Check Out This Early Pencil Test Pitch For King Of The Hill

I think most of us know about the great animated show King Of The Hill, but it's pretty easy to not know that at one point it had to be SOLD to television executives. The process for getting your concept in front of those executives is called a pencil test. This is an animated short to show characters, and the style of animation and more. This is one that Mike Judge did (he of the Beavis and Butthead fame) to try to get TV executives to purchase and air this new show called King Of The Hill. It is crazy to think that at least one (if not several) saw this and said NO. Who could say no to something so brilliant even at the pencil test level? Check it out and see if you think you would pass on this masterpiece:


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