Well I have seen most of the episodes of King of the Hill and pretty much agree with that assessment. It's not about the setting or the characters or even the

Well I have seen most of the episodes of King of the Hill and pretty much agree with that assessment. It's not about the setting or the characters or even the jokes (which are both more dry and generally less funny than other projects, and I love dry humour). It's about the complete reversal of the counter-culture commentary that made Office Space and Idiocracy popular. If you choose a boring hack writer setting (teacher wife, blue collar father, stupid son, etc, etc) for your show then you better make that choice the focus of your commentary, like the Simpsons did. The setting was chosen in order to comment on it. If King of the Hill was doing that then the commentary appeared to be "Isn't this nice. See how wonderful life can be when you don't question your place? Learning won't make you happy, conformity will. Good hard work and ignorance can be fulfilling". I don't think anyone is wrong for liking it, but you certainly can't complain that fans of Judge's other work dislike that level of support for an anti-intellectual outlook.