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Are you a big fan of the general run of Fox programing — the extreme stuff, the cop stuff?

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Are you a big fan of the general run of Fox programing — the extreme stuff, the cop stuff?

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I watch those sometimes. I don’t watch them when they are on, I watch tapes in the office. You know, that’s a little fad that’s going to run its course. I don’t like the giant tumors. [Laughs.] I like those police-chase ones; those are funny. Part of what I like that TV does is [that] it’s so desperate to hold your attention — I think it’s funny the lengths people will go to. One of my favorite shows is a Japanese show called “Iron Chef.” I love that show. It’s great. Julia Child meets “American Gladiators.” Do you think your effectiveness as an outside critic is vitiated by the enormously wealthy cultural monolith “The Simpsons” has become? One of the things I like that “The Simpsons” does is that we sneak in these — let me amend that. “The Simpsons” message over and over again is that your moral authorities don’t always have your best interests in mind. Teachers, principals, clergymen, politicians — for the Simpsons, they’re all goofballs, and I think that’s a great message for ki

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