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|gender= {{Male cast}}
 
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|job= Background layout supervisor<br>Character layout artist<br>Storyboard revisionist<br>Storyboard artist<br>Animatic layout
 
|job= Background layout supervisor<br>Character layout artist<br>Storyboard revisionist<br>Storyboard artist<br>Animatic layout
|birthdate=  
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|birthdate= {{birthdate|1964|10|12}}
 
|status= Active
 
|status= Active
|episodes= 208
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|episodes= 341
|seasons= [[Season 9]] - Present
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|seasons= [[Season 9]] - [[Season 33|33]], [[Season 35|35]] - Present
 
|first episode= "[[Bart Star]]"
 
|first episode= "[[Bart Star]]"
|latest episode= "[[Orange Is the New Yellow]]"
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|latest episode= "[[Women in Shorts]]"
 
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|first short= ''[[The Force Awakens from Its Nap]]''
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'''John Achenbach''' is an animator for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. He currently serves as a storyboard revisionist and has also served as a background layout artist, background layout supervisor, character layout artist, storyboard artist and animatic layout artist.
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'''John Achenbach''' (born October 12, 1964) is an American animator. He currently serves as a storyboard revisionist and previously served as a background layout artist, background layout supervisor, character layout artist, storyboard artist and animatic layout artist for ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Background layout artist ===
 
=== Background layout artist ===
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Bart Carny}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|The Joy of Sect}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Natural Born Kissers}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star}}
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|E13=yes
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|E25=yes
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}}
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{{Season10A
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|E5=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Background layout supervisor ===
 
=== Background layout supervisor ===
*{{ep|All Singing, All Dancing}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|Girly Edition}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season10A
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|E10=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Character designer ===
 
=== Character designer ===
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=== Character layout ===
 
=== Character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Eight Misbehavin'}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|Faith Off}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Bart to the Future}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes}}
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{{Season11A
*{{ep|HOMЯ}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Pokey Mom}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Tennis the Menace}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Simpson Safari}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XII}}
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{{Season12A
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Lastest Gun in the West}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
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}}
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
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{{Season13A
*{{ep|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
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|E12=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Today I Am a Clown}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
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|E21=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XV}}
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}}
*{{ep|Midnight Rx}}
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{{Season14A
*{{ep|There's Something About Marrying}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Dangerous Curves}}
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E21=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season15A
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|E1=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E14=yes
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}}
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{{Season16A
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|E1=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season20A
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|E5=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Storyboard revisions ===
 
=== Storyboard revisions ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|There's Something About Marrying}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
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{{Season16A
*{{ep|The Girl Who Slept Too Little}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
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|E17=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
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}}
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|See Homer Run}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Last of the Red Hat Mamas}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Italian Bob}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'owhere}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Million-Dollar Abie}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Jazzy & The Pussycats}}
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|E16=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVII}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Wife Aquatic}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
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}}
*{{ep|Little Big Girl}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|Springfield Up}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Homerazzi}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Devil Wears Nada}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Kid Is All Right}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|White Christmas Blues}}
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}}
*{{ep|Steal This Episode}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|Specs and the City}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Man Who Grew Too Much}}
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}}
*{{ep|Diggs}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|The Winter of His Content}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The War of Art}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
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}}
*{{ep|Luca$}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|Days of Future Future}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|What to Expect When Bart's Expecting}}
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}}
*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
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}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
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{{Season25A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home For Christmas}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Sky Police}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Waiting for Duffman}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Peeping Mom}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Kids Are All Fight}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Let's Go Fly a Coot}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Bull-E}}
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}}
*{{ep|Mathlete's Feat}}
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{{Season26A
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|'Cue Detective}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Puffless}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Halloween of Horror}}
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|E4=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Friend with Benefit}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Lisa with an "S"}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Paths of Glory}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Barthood}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Girl Code}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Much Apu About Something}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Gal of Constant Sorrow}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Lisa the Veterinarian}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|The Marge-ian Chronicles}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Burns Cage}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Fland Canyon}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|To Courier with Love}}
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}}
*{{ep|Simprovised}}
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{{Season27A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Orange Is the New Yellow}}
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{{Season28A|all=yes}}
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{{Season29A|all=yes}}
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{{Season30A|all=yes}}
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{{Season31A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season32A|all=yes}}
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{{Season33A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
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|E7=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season35A
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E18=yes
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}}
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{{Season36A
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|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Couch gag storyboard ===
 
=== Couch gag storyboard ===
*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'owhere}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|The Seemingly Never-Ending Story}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)}}
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|E11=yes
 +
|E13=yes
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}}
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{{Season18A
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|E5=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Story artist ===
 
=== Story artist ===
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=== Storyboard ===
 
=== Storyboard ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Apocalypse Cow}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
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}}
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Wedding for Disaster}}
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}}
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
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{{Season20A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Postcards from the Wedge}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Chief of Hearts}}
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}}
*{{ep|Moe Letter Blues}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|The Bob Next Door}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Fight Before Christmas}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Flaming Moe}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Blue and the Gray}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony}}
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}}
*{{ep|At Long Last Leave}}
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{{Season22A
*{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Paths of Glory}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Barthood}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E19=yes
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}}
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{{Season23A
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|E14=yes
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}}
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{{Season27A
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E13=yes
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}}
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{{Season35A
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|E13=yes
 +
}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|Bowl=yes
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|StarWars=yes
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|May12th=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Animatic layout ===
 
=== Animatic layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|The Great Simpsina}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
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|E20=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Book Job}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|The D'oh-cial Network}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|At Long Last Leave}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|How I Wet Your Mother}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Ned 'N' Edna's Blend}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
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|E19=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Adventures in Baby-Getting}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Penny-Wiseguys}}
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}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
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{{Season24A
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|To Cur, with Love}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|A Test Before Trying}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Changing of the Guardian}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Hardly Kirk-ing}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|What Animated Women Want}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Fabulous Faker Boy}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Saga of Carl}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Homerland}}
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|E17=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|YOLO}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Labor Pains}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Brick Like Me}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
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}}
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{{Season25A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season26A
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|E10=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
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=== Additional storyboards ===
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*{{ep|The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds}}
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*{{IMDB|name/nm2837372/}}
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*{{IMDb|name/nm2837372/}}
  
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[[Category:Background layout artists]]
 
[[Category:Character layout artists]]
 
[[Category:Storyboard artists]]
 
[[Category:Storyboard revisionists]]
 
[[Category:Animatic layout artists]]
 

Latest revision as of 12:34, November 12, 2024

John Achenbach
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Background layout supervisor
Character layout artist
Storyboard revisionist
Storyboard artist
Animatic layout
Birth date: October 12, 1964 (1964-10-12) (age 60)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 341
Seasons active: Season 9 - 33, 35 - Present
First short: The Force Awakens from Its Nap
Most recent short: May the 12th Be with You
First episode: "Bart Star"
Most recent episode: "Women in Shorts"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie


John Achenbach (born October 12, 1964) is an American animator. He currently serves as a storyboard revisionist and previously served as a background layout artist, background layout supervisor, character layout artist, storyboard artist and animatic layout artist for The Simpsons.

Credits[edit]

Background layout artist[edit]

Background layout supervisor[edit]

Character designer[edit]

Character layout[edit]

Storyboard revisions[edit]

Couch gag storyboard[edit]

Story artist[edit]

Storyboard[edit]

Animatic layout[edit]

Additional storyboards[edit]

External links[edit]