List of King of The Hill Characters - Other Recurring Characters

Other Recurring Characters

• John Redcorn (voiced by Victor Aaron in 1997, Jonathan Joss in 1998–2009) — John is Nancy's former American Indian "healer" and adulterous lover, and the real father of Joseph. A former roadie for Winger and lead singer of Big Mountain Fudgecake, Redcorn enjoys classic rock music and "hair" bands. In Season 9, he began writing and performing his own children's music. He works out of his trailer as a masseur, though his clients are generally only women. It is implied that he has a history of having sex with them, as Hank is horrified when Peggy goes to see him, and John Redcorn even states to him, "Hank, I consider you a friend. I would never heal your wife the way I heal the wives of others." He is also active in American Indian rights campaigns, and Dale once helped him with a lawsuit that netted him several acres of land from the Federal government. Because Dale had been so helpful, Redcorn felt extremely guilty over what he did to Nancy, and ending his affair by encouraging Nancy and Dale to strengthen their marriage. He is almost always referred to by his full name (no character typically calls him simply "John"). In the episode "My Own Private Rodeo," it's revealed that Dale believes John Redcorn to be gay (this may be a reason he never suspected Nancy and John Redcorn having an affair).

• Ted Wassonasong and Cindy Wassonasong (voiced by Mike Judge and Lauren Tom respectively) — Ted and Cindy are affluent Laotian-American acquaintances of the Souphanousinphones. Kahn and Minh envy and resent them, but go to great lengths to gain their favor, such as inviting them over for dinner. They live in the upscale, gated community of Arlen Heights, and are prominent members of Nine Rivers Country Club. Ted and Cindy tolerate the Souphanousinphones but, in reality, look down upon them. The Wassonasongs are friendly toward the Hills only when they need something from them, such as when Ted persuaded Hank to become the first non-Asian member of Nine Rivers so that a PGA tournament could take place there. Hank ultimately refused when Ted could not prove his "friendship" to Hank by answering his question, ("What, and what accessories do I sell for a living?"). In another instance, Cindy offered Peggy a contract to sell their house if she would take over Cindy's Cozy Kitchen sales job, which sucked Peggy into a pyramid scheme. They also joined the Episcopal Church despite being Buddhist because it was "good for business." This does call into question Ted's Laotian pride and scorning of Kahn as a 'banana.' Ted is also a member of The Arlen Booster club. It should also be noted that in the episode "A Man Without a Country Club", Ted is shown to be fluent in Chinese. There also have a son name Chain however he only appeared in a few episodes sporadically throughout the series.

• Octavio (voiced by Mike Judge) — Octavio is a Hispanic quasi-mercenary who does various bizarre favors for Dale when paid enough money. On his chest is a large Rob Zombie tattoo. His appearance was modeled after actor, Danny Trejo who voices Enrique on the show. His last appearance was a nonspeaking cameo in Just Another Manic-Kahn Day. In a case of art imitating life, Trejo worked with Rob Zombie on the director's horror film The Devil's Rejects.

• M.F. (Milton Farnsworth) Thatherton (voiced by Burt Reynolds in the first appearance, Toby Huss in later appearances) — M.F. is a former employee of Strickland Propane and another antagonist who strikes out on his own and opens up the crooked Thatherton Fuels company across the street from Strickland. He dresses like an old school rich cowboy with a ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots. An untrustworthy type, Thatherton is a sometime foil to Hank Hill and/or Buck. Whenever Thatherton does something devious, Hank or one of his family members is usually heard exclaiming "Thatherton!" (similar to "Newman!" in Seinfeld). At one point Hank tried to tell what "M.F." stood for to have Thatherton interrupt him saying "My friend!"

• Reverend Thomason (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) — A reverend at Arlen First Methodist Church. He was replaced by Reverend Karen Stroup upon retiring to start an online ministry.

• Reverend Karen Stroup (voiced by Mary Tyler Moore in 1999, Ashley Gardner in 2000–2010) — The first female minister of Arlen First Methodist Church. She is originally from Minnesota, but is assigned to Arlen after Reverend Thomason left to start an online ministry. She is also an avid Minnesota Vikings fan. She has shown hints that she had a crush on Bill where they finally became a couple in a later episode, yet he broke up with her when she moved in and felt like everything was moving too fast. The congregation also objected to the relationship. She didn't take it well but there has been no talk about their relationship since that episode. Stroup is very preachy, and almost always tries to work her personal problems/concerns/negative issues going on in the church into her sermons.

