I mean, that depends on the watch and could be exactly how it works.
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In the very next scene, he exclaims "It's not even digital!", but yes I hear you
Plus, this was so long ago that even if it was digital, at best it could have chiptuned its way through the opening to Final Countdown.
King of the Hill aired from '97 to '09.
... There are too many episodes for me to be able to pick out exactly which one this is from, what year it aired in...
But uh, fairly commonplace, reasonably affordable smartwatches, with the kind of functionality described... didn't really become a thing until roughly the mid '10s.
Yes, there were earlier 'smartwatches', or things that could be argued to fall into that definition... but they were extremely niche, quite pricey.
Apple's first smartwatch didn't come out till 2015.
Smartphones, with touchscreens, did not really even exist at a reasonable price point, with significant numbers of people using them untill the latter third or quarter of KotH's seasons.
Like I still remember having some clamshell, phyiscal keyboard 'smartphone' in 08 - 09.
S12E16 aired 2008, title Pour Some Sugar on Kahn. Kahn does Karaoke, General Gum steals his song.
THERE'S GOT TO BE,
A MORNING AFTER.
HOT SAUUUUUCE! NOW!
Lol, the first smart watches were released before 9/11. Maybe niche and pricey, but you could easily say the same of the original apple watch
You could get a Casio watch with mp3 player back in 2000
You could buy am/fm watches in the 90's, not 'mp3', but would definitely be talk radio and Sinatra.
Obligatory: The Expert
That, is an excellent skit.
I've been battling this myself since I've newly transitioned into the world of industry, and it is looney tunes the discussions I've been part of: the parts I don't understand sound like alphabet soup, and the parts I do understand are divorced from reality
MP3's what?
MP3's who?
MP3's chka-chka Slim Shady
Sure, that would be 200 bazillion, paid in advance and 50 years of waiting time.
You're good with money, right?
50 trasiphakazillion, to speed up the process and finish it in a week.
I've seen this a few times, but this is the first time I noticed he also mentioned Tesla
He's referring to Nikola Tesla in the standup. Someone that actually contributed to science with very little reward. The opposite of the founder of that car company that has tainted his name.