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''King of the Hill'' is an American
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created by
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and
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that initially aired on
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from January 12, 1997, to September 13, 2009, with four more episodes airing in syndication from May 3 to 6, 2010. The series centers on the Hills, an American family who live in the fictional city of Arlen,
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, as well as their neighbors, co-workers, relatives, classmates, friends, and acquaintances. The show's realistic approach seeks humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life,
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s, family conflicts, and the trials of
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. Judge began creating ''King of the Hill'' during his time making the
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series ''
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'', which he also created and voiced the titular characters. After pitching the pilot to Fox, Judge was paired with
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, an experienced writer who previously worked on ''
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''. The series debuted on the Fox network as a
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in 1997, quickly becoming a success. The series' popularity led to worldwide syndication, and cable reruns currently air on FXX and
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, having aired on FX and
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in the past. The show became one of Fox's longest-running series, with a total of 259 episodes over the course of its 13 seasons. Four episodes from the final season were planned to air on Fox, but later premiered in nightly syndication in May 2010. ''King of the Hill'' was met with universal acclaim and has since garnered a strong
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. It was named by ''
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'' in its 2007 list of "The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". The series has won two
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and has been nominated for seven. Its celebrity guest stars include Texas Governor
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and numerous country music artists. On January 18, 2022, Judge and Daniels announced the formation of a new company called Bandera Entertainment, with a revival of ''King of the Hill'' being one of several series in development. On January 31, 2023,
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announced it had picked up the revival. On May 30, 2025, the revival's premiere date was announced to be August 4, 2025, with the new season airing on Hulu and
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with Hulu.


