King of the Hill
From left to right: Boomhauer, Hank, Dale, and Bill
Genre	Animated series
Running time	22 minutes per episode
Creator(s)	Mike Judge and Greg Daniels
Starring	Mike Judge Kathy Najimy Pamela Segall Brittany Murphy Ashley Gardner Toby Huss Lauren Tom Stephen Root Johnny Hardwick David Herman Jonathan Joss
Country of origin	United States
Original network/channel	FOX
Original run	January 12, 1997 – present
No. of episodes	201
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King of the Hill is a satirical American animated television series produced by Deedle-Dee Productions, Judgemental Films, and 3 Arts Entertainment for 20th Century Fox. It is the second longest continuously running animated comedy on television, behind only The Simpsons. It debuted in 1997 and depicts a suburban Texan family, the Hills. A conservative, God-fearing Methodist family proud of its Texas heritage, the Hills reside in the fictional town of Arlen. Unlike most other animated series, which feature wacky or outlandish situations, King of the Hill attempts to retain realism; it is something of a dramedy, although the creators take advantage of the show's format by featuring plotlines and occurrences which would cost significantly more if done in a live-action show (for example, trips to Mexico have been a recurring event on the show). It is broadcast weekly on the FOX Network. The show's popularity has also led to frequent reruns (syndicated) by many local affiliates and FX Networks. Image File history File links King_of_the_Hill_alley. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Mike Judge as Stan in the motion picture Office Space (1999) Mike Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an animator, voice actor, writer, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the hit animated television series Beavis and Butt-head (1993-1997) and King of the Hill (1997... Greg Daniels is a well known television comedy writer. ... Mike Judge as Stan in the motion picture Office Space (1999) Mike Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an animator, voice actor, writer, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the hit animated television series Beavis and Butt-head (1993-1997) and King of the Hill (1997... Kathy Ann Najimy (born 6 February 1957) is an American actress, best known as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica’s Closet and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill. ... Although her name is not well known, Pamela Segall (born in 1968 in New York City, New York, USA) provides voices of many famous characters of memorable kids shows, such as Bobby Hill on the show King of the Hill and Spinelli in Recess. ... Murphy performs at a USO show aboard the USS Nimitz Brittany Anne Murphy (born Sharon Bertolotti[1] on November 10, 1977) is an American actress. ... Toby Huss is a U.S. actor. ... Lauren Tom Lauren Tom (born August 4, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and voice actress. ... Stephen Root. ... Johnny Hardwick is a stand-up comedian, the voice of Dale Gribble on the animated American television show King of the Hill, and a staff writer and story editor for the show as well. ... David Herman. ... Jonathan Joss (born 1965 in San Antonio, Texas) is a Native American actor. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), but rarely as FBC, is a television network in the United States. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1997. ... This is an episode list of the animated TV series King of the Hill. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ...   The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1997. ... Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq. ... This list is of fictional cities: villages, towns, and cities that do not exist in the world we know. ... Dramedy, a portmanteau of drama and comedy, is a genre of movies and television in which the lines between these very different genres were blurred. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), but rarely as FBC, is a television network in the United States. ... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... FX (shorter for Fox Extended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ...

The show airs in the United Kingdom on Sky One, Channel 4, and FX, in Canada on Global TV (with reruns on the Comedy Network and various local channels), and in Australia on the Seven Network (with reruns on Pay-TV channel Fox8). Sky One is British Sky Broadcastings flagship entertainment channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... FX is a British TV channel owned by Fox, launched in 2004 and originally branded as FX289 in reference to its Sky Digital EPG number. ... The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global) is a major English-language television network in Canada, owned by CanWest Global Communications. ... Comedy Network is a Canadian specialty channel with comedy programming. ... It has been suggested that Advertising by the Seven Network be merged into this article or section. ... Pay television, or pay-TV, usually refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analogue and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods. ... Several Fox Network affiliates broadcasting on channel 8 in the USA also go by the branding FOX 8 (specifically WJW, WVUE and WGHP) FOX8 is a general entertainment channel available on Australias Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television pay television services. ...

King of the Hill documents the Hill family's daily life and the effects of their traditional values versus controversial topics in modern America. Themes of past episodes have included women's liberation, female pastors, sex education, sexual harassment, proctologic examinations, ethnic diversity, and addiction support/anger management groups. The show focuses on the simple lives of the Hill family, often in contrast to "outsiders," such as their Laotian neighbors the Souphanousinphones. Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women. ... Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexual behavior. ... Sexual harassment is harassment of a sexual nature, typically in the workplace or other setting where raising objections or refusing may have negative consequences. ... Diversity is the presence of a wide range of variation in the qualities or attributes under discussion. ... Motto: Peace, Independence, Democracy, Unity and Prosperity Anthem: Pheng Xat Lao Capital Vientiane Largest city Vientiane Official language(s) Lao Government Communist state President Prime Minister Khamtai Siphandon Boungnang Vorachith Independence  - Date From France 19 July 1949 Area    - Total 236,800 km² (81st)   91,429 sq mi   - Water (%) 2% Population...

