List of King of the Hill characters

King of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels.

Main Characters

• Hank Hill (Mike Judge) - Hank proudly sells "propane and propane accessories" as the assistant manager at Strickland Propane. He resembles — in both voice and appearance — the Tom Anderson character from Beavis and Butthead, a character also voiced by Judge. Hank is generally a well-meaning father, but is often frustrated and confused by modern trends and the antics of his friends and family members. Hank suffers from a narrow urethra, which made Bobby's conception difficult. He is uncomfortable with intimacy and discussing sex and it is made clear he tries very hard in many ways to prove his masculinity and tends to be somewhat homophobic, though not in a mean-spirited way. Despite all this, he has a healthy relationship with his family. He hopes for his son Bobby not to fall for any of the modern trends and hopes to raise him the way he wants. He also tries to put up with his wife's conceitedness. When someone wrongs him, he often responds with the phrase "I'm going to kick your ass!" Dale Gribble is by far the most frequent recipient of this threat. In addition to propane, Hank enjoys car repair and yard work, and is shown in some episodes doing his neighbor's yard work or surreptitiously creating more for himself to do. Hank's trademark wail of distress in times of discomfort and his phrase "I tell you what (which he pronounces "h what") " are running gags on the series.
• Margaret 'Peggy' Platter Hill (Kathy Najimy) - Hank's wife. Peggy was born in Montana and raised on her family's cattle farm. Peggy is now a substitute teacher in Arlen, Texas. She specializes in teaching Spanish, but will jump at the chance to sub for any subject that becomes available. Peggy's knowledge and pronunciation of the language is lacking, and she refers to it phonetically with her Texas drawl as "es-pan-ole". Peggy is also a freelance newspaper columnist, notary public, a Boggle champion, and she starts a career in real estate. Although well-meaning and open-minded, she is bossy and a bit of a blowhard, often unintentionally displaying her naïveté and ignorance without realizing it; she considers herself far more knowledgeable, clever, and attractive than she actually is; for example, she claims that her IQ is 170, but once revealed this was an "educated guess" made by herself, and in a number of episodes, this gets her into trouble. Peggy is self-conscious about her larger than normal (size 16 1/2) feet. Peggy frequently speaks the phrases "Oh, yeah!" when she exerts effort into a task and "Oh, Peggy!" a self-compliment after she says something that she finds to be especially clever.
• Robert Jeffrey 'Bobby' Hill (Pamela Adlon) - Hank and Peggy's husky 13-year-old son. He wants to be a famous prop comic and move to New York when he is older. Bobby displays little interest in gender roles and dislikes playing football. Hank's discomfort with Bobby's sensibilities is a regular narrative element in the series. "That boy ain't right."
• Dale Gribble (Johnny Hardwick) - Dale is the Hills' chain-smoking neighbor who is also an insect exterminator, conspiracy theorist, and borderline maniac. Dale is also his gun club's president and a licensed bounty hunter. Though boastful, he is a coward who recoils in the face of violence. He often uses the stolen identity of "Rusty Shackleford"; an old classmate whom Dale thought died in the third grade. Dale remains completely oblivious to the fact that his wife, Nancy, has cheated on him with John Redcorn for 14 years and his son Joseph is not actually his genetic son. Everyone else knows but chooses not to tell him because of his total obliviousness, the loving, trusting relationship he has with Joseph and Nancy, and the fact that Dale is more of a father to Joseph than John Redcorn is. Hank considers Dale a close friend, but he often becomes very annoyed with his schemes and conspiracies.
