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American animated sitcom

King of the Hill
Genre	Animated sitcom Slice of life
Created by	Mike Estimate Greg Daniels
Voices of	Mike Judge Kathy Najimy Pamela Adlon Brittany Murphy Johnny Hardwick Stephen Root Toby Huss Tom Trivial
Theme music composer	The Refreshments
Opening theme	"Yahoos and Triangles"
Ending theme	"Yahoos and Triangles" (Reprise)
Composers	Roger Neill John O'Connor Greg Edmonson John Frizzell
Land of origin	United states
Original language	English
No. of seasons	thirteen
No. of episodes	259 (listing of episodes)
Product
Executive producers	Mike Judge Greg Daniels Richard Appel Jonathan Aibel Glenn Berger John Altschuler Dave Krinsky Jim Dauterive Garland Testa Howard Klein Michael Rotenberg
Producers	Mark McJimsey David Zuckerman
Editors	Lee Harting Kirk Benson Don Barrozo Mark Seymour Marking McJimsey Leo Papin Louis Russel Nick Gribble
Running fourth dimension	twenty–22 minutes
Production companies	Deedle-Dee Productions Judgemental Films iii Arts Entertainment Bandera Amusement 20th Television set 20th Tv Animation
Distributor	20th Television
Release
Original network	Fox
Picture show format	NTSC (1997–2008) HDTV 720p (2009–2010)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Original release	January 12, 1997 (1997-01-12) – May 6, 2010 (2010-05-06)

King of the Colina is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Estimate and Greg Daniels for the Pull a fast one on Broadcasting Company that aired from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010. Information technology centers on the Hills, an American family in the fictional urban center of Arlen, Texas, as well as their neighbors, co-workers, relatives, classmates, friends, and acquaintances. Series protagonist, patriarch, and everyman Hank Hill works every bit banana director at Strickland Propane. He lives in a ranch-mode firm with his wife Peggy, his son Bobby, his niece Luanne, and his pet bloodhound Ladybird. Hank'south neighbors are his longtime friends Bill Dauterive, a divorced, baldheaded, overweight armed services barber and quondam high school football star; Dale Gribble, a paranoid, pro-gun, anti-government exterminator; and Jeff Boomhauer, a charismatic, soft-spoken, oft unintelligible available. The testify'due south realistic approach seeks sense of humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life, such as blueish-collar workers, substitute teachers, the trials of puberty, and political correctness.

Gauge began creating King of the Hill during his time making the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head, which he also created and voiced. After pitching the airplane pilot to Fox, Judge was paired with Greg Daniels, an experienced writer who previously worked on The Simpsons. The series debuted on the Fox network every bit a mid-season replacement in 1997, quickly becoming a success. The serial' popularity led to worldwide syndication, and cablevision reruns currently air on FXX and Cartoon Network'southward late night programming block, Adult Swim, having aired on FX and Comedy Central in the past. The testify became 1 of Fox's longest-running series. A total of 259 episodes aired over the course of its xiii seasons. The final episode aired on Fox on September thirteen, 2009. Iv episodes from the final flavour were planned to air on Fox, but later premiered in nightly syndication from May 3 to 6, 2010.

In 2007, it was named by Time magazine every bit one of the top 100 greatest television shows of all time.^[1] King of the Hill won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for seven. The series' celebrity guest stars include Chuck Mangione (playing a fictionalized version of himself), Tom Petty (playing the recurring graphic symbol Lucky), Alan Rickman (playing a king at a Renaissance fair), and numerous country music artists. On Jan xviii, 2022, a revival of the series was announced to be in development.

