Don Payne (May 5, 1964 – March 26, 2013) was an American writer. On The Simpsons, he has often co-written episodes with John Frink. He has recently moved to screenwriting. Payne has written such movies as My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Thor (2011) and its sequel, Thor: The Dark World (2013). He passed away on the evening of March 26th, 2013. [1] In White Christmas Blues, Payne appears as an angel next to an angel of Edna Krabappel in tribute.
Credits[]
Writer (2000-2013)[]
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" with Rob LaZebnik, John Frink and Carolyn Omine (BABF21)
Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy" with John Frink (BABF17)
Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie" with John Frink (CABF11)- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" with John Frink, Bob Bendetson and Matt Selman (CABF17)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" with Joel H. Cohen, John Frink and Carolyn Omine (CABF19)
- Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants" with John Frink (DABF06)
- Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" with John Frink (EABF01)
- Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly" with John Frink (EABF14)
- Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" with John Frink (FABF11)
- Episode – "Fraudcast News" (FABF18)
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday" (GABF14)
- Episode – "Simpson Christmas Stories" (HABF01)
- Episode – "Little Big Girl" (JABF04)
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" (KABF05)
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please" (LABF01)
- Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" with Mitchell H. Glazer (MABF02)
- Episode – "Labor Pains" with Mitchell H. Glazer (RABF19)
- Episode – "White Christmas Blues" (SABF01)
Producer (1999-2001)[]
Season 11
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (as Don "Excruciating" Payne) (BABF01)
- Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" (BABF02)
- Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" (BABF03)
- Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze" (BABF05)
- Episode – "Grift of the Magi" (BABF07)
- Episode – "Little Big Mom" (BABF04)
- Episode – "Faith Off" (BABF06)
- Episode – "The Mansion Family" (BABF08)
- Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" (BABF09)
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" (BABF10)
- Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" (BABF11)
- Episode – "Pygmoelian" (BABF12)
- Episode – "Bart to the Future" (BABF13)
- Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" (BABF14)
- Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run" (BABF16)
- Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" (BABF15)
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" (BABF18)
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter" (BABF19)
Season 12
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (as Don of the Dead Payne) (BABF21)
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields" (BABF20)
- Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy" (BABF17)
- Episode – "HOMЯ" (BABF22)
Supervising Producer (2000-2002)[]
Season 12
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" (CABF01)
- Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" (CABF04)
- Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (CABF02)
- Episode – "The Great Money Caper" (CABF03)
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (CABF06)
- Episode – "Pokey Mom" (CABF05)
- Episode – "Worst Episode Ever" (CABF08)
- Episode – "Tennis the Menace" (CABF07)
- Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" (CABF10)
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" (CABF12)
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" (CABF09)
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie" (CABF11)
- Episode – "Simpson Safari" (CABF13)
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error" (CABF14)
- Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" (CABF15)
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" (CABF16)
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" (CABF17)
Season 13
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" (CABF19)
- Episode – "The Parent Rap" (CABF22)
- Episode – "Homer the Moe" (CABF20)
- Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (CABF18)
- Episode – "The Blunder Years" (CABF21)
- Episode – "She of Little Faith" (DABF02)
- Episode – "Brawl in the Family" (DABF01)
- Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" (DABF03)
- Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" (DABF05)
- Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" (DABF04)
- Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants" (DABF06)
- Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West" (DABF07)
- Episode – "The Old Man and the Key" (DABF09)
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" (DABF08)
- Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" (DABF10)
- Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's" (DABF11)
- Episode – "Gump Roast" (DABF12)
- Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)" (DABF13)
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu" (DABF14)
- Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten" (DABF15)
- Episode – "The Frying Game" (DABF16)
- Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" (DABF17)
Season 14
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIII" (DABF19)
- Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22)
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" (DABF20)
- Episode – "Large Marge" (DABF18)
- Episode – "Helter Shelter" (DABF21)
Co-Executive Producer (2002-2007)[]
Season 14
- Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" (EABF01)
- Episode – "Special Edna" (EABF02)
- Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" (EABF03)
- Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" (EABF04)
- Episode – "Pray Anything" (EABF06)
- Episode – "Barting Over" (EABF05)
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" (EABF07)
- Episode – "A Star Is Born-Again" (EABF08)
- Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (EABF09)
- Episode – "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10)
- Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" (EABF11)
- Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" (EABF12)
- Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" (EABF13)
- Episode – "Old Yeller Belly" (EABF14)
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" (EABF15)
- Episode – "The Bart of War" (EABF16)
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues" (EABF17)
Season 15
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (as Decapitatin' Don Payne) (EABF21)
- Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" (EABF18)
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" (EABF20)
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues" (EABF22)
- Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest" (EABF19)
- Episode – "Today, I Am a Clown" (FABF01)
- Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" (FABF02)
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" (FABF03)
- Episode – "I, D'oh-Bot" (FABF04)
- Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" (FABF05)
- Episode – "Margical History Tour" (FABF06)
- Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (FABF07)
