- This article is about the crew member. For the character, see Mike Reiss (character).
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Michael "Mike" Reiss (born November 15, 1959) is an American comedy writer. He, along with Al Jean, served as showrunner on The Simpsons for the second and third seasons, writing ten episodes. In 1994, the duo created and executive produced The Critic after leaving The Simpsons. Reiss later returned to the show as a consultant and co-wrote The Simpsons Movie.
He attended Harvard University. Reiss previously collaborated with Jean as a writer for National Lampoon magazine, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and ALF.
Reiss independently produced a short internet cartoon series entitled Queer Duck for Icebox.com. In 2002, the series was picked up by Showtime, where it aired as a supporting feature to Queer as Folk. Queer Duck: the Movie was released on DVD July 18, 2006. The feature film reunites the Queer Duck cast, with guest stars Conan O'Brien, David Duchovny, Bruce Vilanch, Andy Dick, and Tim Curry.
Other television shows Reiss has produced include It's Garry Shandling's Show, Teen Angel, The PJs, and The Oblongs.
He later co-wrote the films Horton Hears a Who! (2008) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and wrote his the screenplay for his original project My Life in Ruins (2009). He was also interviewed in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!.
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- Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
- Episode – "Homer the Moe"
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
- Episode – "The Bart of War"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer"
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
- Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
- Episode – "Please Homer Don't Hammer 'em"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (as Ms. Iris Eek)
- Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
- Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa"
- Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)"
- Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"
- Episode – "The Wife Aquatic"
- Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
- Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot"
- Episode – "24 Minutes"
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
- Episode – "The Homer of Seville"
- Episode – "Midnight Towboy"
- Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (as My Creeps)
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
- Episode – "Husbands and Knives"
- Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
- Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum"
- Episode – "That 90's Show"
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
- Episode – "The Debarted"
- Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder"
- Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter"
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
- Episode – "Apocalypse Cow"
- Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
- Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as The Beast from Bristol Connecticut)
- Episode – "Dangerous Curves"
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen"
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
- Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
- Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
- Episode – "Wedding for Disaster"
- Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
- Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"
- Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
- Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
- Episode – "Coming to Homerica"
- Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
- Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as Mike Reiss in Ruins)
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
- Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (as Mice Reek)
- Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
- Episode – "The Food Wife"
- Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
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