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{{Crew
 
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|name= Michael Polcino
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|name= Mike Frank Polcino
 
|image=  
 
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|gender= {{Male cast}}
 
|gender= {{Male cast}}
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|birthdate= {{birthdate|1962|4|27}}
 
|birthdate= {{birthdate|1962|4|27}}
 
|status= Active
 
|status= Active
|episodes= 172
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|episodes= 209
 
|seasons= [[Season 3]] - Present
 
|seasons= [[Season 3]] - Present
 
|first episode= "[[Bart the Murderer]]"
 
|first episode= "[[Bart the Murderer]]"
|latest episode= "[[Warrin' Priests: Part Two]]"
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|latest episode= "[[Cremains of the Day]]"
|short= ''[[The Longest Daycare]]''
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|first short= ''[[The Longest Daycare]]''
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|latest short= ''[[Rogue Not Quite One]]''
 
|game= ''[[The Simpsons Game]]''
 
|game= ''[[The Simpsons Game]]''
 
|comics= 3
 
|comics= 3
 
|first comic= ''[[Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips]]''
 
|first comic= ''[[Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips]]''
 
|latest comic= ''[[Dr. Crab's Commie Comics]]''
 
|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''' (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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'''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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{{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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{{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 ==
 
=== Directed by ===
 
=== Directed by ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
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{{Season11A
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
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{{Season12A
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
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}}
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
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{{Season13A
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|The Homer of Seville}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
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}}
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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{{Season14A
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
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}}
*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
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{{Season16A
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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}}
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|YOLO}}
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}}
*{{ep|Diggs}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
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}}
*{{ep|Mathlete's Feat}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|Fland Canyon}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Trust but Clarify}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Looking for Mr. Goodbart}}
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}}
*{{ep|Singin' in the Lane}}
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{{Season20A
*{{ep|Throw Grampa from the Dane}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
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|E19=yes
*{{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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{{Season21A
*{{ep|Screenless}}
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|E9=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season22A
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season23A
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season24A
 +
|E12=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season25A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season26A
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season27A
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|E19=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season28A
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season29A
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season30A
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season31A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season32A
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season33A
 +
|E16=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season34A
 +
|E14=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Character layout artist ===
 
=== Character layout artist ===
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
+
{{Season3A
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
+
|E4=yes
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
+
|E5=yes
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
+
|E8=yes
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
+
|E11=yes
*{{ep|Colonel Homer}}
+
|E13=yes
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
+
|E15=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season4A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{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
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
  
 
=== Animation timer ===
 
=== Animation timer ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Homer Badman}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
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{{Season6A
*{{ep|Lisa's Wedding}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Lemon of Troy}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|King-Size Homer}}
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|E24=yes
*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular}}
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|E25=yes
*{{ep|Bart the Fink}}
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}}
*{{ep|Homer the Smithers}}
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{{Season7A
*{{ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Burns, Baby Burns}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Sax}}
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|E21=yes
*{{spec|The Longest Daycare}}
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|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season8A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season9A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season34A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season35A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{SpecialsA
 +
|TLD=yes
 +
|StarWars=yes
 +
|Marvel=yes
 +
|Billie=yes
 +
|Feliz=yes
 +
|RogueOne=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Additional timer ===
 
=== Additional timer ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer's Enemy}}
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{{Season8A
*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|The Girl Who Slept Too Little}}
+
}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|The Last of the Red Hat Mamas}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony}}
+
|E4=yes
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
+
}}
*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
+
{{Season22A
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
+
|E19=yes
*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
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}}
*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The War of Art}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge}}
+
|E4=yes
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
+
|E20=yes
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
+
}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
+
{{Season24A
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
+
|E4=yes
*{{ep|Sky Police}}
+
|E6=yes
*{{ep|Puffless}}
+
|E9=yes
*{{ep|Halloween of Horror}}
+
|E16=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI}}
+
|E18=yes
*{{ep|'Paths of Glory}}
+
|E22=yes
*{{ep|Barthood}}
+
}}
*{{ep|The Girl Code}}
+
{{Season25A
*{{ep|Much Apu About Something}}
+
|E15=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
+
|E22=yes
*{{ep|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back}}
+
}}
*{{ep|To Courier with Love}}
+
{{Season26A
*{{ep|Simprovised}}
+
|E1=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVII}}
+
|E2=yes
*{{ep|There Will Be Buds}}
+
|E3=yes
*{{ep|Dad Behavior}}
+
|E7=yes
*{{ep|The Last Traction Hero}}
+
|E16=yes
*{{ep|The Nightmare After Krustmas}}
+
}}
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
+
{{Season27A
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
+
|E3=yes
*{{ep|Dogtown}}
+
|E4=yes
*{{ep|Springfield Splendor}}
+
|E5=yes
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa's Opus}}
+
|E8=yes
*{{ep|Gone Boy}}
+
|E9=yes
*{{ep|Homer Is Where the Art Isn't}}
+
|E10=yes
*{{ep|Fears of a Clown}}
+
|E12=yes
*{{ep|King Leer}}
+
|E13=yes
*{{ep|Forgive and Regret}}
+
|E18=yes
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
+
|E20=yes
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
+
|E21=yes
*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
+
}}
*{{ep|Mad About the Toy}}
+
{{Season28A
*{{ep|The Girl on the Bus}}
+
|E4=yes
*{{ep|Woo-Hoo Dunnit?}}
+
|E6=yes
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
+
|E8=yes
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
+
|E9=yes
*{{ep|Livin la Pura Vida}}
+
|E10=yes
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror}}
+
|E12=yes
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
+
|E13=yes
*{{ep|Hail to the Teeth}}
+
|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby}}
+
}}
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part One}}
+
{{Season29A
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part Two}}
+
|E2=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season30A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
|E23=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season31A
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season32A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season33A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Assistant director ===
 
