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|job= Director<br>Background layout artist<br>Character layout artist<br>Main title animator<br>Storyboard artist
 
|job= Director<br>Background layout artist<br>Character layout artist<br>Main title animator<br>Storyboard artist
 
|birthdate=  
 
|birthdate=  
|episodes= 169
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|seasons= [[Season 2]] - [[Season 24|24]]
 
|seasons= [[Season 2]] - [[Season 24|24]]
 
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|first comic= ''[[The Truth About Cats and Mice]]''
 
|first comic= ''[[The Truth About Cats and Mice]]''
 
|latest comic= ''[[Maggie's Mobilization]]''
 
|latest comic= ''[[Maggie's Mobilization]]''
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|first book= ''[[Big Bouncy Book of Bart Simpson]]''
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|latest book= ''[[Bartman: The Hero's Handbook]]''
 
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== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Directed by ===
 
=== Directed by ===
*{{ep|All Singing, All Dancing}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
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|E11=yes
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{{Season10A
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|E11=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Background layout artist ===
 
=== Background layout artist ===
*{{ep|Bart Gets an "F"}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
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{{Season2A
*{{ep|Dancin' Homer}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Dead Putting Society}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Bart vs. Thanksgiving}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Way We Was}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an "F"}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Old Money}}
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|E13=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E17=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Main title animation ===
 
=== Main title animation ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Dancin' Homer}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Dead Putting Society}}
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{{Season2A
*{{ep|Bart vs. Thanksgiving}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Daredevil}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy & Marge}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Bart Gets Hit by a Car}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Way We Was}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Principal Charming}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an "F"}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Old Money}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Brush with Greatness}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The War of the Simpsons}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Three Men and a Comic Book}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Blood Feud}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
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}}
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
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{{Season3A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
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{{Season4A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Like Father, Like Clown}}
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{{Season5A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Flaming Moe's}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
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}}
*{{ep|I Married Marge}}
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{{TC}}
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Greek}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Lover}}
 
*{{ep|Homer at the Bat}}
 
*{{ep|Separate Vocations}}
 
*{{ep|Dog of Death}}
 
*{{ep|Colonel Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Black Widower}}
 
*{{ep|The Otto Show}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Friend Falls in Love}}
 
*{{ep|Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?}}
 
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
 
*{{ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Heretic}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III}}
 
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
 
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
 
*{{ep|New Kid on the Block}}
 
*{{ep|Mr. Plow}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's First Word}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
 
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
 
*{{ep|Selma's Choice}}
 
*{{ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
 
*{{ep|I Love Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Duffless}}
 
*{{ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show}}
 
*{{ep|The Front}}
 
*{{ep|Marge in Chains}}
 
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Kancelled}}
 
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
 
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Goes to College}}
 
 
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=== Character layout ===
 
=== Character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Blood Feud}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Like Father, Like Clown}}
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{{Season2A
*{{ep|I Married Marge}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Separate Vocations}}
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}}
*{{ep|Black Widower}}
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{{Season3A
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's First Word}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Front}}
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}}
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
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{{Season4A
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Rosebud}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy Land}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Homie the Clown}}
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}}
*{{ep|Bart Sells His Soul}}
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{{Season5A
*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Two Bad Neighbors}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Day the Violence Died}}
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|E4=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VII}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Springfield Files}}
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{{Season6A
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Sax}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Mother}}
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}}
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
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{{Season7A
*{{ep|Blame It on Lisa}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|The Sweetest Apu}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
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*{{ep|The Great Louse Detective}}
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{{Season8A
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|A Star Is Born Again}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|C.E. D'oh}}
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}}
*{{ep|Three Gays of the Condo}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Fat and the Furriest}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
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}}
*{{ep|Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|The Heartbroke Kid}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
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}}
*{{ep|See Homer Run}}
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{{Season13A
*{{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Boys of Bummer}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Crook and Ladder}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs}}
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*{{ep|That '90s Show}}
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{{Season14A
*{{ep|The Debarted}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Dial "N" for Nerder}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Papa Don't Leech}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|All About Lisa}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|MyPods and Boomsticks}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Blue and the Gray}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
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{{Season15A
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Moe Goes from Rags to Riches}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart}}
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|E8=yes
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|E17=yes
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{{Season17A
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|E3=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E9=yes
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{{Season18A
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|E2=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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{{Season19A
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|E1=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E20=yes
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{{Season20A
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|E3=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E13=yes
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}}
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{{Season22A
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|E13=yes
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{{Season23A
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|E3=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E15=yes
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{{TC}}
 
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=== Storyboard ===
 
=== Storyboard ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|The Boy Who Knew Too Much}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Lisa Gets an "A"}}
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{{Season5A
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
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}}
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|She Used to Be My Girl}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Pranksta Rap}}
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}}
*{{ep|Funeral for a Fiend}}
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{{Season15A
*{{ep|That '90s Show}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Dial "N" for Nerder}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?}}
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}}
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe}}
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{{Season16A
*{{ep|Boy Meets Curl}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Stealing First Base}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Squirt and the Whale}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|To Surveil with Love}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
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}}
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
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{{Season20A
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
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}}
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again}}
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|E12=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season22A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season23A
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|E19=yes
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=== Assistant director ===
 
=== Assistant director ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood}}
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{{Season4A
*{{ep|Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|The Boy Who Knew Too Much}}
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}}
*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
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{{Season5A
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Burns, Baby Burns}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|My Sister, My Sitter}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Enemy}}
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}}
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
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{{Season6A
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
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|E25=yes
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}}
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{{Season7A
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|E22=yes
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{{Season8A
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|E4=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E23=yes
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}}
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{{Season9A
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|E1=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
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=== Lead character layout ===
 
=== Lead character layout ===
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
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|E17=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}}
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season24A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Pencils ===
 
=== Pencils ===
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*{{bon|The Truth About Cats and Mice}}
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'''Bart Simpson:'''
*{{bon|Maggie's Mobilization}}
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{{BartSimpsonA
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|I18S2=yes
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|I19S3=yes
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{{TC}}
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=== Contributing artist ===
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{{BooksA
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|TSHftH=yes
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|BMTSH=yes
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{{TC}}
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
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[[Category:Main title animators]]
 
[[Category:Main title animators]]
 
[[Category:Comic crew]]
 
[[Category:Comic crew]]
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[[Category:Book crew]]
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[[Category:Book artists]]
 
[[Category:Pencillers]]
 
[[Category:Pencillers]]

Latest revision as of 14:04, April 16, 2024

Mark Ervin
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Director
Background layout artist
Character layout artist
Main title animator
Storyboard artist
Status:
Inactive
Number of episodes: 171
Number of comic stories: 2
Seasons active: Season 2 - 24
First episode: "Bart Gets an "F""
Most recent episode: "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie
First comic: The Truth About Cats and Mice
Most recent comic: Maggie's Mobilization
First book: Big Bouncy Book of Bart Simpson
Most recent book: Bartman: The Hero's Handbook


Mark Ervin is a former animator and director for The Simpsons. He served as a director, background layout artist, main title animator, storyboard artist, character layout artist and assistant director. He also worked for Futurama and Family Guy.

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Bart Simpson:

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