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'''Ralph Sosa''' is an American director. He directed the episodes "[[Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em]]" (with [[Mike B. Anderson]]), "[[In the Name of the Grandfather]]" and "[[Mona Leaves-a]]" (with Anderson). He has also worked on the show as a character layout artist, a storyboard revisionist and an assistant director and was an assistant sequence director on ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''.  
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'''Ralph Sosa''' is an American director and animator. He currently serves as a storyboard artist and character layout artist. He previously served as a director, storyboard revisionist and assistant director. He also served as an assistant sequence director on ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''.  
  
For his work on the [[Guillermo del Toro couch gag]], Sosa was nominated for an {{W|Annie Award}} in "Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production", along with [[Guillermo del Toro]] and [[Guy Davis]].<ref>[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/award-season-focus/complete-list-of-2013-annie-award-nominations-91711.html Cartoon Brew - "Complete List of 2013 Annie Award Nominations"]</ref>
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== Awards ==
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[2013]]<ref name="Annie2013">[https://web.archive.org/web/20141214105919/http://www.annieawards.org/nominees/ The Annie Awards - "41st Annual Annie Awards Winners"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XXIV]]"<br>{{small|[[Guillermo del Toro opening sequence]]}}}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program}}}}
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{{TB|[[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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{{TB|Nominated}}
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}}
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Directed by ===
 
=== Directed by ===
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
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*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
 
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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{{TC}}
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
 
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
 
  
 
=== Character layout ===
 
=== Character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
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*{{ep|Mountain of Madness}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|In Marge We Trust}}
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{{Season8A
*{{ep|The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
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|E24=yes
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
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*{{ep|The Old Man and the Key}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|Blame It on Lisa}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Sweetest Apu}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge}}
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*{{ep|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|C.E. D'oh}}
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*{{ep|Three Gays of the Condo}}
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{{Season13A
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|My Mother the Carjacker}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Today I Am a Clown}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot}}
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}}
*{{ep|Margical History Tour}}
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{{Season14A
*{{ep|Catch 'Em If You Can}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Pranksta Rap}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Lisa the Drama Queen}}
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|E21=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Fight Before Christmas}}
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{{Season15A
*{{spec|The Longest Daycare}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Adventures in Baby-Getting}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus|("Simpsons Time" Couch Gag)}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Grampy Can Ya Hear Me}}
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|E18=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E8=yes
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{{Season24A
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|E3=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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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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}}
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{{Season29A
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|E5=yes
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{{Season31A
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|E4=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E22=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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{{Season34A
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|E5=yes
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|E21=yes
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{{Season35A
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|E1=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E7=yes
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{{SpecialsA
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|TLD=yes
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|RogueOne=yes
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{{TC}}
 
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}}
  
 
=== Additional timer ===
 
=== Additional timer ===
*{{ep|The Way We Weren't}}
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*{{ep|Pranksta Rap}}
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|E20=yes
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{{Season16A
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|E9=yes
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard revisions ===
 
=== Storyboard revisions ===
*{{ep|Pranksta Rap}}
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*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
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{{Season16A
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Days of Future Future}}
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*{{ep|Friend with Benefit}}
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*{{ep|D'oh Canada}}
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|E6=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E14=yes
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}}
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|E3=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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{{Season16A
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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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{{Season21A
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|E4=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Storyboard ===
 
=== Storyboard ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Scorpion's Tale}}
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*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
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*{{ep|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
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*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The D'oh-cial Network}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Daughter Also Rises}}
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*{{ep|How I Wet Your Mother}}
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*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Changing of the Guardian}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Fabulous Faker Boy}}
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*{{ep|The Saga of Carl}}
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{{Season24A
*{{ep|Homerland}}
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|E4=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|YOLO}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Kid Is All Right}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Yellow Subterfuge}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Specs and the City}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Diggs}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|The War of Art}}
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*{{ep|Luca$}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|What to Expect When Bart's Expecting}}
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*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
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{{Season25A
*{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
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|E2=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Waiting for Duffman}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Kids Are All Fight}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Bull-E}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Halloween of Horror}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI}}
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{{Season26A
*{{ep|Lisa with an "S"}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Barthood}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Much Apu About Something}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Marge-ian Chronicles}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Simprovised}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Orange Is the New Yellow}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus|("Simpsons Time" Couch Gag)}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Town}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Trust but Clarify}}
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*{{ep|Havana Wild Weekend}}
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{{Season27A
*{{ep|Dad Behavior}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Last Traction Hero}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Fatzcarraldo}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|A Father's Watch}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Moho House}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Springfield Splendor}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Whistler's Father}}
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|E18=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVIII}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa's Opus}}
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*{{ep|Haw-Haw Land}}
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{{Season28A
*{{ep|Homer Is Where the Art Isn't}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage}}
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|E1n="Simpsons Time" couch gag
*{{ep|Fears of a Clown}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|King Leer}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Left Behind}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Flanders' Ladder}}
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|E8=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can}}
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*{{ep|The Clown Stays in the Picture}}
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*{{ep|I Want You (She's So Heavy)}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Woo-Hoo Dunnit?}}
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|E6=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E1=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E21=yes
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{{Season33A
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|E2=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E5=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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|E15=yes
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|E16=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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{{Season34A
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|E2=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E10=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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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season35A
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|E5=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E14=yes
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}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|RogueOne=yes
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*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
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{{TC}}
 
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=== Animatic layout ===
 
=== Animatic layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe}}
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*{{ep|Boy Meets Curl}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Postcards from the Wedge}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Stealing First Base}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|American History X-cellent}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Chief of Hearts}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|The Squirt and the Whale}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|To Surveil, with Love}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Moe Letter Blues}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Bob Next Door}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
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|E21=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXI}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}}
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*{{ep|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus|("Simpsons Time" Couch Gag)}}
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|E4=yes
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{{Season23A
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|E21=yes
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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=== Additional storyboards ===
 
=== Additional storyboards ===
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=== Lead character layout ===
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== References ==
 
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== External links ==
 
== External links ==
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*{{MobyGames|383554}}
 
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Revision as of 13:37, April 8, 2024

Ralph Sosa
Ralph Sosa.jpg
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Character layout artist
Storyboard artist
Director
Assistant director
Animatic layout artist
Assistant sequence director
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 214
Seasons active: Season 8 - 10, 13 - Present
First short: The Longest Daycare
Most recent short: Rogue Not Quite One
First episode: "Mountain of Madness"
Most recent episode: "Night of the Living Wage"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie
Game: The Simpsons Game


Ralph Sosa is an American director and animator. He currently serves as a storyboard artist and character layout artist. He previously served as a director, storyboard revisionist and assistant director. He also served as an assistant sequence director on The Simpsons Movie.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production 2013[1] "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"
Guillermo del Toro opening sequence
Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 2005[2] "Future-Drama" Nominated

Credits

Directed by

Character layout

Additional timer

Storyboard revisions

Assistant director

Storyboard

Assistant sequence director

Animatic layout

Animation storyboards

Additional storyboards

Lead character layout

References


External links