Premise and characters

''King of the Hill'' is set in the fictional small town of Arlen,
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. The show centers on the Hill family, headed by the ever-responsible, calm, hard-working, loyal, disciplined, and honest salesman
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(
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). The punning title refers to Hank as the head of the family, as well as metaphorically to the children's game
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. Hank is employed as the assistant manager at Strickland Propane, selling "
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and propane accessories", a frequent
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. He often finds his traditional conservative values challenged by the changing world around him, though his common decency always sees him through. Hank typically serves as the ''de facto'' leader for his friends and family. His wife Peggy Hill, ''née'' Platter (
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), a native of
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, is a substitute Spanish teacher, though she has a poor grasp of the language. Peggy also finds employment and avocation as a freelance newspaper columnist for ''The Arlen Bystander'', as well as a
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champion,
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, softball pitcher, and real estate agent. She is confident, frequently to the point of lacking self-awareness. Hank and Peggy's only child, Bobby Hill (
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), is a student at Tom Landry Middle School. His characteristic lack of athleticism and interests in prop comedy and cooking are mystifying to his more conventional father, but are encouraged by his mother. Throughout a good share of the series, Peggy's naïve and emotional niece
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(
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), the daughter of Peggy's scheming brother Hoyt (
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) and his alcoholic ex-wife, Leanne (Adlon), lives with the Hill family. Hank originally encourages her to move out, but over time, accepts her as a member of the household. Luanne attends beauty school and hosts a Christian-themed puppet show for a local cable-access TV station. She eventually finds employment as a hairdresser, trades beauty school for community college - from which she eventually drops out, as well when she is finally able to become a hairdresser full-time - and moves into the neighboring house previously owned by Ted "Pops" Popacito, but is still regularly a part of the Hill family's lives. She engages in a relationship with and marries Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt (
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), a snaggle-toothed lay about, who lives on the settlement he has earned from a frivolous lawsuit. Hank has a healthy relationship with his mother, Tilly (
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, later
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and K Callan), a kind woman who lives in
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. He is at first uncomfortable with his mother dating Gary Kasner (
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), a Jewish man, but warms to him as their relationship progresses. He is dismayed by his mother's choice to break up with Gary to marry a man she has only known for a few weeks, Chuck Garrison, but eventually finds him as likable as Gary. In contrast, Hank has a strained relationship with his father, Cotton Hill (
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), a cantankerous
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veteran who lost his shins to Japanese machine gun fire and verbally abused Tilly during their marriage, leading to their divorce. Cotton later marries Didi (
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), a young candy striper, and they have a son, "G.H." ("Good Hank"), who bears a striking resemblance to Bobby. Other main characters include Hank's friends and their families.
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( Johnny Hardwick; later Huss) is the Hills' chain-smoking,
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, conspiracy-theorist, next-door neighbor and Hank's best friend. As a result of his paranoia, Dale does not trust the government or "the system". He owns his own pest-control business, Dale's Dead Bug, and is also a licensed
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and president of the Arlen Gun Club. He is married to Nancy Hicks-Gribble (Gardner), a weather reporter and later an anchorwoman for Channel 84 news. Their only child, Joseph (Murphy, later
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), is best friends with Bobby Hill. He plays
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for the football team, enjoys destructive activities like setting ants on fire, and becomes somewhat girl-crazy as he gets older. He is not Dale's biological son, but was instead born from Nancy's 14-year-long affair with John Redcorn ( Victor Aaron; later
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), a Native American healer who has given her therapeutic massages for her headaches for years; their affair and Joseph's real parentage have long been common knowledge among the neighbors, who have all seemingly agreed to keep it a secret from Dale. He has expressed suspicion that he is not Joseph's biological father, but believes that Nancy was impregnated by aliens using his DNA. Even so, he clearly loves his son. Across the alley from the Hills lives
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(
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). Known as the "Billdozer" in his high-school football glory days, Bill is now overweight, bald, and clinically depressed, still struggling to get over his divorce with his ex-wife Lenore. He is a
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and barber in the
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, who idolizes Hank. His loneliness often results in him being easily taken advantage of by strangers until his friends come to his rescue. Throughout the series, he finds near-success with women, including former
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. He frequently expresses an unrequited attraction to Peggy, which she occasionally uses to her advantage. Boomhauer (Judge), who also lives in the Hill's neighborhood, is a slim womanizer whose fast, nonfluent, and jumbled speech can be hard to understand for the audience despite being easily understood by his friends and most other characters. He is shown to be able to sing clearly and speak fluent Spanish and French. During a perspective flashback in the season-three episode "A Fire Fighting We Will Go", Boomhauer sees himself speaking in a typical manner, while everyone else speaks in Boomhauer's manner of speaking. Though his occupation is not explicitly stated, a single line early in the series indicates he is an electrician living on worker's compensation. In a montage leading to the conclusion of the final episode, a Texas Ranger badge falls open on his dresser. His given name, Jeff, is not revealed until the 13th and final season. In the series' first season, the Souphanousinphones, a Laotian-American family, move in next door to the Hills. The family consists of the materialistic Kahn (Huss; later
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), his class-conscious wife Minh (
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), and their teenaged daughter, Kahn Jr., who goes by the name "Connie" (Tom). Kahn – who fled poverty in Laos to become a successful systems analyst in America – is often at odds with his neighbors, believing them to be "hillbillies" and "rednecks" due to their lower
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despite evidence to the contrary. Minh often becomes involved in activities with Peggy and Nancy, on whom she looks down as uncivilized and ignorant, despite considering them her best friends. Connie has been pushed by her father to become a child prodigy and excels at a variety of things from academics to music, though she rejects her father's materialism and judgmental nature. She develops a relationship with Bobby that blossoms into romance over the first half of the series before the two decide to remain friends. She often accompanies Bobby and Joseph on their adventures. Other minor characters include Buck Strickland (voiced by Stephen Root), Hank's licentious boss at Strickland Propane; Joe Jack (Huss) and Enrique (
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), Hank's co-workers at Strickland; Carl Moss ( Dennis Burkley), Bobby's principal at Tom Landry Middle School; and Reverend Karen Stroup (
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in her debut appearance, and then Ashley Gardner in regular appearances), the female minister of Arlen First Methodist. Unlike most adult animated comedies such as ''
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'', the show uses a simple
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format, which is consistently present throughout its run, the show presents itself as being more down-to-earth than competing animated comedies due to its realism and bases its plots and humor from mundane topics. Critics also note the great deal of humanity shown throughout the show.


Characters

''King of the Hill'' depicts an "average" family and their lives in a typical American town. It documents the Hills' day-to-day-lives in the small Texas town of Arlen, exploring themes such as parent-child relationships,
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,
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, and
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.


Episodes


Production


Conception

In early 1995, during the successful first run of ''
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'' on MTV, Mike Judge decided to create another animated series, this one set in a small Texas town based on an amalgamation of
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suburbs, including
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, where he had lived, and Richardson. Judge conceived the idea for the show, drew the main characters, and wrote a pilot script. The Fox Broadcasting Company was uncertain of the viability of Judge's concept for an animated comedy based in reality and set in the American South, so the network teamed the animator with Greg Daniels, an experienced primetime TV writer who had previously worked on ''The Simpsons''. Daniels rewrote the pilot script and created important characters who did not appear in Judge's first draft, including Luanne and Cotton. Daniels also reworked some of the supporting characters (whom the pair characterized as originally having been generic, "snaggle-toothed hillbillies"), such as making Dale Gribble a
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. While Judge's writing tended to emphasize political humor, specifically the clash of Hank Hill's
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and interlopers' liberalism, Daniels focused on character development to provide an emotional context for the series' numerous cultural conflicts. Judge was ultimately so pleased with Daniels' contributions, he chose to credit him as a co-creator, rather than give him the "developer" credit usually reserved for individuals brought onto a pilot written by someone else.


