Mike Scully

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Mike Scully

Born October 2, 1956 (1956-10-02) (age 51)
West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation Television writer
Nationality American
Writing period 1986 - Present
Genres Humour
For the football player, see Mike Scully (football player).

Mike Scully (born October 2, 1956 in West Springfield, Massachusetts) is an Emmy Award-winning American television writer best known for his work as show runner of the Fox series The Simpsons from 1997 - 2001 (Seasons 9-12).

He began as a writer/producer on the show during Season 5 and wrote several episodes that aired in Season 6, including "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" and "Lisa's Rival". During Season 13, he wrote and executive produced "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation".

He was a writer on Everybody Loves Raymond for part of Season 7 and all of Season 8, and co-created (with Julie Thacker) The Pitts for Fox and Complete Savages for ABC.

He started his career by writing jokes for Yakov Smirnoff. He is the co-writer and co-executive producer (with Al Jean) of The Simpsons Movie.

An op-ed on Slate argues 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."[1]

According to Ken Levine, Scully walked a picket line in the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike while on crutches.[2]

Contents

[edit] The Simpsons episodes written by Mike Scully

[edit] Season Six

[edit] Season Seven

[edit] Season Eight

[edit] Season Nine

[edit] Season Ten

[edit] Season Eleven

[edit] Season Twelve

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[edit] Season Thirteen

[edit] Season Fourteen

[edit] External links

Preceded by
Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein
The Simpsons show runner
1997 – 2001
Succeeded by
Al Jean
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