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|seasons= [[Season 6]] - [[Season 8|8]], [[Season 14|14]] - Present
 
|seasons= [[Season 6]] - [[Season 8|8]], [[Season 14|14]] - Present
 
|first episode= "[[Homer Badman]]"
 
|first episode= "[[Homer Badman]]"
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|latest episode= "[[Desperately Seeking Lisa]]"
 
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'''Ely Lester''' is an animator for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. He currently serves as a character layout artist and previously served as an assistant director.
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'''Ely Lester''' is an animator. He currently serves as a character layout artist for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and previously served as an assistant director.
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Character layout ===
 
=== Character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|width=78%|
 
{{Scroll|width=78%|
*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|And Maggie Makes Three}}
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{{Season6A
*{{ep|The PTA Disbands}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Springfield Connection}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular}}
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|E25=yes
*{{ep|Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield}}
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}}
*{{ep|Bart on the Road}}
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{{Season7A
*{{ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Much Apu About Nothing}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|You Only Move Twice}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Date with Density}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Three Gays of the Condo}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Brake My Wife, Please}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|The Regina Monologues}}
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}}
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
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{{Season8A
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|All's Fair in Oven War}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Mommie Beerest}}
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}}
*{{ep|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
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{{Season14A
*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Italian Bob}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore}}
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}}
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
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{{Season15A
*{{ep|Moe'N'a Lisa}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|The Haw-Hawed Couple}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Little Big Girl}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!}}
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}}
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{{Season16A
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|E2=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E16=yes
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}}
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{{Season17A
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|E1=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E17=yes
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}}
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{{Season18A
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|E3=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
 
*{{mov}}
 
*{{mov}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVIII}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|Husbands and Knives}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Smoke on the Daughter}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
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}}
*{{ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
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{{Season20A
*{{ep|Four Great Women and a Manicure}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|The Fight Before Christmas}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Great Simpsina}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The D'oh-cial Network}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Saga of Carl}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|Married to the Blob}}
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|E8=yes
*{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Waiting for Duffman}}
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}}
*{{ep|Mathlete's Feat}}
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{{Season24A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Fland Canyon}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Havana Wild Weekend}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
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{{Season25A
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Cad and the Hat}}
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}}
*{{ep|Looking for Mr. Goodbart}}
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{{Season26A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVIII}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Frink Gets Testy}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|No Good Read Goes Unpunished}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Left Behind}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|I Want You (She's So Heavy)}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Frinkcoin}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds}}
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{{Season27A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXXI}}
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|E5=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E19=yes
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}}
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{{Season28A
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|E7=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season29A
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|E4=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E19=yes
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}}
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{{Season30A
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|E16=yes
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}}
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{{Season31A
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|E6=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season32A
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|E4=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season33A
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|E2=yes
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|E5=yes
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}}
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{{Season34A
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|E2=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season35A
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|E8=yes
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}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|Bowl=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Lead character layout ===
 
=== Lead character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Squirt and the Whale}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|MoneyBart}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
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|E19=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|How I Wet Your Mother}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|A Test Before Trying}}
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}}
*{{ep|YOLO}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|Labor Pains}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Luca$}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge}}
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|E16=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
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}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
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{{Season24A
*{{ep|Let's Go Fly a Coot}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Friend with Benefit}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Girl Code}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Marge-ian Chronicles}}
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{{Season25A
*{{ep|Orange Is the New Yellow}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|There Will Be Buds}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|22 for 30}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Springfield Splendor}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Whistler's Father}}
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}}
*{{ep|King Leer}}
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{{Season26A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|The Girl on the Bus}}
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}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
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{{Season27A
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
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}}
*{{ep|Highway to Well}}
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{{Season28A
*{{ep|The Way of the Dog}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Podcast News}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Dad-Feelings Limited}}
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}}
 +
{{Season29A
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|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E16=yes
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}}
 +
{{Season30A
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|E4=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E8=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E23=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season31A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season32A
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season33A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season34A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season35A
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season36A
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
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}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Assistant director ===
 
=== Assistant director ===
*{{ep|The Scorpion's Tale}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Man Who Grew Too Much}}
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}}
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{{Season23A
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|E22=yes
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}}
 +
{{Season24A
 +
|E15=yes
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}}
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{{Season25A
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|E13=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Animatic layout ===
 
=== Animatic layout ===
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== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*{{IMDB|name/nm2109332/}}
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*{{IMDb|name/nm2109332/}}
  
 
{{Assistant directors|former=yes}}
 
{{Assistant directors|former=yes}}
 
{{Animatic layout artists|former=yes}}
 
{{Animatic layout artists|former=yes}}
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{{Character layout artists|current=yes}}
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lester, Ely}}
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lester, Ely}}
 
[[Category:Character layout artists]]
 

Latest revision as of 12:12, October 22, 2024

Ely Lester
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Character layout artist
Assistant director
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 146
Seasons active: Season 6 - 8, 14 - Present
First episode: "Homer Badman"
Most recent episode: "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie


Ely Lester is an animator. He currently serves as a character layout artist for The Simpsons and previously served as an assistant director.

Credits[edit]

Character layout[edit]

Lead character layout[edit]

Assistant director[edit]

Animatic layout[edit]

External links[edit]