Line #18 Trivia/KingOfTheHill


1	* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
2	** Kahn and Minh are seen watching an ostensibly Laotian TV show in one episode, but the actors are wearing Korean hanbok. While this is most likely an instance of InterchangeableAsianCultures, it is very common for shows produced in Asia to be dubbed and rebroadcast in other countries.
3	* ActingForTwo:
4	** In addition to playing Hank, Mike Judge also voices Boomhauer, Stuart Dooley and Ted Wassanasong.
5	** Johnny Hardwick voices both Dale and the unseen, overactive announcer for sporting events in Arlen.
6	** Let's not forget about Lauren Tom, who voices 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.
7	** Pamela Adlon voiced Bobby, Clark Peters, and Chane Wassanasong.
8	** Stephen Root voiced Bill and Buck Strickland.
9	** Toby Huss voiced Kahn and Cotton.
10	** Brittany Murphy voiced Joseph (during the first four seasons) and Luanne.
11	* ActorInspiredElement: Jonathan Joss spent a lot time pushing for his character, John Redcorn, to receive CharacterDevelopment in fear that he'd become a Native American stereotype. According to Joss, Mike Judge and the show writers were happy to accommodate him, but Fox executives vetoed several early concepts for [[ADayInTheLimelight focus episodes]] featuring John Redcorn, including a proposed storyline where he becomes a pro wrestler to impress Joseph. Eventually they relented and John Redcorn did receive significant character development in the later seasons, notably his evolving relationship with the Gribbles and his failed rock band, Big Mountain Fudgecake, which invokes Joss's more successful musical career.
12	* BannedEpisode:
13	** "Revenge of the Lutefisk" was pulled on some Colorado local stations following the Columbine school shooting. Even though the episode depicted a church burning down and allegations that it was a hate crime, not a mass shooting, the Colorado local stations still pulled the episode, since they thought [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents showing violence like that at the time was in bad taste]].
14	** In 2003, the British satellite channel [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky1]] pulled the episode "Leanne's Saga" due to its domestic abuse theme (Luanne's alcoholic mom, Leanne, comes to town, falls in love with Bill, and begins abusing and taking advantage of him).
15	* CanonDiscontinuity: A DeletedScene from "Lucky's Wedding Suit" would have revealed that the episodes "Tankin' it to the Streets"[[note]]the one where Dale discovers that Bill was unknowingly a test subject of an Army experiment and that its effects might've played a hand in Bill being the washout he is today, eventually resulting in a despondent Bill stealing a tank from the local army base (only for Dale to reveal that Bill was part of the test that was given placebos and that it had nothing to do with Bill's current state)[[/note]] and "Yankie Hankie"[[note]]the one where Hank gets a hold of his birth certificate and discovers that he was actually born in New York; more spefically, at Yankee Stadium while Cotton attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro[[/note]] were just dreams Bill had from eating at a Hungarian restaurant. While the scene did not make it in to the final episode, this, combined with Mike Judge and Jim Dauterive [[CreatorBacklash disliking both episodes]] respectively, puts their canonicity into question.
16	* CastingGag
17	** In Season 12, we are introduced to Kate, who is revealed to be Joseph Gribble's half-sister. She was voiced by Creator/BrittanyMurphy, who -- in addition to playing Luanne -- was also Joseph's original voice up until the character underwent puberty. When playing Kate, Murphy used the exact same voice she used for Joseph.
18	** Luanne's three house-mates in "Movin' On Up" were played by Maura Tierney, Andy Dick, and Vicki Lewis - three cast members of the sitcom ''Series/{{Newsradio}}''. Ironically, Stephen Root, who voices Bill, Buck Strickland, and several one-off characters was actually uncredited early in the series because he was also a regular on ''Series/{{Newsradio}}'', which aired on a different network.
