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|job= Supervising director<br>Character layout artist<br>Director
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|birthdate= {{birthyear|1973}}
 
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'''Michael "Mike" B. Anderson''' (born 1973) is a {{w|television director}} who works on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and has directed numerous episodes of the show, and was animated in "[[The Secret War of Lisa Simpson]]" as cadet Anderson. He was also a Consulting Producer on the animated show, "{{w|The Oblongs}}" and Story Consultant on "{{w|Tripping the Rift}}". He also directed the feature films ''Alone in the T-Shirt Zone'' (1986) and ''{{w|Kamillions}}'' (1989). For "[[Homer's Phobia]]" he won the ''Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.annieawards.com/25thannieawardwinners.htm|title=25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners|accessdate=2007-04-10|publisher=AnnieAwards.com}}</ref> and the ''WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series'' at the 1998 World Animation Celebration.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/World_Animation_Celebration/1998|title=World Animation Celebration: 1998|accessdate=2007-04-10|publisher=Internet Movie Database}}</ref> He has won two Emmy Awards for directing Simpsons episodes, "Homer's Phobia" in 1997 and "[[HOMЯ]]" in 2000. He is also a sequence director on ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''. He was also interviewed in ''[[The Simpsons: Access All Areas]]''.
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'''Michael "Mike" B. Anderson''' (born 1973) is an American television director. He currently serves as a supervising director for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and previously served as a director, character layout artist, storyboard artist, assistant director, and storyboard consultant.
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He also served as a sequence director on ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'' and was interviewed in ''[[The Simpsons: Access All Areas]]''.
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== Awards ==
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{{Table|width=50%|align=left|
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{{THT|Award}}
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{{TH|Year}}
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{{TH|Episode}}
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{{TH|Result}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[1997]]<ref name="Annie1997">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110808193725/http://annieawards.org/25thwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (1997)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Homer's Phobia]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TRsT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program}}|18}}
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{{TB|[[1997]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1997/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less.) – 1997"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Homer's Phobia]]"}}
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{{TRs|'''Won'''|2}}
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{{TBT|[[2001]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2001"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[HOMЯ]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2004]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2004/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2004"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Way We Weren't]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|2}}
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{{TBT|[[2005]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2005/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2005"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Future-Drama]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2009]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2009/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2009"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Gone Maggie Gone]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|9}}
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{{TBT|[[2010]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2010/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2010"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Once Upon a Time in Springfield]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2011]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2011/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2011"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Angry Dad: The Movie]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2012]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2012/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2012"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Holidays of Future Passed]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2013]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2013/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2013"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XXIII]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2015]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2015/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2015"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XXV]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2016]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2016/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2016"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Halloween of Horror]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2017]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2017/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2017"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Town]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2018]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2018/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2018"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Gone Boy]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2019]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2019/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2019"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Mad About the Toy]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[2020]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2020/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2020"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Thanksgiving of Horror]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|3}}
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{{TBT|[[2021]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2021/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2021"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2022]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2022/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2022"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Pixelated and Afraid]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2023]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2023/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2023"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XXXIII]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Directed by ===
 
=== Directed by ===
 
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*{{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VII|as Mutant Mike B. Anderson}}
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{{Season7A
*{{ep|You Only Move Twice}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Phobia}}
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*{{ep|The Secret War of Lisa Simpson}}
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{{Season8A
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Krust}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"}}
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|E1n=as Mutant Mike B. Anderson
*{{ep|Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|HOMЯ}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Trilogy of Error}}
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|E25=yes
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
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*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|C.E. D'oh}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
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*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
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*{{ep|Pranksta Rap}}
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{{Season11A
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
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*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
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{{Season12A
*{{ep|The Wettest Stories Ever Told}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX|as Mike Beheaded Anderson 2}}
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{{Season13A
*{{ep|Halloween of Horror}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus|("Simpsons Time" Couch Gag)}}
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{{Season14A
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|E2=yes
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|E15=yes
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{{Season15A
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|E3=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E20=yes
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{{Season16A
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|E5=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E15=yes
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{{Season17A
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|E5=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E18=yes
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{{Season18A
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|E3=yes
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{{Season19A
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|E19=yes
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{{Season21A
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|E4=yes
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|E4n=as Mike Beheaded Anderson 2
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}}
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{{Season27A
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|E4=yes
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}}
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{{Season28A
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|E1=yes
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|E1n=Simpsons Time" couch gag
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}}
 
*{{spec|The Simpsons Ride}}
 
*{{spec|The Simpsons Ride}}
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{{TC}}
 