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History

The series is the brainchild of Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge. After a successful run of Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, he went on to co-create King of the Hill with former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels. Judge is a former resident of Garland, Texas, which is possibly the inspiration for the fictional town name Arlen. Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series that originally aired on the cable television channel MTV from 1993 to 1997, and can now be seen in re-runs on MTV2. ... Mike Judge as Stan in the motion picture Office Space (1999) Mike Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an animator, voice actor, writer, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the hit animated television series Beavis and Butt-head (1993-1997) and King of the Hill (1997... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...   The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. ... Greg Daniels is a well known television comedy writer. ... Garland is a suburb of Dallas, Texas, located in Dallas County, Texas, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 215,768. ...

Recently, King of the Hill has joined the ranks of other FOX shows like Futurama and Family Guy in its placement within a questionable timeslot and has faced frequent pre-emptions from sporting events (mostly The NFL on FOX) featuring overtime play and post-game commentary. Currently, the show is in its tenth season. It will be comprised for the most part of episodes which did not get to air last season, along with a few originals. The series was recently renewed [1] by Fox for an eleventh season, that will air beginning January 2007. Futurama is an American animated television series created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen (also a writer for The Simpsons). ... Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999. ... The NFL on FOX is a TV program that shows National Football Conference games on various FOX TV channels which belong to the Fox Entertainment Group (NYSE: FOX). ... This is an episode list of the animated TV series King of the Hill. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

King of the Hill reached its milestone 200th episode ("Hank's Bully") on May 7, 2006, but it was the next week's episode ("Edu-macating Lucky") that was advertised as such. May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Major characters

When Mike Judge pitched the show to Fox, he drew the characters as menacing looking, stereotypical "rednecks" with jagged teeth that protruded from their mouths when they spoke; Hank, Peggy, and Bobby were the only three characters whose present form closely resembles their original concept drawings (though originally Peggy was significantly overweight). In a unique move, Mike Judge changed many of the characters to look like the actors and actresses providing their voices: Bill, Luanne, Nancy, and John Redcorn are all physically modeled on their voice actors. Although rumored to be modelled after Judge himself, Dale is actually based on Robert Patrick, whom Judge had originally wanted to voice the character. Robert Patrick as the T-1000, in Terminator 2: Judgment Day Robert Patrick (born November 5, 1958 in Marietta, Georgia, USA) is an American actor. ...

Hills and Platters

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• Hank Hill (Mike Judge), an upright (and uptight) Eagle Scout, Arlen High School's all-time leading rusher, and all-American patriot, is the assistant manager at Strickland Propane and proudly sells "propane and propane accessories." (In fact, his voice sometimes trembles with reverence when he says the word "propane.") He sounds like and bears a decent and recognizable resemblance to Tom Anderson from Beavis and Butthead, a character that Judge also voiced. Hank is a generally well-meaning father but is often frustrated and confused by modern trends and the antics of his friends and family members. Hank suffers from a narrow urethra, which made it difficult for the Hills to conceive Bobby. He is also very uncomfortable with sexuality and intimacy, but has a healthy relationship with his family.
• Bobby Hill, (Pamela Segall) (Also as Pamela Segall Adlon), the chubby thirteen-year-old son of Hank and Peggy, wants to be a famous prop comic when he is older. Bobby has little grasp of gender roles and dislikes sports, and his dissimilarity to his father is a constant source of worry for Hank and humor for the viewers.
• Peggy Hill (Kathy Najimy) is the wife of Hank, a substitute Spanish teacher (whose knowledge of the Spanish language is seriously lacking), freelance newspaper columnist, Notary Public, and Boggle champion. Though well-meaning, she is often quite naive and ignorant. Her neurotic tendency to consider herself much smarter and more knowledgeable than she actually is occasionally gets her into trouble. She is also terribly self-conscious about her larger-than-normal (size sixteen) feet.
• Luanne Platter (Brittany Murphy) is the college-age niece of Peggy, creator of the Christian-themed children's puppet show Manger Babies, and student of the beauty academy and later Arlen Junior College. She is often portrayed as dumb, though she is also an expert mechanic and good at logic puzzles. Although she is consistently shown to be promiscuous during the first half of the show's run, she settles down after enrolling in college, attends a church sponsored "second virginity" program, and starts a Bible Study class. In the recent season finale, Luanne revealed that she's pregnant with the child of her future husband Lucky, so it remains to be seen how motherhood will affect her. Luanne's name is a joke to Texans who recognize the Luly's restaurant that the Hill family frequents: at Luby's restaurants in Texas, the generic "one meat, two vegetables" plate is called the "Lu Ann Platter."
• Cotton Hill (Toby Huss) is Hank's father, a deranged, politically incorrect misogynist with a hair-trigger temper. He had his shins blown off and his feet reattached to his knees in WWII, resulting in his short height and stumpy gait. While hospitalized in Japan, he impregnated a Japanese nurse who gave birth to a son, Hill Junichiro. Cotton eventually retired from the Texas State Guard as a full Colonel and spends most of his days with his VFW and American Legion buddies. After the completion of his military career - he supervised installation of asbestos in most of Arlen's schools. Flashbacks to Hank's childhood depict Cotton as an abusive maniac who once challenged Hank to shoot him in order to get back his binky. After divorcing Hank's mother, he married his much younger, dimwitted blonde nurse Didi and fathered an infant child ("G.H.," for Good Hank, since he considers Hank a disappointment). The calling of his later life is the assassination of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. He consistently refers to Peggy as "Hank's Wife." He makes frequent references to his (perhaps dubious) wartime heroism, including his killing of "fiddy men," (i.e., fifty Japanese soldiers). He refers to his vehicle as a "Cadillac Car."
• Tilly Hill (Tammy Wynette) is Cotton's first wife and Hank's mother. She divorced Cotton after suffering years of verbal abuse. A very sweet, kind, loving woman who collects minatures. Tilly resides in Arizona with her Jewish boyfriend Gary (voiced by Carl Reiner). Hank has trouble connecting emotionally with Tilly but remains a loving son, who's had to defend his mother's honor in spite of obnoxious Cotton putting her down.
• Didi Hill (Ashley Gardner) is Cotton's second wife and nurse. She went to kindergarten with Hank. She has breast implants, suffers from postpartum depression, and is generally depicted as docile and unintelligent, though she has a degree in optometry.
• Ladybird (Hill) is the Hills' purebred bloodhound. She is fourteen years old. Her acquisition temporarily relieved Hank's stress (and narrow urethra), thus helping him to conceive Bobby with Peggy. She is named after the famous Texan and U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird Johnson. Her mother was involved in the manhunt for James Earl Ray. Hank's relationship with her frequently seems to be closer and more paternal than his relationship with Bobby.
• Leanne Platter (Pamela Segall Adlon) is Luanne's violently alcoholic mother, who was imprisoned for stabbing her husband with a fork. She is frequently mentioned over the course of the show but seen only once. In that episode, she is released from prison and has an abusive affair with Bill.
• Lucky (Tom Petty) is a dimwitted local man living on government disability payments (he slipped on "pee pee" at the Costco bathroom) and proud of it. He's engaged to Luanne and father of her unborn child, to Peggy's consternation. Hank seems to like him. He is also a former guitarist for John Redcorn's Big Mountain Fudgecake and occasionally plays gigs in biker bars.