• William "Bill" Fontaine Delatour Dauterive (Stephen Root) - Bill is the Hills' overweight, divorced, clinically depressed, involuntarily celibate neighbor. Bill had a tough childhood with an abusive father who often locked Bill in a rabbit hutch, which Bill recalls in later years, saying, "I deserved it." He was formerly a rugged and attractive star center on Arlen High's football team, nicknamed the "Billdozer". When on the goal line, Bill would take Hank's place at runningback and push his way forward for a touchdown. Bill once had a bright future in the Army, but ended up ruining his life after marrying Lenore, whom he found passed out in his lap after a Molly Hatchet concert. Bill is often attracted to people who abuse him; after suffering under his father and Lenore, Bill feels no self-worth. He obsesses about his ex-wife, and his loneliness and suicidal tendencies are a running gag on the series. He is a sergeant barber in the United States Army. He frequently tries to flirt with and woo Peggy, and even steals, tapes together, and plays Boggle with Peggy's body cast after she gets it taken off following a skydiving accident. His last name is often phonetically mispronounced by characters who do not know him. Despite coming across as a loser, however, Bill has enjoyed several romantic successes (or near-successes), including Khan's mother, former Texas governor Ann Richards, and the young widows of two of his dead cousins. Named after executive producer and writer Jim Dauterive.
• Luanne Platter Kleinschmidt (Brittany Murphy) - The Hill's college-age niece, daughter of Peggy's scheming brother Hoyt. She moves in with the Hills after her mother Leanne stabs Hoyt with a fork during a drunken fight and tips over their trailer. Hank initially makes frequent attempts to encourage her to move out on her own, but later begins to accept her as a member of the family. She is a student at the beauty academy and later at Arlen Community College. She is often portrayed as an airhead, but is shown to be an expert mechanic in the first two seasons and is good at logic puzzles (though in later seasons her low level of intelligence seemed to have retconned this.) Luanne is promiscuous, but she settles down after attending a church-sponsored "second virginity" program and starts a Bible study class. In the 10th season finale, Luanne revealed that she was pregnant with the child of Lucky, whom she married in the 11th season finale. In the 13th Season, she has a baby girl named Gracie Margaret Kleinschmidt (which she almost named Lasagna because Luanne was high on epidurals during the pregnancy).
• Jeff Boomhauer (Mike Judge) - Boomhauer is a slim, young-looking womanizer whose mutterings are nearly incomprehensible to the audience but easily understood by his friends. A running joke is when his friends fail to understand him for some reason other than his incoherence. His speech is usually heavily littered with the phrases, "Dang", "Dang it all" and "I'll tell you what". Boomhauer is a classic-car aficionado, and, despite his incoherent ramblings and womanizing, often displays himself to be more intelligent and philosophical than his three friends. In episode 18 of season 13, the Canadian woman who trades houses with him for the summer calls him Jeff, finally revealing his first name. He occasionally displays hints of chivalry, such as when he allowed Luanne to sleep on his couch when she had a falling out with Hank and made no attempt to take advantage of her, or when he broke up an old flame's engagement to his unfaithful brother. Boomhauer once fell in love with a woman who would jog by his house every morning. Bill first showed interest in her, so in order to meet her, he dug several holes in the street, hoping she would trip and need assistance, which Bill would administer. However, Bill falls victim to his own trap and it is Boomhauer who comes to the rescue, when the woman tripped and fell. Boomhauer goes on to propose to this woman, even offering her his grandmother's wedding ring, which is rejected. In the end, Boomhauer learns a lesson about treating women after suffering rejection.

