"I always wanted to do something with that - the kind of guys who love to stare at their truck engine, sipping beers and talking about what's wrong with it. "I had neighbours who would stand around on Saturday and compare their power tools," he says.
Tired of the cappuccino-drinking, educated elite on American television who sneer at the trailer home, monster truck show, Dairy Queen and Wal-Mart existence of low-rent white suburbia, Judge turned to his neighbours in Texas for the inspiration behind the show. The main man behind the show is Mike Judge, who writes and voices both the characters in Beavis and Butt-Head and is also the voice of Hank Hill. Hank is the new Everyman.ĭespite the superficial shallowness of the show, though, there are hidden creative depths at work - King Of The Hill uses personnel from two other animated miniphenomenons, The Simpsons and Beavis And Butt-Head. Hank's no-nonsense conservatism which sees him stumbling awkwardly through the obstacle course of modern life has endeared him to Middle America in a "back to basics" sort of way. The show's star is Hank Hill, the King of the Bubbas, who lives in a Texas suburb with his plainlooking, slightly dim wife and their unfashionably fat son, Bobby.
They've long been the butt of many a joke by the media and others for their simple, uncomplicated lifestyles, but thanks to a new smash hit animation series, King Of The Hill which is pulling in ratings almost as big as The Simpsons, Bubba pride is now sweeping through the US. In the Southern part of the US they're called "bubbas" - the sort of blue-collar workers who drink beer from cans, scratch their crotches, talk about cars a lot and aren't overly burdened down by any fancy intellectual notions.
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