Line #1559 WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill


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4	->''"I tell you what..."''
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6	''King of the Hill'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] animated sitcom created by Creator/MikeJudge and Greg Daniels that aired from 1997 to 2010.
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8	In the fictional UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} suburb of Arlen lives Hank Hill (Judge), a long time salesman of [[CharacterCatchphrase propane and propane accessories]] who's trying his hardest to always do the right thing. A lot of the humor in the series comes from the fact that Hank's a gigantic stick-in-the-mud. His friends, who are also his neighbors, include down-and-out divorced Army barber Bill Dauterive (Creator/StephenRoot), cuckolded ConspiracyTheorist and pest exterminator Dale Gribble (Johnny Hardwick), and Boomhauer (Judge), a womanizing motormouth whose job was unknown until a last-second reveal in the series finale.
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10	Hank's family include his wife Peggy (Creator/KathyNajimy), a substitute Spanish teacher [[SmallNameBigEgo who is a little too prideful of her abilities]]; his son Bobby (Creator/PamelaAdlon), a sensitive, naive and somewhat awkward child who's far from the athletic type that Hank hoped for (though he loves him all the same); and his ditzy niece, Luanne Platter (Creator/BrittanyMurphy), who fled her trailer-trash upbringing to come live with the Hills for the first few seasons. Hank also has plenty of conflicts with his father Cotton (Creator/TobyHuss), a misogynistic World War II veteran, and his uptight Laotian next-door neighbor Kahn (Huss).
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12	One thing that stands out the most about the series is that unlike most other animated sitcoms that feature wacky or outlandish situations (e.g. ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', and all of their myriad offspring), ''King of the Hill'' attempts to retain realism by seeking humor in the otherwise conventional, making it the polar opposite of Judge's previous show ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead''.
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14	After running for numerous seasons, the show finally ended its run on Creator/{{Fox}} on September 13, 2009. Four unaired episodes were released in syndication and on Creator/AdultSwim in 2010.
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16	The entire series is currently available on DVD and {{Creator/Hulu}}. Re-runs can also be seen on Adult Swim and FXX.
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18	[[https://collider.com/king-of-the-hill-reboot-mike-judge In January 2022,]] after months of silence, Greg Daniels and Mike Judge said they would reunite and oversee a reboot of the series through their new animation company, Bandera Entertainment. While the full extent of the series is unknown, Daniels has stated the reboot's setting will be [[TimeSkip 15 years after the original series ended]]. [[https://deadline.com/2023/01/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-original-cast-returning-1235245072/ In January 2023]], the reboot was officially announced on {{Creator/Hulu}}. More news was revealed in May 2024 that the series is set to begin airing in 2025 at the earliest (along with a second season already in the works), with the cast all returning [[note]]sans Creator/BrittanyMurphy (voice of Luanne) who had passed away shortly after the end of the original series[[/note]] along with the plot confirming to be focusing on a now adult Bobby Hill working at a Dallas fusion culinary restaurant as a chef (building up on the original show's finale and making him a direct {{foil}} to Hank) focusing on his relationship with his family and friends (including a now adult-Connie), with the series set exactly 10 years after the original finale aired (rather than 15 as originally planned), Aldon also revealed that the late-Johnny Hardwick managed to record his final voice lines as Dale Gribble for a few episodes of the reboot before his sudden passing in August 2023, making the upcoming reboot [[SwanSong Dale's final appearance]].
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21	!!'''''King of the Hill'' sells tropes and trope accessories of:'''
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23	* [[KingOfTheHill/TropesAToM Tropes A-M]]
24	* [[KingOfTheHill/TropesNToZ Tropes N-Z]]
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27	->[[TheStinger Yep. Yep. Yep. Mhmmmm.]]

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