Although King of the Hill patriarch Cotton Hill could have famously spent the Nineteen Seventies roasting the American troops preventing in Vietnam and traumatizing a teenage Hank, the curmudgeonly World Warfare II veteran did extra than simply wreak havoc throughout the decade: He additionally seemingly made a well-documented pit cease to his native Ponderosa Steakhouse.
Followers first found Cotton’s obvious connection to the restaurant chain final week, when Redditor babysoutonbail popped by the Classic Adverts subreddit with a 1971 magazine spread launched as part of Ponderosa’s “Have a Beautiful Day” marketing campaign, depicting 4 events having the (very staged) occasions of their lives on the not-so-beloved eatery.
However extra so than nostalgia over the bygone promise of low-cost buffet meals assured to make grandma completely satisfied, followers discovered themselves taken with one other element of the old-school commercial. Extra particularly, simply how a lot the gentleman depicted in its decrease right-hand nook resembles Hank Hill’s late father.
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“That’s Cotton Hill! I’d acknowledge him wherever!” wrote AnhedoniaJack of the pair’s uncanny similarities.
“He’s truly standing in that image,” joked RootHogOrDieTrying, in reference to Cotton’s famously shinless stature.
Whereas the world could by no means know whether or not or not Cotton truly took a while off to star in a restaurant commercial, one factor is for certain: He by no means regarded that completely satisfied at Burton’s Prime Rib in Arlen.
