Watching the “King of the Hill” Revival from Texas

I came to “King of the Hill” late, during the COVID pandemic. The animated hit co-created by Mike Judge ran for thirteen seasons starting in the late nineties. I’d avoided it then, largely because Judge’s previous show, “Beavis and Butt-Head,” had left me feeling squeamish—those pervy stoner chuckles; the word “bunghole”—and also embarrassed that I couldn’t hang. Watching “King of the Hill” for the first time, I was reassured to realize that the show’s repressed central character, Hank Hill, wouldn’t have been able to abide “Beavis and Butt-Head,” either.