The 2nd and 3rd series of King of the Hill arrived today - or to be precise, Emma went into town to collect them from the Royal Mail depot and pay the duty on them. The 1st series arrived a couple of weeks ago and was delivered with no problems but the two series were packaged together so brought the value above the 'duty free' threshold.

The programme itself wasn't a bit hit over here - maybe people were confused by the nature of the cartoon - the eposides were fairly leasurely and the humour was more low key than many cartoons, with slapstick humour kept to a minimum. If people were expecting a cross between 'Beavis and Buthead' and 'The Simpsons', then they would have been disappointed. What they got instead was an intelligent cartoon about family life in a small town.