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=== Character layout ===
 
=== Character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{spec|Do the Bartman}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
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{{Season2A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Dancin' Homer}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Dead Putting Society}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Bart Gets Hit by a Car}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Principal Charming}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington}}
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*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
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{{Season3A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Flaming Moe's}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Lover}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Otto Show}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Heretic}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|New Kid on the Block}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
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|E24=yes
*{{ep|Selma's Choice}}
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}}
*{{ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
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{{Season4A
*{{ep|The Front}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Rosebud}}
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|E13=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Secrets of a Successful Marriage}}
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}}
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
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{{Season5A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season6A
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|E5=yes
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{{SpecialsA
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|Bartman=yes
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{{TC}}
 
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=== Animation timer ===
 
=== Animation timer ===
*{{ep|Deep Space Homer}}
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{{TO}}
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{{Season5A
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|E15=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard ===
 
=== Storyboard ===
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VI}}
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{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
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{{TO}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VII}}
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{{Season7A
*{{ep|You Only Move Twice}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Phobia}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Krust}}
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}}
*{{ep|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"}}
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{{Season8A
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
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}}
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{{Season9A
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|E15=yes
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}}
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{{Season10A
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|E8=yes
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}}
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{{Season13A
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|E8=yes
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|E14=yes
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}}
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{{Season14A
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|E2=yes
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}}
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{{Season15A
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|E11=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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}}
  
 
=== Artist supervisor ===
 
=== Artist supervisor ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VIII}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Cartridge Family}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Lisa the Skeptic}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|All Singing, All Dancing}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Bart Carny}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Joy of Sect}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Das Bus}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Krust}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Lisa the Simpson}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|This Little Wiggy}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Simpson Tide}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Girly Edition}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|King of the Hill}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Lost Our Lisa}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Natural Born Kissers}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|Lard of the Dance}}
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|E24=yes
*{{ep|The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace}}
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|E25=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Mother}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IX}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star}}
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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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}}
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{{TC}}
 
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=== Assistant director ===
 
=== Assistant director ===
*{{ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets Famous}}
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{{Season5A
*{{ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Lisa on Ice}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Bart's Comet}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Two Dozen and One Greyhounds}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VI}}
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{{Season6A
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|E8=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season7A
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|E6=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard consultant ===
 
=== Storyboard consultant ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|D'oh-in' in the Wind}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Lisa Gets an "A"}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|I'm with Cupid}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Make Room for Lisa}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Old Man and the "C" Student}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Beyond Blunderdome}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Brother's Little Helper}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror X}}
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{{Season11A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
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{{Season12A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder}}
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{{Season13A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Eight Misbehavin'}}
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{{Season14A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Take My Wife, Sleaze}}
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{{Season15A
*{{ep|Grift of the Magi}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Little Big Mom}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Faith Off}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Saddlesore Galactica}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Alone Again, Natura-Diddily}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Missionary: Impossible}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Pygmoelian}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Bart to the Future}}
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*{{ep|Days of Wine and D'oh'ses}}
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{{TC}}
*{{ep|Kill the Alligator and Run}}
 
*{{ep|Last Tap Dance in Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Behind the Laughter}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XI}}
 
*{{ep|A Tale of Two Springfields}}
 
*{{ep|Insane Clown Poppy}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Tree Hugger}}
 
*{{ep|Homer vs. Dignity}}
 
*{{ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
 
*{{ep|Skinner's Sense of Snow}}
 
*{{ep|HOMЯ}}
 
*{{ep|Pokey Mom}}
 
*{{ep|Worst Episode Ever}}
 
*{{ep|Tennis the Menace}}
 
*{{ep|Day of the Jackanapes}}
 
*{{ep|New Kids on the Blecch}}
 
*{{ep|Hungry, Hungry Homer}}
 
*{{ep|Bye, Bye, Nerdie}}
 
*{{ep|Simpson Safari}}
 
*{{ep|Trilogy of Error}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Goin' to Praiseland}}
 
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
 
*{{ep|Simpsons Tall Tales}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XII}}
 
*{{ep|The Parent Rap}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Moe}}
 
*{{ep|A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love}}
 
*{{ep|The Blunder Years}}
 
*{{ep|She of Little Faith}}
 
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
 
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Jaws Wired Shut}}
 
*{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}}
 
*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
 
*{{ep|The Lastest Gun in the West}}
 
*{{ep|The Old Man and the Key}}
 
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
 
*{{ep|Blame It on Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Weekend at Burnsie's}}
 
