---
name: "Mike Scully"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mike-scully"
fi1m_id: "mike-scully"
imdb_id: "nm0780288"
tmdb_id: 165810
wikidata_id: "Q655207"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "2 October 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-01T20:02:52.438086+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mike Scully

## Identity

Mike Scully

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mike-scully
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mike-scully
- **IMDb ID:** nm0780288
- **TMDB ID:** 165810
- **Wikidata ID:** Q655207
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Scully, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q655207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/165810

Writer. Born 2 October 1956 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 2 October 1956, West Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 1989–2009
- **Also known as:** Michael C. Scully, Mike Scary
- **Frequently works with:** [Al Jean](https://film.one/person/al-jean.md), [Dan Castellaneta](https://film.one/person/dan-castellaneta.md), [Dave King](https://film.one/person/dave-king-1298804.md), [David Mirkin](https://film.one/person/david-mirkin.md), [David Silverman](https://film.one/person/david-silverman.md), [Donick Cary](https://film.one/person/donick-cary.md), [George Meyer](https://film.one/person/george-meyer.md), [Greg Daniels](https://film.one/person/greg-daniels.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 2000s 76 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Animation 2, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 1 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $527m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Scully, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q655207, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/165810

## Coming up

- *The New Simpsons Movie* (2027-09-01), Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88), [*The Simpsons Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-simpsons-movie.md) (70)
- **Peacock:** [*Parks and Recreation*](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mike Scully is an American television writer and producer. Born on 2 October 1956 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, he grew up there and developed an early interest in writing. After dropping out of college, he moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, where he worked as a stand-up comic and wrote jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff before entering television.

Scully joined the writing staff of *The Simpsons* in 1993. He wrote twelve episodes for the series, including "Lisa on Ice" and "Team Homer", and served as showrunner and executive producer for seasons 9 to 12 (1997–2001). He co-wrote and co-produced *The Simpsons Movie* (2007) and has continued as a producer on the series. He has won multiple Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the show.

Scully has written for other series including *Everybody Loves Raymond* (1996) and *Parks and Recreation* (2009). He co-created *Duncanville* (2020) with his wife, Julie Thacker, and Amy Poehler, and has worked on projects such as *The Carmichael Show* (2015) and *Shifting Gears* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Parks and Recreation* (2009), Fi1m 83, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md)
- *The Simpsons Movie* (2007), Fi1m 70, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-simpsons-movie.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The New Simpsons Movie* (2027), Producer
- *Shifting Gears* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *A Man on the Inside* (2024), series, as Pearl Babb Glunk — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-man-on-the-inside.md)
- *Duncanville* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Story, Teleplay, Writer, Creator
- *Rel* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *The Carmichael Show* (2015), series, Writer
- *Napoleon Dynamite* (2012), series, Writer, Creator
- *Parks and Recreation* (2009), series, as Pearl · Writer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md)
- *A Terrifying Message from Al Gore* (2007), Thanks
- *The Simpsons Movie* (2007), Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-simpsons-movie.md)
- *Complete Savages* (2004), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *The Simpsons Classics – Sex, Lies & The Simpsons* (2004), Writer
- *The Pitts* (2003), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Story, Creator
- *Everybody Loves Raymond* (1996), series, Writer, Teleplay, Co-Executive Producer
- *Top of the Heap* (1991), series, Writer
- *Grand* (1990), series, Writer
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Out of This World* (1987), series, Producer, Supervising Producer, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Mike Scully at the Simpsons Premiere in Springfield, Vermont](https://film.one/media/person/61913/gallery-8c8b22d87c65.jpg) Mike Scully at the Simpsons Premiere in Springfield, Vermont — The original uploader was Sayden at English Wikipedia.

(Original text: Sayden), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Mike_Scully.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mike Scully at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.](https://film.one/media/person/61913/gallery-100b89ad5d09.jpg) Mike Scully at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Mike_Scully_%285965914105%29.jpg/1280px-Mike_Scully_%285965914105%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mike Scully at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/61913/gallery-b7964b35cbb3.jpg) Mike Scully at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Mike_Scully_at_the_2011_San_Diego_Comic-Con.jpg/1280px-Mike_Scully_at_the_2011_San_Diego_Comic-Con.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mike Scully](https://film.one/media/person/61913/gallery-ecf659bac167.jpg) Mike Scully — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Mike_Scully_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Mike_Scully_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mike Scully at the 2011 Comic Con in San Diego](https://film.one/media/person/61913/gallery-6d1e12b440a4.jpg) Mike Scully at the 2011 Comic Con in San Diego — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Mike_Scully_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/1280px-Mike_Scully_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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