‘King of the Hill’ Father’s Day Teaser Reveals Hank Hill’s Newest Rules for Life
Hank Hill is back from Saudi Arabia, and you’d better believe that he has some strong feelings on the subject of beer.
On August 4th, Hulu will drop the entire 10-episode first season of their King of the Hill revival, bringing Arlen, Texas and its idiosyncratic inhabitants back to our screens after nearly 16 years off of the air. King of the Hill creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels have made the executive decision to address this time-jump within the universe of the show, aging up the characters and explaining that Hank and Peggy Hill are coming back from an extended work stay in the Middle East to find 2025 American society — and their now-adult son Bobby — frighteningly modern.
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One thing that the hiatus hasn’t changed, however, is Hank’s affinity for making sweeping statements about the way the world is supposed to work using folksy phrasing that is always (and often unintentionally) hilarious. To celebrate Father’s Day yesterday, Hulu surprise-dropped a small handful of Hank’s new pieces of fatherly advice for his grown son that will make you grumble, “That man ain’t right.”
“After years working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg, Hank and Peggy Hill return to a changed Arlen, Texas to reconnect with old friends Dale, Boomhauer and Bill,” the description for the revival reads underneath the above YouTube video, “Meanwhile, Bobby is living his dream as a chef in Dallas and enjoying his 20s with his former classmates Connie, Joseph and Chane.”
Now that Bobby is a culinary master, age-old disagreements between him and his old man — such as whether or not the rich, smoky flavor of charcoal enhances a hamburger — will once again highlight the disparity in disposition between the Hill men as the professional chef challenges the pump jockey’s authority on all things gastronomic.
It’s hilariously in-character for a grown-up Bobby to be a microbrewer, just as Hank’s feelings on craft fermentation are purely a temperature test. The battle for the grill will undoubtedly be a contentious one, and the “professional comedian” remark feels like a subtle dig at Bobby’s past aspirations.
Hey, at least Bobby didn’t grow up to play soccer.
