Hank Hill (Mike Judge) may no longer be working for Strickland Propane, but he is still a firm believer in good old combustion engines and American machinery. So when he finds a strange electric truck parked right outside of his home, all hell breaks loose.
This is the premise of an episode of Season 15 of “King of the Hill” which screened for audiences at the 2026 Annecy Animation Festival ahead of the July 20 season premiere on Hulu.
Alongside the episode, audiences got a chance to watch the trailer for Season 15, which teases storylines of Bobby (Pamela Adlon) branching out at his restaurant job and starting a relationship with Connie (Lauren Tom), while Peggy (Kathy Najimy) gets really competitive in a new hobby.
Co-creator Mike Judge was in Annecy to present the episode, as well as to receive an Honorary Crystal Award for his contributions to animation. Annecy artistic director Marcel Jean introduced him by saying he long ago gave an interview saying Judge was the one guest he hadn’t had at Annecy but desperately wanted to bring. “Finally, he’s here,” he said.
The award was presented by Titmouse Inc. co-founder Chris Prynoski, who Judge joked had never been seen in public “without his Budweiser hat on” until now. In his acceptance speech, Judge recalled first getting into animation at age 7 when watching “Gumby” and becoming curious about how the characters move. He would go on to take a class at the YMCA and became obsessed with flip book animation, but eventually grew out of it and got an engineering job. It wasn’t until he read an article about an animator from Texas named Paul Claerhout (“Jimmy Neutron,” “Bob’s Burgers”) that Judge decided to give the medium another go.