19	** "Joust Like A Woman" has British Creator/AlanRickman playing a FakeAmerican who, InUniverse, is a FakeBrit, meaning the character's fake British accent is just Rickman speaking normally. The episode ends on [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a particularly meta joke]] of Rickman's character "dropping" his British accent and speaking in his normal Texan drawl, with Rickman affecting a comically obviously fake Texan accent.
20	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/StephenRoot auditioned for Dale before being cast as Bill.
21	* 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 appeared more than once were usually recast after their initial appearances (such as Ashley Gardner replacing Creator/MaryTylerMoore as Reverend Stroup or Toby Huss replacing Creator/BurtReynolds as M. F. Thatherton), with a few exceptions (Music/TomPetty stayed on as Lucky when he became a regular character).
22	* ChannelHop: The series originally aired on Fox, the last episodes they didn't air ended up airing in syndication, and the upcoming revival will air on Hulu.
23	** Reruns bounced all over the place. First airing on FX until 2009, then moved to Adult Swim until 2018, Comedy Central aired it until 2019 and since 2021, the series airs on FXX and returned to Adult Swim.
24	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
25	** "The Kings of Texas" in France and Hungary.
26	** "Henri n' his Gang" in Quebec. [[note]]The Quebec dub is infamous for renaming all characters to French-Canadian names, as such Hank Hill becomes Henri Hill, Dale Gribble becomes Dan Grenier, Boomhauer becomes Papineau, etc... The setting is also moved to a small Quebec town, and Mexico becomes the United States, without any change to the visuals of the cartoon, creating a quite surreal dub.[[/note]]
27	** "Bobby vs. the Wimps" in Poland.
28	* CreatorBacklash:
29	** 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]].
30	** Mike Judge disliked the episode "Tankin' It to the Streets", in which Bill stole an army tank, feeling it was "too big" and like a JumpingTheShark moment. Just like with Hank being born in New York, this was also being retconned as just a dream in the planned series finale.
31	* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: The episode "The Exterminator" (the episode where Dale takes an office job after a doctor tells him that the poisons he's been exposed to as a pest control worker will kill him before he's 50) almost feels like an animated sequel to ''Film/OfficeSpace'', another Mike Judge creation.
32	* CrossdressingVoices:
33	** Pamela Adlon voiced Bobby Hill (and played other boy characters with a similar-sounding voice, like Clark Peters and several one-shot boy characters).
34	** Brittany Murphy, Luanne's voice actress, voiced Joseph Gribble in the first four seasons.
35	* TheDanza:
36	** Jonathon Joss voices John Redcorn.
37	** Chris Elliott voices Chris Sizemore.
38	* DescendedCreator
39	** Just like on ''Beavis and Butthead'', series creator Mike Judge does voice-work for his characters (Hank Hill, Boomhauer, Dooley, Ted, and a handful of one-shot characters).
40	** Johnny Hardwick was also the show's script editor and one of the co-producers and a writer on top of voicing Dale (and several one-off voices).
41	* DiedDuringProduction:
42	** The original voice actor for John Redcorn, Victor Aaron, died after recording only one episode, with Jonathan Joss voicing Redcorn for the remainder of the show.
43	** Barely avoided with Brittany Murphy, who voiced Luanne and Joseph pre-puberty. She died in December of 2009, just a few months after the series finale aired (though a few episodes were unaired until 2010).
44	** Johnny Hardwick, longtime writer, co-producer and the voice of Dale, died in August 2023 after recording four episodes of the revival, meaning that Dale will likely be recast.
45	* DivorcedInstallment: Was meant to be a ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' spin-off centered on Tom Anderson, but Fox couldn't legally get the rights to the character from [[Creator/ViacomCBS Viacom]] (the owners of Creator/{{MTV}}, the network ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' airs on) , so Tom Anderson was redone as Hank Hill (and plans to make Tom Anderson Hank's war veteran father also fell through, which is why Cotton Hill was created).
