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The voice actress reveals a first look at Chef Bobby in the remake of King of the Hill.

Fifteen years after what used to be King of the Hill series finale, Bobby Hill has turned his erudite knowledge of all things food into a career – but don't tell Hank about the soot under his son's fingernails.

When King of the Hill co-creator Greg Daniels announced that he and his creative partner Mike Richter decided to introduce a nine-year time jump in the upcoming Hulu reboot of their Texas slice-of-life sitcom, fans had tons of questions about how this would change King of the Hill Canon. After all, Arlen has spent 12 years and 13 seasons frozen in the floating timeline, so jumping to the current day, when Hank and Peggy have gray hair and Bobby is a post-pubescent professional chef, will be a big adjustment for a fan base that expected that Bobby would forever remain a 12-year-old meat inspection prodigy.

Already in May, Pamela Adlon revealed that, in which King of the Hill The revival will feature Bobby Hill as a 21-year-old professional chef. Then, late yesterday, voice actress Gray DeLisle released a recent portrait photo and detailed biography of the adult Bobby from the King of the Hill The wrap party then featured a stubbly and surprisingly slim grill master whose methods will make his father say, “That man has a point.”

“Chef Bobby Hill has loved food his entire life,” says Bobby’s bio. “From weeknights at the dinner table eating his mother’s “Spa-Peggy and Meatballs,” to overindulging in lutefisk at potlucks at church, to celebrating with family and friends at Luly’s Cafeteria, the food and the people, with who enjoy it form the basis of his best memories. In fact, his career as a robata chef was inspired by his favorite memory ever – the weekends spent barbecuing with his father.

“A self-taught chef and one of the youngest participants ever King of the grillChef Hill believes, “Good food can solve any problem.” He draws on his childhood influences by combining classic Texas dishes with flavors from around the world. With Robata Chane, Chef Hill hopes to celebrate the art of Japanese robata and the German heritage of the Texas Hill Country while pushing culinary boundaries with his innovative fusion dishes.”

As fans in the King of the Hill subreddit pointed outIn this biography, the revival authors have already laid the foundation for the conflict between Bobby and Hank – the Japanese cooking method robatayaki, often abbreviated to robata, is a technique similar to grilling in which the chef cooks the food exclusively over it hot charcoalthe dirtiest and most unholy of all barbecue fuels.

Given the one-two punch of Japanese culture and charcoal, this may have been the only time Hank and Cotton were united in their disgust.