Jim Reardon

Jim Reardon

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Director Storyboard artist Assistant director Supervising director Storyboard consultant Status: Inactive Number of episodes: 279 Seasons active: Season 2 - 21 First episode: "Treehouse of Horror" Most recent episode: "Rednecks and Broomsticks" Game: The Simpsons Game

Jim Reardon is a former animator and director for The Simpsons. He served as a director, storyboard artist, assistant director, supervising director and storyboard consultant.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television Production 1998 "Trash of the Titans" Won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 1995 "Lisa's Wedding" Won 1998 "Trash of the Titans" 1999 "Viva Ned Flanders" Nominated 2000 "Behind the Laughter" Won 2001 "HOMЯ" 2002 "She of Little Faith" Nominated 2003 "Three Gays of the Condo" Won 2004 "The Way We Weren't" Nominated

Credits

Directed by

Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F"" Episode – "Brush with Greatness" Episode – "When Flanders Failed" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" (as Jim Rondo Reardon) Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder" Episode – "Homer at the Bat" Episode – "Dog of Death" Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" Episode – "Homer the Heretic" Episode – "Mr. Plow" Episode – "Duffless" Episode – "Marge in Chains" Episode – "Homer Goes to College" Episode – "Homer the Vigilante" Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant" Episode – "Bart of Darkness" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (as Jaundiced Jim Reardon) Episode – "Homer the Great" Episode – "Lisa's Wedding" Episode – "Lemon of Troy" Episode – "King-Size Homer" Episode – "Bart the Fink" Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield" Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" Episode – "Homer's Enemy" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "Trash of the Titans" Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "Large Marge" Episode – "Simple Simpson"

Storyboard

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" Episode – "Homer the Heretic" Episode – "Homer Goes to College" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" Episode – "King-Size Homer" Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "Trash of the Titans" Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" Episode – "Simple Simpson"

Assistant director

• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror"

• Episode – "Dancin' Homer"

Supervising director

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as Jurassic Jim Reardon) Episode – "The Cartridge Family" Episode – "Bart Star" Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" Episode – "Realty Bites" Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "The Joy of Sect" Episode – "Das Bus" Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity" Episode – "This Little Wiggy" Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" Episode – "Girly Edition" Episode – "Trash of the Titans" Episode – "King of the Hill" Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" Episode – "Lard of the Dance" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "Bart the Mother" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as Jim "Re-Animator" Reardon) Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind" Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" Episode – "Mayored to the Mob" Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" Episode – "Homer to the Max" Episode – "I'm with Cupid" Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" Episode – "Make Room for Lisa" Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive" Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" Episode – "Mom and Pop Art" Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student" Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (as Jim Ishtar Reardon) Episode – "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze" Episode – "Grift of the Magi" Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Faith Off" Episode – "The Mansion Family" Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" Episode – "Pygmoelian" Episode – "Bart to the Future" Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run" Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" Episode – "Behind the Laughter" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (as Chimp Reardon) Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields" Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy" Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "The Great Money Caper" Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" Episode – "HOMЯ" Episode – "Pokey Mom" Episode – "Worst Episode Ever" Episode – "Tennis the Menace" Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" Episode – "Bye, Bye, Nerdie" Episode – "Simpson Safari" Episode – "Trilogy of Error" Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "The Parent Rap" Episode – "Homer the Moe" Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" Episode – "The Blunder Years" Episode – "She of Little Faith" Episode – "Brawl in the Family" Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants" Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West" Episode – "The Old Man and the Key" Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's" Episode – "Gump Roast" Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)" Episode – "The Sweetest Apu" Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten" Episode – "The Frying Game" Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIII" Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" Episode – "Large Marge" Episode – "Helter Shelter" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "Special Edna" Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" Episode – "Pray Anything" Episode – "Barting Over" Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" Episode – "A Star Is Born Again" Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" Episode – "C.E. D'oh" Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly" Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" Episode – "The Bart of War" Episode – "Moe Baby Blues" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (as Jim Rear Window) Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" Episode – "The Regina Monologues" Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest" Episode – "Today I Am a Clown" Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" Episode – "Margical History Tour" Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Episode – "Smart and Smarter" Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day" Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" Episode – "Catch 'Em If You Can" Episode – "Simple Simpson" Episode – "The Way We Weren't" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Fraudcast News" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" (as Jim "Moonlighter" Reardon) Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" Episode – "Midnight Rx"

