J. Michael Mendel

J. Michael Mendel

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Associate producer Producer Co-producer Birth date: September 24, 1964 Death date: September 22, 2019 (aged 54) Status: Deceased Number of episodes: 208 Seasons active: Season 1 - 10, 26 First episode: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" Most recent episode: "Mathlete's Feat" First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield Latest album: The Simpsons: Testify

J. Michael "Mike" Mendel (September 24, 1964 - September 22, 2019) was a producer for The Simpsons. He served as an associate producer, co-producer and producer. He later went on to become a producer for Rick and Morty and worked on the Rick and Morty couch gag. After his death, the season 31 episode "The Winter of Our Monetized Content" was dedicated to him.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 1995 "Lisa's Wedding" Won 1996 "Treehouse of Horror VI" Nominated 1997 "Homer's Phobia" Won 1998 "Trash of the Titans" 1999 "Viva Ned Flanders" Nominated

Credits

Associate producer

Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" Episode – "Bart the Genius" Episode – "Homer's Odyssey" Episode – "There's No Disgrace Like Home" Episode – "Bart the General" Episode – "Moaning Lisa" Episode – "The Call of the Simpsons" Episode – "The Telltale Head" Episode – "Life on the Fast Lane" Episode – "Homer's Night Out" Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath" Episode – "Krusty Gets Busted" Episode – "Some Enchanted Evening" Episode – "Bart Gets an "F"" Episode – "Simpson and Delilah" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror" Episode – "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" Episode – "Dancin' Homer" Episode – "Dead Putting Society" Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" Episode – "Bart the Daredevil" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" Episode – "The Way We Was" Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" Episode – "Principal Charming" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F"" Episode – "Old Money" Episode – "Brush with Greatness" Episode – "Lisa's Substitute" Episode – "The War of the Simpsons" Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book" Episode – "Blood Feud" Episode – "Stark Raving Dad" Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" Episode – "When Flanders Failed" Episode – "Bart the Murderer" Episode – "Homer Defined" Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" (as J. Maniacal Mendel) Episode – "Lisa's Pony" Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder" Episode – "Flaming Moe's" Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" Episode – "I Married Marge" Episode – "Radio Bart" Episode – "Lisa the Greek" Episode – "Homer Alone" Episode – "Bart the Lover" Episode – "Homer at the Bat" Episode – "Separate Vocations" Episode – "Dog of Death" Episode – "Colonel Homer" Episode – "Black Widower" Episode – "The Otto Show" Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" Episode – "Kamp Krusty" Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge" Episode – "Homer the Heretic" Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (as J. Melon-Crusher Mendel) Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" Episode – "Marge Gets a Job" Episode – "New Kid on the Block" Episode – "Mr. Plow" Episode – "Lisa's First Word" Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass" Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail" Episode – "Selma's Choice" Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "I Love Lisa" Episode – "Duffless" Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield" Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" Episode – "The Front" Episode – "Whacking Day" Episode – "Marge in Chains" Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled" Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" Episode – "Cape Feare"

Co-producer

• Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
• Episode – "Rosebud"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" (as J. "Monkey Brains" Mendel)
• Episode – "Marge on the Lam"
• Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
• Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
• Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"

