No way, I loved that show. It was great but flew under the radar.

Can't blame them for wanting to make their own thing, and they did a pretty good job (even if the TV stations kind of fucked them over by putting them on some bad timeslots.) Overall, I'm glad the show exists.

Art director for Mission Hill went on to work as a director for Disney (also one of the first women to work as a sole-director at Disney, coincidentally) and Bill Oakley / Josh Weinstein continued to work as writers, so I think it worked out for most parties involved in the production.

Mission Hill is good, but had a very short run. I didn't know it when it first aired, but watched it when it was part of Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" block. It's about a naive dork teenager, Kevin, moving in with his lazy older brother Andy, in the city. The art style is unique, vividly colored and eye-catching. Two of the characters are an elderly gay couple, treated like normal people (which wasn't common at the time the show was made.) And of course, being written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, it's pretty funny.

I'd say it's worth a watch. It's only 13 episodes long, so it's easy to binge.

I was suggesting that it was not just a change in content, but of audience, too. The kids who grew up watching The Simpsons were now off to college, and our tastes had changed. We had better things to do than sit in front of the TV on Sunday nights to catch the latest episode.