Mike B. Anderson is a television director who works on The Simpsons and has directed numerous episodes of the show, and was animated in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" as cadet Anderson. He was also a Consulting Producer on the animated show, "The Oblongs" and Story Consultant on "Tripping the Rift". He also directed the feature films Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986) and Kamillions (1989). For "Homer's Phobia" he won the Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production,[1] and the WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series at the 1998 World Animation Celebration.[2] He has won two Emmy Awards for directing the Simpsons episodes, "Homer's Phobia" in 1997 and "HOMŠÆ" in 2001. Anderson was also a sequence director for The Simpsons Movie.
Credits[]
Director (1996-2015)[]
- Episode ā "Lisa the Iconoclast" (3F13)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror VII" (as Mutant Mike B. Anderson) (4F02)
- Episode ā "You Only Move Twice" (3F23)
- Episode ā "Homer's Phobia" (4F11)
- Episode ā "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (4F21)
- Episode ā "The Last Temptation of Krust" (5F10)
- Episode ā "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04)
- Episode ā "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" (BABF02)
- Episode ā "HOMŠÆ" (BABF22)
- Episode ā "Trilogy of Error" (CABF14)
- Episode ā "Tales from the Public Domain" (DABF08)
- Episode ā "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22)
- Episode ā "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10)
- Episode ā "The President Wore Pearls" (EABF20)
- Episode ā "Margical History Tour" (FABF06)
- Episode ā "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13)
- Episode ā "Fat Man and Little Boy" (FABF21)
- Episode ā "Pranksta Rap" (GABF03)
- Episode ā "Future-Drama" (GABF12)
- Episode ā "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
- Episode ā "Homer's Paternity Coot" (HABF03)
- Episode ā "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11)
- Episode ā "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" with Ralph Sosa (HABF20)
- Episode ā "Mona Leaves-a" with Ralph Sosa (KABF12)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror XX" with Matthew Schofield (as Mike Beheaded Anderson 2) (LABF14)
- Episode ā "Halloween of Horror" (TABF22)
Cleanup Artist (1990)[]
Season 1
- Episode ā "Homer's Night Out" (7G10)
- Episode ā "The Crepes of Wrath" (7G13)
Character Layout Artist (1990-1994)[]
Season 2
- Episode ā "Simpson and Delilah" (7F02)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror" (7F04)
- Episode ā "Dancin' Homer" (7F05)
- Episode ā "Dead Putting Society" (7F08)
- Episode ā "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" (7F10)
- Episode ā "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (7F13)
- Episode ā "Principal Charming" (7F15)
- Episode ā "Lisa's Substitute" (7F19)
Season 3
- Episode ā "Stark Raving Dad" (7F24)
- Episode ā "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" (8F01)
- Episode ā "Bart the Murderer" (8F03)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror II" (8F02)
- Episode ā "Flaming Moe's" (8F08)
- Episode ā "Radio Bart" (8F11)
- Episode ā "Bart the Lover" (8F16)
- Episode ā "The Otto Show" (8F21)
- Episode ā "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" (8F23)
Season 4
- Episode ā "Homer the Heretic" (9F01)
- Episode ā "New Kid on the Block" (9F06)
- Episode ā "Marge vs. the Monorail" (9F10)
- Episode ā "Selma's Choice" (9F11)
- Episode ā "Last Exit to Springfield" (9F15)
- Episode ā "The Front" (9F16)
Season 5
- Episode ā "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" (9F21)
- Episode ā "Cape Feare" (9F22)
- Episode ā "Rosebud" (1F01)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror IV" (1F04)
- Episode ā "Bart's Inner Child" (1F05)
- Episode ā "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" (1F20)
Season 6
- Episode ā "Sideshow Bob Roberts" (2F02)
Assistant Director (1993-1995)[]
Season 5
- Episode ā "Bart's Inner Child" (1F05)
- Episode ā "Bart Gets Famous" (1F11)
- Episode ā "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" (1F18)
Season 6
- Episode ā "Lisa on Ice" (2F05)
- Episode ā "Bart's Comet" (2F11)
