Mike Scully

Okay, yeah, they mentioned that on the commentary.

And of course, the real connection here is Mike Scully is a writer for Everybody Loves Raymond.

Yes.

Oh, okay.

He, he was co-executive producer on one of the last seasons, 'cause he's 03 to 04, so I think the second to last season.

But, and I think, do I remember correctly, Bob, that Phil Rosenthal, the co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, that he is in The Simpsons Movie as a favor because he let Mike Scully write on The Simpsons Movie when he should have been working on Raymond?

You are correct.

I looked into this because it was like, oh, he did a random TV dad voice for The Simpsons Movie.

And, you know, I never ran.

The one era, you know, in the 1990s I never wrote anything for was Mike Scully's show.

And so there were actually days when Mike Scully ran the room when I was busy.

And so I got to have, like, Mike's working in a room run by Mike Scully.

That's cool.

That was a real privilege.

Or unless they're both funny or whatever.

But here's Mike Scully again on old Twitter, who I believe is a writer for The Simpsons.

Mike Scully saying- saying, I was in the room when it was pitched and laughed because I thought it meant he was great at sleeping.

So here's Mike Scully in the room when this joke is pitched, and he immediately laughs at it in the quote-unquote wrong interpretation, in that he thought it was that Ralphie was saying that he was great at sleeping.

Which, to

remind our listeners, was also my interpretation.

right and and purportedly the person who wrote the joke was saying no i was just saying that when he goes to sleep he dreams that he's a viking so the person who pitched the joke had one thing in mind and like immediately immediately immediately at the time the joke was pitched the other interpretation was there at nanosecond one from another comedy writer on this sentence not like a novice not like someone who didn't know the character or know the writer like right there in the room all right he's immediately laughing at it because it meant he thought he was great at sleeping um My take before this was that they probably meant that when he goes to sleep, he dreams he's a Viking, but that it's way funnier to me to think of it as him saying he's great at sleeping.

And I think that's what Mike Scully was thinking, too, and that that's the funnier interpretation.