The eighth season of King of the Hill originally aired on Sundays at 7:30–8:00 p.m. (EST) on the Fox Broadcasting Company from November 2, 2003 to May 23, 2004.

[4] The eighth production season was the first to fully utilize digital ink and paint, although four episodes ("New Cowboy on the Block", "After the Mold Rush", "Flirting with the Master" and "Rich Hank, Poor Hank") were holdover episodes from the Season 7 (7ABE) production line and were still traditionally colored.

In a 2003 interview with Cinescape, Altschuler commented, "she [Brittany Murphy] came to us and was actually pitching ideas to us about how to get Luanne more involved in the show.

Her sculpture is rejected by the city board, but picked up by an art dealer from Dallas -- who makes her out to be an uneducated hillbilly.

Bobby joins the school's Quiz Bowl team because of his extensive knowledge of pop culture, but he becomes stressed out by the pressure.Guest Stars: Kelly Clarkson as Herself, John Ritter as Eugene Grandy and Ben Stein as Quizmaster When Hank suffers a back injury at work and none of his doctors can fix it, he tries the healing powers of yoga.