Series synopsis [edit]

King of the Hill is set in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas. The show centers around the Hill family, headed by the ever-responsible, hard-working, loyal, disciplined, and honest propane and propane accessory salesman Hank Hill (voiced by Mike Approximate). The punning title refers to Hank as the head of the family equally well as metaphorically to the children's game King of the Hill. Hank is employed as the banana manager at Strickland Propane, selling "propane and propane accessories", a frequent catchphrase. He ofttimes finds his traditional conservative values challenged by the changing world effectually him, though his common decency always sees him through. Hank typically serves as the de facto leader for his friends and family. His married woman Peggy Loma (née Platter) (voiced by Kathy Najimy), a native of Montana, is a substitute Castilian teacher, though she has a poor grasp of the language. Peggy as well finds employment and avocation every bit a freelance newspaper columnist for The Arlen Bystander as well as a Boggle champion, a notary public, a softball bullpen, and a real estate agent. She is confident, sometimes to the point of lacking cocky-awareness. Hank and Peggy's only kid, Bobby Hill (voiced by Pamela Adlon), is a student at Tom Landry Centre School. His characteristic lack of athleticism and interests in prop comedy and cooking are mystifying to his more conventional begetter but are encouraged past his female parent.

Throughout the serial, Peggy'southward naïve and emotional niece Luanne Platter (voiced by Brittany White potato), the daughter of Peggy's scheming brother Hoyt (voiced past Johnny Knoxville) and his alcoholic ex-wife, Leanne (voiced by Adlon), lives with the Hill family. Hank originally encourages her to motility out, but over time accepts her as a member of the household. Luanne attends dazzler school and hosts a Christian-themed puppet show for a local cablevision access Television station. Luanne subsequently engages in a relationship and afterward marries Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt (voiced by Tom Petty), a snaggle-toothed layabout who lives on the settlements he has earned from a frivolous lawsuit.

Hank has a healthy relationship with his mother, Tilly (voiced past Tammy Wynette, later past Beth Grant and One thousand Callan), a kind woman who lives in Arizona. Hank is, at get-go, uncomfortable with his mother dating Gary Kasner (voiced by Carl Reiner), a Jewish homo, but he warms up to Gary as their relationship progresses. Hank is dismayed by his mother's option to interruption upward with Gary to ally a human she has only known for a few weeks, Chuck Garrison, but eventually finds Chuck as likable equally Gary. In dissimilarity, Hank has a strained relationship with his begetter, Cotton wool Colina (voiced by Toby Huss), a cross Globe War 2 veteran who lost his shins to machine gun fire in Japan and who verbally abused Tilly during their marriage, leading to their divorce. Cotton fiber afterwards marries Didi (voiced by Ashley Gardner), a candy striper who attended kindergarten with Hank. Together, Cotton and Didi have a son, "Yard.H." ("Adept Hank"), who bears a striking resemblance to Bobby.

Other primary characters include Hank's friends and their families. Dale Gribble (voiced past Johnny Hardwick) is the Hills' concatenation-smoking, balding, conspiracy-theorist next-door neighbor and Hank's best friend. As a result of his paranoia, Dale does not trust the government or "the arrangement". He owns his own pest control business, Dale's Dead Bug, and is likewise a licensed bounty hunter and President of the Arlen Gun Club. Dale is married to Nancy Hicks-Gribble (voiced by Ashley Gardner), a weather reporter and later an anchorwoman for the Aqueduct 84 news. Dale and Nancy's only child, Joseph (voiced by Brittany Murphy and afterward by Breckin Meyer), is best friends with Bobby Hill. He plays quarterback for the football game team, enjoys destructive activities like setting ants on fire, and becomes somewhat girl-crazy every bit he gets older. Joseph is non biologically his son, but was instead born from Nancy'southward 14-year-long and still-ongoing thing with John Redcorn (voiced by Victor Aaron; after Jonathan Joss), a Native American healer who has given Nancy therapeutic massages for her headaches for years; their affair, and Joseph'south real parentage, has long been common knowledge among Nancy's neighbors, who have all seemingly agreed to keep it a secret from Dale. Dale has expressed suspicion that he is not Joseph's biological father, simply believes that Nancy was impregnated past aliens. Even so, he clearly loves his son.

Across the aisle from the Hills lives Bill Dauterive (voiced by Stephen Root). Known as the "Billdozer" in his loftier school football glory days, Bill is at present overweight, bald, and clinically depressed, notwithstanding struggling to get over his divorce with his ex-wife Lenore. Bill is a Sergeant and barber in the United states Army who idolizes Hank. Bill's loneliness often results in him being easily taken advantage of by strangers until his friends come to his rescue. Throughout the serial, he finds nigh-success with women, including old Texas Governor Ann Richards. He oft expresses an unrequited attraction to Peggy, which she occasionally uses to her reward.