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Gribbles

• Dale Gribble (Johnny Hardwick) is the Hills' chain-smoking neighbor, insect exterminator, conspiracy theorist, and borderline maniac. He is also president of his gun club and a licensed bounty hunter, though the latter seems to be for prestige, because his bravado fails when he thinks that he may be in physical danger. (Though boastful, he is also a weakling.) He won't entirely resist stabbing Hank in the back for his own selfish gain but always finds himself suffering the consequences. He often goes under an alias name, "Rusty Shackleford".
• Joseph Gribble (Brittany Murphy (prepubescent) / Breckin Meyer (pubescent)) is the muscular thirteen-year-old son of Dale (although John Redcorn is the biological father, unbeknownst to Dale and to Joseph himself). The running joke is that despite Joseph's obvious Native American features, Nancy's clearly sexual "healing sessions" with John Redcorn, and Dale's manic insistence of his insight into conspiracy theories, Dale is oblivious to that fact.
• Nancy Gribble (Ashley Gardner) is the wife of Dale and longtime weather girl on a local television station. She had a 14-year affair with John Redcorn. She frequently addresses the other characters as "shug'" (i.e. short for "sugar").

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Souphanousinphones

• Kahn Souphanousinphone (Toby Huss) is the Hills' materialistic, Laotian American next-door neighbor. He harbors a prejudice against whites and southern whites in particular. He frequently tries to show that because he has more money, he is superior to the others, but Hank has to bail him out on more than one occasion, although not necessarily monetarily. Secretly, Kahn considers Hank his best friend as both men share some of the same principles.
• Minh Souphanousinphone (Lauren Tom) is Kahn's wife. She is a housewife and grows roses in the front yard. She enjoys making occasional catty comments about the "redneck" neighbors, especially Peggy. She also knows a lot of household tips, acquired from her mother-in-law.
• Kahn "Connie" Souphanousinphone, Jr. (Lauren Tom) is the daughter of Kahn and Minh, violin player, and A-student. She dates Bobby for the latter majority of the show's run. She is named for her father because Kahn wanted a son. Kahn occasionally wrestles with the fact that he has a daughter, and has even referred to her as his son in times of frustration.
• Doggy, a feisty West Highland White Terrier, is the Souphanousinphone family dog. Once competed with Bobby in a dog dancing competition that earned him and Bobby second place.