• Jimmy Whichard (voiced by David Herman) — Jimmy is a violent moron, the town imbecile, and the main antagonist in "Life in the Fast Lane - Bobby's Saga". He has had several jobs, including concession manager at the racetrack and outsider artist. Bobby worked for him at the racetrack, and Hank wasn't sympathetic to Bobby's horror stories until he visited the track and saw Jimmy's mistreatment of Bobby that endangered his life; Hank then chased down Jimmy and literally kicked his ass as he was literally on the warpath against Jimmy. Dale notes that he may have given himself brain damage from staring into the sun for too long, although "he can't have been too bright to do it in the first place." When Peggy was scammed by an internet test that "proved" she was a genius, she only believed it to be a scam upon learning that Jimmy was also proclaimed a genius. When Peggy's propane tank sculptures were on display at an art gallery, Jimmy had an exhibit of googly-eyed figures made from aluminum cans; he was upset that they were being sold for money instead of more cans to keep making them with. A running gag during his appearances is his use of the phrase "smashed 'em good."

• Chuck Mangione (voiced by Himself) — Chuck is a famous jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player, and his hit song "Feels So Good" is played frequently on the show. He shamelessly promotes Mega-Lo Mart until he grows tired of going to every Mega-Lo Mart opening (there are 400 per year) and becomes a hermit, living within the Arlen Mega-Lo Mart in a "Toilet Paper Castle" (a giant tower made out of stacked packages of Mega Wipe toilet paper) and stealing stocked items. He also apparently defecates on the floors in order to "stick it to the man." Chuck Mangione is apparently a big karaoke fan, as he is impressed by Kahn's rendition of "The Morning After" in "Pour Some Sugar on Kahn." A running gag in the show is his use of the phrase "feels so good" to describe various aspects of the Mega-Lo Mart ("Unplugging your iron feels so good!"), and how every song he plays eventually segues into "Feels So Good" after a few bars.

• Monsignor Martinez (voiced by Mike Judge) — The Monsignor is the gun-toting priest hero of the fictional TV series Los Dias y Las Noches de Monsignor Martinez, a favorite of many of the principal characters. Clips of his program are often inserted into episodes as part of a running gag. In one of the episodes, Hank mentions that Martinez is an undercover cop. The clips of his episodes which appear on the series usually feature him just about to kill one of his nemeses while solemnly uttering his catchphrase, Vaya con dios. In the 8th season episode "Flirting with the Master," the actor who plays Martinez invites Peggy to Mexico City to tutor his children, and she mistakes his interest for romantic passion. He may have been inspired by the Gerry Anderson series The Secret Service, which featured a priest moonlighting as a secret agent. A live-action pilot was filmed featuring the character, but never aired because FOX didn't think it would be a good idea to have a show about a Catholic priest that goes around shooting people.

• Lane Pratley (voiced by Dwight Yoakam in the first appearance, Dave Thomas in later appearances) — Lane is a sleazy car dealer who owns "Pratley Ford" and "Pratley Hyundai," and as he says, "I got my eye on Pratley Cadillac—my daddy ain't doing so good." Lane once owned a women's roller derby team that Peggy and Luanne skated for, before Peggy organized the skaters into a buyout and quit.

• Mark Buckley (voiced by David Herman) — Buckley was the slacker boyfriend of Luanne. He was a monosyllabic, unintelligent, selfish, incompetent, indifferent motorcyclist, whose universal catchphrase is an unenthusiastic "Hey." As such, Hank dislikes him greatly, but he will simply say "I don't like him, but he's Luanne's ticket out of my house, and that's good enough for me." He was killed in a propane explosion while working at Mega-Lo Mart as a result of dragging propane tank by its cap, due to his incompetence in the second season finale. The character did return once (as an angel) on the episode "Wings of the Dope," where Kahn buys Buckley's trampoline for his backyard and Luanne (who has been stressed over beauty school finals) begins seeing Buckley's angel, who appears to her and (in his own way) tries to guide Luanne to a better calling (which eventually leads to Luanne dropping out of beauty school and enrolling in community college). During the 2 seasons in which he appears as a regular, recurring character, an ongoing joke is that he and Luanne break up many times, but are always back together in the next episode in which they both appear.

• Officer Brown (voiced by Fred Willard) — Officer Brown is a local police officer in Arlen who is not averse to tampering with evidence and taking bribes from illegal food operations, as explained in episodes 20 and 11 (respectively) of season 12. In the episode "Cops and Robert," he became a security guard at Bobby's school due to massive corruption. His appearance is modeled after his voice actor.

