Last week, ABC premiered “The Goode Family” a new animated series from Mike Judge, the creator of “Beavis and Butthead” and “King of the Hill.”
As with his past work, Judge’s main target is political correctness. In King of the Hill he used a gun-toting Christian family from Texas as his target, This time around, the central characters are a family of “tree hugging nutjobs” who have taken political correctness to the n-th degree. Apart from designating their adopted white Afrikaner son an “African American”, the Goodes are also extreme environmentalists.
Their mantra for life is WWAGD “What would Al Gore Do?”
In the light of recent developments in the “green space” including the pronouncement that the green “bubble” has burst, it is interesting to see that making fun of “do-gooders” is now considered mainstream fare. Of course, there’s also the mocking of “helicopter” parenting, Whole Foods style stores, hybrid cars, vegetarianism, campus politics, reproductive rights and the teenage “purity movement.”