After 16 years away, the beloved Fox animated series King of the Hill, which ran from 1997 to 2009, has returned in streaming form on Hulu. The recent comeback of show creator Mike Judge’s other classic cartoon, Beavis and Butt-Head, was a minor hit for Paramount+, so why not? (Note to Mike: Do not attempt a remake of Idiocracy—you can’t top our current reality.)
There are plenty more former Fox and Fox-adjacent animated series worth reviving; here are but a few.
Axe Cop (2013–2015; Prime Video, YouTube): Comic book writer/artist Ethan Nicolle took the outlandish ideas of his 5-year-old brother Malachai and turned them into cartoon gold with Axe Cop (catchphrase: “I’ll chop your head off!”). In the Fox/FXX TV series, Axe Cop was brought to hilarious life with the voice of Nick Offerman,