‘King of the Hill’ returns in July. See the Easter eggs we found in season 14
Hulu announced last week that all episodes of season 15 of “King of the Hill” will debut July 20 on the streaming service.
Season 14 was the most-viewed adult animation season premiere in five years across Disney+ and Hulu, with 4.4M views globally after seven days of streaming, according to reporting from Deadline.
All 10 episodes of season 14 of the beloved animated sitcom dropped on Hulu on Aug. 4, marking the first new episodes since the show went off the air in 2010. The season follows Hank Hill and his family returning to the fictional DFW-area suburb of Arlen — which creator Mike Judge has said was specifically based on Richardson — and discovering how much Texas has changed.
Read on for some highlights about how season 14 highlights the show’s North Texas roots.
• The season is loaded with real North Texas locations. References span DFW International Airport and SMU in episode 1 to the George W. Bush Presidential Center in episode 3 to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Meyerson Symphony Center in the finale.
• Episode 7 is essentially one big Dallas Cowboys episode, with defensive end Micah Parsons voicing himself as a football camp coach at AT&T Stadium. Other Cowboys nods include Hank’s abandoned novel about Tony Romo solving mysteries and his insistence that Jerry Jones “has no soul” for firing Tom Landry.
• The show also pokes fun at DFW culture, from craft beer and Dealey Plaza conspiracy theories to “Dallas Foodie Week” and Nolan Ryan — who voices himself in the finale.
• The season honors two cast members who died. Johnny Hardwick, Dale Gribble’s original voice actor, died in August 2023 but had recorded lines before his death. Jonathan Joss, who voiced John Redcorn, was shot and killed outside his San Antonio home on June 1, 2025.
• Season 15 is coming soon, with all 10 episodes debuting on Hulu on July 20.
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