Mike Judge loves people. Even those he hates, he understands, because he truly strives to know others, which comes from a place of love. The archeology professor from The Arrowhead comes to mind. He could very easily be a surface level dig into academia elitism, but the series does acknowledge the power a person like that can exert upon the uneducated, and makes him both more fearsome and interesting to pit against the Hills because you know he's an intellectual threat.