Mike Reiss (Writing)
Little is known about Mike Reiss, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
The residents of Springfield search for Christmas cheer.
Release Date: 2024-12-16
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 86
Command Z
A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.
Release Date: 2023-07-17
Department: Crew
Job: Thanks
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 1
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
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 Date: 2018-03-26
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 31
Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe
Scrat struggles once again to protect his nut.
Release Date: 2015-11-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 130
How Murray Saved Christmas
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 Date: 2014-12-05
Department: Writing
Job: Book
Vote Count: 8
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
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 Date: 2011-11-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 649
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.
Release Date: 2011-11-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 112
Rio
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 Date: 2011-04-03
Department: Writing
Job: Script Consultant
Vote Count: 6740
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
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 Date: 2009-06-26
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 8386
My Life in Ruins
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 Date: 2009-06-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 416
Ice Age: Surviving Sid
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 Date: 2008-10-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 111
The Simpsons Movie
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 Date: 2007-07-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 8067
Queer Duck: The Movie
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 Date: 2006-07-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 21
Queer Duck
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 Date: 2000-10-11
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 6
Hard Drinkin' Lincoln
An animated series produced by Mike Reiss for Icebox.TV, this show centers around an alcoholic Abraham Lincoln.
Release Date: 2000-06-01
Department: Crew
Job: Creator
Episode Count: 14
The PJs
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 Date: 1999-01-10
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 43
Vote Count: 40
Teen Angel
When Marty DePolo dies after eating a six-month-old hamburger, he is chosen to be his best friend's guardian angel.
Release Date: 1997-09-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 14
The Critic
The Critic is an American prime time animated series created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had previously worked as writers and showrunners on The Simpsons. The show follows the life of a 36-year-old film critic from New York named Jay Sherman, voiced by Jon Lovitz. 23 episodes were produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994 and finishing its original run on Fox in 1995.
Release Date: 1994-01-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 23
Vote Count: 109
The Simpsons
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 Date: 1989-12-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 10058
Sledge Hammer!
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 Date: 1986-09-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 151
ALF
A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Release Date: 1986-09-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 1116
It's Garry Shandling's Show
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 Date: 1986-09-10
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 72
Vote Count: 16
Charles in Charge
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 Date: 1984-10-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 64
Not Necessarily the News
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 Date: 1983-08-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 4