- Episode ā "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" (2F18)
Season 7
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror VI" (3F04)
Animation Timing (1994)[]
Season 5
- Episode ā "Deep Space Homer" (1F13)
- Episode ā "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" (1F20)
Storyboard (1995-1998)[]
Season 7
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror VI" (3F04)
- Episode ā "Lisa the Iconoclast" (3F13)
Season 8
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror VII" (4F02)
- Episode ā "You Only Move Twice" (3F23)
- Episode ā "Homer's Phobia" (4F11)
Season 9
- Episode ā "The Last Temptation of Krust" (5F10)
Artist Supervisor (1997-1998)[]
Season 9
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (5F02)
- Episode ā "The Cartridge Family" (5F01)
- Episode ā "Bart Star" (5F03)
- Episode ā "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" (5F04)
- Episode ā "Lisa the Skeptic" (5F05)
- Episode ā "Realty Bites" (5F06)
- Episode ā "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" (5F07)
- Episode ā "All Singing, All Dancing" (5F24)
- Episode ā "Bart Carny" (5F08)
- Episode ā "The Joy of Sect" (5F23)
- Episode ā "Das Bus" (5F11)
- Episode ā "The Last Temptation of Krust" (5F10)
- Episode ā "Dumbbell Indemnity" (5F12)
- Episode ā "This Little Wiggy" (5F13)
- Episode ā "The Trouble with Trillions" (5F14)
- Episode ā "Girly Edition" (5F15)
- Episode ā "Trash of the Titans" (5F09)
- Episode ā "King of the Hill" (5F16)
- Episode ā "Lost Our Lisa" (5F17)
- Episode ā "Natural Born Kissers" (5F18)
Season 10
- Episode ā "Lard of the Dance" (5F20)
- Episode ā "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" (5F21)
- Episode ā "Bart the Mother" (5F22)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror IX" (AABF01)
- Episode ā "When You Dish Upon a Star" (5F19)
Storyboard Consultant (1998-2004)[]
Season 10
- Episode ā "D'oh-in' in the Wind" (AABF02)
- Episode ā "Lisa Gets an "A"" (AABF03)
- Episode ā "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04)
- Episode ā "Mayored to the Mob" (AABF05)
- Episode ā "Viva Ned Flanders" (AABF06)
- Episode ā "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" (AABF07)
- Episode ā "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" (AABF08)
- Episode ā "Homer to the Max" (AABF09)
- Episode ā "I'm with Cupid" (AABF11)
- Episode ā "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" (AABF10)
- Episode ā "Make Room for Lisa" (AABF12)
- Episode ā "Maximum Homerdrive" (AABF13)
- Episode ā "Simpsons Bible Stories" (AABF14)
- Episode ā "Mom and Pop Art" (AABF15)
- Episode ā "The Old Man and the "C" Student" (AABF16)
- Episode ā "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" (AABF17)
- Episode ā "They Saved Lisa's Brain" (AABF18)
- Episode ā "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (AABF20)
Season 11
- Episode ā "Beyond Blunderdome" (AABF23)
- Episode ā "Brother's Little Helper" (AABF22)
- Episode ā "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" (AABF21)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror X" (BABF01)
- Episode ā "E-I-E-I-D'oh" (AABF19)
- Episode ā "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" (BABF02)
- Episode ā "Eight Misbehavin'" (BABF03)
- Episode ā "Take My Wife, Sleaze" (BABF05)
- Episode ā "Grift of the Magi" (BABF07)
- Episode ā "Little Big Mom" (BABF04)
- Episode ā "Faith Off" (BABF06)
- Episode ā "The Mansion Family" (BABF08)
- Episode ā "Saddlesore Galactica" (BABF09)
- Episode ā "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" (BABF10)
- Episode ā "Missionary: Impossible" (BABF11)
- Episode ā "Pygmoelian" (BABF12)
- Episode ā "Bart to the Future" (BABF13)
- Episode ā "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" (BABF14)
- Episode ā "Kill the Alligator and Run" (BABF16)
- Episode ā "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" (BABF15)
- Episode ā "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" (BABF18)
- Episode ā "Behind the Laughter" (BABF19)
Season 12
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror XI" (BABF21)
- Episode ā "A Tale of Two Springfields" (BABF20)
- Episode ā "Insane Clown Poppy" (BABF17)
- Episode ā "Lisa the Tree Hugger" (CABF01)
- Episode ā "Homer vs. Dignity" (CABF04)