Other Hill and Platter Relatives

• Cotton Hill (1925-2007) (Toby Huss) - Hank's father, Cotton was a deranged, politically incorrect misogynist with a hair-trigger temper. His shins were blown off in World War II by a "Japan man's machine gun" and his feet were reattached to his knees, resulting in a short height and stilted gait. Despite his disability, he eventually reached the rank of Colonel in the State Militia, and is addressed as such by his friends. After divorcing Hank's mother, he marries a much younger, dimwitted, busty blonde candy striper named Didi who gives birth to his son and later divorces him. He calls Peggy "Hank's Wife" and makes frequent references to his (perhaps dubious) wartime heroism, including his killing of "fiddy [fifty] men". Cotton spent most of his free time playing checkers and hatching absurd schemes (such as rowing to Cuba and killing Fidel Castro) with his war buddies at the VFW. However, by the middle of the series, all of his war buddies had died. Cotton himself died, not once but twice, in episode #218, "Death Picks Cotton." In the episode "Chasing Bobby," Peggy stated that Hank's greatest fear was his father dying without telling him how much he loved him, which is exactly what happened. His dying wish of destroying Hank's new shed was carried about by Dale after Cotton's death.
• Didi Hill (Ashley Gardner) - Didi is Cotton's second wife and a candy striper. It is known that she attended kindergarten with Hank. She has breast implants and suffers from postpartum depression. She is generally depicted as docile and unintelligent, although she has a degree in optometry. Didi speaks in a monotone and was once a student in Hank Hill's kindergarten class (in her first appearance, she asks Hank if he still likes finger painting). She was absent when Cotton died. In the episode "Daletech," Cotton indicates that she was going to spend many months with her parents and without him. She later makes an appearance one year later in the episode "Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key" and reveals that she is getting married to a wealthy professional wrestler.
• G. H. Hill - G.H. is Cotton's and Didi's infant son, and Hank's younger half-brother. G.H. is an abbreviation for "Good Hank," implying that the original Hank was unsatisfactory to his father. Hank feels envious of the new Hank being his father's favorite, and he does not consider him his brother, who most strongly resembles his son Bobby. G.H was also nowhere to be seen at the time of his father's death.
• Junichiro (David Carradine) - Junichiro is Hank's elder half-Japanese half-brother who has lived in Japan all his life. Hank and Junichiro have the same father, due to Cotton's affair with a Japanese nurse during his war days, and share many similarities in appearance and mannerisms (this in spite of the fact that Hank actually shares more of his mother's features) one of these is that when he is shocked, like Hank, he yells "BWAH!". Like Hank, Junichiro also has a narrow urethra and is an assistant manager at the company for which he works. He is initially uncomfortable with the idea of meeting either Cotton or Hank, and his comments send Cotton on a rampage through Japan; but with Hank's help the family reconciles before Hank returns to the U.S. Since Junichiro was raised as a Japanese he does not have problems talking about the sexual issues Hank does like his narrow urethra.
• Tilly Hill (Tammy Wynette in 1997-1998, Beth Grant in 1999, K Callan in 2000-) - Tilly is Cotton's first wife and Hank's mother. She divorced Cotton after suffering years of verbal abuse. A kind woman who collects miniatures, Tilly lives in Arizona with her Jewish boyfriend Gary (voiced by Carl Reiner); Hank was initially unhappy with her dating Gary and went blind when he walked in on them making love, but later expressed his approval of her new man when Gary threatened to kick Cotton's ass if he insulted Tilly in his presence. Hank has trouble emotionally connecting with Tilly, but is a loving son who defends his mother in spite of Cotton's insults. Tilly has facial features virtually identical to Hank, indicating his mother is the source of his looks and general physical appearance. K Callan assumed the role after Wynette's death.
• Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt (Tom Petty) - Elroy is Luanne's dimwitted, itinerant, but benign redneck husband. He lives on the remainder of the $53,000 "settlement monies" he received after "slipping in a puddle of pee-pee at the Costco," and is the father of Luanne's child. Peggy tried very hard to break him and Luanne apart, but after Luanne's pregnancy was revealed, she and Hank reconciled the two, giving them a shotgun wedding. He is also a former guitarist for John Redcorn's band, Big Mountain Fudgecake, and occasionally plays gigs in biker bars. Surprisingly, he has moments of insight that prove he isn't quite as stupid as he appears, which may stem from his being consistently drunk. Despite how he may come off, he loves Luanne very much, and is very involved with her family. He enjoys the "gentlemanly pursuits" of mudding, stickin, cat-fisting, stumping, and truck racing.
• Gracie Margaret Kleinschmidt - Daughter of Lucky and Luanne. She was born in the season 13 episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do." Luanne originally wanted to name her Lasagna Kleinschmidt (stating that lasagna was their favorite food), but Peggy intervened and came up with a more appropriate name.
• Leanne Platter (Pamela Segall) - Leanne is Luanne's violent alcoholic mother, who was imprisoned for stabbing her husband in the back with a fork. Though she is often mentioned during the course of the series, she appears only in the episode "Leanne's Saga," visiting Luanne in Arlen after her release from prison. According to Hank, Peggy's brother Hoyt had planned to marry a pharmacist, but wound up marrying Leanne instead after she entertained at his bachelor party. She and Bill are soon engaged, though their relationship rapidly degenerates once she starts drinking again. Everyone, except initially Bill and Luanne, sees her as an un-ladylike, psychotic menace to society; once these two recognize the truth as well, Leanne steals Bill's truck and drives out of Arlen, presumably for good.
• Hoyt Platter (Johnny Knoxville) - Hoyt is Luanne's father and Peggy's twin brother who ran from Arlen after Leanne stabbed him. It was later found out that he never worked on an oil rig, but was in jail for most of Luanne's life and the oil rig story was a cover so Luanne wouldn't know her father was a convict. He appears in only one episode, "Life: A Loser's Manual," in which he continues his larcenous ways to the point of bullying Lucky into confessing to a robbery Hoyt committed. Thanks to some crafty work by Hank and Peggy, Hoyt was nabbed for another crime, and convinced to take the rap for the robbery, and put back in jail presumably for life, with Luanne believing the false story that he "signed a lifetime contract to return to the oil rig."
• Ladybird Hill - The Hills' 14-year-old purebred bloodhound. Her companionship temporarily relieved Hank's stress (and narrow urethra), allowing him to impregnate Peggy. She is named after the famous Texan and Democratic U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird Johnson. Hank is skeptical about breeding her until her thirteenth year, when he finally breaks down and attempts to stud her with one of Mr. Strickland's hounds. However, he then discovers that Ladybird has a narrow uterus -- a gag to coincide with Hank's narrow urethra. It is also suggested in Doggone Crazy that Ladybird had gone deaf.
• Dusty Hill (Himself) - Dusty is Hank's cousin who received Cotton's Cadillac in the episode Hank Gets Dusted. He is a member of the rock band "ZZ Top."

