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Matt Marshall is an American writer and assistant. He served as a writer and assistant to the producers for The Simpsons.
Early life
- ""I had a Bart Simpson T-shirt when I was 11 or 12 years old, with him dunking a basketball and saying 'Cowabunga.' Now I work with the woman who does that voice.""
- ―Marshall on his childhood
Marshall grew up in Mount Pleasant and Racine, both in Wisconsin. He went to Case High School. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Eight months later he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of working in the entertainment industry.
When he was growing up, Matt was a fan of the Simpsons.
Role on the Simpsons
- "This is what I pretty much have known I wanted to do since I was a kid, to work in the entertainment business"
- ― Matt on the job
Since 2004, Matt has worked as an assistant to the producers and writers, typing what they tell him as they worked through scripts. During this time he "soak[ed] up all their comedy genius".
- "Being a writer you can be in love with your stuff, but not everyone else will be, You have to learn to have thick skin and not take it personally. Let it go. A lot of the scripts get slashed to pieces. It's whatever's the best at the end of the show, whatever's the funniest, that's what matters."
- ―Matt Marshall on script editing
In 2007 he pitched his episode idea, about Grandpa feeling ignored, so they return to a pub in Ireland that he has always wanted to visit. It was approved and he wrote the episode ready for a table read in late 2007 but the Writers Guild of America Strike pushed it back three months and delayed the episode by nearly a year. After the strike the episode went through the standard review process where other writers added to parts of the episode.[1]
Credits
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Assistant to the producers
 Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" - Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
 THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" - Episode – "Dangerous Curves"
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen"
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
- Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
- Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
- Episode – "Wedding for Disaster"
- Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
- Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"
- Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
- Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
- Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
- Episode – "Coming to Homerica"
- Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
- Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
- Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
- Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
- Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"
- Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
- Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
- Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
- Episode – "The Color Yellow"
- Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge"
- Episode – "Stealing First Base"
- Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
- Episode – "American History X-cellent"
- Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
- Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
- Episode – "To Surveil with Love"
- Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
- Episode – "The Bob Next Door"
- Episode – "Judge Me Tender"
- Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
- Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
- Episode – "MoneyBart"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
- Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
- Episode – "The Fool Monty"
- Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
- Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe"
- Episode – "Homer the Father"
- Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
- Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
- Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"
- Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
- Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"
- Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
- Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
- Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
- Episode – "500 Keys"
- Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"
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