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Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan are a television writing team who have worked on television comedies ''Family Guy'', ''Scrubs (TV series), Scrubs'', and ''Community (TV series), Community''. Another project was the television pilot ''Nobody's Watching'', which they created and wrote with ''Scrubs'' creator Bill Lawrence (producer), Bill Lawrence. He is also co-writing ''Superior Donuts (TV series), Superior Donuts'' from 2017 to 2018. The character on ''Family Guy'' named Neil Goldman (Family Guy), Neil Goldman is named after Goldman, though the real-life Neil Goldman has not written any episodes featuring his fictitious counterpart.


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''Family Guy''

They have written ''Family Guy'' episodes "Mind Over Murder", "Da Boom", "Running Mates (Family Guy), Running Mates" and "E. Peterbus Unum". Eventually Goldman and Donovan became story editors for the show, and later became executive story editors. The character Neil Goldman (Family Guy), Neil Goldman is named after Goldman.


''Scrubs''

For ''Scrubs'', the two have collaborated on "My Two Dads (Scrubs episode), My Two Dads", "My Balancing Act (Scrubs episode), My Balancing Act", "My Hero (Scrubs episode), My Hero", "My Sex Buddy", "My Interpretation (Scrubs episode), My Interpretation", "My Screw Up", "My Cake (Scrubs episode), My Cake", "My Way Home (Scrubs episode), My Way Home", "My Urologist (Scrubs episode), My Urologist", "My Best Friend's Baby's Baby and My Baby's Baby", "My Point of No Return", "My Own Worst Enemy (Scrubs), My Own Worst Enemy", and "My Chief Concern". In the episode "My Boss' Free Haircut", the character of Nell Goldman is named after Goldman, and in "My ABC's", J.D. is initially going to choose two interns named Neil and Garrett to mentor. Goldman and Donovan acted as executive producers on the show, but left after the eighth season.


''Community''

Goldman and Donovan served as executive producers on NBC's ''Community (TV series), Community'' starring Joel McHale and Chevy Chase from 2009 to 2012. The pair left the show following its third season and signed a development with 20th Century FOX TV. The characters of Fat Neil and Garrett are named after Goldman and Donovan respectively.


''Superior Donuts''

Goldman and Donovan, along with Bob Daily, are the developers of ''Superior Donuts (TV series), Superior Donuts'' that aired on CBS from February 2, 2017, to May 14, 2018.


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