Other Gribbles

• Joseph John Gribble (Brittany Murphy as a prepubescent in 1997-2000, Breckin Meyer as a pubescent in 2000-) - born in ca. 1985, Joseph is Dale's 13-year-old son and one of Bobby's best friends. Despite Joseph's obvious Native American features, being strikingly similar in appearance to John Redcorn, and the fact that his middle name is "John," neither he nor Dale is aware that Redcorn is his biological father, the result of a 14-year affair. Dale refers to his Jamaican grandmother to explain Joseph's dark complexion. Redcorn's occasional awkward attempts to get closer to Joseph (against Nancy's wishes) lead Joseph to regard him as strange and creepy. Joseph is something of a pervert, objectifying almost all girls with the exception of Connie. In some episodes, he's had a small infatuation for Connie, particularly when she and Bobby are at odds.
• Nancy Hicks Gribble (Ashley Gardner) - Nancy is Dale's wife and the weather girl turned reporter for a local television station. She had a 14-year affair with John Redcorn, which produced her son, Joseph, although she eventually broke off the affair and became a more faithful wife to Dale. She frequently addresses other characters as "sug" (phonetically "shʊg"), which is short for "sugar."

Other Dauterives

• Gilbert Dauterive (David Herman) - Pronounced "Jeal-bear," in the French manner, Gilbert is Bill's cousin (based on Tennessee Williams) who shows some signs of literary insight and a knowledge of philosophy. He is Bill's only living blood relative after his cousin and aunt die very suddenly in the night, though he seems to care very little for Bill and has a rather sadistic sense of humor. He publishes a poetry magazine to perpetuate the Dauterive family name, selling his family's estate to pay for the costs of running it. It is strongly implied that he is a homosexual, as he laments the ending of the Dauterive bloodline despite being single. He lives in a mansion on the Bayou of Louisiana.
• Lenore Dauterive (Ellen Barkin) - Lenore is Bill's ex-wife (also, in one episode, the name of his iguana). They met at a Molly Hatchet concert, at the end of which she passed out in his arms. She is mentioned frequently throughout the course of the series, but only appears twice. She enjoyed cheating on and mistreating Bill, starting her affairs a mere two weeks after their wedding, but with help from Governor Ann Richards, Bill was finally able to tell her off and move past her toxic influence.

