Cotton Hill was Hank's understandably bitter and cynical biological father. He was sent to The East where He "Killed Fiddy Men!" which he seems to take pride in. Other times it comes back to haunt him. He lost his shins in the war which resulted in a much shorter height and were destroyed in the war. They recovered his feet and attached them to his knees. A very bizarre procedure which required a lifetime of needing the locations to be drained often. Hank's has mixed views on Cotton. He has done a lot of "What?" over the decades which blends in with Cotton's many good deeds. He is a Womanizer that eventually tried to make amends with his former relationship and first son Junichiro. Cotton is divorced from his next romance, Hank's mother. He has a third son with Didi who is Hank's age. Cotton is occasionally helpful to his family while other times he is not. His views on women are complicated. He discouraged Luanne from pursuing a career in Auto Mechanics. At the same time he kicked out her toxic room mates. Despite refusing to call Peggy by her name, he helped her get reinstated at Tom Landry Middle School. He blamed Hank for Peggy's skydiving injuries when he said "Hank?! What did you do to your wife?! I didn't teach you that!" and later forced her to walk again, considering that she still has her legs. Cotton loves to refer to The Strickland Company as "The Family Gas Station". Cotton's death wish was to humiliate Hank one last time which he knew he would be loyal and obedient. Peggy saw to it that it did not happen. Cotton was the only Caucasian that correctly and easily identified The Souphanousinphone Family as Laotian, impressing them. They are quite close with each other which is intentional as Cotton and Kahn have the same voice actor.
Appearances
King of the Hill
Main cast, played by Toby Huss
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jan 12, 1997)
- Episode 1x02: Square Peg (Jan 19, 1997)
- Episode 1x08: Shins of the Father (Mar 23, 1997)
- Episode 2x01: How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying (Sep 21, 1997)
- Episode 2x11: The Unbearable Blindness of Laying (Dec 21, 1997)
- Episode 2x18: The Final Shinsult (Mar 15, 1998)
- Episode 3x05: Next of Shin (Nov 3, 1998)
- Episode 3x07: Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men (Nov 17, 1998)
- Episode 3x10: A Fire Fighting We Will Go (Jan 12, 1999)
- Episode 3x11: To Spank with Love (Jan 19, 1999)
- Episode 3x21: Revenge of the Lutefisk (Apr 20, 1999)
- Episode 3x25: As Old as the Hills (1) (May 18, 1999)
- Episode 4x01: Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall (2) (Sep 26, 1999)
- Episode 4x02: Cotton's Plot (Oct 3, 1999)
- Episode 4x16: Movin' on Up (Feb 27, 2000)
- Episode 4x21: Nancy Boys (Apr 30, 2000)
- Episode 5x06: When Cotton Comes Marching Home Again (Dec 3, 2000)
- Episode 5x10: Yankee Hankie (Feb 4, 2001)
- Episode 5x13: Ho Yeah! (Feb 25, 2001)
- Episode 5x19: Hank's Back Story (May 6, 2001)
- Episode 6x04: The Father, the Son and J.C. (Dec 16, 2001)
- Episode 6x11: Unfortunate Son (Mar 10, 2002)
- Episode 6x17: Fun with Jane and Jane (Apr 21, 2002)
- Episode 6x21: Returning Japanese (1) (May 12, 2002)
- Episode 6x22: Returning Japanese (2) (May 12, 2002)
- Episode 7x07: The Texas Skilsaw Massacre (Dec 15, 2002)
- Episode 7x08: Full Metal Dust Jacket (Jan 5, 2003)
- Episode 7x15: An Officer and a Gentle Boy (Mar 9, 2003)
- Episode 8x16: Daletech (Mar 28, 2004)
- Episode 9x03: Death Buys a Timeshare (Jan 16, 2005)
- Episode 10x11: Church Hopping (Apr 9, 2006)
- Episode 11x02: SerPUNt (Feb 11, 2007)
- Episode 11x05: Hank Gets Dusted (Apr 1, 2007)
- Episode 11x12: Lucky's Wedding Suit (May 20, 2007)
- Episode 12x05: Death Picks Cotton (Nov 11, 2007)
- Episode 13x15: Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key (Apr 26, 2009)