Initial success

After its debut, the series became a large success for Fox and was named one of the best television series of the year by various publications, including ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. For the 1997–1998 season, the series became one of Fox's highest-rated programs and even outperformed ''The Simpsons'' in the ratings that season, ranking 15th with an average of 16.3 million viewers per episode. During the fifth and sixth seasons, Mike Judge and Greg Daniels became less involved with the show. They eventually refocused on it, even while Daniels became increasingly involved with other projects.


Format change

Judge and Daniels' reduced involvement with the show resulted in the series' format turning more episodic and formulaic. Beginning in season seven, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, who had worked on the series since season two, took it over completely, tending to emphasize Judge's concept that the series was built around
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humor rather than character-driven humor. Although Fox insisted that the series lack character development or story arcs (a demand made of the network's other animated series, so that they can be shown out of order in syndication), Judge and Daniels had managed to develop minor arcs and story elements throughout the early years of the series, such as Luanne's becoming more independent and educated after Buckley's death, and the aging of characters being acknowledged (a rare narrative occurrence for an animated series).


Connection to ''Bless the Harts''

'' Bless the Harts'', an animated series created for Fox, loosely shares a universe with ''King of the Hill'', and features the Mega-Lo-Mart in the show. Story editors Christy Stratton and Emily Spivey for ''King of the Hill'' are involved in the show, although Judge is not. It premiered on September 29, 2019, and ended on June 20, 2021, due to Fox canceling the series after two seasons.


Facing cancellation

Because it was scheduled to lead off Fox's Sunday-night animated programming lineup, portions of ''King of the Hill'' episodes were often pre-empted by sporting events that ran into overtime (the show was pre-empted more often than not by NFL football); in season nine especially, whole episodes were pre-empted. Ultimately, enough episodes were pre-empted that the majority of the series' 10th season—initially intended to be the final season, consisted of unaired ninth-season episodes. The 11th season was also meant to be the last, with a planned finale televised before it was renewed. The 13th-season episode " Lucky See, Monkey Do" became the first episode of the series to be produced in
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high definition when it aired on February 8, 2009.


Cancellation

Although ratings remained consistent throughout the 10th, 11th, and 12th seasons and had begun to rise in the overall
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(up to the 105th-most watched series on television, from 118th in season 8), Fox abruptly announced in 2008 that ''King of the Hill'' had been canceled, which coincided with the announcement that
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, creator of ''
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'' and ''
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'', would be creating a ''Family Guy'' spin-off called ''
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'', which would take over ''King of the Hill's'' time slot. Hopes to keep the show afloat surfaced as sources indicated that
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(which was already airing Judge's new animated comedy, ''
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'') was interested in securing the rights to the show, but in January 2009, ABC president Steve McPherson said he had "no plans to pick up the animated comedy." On April 30, 2009, it was announced that Fox ordered at least two more episodes to give the show a finale. The show's 14th season was originally supposed to air sometime in the 2009–2010 season, but Fox later announced that it would not air the episodes, opting instead for syndication. On August 10, 2009, however, Fox released a statement that the network would air a
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on September 13, 2009. During the panel discussion for the return of ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' at Comic-Con 2011, Mike Judge said that no plans existed to revive ''King of the Hill'', although he would not rule out the possibility of it returning.