Souphanousinphones

• Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr. (Toby Huss) - Kahn is the Hills' materialistic, Laotian next-door neighbor. "Kahn" is an anagram of "Hank", not to mention another word for king. He believes he is better than his neighbors, often refering to them as "hillbillies" or "rednecks." He frequently boasts his superiority to the others, but Hank bails him out in several episodes, and Kahn has made it clear that he strongly respects Hank (though he also has made it clear this respect does not extend to Bill, Boomhauer, and especially Dale). Kahn occasionally wrestles with the fact that he has a daughter, and once, when very angry with her, stated, "You lose, you no longer my son."
• Minh Souphanousinphone (Lauren Tom) - Kahn's wife. Minh is a housewife who grows roses in her front yard. She enjoys making catty comments about the neighbors, particularly Peggy. She also has a fondness for adding nutmeg to everything she cooks to make it taste better. She's a crack shot, with championship-level skills, and at one point joined Dale's gun club, exerting a positive effect on its members. She is highly competitive, going so far as to cheat on the NY Times crossword puzzle.
• Kahn "Connie" Souphanousinphone, Jr. (Lauren Tom) - Connie is Kahn and Minh's daughter, a violin player and A-student. She is one of Bobby's best friends and sometime girlfriend. Connie is named for her father because Kahn wanted a boy. He often refers to her as "Kahn, Jr."
• Doggie Kahn Souphanousinphone (a play on "Donkey Kong") - Doggie is their West Highland White Terrier, who has the uncanny ability to turn backflips, and is a competitive dancer. He once ran away with Ladybird.
• Tid Pao Souphanousinphone (Lucy Liu) - Tid is Connie's rebellious cousin from Los Angeles, who was sent to stay at Kahn's for a semester because her marks had been slipping. She attended Tom Landry Middle School in the meantime. She tricked Bobby into creating a meth lab by pretending to help him with building a candy machine for his group science project, and persuaded him to steal gas tanks from Strickland Propane to complete the project. Upon seeing a policeman grading projects during the science fair, she told Bobby he could take all the credit and ran off; Connie saved him by shooting the lab to pieces with her spud gun. Tid Pao was sent away by Kahn to Exeter, Wisconsin to work on her last uncle's dairy farm at the end of the episode because of her delinquency.
• Laoma Souphanousinphone (Amy Hill) - Laoma is Kahn's mother. She is kind and hardworking and enjoys doing things about the house. She is disliked by Minh because of her criticism of Minh's housekeeping skills. The status conscious Souphanousinphones are horrified when Laoma, bored and unwanted in her son's house, becomes the Hills' housemaid, and even more horrified when she begins a love affair with Bill Dauterive. There was no mention of their relationship, nor of Laoma herself in the later episodes, mainly because the creators nixed the original plan for her and Bill to become a regular couple, preferring for Bill to remain his usual single and miserable self.

Strickland Propane

• Buck Strickland (Stephen Root) - Buck is the overweight, balding, over-the-hill owner of Strickland Propane, and Hank's boss. Buck is a compulsive gambler, chauvinist, alcoholic, cheat, adulterer, and womanizer. Hank is blindly loyal to Buck, preferring to view his boss as the idealized American entrepreneur while turning a blind eye to his failings, except when Buck's behavior threatens the immediate welfare of Hank's family.
• Joe Jack (Toby Huss) - Joe Jack is a fuel-truck driver and co-worker with Hank at Strickland Propane. He has a drinking problem, as seen when he is a member of the Propaniacs, and it has also been stated that he has a gambling problem as well. He has a habit of calling people "honey", regardless of gender.
• Enrique (Danny Trejo) - Enrique is a good-natured but annoying Hispanic truck driver at Strickland Propane. In the episode "Enrique-cilable Differences," Hank and Enrique had hardly ever talked to each other before, much to Hank's satisfaction, but suddenly Enrique forcibly befriends Hank after a nasty fight with his wife. Enrique ends up moving in with the Hills for a short time, but quickly patches things up with his wife after a fed-up Hank kicks him out. He has since made several appearances.
• Debbie Grund (Reese Witherspoon) - Debbie was an employee of Strickland Propane and was Buck Strickland's mistress. When Strickland ended their relationship, she plotted to murder him and his wife, but accidentally killed herself when she inadvertently discharged her shotgun into her own torso while attempting to climb into the dumpster she was using as a hiding place.
• Donna (Pamela Adlon) - Donna is the accountant at Strickland Propane.
• Roger "Booda" Sack (Chris Rock in the first appearance, Phil LaMarr in later appearances) - He first appeared in "Traffic Jam" as a comedic traffic school instructor. He later appeared as an employee of Strickland Propane.
• Elizabeth "Miz Liz" Strickland (Kathleen Turner) - Elizabeth is the deep-voiced, long suffering wife of Buck Strickland. (Buck has cheated on her repeatedly, and once responded to an inquiry as to whether he's ever ridden a block of ice before with, "Well, I married Miz Liz, didn't I?") Her hair is always pulled up tightly in a bun. It is shown that Buck Strickland has a shotgun with her name engraved on it. Miz Liz once attempted to seduce Hank in a propane-powered hot tub when she and Buck were separated, but the interest was not reciprocated.