- Episode ā "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (CABF02)
- Episode ā "The Great Money Caper" (CABF03)
- Episode ā "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (CABF06)
- Episode ā "HOMR" (BABF22)
- Episode ā "Pokey Mom" (CABF05)
- Episode ā "Worst Episode Ever" (CABF08)
- Episode ā "Tennis the Menace" (CABF07)
- Episode ā "Day of the Jackanapes" (CABF10)
- Episode ā "New Kids on the Blecch" (CABF12)
- Episode ā "Hungry, Hungry Homer" (CABF09)
- Episode ā "Bye Bye Nerdie" (CABF11)
- Episode ā "Simpson Safari" (CABF13)
- Episode ā "Trilogy of Error" (CABF14)
- Episode ā "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" (CABF15)
- Episode ā "Children of a Lesser Clod" (CABF16)
- Episode ā "Simpsons Tall Tales" (CABF17)
Season 13
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror XII" (CABF19)
- Episode ā "The Parent Rap" (CABF22)
- Episode ā "Homer the Moe" (CABF20)
- Episode ā "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (CABF18)
- Episode ā "The Blunder Years" (CABF21)
- Episode ā "She of Little Faith" (DABF02)
- Episode ā "Brawl in the Family" (DABF01)
- Episode ā "Sweets and Sour Marge" (DABF03)
- Episode ā "Jaws Wired Shut" (DABF05)
- Episode ā "Half-Decent Proposal" (DABF04)
- Episode ā "The Bart Wants What It Wants" (DABF06)
- Episode ā "The Lastest Gun in the West" (DABF07)
- Episode ā "The Old Man and the Key" (DABF09)
- Episode ā "Tales from the Public Domain" (DABF08)
- Episode ā "Blame It on Lisa" (DABF10)
- Episode ā "Weekend at Burnsie's" (DABF11)
- Episode ā "Gump Roast" (DABF12)
- Episode ā "I Am Furious Yellow" (DABF13)
- Episode ā "The Sweetest Apu" (DABF14)
- Episode ā "Little Girl in the Big Ten" (DABF15)
- Episode ā "The Frying Game" (DABF16)
- Episode ā "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" (DABF17)
Season 14
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror XIII" (DABF19)
- Episode ā "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22)
- Episode ā "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" (DABF20)
- Episode ā "Large Marge" (DABF18)
- Episode ā "Helter Shelter" (DABF21)
- Episode ā "The Great Louse Detective" (EABF01)
- Episode ā "Special Edna" (EABF02)
- Episode ā "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" (EABF03)
- Episode ā "The Strong Arms of the Ma" (EABF04)
- Episode ā "Pray Anything" (EABF06)
- Episode ā "Barting Over" (EABF05)
- Episode ā "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" (EABF07)
- Episode ā "A Star Is Born-Again" (EABF08)
- Episode ā "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (EABF09)
- Episode ā "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10)
- Episode ā "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" (EABF11)
- Episode ā "Three Gays of the Condo" (EABF12)
- Episode ā "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" (EABF13)
- Episode ā "Old Yeller Belly" (EABF14)
- Episode ā "Brake My Wife, Please" (EABF15)
- Episode ā "The Bart of War" (EABF16)
- Episode ā "Moe Baby Blues" (EABF17)
Season 15
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (EABF21)
- Episode ā "My Mother the Carjacker" (EABF18)
- Episode ā "The President Wore Pearls" (EABF20)
- Episode ā "The Regina Monologues" (EABF22)
- Episode ā "The Fat and the Furriest" (EABF19)
- Episode ā "Today, I Am a Clown" (FABF01)
- Episode ā "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" (FABF05)
- Episode ā "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (FABF07)
Storyboard Artist (1998-2004)[]
Season 10
- Episode ā "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04)
Season 13
- Episode ā "Sweets and Sour Marge" (DABF03)
- Episode ā "Tales from the Public Domain" (DABF08)
Season 14
- Episode ā "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22)
Season 15
- Episode ā "Margical History Tour" (FABF06)
Additional Timing (2001)[]
Season 13
- Episode ā "The Parent Rap" (CABF22)
Storyboard Revisions (2005-2006)[]
Season 16
- Episode ā "Pranksta Rap" (GABF03)
- Episode ā "Future-Drama" (GABF12)
Season 17
- Episode ā "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
- Episode ā "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11)
Sequence Director (2007)[]
Supervising Director (2008-present)[]
Season 19
- Episode ā "Love, Springfieldian Style" (KABF05)