Produced by

Episode – "Bart of Darkness" Episode – "Lisa's Rival" Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land" Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (as J. "Monkey Brains" Mendel) Episode – "Bart's Girlfriend" Episode – "Lisa on Ice" Episode – "Homer Badman" Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" Episode – "Fear of Flying" Episode – "Homer the Great" Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three" Episode – "Bart's Comet" Episode – "Homie the Clown" Episode – "Bart vs. Australia" Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" Episode – "A Star Is Burns" Episode – "Lisa's Wedding" Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" Episode – "The PTA Disbands" Episode – "'Round Springfield" Episode – "The Springfield Connection" Episode – "Lemon of Troy" Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" Episode – "Radioactive Man" Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul" Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI" (as J. Malefic Mendel) Episode – "King-Size Homer" Episode – "Mother Simpson" Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud" Episode – "Team Homer" Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors" Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" Episode – "Bart the Fink" Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast" Episode – "Homer the Smithers" Episode – "The Day the Violence Died" Episode – "A Fish Called Selma" Episode – "Bart on the Road" Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield" Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing" Episode – "Homerpalooza" Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII" (as J. Monstrosity Mendel) Episode – "You Only Move Twice" Episode – "The Homer They Fall" Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "Bart After Dark" Episode – "A Milhouse Divided" Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density" Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" Episode – "The Springfield Files" Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" Episode – "Mountain of Madness" Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" Episode – "Homer's Phobia" Episode – "Brother from Another Series" Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" Episode – "Grade School Confidential" Episode – "The Canine Mutiny" Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa" Episode – "In Marge We Trust" Episode – "Homer's Enemy" Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper" Episode – "Lisa's Sax" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as J. Monkeyshines Mendel) Episode – "The Cartridge Family" Episode – "Bart Star" Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" Episode – "Realty Bites" Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "The Joy of Sect" Episode – "Das Bus" Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity" Episode – "Lisa the Simpson" Episode – "This Little Wiggy" Episode – "Simpson Tide" Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" Episode – "Girly Edition" Episode – "Trash of the Titans" Episode – "King of the Hill" Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" Episode – "Lard of the Dance" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "Bart the Mother" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as J. Missing Mendel) Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind" Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" Episode – "Mayored to the Mob" Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" Episode – "Homer to the Max" Episode – "I'm with Cupid" Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" Episode – "Make Room for Lisa" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Couch gag – "Rick and Morty couch gag"

For The Simpsons

• Album – Songs in the Key of Springfield
