Which is familiar to anyone who’s had a sneaker ad follow them around online.

Yeah a friend of mine told me through text message what hotel he was going to be staying at in Nashville, and the next thing I know, there’s an ad for it on my Facebook page. It’s all tied together.

Fox has said it wants to bring back “King of the Hill.” Would you be involved in that?

Yeah, if they did. There have been a couple discussions about it, and about how we would do it, but nothing concrete yet. I think you’d have to have Bobby and all of them be older. The Simpsons are such iconic characters; Bart could be that age forever because it’s a more surreal show. But with “King of the Hill” being on 13 years, I think people were really starting to wonder why Bobby’s still the same age.

Another old film of yours, “Idiocracy,” from 2006, has become a common reference point for, well, many things happening right now. Do people mention this to you?

On Twitter, like all day long. There was at one point talk about possibly a series, an animated series, a reboot like that. There were talks of musicals. I would like to have another stab at it one way or another. It was almost like a bigger concept than it was a movie — it was difficult to make and probably should have been a TV show. But yeah, I get it all the time, which is nice. But I don’t really know what to make of it, or how much of it relates to the movie when people throw around the word “idiocracy” on Twitter.

Well when the C.E.O. of Carl’s Jr. gets nominated for a cabinet position —

That’s what was really weird for me, specific things like that. There’s Carl’s Jr. [The company had a notably unflattering presence in the film.] There was the W.W.E. thing. [The president in the movie was a former professional wrestler; in real life, President Trump appeared in a World Wrestling Entertainment match in 2007.]

Even when we were shooting the movie, the wardrobe designer showed me these shoes — they weren’t out in the world yet. And she said, “This is a start-up, they’re making these shoes and they’re going to look completely ridiculous.” Plastic shoes with holes in them. And I said to her, “The only thing I’m worried about is, what if these things blow up and by the time the movie comes out, they’re everywhere?” And she said, “Oh, that’s never going to happen. No one is going to buy these things.” And then, the movie comes out, and they are all wearing Crocs, and those shoes were just becoming huge. So, I think that was a sign that maybe a lot of these dumb things are going to come to pass.