Crime ‘King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss killed in Texas shooting after argument with neighbor - R.I.P John Redcorn III

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King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss killed in Texas shooting after argument with neighbor​

By Patrick Reilly

Published June 2, 2025, 11:38 a.m. ET

Actor Jonathan Joss — best known for his voice work on the iconic animated TV comedy “King of Hill” was shot dead by a neighbor in Texas, according to a report.

Joss, who voiced “John Redcorn” on the long-running cartoon, got into a argument with the neighbor at his home in San Antonio Sunday night when the neighbor pulled out a gun and shot him several times, according to police.

The unnamed gunman then fled the scene in a vehicle but was arrested by police just a block from the residence.

 

[Daily Affirmation]

He was also really good in Sling Blade.

Not funny ha-ha, funny queer.

Three's Company wasn't a bad sitcom either. It also featured John Ritter, but he was only pretending to be a homosexual in that sitcom too.

Weird PL but the guy Billy Bob Thorton based Ritter's character on was cheerleading coach at a middle school I attended. You'd get in trouble if you called him Fairy Perry.

 

[AnOminous]

Should've been cancelled when the other VA's started dying off. Should've never considered bringing the show back when so many of the beloved VA's are dead.

The Simpsons never recovered from Phil Hartman dying. IMO the franchise should have just wound down and ended with dignity after that.

 

[Headdot Reddot]

The Simpsons never recovered from Phil Hartman dying. IMO the franchise should have just wound down and ended with dignity after that.

Yeah shit was getting stale even before that. The jackass that became show runner around season 10 is when it got lame. Everyone has their own episode they stopped watching at. Most say its the principle skinner swap which is a cruddy episode. For me the one where Homers an assistant to celebrities was when it was done. Still could've ended it even earlier but FOX needed its dancing whore.

 

[Space Monkey Mafia]

WARNING: I'm dropping spoilers, even though there really isn't much to spoil. I feel very stupid I had any faith at all that Season 14 was going to be any good. I don't even know where to start, so I guess I'll just ramble and hope it still makes sense.

There is ZERO point in Boomhauer having a girlfriend. She never appears a single time outside of the opening theme and her kid, Luke JR., is barely in it. Completely useless characters.

Brian is the new character Keith David voices. He is also a nothing character that is barely in it.

I don't know WTF was going on with Dale's voice; it's all over the place whether it's Johnny Hardwick or Toby Huss.

I'm so pissed about Kahn's new VA. He's so freaking awful and has ZERO range. Toby Huss was brilliant as Kahn and did an excellent job with Kahn's highs and lows. I'm disappointed the "leaked" storyboards wound up not being accurate. It actually would've been great if he'd wound up Bill's roommate, but maybe that's Season 15? Hanks mentions something about "asking him" to Bill. The whole thing with him and Minh being divorced did line up.

I think someone already mentioned John Redcorn sounding like AI in episode 10. It's bizarre.

I absolutely hate that they didn't say a damn thing about Luanne and Lucky. Why couldn't they have a one sided phone conversation, text, or emails from them? I think I speak for all KOTH fans when I say we're curious about how they and Gracie are doing!

It's really weird that the series just starts with Bobby wrapped in a restaurant with Chane and Ted. Of course I know Bobby would need help, but he and Chane had an awful history growing up. Things can change but I would've liked an episode about how it was all setup.

At this point it's fucking stupid that Joseph still doesn't know John Redcorn is his dad.

I only enjoyed episode 6. It absolutely fell into character of something that Bill would do. Otherwise, it was mostly Dale related moments here and there that I thought were OK.

Like a lot of shows nowadays, it felt neutered. They're too afraid to do something that might offend someone's delicate sensibilities so they went with safe stories and subject matter. Some of it was actually ideas they already did in the previous seasons or you've seen in other shows. Nothing was original. It also fell into using buzzwords and internet culture to make stories out of.

