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Michael C. Scully (born October 2, 1956) is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as executive producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001.
Mike Scully is an American TV and film producer and writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond and Parks and Recreation. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1956 and has won six Primetime Emmys.
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Mike Scully (born October 2, 1956) is an American writer and producer. He served as a writer, producer, supervising producer, co-executive producer, and executive producer for The Simpsons and also served as the showrunner from season 9 to season 12.
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Michael C. "Mike" Scully (born in West Springfield, Massachusetts on October 2, 1956) is an American writer and producer. He served as executive producer and former show runner of The Simpsons from Season 9 to Season 12 (1997-2001).
After dropping out of college after one day, Scully came to Los Angeles. He worked on short-running sitcoms such as Out of This World and What a Country! and wrote jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff. He was eventually appointed to write for The Simpsons. He also wrote several episodes of the show, beginning in the sixth season. These were: "Lisa's Rival", "Lisa on Ice", "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", "Marge Be Not Proud", "Team Homer" and "Lisa's Date with Density". From Season 9 and until Season 12, he became executive producer and showrunner from 1997-2002, until Al Jean became the new showrunner from 2002-onwards.
During his seasons in charge, Scully wrote "The HΩmega Man" from "Treehouse of Horror VIII, "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" (with Tom Martin, George Meyer and Brian Scully), "Beyond Blunderdome", "Behind the Laughter", (with Tim Long, George Meyer and Matt Selman) and "The Parent Rap" (with George Meyer). He left after Season 12, but returned to write and produce "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation". He served as a co-writer and co-executive producer on The Simpsons Movie and returned to work on The Simpsons as a producer.
Scully's tenure as showrunner has been widely criticized. John Ortved wrote "Scully's episodes excel when compared to what The Simpsons airs nowadays, but he was the man at the helm when the ship turned towards the iceberg." The BBC noted "the common consensus is that The Simpsons's golden era ended after season nine", Scully is criticized despite having the best figures of any showrunner up to that point (averaging 10 million an episode). An editorial from Chris Suellentrop of Slate claims The Simpsons changed from a realistic show about family life into a typical cartoon during Scully's years as executive producer of The Simpsons.
"But under Scully's tenure, The Simpsons became, well, a cartoon. ... Episodes that once would have ended with Homer and Marge bicycling into the sunset (perhaps while Bart gagged in the background) now end with Homer blowing a tranquilizer dart into Marge's neck."
He started his career by writing jokes for Yakov Smirnoff. He was a writer on Everybody Loves Raymond for Season 8, and co-created The Pitts for Fox and Complete Savages for ABC. Scully co-created the Napoleon Dynamite animated series for Fox in 2012. He is currently a writer and producer for Parks and Recreation, as well as a co-creator and producer of Duncanville.
Scully is married to fellow writer Julie Thacker. They have 5 daughters. His brother is writer Brian Scully.
Writer (1994-2002, 2007, 2023)
•Episode – "Lisa's Rival" (1F17) •Episode – "Lisa on Ice" (2F05) •Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" (2F18) •Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud" (3F07) •Episode – "Team Homer" (3F10) •Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density" (4F01) •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" with "Ghostwriters" David S. Cohen and Ned Goldreyer (5F02) •Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" with Tom Martin, George Meyer and Brian Scully (AABF08) •Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" (AABF23) •Episode – "Behind the Laughter" with Tim Long, George Meyer and Matt Selman (BABF19) •Episode – "The Parent Rap" with George Meyer (CABF22) •Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22) •– The Simpsons Movie with James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti •Episode – "Iron Marge" (OABF22)
Producer (1993-1995, 2002-2003, 2004-2005, 2006-present)
Season 5 •Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer" (1F07) •Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" (1F08) •Episode – "Homer the Vigilante" (1F09) •Episode – "Bart Gets Famous" (1F11) •Episode – "Homer and Apu" (1F10) •Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" (1F12) •Episode – "Deep Space Homer" (1F13) •Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders" (1F14) •Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant" (1F15) •Episode – "Burns' Heir" (1F16) •Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" (1F18) •Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" (1F19) •Episode – "Lady Bouvier's Lover" (1F21) •Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" (1F20) Season 6 •Episode – "Bart of Darkness" (1F22) •Episode – "Lisa's Rival" (1F17) •Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show" (2F33) •Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land" (2F01) •Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" (2F02) •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (as Mike "Skullcrusher" Scully) (2F03) •Episode – "Bart's Girlfriend" (2F04) •Episode – "Lisa on Ice" (2F05) •Episode – "Homer Badman" (2F06) •Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" (2F07) •Episode – "Fear of Flying" (2F08) •Episode – "Homer the Great" (2F09) •Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three" (2F10) •Episode – "Bart's Comet" (2F11) •Episode – "Homie the Clown" (2F12) •Episode – "Bart vs. Australia" (2F13) •Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" (2F14) •Episode – "A Star is Burns" (2F31) •Episode – "Lisa's Wedding" (2F15) •Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" (2F18) •Episode – "The PTA Disbands" (2F19) •Episode – "'Round Springfield" (2F32) •Episode – "The Springfield Connection" (2F21) •Episode – "Lemon of Troy" (2F22) •Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" (2F16) Season 7 •Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" (2F20) •Episode – "Radioactive Man" (2F17) Season 14 •Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" (EABF01) •Episode – "Special Edna" (EABF02) •Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" (EABF03) •Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" (EABF04) •Episode – "Pray Anything" (EABF06) •Episode – "Barting Over" (EABF05) •Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" (EABF07) •Episode – "A Star Is Born-Again" (EABF08) •Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (EABF09) •Episode – "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10) •Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" (EABF11) •Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" (EABF12) •Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" (EABF13) •Episode – "Old Yeller