*{{ep|Gump Roast}}
 
*{{ep|I Am Furious (Yellow)}}
 
*{{ep|The Sweetest Apu}}
 
*{{ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
 
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
 
*{{ep|Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIII}}
 
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
 
*{{ep|Large Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Helter Shelter}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Louse Detective}}
 
*{{ep|Special Edna}}
 
*{{ep|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}}
 
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
 
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
 
*{{ep|Barting Over}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can}}
 
*{{ep|A Star Is Born Again}}
 
*{{ep|Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington}}
 
*{{ep|C.E. D'oh}}
 
*{{ep|'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky}}
 
*{{ep|Three Gays of the Condo}}
 
*{{ep|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
 
*{{ep|Old Yeller-Belly}}
 
*{{ep|Brake My Wife, Please}}
 
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
 
*{{ep|Moe Baby Blues}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
 
*{{ep|My Mother the Carjacker}}
 
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
 
*{{ep|The Regina Monologues}}
 
*{{ep|The Fat and the Furriest}}
 
*{{ep|Today I Am a Clown}}
 
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=== Supervising director ===
 
=== Supervising director ===
 
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*{{ep|Dial "N" for Nerder}}
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*{{ep|Smoke on the Daughter}}
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*{{ep|Apocalypse Cow}}
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*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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*{{ep|All About Lisa}}
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*{{ep|Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes}}
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*{{ep|Lost Verizon}}
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*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIX|(as Mikenstein B. Anderson)}}
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{{Season20A|all=yes|E4n=as Mikenstein B. Anderson}}
*{{ep|Dangerous Curves}}
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{{Season21A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike Beheaded Anderson}}
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
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{{Season22A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike "Oblong" Anderson}}
*{{ep|MyPods and Boomsticks}}
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{{Season23A|all=yes|E3n=as Miskantonic B. Anderson}}
*{{ep|The Burns and the Bees}}
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{{Season24A|all=yes|E2n=as Mothra B. Anderson}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Drama Queen}}
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{{Season25A|all=yes|E2n=as Bite Me Anderson}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
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{{Season26A|all=yes|E4n=as Miketopuss vs. Andersaurus}}
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
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{{Season27A|all=yes|E5n=as Mad Bee Anderzzzzzon}}
*{{ep|No Loan Again, Naturally}}
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{{Season28A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike Bloodshot Anderson}}
*{{ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
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{{Season29A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike B. Head on Fire}}
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
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{{Season30A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike Hallow Weenie Anderson}}
*{{ep|Wedding for Disaster}}
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{{Season31A|all=yes|E4n=as Destroy All Monsters B. Anderson|E8n=as Mike Pecan-derson}}
*{{ep|Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe}}
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{{Season32A|all=yes|E4n=as Might B. Alien}}
*{{ep|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly}}
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{{Season33A|all=yes|E3n=as Mike BRAiiiiiiNS Anderson}}
*{{ep|Father Knows Worst}}
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{{Season34A|all=yes|E6n=as My Bloody Anderson}}
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
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{{Season35A|all=yes|E5n=as Maul, Bite, Eat, Repeat}}
*{{ep|Four Great Women and a Manicure}}
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{{SpecialsA
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*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
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*{{ep|Bart Gets a "Z"}}
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*{{ep|The Great Wife Hope}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX|(as as Mike Beheaded Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|The Devil Wears Nada}}
 
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens}}
 
*{{ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
 
*{{ep|Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?}}
 
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
 
*{{ep|Once Upon a Time in Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe}}
 
*{{ep|Boy Meets Curl}}
 
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
 
*{{ep|Postcards from the Wedge}}
 
*{{ep|Stealing First Base}}
 
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
 
*{{ep|American History X-cellent}}
 
*{{ep|Chief of Hearts}}
 
*{{ep|The Squirt and the Whale}}
 
*{{ep|To Surveil with Love}}
 
*{{ep|Moe Letter Blues}}
 
*{{ep|The Bob Next Door}}
 
*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
 
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
 
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|MoneyBart}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXI|(as Mike 'Oblong' Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life}}
 
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
 
*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
 
*{{ep|The Fight Before Christmas}}
 
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
 
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
 
*{{ep|Flaming Moe}}
 
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
 
*{{ep|The Blue and the Gray}}
 
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
 
*{{ep|The Scorpion's Tale}}
 
*{{ep|A Midsummer's Nice Dreams}}
 
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Simpsina}}
 
*{{ep|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
 
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
 
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
 
*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
 
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII|(as Miskantonic B. Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
 
