The series, set in Colorado, follows the day-to-day life of Johnny Jenkins, an innocent 19-year-old college student who has to deal with a bitter, cigarette smoking grandmother and a coarse, sometimes-violent, alcoholic father, in a rather dysfunctional family while his friend, Clay, is living large with the settlement money he got from suing a taco restaurant for personal injuries.

Despite favorable to mixed reviews from critics, the show had very low ratings, due to poor promotion and basing the series on an already-unsuccessful property.

Brett Merhar pitched the show to Showtime in 2001 as an animated series, wanting to do edgier jokes than what he could do in the comic.

The two of them would go on to work on the Disney Channel hit series Fish Hooks, while C. H. Greenblatt would also go on to create Chowder for Cartoon Network, and Harvey Beaks for Nickelodeon.

After the show was canceled, Merhar went on to create a web series with Gabor Csupo titled Beverly Hills Anger Management, which premiered on YouTube in 2007.