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|seasons= [[Season 1|Seasons 1]] - [[Season 5|5]], [[Season 6|6]], [[Season 7|7]], [[Season 13|13]] - [[Season 16|16]]
 
|first episode= "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]"
 
|first episode= "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]"
 
|latest episode= "[[Midnight Rx]]"
 
|latest episode= "[[Midnight Rx]]"
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|first album= ''[[Songs in the Key of Springfield]]''
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|latest album= ''[[The Simpsons: Testify]]''
 
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'''Jon Vitti''' is a writer who is most noted for his well-received scripts for the television series ''[[The Simpsons]]''. He has also written for the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' and ''The Critic'' series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including ''Ice Age'' (2002) and ''Robots'' (2005). He is one of 11 writers who worked on ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''.
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'''Jon Vitti''' is an American writer and producer. He served as a writer, producer, story editor and creative consultant for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. He also served as a writer for ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''. He has also worked for ''{{ap|King of the Hill|real world show}}'' and ''[[The Critic]]''.
  
He most recently co-wrote the live-Action/CGI animated adaptations of ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'': ''{{w|Alvin and the Chipmunks (film)|Alvin and the Chipmunks}}'' (2007) and ''{{w|Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel}}'' (2009).
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He has also used the pseudonym '''Penny Wise'''. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "[[Another Simpsons Clip Show]]" and "[[The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on Simpsons DVD commentaries yet ironically his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show "[[So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show]]".
  
He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he contributed to the ''Harvard Lampoon''. Prior to joining the Simpsons show, he had a brief stint with ''Saturday Night Live''. He has stated on a DVD commentary that it was "a very unhappy year".
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== Awards ==
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production|Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[2007]]<ref name="Annie2007">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120208102916/http://annieawards.org/35thwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
  
He is sometimes credited as "John Vitti".
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{{TRsT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program}}|2}}
 
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{{TB|[[1992]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1992/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1992"]</ref>}}
He has also used the pseudonym '''Penny Wise'''. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "[[Another Simpsons Clip Show]]" and "[[The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on Simpsons DVD commentaries yet ironcially his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show "[[So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show]]". The director of "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular", "Pound Foolish", has been revealed to be [[David Silverman]].
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{{TB|"[[Radio Bart]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|3}}
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{{TBT|[[2002]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2002/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2002"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[She of Little Faith]]"}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics}}}}
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{{TB|[[2002]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2002/outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics Television Academy - "Outstanding Music and Lyrics – 2002"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Old Man and the Key]]"<br>{{small|for "[[Ode to Branson]]"}}}}
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}}
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Written by ===
 
=== Written by ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Bart the Genius}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer's Night Out}}
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{{Season1A
*{{ep|The Crepes of Wrath}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an F}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
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}}
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
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{{Season2A
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Lover}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Black Widower|(teleplay by)}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III|(as Vicious Jack Vitti)}}
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{{Season3A
*{{ep|Mr. Plow}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show|(as Penny Wise)}}
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}}
*{{ep|Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily}}
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{{Season4A
*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular|(as Penny Wise)}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Old Man and the Key}}
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|E5n=as Vicious Jack Vitti
*{{ep|Weekend at Burnsie's}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
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}}
*{{ep|Sleeping with the Enemy}}
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{{Season5A
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|E2=yes
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}}
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{{Season6A
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|E3=yes
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|E3n=as Penny Wise
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}}
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{{Season7A
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|E3=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E10n=as Penny Wise
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}}
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{{Season13A
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|E13=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season15A
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|E8=yes
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|E19=yes
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}}
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{{Season16A
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|E3=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
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=== Teleplay by ===
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*{{ep|Black Widower}}
  
 
=== Story editor ===
 
=== Story editor ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Bart the Genius}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer's Odyssey}}
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{{Season1A
*{{ep|There's No Disgrace Like Home}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Bart the General}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Moaning Lisa}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|The Call of the Simpsons}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Telltale Head}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Life on the Fast Lane}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Night Out}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Crepes of Wrath}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Busted}}
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Executive story editor ===
 
=== Executive story editor ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Some Enchanted Evening}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets an F}}
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{{Season1A
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
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|E13=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror}}
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}}
*{{ep|Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish}}
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{{Season2A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Dancin' Homer}}
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{{TC}}
*{{ep|Dead Putting Society}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Thanksgiving}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Daredevil}}
 
*{{ep|Itchy and Scratchy and Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Gets Hit by a Car}}
 
