So I noticed there isn't a page dedicated to this on the main site, although there is one on the lost media archive. To save myself some time I will copy and paste the short description of this media from that page.
"Pigmalion was an episode of King Of The Hill in Season 7. Featuring Michael Keaton as a Deranged Pork Farmer who falls for Luanne Platter, The Episode is known as the darkest episode of King Of The Hill. It was originally made for Season 5 as a Halloween Special but was banned & held back by fox until season 7 due to the Dark, Disturbing nature of the episode.
The original airing had a brief scene at the end, After Trip Larsen's death in the Processing plant, As Luanne & Peggy were saying the last bit of dialogue, The bloody corpse of Trip Larsen was shown sliding back on a hook behind the 2 women. This scene has been removed in all airings, Fading out before the body was shown."
As far as I know the original scene is completely lost, and the current version of the episode we have seems to confirm the existence of this moment due to the fade out that's present. I can't find much info about it, the main thing I wanted to know was if this scene was truly present in the original airing or if it was removed even earlier than that. Without confirmation it's possible the Fox censors removed the scene before the first airing.
I also can't find information as to where knowledge of this lost scene started and if the source was credible.
Last Edit: Apr 6, 2018 5:46:56 GMT by supermoe1985
I also can't find information as to where knowledge of this lost scene started and if the source was credible.
This would be why we don't have a page on it. Feel free to discuss the potential scene here, but since all we have are unverified wiki claims, my money is on it being a hoax.
As for this:
the current version of the episode we have seems to confirm the existence of this moment due to the fade out that's present.
Every episode ends with a fadeout, so this doesn't prove anything. I can't imagine such a scene even being planned - even if a man getting killed was uncharacteristically dark for KOTH, the thought of them trying to get away with showing his mutilated corpse on-screen is, no offense, laughably ridiculous. Especially considering the episode was rated TV-PG.
You raise good points, I too am sceptical. Regardless I am investigating to try and find the original source of this information and ask them how they came to know about this scene.
So there are only two places as far as I can tell where info of this scene is found. The lost media archive page and the Pigmalion King of the Hill wiki trivia section. I got into contact with the person who added the lost scene into the trivia section and as I guessed, he got the info from the lost media archive page. Not only that but he speculated in his response that the scene could be fake, due to an old geocities site maintained by the actual show runners that catalogues lost scenes. And on that page this scene is not mentioned. geocitiessites.com/arlen_texas/alternate.htm
I've attempted to get into contact with the person who created the lost media archive page (the one most likely to have made up this story) and they have not responded to me yet, we will see if contact will ever be made.
"I first heard about the scene on the now defunct IMDb forums, A user claimed to have seen the scene, Another said to have seen it on a KOTH Reddit Thread discussing the Pigmalion Episode. A review of the episode by AlphaJay posted more people claimed to have seen the scene, The Episode itself was originally made for Season 5 but delayed for awhile due to the dark nature of the episode. It's likely that it was removed prior to airing. But to check to see if it is really true. We might need to search for international airings of the episode." - NickGemini12, creator of the lost media archive page.
So our likely first source is the defunct IMDb forums, either the start of the hoax or the source of the truth. Other than that this doesn't really prove much as people claim to have seen hoax scenes all the time either due to fake memories or to get attention (like the myth of the cut scene of Squidward turning into a snail). At least we are a step closer to the truth.
Post by deforestatedjerry on Apr 14, 2018 4:27:10 GMT
I've searched Reddit to find any discussion of this and turned up empty. Was there a thread that got deleted? I guess AlphaJay's review also was deleted for some reason, although it's been reuploaded by someone, but the original comments of course are lost now.
Feels like online convo in general gets deleted about this episode for no real reason. Coincidence I guess? Not like the episode is banned from even being mentioned or anything.
It's worth mentioning that I got into a minor YouTube comment argument about this (despite telling myself never again...) Basically one dude claims he's seen it, I claim he's remembering wrong. If you know anything about how memory works then you know how easy it is for your brain to create a completely fake memory once the idea is implanted in your head, and it seems just as real as any other. This happens ALL the time in stuff that you believe happened a certain way but actually didn't. It's what's accounted for things like people SWEARING they saw the fake spongebob scene only to be proven wrong. But the dude said he wasn't arguing with someone who didn't see the episode when it aired, and I wasn't really doing a good job proving my point, so, whatever, I gave up with that.
Also worth mentioning is that the person I was arguing with described the scene differently. Instead of Trip's bloody corpse being shown, the guy claims that all you saw was his legs dangling. I'd be more willing to believe that than the former description, since it sounds less like a creepypasta and more like an actual joke, but I still think it's fake. If this really aired I think there would be more evidence of discussion about it. The IMDb forums may be dead, but why is there nothing on forums like ToonZone? Even without the IMDb forums, why are there no mentions of this scene anywhere online written before 2016? Thinking logically about what happens to Trip - he gets skewered, ground up, and, as Peggy says, turned into a sausage. How would his body even be recognizable in any form to put on that meat hook? It just makes no sense, and I bet you anything it's a false memory based on people seeing those hooks and thinking something should be attached to them.
Other things of note:
-The IMDb forums for KotH are decently backed up from 2017-2015, but I couldn't find anything about this just from a cursory look. I did find a couple mentions of the episode (in the "most dramatic episodes" and "least favorite episodes" threads), but nothing mentioning this scene. If you want to take a look, go ahead: web.archive.org/web/20170215211520/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118375/board/threads/ -Another person within the youtube comment thread claims they saw the episode when it aired and they never saw any such scene.
Post by lobothemainman on Apr 23, 2018 6:05:13 GMT
Glad someone is looking into this. Judging by what I've read I'm leaning that it's a myth. I will say it is odd that it ended so abruptly with the hooks coming in as if something was suppose to come into frame. But it would have been strange for a dead body to end the episode. Those hooks were moving so slow it would've got to the point of awkwardness for Luanne and Peggy to just stand there if he was on the next one. I'm going all in that its simply fake.
There's also a myth in another episode that Connie's cousin said Pig fucker in the the first airing that was edited. Another unconfirmed rumor.