Michael "Mike" Reiss (born September 15, 1959) is an American television comedy writer. He served as a runner, writer, and producer on the animated series The Simpsons and co-created the animated series The Critic. He created and wrote the online cartoon Queer Duck and also worked on screenplays that include: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who!, The Simpsons Movie, and My Life in Ruins!.
The story of legendary comedian Garry Shandling, featuring interviews from nearly four dozen friends, family and colleagues; four decades’ worth of television appearances; and a lifetime of personal journals, private letters and home audio and video footage.
Release Date2018-03-26
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count38
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! is a documentary special that examined the "cultural phenomenon" of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
Release Date2010-01-10
Charactersd Self
Vote Count16
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
Release Date1989-12-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Vote Count10664
A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Release Date1986-09-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count1197
Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, works as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.
Release Date1984-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count69
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
Release Date2012-06-27
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count8049
Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
Release Date2013-06-26
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count11925
Jay Sherman is a TV movie critic who is forced to review the most pathetic films which he always rates as "It stinks." In addition to the film parodies, the show also deals with his personal life: working for a tyrannical media mogul boss, his lovelife and his family.
Release Date1994-01-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count121
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.
Release Date2009-06-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8804
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
Release Date2011-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count7118
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
Release Date1986-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count165
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.
Release Date2005-03-10
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count4874
Thurgood Stubbs lives with his wife, Muriel, in the Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs housing project, where he is the superintendent. This animated comedy follows the adventures of the Subbs and their friends, while taking a satirical view of the ups and downs of life in a big-city housing project.
Release Date1999-01-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count43
Vote Count48
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Release Date2012-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count3834
After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
Release Date2007-07-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8483
An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community, who thinks he has lost his mind, he is determined to save the tiny particle.
Release Date2008-03-03
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count3513
A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.
Release Date2023-07-17
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
When Marty DePolo dies after eating a six-month-old hamburger, he is chosen to be his best friend's guardian angel.
Release Date1997-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
Garry Shandling stars as himself, a neurotic, sardonic stand-up comedian who just happens to be aware he is a sitcom character. Garry spends just as much time interacting with the studio audience as he does the regular cast members, performing monologues and show-closing summations of the episode's events. However, everyone knows they're on TV, not just Garry; and the audience (itself a character) is often involved in the storyline.
Release Date1986-09-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count72
Vote Count18
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
Release Date1982-12-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1248
Not Necessarily the News is a satirical sketch comedy series that first aired on HBO in September 1982 as a comedy special, and then ran as a series from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.
Release Date1983-08-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!
Release Date2011-11-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count697
The residents of Springfield search for Christmas cheer.
Release Date2024-12-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count95
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Release Date2009-06-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count432
An animated series produced by Mike Reiss for Icebox.TV, this show centers around an alcoholic Abraham Lincoln.
Release Date2000-06-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Episode Count14
Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the children he takes with him don't have a very good time.
Release Date2008-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count121
Queer Duck and his partner of 18 months (a lifetime in gay years), Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator, hit a relationship crisis when the fey fowl is wooed by a brassy Broadway broad. Queer Duck wonders if he'd be happier being straight, while Gator the waiter spills his problems to a compassionate Conan O'Brien.
Release Date2006-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count23
This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.
Release Date2011-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count123
Queer Duck is an animated series produced by Mondo that originally appeared on Icebox.com and later moved to the American cable television channel Showtime in 2002, where it aired as a follow-up feature of the American version of Queer as Folk. Although far from being the first gay cartoon character, Queer Duck was the first animated TV series to have homosexuality as its predominant theme. Like several later television cartoons, Queer Duck was animated in Macromedia Flash. The show was created, written and executive produced by Mike Reiss, executive producer of network cartoons The Simpsons and The Critic. The animation was directed and designed by Xeth Feinberg. The theme song for the cartoon was performed by the drag-queen celebrity, RuPaul. Despite the suggestive content, there is no graphic language or any sexual content, but the latter is heavily implied throughout the series and the movie.
Release Date2000-10-11
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count7
Scrat struggles once again to protect his nut.
Release Date2015-11-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count142
One-hour animated special surrounding a surly deli owner Murray Weiner, who is forced to step into Santa's shoes for one Christmas and bumbles his way into doing a great job.
Release Date2014-12-05
DepartmentWriting
JobBook
Vote Count8
You may think you know the history of continental drift, but forget all that. In pursuit of his most sought after possession, Scrat manges to singled-handedly alter the course of Earth’s history.
Release Date2010-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count164