Remember how sometimes old KOTH episodes would tackle an IRL issues and make a unique story out of it? For example, when Luanne was sexually harassed at the golf course. Hank threw that guy into a dolphin tanked to get humped and get a dose of his own medicine.

In Season 14 you have an Andrew Tate ripoff who Hank "takes down" in the most cliché way possible. They totally wasted bringing GH back. This episode was so bad it fell into Velma territory.

Bobby, Joseph, and Connie just aren't interesting anymore as adults. I don't care about them at all. There is nothing entertaining about Bobby's restaurant. He's good at cooking. Woo hoo. He doesn't even have any workers that are fun to watch the way Hank did when he worked at Strickland. They have zero personality or much screen time except for his Mexican cook, but his only trait is "nice".

There isn't a single episode here I'll ever feel compelled to go back to and watch again.

 

[shoashuffle]

In Season 14 you have an Andrew Tate ripoff who Hank "takes down" in the most cliché way possible. They totally wasted bringing GH back. This episode was so bad it fell into Velma territory.

About that.

 

[Headdot Reddot]

About that.

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Why would anyone ever admit to working on Velma? Just cash the check and have a gap on your resume.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Because he was mostly Mexican, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs doesn't consider anybody with less than 1/4 Native ancestry to be Native. Also, the tribes themselves generally only admit people to tribal rolls who have provable 1/4 ancestry in that tribe—so if he's 1/8 Comanche and 1/8 White Mountain Apache, he wouldn't meet the required "blood quantum." There are countless people out there who have at least 1/4 Native ancestry, and "look Indian"; many even live on reservations where they have family and participate in Native culture, but they aren't enrolled in any tribe because their ancestry is spread across multiple tribes.

Blood quantum is a tricky subject—some tribes admit members with less than 1/4 tribal ancestry; others don't, but I'm not going down that rabbit hole today, no no no, LOL.

Then you have people who are white as fuck and get Indian gibs because one parent is 1/2 Indian and they have the required blood quanta.

Someone I knew in college is literally Blonde, blue eyes and white from Minnesota yet got insane gibs because her vape juice importing father is Injun enough.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Bobby, Joseph, and Connie just aren't interesting anymore as adults. I don't care about them at all. There is nothing entertaining about Bobby's restaurant. He's good at cooking. Woo hoo. He doesn't even have any workers that are fun to watch the way Hank did when he worked at Strickland. They have zero personality or much screen time except for his Mexican cook, but his only trait is "nice".

There isn't a single episode here I'll ever feel compelled to go back to and watch again

Ouch. The fact that Bobby and Connie didn't end up together is also retarded (yeah it's cliche but whatever)

Also, no Chuck Mangione

 

[Tasty Tatty]

they got some non-Laotian (but still Asian) voice actor to do Kahn.

I have no idea how they don't realise how racist this is. "Yeah, all those yellows sound the same!"

 

[6 Years Ago]

There isn't a single episode here I'll ever feel compelled to go back to and watch again.

I feel the same way. I think I'll remove it from my Plex network after 1 viewing and keep the first 13 seasons for random play.

 

[6 Years Ago]

I have no idea how they don't realise how racist this is. "Yeah, all those yellows sound the same!"

They don't really give a fuck about not being racist if it means being fair, the entire concept of "racism" is a cudgel to be used on whitey and whitey alone.

 

[Space Monkey Mafia]

Ouch. The fact that Bobby and Connie didn't end up together is also retarded (yeah it's cliche but whatever)

Also, no Chuck Mangione

OK, so, Connie goes through this fucking retarded thing of being "Ethically Non-Monogamous" and is dating Chane of all people. Chane is still an asshole, so that comes back to bite her. She and Bobby are dating in the final episode but they really have zero idea of what to do with these characters anymore.

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Next time I'm just looking up writers before I watch so I don't waste my time. A fucking Velma writer has no business getting a job ever again. They taint absolutely everything they touch. Off the top of my head, I could come up with better ideas for episodes.