Tom Landry Middle School

• Carl Moss (Dennis Burkley) - Carl is the principal of Tom Landry Middle School and one of Hank's high school classmates. Like most school administrators, his twin concerns are tight budgets and maintaining discipline, and he tends to follow procedure to avoid trouble, even when it conflicts with his friendship with Hank. He suspends Hank from temporarily teaching shop class while on vacation after Hank gives the students tools, due to a school policy to prevent students from carrying "weapons" around campus. He also once fired Peggy after she spanked Dooley in class when he pulled her pants down, despite Dooley's parents forgiving and even thanking her. He tries to stay out of conflict as much as possible, even going as far as faking a heart attack to get out of being the tie-breaking vote in a PTA meeting, as in the episode "No Bobby Left Behind." Unsurprisingly, the antics of his students (and their meddling parents) often frustrate him.
• Stuart Dooley (Mike Judge) - Stuart is Bobby's deep-voiced, laconic classmate. He has shaggy red hair. He always intones something obvious (for example, to Bobby after witnessing a bully scare Bobby, "He scared you.") He seems to be something of a sadist, taking quiet pleasure in saying things to people to sadden or anger them (i.e., when Bill is having fun at Bobby's birthday party, Dooley mentions that Bill's wife divorced him). His character also seems to be loosely based on the character Butt-head of Beavis and Butt-head.
• Clark Peters (Pamela Adlon) - Bobby's overweight bully at Tom Landry Middle School. He has a blond ponytail and speaks as though he has a perpetual head cold. He sometimes forces Bobby to do homework for him, except when Bobby writes down that his favorite hobby is to knit. (As his teacher remarked, "The Clark Peters I know likes to burn things.")
• Randy Miller (Cheryl Holliday in 1997-1999, David Herman in 2000-) - Randy is the quintessential "nerd," and loves to tattle on people, then see them being punished. Bobby, Connie, and Joseph don't like him very much. He is very proud of his father being a successful patent lawyer. Although once a rather prominent character, he largely vanished after the fifth season. He later returned in Talking Shop, being bullied by Dooley, but Bobby persuades him to leave him alone because he wants attention. In this appearance Randy is noticeably taller and has a deeper, scratchy voice, having seemingly entered the early stages of puberty.
• Chane Wassonasong (Pamela Adlon) - Chane is a smart but obnoxious and socially inept classmate of Bobby and Connie. Connie's parents are constantly trying to fix her up with Chane, also Asian-American, as they see him as a very preferable alternative to Bobby, despite the fact that she finds Chane to be annoying. He is a member of his school's track and field team, and used to bully Bobby, but after a fight between the two -- which resulted in Chane receiving a rather painful groin injury -- he settled for verbally abusing Bobby rather than physically.

Arlen VFW

• "Topsy" Toppington (Stephen Root) - Toppington (nearly always referred to as "Topsy") is an old wartime buddy of Cotton Hill. He often acts as an accomplice to Cotton's inane hate/revenge-driven schemes. In a later episode, he is left for dead by Cotton after a failed scheme; Cotton: "He's playing checkers with the worms." He was known to inflate his cheeks a la Dizzy Gillespie due to having all his teeth pulled out because they rotted.
• Stinkey (Edward Asner) - Stinkey is one of Cotton Hill's wartime friends, he is overweight and suffers from diabetes.
• Irwin Linker (Jack Carter) - Irwin is one of Cotton Hill's wartime friends.

