Carlton Batten

Carlton Batten

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Animation timer Retake director Status: Active Number of episodes: 237 Seasons active: Season 9 - 14, 18 - Present First episode: "Treehouse of Horror VIII" Most recent episode: "Sashes to Sashes"

Carlton Batten is an animator. He currently serves as an animation timer for The Simpsons and has previously served as a retake director.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 2017 "The Town" Nominated 2019 "Mad About the Toy" Won 2020 "Thanksgiving of Horror" Nominated 2023 "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Won 2025 "Bart's Birthday" Nominated

Credits

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THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" Episode – "Das Bus" Episode – "This Little Wiggy" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" Episode – "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Homerazzi" Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" Episode – "The Homer of Seville" Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "Wedding for Disaster" Episode – "Pranks and Greens" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "MoneyBart" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Book Job" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "Labor Pains" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "Bart's New Friend" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "Waiting for Duffman" Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "Gone Boy" Episode – "Frink Gets Testy" Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Left Behind" Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel" Episode – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "Highway to Well" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two" Episode – "The Way of the Dog" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" Episode – "The Last Barfighter" Episode – "The Wayz We Were" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)" Episode – "Pixelated and Afraid" Episode – "Boyz N the Highlands" Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!" Episode – "Marge the Meanie" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock"

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Episode – "The Cartridge Family" Episode – "The Joy of Sect" Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" Episode – "Little Big Girl" Episode – "24 Minutes" Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "Lost Verizon" Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure" Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z"" Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout" Episode – "Top Goon" Episode – "The Many Saints of Springfield" Episode – "Pin Gal" Episode – "Write Off This Episode" Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars" Episode – "McMansion & Wife" Episode – "Iron Marge" Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life" Episode – "Murder, She Boat" Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1" Episode – "The Tipping Point" Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa" Episode – "Women in Shorts" Episode – "Homer and Her Sisters" Episode – "The Past and the Furious" Episode – "The Flandshees of Innersimpson" Episode – "Full Heart, Empty Pool" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXVI" Episode – "Men Behaving Manly" Episode – "Sashes to Sashes" Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Retake director

Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze" Episode – "Grift of the Magi" Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Faith Off" Episode – "The Mansion Family" Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" Episode – "Pygmoelian" Episode – "Bart to the Future" Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run" Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" Episode – "Behind the Laughter" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields" Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy" Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "The Great Money Caper" Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" Episode – "HOMЯ" Episode – "Pokey Mom" Episode – "Worst Episode Ever" Episode – "Tennis the Menace" Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" Episode – "Bye, Bye, Nerdie" Episode – "Simpson Safari" Episode – "Trilogy of Error" Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "The Parent Rap" Episode – "Homer the Moe" Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" Episode – "The Blunder Years" Episode – "The Bart of War"

Retake timer

• Episode – "Father Knows Worst"

• Episode – "Coming to Homerica"

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Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Puffless" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "The Town" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "Forgive and Regret" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "I, Carumbus" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "The Star of the Backstage" Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers" Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Episode – "From Beer to Paternity" Episode – "Bartless" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing" Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom" Episode – "Bart's Birthday" Episode – "Convenience Airways" Episode – "Abe League of Their Moe" Episode – "Bart 'N' Frink"

External links

• Carlton Batten at the Internet Movie Database

Animation timers

Current animation timers Bob Anderson • Carlton Batten • Scott Brutz • Acacia Caputo • Ray Claffey • Hunilla Fodor • Doug Gallery • Sam Im • Robert Ingram • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Adam Kuhlman • Esther H. Lee • Mike Frank Polcino • Larry Smith • Cyndi Tang Former animation timers Neil Affleck • Scott Alberts • Mike B. Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Jackie Banks • David Bastian • Dean Bauer • Dave Brian • Patrick Buchanan • Rick Bugental • Mark Bykov • Shaun Cashman • George S. Chialtas • Lee Crowe • Eric Daniels • Susan Dietter • Michael Dante DiMartino • Holly du Rivage • Jack Dyer • John Dyer • Mark Ervin • Istvan Fellner • Sarah Frost • Richard Gasparian • Nichole Graham • Milton Gray • Paul Gruwell • Klay Hall • Younghee Higa • Peter Hixson • Jeff Howard • Ben Jones • Jen Kamerman • Andi Klein • Lance Kramer • William Kulhman • Grant Lee • Jon Lopez • Chris Loudon • Randy Ludensky • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Henry Madden • Michael Marcantel • Tom Mazzocco • Gary McCarver • Jeff McGrath • Emily Michels • Pete Michels • Lee Mishkin • James O'Brien • Howy Parkins • Brenda Piluso • Dominic Polcino • Sherie Pollack • Lindsey Pollard • James Purdum • Thomas E. Richner • Jeremy Robinson • Christian Roman • Brian Sheesley • Chuck Sheetz • Peter Shin • Pat Shinagawa • Alan Smart • Steve Socki • William Tucker • Celeste Williams Other animation timers Jerilyn Sedgewick Blair • Craig Elliott • Sylvia Keulen • Christine Smith Timing directors Neil Affleck • Patrick Buchanan • Ray Claffey • Jack Dyer • Doug Gallery • Richard Gasparian • Peter Hixson • Robert Ingram • Adam Kuhlman • Frank Marino • Maureen Mlynarczyk • Pat Shinagawa • Larry Smith • Steve Socki

Retake directors

Current retake directors Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Drew McPhail Former retake directors Timothy Bailey • Carlton Batten • Cullen Blaine • Zeon Davush • Susan Dietter • Hunilla Fodor • Doug Gallery • Lance Kramer • Grant Lee • Chris Loudon • Tom Mazzocco • Mike Frank Polcino • Stephen Reis • Jeremy Robinson • Chuck Sheetz • Josh Taback Other retake directors Anthony Agrusa • Mee Hwa Ahn • Deborah Cone • Yong Nam Park