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
 
*{{ep|The Book Job}}
 
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
 
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
 
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
 
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|The D'oh-cial Network}}
 
*{{ep|Moe Goes from Rags to Riches}}
 
*{{ep|The Daughter Also Rises}}
 
*{{ep|At Long Last Leave}}
 
*{{ep|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart}}
 
*{{ep|How I Wet Your Mother}}
 
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
 
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
 
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again}}
 
*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
 
*{{ep|Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
 
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII|(as Mothra B. Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Adventures in Baby-Getting}}
 
*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
 
*{{ep|Penny-Wiseguys}}
 
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
 
*{{ep|To Cur, with Love}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
 
*{{ep|A Test Before Trying}}
 
*{{ep|The Changing of the Guardian}}
 
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
 
*{{ep|Hardly Kirk-ing}}
 
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
 
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
 
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
 
*{{ep|What Animated Women Want}}
 
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
 
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
 
*{{ep|The Fabulous Faker Boy}}
 
*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
 
*{{ep|The Saga of Carl}}
 
*{{ep|Homerland}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIV|(as Bite Me Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
 
*{{ep|YOLO}}
 
*{{ep|Labor Pains}}
 
*{{ep|The Kid Is All Right}}
 
*{{ep|Yellow Subterfuge}}
 
*{{ep|White Christmas Blues}}
 
*{{ep|Steal This Episode}}
 
*{{ep|Married to the Blob}}
 
*{{ep|Specs and the City}}
 
*{{ep|The Man Who Grew Too Much}}
 
*{{ep|Diggs}}
 
*{{ep|The Winter of His Content}}
 
*{{ep|The War of Art}}
 
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
 
*{{ep|Luca$}}
 
*{{ep|Days of Future Future}}
 
*{{ep|What to Expect When Bart's Expecting}}
 
*{{ep|Brick Like Me}}
 
*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
 
*{{ep|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge}}
 
*{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}}
 
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
 
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
 
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
 
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
 
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
 
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
 
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
 
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas}}
 
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
 
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
 
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
 
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
 
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
 
*{{ep|Waiting for Duffman}}
 
*{{ep|Peeping Mom}}
 
*{{ep|The Kids Are All Fight}}
 
*{{ep|Let's Go Fly a Coot}}
 
*{{ep|Bull-E}}
 
*{{ep|Mathlete's Feat}}
 
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
 
*{{ep|'Cue Detective}}
 
*{{ep|Puffless}}
 
*{{ep|Halloween of Horror}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI|(as Mad Bee Anderzzzzzon)}}
 
*{{ep|Friend with Benefit}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa with an "S"}}
 
*{{ep|'Paths of Glory}}
 
*{{ep|Barthood}}
 
*{{ep|The Girl Code}}
 
*{{ep|Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles}}
 
*{{ep|Much Apu About Something}}
 
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
 
*{{ep|Gal of Constant Sorrow}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Veterinarian}}
 
*{{ep|The Marge-ian Chronicles}}
 
*{{ep|The Burns Cage}}
 
*{{ep|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back}}
 
*{{ep|Fland Canyon}}
 
*{{ep|To Courier with Love}}
 
*{{ep|Simprovised}}
 
*{{ep|Orange Is the New Yellow}}
 
*{{ep|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus}}
 
*{{ep|Friends and Family}}
 
*{{ep|The Town}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVII|(as Mike Bloodshot Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Trust but Clarify}}
 
*{{ep|There Will Be Buds}}
 
*{{ep|Havana Wild Weekend}}
 
*{{ep|Dad Behavior}}
 
*{{ep|The Last Traction Hero}}
 
*{{ep|The Nightmare After Krustmas}}
 
*{{ep|Pork and Burns}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
 
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
 
*{{ep|Fatzcarraldo}}
 
*{{ep|The Cad and the Hat}}
 
*{{ep|Kamp Krustier}}
 
*{{ep|22 for 30}}
 
*{{ep|A Father's Watch}}
 
*{{ep|The Caper Chase}}
 
*{{ep|Looking for Mr. Goodbart}}
 
*{{ep|Moho House}}
 
*{{ep|Dogtown}}
 
*{{ep|The Serfsons}}
 
*{{ep|Springfield Splendor}}
 
*{{ep|Whistler's Father}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVIII|(as Mike Bloodshot Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Grampy Can Ya Hear Me}}
 
