The original post: /r/television by /u/HotOne9364 on 2025-01-19 07:03:05.
I’ve always had fun with the show but I’ve never thought it was more than stupid comedy. The more I grew up, the more I realized what Mike Judge was conveying.
Every authority figure in the show is either incompetent, apathetic, clueless, lazy, or corrupt. The titular duo reflects the kind of society that borne them. A society that expects TV to parent their children or to just take anything adults say as gospel because they’re older so they must be “wiser”. As we get older, we find ourselves learning that these so-called authority figures aren’t exactly as adult as we wanted them to be. And their generation bears responsibility for the upcoming generation.
The show was warning about how we got to this place and I completely missed that on my first viewing.