• Album – Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons
• Album – The Simpsons: Testify

External links

• J. Michael Mendel at the Internet Movie Database

Associate producers

Current associate producers Brian J. Kaufman • Jesse D. Miller • Felicia Nalivansky-Caplan Former associate producers Joseph A. Boucher • Dominique Braud • Alexander Duke • Alison Elliott • Jeffrey Goldstein • Craig Knizek • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • J. Michael Mendel Other associate producers Steve Bocska • Kevin Carey • Mario De Jesus • Ted Eschweiler • Mark Flitman • Peter Gave • Jake Graham-Felsen • Jeff Hasson • Elyssa Hess • John Jacobs • Ken Kajikawa • Mike LaManna • Scott Lauritzen • Luke Letizia • Tyrone Miller • Amanda Moshay • Sydney Naegele • Matt Orefice • Billy Pidgeon • Joe Porciello • Timothy Ramage • Harish Rao • Andrea Romero • Mike Schneider • Kyle Silveri • Charles Song • Christopher Stewart • Jami Stewart • Christopher Stoudt • Ken Tsumura • Baifan Xie • Doug Yellin

Producers and Co-producers

Current producers Richard K. Chung • Alexander Duke • David Mirkin • Richard Raynis • Mike Reiss • Richard Sakai • Denise Sirkot • Loni Steele Sosthand Former producers Larina Jean Adamson • Richard Appel • Elisabeth Kiernan Averick • Bob Bendetson • Joseph A. Boucher • Donick Cary • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jonathan Collier • Jessica Conrad • Greg Daniels • Larry Doyle • John Frink • Tom Gammill • Valentina L. Garza • Dana Gould • Dan Greaney • Broti Gupta • Ron Hauge • Al Jean • Ken Keeler • Jay Kogen • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • Tim Long • Jeff Martin • Tom Martin • Cesar Mazariegos • J. Michael Mendel • George Meyer • Frank Mula • Conan O'Brien • Carolyn Omine • Don Payne • Bonita Pietila • Max Pross • Gerry Richardson • David Sacks • Brian Scully • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • David Silverman • David M. Stern • John Swartzwelder • Julie Thacker • Jon Vitti • Matt Warburton • Jeff Westbrook • Marc Wilmore • Wallace Wolodarsky Other producers Holly Adams • Rory Armes • Bob Bain • Chuck Beaver • Trevor Bent • Tara Beyhm • Kevin Biggins • Travis Bowe • Hans ten Cate • Vlad Ceraldi • Chiodo Brothers Productions, Inc. • Edward Chiodo • Dorina Diakoumopoulou • Ron Diamond • András Erkel • Kim Fertman • Mark Flitman • Darren Futa • Marci Galea • Ollie Green • Brian Grohl • Joey Haines • Dean Hannan • Pete Herzog • Bryan Johnson • Conall Jones • Rachel Braga Jones • Claudia Katz • Dan Kitchen • Jonathan Knight • Edward Kuspiel • Cate Latchford • Scott Lauritzen • Esther H. Lee • Rob Leingang • Steve Marmel • Matt McKnight • John Melchior • Alfred Milgrom • Jon O'Sheal • Jon Osborn • Jack Parmeter • Maria Beatriz Silva Piovezanni • Paul Provenzano • Harish Rao • Alan Rast • Johanna Rees • Mark Rhodes • Ryan Ridley • Laura Saravia • Mike Schneider • Kirk Scott • Gary Sheinwald • Shannon Smith • Beth Sowersby • Desirée Stavracos • Szavo Sztilkovics • Nick Trotta • Scott Turow • Brian Ullrich • Martijn van der Meulen • Csaba Varga • Michael R. Viner • Ru Warner • Cam Weber • David Wisehart • Tim Yoon • Wendy Cong Zhao Current co-producers Dominique Braud • Loni Steele Sosthand Former co-producers Larina Jean Adamson • Joseph A. Boucher • Tom Brady • Daniel Chun • Richard K. Chung • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jessica Conrad • Greg Daniels • Larry Doyle • Alexander Duke • Brent Forrester • Valentina L. Garza • Paul Germain • Al Jean • Ken Keeler • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • Tim Long • Tom Martin • J. Michael Mendel • George Meyer • Carolyn Omine • Mike Reiss • Brian Scully • Matt Selman • Loni Steele Sosthand • John Swartzwelder • Julie Thacker • Jon Vitti • Matt Warburton • Jeff Westbrook • Marc Wilmore Other co-producers Sady Cohen • Doug Goldstein • Tova Goodman • Jay Kleckner • Ethan Marak • Amanda Moshay