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Other main characters

• Boomhauer (Mike Judge) is a womanizing bachelor friend of Hank whose mutterings seem incomprehensible to some people (although his associates almost always seem to understand him perfectly). Example: "Yeah man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol' internet, man, you just go in on there and point and click, talk about w-w-dot-w-com, man you got nekkid chicks on there, man, just go click, click, click, click, click, it's real easy, man." Boomhauer's occupation is never revealed and has served as a gag in some episodes, but in one episode, if one listens closely, he mentions disability pay. He has a father who is a doctor, and who retired with Boomhauer's mother to Florida after they won the lottery. He also has a brother, Patch (Brad Pitt), who is an even bigger womanizer than Boomhauer.
• William Fontaine De la Tour Dauterive (a.k.a. Bill Dauterive) (Stephen Root) is the overweight, divorced, clinically depressed neighbor of the Hills and high-school friend of Hank. He obsesses over his ex-wife, Lenore (Ellen Barkin), in a manner similar to that described in the country-western song He Stopped Loving Her Today; his suicidal tendencies are a running joke on the show, and in one episode, Hank's consistent prevention of Bill's suicide attempts prompts Bill to suffer a psychotic break and believe that he is his own ex-wife. He is a barber in the United States Army, though a few years ago his records were doctored to show him as a "master technican with a clearance for pinball repair" when the Army cut funding for the sergeant Barbers program. He frequently tries to flirt with and woo Peggy (not obsessively, more due to extreme loneliness) but for the most part seems oblivious to the fact that Peggy wants nothing to do with him (romantically, at least).
• John Redcorn (Jonathan Joss) is Nancy's former Native American "healer" and adulterous lover as well as the biological father of Joseph Gribble, former roadie for Winger, and former lead singer of Big Mountain Fudgecake. He drives a Jeep Wrangler and enjoys classic rock music and hair bands. A masseur, he generally works only on women and has his trailer wired to provide low light and Teddy Pendergrass music. He was granted 12 acres of land (11 of them connected) as reparations from the U.S. government.
• Buck Strickland (Stephen Root), is owner of Strickland Propane, Hank's boss, a compulsive gambler, chauvinist, alcoholic, cheat, and adulterer/womanizer. Hank is blindly loyal to Buck, who generally treats Hank poorly, but perhaps unintentionally so. His physical appearance and controlling and somewhat boorish demeanor towards others is homage to Texan and former President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

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Minor characters

• Buckley (David Herman) was the slacker boyfriend of Luanne who is vaporized in a propane explosion while working at Mega Lo Mart. The character did return later (as "Buckley's Angel") for one time in the episode that leads Lu Ann to leave the Beauty School and enroll in junior college.
• Lenore Dauterive (Ellen Barkin) is Bill's ex-wife (also, in one episode, the name of his iguana). She is mentioned frequently throughout the course of the show but seen only once.
• Stuart Dooley (Mike Judge) is Bobby's deep voiced, laconic classmate. He has shaggy red hair. He always says something obvious (for example, to Bobby after witnessing a bully scare Bobby, "He scared you."). His character is based closely on the character Butt-head of Beavis and Butt-head.
• Eustis Miller (David Herman) is a wimpy, moustached patent lawyer and father of Bobby's classmate Randy.
• Debbie Grund (Reese Witherspoon) is an employee of Strickland Propane who was Buck Strickland's mistress. When Strickland ended their relationship, she plotted to murder him and his wife, but accidentally killed herself when she inadvertently discharged her shotgun into her own torso while attempting to climb into the dumpster she was using as a hiding place.
• Chuck Mangione, playing himself, shamelessly promotes Mega Lo Mart until he grows tired of going to every Mega Lo Mart opening and becomes a hermit, living within the Arlen Mega Lo Mart in a "Toilet Paper Castle" (a giant tower made out of stacked packages of toilet paper) and stealing stocked items.
• Monsignor Martinez is the gun-toting priest hero of the fictional TV show Las Dias y Los Noches de Monsignor Martinez, a favorite show of many of King of the Hill's principal characters. Clips of his program are often inserted into episodes as part of a running gag. Martinez is apparently some sort of assassin or secret agent who travels Mexico brutally murdering criminals and evildoers. The clips of his episodes which appear on the show usually feature him just about to kill one of his nemeses, uttering the words vaya con dios (go with God).
• Carl Moss (Dennis Burkley) is the principal of Tom Landry Middle School and one of Hank's high school classmates. Like most school administrators, his twin concerns are tight budgets and maintaining discipline. He once suspends Hank from teaching shop class on a temporary, volunteer basis due to a rule that prevents students from carrying weapons around campus.
• Octavio (Danny Trejo) is a Hispanic quasi-mercenary who does various favors for Dale, when paid enough money. His appearance was modeled after Danny Trejo.
• Miz Liz Strickland (Kathleen Turner) is the wife of Buck Strickland.
• Rev. Karen Stroup (Mary Tyler Moore) is the first female minister of Arlen First Methodist. She is originally from Minnesota but is assigned to Arlen after the previous minister left to start an online ministry. She also is an avid Minnesota Vikings fan.
• M. F. Thatherton (Burt Reynolds) is a former employee of Strickland Propane who strikes out on his own and opens up the crooked Thatherton Fuels company across the street from Strickland. He is a foil to Hank Hill.
• Toppington (aka Topsy) is an old wartime buddy of Cotton's. He often acts as an accomplice to Cotton's inane hate/revenge-driven schemes. In a later episode, he is left for dead by Cotton after a failed scheme; Cotton: "He's playing checkers with the worms." He was known to inflate his cheeks.
• Chane Wasonasong is a smart but obnoxious classmate of Bobby and Connie. Connie's parents are constantly trying to fix her up with Chane, as they see him as a positive alternative to dating Bobby. In spite of his high IQ, he often appears to be socially inept, and is fond of eating his own mucous when no one is watching.
• Ted Wasonasong is Chane's father. Ted is an elitist (parodying stereotypes of affluent Asian-Americans) who elicits jealousy from Kahn. He is a senior member of the prestigious Nine Rivers Country Club, comprised of almost entirely Asian-Americans, which has rejected Kahn's numerous attempts at gaining membership.
• Jimmy Wichard is a violent mentally retarded man; local color claims that he wasn't born retarded, but rather gave himself brain damage by spending an entire day staring into the sun; as Dale points out, though, he couldn't have been very smart to stare at the sun in the first place. He has had several jobs, including concession manager at the racetrack and modern artist.
• Joe Jack is a fuel truck driver and co-worker with Hank at Strickland Propane. He has a drinking problem, as seen when he is a member of the Propaniacs. He has a habit of calling people "honey," regardless of gender.
• Enrique (also played by Danny Trejo) is a good-natured but annoying Hispanic truck driver at Strickland Propane. In the episode Enrique-cilable Differences, Hank and Enriqure had hardly ever talked to each other before, but suddenly Enrique forcibly befriends himself upon Hank after a nasty fight with his wife. Enrique ends up moving in with the Hills for a short time, but quickly patches things up with his wife after Hank kicks him out. He has made various appearances since, and while he and Hank aren't exactly friends, they're on friendlier terms than before the incident.

