Editing Don Payne

{{Crew
|name= Don Payne
|image= [[File:Don Payne.jpg|200px]]
|gender= {{Male cast}}
|job= Writer<br>Producer
|birthdate= May 5, 1964
|deathdate= {{deathdate|2013|3|26|1964|5|5}}
|status= Deceased
|episodes= 299
|seasons= [[Season 11]] - [[Season 25|25]]
|first episode= "[[Treehouse of Horror X]]"
|latest episode= "[[The Man Who Came to Be Dinner]]"
|album= ''[[The Simpsons: Testify]]''
}}

'''William Donald "Don" Payne''' (May 5, 1964 – March 26, [[2013]]) was an American film and television producer and writer. He served as a writer, consulting producer, co-executive producer, supervising producer, and producer for ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

== Credits ==
=== Written by ===
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*{{ep|The Great Louse Detective)}}
*{{ep|Old Yeller-Belly}}
*{{ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
*{{ep|Thank God It's Doomsday}}
*{{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
*{{ep|Little Big Girl}}
*{{ep|Love, Springfieldian Style}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
*{{ep|Labor Pains}}
*{{ep|White Christmas Blues}}
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=== Producer ===
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=== Supervising producer ===
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIII}}
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
*{{ep|Large Marge}}
*{{ep|Helter Shelter}}
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=== Co-executive producer ===
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*{{ep|The Great Louse Detective}}
*{{ep|Special Edna}}
*{{ep|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}}
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
*{{ep|Barting Over}}
*{{ep|I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can}}
*{{ep|A Star Is Born Again}}
*{{ep|Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington}}
*{{ep|C.E. D'oh}}
*{{ep|'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky}}
*{{ep|Three Gays of the Condo}}
*{{ep|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
*{{ep|Old Yeller-Belly}}
*{{ep|Brake My Wife, Please}}
*{{ep|Moe Baby Blues}}
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV|(as Decapitatin' Don Payne)}}
*{{ep|My Mother the Carjacker}}
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
*{{ep|The Regina Monologues}}
*{{ep|The Fat and the Furriest}}
*{{ep|Today I Am a Clown}}
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays}}
*{{ep|I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot}}
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
*{{ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
*{{ep|Smart and Smarter}}
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
*{{ep|Co-Dependent's Day}}
*{{ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
*{{ep|Catch 'Em If You Can}}
*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
*{{ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XV|(as Don 'Reavers!' Payne)}}
*{{ep|All's Fair in Oven War}}
*{{ep|Sleeping with the Enemy}}
*{{ep|She Used to Be My Girl}}
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
*{{ep|Midnight Rx}}
*{{ep|Mommie Beerest}}
*{{ep|Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass}}
*{{ep|Pranksta Rap}}
*{{ep|There's Something About Marrying}}
*{{ep|On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister}}
*{{ep|Goo Goo Gai Pan}}
*{{ep|Mobile Homer}}
*{{ep|The Seven-Beer Snitch}}
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
*{{ep|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
*{{ep|The Heartbroke Kid}}
*{{ep|A Star Is Torn}}
*{{ep|Thank God It's Doomsday}}
*{{ep|Home Away from Homer}}
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
*{{ep|The Girl Who Slept Too Little}}
*{{ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI|(as Darth Pain)}}
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
*{{ep|See Homer Run}}
*{{ep|The Last of the Red Hat Mamas}}
*{{ep|The Italian Bob}}
*{{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'ohwhere}}
*{{ep|My Fair Laddy}}
*{{ep|The Seemingly Never-Ending Story}}
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
*{{ep|Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife}}
*{{ep|Million-Dollar Abie}}
*{{ep|Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore}}
*{{ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
*{{ep|The Monkey Suit}}
*{{ep|Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play}}
*{{ep|The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer}}
*{{ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVII|(as Dystopian Don Payne)}}
*{{ep|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)}}
*{{ep|Moe'N'a Lisa}}
*{{ep|Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)}}
*{{ep|The Haw-Hawed Couple}}
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II}}
*{{ep|The Wife Aquatic}}
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
*{{ep|Little Big Girl}}
*{{ep|Springfield Up}}
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
*{{ep|Rome-Old and Juli-Eh}}
*{{ep|Homerazzi}}
*{{ep|Marge Gamer}}
*{{ep|The Boys of Bummer}}
*{{ep|Crook and Ladder}}
*{{ep|Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!}}