Boomhauer (voiced by Mike Guess), who besides lives in the Hill's neighborhood, is a slim womanizer whose fast, non-fluent, and jumbled voice communication can exist hard to understand for the audience despite being hands understood past his friends and almost other characters. He is shown to be able to sing clearly and speak fluent Spanish and French. During a perspective flashback in the Flavour 3 episode "A Burn Fighting We Will Get", Boomhauer sees himself speaking normally 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 comp. In a montage leading to the conclusion of the final episode, a Texas Ranger badge falls open on his dresser. His given proper noun, Jeff, is non revealed until the 13th and final season.

Early in the series, the Souphanousinphones, a Laotian family, move in next-door to the Hills. The family unit consists of the materialistic Kahn (voiced by Toby Huss), his class-witting wife Minh (voiced past Lauren Tom), and their teenage daughter, Kahn, Jr., who goes by the name "Connie" (voiced by Lauren Tom). Kahn—who fled poverty in Laos to become a successful man of affairs in America—is oft at odds with his neighbors, believing them to be hillbillies and rednecks due to their lower socioeconomic status (despite evidence to the opposite). Minh often becomes involved in activities with Peggy and Nancy, whom she looks down on every bit uncivilized and ignorant, despite still because them her all-time friends. Connie has been pushed by her male parent to get a child prodigy and excels at a diverseness of things from academics to music, though she rejects her begetter'due south materialism and judgmental nature. She develops a relationship with Bobby that blossoms into romance over the first half of the series earlier the ii decide to remain friends. Connie frequently 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 (voiced past Toby Huss) and Enrique (Danny Trejo), Hank's co-workers at Strickland; Carl Moss (voiced by Dennis Burkley), Bobby's chief at Tom Landry Middle School; and Reverend Karen Stroup (voiced past Mary Tyler Moore and later by Ashley Gardner), the female minister of Arlen Showtime Methodist.

Following the evidence's slice of life format, which is consistently present throughout its run, the testify presents itself as beingness more than downward-to-earth than other competing animated comedies, e.g. Family Guy, due to the mode the evidence applies realism and oftentimes derives its plots and humor from mundane topics. Critics also note the great deal of humanity shown throughout the show.^[2]

History [edit]

Formulation [edit]

The design of King of the Hill was based on Texas suburbs from the 1950s such equally Arlington.

In early on 1995, during the successful outset run of Beavis and Butt-Head on MTV, Mike Gauge decided to create another animated serial, this one set in a minor Texas town based on an amalgamation of Dallas suburbs, including Garland, where he had lived, and Richardson.^{[three] [4]} Gauge 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 blithe comedy based in reality and set in the American South, so the network teamed the animator with Greg Daniels, an experienced prime-time TV author who had previously worked on The Simpsons.^{[5] [3]} Daniels rewrote the pilot script and created important characters who did not appear in Judge's first draft, including Luanne and Cotton. Daniels besides reworked some of the supporting characters (whom the pair characterized as originally having been generic, "snaggle-toothed hillbillies"), such as making Dale Gribble a conspiracy theorist.^[6] While Gauge's writing tended to emphasize political humour, specifically the clash of Hank Hill's social conservatism 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.^[six]

Initial success [edit]

Afterwards its debut, the series became a large success for Fox and was named i of the best telly series of the twelvemonth by various publications, including Amusement Weekly, Time, and TV Guide.^[7] For the 1997–1998 season, the series became one of Fox's highest-rated programs and even outperformed The Simpsons in the ratings that flavor, ranking 15th with an boilerplate of xvi.3 meg viewers per episode.^[8] During the fifth and sixth seasons, Mike Judge and Greg Daniels became less involved with the show.^[6] They somewhen refocused on it, fifty-fifty while Daniels became involved with more and more projects.^[6]

Format change [edit]

Over time, series co-creator Mike Gauge took a reduced role in the production of episodes.

