LOS ANGELES - After years of moving around the Fox prime-timeschedule, the working-class comedy "King of the Hill" is back whereit started.
The Fox cartoon series about a small-town Texas family - stoicpatriarch Hank Hill, his Boggle champion wife, Peggy, and theirvaudeville-loving son, Bobby - is moving to 8:30 p.m. EST on Sundays -the slot after "The Simpsons" that it first occupied when it stronglydebuted in 1997. (Most recently the show has aired at 7:30 p.m. onSundays.)
Just as Hank Hill suppresses all emotion except his passion forselling propane and propane accessories, the makers of "King of theHill" are tight-lipped about the show's nomadic past.
"It's good to be back there. It's good for the morale of peoplewho work on the show," said Mike Judge, the voice of Hank and theshow's other co-creator, who was previously known for creating MTV's"Beavis & Butt-head."
"King of the Hill" has thrived in syndication, and Judge said themultiple showings each week may have helped rejuvenate its fan base.
"It's funnier when you get to know the characters and notice thesubtle things," he said, comparing the show to the low-key comedy ofBob Newhart.
While Homer Simpson is known for outrageous oafishness, Hank Hillis the soft-spoken opposite - funny because of his blandness.
Hank is a frustrated man's man. He loves football, beer, barbecueand trucks, but his feet are too chubby for cowboy boots, the wholeneighborhood knows about his bowel problems and other health woes -and he regards pop culture with a restrained disdain.
The family is surrounded by oddball neighbors like bugexterminator and conspiracy-theorist Dale Gribble (voice of JohnnyHardwick); Bill Dauterive (Stephen Root), an Army barber and sloppybachelor, and mushmouthed stud Boomhauer (Judge).
"King of the Hill" also isn't afraid to show its characters' uglysides.
Hank often displays bullheaded chauvinism, second-guessing hiswife even when he suspects she's right and giving the cold shoulderto live-in niece Luanne (Brittany Murphy).
Meanwhile, Bobby seems determined to take sloth to new levels. Inone episode, he develops gout from inactivity and poor eating habitsand is delighted to travel around on a Rascal, the kind of slow-moving scooter used by the elderly and infirm.
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