- Episode – "Smart and Smarter" (FABF09)
- Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" (FABF08)
- Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day" (FABF10)
- Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" (FABF11)
- Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" (FABF12)
- Episode – "Catch 'Em if You Can" (FABF14)
- Episode – "Simple Simpson" (FABF15)
- Episode – "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13)
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" (FABF17)
- Episode – "Fraudcast News" (FABF18)
Season 16
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" (as Don "Reavers!" Payne) (FABF23)
- Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" (FABF20)
- Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" (FABF19)
- Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" (FABF22)
- Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" (FABF21)
- Episode – "Midnight Rx" (FABF16)
- Episode – "Mommie Beerest" (GABF01)
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" (GABF02)
- Episode – "Pranksta Rap" (GABF03)
- Episode – "There's Something About Marrying" (GABF04)
- Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" (GABF05)
- Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan" (GABF06)
- Episode – "Mobile Homer" (GABF07)
- Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch" (GABF08)
- Episode – "Future-Drama" (GABF12)
- Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer" (GABF10)
- Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" (GABF11)
- Episode – "A Star is Torn" (GABF13)
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday" (GABF14)
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer" (GABF15)
- Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" (GABF09)
Season 17
- Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees" (GABF18)
- Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" (GABF16)
- Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" (GABF19)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI" (as Darth Pain) (GABF17)
- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
- Episode – "See Homer Run" (GABF21)
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" (GABF22)
- Episode – "The Italian Bob" (HABF02)
- Episode – "Simpson Christmas Stories" (HABF01)
- Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot" (HABF03)
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" (HABF04)
- Episode – "My Fair Laddy" (HABF05)
- Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" (HABF06)
- Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies" (HABF07)
- Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" (HABF08)
- Episode – "Million Dollar Abie" (HABF09)
- Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" (HABF10)
- Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11)
- Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" (HABF12)
- Episode – "Regarding Margie" (HABF13)
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit" (HABF14)
- Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" (HABF16)
Season 18
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (HABF15)
- Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" (HABF18)
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" (HABF20)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (as Dystopian Don Payne) (HABF17)
- Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" (HABF21)
- Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa" (HABF19)
- Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" (HABF22)
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" (JABF02)
- Episode – "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2" (JABF01)
- Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" (JABF03)
- Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times" (JABF05)
- Episode – "Little Big Girl" (JABF04)
- Episode – "Springfield Up" (JABF07)
- Episode – "Yokel Chords" (JABF09)
- Episode – "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh" (JABF08)
- Episode – "Homerazzi" (JABF06)
- Episode – "Marge Gamer" (JABF10)
- Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" (JABF11)
- Episode – "Crook and Ladder" (JABF13)
- Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!" (JABF12)
- Episode – "24 Minutes" (JABF14)
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (JABF15)
Season 19
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (JABF20)
- Episode – "The Homer of Seville" (JABF18)
- Episode – "Midnight Towboy" (JABF21)
- Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (JABF19)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (as Desecrated Don Payne) (JABF16)
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" (JABF22)
- Episode – "Husbands and Knives" (JABF17)
Consulting Producer (2007-2009)[]
Season 19
- Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" (KABF01)
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" (KABF02)
- Episode – "E. Pluribus Wiggum" (KABF03)
- Episode – "That '90s Show" (KABF04)
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" (KABF05)
- Episode – "The Debarted" (KABF06)
- Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" (KABF07)
- Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" (KABF08)
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" (KABF09)
- Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" (KABF10)
- Episode – "Any Given Sundance" (KABF11)
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" (KABF12)
- Episode – "All About Lisa" (KABF13)
Season 20
- Episode – "Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes" (KABF17)
- Episode – "Lost Verizon" (KABF15)
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (KABF14)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Don "The Final Cylon" Payne) (KABF16)
- Episode – "Dangerous Curves" (KABF18)
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" (KABF19)
- Episode – "Mypods and Boomsticks" (KABF20)
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" (KABF21)
- Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen" (KABF22)
Lyrics (2001-2008)[]
Season 12
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" (Lyrics for Nothing Beats the Hobo Life and A King-Sized Woodsman (with John Frink)) (CABF17)
Season 14
- Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" (Lyrics for The Very Reason That I Live (with John Frink)) (EABF01)
Season 19
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" (Lyrics for Any Minute Now, Smash the Flag, Hitler and Her Majesty, Education's Bollocks and The Potion of Emotion) (KABF05)
Commentaries (2000-2005)[]
- 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 – "Pokey Mom"
- Episode – "Tennis the Menace"
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland"
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
- Episode – "The Blunder Years"
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain"
- Episode – "Blame It on Lisa"
- Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's"
- Episode – "Gump Roast"
- Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)"
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
- Episode – "Today, I Am a Clown"
- Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
- Episode – "The Wandering Juvie"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner"
- Episode – "Fraudcast News"
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday"