For example: I think Hank and Peggy should have gotten a new dog. We could have had an emotional episode that touched on how losing Ladybird affected Hank. You could argue he loved that dog more than Peggy so it would've hit him hard. They could even add a comedic twist to it where multiple characters blame themselves for Ladybird dying while in the end it was just natural causes.

 

[shoashuffle]

For example: I think Hank and Peggy should have gotten a new dog. We could have had an emotional episode that touched on how losing Ladybird affected Hank. You could argue he loved that dog more than Peggy so it would've hit him hard. They could even add a comedic twist to it where multiple characters blame themselves for Ladybird dying while in the end it was just natural causes.

They get an ugly lil yappy dog in season 15. His name is Cesar.

 

[PhoBingas]

I don't know WTF was going on with Dale's voice; it's all over the place whether it's Johnny Hardwick or Toby Huss.

Dale's voice was all over the place, but it makes sense if they had clips of both VA's mixed in. Both the original and replacement voice actors just seemed so off. I haven't finished the season yet so I won't spoil anything but Dale's voice is just so bad. Joseph's voice isn't that great either. Bobby sounding pretty much the same as he did when he was 11-13. At least Judge can still do a spot-on Hank, and Peggy's voice hasn't degraded like Marge's has. The only line of Dale's that sounded decent was the last line of Episode 5. I tapped out of ep. 6.
I'll finish the season before I give my opinion on the reboot.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

I like how this is just the KotH bitch thread now and Jonathan Joss is just dead news.

 

[northstar747]

OK, so, Connie goes through this fucking retarded thing of being "Ethically Non-Monogamous" and is dating Chane of all people. Chane

I remember watching this show in the mid 1990s

Never really liked it that much.

Mike Judge impresses I tried to watch the good family and it was just woke king of the hill then he went on to do SV and other stuff.

I ll give this show a pass

 

[Daily Affirmation]

I remember watching this show in the mid 1990s

Never really liked it that much.

Mike Judge impresses I tried to watch the good family and it was just woke king of the hill then he went on to do SV and other stuff.

I ll give this show a pass

The Goode Family was the least funny hunk of animated shit to ever grace broadcast television. KoTH is as much of a sympathetic look at a conservative family as the Goode Family was the threshing of a strawman that would leave Rush Limbaugh listeners seeking some degree of nuance.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Ritter was woefully underrated.

That show was responsible for a lot of great memes.

I'm glad Jason has taken over the family legacy. He looks so much like him its insane.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

OK, so, Connie goes through this fucking retarded thing of being "Ethically Non-Monogamous" and is dating Chane of all people. Chane is still an asshole, so that comes back to bite her. She and Bobby are dating in the final episode but they really have zero idea of what to do with these characters anymore.


Next time I'm just looking up writers before I watch so I don't waste my time. A fucking Velma writer has no business getting a job ever again. They taint absolutely everything they touch. Off the top of my head, I could come up with better ideas for episodes.

For example: I think Hank and Peggy should have gotten a new dog. We could have had an emotional episode that touched on how losing Ladybird affected Hank. You could argue he loved that dog more than Peggy so it would've hit him hard. They could even add a comedic twist to it where multiple characters blame themselves for Ladybird dying while in the end it was just natural causes.

They did say the new dog is coming next season. I presume the Luanne tribute will be in it too. I just want to see them wrap up her plot rather than not address it at all like they did this season.

 

[Shark Fin Flippers]

Possibly a dumb question, but why did they write Luanne and Lucky completely out of the story, but had no problem recasting the other VAs who died (Dale and red corn)?

I was cautiously mildly optimistic about this reboot, but from everything I'm reading it sounds about how I imagined it would go. Maybe I'm just jaded, but I'm so god damn tired of souless, bland everything of current year.

Edit Oops, meant to post this in the other koth thread