46	* DuelingWorks: With ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (which co-creator Greg Daniels used to write for), as those were the only two animated series on Fox before ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', and other animated sitcoms started appearing.[[note]]A lot of those lasted for all but one season, such as the [[WesternAnimation/NapoleonDynamite animated adaptation]] of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'', the American version of ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp'', or the notoriously awful ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'', while other shows, such as ''WesternAnimation/BlessTheHarts'', ''Duncanville'', and ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' are fan-favorites that have stayed on.[[/note]] ''Simpsons'' writer, Mike Reiss, bashed the show, saying (paraphrased), "if I wanted to not be funny, I'd write for ''King of the Hill''".
47	* ExecutiveMeddling:
48	** Fox executives demanded the writers drop or at least scale back the recurring plotlines to minimize consequences of airing episodes OutOfOrder on syndication, which accounted in part for the NegativeContinuity in later episodes. It's also claimed that in later seasons, network executives interfered to the extent that they were demanding rewrites while episodes were being animated, which does explain why the newer episodes aren't as consistent or beloved as the older episodes (though the finale where Hank and Bobby bond after Hank discovers Bobby's talent for identifying cuts of meat and analyzing their flaws is considered by some to be the best episode).
49	** Hank and Peggy were originally meant to be in their late 40s or early 50s, but the Fox executives told Mike Judge to make them younger in order to make them appeal to the average Fox viewer, that being 32. They compromised and Hank is stated to be in his late 30s, with Peggy stating in "Flirting With The Master" that she's 41.
50	* FakeNationality: The Laotian Souphanousinphone family were voiced by American actors, with Kahn voiced by Creator/TobyHuss while both Minh and Connie are [[ActingForTwo voiced]] by Creator/LaurenTom.
51	* FridayNightDeathSlot: It never aired on Friday nights, but during much of its later seasons, Fox would air it at 7 PM/6c on Sundays, which is the slot infamous for being preempted by sports programming (which also contributed to ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s first cancellation).
52	* InMemoriam: "The Order of the Straight Arrow" was dedicated to Victor Aaron, the original voice of John Redcorn who had passed away by the time the episode aired.
53	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Fox quit releasing [=DVD=]s of the show after Season 6 due to poor sales. An insert included in the season 6 set indicated Fox had planned to release season 7, but it never saw the light of day. Though some felt the prospect of a [=DVD=] release was unnecessary considering the show's digital availability, physical media collectors kept pushing for the rest of the series to be released physically. In 2014, Olive Films picked up the rights to release the rest of the show on [=DVD=]. Seasons 7 through 13, including the episodes not aired by Fox, were released over 2014 and 2015.
54	** 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, followed by Adult Swim showing the series once again in 2021.
55	* LifeImitatesArt: In one of the more startling examples, two years after "Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?,"[[note]]The episode where Kahn feels like a sell-out after Ted Wassanassong calls him a "banana," a common slur towards Asian people who have lost touch with their ancestry (because they're "yellow on the outside, white on the inside").[[/note]] in which Kahn joins a Laotian-American paramilitary group lead by a former general planning an attack on the communist government of Laos, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Laotian_coup_d%27état_conspiracy_allegation real-life Laotian American group]] lead by a former general planned an attack on the communist government of Laos.