Judge and Daniels' reduced interest with the show resulted in the series' format turning more episodic and formulaic.^[six] 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 Gauge's concept that the series was built effectually sociopolitical humor rather than character-driven humor.^[6] Although Pull a fast one on insisted that the series lack character evolution or story arcs (a demand fabricated of the network'south other blithe series, so that they can be shown out of club in syndication),^[six] Judge and Daniels had managed to develop minor arcs and story elements throughout the early on years of the series, such equally Luanne's condign more independent and educated after Buckley's death, and the crumbling of characters existence best-selling (a rare narrative occurrence for an animated series).^[6] Lacking Estimate and Daniels' supervision, the series ceased aging its characters and even began retconning graphic symbol backstories; in the episode "A Rover Runs Through Information technology", Peggy's mother was abruptly changed from a neurotic housewife with whom Peggy shared a competitive relationship to a bitter rancher from whom Peggy had been estranged for years. The format modify also resulted in at least i minor character—Laoma, Kahn's mother—existence written out of the show completely, and her relationship with Bill ignored in all time to come episodes.

Facing cancellation [edit]

Because information technology 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; 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 flavour,^[ix] consisted of unaired 9th-season episodes.

The 13th-flavour episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do" became the commencement episode of the series to be produced in widescreen high definition when it aired on February 8, 2009.^[10]

Counterfoil [edit]

Although ratings remained consequent throughout the 10th, 11th, and 12th seasons and had begun to rise in the overall Nielsen ratings (upwards to the 105th most watched series on telly, from 118th in flavour 8), Fox abruptly announced in 2009 that Male monarch of the Hill had been cancelled. The cancellation coincided with the announcement that Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad!, would be creating a Family Guy spin-off called The Cleveland Testify, which would take over King of the Hill'due south fourth dimension slot.^[eleven]

Hopes to keep the show adrift surfaced as sources indicated that ABC (which was already airing Judge's new animated comedy, The Goode Family) was interested in securing the rights to the show,^[12] but in January 2009, ABC president Steve McPherson said he had "no plans to option up the blithe comedy."^[13]

On April 30, 2009, it was announced that Fox ordered at least two more episodes to give the prove a finale.^[14] The show's 14th season was originally supposed to air one-time in the 2009–2010 flavour,^[15] simply Fob subsequently appear that it would not air the episodes, opting instead for syndication.^[16] On Baronial 10, 2009, still, Fox released a statement that the network would air a series finale on September 13, 2009.^[17]

During the panel give-and-take for the return of Beavis and Barrel-Head at Comic-Con 2011, Mike Guess said that no current plans exist to revive Rex of the Colina, although he would not rule out the possibility of it returning.^[eighteen]

Revival [edit]

On August 8, 2017, it was revealed that Judge and Daniels had talked with Fox executives near a potential revival.^[19] In a March nineteen, 2018, interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Judge said he would want the revived series to include aged characters, such as an older Bobby.^[20] On March 20, 2020, Daniels revealed that he and Judge had an idea for the reboot. Daniels stated, "Nosotros do take a program for it and it's pretty funny. So maybe one day."^[21] On March 17, 2021, author Brent Forrester stated that a reboot is currently underway, stating in a Tweet, "I am certain Greg Daniels and Mike Gauge will murder me for sharing this just… HELL Yeah. They are in hot negotiations to bring back King of the Hill." The reboot will possibly characteristic "anile-upwards characters".^[22]

On January 18, 2022, Judge and Daniels appear the forming of a new visitor called Bandera Entertainment, with a revival of King of the Hill existence one of several series in development.^[23]

Tv set ratings [edit]