• Jack (voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray) — Jack is Hank's mentally unstable barber. Eventually, his distress affects his ability to style hair, once causing Hank great embarrassment. Jack was almost forced out of business when a trendy salon named Hottyz opened across the street, but he was able to secure Luanne and Bill's services after Hottyz fired them when they learned Bill was not the homosexual hairstylist he'd been posing as.

• Eustace Miller (voiced by David Herman) — Eustace is a wimpy, mustachioed patent lawyer and father of Bobby's classmate Randy. Hank and the gang often poke fun at him when they are forced to interact with him for not passing the "Straight Arrow" initiation, often calling him "Useless," Despite apparently leading a successful life afterwards. He serves on the PTA at Tom Landry Middle School.

• Bob Jenkins (voiced by Henry Gibson) — Bob is a one-eyed veteran reporter for The Arlen Bystander and is Peggy's main rival there. His left eye was scraped out of his skull because he had a brain tumor. When Peggy thinks the "Waffle House" beat is beneath her, Bob takes it over and breaks the story of Dale as "The Smoking Bandit." In "Bysand Me" (his debut episode), he tells Peggy that whenever he gets writer's block, he hires a prostitute. He played for the Zephyrs in "You Gotta Believe (In Moderation)", and attended Luanne and Lucky's wedding. In "Strangeness On a Train" it is suggested that his friend he brought to Peggy's murder mystery-themed party might have vague homosexual feelings for him. He also shares the same name with Bobby Hill.

• Miss Kremzer (voiced by Jennifer Coolidge) — The teacher at the beauty school Luanne went to. She is very condescending towards Luanne in her first appearance (perhaps best summed up by Hank's comment of "what a bitch" during Luanne's nearly-failed evaluation). After Hank's speech that gets Kremzer to change her grade for Luanne, she acts sympathetic along with the other students, but is right back to her previously-displayed bad attitude in subsequent episodes.

• Sharona Johnson (voiced by Dawnn Lewis) — A girl that goes to the same beauty school that Luanne went to. Sharona is hardworking and intelligent but is also very arrogant and puts down Luanne constantly (along with the other girls).

• Chris Sizemore (voiced by Chris Elliott) — A real estate agent that Peggy once worked for after she wrote a scathing article about him in the Bystander for which she was consequently fired.

• Gary Kasner (voiced by Carl Reiner) — An elderly Jewish man who serves as Tilly Hill's new love interest following her separation from Cotton. He served on a submarine during Korea, but tells Bobby he didn't see any action during the conflict. Hank (who was temporarily blinded by the horrible sight of seeing Gary and Tilly making love on the kitchen table) was initially not happy with his mother's decision to pursue a relationship again, but Hank changed his mind when Gary threatened to kick Cotton's ass if he kept talking bad about Tilly. Later, Gary appearances include a rather comical scene in which he walks in front of Tilly naked as a Valentine's present, and Bobby visiting him and being allowed the use of his bachelor pad and golf cart. In the "Honeymooners" episode, it is revealed that Tilly had left Gary and married her new boyfriend, Chuck.

• Tom Chick (voiced by Phil Hendrie) — The manager of the Channel 84 news division.

• Nguc Phong (voiced by James Sie) – A Laotian who is one of Ted Wassonasong's friends.

• David "The Flyin' Hawaiian" Kalaiki-Ali'i (voiced by Brendan Fraser) — David is a football player in Arlen High in the episode "Peggy Makes The Big Leagues." He was proclaimed to have a learning disability in order to circumvent a rule that required footballs players to pass their classes in order to play as Peggy had given him an F. While initially not interested in Peggy wanting to help him (since he had the sweet life, being a football star and being loved by all the girls at school), he finally buckled down and decided to try and learn something, after being embarrassed by his mother's failed scheme to make it look like he had the aforementioned learning disability.

• Mrs. Kalaiki-Ali'i (voiced by Amy Hill) — A Hawaiian insurance agent Hank visits when Kahn backs into Hank's truck with his van. A later episode revolved around her son David who was a star football player at Arlen High and was doing poorly in his classes.

• Fred Ebberd (voiced by Chelcie Ross) — A member of the city council who also works at a movie theater. He appeared in only two episodes, but is mentioned by Hank in several others.

• Anthony Page (voiced by David Herman)- An ultra-liberal social worker from Los Angeles and the series first main antagonist. In the pilot episode, he is assigned to investigate the allegation that Hank is beating Bobby. He appears in a later episode as Leon's advocate when Hank fired him for drug-abuse. Anthony is extremely thin and seems to have no will of his own, hence his nickname "twig boy".