Storyboard consultant

Episode – "Mommie Beerest" Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" Episode – "Pranksta Rap" Episode – "There's Something About Marrying" Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan" Episode – "Mobile Homer" Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch" Episode – "Future-Drama" Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer" Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" Episode – "A Star Is Torn" Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday" Episode – "Home Away from Homer" Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees" Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI" Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" Episode – "See Homer Run" Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" Episode – "The Italian Bob" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot" Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" Episode – "My Fair Laddy" Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies" Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie" Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" Episode – "Regarding Margie" Episode – "The Monkey Suit" Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa" Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Little Big Girl" Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "Yokel Chords" Episode – "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" Episode – "Homerazzi" Episode – "Marge Gamer" Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" Episode – "Crook and Ladder" Episode – "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!" Episode – "24 Minutes" Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" Episode – "The Homer of Seville" Episode – "Midnight Towboy" Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" Episode – "Husbands and Knives" Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "The Debarted" Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" Episode – "Any Given Sundance" Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" Episode – "All About Lisa" 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" Video game – The Simpsons Game

External links

• Jim Reardon at the Internet Movie Database
• Jim Reardon at Wikipedia
• Jim Reardon at MobyGames

Directors

Current directors Bob Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Lance Kramer • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino Former directors Neil Affleck • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susie Dietter • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa One time directors Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Eric Koenig • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo Supervising directors Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman Second unit directors Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell Other directors Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • Jorge R. Gutierrez • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner

Assistant directors

Current assistant directors Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Manny DeGuzman • Matthew Faughnan • Yelena Geodakyan • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Oscar Pangestu • Dane Romley • Herman Sharaf • Shane K. Sowell • Toni Tysen • Kathy Zielinski Former assistant directors Neil Affleck • Edwin E. Aguilar • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Norman P. Auble • Carlos Baeza • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • David Bastian • David Blum • Scott Brutz • Shaun Cashman • Christianna Lang Daley • Susie Dietter • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Hunilla Fodor • Jonathan Gebhart • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Klay Hall • Mickey Handsome • Matthew Herbert • Sean Hobin • Brian Iles • Jen Kamerman • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Ben Lane • Davy Lauterbach • Grant Lee • Ely Lester • Chris Loudon • Michael Ludy • Richard Manginsay • Michael Marcantel • Tom Mazzocco • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Howy Parkins • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • James Purdum • Alex Que • Jim Reardon • Stephen Reis • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • Alan Smart • Steve Socki • Ralph Sosa • Debbie J. Spafford • Ethan Spaulding • Josh Taback • Cyndi Tang • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee • Thomas Woodall Other assistant directors Colin Heck • Eric Koenig • Drew McPhail • Michael Rundle • Art Seidel • Gregg Vanzo