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About Arlen

The location of the fictional town (Arlen) relative to real-life locations is never explicitly stated within the show. References to Madero, Houston, and Wichita Falls and Hank's preference for Dallas-based sports teams implies that Arlen lies within the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The Hills rely on Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport for their airplane trips, and Hank's hatred over Houston is common among Dallas citizens. However, in a Thanksgiving episode, Hank states that it will take them four hours to get to the DFW Intl. Airport. (This could be a reference to Dallas' traffic problems.) In several episodes, Hank's mail shows an address in the 78104 and 78701 ZIP codes, the postal numbers for Beeville, Texas and Austin, Texas, respectively. Also, the telephone number for Strickland Propane (painted on the truck) is in the 409 area code, placing it in southeast Texas. Hank and Peggy have made day trips into Mexico when the peso was devalued, indicating a short distance from the national border. Kahn, Hank's Laotian neighbor, commutes into Houston, which is a three-hour drive from Arlen. Nickname Space City Location Location in the state of Texas Government Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Mayor Bill White Geographical characteristics Area  - City    - Land    - Water 1,558 km² (601. ... Wichita Falls is a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States. ... The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (also DFW Metroplex, or simply the Metroplex) encompasses the combined metropolitan area of the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. ... Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, is the busiest airport in Texas and third busiest airport in the world in terms of operations. ... Mr. ... Beeville is a city located in Bee County, Texas. ... Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World, ATX Official website: www. ... The peso is the currency of Mexico. ... Houston redirects here. ...

In the episode "As Old as the Hills", Hank and Peggy are having their 20th anniversary and Bobby is spending the weekend with Cotton and Didi in Houston. Didi goes into labor and Bobby doesn't know where the hospital is in Houston. He instead drives to the Arlen hospital, which he says is 2 hours away, and a sign is shown that says "Arlen 96 miles".

In the episode "Hank and the Great Glass Elevator," Bill tells Ann Richards that Rainey Street is only a few miles from Interstate 35.

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Arlen's current major industry is meat processing, and the town is home to at least one major pig processing facility.

Most of Arlen's Main Street businesses were forced into bankruptcy after the opening of the local Mega Lo Mart. The chain store closed down Arlen's bait-and-tackle shop (Lay-a-way Ray's), its hardware store, and briefly, its propane supplier. Strickland Propane is a propane and propane accessories supplier in the animated series King of the Hill. ...

Arlen is also home to several educational institutions such as Tom Landry Middle School, Arlen High School, Arlen Community College and Arlen University.

Themes and analysis

The general theme is that Hank is always willing to do the right thing even when those around him may be more inclined to wrong for the sake of ease. Hank Hill is the most virtuous character on the show, and, it could be argued, recent television; his character is a modern updating of the type found on 1950s sitcoms such as Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best. He, for the most part, always acts in an honest, loyal manner. His "by-the-book" lifestyle is highlighted in almost every episode. For example, at one point he refuses to tape a Major League Baseball game because it is technically illegal to record televised professional sporting events without expressed written permission from the broadcasting network of the game in question (No doubt, this law is neither widely obeyed nor widely enforced. However, home-taping for expressly personal usage is qualified as fair use in the Supreme Court's decision in Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios.) However, this desire to achieve complete conventionality leads him to often live with fear or shame. Hank disapproves of his son's hopes of becoming a comedian, and the issues of his health conditions (a narrow urethra and "diminished glutes," which render him basically unable to sit down without the aid of a hidden prosthetic) are of great embarrassment to him. Hank is also uncomfortable with intimacy, which is demonstrated on the numerous occasions that he refuses to kiss Peggy in public (instead offering her a firm handshake). At one point, while standing in the alley with Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer, he sarcastically says, "What are we supposed to talk about? Our feelings?" Virtue (Greek αρετη; Latin virtus) is moral excellence of a man or a woman. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Father Knows Best was an American TV and radio sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. ... The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the U.S. and leads the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government. ... Sony Corp v. ...

