#King of the hill yep series#

He even went into work when his hero Tom Landry died (though he thought it was Dusty Hill making it up). Much to the discomfort of his boss, Buck Strickland, he refuses to miss a day for anything including sickness and injury, as shown in the episode called 'Hank's Back', where he refused to go on Worker's Compensation after injuring his back on the job, despite repeated attempts at suggesting too much work will make him sloppy. Hank is a known workaholic and workplace overachiever who sells ' propane and propane accessories' as an assistant manager at the fictional Strickland Propane, a local propane dealership. One characteristic that Hank shows is when he lies to someone, he turns his head or looks around the room. Ultimately, Hank cares for the people around him, particularly his family and friends and is always out to do what is right. Hank's honesty and naivety often get him in unpredictable and troublesome situations.

#King of the hill yep series#

A running joke throughout the series is an angry Hank yelling 'I'm gonna kick your ass!' This is just a threat he rarely, if ever, harms anyone, though he has literally kicked at least two people in the posterior out of anger (an acupuncturist in 'Hank's Unmentionable Problem' and Jimmy Wichard in 'Life in the Fast Lane: Bobby's Saga'). Most openings of King of the Hill start with Hank, Dale, Bill and Boomhauer all agreeing to something before the action kicks in, drinking from Alamo branded beer cans. He can be pushed too far on occasion, usually by Bobby Hill and neighbors Bill Dauterive, Dale Gribble, and, (to a lesser extent) Jeff Boomhauer. Although he is traditionally conservative in his attitude, in how he dislikes change and novel situations, he can adapt to them quite well, quickly mastering unfamiliar social milieus. Hank is set in his ways and afraid of taking risks, but generally a good person. Also, in the episode ' Hank Gets Dusted', Hank is shown to be the cousin of ZZ Top bassist and vocalist Dusty Hill. This is due to an affair Cotton Hill had with his Japanese nurse while recovering from leg injuries in post-World War II Japan. Hank, who previously thought he was an only child, finds out he has a Japanese half brother named Junichiro in the episode 'Returning Japanese'. After referring to himself as a native Texan for forty years, he was sad to learn he was born in New York, but over time, accepted his heritage when he realized that many of the Alamo heroes were not from Texas, either. Fidel Castro visited New York City on April 19, implying that April 19 is Hank's birthday. His mother told him she gave birth to Hank in the women's restroom at Yankee Stadium during Cotton's failed attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro during a rare American visit. According to the episode 'Yankee Hankie,' Hank proudly believed he was born in Texas to Tilly Mae Hill and Cotton Lyndal Hill but finds (to his disgust and horror) that he was actually born in New York City.

Hank Hill was born at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York. I was kind of thinking we'd tie it into 'Beavis and Butt-Head' as a sort of spinoff or something, but Fox said no.' Greg Daniels, another creator of the program, has said that Hank Hill is 'based on a lot of neighbors I've had… He's upset about how America is changing, and he doesn't know what to do about it.' Character biography Early life and family In a 2006 interview, Judge said, 'Originally I was going to have Hank be his son. But he's more in touch with contemporary reality (sort of) - and funnier.' Throughout the show's run, Hank's character's personality appears to primarily be built around the image of the all American, authoritarian family man. Anderson (beleaguered, baffled Korean War veteran of 'Beavis and Butt-head'). Television columnist Frank Wooten of The Post and Courier has written, 'Hank still looks and sounds like a young Mr. Hank has been compared to Tom Anderson, the 'disapproving old man' who is a neighbor of the title characters on Judge's earlier series Beavis and Butt-Head. It's just a drawing.' So I just went back with the same drawing and said, 'Okay, he's 34.'' Judge later said, 'I got all angry, and then I was like, 'Well, wait. Judge received a phone message from a network executive who told him that Hank's age should be 32, the same age as the network's average viewer. When Mike Judge submitted the pilot script and drawings for King of the Hill to the Fox network, network executives advised him that Hank Hill should be younger than 49 years old, as Judge had described the character.