=== Assistant director ===
*{{ep|The Canine Mutiny}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
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{{Season8A
*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Lard of the Dance}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IX}}
+
{{Season9A
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
+
|E6=yes
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
+
|E16=yes
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
+
}}
 +
{{Season10A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard ===
 
=== Storyboard ===
*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
+
{{Season9A
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
+
|E16=yes
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
+
}}
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
+
{{Season10A
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
+
|E21=yes
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
+
}}
 +
{{Season11A
 +
|E12=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season12A
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season14A
 +
|E10=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season17A
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard cleanup ===
 
=== Storyboard cleanup ===
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=== Retake director ===
 
=== Retake director ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|I'm with Cupid}}
+
|E12=yes
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
+
|E13=yes
*{{ep|Make Room for Lisa}}
+
|E14=yes
*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
+
|E15=yes
*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
+
|E16=yes
*{{ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
+
|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Old Man and the "C" Student}}
+
|E18=yes
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
+
|E19=yes
*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
+
|E20=yes
*{{ep|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo}}
+
|E21=yes
*{{ep|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
+
|E22=yes
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays}}
+
}}
*{{ep|I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot}}
+
{{Season11A
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
+
|E3=yes
*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
+
|E5=yes
*{{ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
+
}}
*{{ep|Smart and Smarter}}
+
{{Season15A
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
+
|E8=yes
*{{ep|Co-Dependent's Day}}
+
|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
+
|E10=yes
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
+
|E11=yes
*{{ep|Catch 'Em If You Can}}
+
|E12=yes
*{{ep|Simple Simpson}}
+
|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
+
|E14=yes
*{{ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
+
|E15=yes
*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
+
|E16=yes
*{{ep|Sleeping with the Enemy}}
+
|E17=yes
*{{ep|She Used to Be My Girl}}
+
|E18=yes
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
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|E20=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season16A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season20A
 +
|E14=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Assistant retake director ===
 
=== Assistant retake director ===
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Fat and the Furriest}}
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{{Season15A
*{{ep|Today I Am a Clown}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
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|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
  
 
=== Lead animation timer ===
 
=== Lead animation timer ===
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Fatzcarraldo}}
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{{Season26A
*{{ep|No Good Read Goes Unpunished}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|101 Mitigations}}
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}}
 +
{{Season28A
 +
|E14=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season29A
 +
|E15=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season30A
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|E15=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard director ===
 
=== Storyboard director ===
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=== Finished art ===
 
=== Finished art ===
<!-- SCAS -->
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{{TO}}
*{{bon|Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips|(as Rascally Mike Polcino)}}
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'''Simpsons Comics and Stories:'''
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{{SCASA
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|I1S4=yes
 +
|I1S4n=as Rascally Mike Polcino
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
  
 
=== Additional art ===
 
=== Additional art ===
<!-- I&S -->
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{{TO}}
*{{bon|The Origin of Radioactive Man}}
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'''Radioactive Man:'''
*{{bon|Dr. Crab's Commie Comics}}
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{{RadioactiveManA
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|I1S1=yes
 +
|I1S2=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 +
 
 +
=== Creative team ===
 +
{{TO}}
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{{BooksA
 +
|FitS=yes
 +
|UJRoSFB=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 +
 
 +
== References ==
 +
{{Reflist}}
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*{{IMDB|name/nm0688914/}}
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*{{IMDb|name/nm0688914/}}
 
*{{MobyGames|383555}}
 
*{{MobyGames|383555}}
 
*{{Wikipedialink}}
 
*{{Wikipedialink}}
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{{Assistant directors|former=yes}}
 
{{Assistant directors|former=yes}}
 
{{Animation directors|others=yes}}
 
{{Animation directors|others=yes}}
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{{Background layout artists|former=yes}}
 +
{{Character layout artists|former=yes}}
 
{{Retake directors|former=yes}}
 
{{Retake directors|former=yes}}
 
{{Animation timers|current=yes}}
 
{{Animation timers|current=yes}}
 
}}
 
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Polcino, Michael}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Polcino, Mike Frank}}
  
[[Category:Background layout artists]]
 
[[Category:Character layout artists]]
 
[[Category:The Simpsons Game cast and crew]]
 
 
[[Category:Comic crew]]
 
[[Category:Comic crew]]
 +
[[Category:Book crew]]
 
[[Category:Comic artists]]
 
[[Category:Comic artists]]
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Latest 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[edit]

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

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Directed by[edit]

Character layout artist[edit]

Background layout artist[edit]

Animation timer[edit]

Additional timer[edit]

Assistant director[edit]

Storyboard[edit]

Storyboard cleanup[edit]

Retake director[edit]

Assistant retake director[edit]

Lead animation timer[edit]

Storyboard director[edit]

Animation director[edit]

Finished art[edit]

Simpsons Comics and Stories:

Additional art[edit]

Radioactive Man:

Creative team[edit]

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