Other reccuring characters

• John Redcorn (Victor Aaron in 1997, Jonathan Joss in 1998 -) - John is Nancy's former Native American "healer" and adulterous lover, and the real father of Joseph Gribble. A former roadie for Winger and lead singer of Big Mountain Fudgecake, Redcorn enjoys classic rock music and "hair" bands. He works out of his trailer as a masseur, though his clients are generally only women. It is implied that he has a history of sleeping with them, as Hank is horrified when Peggy goes to see him, and John Redcorn even states to him, "Hank, I consider you a friend. I would never heal your wife the way I heal the wives of others." He is also active in Native American rights campaigns, and Dale once helped him with a lawsuit that netted him several acres of land from the Federal government. In Season 9, he began writing and performing his own children's music. He is almost always referred to by his full name (no character typically calls him simply "John").
• Ted and Cindy Wassonasong (Mike Judge and Lauren Tom) - Ted and Cindy are affluent Asian-American acquaintances of the Souphanousinphones. Kahn and Minh envy and resent them, but go to great lengths to gain their favor, such as inviting them over for dinner. They live in the upscale, gated community of Arlen Heights, and are prominent members of Nine Rivers Country Club. Ted and Cindy tolerate the Souphanousinphones but, in reality, look down upon them. The Wassonasongs are friendly toward the Hills only when they need something from them, such as when Ted persuaded Hank to become the first non-Asian member of Nine Rivers so that a PGA tournament could take place there (Hank ultimately refused when Ted could not prove his "friendship" to Hank by answering his question, ("What accessories do I sell for a living?"), and when Cindy offered Peggy a contract to sell their house if she would take over Cindy's Cozy Kitchen sales job, which sucked Peggy into a pyramid scheme. They also joined the Episcopalian Church because it was "good for business." This does call into question Ted's Laotian pride and scorning of Kahn as a 'banana.' Ted is also a member of The Arlen Booster club.
• Octavio (Danny Trejo) - Octavio is a Hispanic quasi-mercenary who does various bizarre favors for Dale when paid enough money. On his chest is a large Rob Zombie tattoo. His appearance was modeled after his voice actor, Danny Trejo. His most recent appearance was a brief cameo in Nancy Does Dallas.
• M. F. Thatherton (Burt Reynolds in the first appearance, Toby Huss in later appearances) - M. F. is a former employee of Strickland Propane who strikes out on his own and opens up the crooked Thatherton Fuels company across the street from Strickland. He dresses like a old school rich cowboy with a 10-gallon hat and cowboy boots. An untrustworthy type, Thathertone is a sometime foil to Hank Hill and/or Buck. Whenever Thatherton does something devious, Hank or one of his family members is usually heard exclaiming "Thatherton!" (similar to "Newman!" in Seinfeld).
• Rev. Karen Stroup (Mary Tyler Moore in 1999, Ashley Gardner in 2007) - The first female minister of Arlen First Methodist. She is originally from Minnesota, but is assigned to Arlen after the previous minister left to start an online ministry. She is also an avid Minnesota Vikings fan. She has shown hints that she had a crush on Bill where they finally became a couple in a later episode, yet he broke up with her when she moved in and felt like everything was moving too fast; she didn't take it well but there has been no talk about their relationship since that episode.
• Jimmy Whichard (David Herman) - Jimmy is a violent moron. He has had several jobs, including concession manager at the racetrack and outsider artist. Bobby worked for him at the racetrack, and Hank wasn't sympathetic to Bobby's horror stories until he visited the track and saw Jimmy mistreating Bobby; Hank then chased down Jimmy and (both literally and figuratively) kicked his ass. (On a related note, he is the only character in the series to have had his ass kicked on-screen by both Hank and Cotton.) When Peggy was scammed by an internet test that "proved" she was a genius, she only believed it to be a scam upon learning that Jimmy was also proclaimed a genius. A running gag during his appearances is his use of the phrase "smash(ed) 'em good." Despite the show having run well over two hundred episodes, Jimmy has appeared fewer than ten times.