Storyboard artists and Storyboard revisionists

Current storyboard artists John Achenbach • Norman P. Auble • Timothy Bailey • Bryan Francis • Eric Koenig • Ben Lane • Matt Mantel • Whitney B. Martin • Steven Dean Moore • Arlyne Ramirez • Stephen Reis • Thomas E. Richner • Jeremy Robinson • Matthew Schofield • Ralph Sosa • Michael Tran Former storyboard artists Brad Ableson • Neil Affleck • Edwin E. Aguilar • Scott Alberts • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Martin Archer • Wes Archer • Bob Arkwright • Peter Avanzino • Carlos Baeza • Orlando Baeza • David Bastian • Rudi Berden • Brad Bird • Tim Burgard • Kent Butterworth • Barry Caldwell • Shaun Cashman • Shawna Cha • Bev Chapman • Chris Clements • Vic Cook • Dave Cunningham • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Susie Dietter • Francis Dinglasan • Ralph Eggleston • John Eng • Mark Ervin • Luis Escobar • Dante Fabiero • Matthew Faughnan • Julia "Fitzy" Fitzmaurice • Steven Fonti • Gavin Freitas • Tricia Garcia • Gary Graham • Lucas Gray • Klay Hall • Colin Heck • Matthew Herbert • Jon Hooper • Mark Howard • Kelly Spencer James • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Mike Kazaleh • Celia Kendrick • Mark Kirkland • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Adam Kuhlman • Grant Lee • Glen Lovell • Greg Lovell • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Steven Markowski • Lila Martinez • John Mathot • Ted Mathot • Drew McPhail • Roy Meurin • Bob Miller • Chris Moeller • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Mike Morris • Erik Moxcey • Raymie Muzquiz • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Kevin O'Brien • Michael O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Dan Povenmire • Jim Reardon • Dexter Reed • John Rice • Jerry Richardson • Christian Roman • Eddie Rosas • David Salvador • David Schwartz • Swinton O. Scott III • Ira Sherak • Shane K. Sowell • Cyndi Tang • Vincenzo Trippetti • William Tucker • Adam Van Wyk • Gregg Vanzo • Jason D. Warnesky • Glen Wuthrich • Tomihiro Yamaguchi Other storyboard artists Dominic Bianchi • Rufino Camacho • Oscar Cervantes • Gus Cosio • Guy Davis • Manny DeGuzman • Shannon Denton • Edmund Fong • Cynthia French • Joshua David Gorczyca • Orlando Gumatay • Joe Healy • Boowan Lee • Will Lee • Mary O. Natale • Lena Podesta • Kaley Powers • Dane Romley • Stephen Sandoval • Cole Shortt • Mike Smith • Tom Smith • Aaron Sowd • Dusty Wakefield • Matt Whitlock • Jung-A Yoo Current storyboard revisionists John Achenbach • Luis Escobar • Ben Lane • Grant Lee • Matt Mantel • Michael Marcantel • Whitney B. Martin • Arlyne Ramirez • Michael Tran Former storyboard revisionists Brad Ableson • Edwin E. Aguilar • Scott Alberts • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Martin Archer • Norman P. Auble • Peter Avanzino • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • David Bastian • Rudi Berden • Oscar Cervantes • Shawna Cha • Bev Chapman • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Christianna Lang Daley • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Susie Dietter • Jeanne Erickson • Mark Ervin • Matthew Faughnan • Gavin Freitas • Tricia Garcia • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Lucas Gray • Ken Harsha • Colin Heck • Chris Huicochea • Kelly Spencer James • Geoffrey Johnson • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Jen Kamerman • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Adam Kuhlman • Greg Lovell • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Bryan Maille • Lila Martinez • John Mathot • Drew McPhail • Bob Miller • Steven Dean Moore • Mike Morris • Raymie Muzquiz • Jeff Myers • Kevin O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Audu Paden • Howy Parkins • Dan Povenmire • Norman Quebedeau • Stephen Reis • Jerry Richardson • Thomas E. Richner • Jeremy Robinson • Christian Roman • Sondra Roy • Matthew Schofield • Ira Sherak • Ralph Sosa • Shane K. Sowell • Ethan Spaulding • Cyndi Tang • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Jason D. Warnesky • JC Wegman • Celia Weiss • Glen Wuthrich Other storyboard revisionists Wincat Alcala • Ivaylo Anguelov • Perfecto Badillo • Young Baek • Rob Bou-Saab • David Boudreau • Kristina Bustamante • Won Ki Cho • Louis C. Gallegos • Mike Kim • Dante Leandado • Joseph Lee • Erik Moxcey • Michael Narren • Debbie Shin • Paul Wee • Stephen Wong • Julius Wu Storyboard assistants Martin Archer • Mark Ervin • Tricia Garcia • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Steven Markowski • Kevin O'Brien • Howy Parkins • John Rice • Bill Riling Storyboard consultants Mike B. Anderson • Jim Reardon • David Silverman Storyboard supervisors Steven Dean Moore • Kevin O'Brien • Christian Roman