*{{ep|24 Minutes}}
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
*{{ep|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs}}
*{{ep|The Homer of Seville}}
*{{ep|Midnight Towboy}}
*{{ep|I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVIII|(as Desecrated Don Payne)}}
*{{ep|Little Orphan Millie}}
*{{ep|Husbands and Knives}}
*{{ep|All About Lisa}}
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=== Consulting producer ===
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*{{ep|Funeral for a Fiend}}
*{{ep|Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind}}
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
*{{ep|That '90s Show}}
*{{ep|Love, Springfieldian Style}}
*{{ep|The Debarted}}
*{{ep|Dial "N" for Nerder}}
*{{ep|Smoke on the Daughter}}
*{{ep|Papa Don't Leech}}
*{{ep|Apocalypse Cow}}
*{{ep|Any Given Sundance}}
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
*{{ep|Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes}}
*{{ep|Lost Verizon}}
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIX|(as Don 'The Final Cylon' Payne)}}
*{{ep|Dangerous Curves}}
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
*{{ep|MyPods and Boomsticks}}
*{{ep|The Burns and the Bees}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Drama Queen}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
*{{ep|No Loan Again, Naturally}}
*{{ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
*{{ep|Wedding for Disaster}}
*{{ep|Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe}}
*{{ep|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly}}
*{{ep|Father Knows Worst}}
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
*{{ep|Four Great Women and a Manicure}}
*{{ep|Coming to Homerica}}
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets a "Z"}}
*{{ep|The Great Wife Hope}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX|(as Don 'He Will Knock 4 Times' Payne)}}
*{{ep|The Devil Wears Nada}}
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens}}
*{{ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
*{{ep|Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?}}
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
*{{ep|Once Upon a Time in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe}}
*{{ep|Boy Meets Curl}}
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
*{{ep|Postcards from the Wedge}}
*{{ep|Stealing First Base}}
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa}}
*{{ep|MoneyBart}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXI|(as Disinterred Don Payne)}}
*{{ep|Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
*{{ep|The Fight Before Christmas}}
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
*{{ep|Flaming Moe}}
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
*{{ep|The Blue and the Gray}}
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
*{{ep|The Scorpion's Tale}}
*{{ep|A Midsummer's Nice Dreams}}
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
*{{ep|The Great Simpsina}}
*{{ep|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony}}
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII|(as Donte's Infernal Pain)}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
*{{ep|The Book Job}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
*{{ep|The D'oh-cial Network}}
*{{ep|Moe Goes from Rags to Riches}}
*{{ep|The Daughter Also Rises}}
*{{ep|At Long Last Leave}}
*{{ep|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart}}
*{{ep|How I Wet Your Mother}}
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again}}
*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
*{{ep|Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII|(as Time and Relative Don in Payne)}}
*{{ep|Adventures in Baby-Getting}}
*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
*{{ep|Penny-Wiseguys}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
*{{ep|To Cur, with Love}}
*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
*{{ep|A Test Before Trying}}
*{{ep|The Changing of the Guardian}}
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
*{{ep|Hardly Kirk-ing}}
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
*{{ep|What Animated Women Want}}
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
*{{ep|The Fabulous Faker Boy}}
*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
*{{ep|The Saga of Carl}}
*{{ep|Homerland}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}}
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
*{{ep|YOLO}}
*{{ep|Labor Pains}}
*{{ep|White Christmas Blues}}
*{{ep|Brick Like Me}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
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=== For The Simpsons ===
*{{alb|The Simpsons: Testify}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb|name/nm0668309/}}
*{{Wikipedialink2|Don Payne|writer}}

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{{Executive producers|former co=yes}}
{{Consulting producers|former=yes}}
{{Supervising producers|former=yes}}
{{Producers|former=yes}}
{{Real-world deaths|crew=yes}}
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[[Category:WGA Award nominated writers]]
[[Category:Outstanding Animated Program Emmy winning crew]]
[[Category:The Simpsons: Testify crew]]