Many years ago someone described the Fox Perpetual-Motion Machine for Idiots:

[PCIntern]

1. Shows such as Married: With Children, The Simpsons, House, American Dad, Family Guy, and many many others all undermine the basic tenets of Conservative Beliefs: irreverence for authority, stupid and ineffectual parents, adolescent sexual humor, political and social anarchy, and more!

2. Fox News decries all of the above ceaselessly, blaming (a non-existent liberal) media for society's ills, without conceding that they themselves as a network have done more to facilitate - in their eyes- this "decadence".

3. Shows like Married: With Children, The Simpsons, House, American Dad, Family Guy, and many many others all make fun of RW talking heads and even feature them doing so in the show! (See Family Guy with Limbaugh as a guest voice playing himself)

4. Rinse. Repeat.

[Shandris]

1. Bonus points if they're run on the Fox network!

It's like racking up some kind of score, like an old arcade machine.

[arcane1]

2. Another thing those all have in common (at least the ones I'm familiar with):

The people are lower-middle class specifically because they are stupid and lazy.