Season		No. of episodes	Originally aired			Nielsen ratings
			Fourth dimension slot (ET)	Season premiere	Flavour finale	Ranking	Viewers (in millions)
1st	1996–97	12	Sundays 8:30 pm	January 12, 1997	May 11, 1997	#43[24]	eight.6
second	1997–98	23		September 21, 1997	May 17, 1998	#15[25]	sixteen.iii[25]
3rd	1998–99	25	Tuesdays at 8:00 pm	September fifteen, 1998	May 18, 1999	#110[24]	7.9[24]
4th	1999–2000	24	Sundays at 7:30 pm	September 26, 1999	May 21, 2000	#77[26]	eight.7[26]
5th	2000–01	20		Oct one, 2000	May 13, 2001	#68[27]	ix.v[27]
6th	2001–02	22	Sunday at vii:30 pm (Episodes i-2, four-20, 22) Wed at 7:00 pm (Episode 3) Lord's day at 7:00 pm (Episode 21)	Nov xi, 2001	May 12, 2002	#ninety[28]	7.7[28]
7th	2002–03	23	Sunday at 8:30 pm (Episodes one-iii, 6-8, 10) Sunday at 7:xxx pm (Episodes 4-five, 9, 11-12, 14-21, 23) Dominicus at 7:00 pm (Episodes 13, 22)	November 3, 2002	May 18, 2003	#68[29]	9.v[29]
eighth	2003–04	22	Sunday at 7:thirty pm (Episodes ane-9, xv-22) Sunday at vii:00 pm (Episodes 10-xiv)	Nov 2, 2003	May 23, 2004	#118[30]	6.four[30]
9th	2004–05	15	Lord's day at vii:00 pm (Episode 1, 3-6, 8-15) Sunday at 9:30 pm (Episodes 2, seven)	November 7, 2004	May fifteen, 2005	#110[31]	4.8[31]
tenth	2005–06	15	Sunday at seven:30 pm	September xviii, 2005	May 14, 2006	#111[32]	5.2[32]
11th	2006–07	12	Lord's day at 8:30 pm (Episodes ane-v) Sunday at 7:xxx pm (Episodes 6, viii-10, 12) Sun at 7:00 pm (Episodes 7, 11)	January 28, 2007	May 20, 2007	#109[33]	5.5[33]
12th	2007–08	22	Lord's day at 8:thirty pm (Episodes 1-6, 8-22) Dominicus at 7:00 pm (Episode vii)	September 23, 2007	May 18, 2008	#105[34]	6.vi[34]
13th	2008–09	24	Lord's day at eight:xxx pm (Episodes one-9, eleven-13, 16-18, 20) Sunday at 9:00 pm (Episode 10) Sun at 7:30 pm (Episodes 14-15) Sunday at 8:00 pm (Episode 19)	September 28, 2008	September 13, 2009	#95[35]	half-dozen.0[35]

Setting and characters [edit]

Opening sequence [edit]

In the opening sequence, Hank joins Dale, Beak, 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 iv go along drinking beer and a nearby recycling bin fills with their empty cans. When Peggy brings a bag of garbage out to Hank, the other iii go out and the playback returns to normal speed as he takes it to the trash can and gathers with Peggy and Bobby.

The opening theme, "Yahoos and Triangles", is performed by the Arizona rock ring The Refreshments. Variations of the theme are used for special episodes, including season finales and Christmas episodes.

Setting [edit]

The Colina family. From the left: Peggy (back), Bobby, Hank, and their dog, Ladybird.

King of the Loma is set in the fictional boondocks of Arlen, Texas, an amalgamation of numerous Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs including Garland, Richardson, Arlington and Allen.^{[36] [37]} In addition to drawing inspiration from the DFW Metroplex, Judge has described Arlen as "a boondocks similar Humble" (a suburb of Houston).^[38] Time mag praised the authentic portrayal as the "nearly acutely observed, realistic sitcom about regional American life bar none".^[1] As seen in the episode "Hank's Cowboy Movie", the boondocks has a population of 145,300 people.

Though the location is based on suburbs of the DFW Metroplex, the concrete location of Arlen is never specified in the series, other than that information technology is in Texas. Similar to the location of Springfield on The Simpsons, the location of Arlen within Texas is capricious based on the needs of a item episode's plot, and multiple episodes requite conflicting information as to Arlen's geographic location inside the state. For example, 1 episode indicates that it is simply north of the Brazos River in central Texas.^[5] Other episodes place it near Houston or Dallas, while others feature trips to Mexico and dorsum taking place within a affair of hours. In "Harlottown", the location is revealed to exist somewhere on the Chisholm Trail.

