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As showrunner and executive producer, Scully said his aim was to " not wreck the show ", and he headed up the writing staff and oversaw all aspects of the show's production.
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Regardless, executive producer and former showrunner Mike Scully found that the animators did an " amazing " job animating the setpiece.
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According to executive producer and former showrunner Mike Scully, the idea for the episode was conceived when Fox requested an Easter-themed Simpsons episode that would air on the holiday.
Although he thought the gag was funny, Mike Scully, an executive producer and the showrunner for the episode, cut it because the word " prostitute " had already been uttered " at least a dozen times in the episode.
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It was the first episode Scully wrote for the show, and he would later become showrunner.
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According to The Simpsons showrunner Mike Scully, it is despised by many fans of the show particularly for having an outlandish plotline.
The Simpsons showrunner Mike Scully has expressed regret for cutting this scene out because it " hurts the logic " later in the episode when Captain Jack crawls out of the capitol and reveals himself to everyone, without any explanation to how he got there.
Mike Scully wrote the episode as well as being showrunner for the eleventh season of The Simpsons.
" However, an article in Salon magazine from 2000 points to " Beyond Blunderdome " as the greatest precursor to that Homer would be more predominant as “ Jerkass Homer ” in the Scully era as showrunner, a Homer who " is not only dumb, but also become disgusting and semi-sociopathic.
In the DVD commentary for the episode, the episodes showrunner Mike Scully opined that " there is a lot of truth in this story [...] There are certain requirements that the school has to meet in order to get state funding, and there are things that they'd rather look the other way on if it's gonna cost them money.
" Sunday, Cruddy Sunday " was directed by Steven Dean Moore and co-written by former staff writers Tom Martin, George Meyer, Brian Scully and executive producer and former showrunner Mike Scully.
After the second act, the writers were " stuck ," as executive producer and former showrunner Mike Scully recalled in the DVD commentary for the episode.
While Bart's storyline was pitched by Thacker, the B-story, involving Homer, was conceived by Thacker's husband Mike Scully, who also was an executive producer and the showrunner for the episode.
It became the inspiration for the episode's A-story, while the B-story, which involved Homer selling springs, was conceived by Thacker's husband Mike Scully, an executive producer and the showrunner for the episode.
While Selman was on vacation, executive producer and the episode's showrunner Mike Scully received a phone call from The Simpsons publicist Antonia Coffman, who reported that Selman's comment on East St Louis had been taken " very seriously " by the newspaper.
The design of Homer in a Jamaican attire was very popular among the staff, and Mike Scully, the showrunner for the episode, called the design " great.
It was the first episode that Martin wrote on his own, having previously co-written the season ten episode " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday " with George Meyer, Brian Scully, and The Simpsons showrunner Mike Scully.
In 2009 he wrote: " No matter how hard showrunner Al Jean tried to bring the show back to its roots after Mike Scully turned it into a cartoonish fantasy early in the decade, there was always something missing.
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