After ready 15 years for the return of King of the Hill, Mike Choose’s legendary animated sequence centered round a Texas household, its arrival is lastly nigh. New episodes are set to make their debut on Hulu on August 4, and I’m struggling to patiently wait that lengthy to meet up with my favourite characters in spite of everything that point. However I’m surviving because of the reboot’s first trailer, through which we get our first glimpse of grown-up Bobby Hill working as a big-city chef.
For many who are unfamiliar with King of the Hill, the sequence follows Hank and Peggy Hill, a pair dwelling within the fictional Texas suburb of Arlen with their son Bobby, a child who fairly clearly marches to the beat of his personal drummer. Peggy’s a substitute instructor and Hank’s a propane salesman who frequently preaches the gospel of what he views because the purest potential grilling gasoline. Of their Arlen neighborhood, the Hills stay alongside a various forged of neighbors and pals, which vary from Dale Gribble, the conspiracy theorist and proprietor of Dale’s Useless Bug, to the prickly “Kahn” Souphanousinphone, a Lao immigrant who moved to Texas after falling out together with his neighbors in California.
Within the present’s preliminary 13-season run, Bobby was a child, however now he’s all grown up and dealing as a chef in Dallas. Followers preserving monitor have identified for an extended whereas that Bobby would work as an “up-and-coming chef” within the reboot, however now we’ve lastly received some particulars on what that can truly seem like. Within the first trailer for the sequence, we be taught that Bobby is working at a Japanese restaurant known as Robata Chane. This replace makes whole sense for Bobby, a person who all the time displayed his love for meals and cooking all through the present’s 13-season run.
Whilst a child, Bobby was all the time experimenting within the kitchen and, in fact, consuming. Bear in mind, that is the child who as soon as ate so many cured deli meats that he ended up with gout, and downed a whole 72-ounce steak simply to spite his ex. Within the present’s last episode earlier than its cancellation in 2009, titled “To Sirloin With Love,” we see Bobby and Hank lastly start to know one another as Bobby throws himself into elaborately cooking a hibachi meal for his pals and neighbors. After all, this lifelong fruit pie fan ended up in a kitchen, particularly a robata grill, the place he can marry his love of meals — and the love of grilling that he realized partially from his father — in the identical place.
Grown-up Bobby can also be a beer fanatic, crafting his personal brews and making an attempt to persuade Hank to attempt some great things as an alternative of constant to swill his cans of Alamo. He tries to elucidate that beer might be a lot extra — it may be complicated, fascinating, even fruity. “I’ve been consuming beer for 40 years, and I by no means wished as soon as that it tasted extra like fruit,” Hank says in response, providing probably the most Hank Hill response to microbrewing possible. I actually can’t wait to see Bobby clarify the idea of yakitori to his dad and mom, and watch them attempt to help his profession selections in the way in which that solely a few anxious Texas dad and mom can. (That’s, awkwardly and undoubtedly with a number of hilarious bumbles alongside the way in which.)