Deceased crew and guest stars

Cast Christopher Collins • Doris Grau • Phil Hartman • Christian Coffinet • Marcia Wallace • Russi Taylor Crew Michael O'Connor • Michael P. Schoenbrun • Robert Glass • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Thomas Chastain • Jackie Banks • Constantin Mustatea • Tom Coppola • Ed DeMattia • Andy Houts • Phyllis Craig • Sunni Walton • Art Seidel‎ • Lee Mishkin • Kent Holaday • Ted Bemiller • Barrington T. Bunce • James O'Brien • Daria Paris • Ron Scalera • Kevyn L. Wallace • Maxine Markota • Don Payne • Richard Lorenzana • Betty Chaplin • Steve Viksten • Don Vanderbeek • Paul Gruwell • Harold M. Schulweis • Chris Moeller • Danny Taverna • Sam Simon • Cliff Voorhees • Richard Manginsay • Ray Colcord • Gary Hoffman • Julia Kalantarova • Kevin Curran • Sooan Kim • Merle Welton • Rochelle Linder • Arthur B. Rubinstein • Jerry Richardson • Lolee Aries • Patrick Williams • Domingo Rivera • Trista H. Navarro • Chris Reccardi • Dennis Snee • Ernesto Elicanal • J. Michael Mendel • Marsha Kramer • Maureen Mlynarczyk • Cullen Blaine • Tuck Tucker • Alan Decker • Brenda Banks • Dale Baer • David Richardson • Marc Wilmore • Rick Bowman • Edwin E. Aguilar • Marko Barrows • Frank Mula • Mike Camarillo • David Schwartz • Ian Wilcox • Trixie Flynn • Terry Harrington • Ron Zimmerman • Laurie Hanson • Jeff Howard • Ralph Eggleston • Jennifer Dolce • Chris Ledesma • Susan Burke • Anne Luiting • Bike Kinzle • Craig Armstrong • Istvan Majoros • John Bush • Sue Bielenberg • Brian McConnachie • Reid Harrison Comic crew Ed Roth • Dan DeCarlo • Al Williamson • Gene Colan • Earl Kress • John Severin • George Gladir • Stan Goldberg • Murphy Anderson • Lemmy • Gary Glasberg • Dan Spiegle • Bernie Wrightson • Carolyn Kelly • Len Wein • Batton Lash • Dan Nakrosis • Oscar González Loyo • Chris Yambar • Ramona Fradon Video game crew Tom D. Heidt • Bill Williams • W. Marshall Rogers Album crew Billie Holiday • Curt Ousley • Arthur Herzog, Jr. • David Cole • Floyd Cramer • Lew McCreary • David Frisina • Harold Dicterow • Terry Harrington • Myra Kestenbaum • Mike Rubin • Jon Clarke • Gene Morford • Michael Botts • John Thomas Johnson • Dorothy Wade • Richard Joseph • Larry Corbett • Don Palmer • Ben Keith • Ronni Chasen • Harris Goldman • Armen Garabedian • Israel Baker • Andrew Gold • Warren Luening • Bernard Kundell • B. B. King • Jimmy Levine • Chuck Berry • Isabelle Daskoff • Dell Hake • Roger Neumann • Gary Stewart • Dr. John • Tommy Morgan • Vincent DeRosa • Michael Lang Guest stars Theodore Roosevelt • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Gene Lockhart • John F. Kennedy • Rex Harrison • Richard Nixon • John Megna • Audrey Meadows • George Fenneman • Linda McCartney • Anthony Newley‎‎ • Jim Varney • Tito Puente • Steve Allen • Joe C. • Werner Klemperer • Joey Ramone • Jack Lemmon • George Harrison • Ron Taylor • Lawrence Tierney • Stephen Jay Gould • John Entwistle • Rod Steiger • Chick Hearn • Johnny Unitas • Gregory Peck • Barry White • Bob Hope • Johnny Cash • George Plimpton • Paul Winfield • Isabel Sanford • Johnny Ramone • Rodney Dangerfield • Johnny Carson • Johnnie Cochran • Henry Corden • Anne Bancroft • Bob Denver • Dennis Weaver • James Brown • Tom Poston • Robert Goulet • George Carlin • Paul Newman • Eartha Kitt • Patrick McGoohan • John Updike • Ed McMahon • Michael Jackson • Gary Coleman • Robert Schimmel • Jack LaLanne • Elizabeth Taylor • Clarence Clemons • Charles Napier • Joe Frazier • Harry Morgan • Tom Ardolino • Dick Tufeld • Dick Clark • Ernest Borgnine • Gore Vidal • Marvin Hamlisch • Neil Armstrong • Larry Hagman • Huell Howser • Pat Summerall • Joyce Brothers • Cory Monteith • Allen Lanier • Tom Clancy • Mickey Rooney • Don Pardo • Joan Rivers • Jan Hooks • Leonard Nimoy • Alex Rocco • Merl Reagle • Daryl Coley • Garry Marshall • Fyvush Finkel • Janet Reno • Adam West • Jack Ong • Martin Landau • June Foray • Jerry Lewis • Hugh Hefner • Tom Petty • Ray Thomas • John Mahoney • Stephen Hawking • R. Lee Ermey • Carl Kasell • Tom Wolfe • Anthony Bourdain • Harlan Ellison • Stan Lee • Ricky Jay • Penny Marshall • Luke Perry • Tim Conway • Valerie Harper • Robert Forster • Robert Evans • Jack Sheldon • John Baldessari • Jack Burns • Kirk Douglas • James Lipton • Max von Sydow • Little Richard • Fred Willard • Regis Philbin • Alex Trebek • David Lander • Larry King • Cloris Leachman • George Segal • Olympia Dukakis • Jackie Mason • Ed Asner • Graeme Edge • Stephen Sondheim • John Madden • Betty White • Peter Bogdanovich • Maggy Reno Hurchalla • Ray Liotta • James Caan • Nichelle Nichols • David Crosby • Sal Bando • Bill Saluga • Jerry Springer • Treat Williams • Tony Bennett • William Friedkin • Suzanne Somers • Matthew Perry • Frances Sternhagen • Norman Lear • Tom Smothers • Richard Lewis • Donald Sutherland • Martin Mull • Bob Newhart • James Earl Jones • Elwood Edwards Other Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle • James Sanderson • Sarah Adams • Edgar Allan Poe • Lowell Mason • Ruggero Leoncavallo • Richard Strauss • Cole Porter • Paul Webster • Bob Harris • Elsie Castellaneta • Dora K. Warren • Alan Gordon • Daryl Gates • Robert Reno • Hal David • Rusty Nails • Csaba Varga • Louis Castellaneta • András Erkel • Herb Trimpe • David Kavner • George H. W. Bush • Double K • Dusty Hill • David Davis • Burt Bacharach • Morgan Spurlock • Ruth Westheimer