IT MOVE IT!"
I wonder if he served with Tom Anderson...
Cotton was probably in the pacific front that the brutality he has to committed and endured has twisted his mind in order to still function thus some stories are all over the place.
*CALLED IT JUNGLE RICE!...... TASTED FINE!*
Also made a lanyard of braided rat tails 🫡
I never before noticed the disgust on Peggy's face as she rolled outta there when Cotton was talking about "jungle rice". 😂
There was fatty, Brooklyn, stinky, fat Brooklyn, and Irvin Lincker. The last name always made me laugh the most 😆
This is going to be one of those videos that the youtube algorithm blesses down the line.
The lesson here, Cotton believes himself to be Chuck Norris.
His legend still coats the pipes of General George S. Patton's famous toilet to this day
I want to see a mike judge approved Cotton/Tom Anderson interaction
Tom Anderson's war stories is an awesome new addition to Beavis & Butthead
Hibachi the whole squad.....talk about foreshadowing
I woke up in a field hospital and they were sewing my feet to my knees. Now what was it you wanted to tell me?
Ha he looks like Bobby if he dropped all that weight.
cotton is the best character in the show
True texas hero
Audie Murphy
@@Frankie-O ?
He had to eat rat droppings and called it jungle rice😂
"TASTED FINE!!!"😂
3:31 Ed Asner talking RIP Mr Frederickson!
Cotton: "I killed fitty men!"
I'll always remember him saying "where's my bacon"😂😂😂
Based on that story I’m starting to think his legs were always that way
No, the Japanese woman he was in love with actually said it was expected that his legs would fall off. That implies that they are like that because of medical intervention
As a combat vet,😢 I'm at attention saluting🫡
Thank you and my Dad for your service hero 🫡
the blood attracted sharks i had to give um fatty
Bethany Hamilton wasn't given to the sharks.
Poor Fatty 😵
Ooooo that boy was airborne
Imagine if Cotton was in Star Wars. A Rebel Alliance veteran of the Galactic Civil War.
Move it move it move it. Cotton is a true American hero
people debating Cotton's war experiences simply do not understand the fact that his war heroics defy conventional logic (except Munich of course).
Don't forget Sardinia/Anzio, remember he fought Nazis in Italy 🇮🇹 first before he was sent to the South Pacific- his 1st flashback shows them in Italy.
Little Man Kids say the darndest things, don't they? XD
I miss cotton. He killed fiddy men
I find it rather odd that Cotton was cremated despite earning a burial plot reserved for war veterans.
You forgot about how he said he built a shelter out of scabs and toothpicks, it withstood a “Tojo Balloon Bomb”.
I never looked at that case with Cottons record.
A full bird Colonel, A Silver star and Medal of Honor, and apparently stayed in the military for quite a while after WW2 considering he wasn't a Colonel when he lost his shins and was taken off of Japan.
0:20 Cotton is not an officer, Bill. Don't call him sir! LOL
He wasn’t an officer in the army but in the Texas state militia he was a colonel
I mean, Colonel is an officer.
Cotton eventually did become a officer technically 😂 back then you didn’t need college to be an officer
@@herbproductions2813 well then again back then you didn’t need a degree to be a officer
I wish Cotton was my grandfather, id just be high around him just amazed at his stories like god damn. But not as a dad, fuck no
cotton was the anti-hero of king of the hill. like cotton was a bad man but he wasn't completely a bad man.
5:26 that smile
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I find it a good detail how much they made cotton look like Bobby instead of hank when he was younger
I'm not in the army but why is it in Cotton's first story did the Japanese soldiers wear shorts?
I think Roy Benavidez got his inspiration from Cotton.
Press F to pay respects for Cotton Hill
LOL "I hibachi the entire squad"
He was in a Japanese POW camp and survived on rat droppings, which he called “jungle rice.”
My grandpa is buried in the texas state cemetery
Respect to yours and your soldier 🇺🇸
This dude stopped his heart to stop hank from talking. 😂
General McArthur’s corncob pipe
If there ever is another battlefield in WW2 they need to give us missions based around cotton hills stories
I know I'm taking his stories a bit too literal but I'll just leave this here anyway: For taking 50 bullets in the back his shirt was nearly pristine without a drop of blood. Sake should not be green. It's a cloudy white. If it was green it probably was not safe for consumption, even by desperate soldiers' standards. Sake is low in alcohol content typically being close to wine, though stronger sakes could reach around 20% alcohol. Either way, that's way too low to hibachi someone with. You need something no less 40% to do that.
Wh, for the sake part could have just been Cotton's ignorance on the sorts of liquors the Japanese drank and just called all of them sake. Also I think the green coloration was due to the barrel and weird color filter used for that flashback. Or just a goof by animators
Orr cotton went into a gasoline induced rampage and little snippets of it come out time to time. If he hid inside of a barrel of fuel as a legitimate method to sneak into camp then he might also be in a high psychosis by the time he got in. Lol.
The japanese find him surrounded only by many dead japanese with his own shin hand after passing out from killing the last. Cotton probably honestly gleaned this from the japanese resoect/actions towards him with 50 being his most conservative answer.
If cotton was a liar he wouldve easily stated a higher kill count. That was his low ball lol. This makes the other stories quite bizarre in retrospect.
Theres other war stories of meth induced soldiers etc doing insane things as well so cottons story is probably meant to reflect that.
I remember being a kid and watching Cotton and his WW2 buddies taunting the Vietnam Veterans lol..
"Fatty, Stinky and Brooklyn. Kinda like you fellas except one was from Brooklyn"
That`s fkn gold
Cotton Hill was too powerful so God had to nerf him by removing his shins. He killed fitty men after all
Cotton is the ideal Texan
RIP Colonel 🫡🇺🇲
Wana Hear the Story Fattie..!!
Bill.: Sir Yes Sir..!!!
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I love How Bill and Cotton Both have Military Ranks and Bill Automatically Addressing him as His Commanding superior
You forgot the Tojo balloon bomb clip 😂
"See the fitty men he killed!" 🤣
I counted those bullets coming out of that zero plane cotten took 55 bullets not 50 he was just being modest.
"They were spittin' on the American flag!"
Those bastards
I called it jungle rice 😭
Cotton wasn’t lying he just didn’t know geography lol
Cotton was a Teenage when that happened
"I beat them to death with a big piece of Fatty"
Bro... I thought you gave Fatty to the sharks? 🤨