*{{ep|One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish}}
 
*{{ep|The Way We Was}}
 
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
 
*{{ep|Principal Charming}}
 
*{{ep|Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an F}}
 
*{{ep|Old Money}}
 
*{{ep|Brush with Greatness}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
 
*{{ep|The War of the Simpsons}}
 
*{{ep|Three Men and a Comic Book}}
 
*{{ep|Blood Feud}}
 
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Co-producer ===
 
=== Co-producer ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington}}
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{{Season3A
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Like Father, Like Clown}}
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|E4=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II|(as Vicious Jack Vitti)}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Flaming Moe's}}
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|E7n=as Vicious Jack Vitti
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|I Married Marge}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Lisa the Greek}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Lover}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Homer at the Bat}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Separate Vocations}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Dog of Death}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Colonel Homer}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Black Widower}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|The Otto Show}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Bart's Friend Falls in Love}}
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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|E23=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Producer ===
 
=== Producer ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
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{{Season3A
*{{ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}}
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|E24=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Heretic}}
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}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
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{{Season4A|all=yes|E5n=as Vicious Jack Vitti}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III|(as Vicious Jack Vitti)}}
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{{Season5A
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|New Kid on the Block}}
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}}
*{{ep|Mr. Plow}}
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{{Season13A
*{{ep|Lisa's First Word}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Selma's Choice}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|I Love Lisa}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Duffless}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Front}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Whacking Day}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Marge in Chains}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Kancelled}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|She of Little Faith}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
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}}
*{{ep|Jaws Wired Shut}}
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{{Season14A
*{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Lastest Gun in the West}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Old Man and the Key}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Blame It on Lisa}}
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}}
*{{ep|Weekend at Burnsie's}}
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{{Season15A
*{{ep|Gump Roast}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|I Am Furious Yellow}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|The Sweetest Apu}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Papa's Got a Brand New Badge}}
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|E11=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIII}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Large Marge}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Helter Shelter}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Today, I Am a Clown}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
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}}
*{{ep|Smart & Smarter}}
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{{Season16A
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Co-Dependent's Day}}
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|E1n=as Jon Bleedy
*{{ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Catch 'Em If You Can}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
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}}
*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
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{{TC}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XV|(as Jon Bleedy)}}
 
*{{ep|All's Fair in Oven War}}
 
*{{ep|Sleeping with the Enemy}}
 
*{{ep|She Used to Be My Girl}}
 
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
 
*{{ep|Midnight Rx}}
 
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Creative consultant ===
 
=== Creative consultant ===
{{Scroll|
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Bart of Darkness}}
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{{Season6A
*{{ep|Lisa's Rival}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy Land}}
 
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror V}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Girlfriend}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa on Ice}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
 
*{{ep|Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy}}
 
*{{ep|Fear of Flying}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
 
*{{ep|And Maggie Makes Three}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Comet}}
 
*{{ep|Homie the Clown}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Australia}}
 
*{{ep|Homer vs. Patty and Selma}}
 
*{{ep|A Star Is Burns}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Wedding}}
 
*{{ep|Two Dozen and One Greyhounds}}
 
*{{ep|The PTA Disbands}}
 
*{{ep|'Round Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|The Springfield Connection}}
 
*{{ep|Lemon of Troy}}
 
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
 
 
}}
 
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{{TC}}
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=== For The Simpsons ===
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*{{alb|Songs in the Key of Springfield}}
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*{{alb|Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons}}
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*{{alb|The Simpsons: Testify}}
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=== Parody lyrics by ===
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*{{alb|The Simpsons Movie: The Music|("{{ap|Spider Pig|song}}")}}
  
=== Commentary ===
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== References ==
*{{dvdcom|Bart the Genius}}
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{{Reflist}}
*{{dvdcom|Homer's Night Out}}
 
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*{{IMDB|name/nm0900140/}}
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*{{IMDb|name/nm0900140/}}
 
*{{Wikipedialink}}
 
*{{Wikipedialink}}
  
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[[Category:Consultants]]
 
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[[Category:Annie Award nominees]]
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[[Category:Primetime Emmy Award nominated crew]]
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Latest revision as of 13:01, January 26, 2023

Jon Vitti
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Story editor
Writer
Executive story editor
Creative consultant
Co-producer
Producer
Status:
Inactive
Number of episodes: 134
Seasons active: Seasons 1 - 5, 6, 7, 13 - 16
First episode: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Most recent episode: "Midnight Rx"
First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield
Latest album: The Simpsons: Testify


Jon Vitti is an American writer and producer. He served as a writer, producer, story editor and creative consultant for The Simpsons. He also served as a writer for The Simpsons Movie. He has also worked for King of the Hill and The Critic.

He has also used the pseudonym Penny Wise. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "Another Simpsons Clip Show" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on Simpsons DVD commentaries yet ironically his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show".

Awards[edit]

Award Year Episode Result
Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production 2007[1] The Simpsons Movie Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 1992[2] "Radio Bart" Nominated
2002[3] "She of Little Faith"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics 2002[4] "The Old Man and the Key"
for "Ode to Branson"

Credits[edit]

Written by[edit]

Teleplay by[edit]

Story editor[edit]

Executive story editor[edit]

Co-producer[edit]

Producer[edit]

Creative consultant[edit]

For The Simpsons[edit]

Parody lyrics by[edit]

References[edit]


External links[edit]