Carlton Batten

Carlton Batten

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Animation timer Retake director Status: Active Number of episodes: 183 Seasons active: Season 9 - 12, 14, 18 - Present First episode: "Treehouse of Horror VIII" Most recent episode: "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"

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

Credits

Additional timer

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" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" 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 – "Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" 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?"

Animation timer

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?" 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""

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"

Assistant retake director

• Episode – "Father Knows Worst"

Retake timer

• Episode – "Coming to Homerica"

Lead animation timer

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"

External links

• Carlton Batten at the Internet Movie Database

Retake directors

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

Animation timers

Current animation timers Timothy Bailey • Carlton Batten • Scott Brutz • Acacia Caputo • Ray Claffey • Sam Im • Robert Ingram • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Adam Kuhlman • Esther H. Lee • Michael Polcino • Larry Smith • Cyndi Tang Former animation timers Neil Affleck • Scott Alberts • Mike B. Anderson • Jackie Banks • David Bastian • Dean Bauer • Dave Brian • Patrick Buchanan • Rick Bugental • Mark Bykov • Shaun Cashman • George S. Chialtas • Lee Crowe • Eric Daniels • Susie Dietter • Michael Dante DiMartino • Holly du Rivage • Jack Dyer • John Dyer • Mark Ervin • Istvan Fellner • Hunilla Fodor • Sarah Frost • Douglas Gallery • 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 Other animation timers Jerilyn Sedgewick Blair • Craig Elliott • Sylvia Keulen • Christine Smith Timing directors Neil Affleck • Patrick Buchanan • Ray Claffey • Jack Dyer • Douglas Gallery • Richard Gasparian • Peter Hixson • Robert Ingram • Adam Kuhlman • Frank Marino • Maureen Mlynarczyk • Pat Shinagawa • Larry Smith • Steve Socki