History Trivia / KingOfTheHill

* CreatorBacklash: Series co-producer Jim Dauterive hated the PlotTwist of Hank having been born in New York and, when given the chance to co-write the series finale, proposed {{handwav|ed}}ing it off as [[AllJustADream a fever dream that Bill had]].
** Mike Judge disliked the episode in which Bill stole an army tank, feeling it was "too big" and like a JumpingTheShark moment.

* NamesTheSame: Before Donna from accounting was introduced, there was an overweight background character with the same name, who was fired for stealing office supplies.

* FakeNationality: The Laotian Souphanousinphone family were voiced by American actors, with Kahn voiced by Creator/TobyHuss while both Minh and Connie are [[TalkingToHimself voiced]] by Creator/LaurenTom.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Mike Judge voiced Hank, Boomhauer, and Ted.
** Pamela Adlon voiced Bobby, Clark Peters, and Chane Wassanasong.
** Stephen Root voiced Bill and Buck Strickland.
** Toby Huss voiced Kahn and Cotton.
** Lauren Tom voiced Connie and Minh.
** Brittany Murphy voiced Joseph (during the first four seasons) and Luanne.

** Pamela Adlon voiced Bobby, Clark, and Chane.

* UncreditedRole: Stephen Root (voice of Bill Dauterive, Buck Struckland, and other minor characters) was uncredited during the first three seasons.

* PostScriptSeason: Seasons 12 and 13. The Season 11 finale is explicitly designed as a ''series'' finale, with the Lucky-Luanne wedding, cameo appearances by everyone from Cotton and John Redcorn to Hank's half-brother Junichiro and Tammi Duvall to Chuck Mangione, and the ending with Hank and the gang drinking beer in the alley. Fox then decided to renew the show for two more years. Some fans think the show should have ended after Luanne's wedding, while others think "To Sirloin with Love" was a better ending, as most of the series centered on Hank and Bobby trying to bond as father and son and "To Sirloin with Love" showed that Bobby does have a hobby that doesn't disappoint/embarrass Hank (along with showing that Minh and Kahn will let their daughter Connie take a break from studying, Dale and Nancy's marriage is actually in good shape (with Dale asserting that he can heal Nancy's "headaches" as well as John Redcorn), Luanne and Lucky are happy as parents, and that Boomhauer's real name is Jeff and that he's a member of the Texas Rangers[[note]]whether he's always had that job or just started it is up for debate[[/note]]).

* PostScriptSeason: Seasons 12 and 13. The Season 11 finale is explicitly designed as a ''series'' finale, with the Lucky-Luanne wedding, cameo appearances by everyone from Cotton and John Redcorn to Hank's half-brother Junichiro and Tammi Duvall to Chuck Mangione, and the ending with Hank and the gang drinking beer in the alley. Fox then decided to renew the show for two more years. Some fans think the show should have ended after Luanne's wedding, while others think "To Sirloin with Love" was a better ending, as most of the series centered on Hank and Bobby trying to bond as father and son and "To Sirloin with Love" showed that Bobby does have a hobby that doesn't disappoint/embarrass Hank (along with showing that Mihn and Khan can let their daughter take a break from studying, Dale can heal Nancy's headaches better than John Redcorn, Luanne and Lucky are happy as parents, and that Boomhauer's real name is Jeff and that he's a member of the Texas Rangers[[note]]whether he's always had that job or just started it is up for debate[[/note]]).

** Debbie Grund was voiced by an unknown actress during her one talking scene in Season 3 (possibly Ashley Gardner). In her only other speaking appearance (the two-part episode where Hank gets seduced by Mr. Strickland's wife and mistress and becomes a suspect in the latter's murder when she's found dead in a Dumpster), she was voiced by Creator/ReeseWitherspoon.

* FakeNationality: The Laotian Souphanousinphone family were voiced by American actors, with Khan voiced by Creator/TobyHuss while both Mihn and Connie are [[TalkingToHimself voiced]] by Creator/LaurenTom.

** As of March 2022, all holiday episodes are skipped when aired on Adult Swim. However FXX still sore them whether it's close to any respective holiday or not.

** As of March 2022, all holiday episodes are skipped when aired on Adult Swim. However FXX still sore them whether it's close to any respective holiday or not.

** Let's not forget about Lauren Tom, who voice both Minh Souphanousinphone and her daughter, Connie. This means that basically anytime Connie is in trouble with her parents, she ends up getting a lecture from herself.

** Starting in late 2014, [adult swim] stopped airing the Season 1 and 2 episodes. Now, the show isn't on the network at all (and disappeared from American TV altogether after its failed run on Comedy Central, until FXX got the rights).

* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/KingOfTheHillHankHill Hank Hill]]
** [[Characters/KingOfTheHillDaleGribble Dale Gribble]]

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Most minor characters were voiced by celebrities (such as Creator/MaryTylerMoore as Reverend Stroup, Creator/BradPitt as Boomhauer's troublemaking brother, Creator/OwenWilson as a nervous virgin whom Luanne temporarily dates, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon as Buck Strickland's mistress who ends up dead in a Dumpster, Creator/JohnnyKnoxville[[note]]from MTV's ''Jackass'' [[/note]] as a waste management executive and Luanne's father on two non-consecutive episodes, or Creator/JohnnyDepp as a yoga instructor who helps Hank with his bad back). The characters who were lucky enough to appear more than once were usually recast after their initial appearances (such as Ashley Gardner replacing Mary Tyler Moore as Reverend Stroup), with a few exceptions (Music/TomPetty stayed on as Lucky when he became a regular character).

** {{Asexual}} [[DeadpanSnarker queen of snark]] Janeane Garofolo voices a flirtatious, heterosexual RomanticFalseLead to Dale in "Night and Deity."

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Most minor characters were voiced by celebrities (such as Mary Tyler Moore as Reverend Stroup, Brad Pitt as Boomhauer's troublemaking brother, Owen Wilson as a nervous virgin whom Luanne temporarily dates, Reese Witherspoon as Buck Strickland's mistress who ends up dead in a Dumpster, Johnny Knoxville[[note]]from MTV's ''Jackass'' [[/note]] as a waste management executive and Luanne's father on two non-consecutive episodes, or Johnny Depp as a yoga instructor who helps Hank with his bad back). The characters who were lucky enough to appear more than once were usually recast after their initial appearances (such as Ashley Gardner replacing Mary Tyler Moore as Reverend Stroup), with a few exceptions (Tom Petty stayed on as Lucky when he became a regular character).

** The Spanish SoapOpera, ''Monsignor Martinez'', was actually planned to be a live action spin-off, but it got killed mid-production when the crew couldn't find a network that would accept a show about a Catholic priest assassin.

** Lauren Tom voiced Connie and Minh (in yet another example of Lauren Tom playing Asian-American girls and their mothers. See also: Kuki Sanban and her mom, Genki on ''Codename: Kids Next Door'' and Amy and Inez Wong on ''Futurama'').

** [[Series/TheWonderYears Daniel]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}} Stern]] auditioned for the role of Dale (as did Stephen Root, who ended up voicing Bill).

** Roger "Booda" Sack was voiced by CreatorChrisRock in his first appearance. He would be voiced by Creator/PhilLaMarr in his subsequent appearances.

** M.F. Thatherton was voiced by Burt Reynolds in his first appearance. In all other appearances, he was voiced by Toby Huss.[[note]]Whom many ''Pete & Pete'' fans will recognize as the guy who played Artie, The Strongest Man in the World, though Huss does voicework on this show[[/note]]

** Roger "Booda" Sack was voiced by Chris Rock in his first appearance. He would be voiced by Creator/PhilLaMarr (who, coincidentally, did a Chris Rock impression on ''[=MADtv=]'' twice: once on a fake commercial where people can hire Chris Rock to tell bedtime stories to children and again on a music video parody of "No Sex in the Champagne Room" called "No Blacks on the TV Screen", which made fun of the MonochromeCasting and lack of racial diversity on American TV in the 1990s) in his subsequent appearances.

** In 2019, the series stopped airing both in syndication on local stations and on cable networks in the United States. Since the series is not available for purchase on digital storefronts, this meant that Hulu and the DVD box-sets were your two only options to legally watch the series before FXX started airing it.

* VindicatedByCable: FX, during the show's original run, and Creator/CartoonNetwork's [adult swim] treated ''King of the Hill'' much better than Fox ever did, with the show finding new fans through syndication years after it ended. When [adult swim] briefly removed ''King of the Hill'' from its lineup in fall of 2013, they encountered enough viewer backlash to not only bring it back, but place it in a more prominent timeslot. Sadly, by 2018, Cartoon Network gave up the rights to the show to Comedy Central, which [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed it over]] by airing the reruns late at night or early in the morning.

* NetworkToTheRescue: After two years of it not airing any reruns on American television at all, due to Comedy Central dropping the series from their schedule in November 2019, ''King of the Hill'''s cable TV rights eventually went back to 20th Television. As a result of this, Creator/{{FXX}} will begin airing the series on September 20, 2021.