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Rob LaZebnik

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Rob LaZebnik

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Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Co-executive producer Writer
Birth date:	May 6, 1962 (1962-05-06) (age 62)
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	413
Character(s):	Spit-Takers Anonymous man
Seasons active:	Season 11 - 13, 19 - Present
First episode:	"Grift of the Magi"
Most recent episode:	"The Past and the Furious"
Album:	The Simpsons: Testify

Rob LaZebnik (born May 6, 1962) is an American television producer and writer. He currently serves as a writer and co-executive producer for The Simpsons. He also voiced the Spit-Takers Anonymous man in the season 36 episode "Treehouse of Horror XXXV". He is the father of Johnny LaZebnik.

Contents

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1 Awards
2 Credits
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

Awards[edit]

Award	Year	Episode	Result
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production	2014^[1]	"The War of Art"	Nominated
2016^[2]	"The Burns Cage"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	2000^[3]	"Behind the Laughter"	Won
2001^[4]	"HOMЯ"
2008^[5]	"Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
2009^[6]	"Gone Maggie Gone"	Nominated
2010^[7]	"Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
2011^[8]	"Angry Dad: The Movie"
2012^[9]	"Holidays of Future Passed"
2013^[10]	"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
2015^[11]	"Treehouse of Horror XXV"
2016^[12]	"Halloween of Horror"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	2017^[13]	"The Town"
2018^[14]	"Gone Boy"
2019^[15]	"Mad About the Toy"	Won
2020^[16]	"Thanksgiving of Horror"	Nominated
2021^[17]	"The Dad-Feelings Limited"
2022^[18]	"Pixelated and Afraid"
2023^[19]	"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"	Won
2024^[20]	"Night of the Living Wage"	Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation	2012^[21]	"The Blue and the Gray"	Nominated
2022^[22]	"Portrait of a Lackey on Fire"
2024^[23]	"Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"
2025^[24]	"Bottle Episode"

Credits[edit]

Written by[edit]

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (G-G-Ghost Dad!)

Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity"

Episode – "Father Knows Worst"

Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"

Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"

Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"

Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian"

Episode – "The War of Art"

Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight"

Episode – "Friend with Benefit"

Episode – "The Girl Code"

Episode – "The Burns Cage"

Episode – "Pork and Burns"

Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane"

Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car"

Episode – "E My Sports"

Episode – "Frinkcoin"

Episode – "Manger Things"

Episode – "Burger Kings"

Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire"

Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXV" (as Necrobpolis)

Episode – "Bottle Episode"
Episode – "The Past and the Furious"

Story by[edit]

Episode – "101 Mitigations"

Co-executive producer[edit]

Episode – "Grift of the Magi"

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" (as Grave Robbing Lazebnik)
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 – "Funeral for a Fiend"
Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"

Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum"
Episode – "That '90s Show"
Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
Episode – "The Debarted"
Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder"
Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter"
Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
Episode – "Apocalypse Cow"
Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
Episode – "All About Lisa"

Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
Episode – "Lost Verizon"
Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Rob Undeadnik)
Episode – "Dangerous Curves"
Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks"
Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen"
Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
Episode – "Wedding for Disaster"
Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"
Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
Episode – "Coming to Homerica"

Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as Rob LaZombie)
Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"
Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
Episode – "The Color Yellow"
Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge"
Episode – "Stealing First Base"
Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
Episode – "American History X-cellent"
Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
Episode – "To Surveil with Love"
Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
Episode – "The Bob Next Door"
Episode – "Judge Me Tender"

Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
Episode – "MoneyBart"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (as Raw Bloodshednik)
Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
Episode – "The Fool Monty"
Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
Episode – "Donnie Fatso"
Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
Episode – "Flaming Moe"
Episode – "Homer the Father"
Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"
Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"
Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
Episode – "500 Keys"
Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"

Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (as Robsmary's LaBabynik)
Episode – "Replaceable You"
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 – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"
Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
Episode – "At Long Last Leave"
Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother"
Episode – "Them, Robot"
Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"
Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda"
Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga"

Episode – "Moonshine River"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (as Raw Bloodyfleshnik)
Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting"
Episode – "Gone Abie Gone"
Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys"
Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"
Episode – "To Cur, with Love"
Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"
Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"
Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing"
Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"
Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please"
Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
Episode – "What Animated Women Want"
Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
Episode – "Whiskey Business"
Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
Episode – "The Saga of Carl"
Episode – "Dangers on a Train"

Episode – "Homerland"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (as To Live & Die in LaZebnik)
Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"
Episode – "YOLO"
Episode – "Labor Pains"
Episode – "The Kid Is All Right"
Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge"
Episode – "White Christmas Blues"
Episode – "Steal This Episode"
Episode – "Married to the Blob"
Episode – "Specs and the City"
Episode – "Diggs"
Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much"
Episode – "The Winter of His Content"
Episode – "The War of Art"
Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"
Episode – "Luca$"
Episode – "Days of Future Future"
Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"
Episode – "Brick Like Me"
Episode – "Pay Pal"
Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"

Episode – "Clown in the Dumps"
Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
Episode – "Super Franchise Me"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (as Throbbing Blob Zebnik)
Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
Episode – "Simpsorama"
Episode – "Blazed and Confused"
Episode – "Covercraft"
Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"
Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
Episode – "Bart's New Friend"
Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth"
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "My Fare Lady"
Episode – "The Princess Guide"
Episode – "Sky Police"
Episode – "Waiting for Duffman"
Episode – "Peeping Mom"
Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight"
Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot"
Episode – "Bull-E"
Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"