The Hills and other major characters reside on the fictional Rainey Street in Arlen. Hank's friend and neighbor Bill Dauterive is a hairdresser at Fort Blanda, an army post (similar to Fort Hood) almost Arlen. Nigh of the children in the evidence attend the fictional Tom Landry Middle School. Early on in the series, the school is referred to every bit being in the Heimlich County School District (according to markings on the schoolhouse buses), though in later seasons this is changed to Arlen Contained School District. The school's mascot is a longhorn steer.

The episode "Harlottown" recounts the town's history as a watering hole on the Chisholm Trail.

Characters [edit]

King of the Loma 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, friendship, loyalty, and justice.^[5]

Episodes [edit]

1. ^ Season 13 officially ended on September 13, 2009. Iv episodes were syndicated during the week of May 3, 2010.

Domicile media [edit]

The offset vi seasons were released on DVD by 20th Century Fob Home Entertainment from 2003 to 2006. The seventh season was originally planned to exist released in late 2006, but however, it was delayed, near likely due to poor sales of the DVDs, the release was cancelled. Still, in 2014, Olive Films acquired the sub-license to release future seasons of the show, and seasons seven and eight were released on Nov 18, of that same year, with 9 and 10 released on April 7, 2015,^{[39] [40]} eleven released on August 25, 2015, twelve released on September 22, 2015, and xiii released (also Blu-ray) on October twenty, 2015.

Netflix and Fob streamed all episodes, just stopped streaming on Oct i, 2013, and in early on 2017, the serial was removed from iTunes and Google Play, though it returned to the latter later that year. As of May 2018, all episodes were once more removed from Google Play and iTunes.

On November 1, 2018, all episodes became available for streaming on Hulu.^[41]

Title	Episodes	DVD release date			Blu-ray release appointment (Region A)
		Region i	Region 2	Region iv
The Complete Commencement Season	12	July 1, 2003	March 13, 2006	March xv, 2006	TBA
The Complete Second Season	23	November 11, 2003	March 13, 2006	May 23, 2006	TBA
The Complete Tertiary Flavor	25	December 28, 2004	Baronial 28, 2006	September 26, 2006	TBA
The Complete 4th Season	24	May 3, 2005	January fifteen, 2007	June 19, 2007	TBA
The Consummate Fifth Season	20	November 22, 2005	February 26, 2007	Apr 23, 2008	TBA
The Complete 6th Season	22	May 2, 2006	July 27, 2015	TBA	TBA
The Consummate Seventh Season	23	November 18, 2014	July 27, 2015	TBA	TBA
The Consummate Eighth Season	22	Nov xviii, 2014	August 24, 2015	TBA	TBA
The Consummate Ninth Season	15	Apr vii, 2015	August 24, 2015	TBA	TBA
The Complete 10th Season	15	April 7, 2015	February 29, 2016	TBA	TBA
The Complete Eleventh Season	12	August 25, 2015	February 29, 2016	TBA	TBA
The Complete Twelfth Flavour	22	September 22, 2015	March 28, 2016	TBA	TBA
The Complete Thirteenth Season	24	October 20, 2015	April iv, 2016	TBA	October twenty, 2015

The show aired in broadcast syndication from 2004 to 2020. From September 2004 to January 2009, FX aired the series daily nationwide. The show later on aired on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim from January ane, 2009 to June 29, 2018. The serial then aired brusque-lived reruns on Comedy Fundamental from July 24, 2018 until November 2019, when the serial was pulled from the lineup. All traces of the prove were removed from Comedy Central'due south website also. However, the serial joined FXX's lineup on September 20, 2021; shortly thereafter, Adult Swim regained partial syndication, and so FXX and Developed Swim share the syndication rights as of Nov 22, 2021.^{[42] [43]}

Video game [edit]

A video game based on the series was released on November 13, 2000 for the PC.^[44] 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.^[45]

Reception [edit]

