"King of the Hill" Returning Japanese (2002)

Directors:

Allan Jacobsen
Anthony Lioi

Writers:

Kit Boss (writer)
Etan Cohen (writer)

TV Series:

"King of the Hill" (1997)

Original Air Date:

12 May 2002 (Season 6, Episode 21)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Cotton returns to Japan to learn that he has an illegitimate son. |

Plot Keywords:

Texas | Propane | Beer | Bigotry | Mumbler

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Jan. 2	10:00 PM	TOON	Returning Japanese	#6.21
Sat. Jan. 2	10:30 PM	TOON	Returning Japanese	#6.21

Cast

Mike Judge	...	Hank Hill / Boomhauer / Stuart Dooley / Additional Voices (voice)
Kathy Najimy	...	Peggy Hill / Additional Voices (voice)
Pamela Adlon	...	Bobby Hill / Clark Peters / Additional Voices (voice) (as Pamela Segall Adlon)
Brittany Murphy	...	Luanne Platter / Joseph Gribble (voice)
Johnny Hardwick	...	Dale Gribble / Additional Voices (voice)
Stephen Root	...	Bill Dauterive / Buck Strickland / Additional Voices (voice)
Ashley Gardner	...	Nancy Hicks Gribble / Didi Hill (voice)
Toby Huss	...	Cotton Hill / Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr. / Joe Jack / Additional Voices (voice)
Jonathan Joss	...	John Redcorn (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Carradine	...	Junichiro (voice)
Amy Hill	...	Michiko (voice)
Seiko Matsuda	...	Reporter (voice)
Annie O'Donnell	...	(voice)
James Sie	...	(voice)
Lauren Tom	...	Minh Souphanousinphone / Kahn Souphanousinphone, Jr. (voice)
Keone Young	...	Various Characters (voice)

Runtime:

USA:44 min (double-length episode)

Trivia:

While Cotton is on the plane going to Japan we see that two of the medals he's authorized to wear are the Silver Star and Purple Heart.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The legal age to sit in an emergency exit row in a commercial jetliner is 15, not 13 as the stewardess on the plane states.

Movie Connections:

References Pearl Harbor (2001)