Don Payne

Don Payne
Gender
Born	May 5, 1964 Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Died	March 26, 2013 (age 48) Los Angeles, California, United States
Cast status	Deceased consulting producer
First appearance	"Treehouse of Horror X"
Last appearance	"White Christmas Blues"

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"