Daniel Greaney is an Americantelevisionwriter. He has written forThe Simpsons andThe Office. He was hired duringThe Simpsons'seventh season after writing the first draft of the episode "King-Size Homer",^[1] but left afterseason eleven. He returned to theSimpsons staff during thethirteenth season, and remains involved with the series (as a consulting producer and occasional writer) into the present day.

Greaney attendedHarvard College, where he was president ofHarvard Lampoon and editor of theHarvard Lampoon's nationally distributed parody ofUSA Today. He also worked as an editorial assistant atThe Boston Globe.^[2][3][4][5] AtHarvard Law School, he edited a student publication, competing against a rival publication edited byBarack Obama.^[6] He graduated from Harvard in 1987.^[7]

After college, he worked as areporter forUSA Today and co-authored a book entitledTruly One Nation withUSA Today founderAllen H. Neuharth. He subsequently attendedHarvard Law School and practiced law in New York for two years,^[8] during which time he co-founded PME, a television and media company operating inUkraine and several other former Soviet republics.

Greaney coined the wordembiggen for the 1996 "Lisa the Iconoclast" episode from season seven ofThe Simpsons.^[9]

Greaney has worked on numerous film projects, most notably as composer onBorat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Greaney is credited with writing "Bart to the Future", an episode ofThe Simpsons from 2000 that presented the possibility of aDonald Trump presidency, which would be realized sixteen years later.^[10]

Greaney has written the following episodes:

• "King-Size Homer" (1995)
• "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" (1996)
• "Treehouse of Horror VII" (The Genesis Tub) (1996)
• "My Sister, My Sitter" (1997)
• "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" (The Love-Matic Grampa) (1997)
• "Realty Bites" (1997)
• "This Little Wiggy" (1998)
• "I'm with Cupid" (1999)
• "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" (1999)
• "Bart to the Future" (2000)
• "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" (co-writer) (2003)
• "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" (co-writer) (2004)
• "Bonfire of the Manatees" (2005)
• "Judge Me Tender" (co-writer) (2010)
• "Diggs" (co-writer) (2014)
• "Barthood" (2015)
• "The Great Phatsby" (Part 2 withMatt Selman) (2017)
• "Now Museum, Now You Don't" (2020)
• "Lisa the Boy Scout" (2022)

Greaney wrote the following episodes:

• "Mrs. California" (8.09) (2011)
• "Suit Warehouse" (9.11) (2013)

Greaney worked on the following pilots and short-lived TV series in his two-year break fromThe Simpsons:

• The Michael Richards Show - Producer
• Animals Anonymous - Creator, writer
• Long Distance - Creator, writer

• Dan Greaney atIMDb

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