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

 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.  After graduating, he became a stand-up comedian, and then moved into television writing. David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer.  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".  After an unsuccessful attempt to remake the British series "The Young Ones", Mirkin created "Get a Life" in 1990.  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.  He moved on to create the sketch show "The Edge" starring his then-partner, actress Julie Brown. <SEP>  The showrunner for the fifth production season was David Mirkin who executive produced 20 episodes.  Al Jean and Mike Reiss executive produced the remaining two, which were both hold overs that were produced for the previous season.  The season contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes, including "Cape Feare" and "Rosebud".  It also includes the 100th episode, "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song".  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.  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. "The Simpsons"' fifth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 30, 1993 and May 19, 1994. <SEP> Charles Rufus Brown (1849 – 1914) was an American Baptist clergyman and Biblical scholar.  He did not originally intend such a career, even though his father was a Baptist clergyman.  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.  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.  He came home to a small Baptist ministry in New Hampshire. <SEP> "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.  It originally aired on May 7, 1987 on NBC.  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).  In the previous episode, "A House Is Not a Home", Sam and Diane bought a house together.  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.  Ideas were attempted to write Diane off and to end the story arc, but some ideas were kept in and others thrown out.