After ready 15 years for the return of King of the HillMike 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 any case that point. However I’m surviving due to 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 Hillthe 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 trainer and Hank’s a propane salesman who repeatedly preaches the gospel of what he views because the purest doable grilling gasoline. Of their Arlen neighborhood, the Hills stay alongside a various solid of neighbors and mates, 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 holding observe have recognized for an extended whereas that Bobby would work as an “up-and-coming chef” within the reboot, however now we’ve lastly obtained some particulars on what that can really 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 at all times displayed his love for meals and cooking all through the present’s 13-season run.
At the same time as a child, Bobby was at all times experimenting within the kitchen and, in fact, consuming. Keep 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 ultimate 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 mates 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 discovered partially from his father — in the identical place.
Grown-up Bobby can also be a beer fanatic, crafting his personal brews and attempting to persuade Hank to attempt some good things as a substitute of continuous to swill his cans of Alamo. He tries to clarify that beer may be a lot extra — it may be advanced, attention-grabbing, 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 conceivable. I actually can’t wait to see Bobby clarify the idea of yakitori to his dad and mom, and watch them attempt to assist his profession decisions in the best way that solely a few apprehensive Texas dad and mom can. (That’s, awkwardly and undoubtedly with just a few hilarious bumbles alongside the best way.)