Revival

In August 2017, Judge and Daniels were revealed to have talked with Fox executives about a potential revival. In an interview with ''
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'' the following March, Judge said he would want the revived series to include aged characters, such as an older Bobby. In March 2020, Daniels revealed that Judge and he had an idea for the reboot. Daniels stated, "We do have a plan for it and it's pretty funny. So maybe one day." In March 2021, writer Brent Forrester stated that a reboot was currently underway, stating in a tweet, "I am sure Greg Daniels and Mike Judge will murder me for sharing this but... HELL YES. They are in hot negotiations to bring back ''King of the Hill''." The reboot will possibly feature "aged-up characters". In January 2022, Judge and Daniels announced the formation of a new company called Bandera Entertainment, with a revival of ''King of the Hill'' being one of several series in development. During a panel at Comic-Con 2022, Judge stated that the show "has a very good chance of coming back." In September 2022,
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president Michael Thorn confirmed that the series would not air on Fox, with the reason being that Fox prefers to have full ownership of whatever new shows they air. On January 31, 2023, a revival on
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was officially confirmed to be ordered. Judge, Najimy, Root, Adlon, and Tom were all expected to reprise their roles. With Murphy and Petty's deaths, how the characters of Luanne and Lucky would be handled was not announced, and whether Huss would return as Kahn was unknown. On May 1, 2023, Root had stated that the new revival will also have a time jump taking place years after the series finale where Bobby is "older". Hardwick was also confirmed to reprise his role as Dale Gribble, but died in August 2023 before any new episodes made it to air. Later, Hardwick was revealed to have recorded six episodes prior to his death. The revival is expected to last two seasons. To promote the revival, the
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-based Alamo Beer Co. will be partnering with Hulu to release ''King of the Hill''-inspired Alamo Beer, which will launch in 2025. A first-look poster for the new series was revealed online on May 14, 2025. Its premiere date of August 4, 2025 was revealed, as well as the show's updated opening credits sequence featuring adult Bobby, during a panel at the ATX Television Festival in Austin's Paramount Theater on May 30 that featured the cast and crew, including Judge, Daniels, Patterson, Adlon, Tom, and Huss. The same day, Judge and Daniels were reported to be executive producing the revival with showrunner Saladin Patterson, Michael Rotenberg and Howard Klein of 3 Arts, and Dustin Davis of Judge and Daniels' Bandera Entertainment, while Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Lauren Tom, and Toby Huss would also return as voice actors. Huss will also replace Hardwick as the voice of Dale Gribble from in the seventh episode of the 14th season onwards. On June 1, 2025,
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, John Redcorn's second voice actor, who was slated to return to the show, was shot and killed by a neighbor, following a confrontation outside his home in
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, Texas. How the production team will move forward from this point is currently unclear. However, ''
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'' noted afterwards that Joss did manage to return for the revival and had recorded lines for four episodes prior to his death.


Setting and opening sequence


Opening sequence

In the opening sequence, Hank joins Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer in the alley behind his house. When he opens his can of beer, the playback speed increases greatly and depicts other main and secondary characters carrying out various daily activities around them in a time-lapse. Meanwhile, the four continue drinking beer and a nearby recycling bin fills with their empty cans. When Peggy brings a bag of garbage out to Hank, the other three leave and the playback returns to normal speed (which was sped up for the first half of the last few seconds of the introduction from seasons 4–13) as he takes it to the trash can and gathers with Peggy and Bobby in a parody of '' American Gothic''. In the upcoming 14th season, the introduction has been changed to serve as a compressed timelapse of the events that occurred in between the 13th and 14th seasons, while maintaining the same increased playback speed and a similar start and end compared to the original. The opening theme, "Yahoos and Triangles", is performed by Arizona rock band The Refreshments. Variations of the theme are used for special episodes, including season finales and Christmas episodes.


Setting

''King of the Hill'' is set in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, an amalgamation of numerous Dallas–Fort Worth suburbs, including
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, Richardson, Arlington, and
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. In addition to drawing inspiration from the DFW region, Judge has described Arlen as "a town like Humble" (a suburb of
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). ''Time'' magazine praised the authentic portrayal as the "most acutely observed, realistic sitcom about regional American life bar none". In the episode "Hank's Cowboy Movie", the town's entrance sign lists its population as 145,300. Though Arlen is inspired by various Texas suburban communities, its specific location in Texas is never specified in the series. Similar to the location of Springfield on ''The Simpsons'', the location of Arlen within Texas is arbitrarily based on the needs of a particular episode's plot, and multiple episodes give conflicting information as to Arlen's geographic location within the state. For example, one episode indicates that it is just north of the
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in central Texas. Other episodes place it near Houston or Dallas, while others feature trips to Mexico and back taking place within a matter of hours. In the episode "Harlottown", the location is revealed to be somewhere on the
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. In all cases, the general location for Arlen coincides with the eastern half of the state as opposed to the western half, the latter being predominantly desert. The Hills and other major characters reside on Rainey Street. Hank's friend and neighbor Bill Dauterive is a barber at Fort Blanda, a small army post near Arlen. Most of the children in the show attend
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Middle School; other schools depicted are Arlen High (home of the Longhorns) and Staubach Elementary. Early in the series, the school is referred to as being in the Heimlich County School District (according to markings on the school buses), though in later seasons, this is changed to Arlen Independent School District. The school's mascot is a longhorn steer.


