The
showrunners for the season was
Mike Judge and
Greg Daniels.
Wes Archer, the supervising director, did a redesign on most of the characters to make them appear more realistic than they did in the first season. Daniels added that, "this was part of the time I kept having a lot of car accidents, because we were so tired." A July 1997 article from
USA Today revealed that the upcoming season would include guest appearances from
Troy Aikman,
Burt Reynolds,
Sally Field,
Chris Rock,
Green Day and
Jennifer Jason Leigh. The article also mentioned that the Hill family would make a guest cameo as in-universe characters on an upcoming episode of
The Simpsons (the episode, titled "
Bart Star", aired on Fox in November 1997). The crossover featured the voice of
Mike Judge, with Daniels (an ex-
Simpsons writer) explaining to
USA Today that, "In the world of
King of the Hill,
The Simpsons exists only in that Bobby has a
Bart doll. They exist as a TV show." The
Christmas episode "The Unbearable Blindness of Laying" originated from an idea that was jotted down on an index card, which sat alongside dozens of other story ideas on a conference-room wall, until executive story editor
Paul Lieberstein decided to take the story further. It featured a sex scene between Hank's mother and her new boyfriend, which Daniels viewed as risque. On the night before the episode's table read, the writers spent until 5 a.m. reworking the script of this episode, changing both the sex scene and the personality of the boyfriend character, as Daniels deemed him as too plain. Regarding the sex scene, Daniels remarked at the time, "we [needed] to find a way to have adults know what's going on but have kids see something else." ==Broadcast history==