• Chuck Mangione (Himself) - Chuck is a famous jazz trumpeter, and his hit song "Feels So Good" is played frequently on the show. He shamelessly promotes Mega-Lo Mart until he grows tired of going to every Mega-Lo Mart opening (there are 400 per year) and becomes a hermit, living within the Arlen Mega-Lo Mart in a "Toilet Paper Castle" (a giant tower made out of stacked packages of Mega Wipe toilet paper) and stealing stocked items. He also apparently defecates on the floors in order to "stick it to the man." Chuck Mangione is apparently a big karaoke fan, as he is impressed by Kahn's rendition of "The Morning After" in "Pour Some Sugar on Kahn."
• Monsignor Martinez (Mike Judge) - The Monsignor is the gun-toting priest hero of the fictional TV series Los Dias y Las Noches de Monsignor Martinez, a favorite of many of the principal characters. Clips of his program are often inserted into episodes as part of a running gag. In one of the episodes, Hank mentions that Martinez is an undercover cop. The clips of his episodes which appear on the series usually feature him just about to kill one of his nemeses while solemnly uttering his catchphrase, Vaya con dios. In the 8th season episode "Flirting with the Master," the actor who plays Martinez invites Peggy to Mexico City to tutor his children, and she mistakes his interest for romantic passion.
• Lane Pratley (Dave Thomas) - Lane is a sleazy car dealer who owns "Pratley Ford" and "Pratley Hyundai," and as he says, "I got my eye on Pratley Cadillac —- my daddy ain't doing so good." Lane once owned a women's roller derby team that Peggy and Luanne skated for, before Peggy organized the skaters into a buyout and quit.
• Buckley (1974?-1998) (David Herman) - Buckley was the slacker boyfriend of Luanne who was killed in a propane explosion while working at Mega-Lo Mart. The character did return once (as an angel) on the episode "Wings of the Dope," where Hank buys a trampoline for his backyard and Luanne (who has been stressed over beauty school finals) begins seeing Buckley's angel, who appeared to her and (in his own way) tried to guide Luanne to a better calling (which led to Luanne enrolling in community college).
• Officer Brown (Fred Willard) - Officer Brown is a local police officer in Arlen who is commonly called upon by the main characters. In the episode "Cops and Robert," he became a security guard at Bobby's school due to massive corruption.
• Jack (Brian Doyle-Murray) - Jack is Hank's mentally unbalanced barber. Eventually, his distress affects his ability to style hair, once causing Hank great embarrassment. Jack was almost forced out of business when a trendy salon named Hottyz opened across the street, but he was able to secure Luanne and Bill's services after Hottyz fired them when they learned Bill was not the homosexual hairstylist he'd been posing as.
• Eustis Miller (David Herman) - Eustace is a wimpy, mustachioed patent lawyer and father of Bobby's classmate Randy. Hank and the gang often poke fun at him when they are forced to interact with him.
• Bob Jenkins (Henry Gibson) - Bob is a one-eyed reporter for The Arlen Bystander and is Peggy's main rival there.
• Anthony Page (David Herman) - Anthony is an arrogant, uptight employee with a by-the-book sense in Arlen Child Services and an Americans with Disabilities Act advocate. In the first episode he tries to get Bobby taken away from Hank due to his perception of Hank's temper. In a later season, he allows a drug addict to work at Strickland Propane, claiming his addiction is a "disability," preventing him from being fired. On both occasions, it is quickly made obvious that he cares more about blindly enforcing policies than actually doing the right thing. Hank doesn't care for him, calling him "Twig Boy."
• Chris Sizemore (Chris Elliott) - A real estate agent that Peggy once worked for.

Other characters

• Jody "Ray Roy" Strickland (Diedrich Bader) - Jody is the illegitimate son of Buck Strickland who lives in Memphis. Buck meets him at the National Propane Gas Convention. Affectionally dubbed "Ray Roy" by Buck when he cannot remember his real name, he gladly accepts the nickname. Like his father, Jody also runs a propane company named Strickland Propane that's based in Tennnesee. Also like Buck, Jody is a compulsive gambler, chauvinist, alcoholic, cheat, and womanizer.
• Wesley Cherish (Andy Richter) - Wesley is a new neighbor that moved to Arlen from Fort Worth in the episode Straight as an Arrow. Wesley's wife is Annette. They have six children (only two of which have been named, boys Robin and Carey). The children are home schooled by Annette. Wesley does not allow his children to play video games or watch TV (although they do have a TV, which is mainly used as an end table) and are not allowed to participate in "predatory sports" such as football, basketball and tag.
• Donnie Vatriguez (Alanna Ubach) - Donnie Vatriguez is a 12-year-old country singer and a guitarist. He was Bobby Hill's favorite singing celebrity.

External links

• Official website for King of the Hill
• King of the Hill at IMDb