‘King of the Hill’ Fans Have One Huge Complaint About the Reboot’s Newest Trailer
Since National Propane Day has already come and gone this year, Hulu decided to drop a new trailer for the upcoming King of the Hill reboot on Father’s Day, one that highlights the relationship between Hank and his now 21-year-old son Bobby. And just because he’s older doesn’t mean that Hank doesn’t still prefer handshakes to hugs.
The only real clip of the show that we’ve seen up until this point has been the information-packed opening credit sequence. But that obviously didn’t include any vocal performances, nor did it give us a real sense of the vibe of the reboot. So this 48-second “Father’s Day” ad is the best look that we’ve gotten at King of the Hill 2.0 so far — and, perhaps not surprisingly, fans have notes.
While most of the jokes in the new trailer seemed to gel nicely with the tone of the original series, over on Reddit, King of the Hill devotees all seemed to have one common complaint: the animation. “Oh man… I can’t say I love the new animation,” one fan shared. “The animation looks stiff and cheap,” someone else complained, while another more frankly declared that “the animation looks like ass.”
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The new season of the show was clearly created with digital animation. And while the original run of King of the Hill eventually incorporated digital animation to some extent as well, clearly the aesthetic of the 2025 version is different. As one user pointed out, “even when the (original) show went to digital it didn’t look so stiff.”
Some pointed out that several other recent digital animated reboots of ‘90s shows have been similarly jarring, such as Animaniacs and Mike Judge’s other beloved cartoon franchise, Beavis and Butt-Head. Although some noted that, in the case of the latter, the change in animation style eventually became a “non-issue.”
Another divisive subject seems to be legal adult Bobby Hill’s voice. While some folks are clearly thrilled that Pamela Adlon is reprising the role of Bobby, others seemed a little weirded out that he sounds almost exactly the same at 21 as he did at 13, prompting an in-depth discussion of when exactly boys’ voices break.
All that said, it’s impossible to judge any show based on a commercial. For all we know, the janky flow of the animation was because it was edited to accommodate a quick trailer that was perfectly timed to distract people from celebrating their real-life dads on Father’s Day and instead focus on Hank and Bobby.
