I never saw this show. I never read the book. Heck, if it wasn't for this site I never would have heard of it at all. Butter from the first time I ever saw an image, I knew exactly what it was about.
But it's another one, like everything from 1984, to They Live, to Idiocracy, where the very ones that those stories are about got them completely backwards. I can only hope that was intentionally, but given what's been happening in the last decade, I highly doubt it.