Reception


Critical response

''King of the Hill'' received critical acclaim over its 13-year run. Early reviews of the show were positive, and it was named as one of the best new shows of 1997 by ''
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'' considered it the "most Texan television series since ''
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''", and praised the show's "sly sense of humor and subversive sensibility." At the ''
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'', writer
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suggested that the show "totes a few smiles, but here'slittle to bowl you over, and it takes a spell getting used to." The show's first season received an approval rating of 83% on
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, based on eighteen reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. Its consensus reads, "''King of the Hill''s mild yet extremely funny depiction of small-town Texas life is refreshingly worlds away from conventional prime-time animation." The fifth and thirteenth seasons received more critical praise, with a 100% approval rating. In 2007, James Poniewozik included it on ''Times list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows, writing: "The most acutely observed, realistic sitcom about regional American life bar none, this animated series is a lot like its protagonist, Texas propane salesman Hank Hill: it isn't flashy, never gets a lot of attention, but does its job year in and year out... Mike Judge makes Hank Hill funny in his pained Boy Scout rectitude without making him a figure of fun for it, and with its canvas of mega-stores and Laotian yuppies, the show sees modern America's fine detail like an electron microscope." At the show's conclusion, Poniewozik opined that it had "quietly been the best family comedy on TV", calling the show's ending "one of the most moving things I've seen on TV this year."
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'' described it as "sweeter and more human than the great majority of live-action sitcoms that overlapped its run." Genevieve Koski of ''
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'' described it as a "steadfast, down-to-earth series" and contrasted it with other contemporary cartoons: "''King of the Hill''s characters aren't funny because they tell perfectly crafted jokes or make pop-culture references or constantly get themselves into ridiculous situations; they're funny because they have real hopes, flaws, and limitations that satirize the absurdity of everyday life while simultaneously celebrating it." She also noted that "the show saw its fair share of silly conceits and contrived setups—and got fairly repetitive in the final seasons." Writers have examined the show through a political lens. "It's not a political show", said Mike Judge in 1997. "It's more a populist, common sense point of view." In 2005, Matt Bai of ''
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'' called it "the most subtle and complex portrayal of small-town voters on television." A 2016 reappraisal from ''
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'' dubbed it the "last bipartisan TV comedy", with writer Bert Clere noting the program "imbued all of its characters with a rich humanity that made their foibles deeply sympathetic. In this, ''King of the Hill'' was far ahead of its time, and the broader TV landscape has yet to catch up." As of 2014, ''King of the Hill'' was ranked No. 27 on IGN's "Top 100 Animated TV Series". The publication also ranked it as No. 66 on their "The Top 100 Best TV Shows of All Time" list in 2023. In 2013, ''TV Guide'' ranked ''King of the Hill'' as one of the top 60 Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time.


Ratings


Awards and nominations


Home media

The first six seasons were released on DVD by
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from 2003 to 2006. The seventh season was originally planned to be released in late 2006, but most likely due to poor sales of the DVDs, the release was canceled. However, 8 years later in 2014, Olive Films acquired the sub-license to release future seasons of the show, and seasons seven and eight were released on November 18, of that same year, with nine and ten released on April 7, 2015, eleven released on August 25, 2015, twelve released on September 22, 2015, and thirteen released (also Blu-ray) on October 20, 2015.
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and
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streamed all episodes, but stopped streaming on October 1, 2013, and in early 2017, the series was removed from
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and
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, though it returned to the latter later that year. As of May 2018, all episodes were again removed from Google Play and iTunes. On November 1, 2018, all episodes became available for streaming on
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in the US. In some countries, the series was unavailable to stream or buy digitally, since Hulu is only available in the United States. However in 2022, the series was made available internationally on
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through the
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hub. The show aired in
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from 2001 to 2019. From September 2004 to December 2008, FX aired the series daily nationwide. The show later aired on
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's late-night programming block
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from January 1, 2009, to June 29, 2018. The series then aired short-lived reruns on
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and CMT from July 24, 2018, until November 2019, when the series was pulled from their lineups. However, the series joined FXX's lineup on September 20, 2021; shortly thereafter, Adult Swim regained partial syndication, and so FXX and Adult Swim share the syndication rights as of November 22, 2021.


Video games

A video game based on the series was released on November 13, 2000, for the PC. The player goes on a hunting trip with Hank and the gang where the player must hunt for various animals. The game received mixed to negative reviews. The characters also appeared in a crossover game, '' Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards'', which features not only ''King of the Hill'', but also ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'', ''
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'', ''Bob's Burgers'', and ''
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''. They are also playable characters in a 2022 racing game, '' Warped Kart Racers'', also featuring ''Family Guy'' and ''American Dad!'', as well as '' Solar Opposites''. Hank Hill also appears as an outfit in ''
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References


Archival sources


The King of the Hill Production Archive
1995–2006 (75 linear ft) is housed at the Wittliff Collections, Texas State University in San Marcos.


External links

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