SO, WHAT DOES (14-MONTH-OLD) HOMER WATCH?

Until he created “The Simpsons,” Matt Groening used to pretend that he never watched much television, that he despised the tube and everything it stood for.

But now that he’s an executive producer of one of the year’s most-talked-about television shows, Groening, 36, is free to admit that he was indeed a product of a cathode ray environment, just like the rest of America born since the baby boom.

“My biography could be written by consulting any TV Guide from the 1960s,” Groening said. “Wednesday night, 7:30? I was watching ‘The Flintstones.’ ”

So now that he’s a grown-up with a 14-month-old son of his own, what does Groening want his kid to watch?

“It’s okay for my son to watch whatever he wants, although I prefer that he watches the show I’m already watching,” Groening said.

“I imagine kids learn from the example of their parents, and I really don’t watch that much television now. And when I do I’m one of those constant remote-control switching people. So I guess what I don’t want him to emulate is my exasperated behavior while I’m scrambling around trying to find the channel changer.”

And if Homer Groening (named after Matt’s father, not Homer Simpson) adopts his dad’s tv tastes, what will he be watching?

“He’ll like ‘Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,’ ‘Donald Duck Presents’ and any PBS documentary featuring mischievous monkeys,” Groening said. “I’d only be alarmed, I guess, if he wanted to watch “thirtysomething.”

Groening doesn’t think TV is detrimental to kids as long as they have other sources of information and entertainment. “I grew up in a household full of books and was surrounded by people to whom reading was very important. So television was not my full source of cultural nourishment.”

“And I would hope that when I subject my child to Louis Armstrong and read aloud to him from Charles Dickens that he’ll pick up on those things as well as ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos.’ ”