- Episode ā "The Debarted" (KABF06)
- Episode ā "Dial "N" for Nerder" (KABF07)
- Episode ā "Smoke on the Daughter" (KABF08)
- Episode ā "Papa Don't Leech" (KABF09)
- Episode ā "Apocalypse Cow" (KABF10)
- Episode ā "Any Given Sundance" (KABF11)
- Episode ā "Mona Leaves-a" (KABF12)
- Episode ā "All About Lisa" (KABF13)
Season 20
- Episode ā "Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes" (KABF17)
- Episode ā "Lost Verizon" (KABF15)
- Episode ā "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (KABF14)
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Mikenstein B. Anderson) (KABF16)
- Episode ā "Dangerous Curves" (KABF18)
- Episode ā "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" (KABF19)
- Episode ā "Mypods and Boomsticks" (KABF20)
- Episode ā "The Burns and the Bees" (KABF21)
- Episode ā "Lisa the Drama Queen" (KABF22)
Commentaries (2005-present)[]
- Episode ā "Lisa the Iconoclast"
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror VII"
- Episode ā "You Only Move Twice"
- Episode ā "Homer's Phobia"
- Episode ā "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
- Episode ā "The Last Temptation of Krust"
- Episode ā "Lisa Gets an "A""
- Episode ā "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble""
- Episode ā "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""
- Episode ā "Make Room for Lisa"
- Episode ā "Maximum Homerdrive"
- ā The Simpsons Movie
- Episode ā "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
- Episode ā "HOMR"
- Episode ā "Trilogy of Error"
- Episode ā "Children of a Lesser Clod"
- Episode ā "Tales from the Public Domain"
- Episode ā "Blame It on Lisa"
- Episode ā "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"
- Episode ā "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- Episode ā "Large Marge"
- Episode ā "The Great Louse Detective"
- Episode ā "Special Edna"
- Episode ā "A Star Is Born-Again"
- Episode ā "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"
- Episode ā "C.E. D'oh"
- Episode ā "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
- Episode ā "The Bart of War"
- THOH ā "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
- Episode ā "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode ā "The Fat and the Furriest"
- Episode ā "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
- Episode ā "Margical History Tour"
- Episode ā "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
- Episode ā "The Way We Weren't"
- Episode ā "All's Fair in Oven War"
- Episode ā "Sleeping with the Enemy"
- Episode ā "Fat Man and Little Boy"
- Episode ā "Pranksta Rap"
- Episode ā "Future-Drama"
- Episode ā "Don't Fear the Roofer"
- Episode ā "Marge's Son Poisoning"
- Episode ā "Homer's Paternity Coot"
- Episode ā "Bart Has Two Mommies"
- Episode ā "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
- Episode ā "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"
- Episode ā "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh"
- Episode ā "The Boys of Bummer"
- Episode ā "You Kent Always Say What You Want"
- Episode ā "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
- Episode ā "Mona Leaves-a"
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Current directors | |||
Bob Anderson | Mike B. Anderson | Matthew Faughnan | Mark Kirkland | Lance Kramer | Nancy Kruse | Michael Marcantel | Chris Clements | Steven Dean Moore | Matthew Nastuk | Raymond S. Persi | Michael Polcino | Chuck Sheetz | Ralph Sosa | Rob Oliver | |||
Former directors | |||
Neil Affleck | Wes Archer | Carlos Baeza | Brad Bird | Mark Ervin | Jen Kamerman | Jeffrey Lynch | Lauren MacMullan | Pete Michels | Rich Moore | Dominic Polcino | Jim Reardon | Swinton O. Scott III | Alan Smart | Susie Dietter | Shaun Cashman | David Silverman | Gregg Vanzo | |||
Other animation staff | |||
Anthony Bell | GĆ”bor CsupĆ³ | Bill Kopp | Christian Roman | Eric Stefani | Lance Wilder | Craig Clark | |||
Animation studios | |||
Klasky-Csupo, Inc. | Film Roman | AKOM | Anivision | Rough Draft Studios | USAnimation | Toonzone Entertainment |
Citations[]
- ā 25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners. AnnieAwards.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
- ā World Animation Celebration: 1998. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.