- This article is about the crew member. For the character, see Mike Scully (character).
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Crew Information
| Gender:
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Male ♂
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| Job:
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Producer
Executive producer
Writer
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| Birth date:
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October 2, 1956 (1956-10-02) (age 68)
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| Status:
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Active
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| Number of episodes:
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187
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| First episode:
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"The Last Temptation of Homer"
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| Most recent episode:
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"The Food Wife"
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Mike Scully (born October 2, 1956) is an American writer and producer. He served as executive producer and showrunner of The Simpsons from season 9 to season 12 (1997–2001). He was also interviewed in The Simpsons: Celebrity Friends, The Simpsons: Mischief & Mayhem, The Simpsons: Access All Areas, The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!, and The Simpsons: America's First Family.
Career
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 onwards he became executive producer and showrunner. 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 consulting 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."[1] The BBC noted "the common consensus is that The Simpsons' golden era ended after season nine",[2] 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."[3]
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. He is currently a writer and producer for Parks and Recreation.
Scully is married to fellow writer Julie Thacker. His brother is writer Brian Scully.
Credits
Producer
Written by
Supervising producer
Co-executive producer
Executive producer
Consulting producer
Producer
 Episode – "Moe Baby Blues" - Episode – "The Bart of War"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- 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 Mike 'Insert Scary Name' Scully)- 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"
 – The Simpsons Movie - 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 Mike Scurvy)
- 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"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Sub-Prime Mike Scully)
- 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 'Death Panel' Scully)
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
- Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (as Mike Skullduggery)
- Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
- Episode – "The Food Wife"
- Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
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Showrunner
Interviewee
External links
References
Mike Scully at the Internet Movie Database
Mike Scully at Wikipedia
Mike Scully at Twitter
