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|name= Michael Polcino
 
|name= Michael Polcino
 
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|gender= Male
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|gender= {{Male cast}}
 
|job= Layout artist<br>Animation timer<br>Assistant director<br>Director
 
|job= Layout artist<br>Animation timer<br>Assistant director<br>Director
|birthdate=  
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|birthdate= {{birthdate|1962|4|27}}
 
|status= Active
 
|status= Active
|episodes= 43
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|episodes= 172
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|seasons= [[Season 3]] - Present
 
|first episode= "[[Bart the Murderer]]"
 
|first episode= "[[Bart the Murderer]]"
|latest episode= "[[The Ten-Per-Cent Solution]]"
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|latest episode= "[[Warrin' Priests: Part Two]]"
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|short= ''[[The Longest Daycare]]''
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|game= ''[[The Simpsons Game]]''
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|comics= 3
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|first comic= ''[[Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips]]''
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|latest comic= ''[[Dr. Crab's Commie Comics]]''
 
}}
 
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'''Michael "Mike" Polcino''' is a layout artist, animation timer, assistant director and director for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. His brother, [[Dominic Polcino]], is a former ''The Simpsons'' director and currently works on ''[[Family Guy]]''.
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'''Michael "Mike" Polcino''' (born April 27, 1962) is an American animator and director for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. He serves as a director and animation timer and previously served as a character layout artist, assistant director and retake director. He also served as an artist for [[Bongo Comics]]. His brother, [[Dominic Polcino]], is a former ''The Simpsons'' director.
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
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=== Directed by ===
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*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
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*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
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*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
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*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
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*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
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*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
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*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
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*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
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*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
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*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
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*{{ep|The Homer of Seville}}
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*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
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*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
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*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
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*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
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*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
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*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
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*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
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*{{ep|YOLO}}
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*{{ep|Diggs}}
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*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
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*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
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*{{ep|Mathlete's Feat}}
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*{{ep|Fland Canyon}}
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*{{ep|Trust but Clarify}}
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*{{ep|Looking for Mr. Goodbart}}
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*{{ep|Singin' in the Lane}}
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*{{ep|Throw Grampa from the Dane}}
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*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
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*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
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*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
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*{{ep|Screenless}}
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=== Character layout artist ===
 
=== Character layout artist ===
 
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
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*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
 
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
 
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
*{{ep|Radio Bart|(as Mike Polcino)}}
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*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
 
*{{ep|Colonel Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Colonel Homer}}
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*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
 
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
 
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
 
=== Storyboard cleanup ===
 
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
 
  
 
=== Animation timer ===
 
=== Animation timer ===
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*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
 
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*{{ep|Lemon of Troy}}
 
*{{ep|Lemon of Troy}}
 
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
 
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
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*{{ep|King-Size Homer}}
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*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular}}
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*{{ep|Bart the Fink}}
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*{{ep|Homer the Smithers}}
 
*{{ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
 
*{{ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
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*{{ep|Burns, Baby Burns}}
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*{{ep|El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer}}
 
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
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*{{ep|Lisa's Sax}}
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*{{spec|The Longest Daycare}}
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}}
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=== Additional timer ===
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*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
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*{{ep|Homer's Enemy}}
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*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
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*{{ep|The Girl Who Slept Too Little}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
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*{{ep|The Last of the Red Hat Mamas}}
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*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
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*{{ep|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony}}
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*{{ep|500 Keys}}
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*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
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*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
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*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
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*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
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*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
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*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
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*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
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*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
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*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
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*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
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*{{ep|The War of Art}}
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*{{ep|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge}}
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*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
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*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
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*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
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*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
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*{{ep|Sky Police}}
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*{{ep|Puffless}}
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*{{ep|Halloween of Horror}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI}}
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*{{ep|Paths of Glory}}
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*{{ep|Barthood}}
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*{{ep|The Girl Code}}
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*{{ep|Much Apu About Something}}
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*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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*{{ep|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back}}
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*{{ep|To Courier with Love}}
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*{{ep|Simprovised}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVII}}
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*{{ep|There Will Be Buds}}
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*{{ep|Dad Behavior}}
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*{{ep|The Last Traction Hero}}
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*{{ep|The Nightmare After Krustmas}}
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*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
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*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
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*{{ep|Dogtown}}
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*{{ep|Springfield Splendor}}
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*{{ep|Mr. Lisa's Opus}}
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*{{ep|Gone Boy}}
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*{{ep|Homer Is Where the Art Isn't}}
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*{{ep|Fears of a Clown}}
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*{{ep|King Leer}}
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*{{ep|Forgive and Regret}}
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*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
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*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
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*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
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*{{ep|Mad About the Toy}}
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*{{ep|The Girl on the Bus}}
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*{{ep|Woo-Hoo Dunnit?}}
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*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
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*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
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*{{ep|Livin la Pura Vida}}
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*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror}}
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*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
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*{{ep|Hail to the Teeth}}
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*{{ep|The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby}}
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*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part One}}
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*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part Two}}
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=== Assistant director ===
 