56	* MissingEpisode:
57	** Fox wanted to get rid of the show as quickly as possible, as they needed room for ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' after the cancellation of the ill-fated ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp''; the network decided to pick two episodes out of the last six they ordered and unaired the remaining four. The last two episodes to air were "The Boy Can't Help It",[[note]]Where Bobby is taken advantage of by three high school girls.[[/note]] and "To Sirloin with Love".[[note]]Where Hank discovers Bobby's talent for identifying flaws in beef cuts and puts him on the Heimlich County Community College meat inspection team.[[/note]] The four episodes that didn't air on Fox aired in network syndication, on Creator/AdultSwim, were on Netflix and are currently on Hulu. Those episodes are: "The Honeymooners",[[note]]Hank's mom breaks up with her longtime boyfriend and dates a man she barely knows.[[/note]] "Bill Gathers Moss",[[note]]Bill takes in Principal Moss as a roommate, and Principal Moss takes in a former Playboy bunny and her Russian boyfriend who's set up a bootlegging ring.[[/note]] "When Joseph Met Lori and Made Out With Her in the Janitor's Closet",[[note]]Dale commits himself to a mental hospital to get out of talking to his son about sex; meanwhile, Nancy searches for the best human interest story.[[/note]] and "Just Another Manic Kahn-Day".[[note]]Hank recruits Kahn to build a grill by forcing him not to take his medication, which he needs for his manic depression; meanwhile, Bobby tries to find the humor in an old comedy record Peggy likes.[[/note]]
58	** Starting in late 2014, Adult Swim stopped airing seasons 1 and 2 and the first episode of season 3, except for the holiday episodes when the holiday they were themed to was coming. Sadly, this practice remained in effect when [as] got the show's cable rights back in 2021, though they remain in circulation on FXX.
59	** As of March 2022, all holiday episodes are skipped when aired on Adult Swim. However FXX still air them whether it's close to any respective holiday or not.
60	* 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}} began airing the series on September 20, 2021.
61	* NonSingingVoice: Boomhauer is usually voiced by Mike Judge, but when he sings in "The Bluegrass is Always Greener", he is voiced by country music star Vince Gill.
62	* TheOtherDarrin:
63	** In John Redcorn's first speaking role, in the Season 1 episode "Order of the Straight Arrow", he was voiced by Creator/VictorAaron. When Aaron died in a car accident, Creator/JonathanJoss was hired to take over as the voice actor of John Redcorn for the rest of the series.
64	** M.F. Thatherton was voiced by Burt Reynolds in his first appearance. In all other appearances, he was voiced by Toby Huss.
65	** Hank's mom, Tilly Hill, was voiced by three actresses: first by country singer Tammy Wynette for two episodes in Season 2. When Wynette died, she was replaced by Beth Grant during Season 3 (plus the unaired episode "The Honeymooners"). Finally, K. Callan voiced Tilly in two Season 5 episodes and one Season 8 episode.
66	** Roger "Booda" Sack was voiced by Creator/ChrisRock in his first appearance. He would be voiced by Creator/PhilLaMarr in his subsequent appearances.
67	** Enrique was first voiced by Eloy Casadoes from 1997 to 1998. But from 2003 to 2009, he is voiced by Creator/DannyTrejo.[[note]]fans were wondering why Enrique began sounding badass.[[/note]]
68	** 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.
69	** Special circumstances are behind this one,[[note]]Brittany Murphy's movie career, which was expanding at the time of Season 4.[[/note]] but it's worth noting that for the first four seasons (and a few episodes in Season 5), Joseph Gribble was voiced by Brittany Murphy. When Joseph hit puberty on the episode "I Don't Want to Wait for Our Lives to be Over," he was voiced by Breckin Meyer and wrote the voice change off as Joseph hitting puberty.
70	** Bug Gribble (Dale's closet homosexual father) was originally voiced by Johnny Hardwick in "Now Who's the Dummy?" In his next and last appearance, "My Own Private Rodeo," he's voiced by David Herman in his generic gay man voice (originally, Charles Nelson Reilly was going to voice Dale's dad, but he backed out).
71	** Reverend Karen Stroup was voiced by Creator/MaryTylerMoore in her first appearance in the episode "Revenge of the Lutefisk". Subsequent appearances have Ashley Gardner voicing her.
72	* TheOtherMarty: In the original pilot pitch to Fox, Bill, Bobby, Peggy, and Luanne are voiced by different actors. By the time the series debuted, they had their proper voice actors in place.
73	* OutOfOrder: Several Season 3 episodes. Episodes where Luanne's hair is completely grown back are followed by episodes where it's much shorter than usual.
