Question: What career did the fifth-season showrunner of the Simpsons originally intend to pursue?

<P0-S0> Charles Rufus Brown (1849 – 1914) was an American Baptist clergyman and Biblical scholar. <P0-S1>  He did not originally intend such a career, even though his father was a Baptist clergyman. <P0-S2>  Aiming at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, he graduated and was serving in the Navy when he felt a call to the clergy. <P0-S3>  Resigning, he spent the next several years learning the languages and scholarship of the Bible, publishing and teaching at last in the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. <P0-S4>  He came home to a small Baptist ministry in New Hampshire. <SEP> <P1-S0>  Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia and intended to become an electrical engineer, but abandoned this career path in favor of studying film at Loyola Marymount University. <P1-S1>  After graduating, he became a stand-up comedian, and then moved into television writing. <P1-S2>  He wrote for the sitcoms "Three's Company", "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show" and served as showrunner on the series "Newhart". <P1-S3>  After an unsuccessful attempt to remake the British series "The Young Ones", Mirkin created "Get a Life" in 1990. <P1-S4>  The series starred comedian Chris Elliott and ran for two seasons, despite a lack of support from many Fox network executives, who disliked the show's dark and surreal humor. <P1-S5> David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. <P1-S6>  He moved on to create the sketch show "The Edge" starring his then-partner, actress Julie Brown. <SEP> <P2-S0>  The showrunner for the fifth production season was David Mirkin who executive produced 20 episodes. <P2-S1>  Al Jean and Mike Reiss executive produced the remaining two, which were both hold overs that were produced for the previous season. <P2-S2>  The season contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes, including "Cape Feare" and "Rosebud". <P2-S3>  It also includes the 100th episode, "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song". <P2-S4>  The season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program as well as an Environmental Media Award and a Genesis Award. <P2-S5> "The Simpsons"' fifth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 30, 1993 and May 19, 1994. <P2-S6>  The DVD box set was released in Region 1 on December 21, 2004, Region 2 on March 21, 2005, and Region 4 on March 23, 2005. <SEP> <P3-S0> "I Do, Adieu" is the fifth-season finale of the American television sitcom "Cheers", written by Glen and Les Charles and directed by James Burrows. <P3-S1>  It originally aired on May 7, 1987 on NBC. <P3-S2>  During the fifth season, Sam Malone (Ted Danson) repeatedly proposes to Diane, and she refuses repeatedly until she accepts engagement in "Chambers vs. Malone" (1987). <P3-S3>  In the previous episode, "A House Is Not a Home", Sam and Diane bought a house together. <P3-S4>  Before this episode aired, Ted Danson decided to renew his contract with the show as Sam Malone, while Shelley Long decided to quit the series, which could conclude the on-and-off romance of "Sam and Diane" that went on for the first five years since 1982. <P3-S5>  Ideas were attempted to write Diane off and to end the story arc, but some ideas were kept in and others thrown out.