King of the Colina received critical acclaim over its 13-twelvemonth run. Early reviews of the testify were positive. Diane Holloway at the Chicago Tribune considered it the "most Texan idiot box serial since Dallas", and praised the show's "sly sense of sense of humor and subversive sensibility."^[46] At the Los Angeles Times, writer Howard Rosenberg suggested that the testify "totes a few smiles, only [at that place'south] lilliputian to bowl y'all over, and it takes a spell getting used to."^[47] the shows first flavour received an approval rating of 81% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews.^[48] Its consensus reads, "King of the Loma's mild notwithstanding extremely funny depiction of minor-town Texas life is refreshingly worlds abroad from conventional prime number-time blitheness."^[48] While the 5th and thirteenth seasons received more critical praise with a 100% approval rating.^{[49] [50]}

At the show'south conclusion, James Poniewozik at Fourth dimension opined that it had "quietly been the best family comedy on Boob tube", calling the evidence's catastrophe "one of the most moving things I've seen on Television this year."^[51] Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger described it as "sweeter and more human being than the great majority of live-action sitcoms that overlapped its run."^[52] Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club described the programme as a "steadfast, downwards-to-world serial", while noting "the testify saw its off-white share of giddy conceits and contrived setups—and got fairly repetitive in the terminal seasons."^[53]

Writers have examined the show through a political lens. "It'south non a political evidence", said Mike Judge in 1997. "Information technology's more a populist, common sense point of view."^[46] In 2005, Matt Bai of The New York Times Magazine called it "the most subtle and complex portrayal of minor-town voters on tv."^[54] A 2016 reappraisal from The Atlantic dubbed it the "last bipartisan Television receiver 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, Male monarch of the Hill was far ahead of its fourth dimension, and the broader TV landscape has yet to catch up."^[55]

