--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: King of the Hill image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee19058a9eaee6d8/69869f2606f2c12e3433047e/t100_tv_kingofthehill1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _King of the Hill_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett The most acutely observed, realistic sitcom about regional American life bar none, this animated series is a lot like its protagonist, Texas propane salesman Hank Hill: it isn’t flashy, never gets a lot of attention, but it does its job year in and year out. With a harsh war-veteran father, a pudgy son more interested in prop-comedy than football and a stubborn, Boggle-obsessed wife, Hank tries to avoid both his dad’s callousness and P.C. feel-goodism while sticking to his principles of hard work in a world that rewards shortcuts. Creator Mike Judge makes Hank funny in his pained Boy-Scout rectitude without making him a figure of fun for it, and with its canvas of mega-stores and Laotian yuppies, the show sees modern America’s fine detail like an electron microscope. [Get This TV Series](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005JM3G/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103610/king-of-the-hill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103610/king-of-the-hill/"},"headline":"King of the Hill","datePublished":"2014-08-12T14:31:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:24.505Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103610/king-of-the-hill/","keywords":["Comedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee19058a9eaee6d8/69869f2606f2c12e3433047e/t100_tv_kingofthehill1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee19058a9eaee6d8/69869f2606f2c12e3433047e/t100_tv_kingofthehill1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103610/king-of-the-hill/","name":"King of the Hill"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"King of the Hill","description":"Creator Mike Judge makes Hank funny in his pained Boy-Scout rectitude without making him a figure of fun for it, and with its canvas of mega-stores and Laotian yuppies, the show sees modern America's fine detail like an electron microscope.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/VhHPtdLq/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T19:19:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VhHPtdLq.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103610/king-of-the-hill/","duration":"PT28S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103610/king-of-the-hill/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```