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Austin, Texas – The King of the Hill Revival is currently cooking with propane.
Hulu, which streams the original series, has revealed that Season 14 revival on August 4 will debut on August 4 in all 10 episodes.
The updated credit sequence shows what Hank Hill, his wife Peggy, son Bobby, and a friend in the fictional Texan town of Arlen have been doing since signing off in 2010. The hill then returned, and grew older and older.
Co-creators of Greg Daniels and Mike Judge, who are also voiced by Hank Hill, were held on May 30th by executive producer Saladin Patterson and audio actors Pamela Adlon, Lauren Tom and Toby Huss, teased the upcoming season on a panel at the ATX TV Festival.
“It clicked for me,” the judge told an audience ready to shout out memorable quotes. “When they actually started aging the ideas of the characters and Hank, they started retiring propane gigs to Saudi Arabia. The idea started.”
In the clip shared with fans, Hank is very pleased to be back in Texas. Hank has retired and “I realize I don’t have a job I go to every day,” Patterson said, so “he may always find things around the house and plague my wife.”
As for Peggy (Kathy Najimmy), Patterson says, “If there are characters who think they can do something, if they have free time now, enjoy what those possibilities are.”
Bobby (Adlon), now in his 20s, is a successful chef at a German sushi fusion restaurant in Dallas.
“He’s hardworking. He learned from his parents,” Adlon said. “It almost like an adult, he became more central and like a dad.”
Johnny Hardwick, the voice of Hank’s fellow, passed away in 2023 at 64. Hardwick appears in six episodes of the Revival, with the judge telling the crowd and Hass taking over the role of Dale.
“The fact that you all trusted me to make his voice again is really humble,” Hass said. “And what I’ve been trying to do – I’m not trying to copy Johnny as much as I’m trying to become Johnny, and Dale comes out through it. But it was because he had a lot of weird minds for him, so he had a really great, goofball character lay. It’s sad that he’s not here.”
During the panel, Daniels highlighted the talent of Brittany Murphy, who died of pneumonia in 2009 in 32. Murphy has announced the role of Hank and Peggy’s Nie Luanne.
“One of the people who point out who I am great and who isn’t here is Brittany Murphy,” Daniels said. “Brittany is someone who has never read the way you thought it would be read.”
Luanne married Lucky and Tom Petty called out to her. The singer passed away in 2017 at the age of 66 from an accidental drug overdose.
“We found an opportunity,” Patterson said. “You can reference them on the show and see the importance of them being both in the life of the characters.
