Editing Hank Hill (section)

==Development==
When Mike Judge submitted the pilot script and drawings for ''King of the Hill'' to the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] network, network executives advised him that Hank Hill should be younger than 49 years old, as Judge had described the character. Judge received a phone message from a network executive who told him that Hank's age should be 32, the same age as the network's average viewer. Judge later said, "I got all angry, and then I was like, 'Well, wait. It's just a drawing.' So I just went back with the same drawing and said, 'Okay, he's 34.'"<ref>{{cite book |last=Macor |first=Alison |title=Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |year=2010 |pages=258 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBQ_FGDKiSkC&q=%22hank+hill%22&pg=PA258 |access-date=2013-03-11|isbn=9780292778290 }}</ref>

Hank has been compared to [[List of Beavis and Butt-Head characters#Local residents|Tom Anderson]], the "disapproving old man" who is a neighbor of the title characters on Judge's earlier series ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226930/over-i-hill-i/david-forsmark |title=Over the ''Hill''? |last=Forsmark |first=David |date=2009-02-23 |work=[[National Review Online]] |access-date=12 March 2013}}</ref> Television columnist Frank Wooten of  ''[[The Post and Courier]]'' has written, "Hank still looks and sounds like a young Mr. Anderson (beleaguered, baffled [[Korean War]] veteran of 'Beavis and Butt-head'). But he's more in touch with contemporary reality (sort of) -- and funnier."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QiFJAAAAIBAJ&dq=hank-hill%20mr-anderson&pg=1813%2C4878681 |title=Yadda, yadda, yadda: 'Seinfeld' bounces back |last=Wooten |first=Frank |date=1997-04-27 |work=[[The Post and Courier]] |pages=1–D |access-date=12 March 2013|location=Charleston, S.C.}}</ref> Throughout the show's run, Hank's character's personality appears to more primarily be built around the image of the all American, authoritarian family man. In a 2006 interview, Judge said, "Originally I was going to have Hank be his [Mr. Anderson's] son. I was kind of thinking we'd tie it into "Beavis and Butt-Head" as a sort of spinoff or something, but Fox said no."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2002757676_mikejudge24.html |title=Catching up with Mike Judge, the mind behind "Beavis," "Office Space" |last=Rahner |first=Mark |date=2006-01-24 |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204075226/http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2002757676_mikejudge24.html |archive-date=4 December 2013 }}</ref> [[Greg Daniels]], another creator of the program, has said that Hank Hill is "based on a lot of neighbors I've had… He's upset about how America is changing, and he doesn't know what to do about it."<ref>{{cite news |last=Strauss |first=Neil |title=New Stop on the Map of Animated America |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/12/arts/new-stop-on-the-map-of-animated-america.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=12 January 1997 |access-date=14 March 2013}}</ref>