Generally, when it comes to politics, the show champions Hank's small-town values and motivations while simultaneously poking fun at his small-minded and highly conservative worldview (Mega-Lo-Mart, a stand in for Wal-Mart, is a de-facto villain of sorts in the first two seasons of the show, destroying all of Arlen's small businesses and forcing their middle aged, competent owners to go to work at Mega-Lo, where they are debased by college student supervisors who know nothing about their trade. Ultimately, the incompetence of the employees results in Mega-Lo being blown up and burned to the ground, when one employee refuses to stop carrying canisters of propane by the nozzle, believing himself to be above Hank's continued warnings that carrying the canisters in such a manner will cause a gas leak). Likewise, the local community of Arlen is often portrayed in a postive light while hefty criticisms are leveled at impersonal, uncaring bureaucratic institutions. There are political and social undertones to many episodes, which often make light of the "liberal" position in American politics. However, it is important to note that while liberal politics are the subject of many jokes, it is often Hank himself who is the target of the joke, and the laughs typically play off of Hank's overly innocent and simplistic approach to life; nevertheless, Hank is, in the majority of episodes, portrayed as being in the right. Much of the first season of the show gravitated around Hank doing battle with various absurd, traditionally liberally founded bureaucratic loopholes and red tape. In one episode, for example, Hank mistakenly hires a cocaine addict; when he attempts to fire the addict, the addict checks himself into rehab and then threatens Hank with a lawsuit because it is against the law to fire an addict in recovery. The employee continues to show up to work under the influence, always accompanied by a member of the ACLU to remind Hank that the workplace must conform to the employee's special needs. Eventually, Hank's office degenerates into unproductivity as the other employees, disgusted at the special privileges which the ACLU is forcing the company to give to the cocaine addict, themselves begin making up addictions and afflictions to use as excuses to get paid for doing nothing. In the end, Hank "saves the day" by quitting his job, which allows the company to circumvent employment laws because they now have too few employees to qualify as a government-recognized business. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of...

Hank is devoutly Republican (With regards to Ronald Reagan, he once says, "I miss voting for that man." However, Hank expressed doubts in George W. Bush after being granted a "weak" handshake; Hank decided to keep his final vote anonymous), and the Hills are practicing Methodists; however, like many Texans, Hank often expresses admiration for Democrats of the past, such as Lyndon B. Johnson. In one episode, Hank questions a job applicant about gaps in his employment history. The applicant, an elderly man, replies "Well, '33 to '45, FDR was President, so I was on the welfare. Then in the '60s you had Kennedy and LBJ, so I was on the welfare, and '77 to '81, Jimmy Carter was in the White House, so I was on the welfare." This presents the Republican criticism that an oversized welfare state creates laziness and hinders productivity. When attending a trial, Hank is heard to remark, "This better not be one of those Carter appointees." He is also a gun owner, despite trouble with marksmanship. When confronted with the story that President Reagan dyed his hair, he replied that it was only "to show his resolve to the Communists." Some might liken the character of Buck Strickland to President Lyndon Johnson—in one episode, a photograph is seen of Buck holding his pet dog by the ears (a parody of a now-famous photo of LBJ in a similar pose), and he often holds meetings while sitting on the toilet. Like Johnson, Buck is narcissistic, domineering, and often plagued by emotional and personal problems. The series is also often unkind to the religious right, such as in the episode "Hilloween," when an evangelical Christian convinces the town council to ban the celebration of Halloween, and Hank gets his revenge. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... LBJ redirects here. ... For the submarine, see USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23). ...

The interaction between the Hills and the Souphanousinphones highlights the culture gap that often ensues in immigrant families—particularly those from Southeast Asia. The Souphanousinphones are generally disliked by their neighbors; they are uppity, snobbish, and look down on the locals as ignorant rednecks. Kahn mockingly refers to the Hills as the "Hillbillies" and is never hesitant to rub his daughter's academic prowess in the faces of the Hills, with their less accomplished son. The interactions between the Souphanousinphones and other Asian families (like the Wasonasongs) highlight that the Souphanousinphones are not as bad as they come across; they are merely the victims of the opportunism and social-climbing that their native cultures encourage but that their adoptive country disdains. Kahn and Minh operate on the premise that happiness is not as important as financial success and social acceptance. They frequently try to forge a romantic relationship between their daughter Connie and Chane Wasonasong, in hopes that this alliance will benefit their family; Kahn's attempt to join the exclusive Nine Rivers Country Club is another example of this (It can also be seen as an inversion of the country club culture of the early and mid twentieth century, which was often highly elitist and racist). They also put immense pressure on their daughter to excel academically and musically, often to the point that it breeds discord between Connie and her parents. Connie envies the Hills, who, compared to her parents, are much more relaxed and tolerant. Also, Kahn and Hank, despite their differences, appear to be very good friends at certain points in the show; Hank offers financial support to Kahn when the latter loses his job, and when Hank, Dale, and Kahn are trapped in Mexico, it is Kahn, rather than Dale, who risks his own life to help Hank back into America. Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... In modern usage, redneck predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of whites from the Southern United States. ... 3 famous Asian actors Aishwarya Rai(Indian) Mohammad Reza Golzar(Iranian) Ziyi Zhang(Chinese) Geographically and technically, both Asian and Asiatic indicates a person, place, thing, or idea original to Asia. ... Opportunism is a term used in politics and political science. ... Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from simply sexual love, or lust. ...