Episode – "Every Man's Dream"
Episode – "'Cue Detective"
Episode – "Puffless"
Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" (as Rob Lazy-Nikname)
Episode – "Friend with Benefit"
Episode – "Lisa with an "S""
Episode – "'Paths of Glory"
Episode – "Barthood"
Episode – "The Girl Code"
Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"
Episode – "Much Apu About Something"
Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"
Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian"
Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles"
Episode – "The Burns Cage"
Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"
Episode – "Fland Canyon"
Episode – "To Courier with Love"
Episode – "Simprovised"
Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow"

Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
Episode – "Friends and Family"
Episode – "The Town"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (as Drobcula-Zebnik)
Episode – "Trust but Clarify"
Episode – "There Will Be Buds"
Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend"
Episode – "Dad Behavior"
Episode – "The Last Traction Hero"
Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas"
Episode – "Pork and Burns"
Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One"
Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two"
Episode – "Fatzcarraldo"
Episode – "The Cad and the Hat"
Episode – "Kamp Krustier"
Episode – "22 for 30"
Episode – "A Father's Watch"
Episode – "The Caper Chase"
Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart"
Episode – "Moho House"
Episode – "Dogtown"

Episode – "The Serfsons"
Episode – "Springfield Splendor"
Episode – "Whistler's Father"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" (as Rob ApocaLaZebnik Now)
Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me"
Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be"
Episode – "Singin' in the Lane"
Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus"
Episode – "Gone Boy"
Episode – "Haw-Haw Land"
Episode – "Frink Gets Testy"
Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't"
Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage"
Episode – "Fears of a Clown"
Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished"
Episode – "King Leer"
Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues"
Episode – "Forgive and Regret"
Episode – "Left Behind"
Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane"
Episode – "Flanders' Ladder"

Episode – "Bart's Not Dead"
Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel"
Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" (as Macabre LaZebnik)
Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car"
Episode – "From Russia Without Love"
Episode – "Werking Mom"
Episode – "Krusty the Clown"
Episode – "Daddicus Finch"
Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season"
Episode – "Mad About the Toy"
Episode – "The Girl on the Bus"
Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can"
Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture"
Episode – "101 Mitigations"
Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Episode – "E My Sports"
Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy"
Episode – "Girl's in the Band"
Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh"
Episode – "D'oh Canada"
Episode – "Woo-Hoo Dunnit?"
Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"

Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content"
Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer"
Episode – "The Fat Blue Line"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" (as Creature from the Black LaZebnik)
Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast"
Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida"
Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" (as Rob La-Drumstick)
Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"
Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside"
Episode – "Hail to the Teeth"
Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
Episode – "Frinkcoin"
Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy"
Episode – "Screenless"
Episode – "Better Off Ned"
Episode – "Highway to Well"
Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two"
Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds"
Episode – "The Way of the Dog"

Episode – "Undercover Burns"
Episode – "I, Carumbus"
Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" (as The Robadook)
Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch"
Episode – "Podcast News"
Episode – "Three Dreams Denied"
Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati"
Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry"
Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas"
Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
Episode – "Diary Queen"
Episode – "Wad Goals"
Episode – "Yokel Hero"
Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?"
Episode – "Manger Things"
Episode – "Uncut Femmes"
Episode – "Burger Kings"
Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield"
Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion"
Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."
Episode – "The Last Barfighter"

Episode – "The Star of the Backstage"
Episode – "Bart's in Jail!"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" (as The Book of LaDeadnik)
Episode – "The Wayz We Were"
Episode – "Lisa's Belly"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)"
Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire"
Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"
Episode – "A Made Maggie"
Episode – "The Longest Marge"
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 – "Bart the Cool Kid"
Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar"
Episode – "The Sound of Bleeding Gums"
Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"
Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun"
Episode – "Marge the Meanie"
Episode – "Meat Is Murder"
Episode – "Poorhouse Rock"

Episode – "Habeas Tortoise"
Episode – "One Angry Lisa"
Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout"
Episode – "The King of Nice"
THOH – "Not It"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (as Hob-Roblin)
Episode – "From Beer to Paternity"
Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet"
Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa"
Episode – "Game Done Changed"
Episode – "Top Goon"
Episode – "My Life as a Vlog"
Episode – "The Many Saints of Springfield"
Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again"
Episode – "Bartless"
Episode – "Hostile Kirk Place"
Episode – "Pin Gal"
Episode – "Fan-ily Feud"
Episode – "Write Off This Episode"
Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars"
Episode – "Clown V. Board of Education"
Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"

Episode – "Homer's Crossing"
Episode – "A Mid-Childhood's Night Dream"
Episode – "McMansion & Wife"
Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" (as Danse Macrob)
Episode – "Iron Marge"
Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life"
Episode – "Ae Bonny Romance"
Episode – "Murder, She Boat"
Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing"
Episode – "Frinkenstein's Monster"
Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1"
Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom"
Episode – "Night of the Living Wage"
Episode – "Cremains of the Day"
Episode – "The Tell-Tale Pants"
Episode – "The Tipping Point"
Episode – "Bart's Brain"

Episode – "Bart's Birthday"
Episode – "The Yellow Lotus"
Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
Episode – "Shoddy Heat"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXV" (as Nosferobtu)
Episode – "Women in Shorts"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes"
Episode – "Convenience Airways"
Episode – "Homer and Her Sisters"
Episode – "O C'mon All Ye Faithful"
Episode – "The Man Who Flew Too Much"
Episode – "Bottle Episode"
Episode – "The Past and the Furious"

Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Special – Planet of the Couches

Also starring[edit]

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXV" (as World War Zebnik)

Lyrics by[edit]

Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" ("Sold Separately")

For The Simpsons[edit]

Album – The Simpsons: Testify

References[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Rob LaZebnik at the Internet Movie Database
Rob LaZebnik at Wikipedia
Rob LaZebnik at Twitter

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