Mike Reiss

Writing

Mike Reiss

Born

1959-09-15 (67)

Place of birth

Bristol, Connecticut, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

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!. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Reiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs poster
6.8

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.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

2009

The Simpsons Movie poster
7.0

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.

The Simpsons Movie

2007

Airplane II: The Sequel poster
6.1

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.

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982

My Life in Ruins poster
6.1

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.

My Life in Ruins

2009

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful poster
7.0

The residents of Springfield search for Christmas cheer.

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful

2024

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas poster
6.5

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!

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

2011

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs poster
6.8

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.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

2009

The Simpsons Movie poster
7.0

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.

The Simpsons Movie

2007

Airplane II: The Sequel poster
6.1

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.

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982

My Life in Ruins poster
6.1

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.

My Life in Ruins

2009

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful poster
7.0

The residents of Springfield search for Christmas cheer.

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful

2024

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas poster
6.5

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!

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

2011

Yellow Mirror poster
8.1

A defective lamp reveals a heartbreaking truth about what Homer believes is reality, and an AI-powered tablet befriends and controls Maggie. The Simpsons struggle to find the light through two dark tales of the curious and bizarre.

Yellow Mirror

2026

The New Simpsons Movie poster
NR

The sequel to the 2007 film. Plot TBA.

The New Simpsons Movie

2027

Simpsley poster
8.1

When penniless con-artist Marge Bouvier is sent to Italy to convince wealthy sap Seymour Skinner to come home, she's tempted by the trappings of his affluent lifestyle. But there’s a big fat fly in the ointment: Skinner's clingy, dim-witted mooch of a houseguest, Homer Simpsley. Lies, lust and Italian lira are abound.

Simpsley

2026

Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition poster
7.4

Homer and Marge's fun couples' date night goes off the rails when Marge learns Homer left the kids unsupervised with only the doorbell camera as a babysitter. Frustrated with her imperfect husband, a tipsy Marge stirs up a trilogy of fantasies of a different Homer.

Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition

2026

Surviving Sid poster
6.2

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.

Surviving Sid

2008

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 poster
6.4

This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

2011

Queer Duck: The Movie poster
4.2

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.

Queer Duck: The Movie

2006

Queer Duck: The Movie poster
4.2

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.

Queer Duck: The Movie

2006

How Murray Saved Christmas poster
6.3

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.

How Murray Saved Christmas

2014

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up poster
6.8

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.

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up

2010