 Scully was a writer and co @-@ executive producer on Everybody Loves Raymond for part of season seven and all of season eight , winning an Emmy for his work . Scully co @-@ created ( with wife Julie Thacker ) The Pitts for Fox and Complete Savages for ABC , which was produced by Mel Gibson . The Pitts was a sitcom about a family suffering from bad luck . Thacker stated the show was designed " as a companion piece for The Simpsons . It had a very cartoony feel to it . We always knew the initial audience for the show would be 12 @-@ year @-@ olds to start , and then when families saw that the writing was very Simpsons - like , because many of the writers were from The Simpsons , [ we thought ] families would start to watch it together . " It was canceled after six episodes ; Scully and Thacker laid the blame for this on the show 's timeslot , 9 : 30 P.M. , which was too late for the target audience . Complete Savages , which Thacker and Scully wrote with the " Simpsons sensibility " of layered jokes , was canceled in January 2005 due to low ratings and network anger at Scully and Thacker 's decision to write to TV critics in what the Hartford Courant labelled " unsanctioned promoting " . A fan of NRBQ , Scully produced , with Thacker , a documentary about the band in 2003 entitled NRBQ : Rock ' n ' Roll 's Best Kept Secret ; Scully employed the group as the " unofficial house band " of The Simpsons during his tenure as showrunner . Scully also created a pilot for Fox called Schimmel in 2000 , starring Robert Schimmel , which was dropped after Schimmel was diagnosed with cancer . 
