Looking at the ATX TV Festival schedule and seeing that the King of the Hill panel at the historic Paramount Theatre was supposed to run from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., I wondered if the plan was to show one episode of Season 14 (set to premiere August 4th), or possibly even two. After all, at the festival’s Righteous Gemstones panel two years ago, attendees were treated to the first two episodes of the show’s then-imminent third season — plus a musical mini-concert beforehand and a panel discussion afterward. And an episode of King of the Hill is only about 21 minutes long. Surely the festival couldn’t expect their panel to sit for a group interview for nearly a full hour!
Ultimately, the sneak peek turned out to be quite literal: a peek at a minute or so of the Season 14 premiere; I’m not even sure if it was the first minute. What I am sure of is that it was important to someone to remind us of one of Hank Hill’s foundational attributes, just as significant as the fact that he is a Texan and that he sells propane and propane accessories.
Hulu’s promotional push for the new King of the Hill kicks off with a clip in which Hank (voice of Mike Judge), in the lavatory on a plane about to touch down at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, struggles to empty his bladder. As a line of impatient passengers clamor for him to get on with it, the ever-supportive Peggy (Kathy Najimy) announces to the plane at large that the delay is not Hank’s fault: “He has a narrow urethra!”
Some things will change in the new season; Hank’s urological deformity difference isn’t one of them.
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