Belly" (EABF14) •Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" (EABF15) •Episode – "The Bart of War" (EABF16) •Episode – "Moe Baby Blues" (EABF17) Season 15 •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (as Everybody Loves Mike Scully) (EABF21) •Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" (EABF18) •Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" (EABF20) •Episode – "The Regina Monologues" (EABF22) •Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest" (EABF19) •Episode – "Smart and Smarter" (FABF09) •Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day" (FABF10) •Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" (FABF11) •Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" (FABF12) •Episode – "Catch 'Em if You Can" (FABF14) •Episode – "Simple Simpson" (FABF15) •Episode – "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13) •Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" (FABF17) •Episode – "Fraudcast News" (FABF18) Season 16 •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" (as Mike "Completely Savage" Scully) (FABF23) •Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" (FABF20) •Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" (FABF19) •Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" (FABF22) •Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" (FABF21) •Episode – "Midnight Rx" (FABF16) Season 17 •Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" (HABF08) •Episode – "Million Dollar Abie" (HABF09) •Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" (HABF10) •Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11) •Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" (HABF12) •Episode – "Regarding Margie" (HABF13) •Episode – "The Monkey Suit" (HABF14) •Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" (HABF16) Season 18 •Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (HABF15) •Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" (HABF18) •Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" (HABF20) •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (as Mike "Insert Scary Name" Scully) (HABF17) •Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" (HABF21) •Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa" (HABF19) •Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" (HABF22) •Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" (JABF02) •Episode – "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2" (JABF01) •Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" (JABF03) •Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times" (JABF05) •Episode – "Little Big Girl" (JABF04) •Episode – "Springfield Up" (JABF07) •Episode – "Yokel Chords" (JABF09) •Episode – "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh" (JABF08) •Episode – "Homerazzi" (JABF06) •Episode – "Marge Gamer" (JABF10) •Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" (JABF11) •Episode – "Crook and Ladder" (JABF13) •Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!" (JABF12) •Episode – "24 Minutes" (JABF14) •Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (JABF15) •– Season 19 •Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (JABF20) •Episode – "The Homer of Seville" (JABF18) •Episode – "Midnight Towboy" (JABF21) •Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (JABF19) •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (as Mike Scurvy) (JABF16) •Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" (JABF22) •Episode – "Husbands and Knives" (JABF17) •Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" (KABF01) •Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" (KABF02) •Episode – "E. Pluribus Wiggum" (KABF03) •Episode – "That '90s Show" (KABF04) •Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" (KABF05) •Episode – "The Debarted" (KABF06) •Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" (KABF07) •Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" (KABF08) •Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" (KABF09) •Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" (KABF10) •Episode – "Any Given Sundance" (KABF11) •Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" (KABF12) •Episode – "All About Lisa" (KABF13) Season 20 •Episode – "Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes" (KABF17) •Episode – "Lost Verizon" (KABF15) •Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (KABF14) •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Sub-Prime Mike Scully) (KABF16) •Episode – "Dangerous Curves" (KABF18) •Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" (KABF19) •Episode – "Mypods and Boomsticks" (KABF20) •Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" (KABF21) •Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen" (KABF22) Season 31 •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" (as Yikes! Smelly!) (YABF18)
Supervising Producer (1995-1998)
Season 7 •Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" (3F01) •Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul" (3F02) •Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian" (3F03) •THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI" (as Mikey Morphin Power Scully) (3F04) •Episode – "King-Size Homer" (3F05) •Episode – "Mother Simpson" (3F06) •Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" (3F08) •Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (3F31) •Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud" (3F07) •Episode – "Team Homer" (3F10) •Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors" (3F09) •Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" (3F11) •Episode – "Bart the Fink" (3F12) •Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast" (3F13) •Episode – "Homer the Smithers" (3F14) •Episode – "The Day the Violence Died" (3F16) •Episode – "A Fish Called Selma" (3F15) •Episode – "Bart on the Road" (3F17) •Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield" (3F18) •Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" (3F19) •Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing" (3F20) •Episode – "Homerpalooza" (3F21) •Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" (3F22) Season 8 •Episode – "You Only Move Twice" (3F23) •Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" (3F24) •Episode – "The Springfield Files" (3G01) •Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" (3G03) Season 9 •Episode – "Lisa's Sax" (3G02) •Episode – "Simpson Tide" (3G04)
•About people who criticize his years at The Simpsons: "People want everything to stay the same. I think it's easier for people to go in and just criticize and say what they hate about something, rather than find out what they like."
1.Ortved, John: The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History (2009) Greystone Books ISBN 978-1-55365-503-9 pg. 221–225
2."The Simpsons: 10 classic episodes", BBC News,. Retrieved on 2010-01-15.
3.Duffless
4.It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
5.Suellentrop, Chris (2003-02-12). The Simpsons: Who turned America's best TV show into a cartoon?. Slate. Retrieved on 2010-02-27.
6.Mike Scully. BBC Worldwide (2001-04-25). Retrieved on 2010-02-22.
•Mike Scully at the Internet Movie Database
•Mike Scully at Wikipedia
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Michael C. Scully is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as executive producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001. Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and long had an interest in writing.