74	** "The Company Man" was produced during season 1 but aired during season 2. Its earlier art style stands out amidst the re-designs.
75	** Also noticeable when the show switched from cel animation to digital ink and paint in season 8. Four cel animated holdovers produced for the previous season are scattered throughout the first half of this season, and their less bright colors are quite obvious amongst their digitally colored counterparts.
76	* PlayingAgainstType:
77	** Asexual [[DeadpanSnarker queen of snark]] Creator/JaneaneGarofolo voices a flirtatious, heterosexual RomanticFalseLead to Dale in "Night and Deity."
78	** Creator/DannyTrejo as Enrique in the later seasons, with him playing the role of a normal, milquetoast Mexican man instead of a badass Mexican man.
79	** In Johnny Knoxville's first role in the series, he provided the voice of a cool but responsible small business owner who mentors Bobby in "Business is Picking Up." Later, he returned to provide the voice of Luanne's dad, who is sleazy, manipulative, and disgusting.
80	* PopCultureUrbanLegends: There is one that says that the show aired in the early mornings on Fox Kids at one point in time, around the same time as the block's "Fox Kids Heads For The Hills" promotion.
81	** The episodes "Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?" and "Pigmalion" were said to have scenes that only aired once, and then were edited from all reruns ("Bad Girls..." had Tid Pao calling Bobby a "pig fucker" changed to "pig farmer" while "Pigmalion" had a scene showing Tripp's dead body after the pork kill line does a number on him). Currently, it's unknown if these scenes actually existed in some capacity (pitched as an idea, but never written; written, but never animated; part of the original storyboard, but never animated; recorded, but never put on the soundtrack [in the case of the "pig fucker/pig farmer" line]; or animated, but never put in the actual show due to the FOX standards and practices people vetoing it).
82	** For some reason, it's a common misconception that Ladybird died sometime in the later episodes. Possibly due to prevalence of DeathByNewberyMedal in entertainment, possibly because she went deaf and this got misconstrued as her dying secondhand.
83	* 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 demonstrating 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]]).
84	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''King of the Hill'' was a huge hit in its first few seasons, but Fox interfered with the show's ratings by constantly shuffling its time slot and episodes being preempted by sports programming. Even during its last few seasons, when it returned to its original 8:30 Sunday slot, ''King of the Hill'' was pointedly treated as the lesser show of Fox's "Animation Domination" block due to the continued popularity of ''The Simpsons'' and the network banking everything on Creator/SethMacFarlane's shows at the time (''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', and ''The Cleveland Show''; the last of which replaced ''King of the Hill'', leading to a lot of ''King of the Hill'' fans to hate ''The Cleveland Show''). Fox even tried to cancel it after season ten (which largely consisted of preempted season nine episodes), but backlash from viewers led to it staying on for three more seasons.
85	** Comedy Central snatched up the rights from Cartoon Networks's [adult swim] in 2018. But only ever aired the show late at night or very early in the morning before removing the show from its lineup entirely after a year. [[note]]It's even rumored that Comedy Central bought the rights to it just so [adult swim] couldn't have it.[[/note]]No other network was able to get the show's cable rights until they eventually reverted to the show's production company 20th Television (which was acquired by Disney shortly before the series left Comedy Central), which led to the series finally returning to American television with the help of FXX.
86	* UncreditedRole: Stephen Root (voice of Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland and other minor characters) was uncredited during the first three seasons due to him having a contract for ''Series/NewsRadio'' at the time. Once that show ended production, he received credit starting with season 4.
87	* 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. Comedy Central would lose the rights in 2019, and it would not air on American television until 2021, when FXX began rerunning ''King of the Hill''. Also in that same year, the show returned to [adult swim].
88	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
89	** The first episode was originally going to be "Westie Side Story" (the one where Kahn and his family move into the neighborhood). However, for unknown reasons, it was replaced with the episode where a social worker accuses Hank of beating Bobby.
