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Mirkin and directed
The scene was directed by David Mirkin and was the first time a Simpsons character had been in the real world in the series.
Mirkin has also moved into feature film direction: he directed the films Romy and Michele's High School Reunion ( 1997 ) and Heartbreakers ( 2001 ).
Mirkin served as executive producer for the series, directed most of the episodes, wrote several of them, and oversaw the filming and production of them all, to ensure that they had the correct " tone ".
Mirkin directed the feature film Romy and Michele's High School Reunion in 1997.
Mirkin is a fan of the musician James Taylor ; Taylor guest starred in " Deep Space Homer " and Mirkin directed the music videos for his songs " Enough to Be on Your Way " and " Sea Cruise ".
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a 1997 comedy film starring Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim, and Alan Cumming directed by David Mirkin.
Category: Films directed by David Mirkin
Heartbreakers is a 2001 caper-romantic comedy film directed by David Mirkin.
Category: Films directed by David Mirkin
David Mirkin had the initial idea for the episode, Steve O ' Donnell was the lead writer, and Steven Dean Moore directed.
It was filmed on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City and directed by former executive producer David Mirkin.
It was filmed on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City and directed by David Mirkin, who later said that Fox " couldn't have been less supportive " because they thought it would be too expensive.
It was directed by Carlos Baeza and was the only episode of The Simpsons written by David Mirkin, who was also the executive producer at the time.
The episode was directed by Mark Kirkland, with David Mirkin as executive producer.

Mirkin and several
Mirkin stood down as showrunner after season six, but produced several subsequent episodes, co-wrote The Simpsons Movie ( 2007 ) and remains on the show as a consultant.
Mirkin pitched to the series ' story editors for several years without success, because they had very limited script buying power.
A. O. Scott notes that " several veterans recall the ' crazy David Mirkin years ' as a time of wild inventiveness.
In 1999, several of the Fox executives who had disliked Get a Life came to Mirkin and apologized for the way they had treated the show, stating that they now found it funny.

Mirkin and Newhart
" Mirkin left Newhart in 1988, desiring to work on a single-camera sitcom.
After leaving Newhart, Mirkin wrote freelance scripts for It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Tracey Ullman Show.

Mirkin and episodes
The two approved and offered Mirkin a freelance job writing one of the final nine episodes of show's first season, pending their commissioning by NBC.
The episodes were commissioned, but Mirkin's agent rejected the Cheers job without telling his client, failing to see why Mirkin would want to work on what was then the lowest-rated comedy on television.
The show's production process was lengthy ; Mirkin would rise at to film the show, write further episodes from until, and then repeat that the following day.
Mirkin pitched the plots for the episodes " The Last Temptation of Homer ", " Bart's Girlfriend " and " Homer the Great ".
Mirkin returned to the role of showrunner to produce the episodes " The Joy of Sect " and " All Singing, All Dancing " for season nine.
Mirkin had been the show runner during seasons five and six, but had been brought back to run two episodes during the ninth season.
Show runner David Mirkin thought the Treehouse of Horror episodes were the hardest episodes to do because the staff had to fit in all three stories in only 22 minutes.
Üter, a character from Germany, also makes his first appearance on the show in this segment ; he was conceived as a one-time joke, but reappeared in later episodes because Mirkin felt he was " such a perfect stereotype ".
Before David Mirkin arrived to take over as showrunner for season five, Oakley, Weinstein, O ' Brien and Dan McGrath were the only writers working on the show and spent a month mapping out most of the season's episodes.
Among the show's staff, Mirkin, Kirkland, Groening and Ian Maxtone-Graham list it as one of their favorite episodes.
" David Mirkin told the Daily News of Los Angeles that " Bart's Girlfriend " and " Homer the Great " are his favorite episodes of the season.

Mirkin and wrote
Tricker wrote for the Three's Company spin-off The Ropers so Mirkin wrote a spec script for an episode of The Ropers.
Mirkin wrote a freelance script and in 1984 beat seven other writers to a staff position on the series.
It was the first nomination the show had received in that category and for the first episode Mirkin wrote as the series ' showrunner.
In 1991, Mirkin wrote a pilot with Julie Brown entitled The Julie Show, starring Brown, but NBC did not produce it.
James Berardinelli wrote that Mirkin " brings a lot of energy to the production, always keeping things moving ," while Jack Matthews of The Los Angeles Times says Mirkin " knew exactly what he had here and composed it like frames in a comic strip, ordering cheerful snow-cone colors for everything from the girls ' childlike outfits to the decor of a Laundromat.
" Chris Hewitt of Empire wrote that " Mirkin's direction is a little flat, but he's clearly having tremendous fun ," but Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today opined that Mirkin " never gets the timing right and allows the story to drag with little internal logic.
Additionally, Resnick co-created and wrote for Get A Life with David Mirkin and Chris Elliott.

Mirkin and because
Mirkin has described himself as a " nerd " and was often in trouble as a child because he was " in another world ".
Mirkin was apprehensive about the job because he was aiming to work on Cheers, a show more focused on character-driven humor which Mirkin preferred writing, but felt he could not turn the opportunity down.
The network executives disliked the pilot after seeing an initial run-through, but Mirkin felt that this was because they " didn't get " the show and opted not to change it.
In 2004, Mirkin stated that he " really wasn't at all intimidat to join show's writing crew ," because he " had worked with and written with " many of his fellow writers previously and concluded that, " took this show in a direction that is more personal to me.
Mirkin suggested Maggie Simpson as the culprit because he felt it was funnier and wanted the culprit to be a family member.
Mirkin rejected the project three times because he disliked the script.
" Mirkin has said that Patrick Stewart is " one of the best guest performances " because " he was so committed to character.
Mirkin said he felt the gremlin was well-done because he looked scary and " yet it looks like a completely organic Simpsons character ".
Mirkin suggested Maggie because he felt it was funnier and wanted the culprit to be a family member.
This was because Mirkin was angry about complaints by the United States Congress about the amount of violence in the show and their attempting to censor it.
David Mirkin, the show runner at the time, supported the episode in part because he had just become a vegetarian himself.
Mirkin also enjoyed the use of Apu in the episode, because Apu shows Lisa that " the way to get people to change is through tolerance and understanding.
Executive producer David Mirkin enjoyed directing Goulet because he was " such a good sport " and had " a great sense of humor ".
" Mirkin said this was a joke the staff enjoyed doing because it pointed out how negative and mean-spirited news broadcasts can be, and how they are seemingly " always trying to scare everybody " by creating panic and depression.
Mirkin said the elephant " never quite bonds because it's a very cantankerous animal, a concept that was very important to this episode ".
Executive producer David Mirkin thought it was difficult to make Abe funny because he is a " boring and tedious " character.
Mirkin felt she was easy to work with because she was versatile and keen to do a lot of different things, and as Mirkin expressed it, " easily evil ".
Mirkin liked the scene where Bart is punched by Nelson at the playground because Bart takes a while to recover, which made the scene more realistic.

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