As of 2014, King of the Colina was ranked No. 27 on IGN'south "Top 100 Animated TV Serial".^[56] In 2013, Television set Guide ranked Male monarch of the Hill as one of the height lx Greatest Goggle box Cartoons of All Fourth dimension.^[57]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
1997	Annie Awards	Best Animated Goggle box Program[58]	20th Century Play tricks and Motion-picture show Roman Productions	Nominated
		Best Individual Accomplishment: Directing in a Tv Production[58]	John Rice for "Keeping Up with Our Joneses"	Nominated
		Best Private Accomplishment: Voice Acting past a Female Performer in a TV Production[58]	Brittany Murphy equally Luanne Platter	Nominated
		Best Private Achievement: Vocalism Acting past a Male Performer in a TV Production[58]	Mike Judge every bit Hank Hill	Nominated
		Best Individual Achievement: Writing in a TV Production[58]	Paul Lieberstein for "Luanne's Saga"	Nominated
			Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland for "Shins of the Father"	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming I Hour or Less)[59]	Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, Howard Klein, Michael Rotenberg, et al. for "Square Peg"	Nominated
	TCA Awards	Outstanding Accomplishment in Comedy	King of the Hill	Nominated
1998	Annie Awards	Outstanding Accomplishment in an Animated Primetime or Belatedly Night Television Programme[60]	20th Century Fob Television receiver, Deedle-Dee Productions, Judgemental Films, and 3 Arts Amusement	Nominated
		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Vocalism Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Idiot box Production[60]	Kathy Najimy as Peggy Colina	Nominated
	BMI Film & TV Awards	BMI Tv Music Laurels[61]	John O'Connor, Roger Neill, and Lance Rubin	Won
	Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Cartoon	King of the Hill	Nominated
	Golden Reel Accolade	All-time Sound Editing – Boob tube Animated Specials[62]	"The Unbearable Blindness of Laying"	Nominated
		All-time Sound Editing – Television Animation – Music[62]	King of the Hill	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One 60 minutes or Less)[59]	Greg Daniels, Mike Approximate, Howard Klein, Michael Rotenberg, et al. for "Texas Urban center Twister"	Nominated
1999	Annie Awards	Outstanding Achievement in an Blithe Goggle box Programme[63]	20th Century Fox Tv	Nominated
		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television set Production[63]	Jim Dauterive for "Hank'south Cowboy Movie"	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Blithe Programme (For Programming One Hour or Less)[59]	Greg Daniels, Mike Gauge, Howard Klein, Michael Rotenberg, Richard Appel, et al. for "And They Call It Bobby Love"	Won
2000	Annie Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Blithe Telly Product[64]	Kyoung Hee Lim and Boo Hwan Lim for "Won't You Pimai Neighbor?"	Nominated
		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Interim by a Female Performer in an Animated Tv Production[64]	Brittany Murphy as Luanne Platter in "Movin' on Upwardly"	Nominated
		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male person Performer in an Blithe Boob tube Production[64]	Mike Guess as Hank Hill in "Hanky Panky"	Nominated
		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Blithe Television Production[64]	Garland Testa for "Alley 8A"	Nominated
2001	American Comedy Awards	Funniest Tv set Series – Blithe	King of the Hill	Nominated
	Annie Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production[65]	Kathy Najimy as Peggy Hill in "Luanne Virgin 2.0"	Won
		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Tv Production[65]	Garland Testa for "Chasing Bobby"	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)[59]	Greg Daniels, Mike Approximate, Richard Appel, Howard Klein, Michael Rotenberg, et al. for "Chasing Bobby"	Nominated
2002	Annie Awards	Outstanding Writing in an Animated Boob tube Production[66]	Norm Hiscock for "Bobby Goes Nuts"	Won
			Kit Boss for "A Man Without a Country Club"	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Phonation-Over Performance[59]	Pamela Adlon as Bobby Hill, Clark Peters, and Chane Wassanasong in "Bobby Goes Basics"	Won
		Outstanding Blithe Program (For Programming Less Than One 60 minutes)[59]	Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, Richard Appel, Howard Klein, Michael Rotenberg, et al. for "Bobby Goes Nuts"	Nominated
2003	Annie Awards	Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production[67]	Tony Gama-Lobo and Rebecca May for "Reborn to Be Wild"	Nominated
	GLAAD Media Awards	Outstanding Individual Episode (In a Series Without a Regular Gay Character)[68]	"My Ain Individual Rodeo"	Nominated
	WGA Awards	Animation	Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck for "My Own Private Rodeo"	Nominated
2004	Annie Awards	Vocalism Acting in an Animated Television set Production[69]	Brittany Potato as Luanne Platter in "Girl, You lot'll Be a Behemothic Soon"	Won
		Writing in an Blithe Telly Production	Etan Cohen for "Ceci North'est Pas Une King of the Loma"	Won
	WGA Awards	Blitheness	Tony Gama-Lobo and Rebecca May for "Reborn to Be Wild"	Nominated
2005	Annie Awards	Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production[70]	Johnny Hardwick equally Dale Gribble in "Smoking and the Bandit"	Nominated
2006	Annie Awards	All-time Animated Tv set Production[71]	20th Century Fox Television	Nominated
	Teen Selection Awards	TV – Choice Animated Show	King of the Hill	Nominated
2007	People's Choice Awards	Favorite TV One-act – Animated	King of the Colina	Nominated
	WGA Awards	Blitheness	Jim Dauterive for "Church Hopping"	Nominated
2008	Annie Awards	Best Animated Television Production[72]	20th Century Fox Tv	Nominated
	People'south Choice Awards	Favorite Blithe TV Comedy	King of the Hill	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than I Hour)[59]	Mike Guess, Greg Daniels, John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, Jim Dauterive, Garland Testa, et al. for "Death Picks Cotton wool"	Nominated
	WGA Awards	Animation	Jim Dauterive for "Lucky'south Wedding Suit"	Nominated
			Tony Gama-Lobo and Rebecca May for "The Passion of the Dauterive"	Nominated
2009	Prism Awards	One-act Episode	"Dia-Bill-ic Shock"	Won
	WGA Awards	Animation	Jim Dauterive for "Strangeness on a Train"	Nominated
			Dan McGrath for "Life: A Loser's Manual"	Nominated

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Archival sources [edit]

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

External links [edit]

• Rex of the Loma at IMDb
• King of the Hill at epguides.com
• King of the Loma at the Large Cartoon DataBase
• King of the Loma on Comedy Fundamental

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