*{{ep|The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be}}
 
*{{ep|Singin' in the Lane}}
 
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa's Opus}}
 
*{{ep|Gone Boy}}
 
*{{ep|Haw-Haw Land}}
 
*{{ep|Frink Gets Testy}}
 
*{{ep|Homer Is Where the Art Isn't}}
 
*{{ep|3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage}}
 
*{{ep|Fears of a Clown}}
 
*{{ep|No Good Read Goes Unpunished}}
 
*{{ep|King Leer}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa Gets the Blues}}
 
*{{ep|Forgive and Regret}}
 
*{{ep|Left Behind}}
 
*{{ep|Throw Grampa from the Dane}}
 
*{{ep|Flanders' Ladder}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Not Dead}}
 
*{{ep|Heartbreak Hotel}}
 
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
 
*{{THOH2|XXIX|(as Mike Hallow Weenie Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
 
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
 
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
 
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
 
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
 
*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
 
*{{ep|Mad About the Toy}}
 
*{{ep|The Girl on the Bus}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can}}
 
*{{ep|The Clown Stays in the Picture}}
 
*{{ep|101 Mitigations}}
 
*{{ep|I Want You (She's So Heavy)}}
 
*{{ep|E My Sports}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
 
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
 
*{{ep|D'oh Canada}}
 
*{{ep|Woo-hoo Dunnit?}}
 
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
 
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
 
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
 
*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX|(as Destroy All Monsters B. Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
 
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
 
*{{ep|Livin La Pura Vida}}
 
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror|(as Mike Pecan-derson)}}
 
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
 
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
 
*{{ep|Hail to the Teeth}}
 
*{{ep|The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|Frinkcoin}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Bad Guy}}
 
*{{ep|Screenless}}
 
*{{ep|Better Off Ned}}
 
*{{ep|Highway to Well}}
 
*{{ep|The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby}}
 
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part One}}
 
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part Two}}
 
*{{ep|The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds}}
 
*{{ep|The Way of the Dog}}
 
*{{ep|Undercover Burns}}
 
*{{ep|I, Carumbus}}
 
*{{ep|Now Museum, Now You Don't}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXXI}}
 
*{{ep|The 7 Beer Itch}}
 
*{{ep|Podcast News}}
 
*{{ep|Three Dreams Denied}}
 
*{{ep|The Road to Cincinnati}}
 
*{{ep|Sorry Not Sorry}}
 
*{{ep|A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas}}
 
*{{ep|The Dad-Feelings Limited}}
 
*{{ep|Diary Queen}}
 
*{{ep|Wad Goals}}
 
*{{ep|Yokel Hero}}
 
*{{ep|Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?}}
 
*{{ep|Manger Things}}
 
*{{ep|Uncut Femmes}}
 
*{{ep|Burger Kings}}
 
*{{ep|Panic on the Streets of Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|Mother and Child Reunion}}
 
*{{ep|The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A.}}
 
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Mike B. Anderson
Mike B. Anderson.jpg
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Supervising director
Character layout artist
Director
Birth date: 1973 (age 50–51)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 545
Seasons active: Season 1 - Present
First short: The Longest Daycare
Most recent short: The Force Awakens from Its Nap
First episode: "Simpson and Delilah"
Most recent episode: "Cremains of the Day"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie
Comic: Lo, There Shall Come... A Bartman!!
First book: The Simpsons Beyond Forever!
Most recent book: The Simpsons Handbook
Music video: Do the Bartman


Michael "Mike" B. Anderson (born 1973) is an American television director. He currently serves as a supervising director for The Simpsons and previously served as a director, character layout artist, storyboard artist, assistant director, and storyboard consultant.

He also served as a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie and was interviewed in The Simpsons: Access All Areas.

Awards[edit]

Award Year Episode Result
Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production 1997[1] "Homer's Phobia" Won
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 1997[2] "Homer's Phobia" Won
2001[3] "HOMЯ"
2004[4] "The Way We Weren't" Nominated
2005[5] "Future-Drama"
2009[6] "Gone Maggie Gone" Nominated
2010[7] "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
2011[8] "Angry Dad: The Movie"
2012[9] "Holidays of Future Passed"
2013[10] "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
2015[11] "Treehouse of Horror XXV"
2016[12] "Halloween of Horror"
2017[13] "The Town"
2018[14] "Gone Boy"
2019[15] "Mad About the Toy" Won
2020[16] "Thanksgiving of Horror" Nominated
2021[17] "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
2022[18] "Pixelated and Afraid"
2023[19] "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Won

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Supervising director[edit]

Animation director[edit]

Sequence Director[edit]

Special thanks[edit]

Inks[edit]

Simpsons Comics and Stories:

Production art and character designs[edit]

Character art by[edit]

Interviewee[edit]

References[edit]


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