Every King of the Hill superfan knows that Peggy Hill has a prodigious pair of stompers. After all, Grant Trimble doesn’t shell out for “educational videos” featuring size 8s.
This August 4th, King of the Hill will return with brand new episodes on Hulu as Hank and Peggy move back to Arlen following an extended stay in Saudi Arabia for a peculiar propane job. As creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels have been saying since the streamer first greenlit new seasons of King of the Hill, the show will diegetically address the time-jump since the show’s original finale, “To Sirloin with Love,” back in 2009, aging up the characters and explaining what exactly happened during the sixteen-year gap.
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Apparently, as some King of the Hill fans in the subreddit pointed out, Peggy spent some of that hiatus undergoing an experimental foot-shrinking procedure, as her previously towering trotters now appear to be preposterously average.
In a post on the King of the Hill subreddit titled, “did….did Peggy get Foot Reduction Surgery in Saudi Arabia??” user Ne0nHelix showed a screen capture from the recently released intro sequence for the King of the Hill revival showing Peggy’s feet to be perfectly proportional to the rest of her body, if not a little small for her frame. Seeing as Peggy canonically wears a size 16 shoe (on her right foot, the left one needs a 16 ½), the image of Peggy and Hank with slightly gaunt, lightly aged faces was less shocking to the superfans than the appearance of a pair of slip-ons that couldn’t be bigger than size 8.
As other King of the Hill fans noted, Peggy’s diminutive dogs in the intro sequence may not be canonical, but they are in line with the design rules of the King of the Hill universe. Even though the show established Peggy’s insecurities about her giant feet in numerous plotlines, whenever the episode is not focused on her shoe size, as was the case in Season 4’s “Transnational Amusements Presents: Peggy’s Magic Sex Feet,” the animators draw Peggy’s feet as perfectly normal, so as to not draw attention to them and make her model look disproportionate.
So, no, Hulu didn’t break any of King of the Hill’s rules about character design when it made the revival seasons – at least, not that we’ve seen so far. Hopefully, when Hank returns to our screens on August 4th, he won’t show up looking like he’s had a BBL.