This Sunday, Sept. 13 at 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT on FOX, the final episodes of King of the Hill will air…. technically. The series has been revived before, so don’t be surprised if it resurfaces, plus there’s a bunch of unaired episodes that will surely emerge in syndication. This Sunday we’ll be treated to a one-hour special, featuring two episodes: The Boy Can’t Help It and To Sirloin With Love. To the creators, cast and crew – congrats on a phenemonal run (12 years, 13 seasons and 253 episodes!). Here’s a table read from To Sirloin With Love, featuring a disembodied voice of series co-creator Mike Judge (via conference call).

… and a clip from The Boy Can’t Help It.

To promote his new live-action feature film Extract, Mike Judge has resurected Beavis & Butt-head. They make fun of Jason Bateman’s name, talk about boobs and say things like “butt wagon.” Rare form, rare form (except Beavis’ voice – sounds a little off, no?). Extract is in theaters on September 4th.

Well, the comeback we imagined for The Goode Family will never get a chance to materialize. This ABC series was officially cancelled, according to futoncritic.com. It’s been an altogether rough summer for adult-oriented animated TV. Sit Down, Shut Up endured a difficult birth, and death wasn’t much kinder. Mike Judge hasn’t had a great 2009 either. King of the Hill isn’t getting picked up by FOX, and his latest show has been scraped and sent to the recycling center. Lets hope his next feature, Extract, fares better when it opens next month. Here’s one last look at The Goode Family – a clip from last week’s episode:

By Keith Staskiewicz

The Goodes are the blue-state analogues of the Hills, Mike Judge’s venerable Texas-twangers who will soon be packing up the propane after a staggering 13 seasons. A bespectacled father voiced by Judge, an overweight son, a midriff-baring daughter, a cantankerous old coot of a father, and a dog named after a political figure; Judge’s creations for his new series The Goode Family, which premieres Wednesday May 27th (9:00-9:30 p.m., ET) on ABC, are the cultural and political negative images of his previous ones. Rather than chugging beer on the front lawn, the Goodes are more likely to be found swigging soy milk in their solar-powered home and then painstakingly recycling the containers.

Here’s a few clips from the pilot:

The pater familias here is Gerald Goode, a poncho-wearing member of the liberal academe. His wife is a local activist with whom he has two children, one adopted and one biological. The dog is an unwilling vegan and they shower outside in a home-made rainwater catchment system. Read more »

We’re less than a month away from premiere of ABC’s The Goode Family, which follows the lives of an obsessively “green” family. The series, which was created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, premieres on May 27th with back-to-back episodes. Check out this promo package ABC recently released:

The 250th episode of FOX’s King of the Hill airs this Sunday, April 26th at 7:30 pm ET/PT, and below you can watch a table read cut into clips from the episode. In honor of the milestone, the writers slapped a 250 word title on the episode – Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key.

You can watch full episodes of KOTH at FOX on Demand.

The animation table read has become a popular entertainment form ever since Seth MacFarlane and his camp introduced the concept of Family Guy Live. With the premiere of Mike Judge’s new animated ABC series The Goode Family (presumably) only weeks away, we’ve been offered a look at how the voice acting for the show comes together. In this clip package below, we see a bit of animation intercut amidst the reading of an episode titled Pleatherheads.