The series also mocks the arbitrary nature of social customs and subjectivity of social appropriatness; in one episode, while visiting an Amish town, Hank, usually portrayed as a prude, consents to letting Bobby hold a girl's hand instead of kiss her. Seconds later, a nearby Amish expresses disgust at what he perceives to be such a flamboyant display of affection.

Texas connections

• Luly's Cafeteria is a take on the real-life Texas restaurant chain Luby's.
• Dale's stand-off with the police in the clock tower of the local junior college with a pesticide spray-gun mirrors Charles Whitman's 1966 shooting spree at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Bill is often ridiculed by the other characters for being from Louisiana, but, however, they are shown up when on a trip to the superbowl, Bill convinces them to take a detour so that he could visit his family. When they arrive, they discover that Bill's family is quite wealthy and resides in a lavish antebellum mansion. This is a very subtle reference to the large Cajun population in East Texas (It also suggests that Arlen is closer to Houston than Dallas.).
• Arlen is located in Heimlich County. There is no county in Texas by that name; however this is a reference to the heavy German heritage of Texas.
• In one episode, Bill has a brief relationship with Ann Richards (who voices herself), who was the Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. She was also Texas' second female Governor.
• The Texas-based fast food restaurant chain Whataburger has appeared in multiple episodes.
• The Waffle House has been alluded to in several episodes, one of which had Peggy's beat at the Arlen paper being the Waffle House. It is referred to as Waffle Hut as well.
• Luanne's name is a play on words that alludes to the Lu Ann platter, a dish served at the Texas-based chain Luby's, which is also parodied as "Luly's" on the show.
• Much of the culture portrayed on the show (obsession with football, high school culture, etc.) are directly reminiscent of current and 1980's style urban Texas culture, most likely as a result of creator Mike Judge's upbringing in Garland, Texas, a city near Dallas.

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Trivia

• All the main caucasian characters worship at Arlen First Methodist Church, as does John Redcorn. The Souphanousinphones are Buddhists and follow the Dalai Lama, although they are shown worshipping at Arlen First in the episode "Revenge of the Lutefisk".
• Hank (much to his discomfort) learns when he is forty-one that he had been born in New York City; this may have been inspired by Mike Judge's discovery that he was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• Stephen Root, who voices Bill, originally auditioned for the part of Dale.
• Over the course of the series, most of the main characters' heights have been given: Hank (6' 2"), Dale (5' 10"), Bill (5' 8 3/4"), Cotton (6' 4" pre-war / 5' 0" sans shins), Joseph (5' 4" pre-puberty / 5' 10" currently).
• Nancy Gribble works for channel 84. This is a fictional channel assignment probably chosen as a joke by the writers. The UHF television band in North America formerly had channel assignments up to channel 83, although it now ends at channel 69.
• The Hills address is 123 Rainey Street, Arlen TX. There is an actual Rainey Street in Austin, Texas (the house numbers end at 89) which lends to the assumption that Arlen is modeled after the city of Austin.
• Two characters on the show are shown to be keyboard players, Dale and Kahn; however, Dale's talent consists mostly of being able to mimic playing it while the keyboard plays a pre-recorded song. Kahn, however, is shown to have at least a working knowledge of the keyboard in the episode, "Maid in Arlen", in which he is able to play the Axel Foley theme from Beverly Hills Cop ("Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer) while singing, "Bev-er, Beverly Hills Cop, Bev-er, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly, Beverly Hills Cop".
• Peggy Hill has been shown to have two different mothers, as demonstrated in a variety of pre-season 9 episodes, especially "I Remember Mono" (Season 2, Episode 14) and "A Rover Runs Through It" (Season 9, Episode 1). Prior to season 9, whenever Peggy's mother was seen (in the present or in flashbacks), she was portrayed as a nebbish, older version of Peggy, who was a stereotypical 1950s housewife with a bizarre hatred for the use of contractions. In the season 9 premier, however, Peggy's mother was portrayed as a lean, leather-skinned rancher who disdained Peggy and lived on a secluded ranch. The blatant inconsistency remains a topic of heated debate on the Internet Movie Database messageboards, where it is generally seen as marking the beginning of a sudden disregard for the series' once stringent continuity. (A similar disregard for continuity would spring up shortly thereafter in the show, when one episode revolved around Bobby teaching Peggy to ride a bike; previous episodes have shown Peggy proficiently riding a bicycle, once across the entire town). A blatent disregard for continuity was shown in Season 1, when in "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying" shows Hank unable to control a gun, and in the VERY next episode, "Texas City Twister", a camera pan through Hank's den that Luanne happens to reside in, shows a trophy of Hank's for "Skeet Shooting".

