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Difference between revisions of "Mike Frank Polcino"

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{{Crew
 
{{Crew
|name= Michael Polcino
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|name= Mike Frank Polcino
 
|image=  
 
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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= 209
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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= "[[Cremains of the Day]]"
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|first short= ''[[The Longest Daycare]]''
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|latest short= ''[[Rogue Not Quite One]]''
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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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|first book= ''[[The Simpsons Fun in the Sun Book]]''
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|latest book= ''[[The Simpsons Ultra-Jumbo Rain-or-Shine Fun Book]]''
 
}}
 
}}
  
'''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 Frank "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.
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== Awards ==
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{{TRsT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program}}|2}}
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{{TB|[[2021]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2021/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - Outstanding Short Form Animated Program - 2021"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|''[[The Force Awakens from Its Nap]]''}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|2}}
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{{TBT|[[2022]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2022/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - Outstanding Short Form Animated Program - 2022"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|''[[When Billie Met Lisa]]''}}
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}}
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
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=== Directed by ===
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{{Scroll|
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|E8=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E4=yes
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{{Season26A
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|E14=yes
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|E22=yes
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{{Season27A
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|E19=yes
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{{Season28A
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|E5=yes
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{{Season29A
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|E7=yes
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|E16=yes
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{{Season34A
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|E14=yes
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{{TC}}
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}}
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=== Character layout artist ===
 
=== Character layout artist ===
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
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{{Season3A
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Radio Bart|(as Mike Polcino)}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Colonel Homer}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
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|E15=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season4A
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|E1=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Background layout artist ===
 
=== Background layout artist ===
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
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{{Season3A
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|E5=yes
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|E11=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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=== Animation timer ===
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{{Scroll|
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{{TO}}
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{{Season6A
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|E9=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E24=yes
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|E25=yes
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}}
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{{Season7A
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|E7=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season8A
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|E4=yes
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|E9=yes
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{{Season9A
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|E1=yes
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|E3=yes
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{{Season34A
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|E17=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E22=yes
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{{Season35A
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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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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E15=yes
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}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|TLD=yes
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|StarWars=yes
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|Marvel=yes
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|Billie=yes
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|Feliz=yes
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|RogueOne=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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}}
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=== Additional timer ===
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{{Scroll|
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{{TO}}
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{{Season8A
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|E23=yes
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{{Season17A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E3=yes
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{{Season22A
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|E19=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season23A
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|E1=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season24A
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|E4=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season25A
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|E15=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season26A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E16=yes
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}}
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{{Season27A
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|E3=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season28A
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|E4=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season29A
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|E2=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E18=yes
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{{Season30A
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|E3=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E22=yes
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|E23=yes
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}}
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{{Season31A
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|E6=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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{{Season32A
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|E3=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E20=yes
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{{Season33A
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|E1=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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}}
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=== Assistant director ===
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{{TO}}
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{{Season8A
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|E20=yes
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{{Season9A
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|E6=yes
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|E16=yes
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{{Season10A
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|E1=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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=== Storyboard ===
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{{TO}}
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{{Season9A
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|E16=yes
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}}
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{{Season10A
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season11A
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|E12=yes
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}}
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{{Season12A
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|E7=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{Season14A
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|E10=yes
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}}
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{{Season17A
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|E20=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard cleanup ===
 
=== Storyboard cleanup ===
 
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
 
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
  
=== Animation timer ===
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=== Retake director ===
*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
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{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Wedding}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|Lemon of Troy}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
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|E15=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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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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{{Season11A
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|E3=yes
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|E5=yes
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}}
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{{Season15A
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season16A
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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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{{Season20A
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|E14=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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}}
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=== Assistant retake director ===
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{{TO}}
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{{Season15A
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|E1=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E7=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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=== Lead animation timer ===
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{{TO}}
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{{Season26A
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|E10=yes
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}}
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{{Season28A
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|E14=yes
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}}
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{{Season29A
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|E15=yes
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}}
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{{Season30A
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|E15=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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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}}
  
=== Assistant director ===
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=== Finished art ===
*{{ep|The Canine Mutiny}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
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'''Simpsons Comics and Stories:'''
*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
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{{SCASA
*{{ep|Lard of the Dance}}
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|I1S4=yes
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
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|I1S4n=as Rascally Mike Polcino
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
=== Retake director ===
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=== Additional art ===
*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
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'''Radioactive Man:'''
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
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{{RadioactiveManA
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|I1S1=yes
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|I1S2=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
=== Director ===
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=== Creative team ===
{{Scroll|
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
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{{BooksA
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
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|FitS=yes
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
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|UJRoSFB=yes
*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
 
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
 
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
 
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
 
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
 
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
 
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
 
*{{ep|The Homer of Seville}}
 
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
 
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
 
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
 
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
 
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
 
*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
 
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
 
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
 
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
 
 
}}
 
}}
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{{TC}}
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== References ==
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{{Reflist}}
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*{{IMDB|name/nm0688914/}}
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*{{IMDb|name/nm0688914/}}
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*{{MobyGames|383555}}
 
*{{Wikipedialink}}
 
*{{Wikipedialink}}
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*{{GCD|28029}}
  
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[[Category:Assistant directors]]
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[[Category:Layout artists]]
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[[Category:The Simpsons Game cast and crew]]

Revision as of 08:16, April 23, 2024

Mike Frank Polcino
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Layout artist
Animation timer
Assistant director
Director
Birth date: April 27, 1962 (1962-04-27) (age 62)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 209
Number of comic stories: 3
Seasons active: Season 3 - Present
First short: The Longest Daycare
Most recent short: Rogue Not Quite One
First episode: "Bart the Murderer"
Most recent episode: "Cremains of the Day"
Game: The Simpsons Game
First comic: Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips
Most recent comic: Dr. Crab's Commie Comics
First book: The Simpsons Fun in the Sun Book
Most recent book: The Simpsons Ultra-Jumbo Rain-or-Shine Fun Book


Michael Frank "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.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program 2021[1] The Force Awakens from Its Nap Nominated
2022[2] When Billie Met Lisa

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

Simpsons Comics and Stories:

Additional art

Radioactive Man:

Creative team

References


External links