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15 Dang Ol’ Episodes of King of the Hill to Watch Ahead of the Revival
Catch up with Hank, Peggy, Bobby, and the gang before returning to Arlen on August 4.
Now, the sitcom formula, in which main characters tend to remain static or, at the very least, consistently defined by certain marketable traits, means that those changes rarely make it past the end credits, so Hank’s overall evolution is a very slow one. While some animated sitcoms could get away with crossing over into Looney Tunes territory, King of the Hill ’s ventures into absurdity often seemed misplaced (though there was meme-able hilarity to be mined from Hank unwittingly becoming a “pimp” in “Ho, Yeah!”). A long-running joke in early King of the Hill is that Dale’s wife, Nancy (Ashley Gardner), is having an open affair with John Redcorn (the late Victor Aaron and Jonathan Joss).
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