90	** The show was originally going to be a ''Beavis and Butthead'' spinoff centered on Tom Anderson. Due to legal issues, this never came to be, so Tom Anderson was redesigned as Hank Hill. Judge tried again to incorporate Tom Anderson into the show by making him Hank's father. This, once again, failed, which led to the creation of Cotton Hill.
91	** 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. They did manage to film a pilot episode which can be viewed [[https://youtu.be/4eyN5xzlLnY here.]]
92	** The episode "My Own Private Rodeo" originally focused on Dale suffering from toothache and refusing to go to a dentist, fearing a tracking device would be implanted in him by his father's cohorts. Most of the episode's events, like Hank going to the rodeo, remained the same, but the ending was different in that Bug, feeling Dale would reject him if he told the truth, covered his sexuality by explaining he was monitoring the gay rodeo's activities - a relieved Dale then had his father hold his hand while he went to the dentist. Also, Charles Nelson Reilly voiced the part of Bug in the original storyline.
93	** Creator/DanielStern auditioned for the role of Dale (as did Stephen Root, who ended up voicing Bill).
94	** As mentioned above, Jonathan Joss and Greg Daniels collaborated on a script which would have featured John Redcorn doing a stint as a pro wrestler who becomes Joseph's hero.[[note]]Though Joseph never discovers John Redcorn's true identity.[[/note]] This episode was never produced, though elements of it found their way into later episodes, notably "Vision Quest" and "Smoking and the Bandit", albeit with Dale trying to impress an oblivious Joseph rather than John Redcorn in the latter.
95	** There were plans for Bobby to go through puberty and his voice to crack, but this meant getting rid of Pamela Adlon; instead, Bobby never goes through puberty and it's handwaved as him being "a late bloomer."
96	** In July of 2022, co-producer Jim Dauterive posted on Facebook a version of the ending of the original series finale "Lucky's Wedding Suit" on Facebook. In it, Hank and friends recap some events throughout the series. It is revealed that the entire series happened over one year and that the episodes "Tankin' It to the Streets" and "Yankee Hankee" were actually just [[CanonDiscontinuity fever dreams that Bill experienced]] after having some bad food. It can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZbCWbj4_Yg here.]]
97	* WorkingTitle: According to the DVD commentary for the pilot episode, the show had a lot of titles before ''King of the Hill'' was chosen. Some examples include ''Dale Gribble and the Other Guy'', ''I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass!'', ''Citizen Hank'', ''Propane Man'', ''The Hank Hill Family Hour'', and ''Hank Hill and His Clan''.
98	* WriteWhoYouKnow
99	** Mike Judge based Boomhauer's voice on a fast-talking, mush-mouthed hillbilly who left a message on his answering machine complaining about ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', referring to it as "Porky's Bunghole". Boomhauer's line in the first episode "I been callin' y'all fer bout a month now..." is a direct quote from the voice message.
100	** Stuart Dooley was based on a bully Mike Judge had as a kid who would always bluntly state exactly how he was going to bully him (he's also technically an {{expy}} of [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead Butt-Head]], who was based on the same bully).
101	* YouLookFamiliar:
102	** [[Series/GetALife Chris]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}} Elliott]] is [[TheDanza Chris Sizemore]], Peggy's real estate boss in the later seasons; he also played at least two other jerks- Rob Holgwen, the mold guy from "After the Mold Rush", and Ed Burnett, the city councilor from "Square-Footed Monster" (the last one also had his father [[Radio/BobAndRay Bob]] as Edgar Hornsby and his daughter [[Creator/AbbyElliott Abby]] in a minor role as a clerk).
103	** David Herman voices just about every minor male character that isn't played by a CelebrityVoiceActor or Toby Huss. Especially whenever they're a "Twig boy" who antagonizes Hank or other characters-- Anthony Page, Eustace, Lloyd Vickers, Tony Pope, etc.

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