=== Assistant director ===
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*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
 
*{{ep|Lard of the Dance}}
 
*{{ep|Lard of the Dance}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IX}}
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*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
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*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
 
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
 
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
  
=== Retake director ===
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=== Storyboard ===
*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
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*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
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*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
 
 
 
=== Director ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
 
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
 
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
 
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
 
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
 
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
 
 
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
 
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
 
*{{ep|The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star}}
 
 
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
 
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
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*{{ep|Homer of Seville}}
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=== Storyboard cleanup ===
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
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*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
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=== Retake director ===
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
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{{Scroll|
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
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*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
*{{ep|How Munched is that Birdie in the Window?}}
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*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
*{{ep|Love is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
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*{{ep|I'm with Cupid}}
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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*{{ep|Make Room for Lisa}}
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*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
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*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
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*{{ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
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*{{ep|The Old Man and the "C" Student}}
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*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
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*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
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*{{ep|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo}}
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*{{ep|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
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*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
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*{{ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays}}
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*{{ep|I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot}}
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*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
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*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
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*{{ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
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*{{ep|Smart and Smarter}}
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*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
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*{{ep|Co-Dependent's Day}}
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*{{ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
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*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
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*{{ep|Catch 'Em If You Can}}
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*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
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*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
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*{{ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
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*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
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*{{ep|Sleeping with the Enemy}}
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*{{ep|She Used to Be My Girl}}
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*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
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*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
 
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=== Assistant retake director ===
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
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*{{ep|The Fat and the Furriest}}
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*{{ep|Today I Am a Clown}}
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*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
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=== Lead animation timer ===
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*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
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*{{ep|Fatzcarraldo}}
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*{{ep|No Good Read Goes Unpunished}}
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*{{ep|101 Mitigations}}
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=== Storyboard director ===
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*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
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=== Animation director ===
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*{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}}
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=== Finished art ===
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*{{bon|Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips|(as Rascally Mike Polcino)}}
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=== Additional art ===
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*{{bon|The Origin of Radioactive Man}}
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*{{bon|Dr. Crab's Commie Comics}}
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
 
*{{IMDB|name/nm0688914/}}
 
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*{{Wikipedialink}}
 
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Revision as of 18:47, May 18, 2020

Michael Polcino
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Layout artist
Animation timer
Assistant director
Director
Birth date: April 27, 1962 (1962-04-27) (age 61)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 172
Number of comic stories: 3
Seasons active: Season 3 - Present
Short: The Longest Daycare
First episode: "Bart the Murderer"
Most recent episode: "Warrin' Priests: Part Two"
Game: The Simpsons Game
First comic: Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips
Most recent comic: Dr. Crab's Commie Comics


Michael "Mike" Polcino (born April 27, 1962) is an American animator and director for The Simpsons. He serves as a director and animation timer and previously served as a character layout artist, assistant director and retake director. He also served as an artist for Bongo Comics. His brother, Dominic Polcino, is a former The Simpsons director.

Credits

Directed by

Character layout artist

Background layout artist

Animation timer

Additional timer

Assistant director

Storyboard

Storyboard cleanup

Retake director

Assistant retake director

Lead animation timer

Storyboard director

Animation director

Finished art

Additional art

External links