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Celebrity guest voices

• Main article: List of Celebrities on King of the Hill

Perhaps second only to "The Simpsons," the show has featured a wide variety of guest stars lending their voices to the show, although, with rare exception, the show usually follows a format similar to the earlier episodes of "The Simpsons," wherein the guest star voices a character important to an episode, rather than the format followed by later Simpsons episodes in which the actor voices themself in a cameo role: Below is a list of actors, both prominent and supporting, who have appeared on the television series King of the Hill Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot Gailard Sartain as the DCF case manager Episode 2 - Square Peg Mary Scheer as Gracie, the mother of an unidentified student at Bobbys...

• Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt from the band Green Day contributed their voices in the Season 2 episode "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteberg".
• Will Ferrell guest starred in the forty-seventh episode "Three Coaches & a Bobby," playing a children's soccer coach. He would again play a children's soccer coach in the 2005 film Kicking & Screaming.
• Snoop Dogg played Alabaster, a white pimp in the episode "Ho Yeah!".
  • In the same episode, Renée Zellweger plays Alabaster's hooker, Tammy, whom Peggy takes under her wing
• Brad Pitt voiced Patch Boomhauer, Boomhauer's brother in Season 8 episode 1 "Patch Boomhauer".
  • In the same episode, Laura Dern plays Katherine,Boomhauer's former girlfreind who is engaged to Patch.
• Freeda Foreman, George Foreman, and George Foreman III played themselves in Season 7 episode 7 "Boxing Luanne".
• Chris Rock played a comedian/driving instructor named Roger 'Booda' Sack in the Season 2 episode "Traffic Jam".
• Drew Carey played Hal, a guy with similar personality and hobbies to Hank, in the Season 4 episode "Not in My Back Hoe" .
• Reese Witherspoon played Debbie in the Season 4 Part 1 "Hanky Panky".
• Johnny Depp played Victor, an obnoxious Yoga instructor whose classes Hank is forced to take after injuring his back, in the Season 8 episode "Hank's Back".
• Matthew McConaughey played a sleazy con artist who seduces Luanne (and, inadvertently, Bobby) in the Season 3 episode "The Wedding of Bobby Hill".
• Brendan Fraser has appeared on the series twice, first in the season 5 episode "Peggy Makes the Big Leagues" as a borderline-retarded football player to whom the faculty wants Peggy to give straight-As so that he can continue playing football; and in the Season 9 episode "Gone with the Windstorm," in which he plays a competent weather forecaster who muscles in on Nancy's job.
• Heather Locklear played a rival teacher of Peggy's who gives Bobby a failing grade after discovering that Peggy wrote his essay to get revenge on her, in the Season 4 episode "Old Glory".
• Meryl Streep played Bill's Aunt in the episode "A Beer Can Named Desire"
  • In the same episode, The Dixie Chicks provide the voices of Bill's lusty cousins and sister-in-law
    • Also in "A Beer Can Named Desire," Don Meredith plays himself
• Troy Aikman plays himself in the episode "Meet the Manger Babies"
• The members of the band No Doubt voiced themselves in the Season 5 finale, "Kidney Boy and Hamster Girl: A Love Story".
• Sarah Michelle Gellar voiced "Marie", Bobby's love interest and classmate, in the Season 3 episode "And They Call It Bobby Love".
• Tom Petty currently plays the recurring character, Lucky, who is now Luanne's fiance.

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Cameo appearances

• The Hill family was once (briefly) seen in an episode of The Simpsons ("Bart Star"), where Bart Simpson and his football team badly defeat Arlen's team, with Hank making the remark: "We drove 2000 miles for this?"
• In one episode of The Simpsons ("Helter Shelter"), in which the Simpson household goes under fumigation, the family questions one another on where to live. Homer decides to stand outside the house and wait. And so he opens a beer, and the King of the Hill theme tune plays and similar to the opening theme time seems to pass quickly and many events occur around them, Homer taking regular sips of beer as Hank does. Once finding that only a few minutes has passed, Homer gives up.
• This was also parodied in the Family Guy episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea", where the guys stand in the alley and act out the famous "Yep" scene after their bar has been taken over by British people.
• In another episode of Family Guy ("Petergeist") Peter begins to peel off his face in front of a mirror until Hank Hill's face is is revealed underneath. He then says "heheheh propane".
• In another episode of The Simpsons, ("Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples And Teens, And Gays"), Bart and Lisa fight for control of the remote and switch on to King of the Hill where Hank is heard saying "Bobby, I've got propane in my urethra."
• In the episode Cartoon Wars Part II of the show South Park, when Cartman and Kyle are fighting at Fox Studios, they pass through cubicles with signs that say "King of the Hill - 11th Season".
• Hank, Bill, and Dale are parodied on Godzilla: The Series; known as the "Red Neck Hunters", recurring villains who attempt to hunt Godzilla as a trophy.

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Episodes

List of King of the Hill episodes This is an episode list of the animated TV series King of the Hill. ...

DVD releases

For details, see King of the Hill DVDs.

A number of King of the Hill season sets have been released on DVD since 2003 in region 1 and in region 2 in 2006. ...

External links

• King of the Hill (Fox Broadcasting Company site)
• King of the Hill at The Internet Movie Database
• King of the Hill at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• King of the Hill at TV.com
• King of the Hill soundboard
• King of the Hill at TVRage.com