I love how Mike Judge concluded his King of the Hill series, one of Y&H’s all-time favorite sitcoms. It didn’t end with a death in the family, a herd of cattle stampeding down Arlen, or a Yankee invasion of Texas. It ends with Hank and Bobby Hill working together over grills, the smell of smoked meats enticing the cast for a final taste of Texas beef. Understated. Perfect.

The funny thing is, Judge didn’t even intend for the finale to be the finale.

Yeah, that’s right, Y&H had high hopes for Mike Judge’s new comedy, Extract, which is set in a food flavoring factory. I was hoping for something as dementedly funny as the scene from Judge’s Office Space, in which a gaggle of cubicle drones drags a malfunctioning fax machine into the woods and beats the crap out of it with a baseball bat — as Geto Boys’ “Still” plays in the background.

Alas, the early word is decidedly mixed. CP’s Tricia Olszewski calls Extract “amiable enough to produce constistent chuckles, if only the occasional gut-busting laugh,” which practically sets Judge up for an Oscar nomination compared to Dan Zak’s review in today’s Post.

Writes Zak:

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