Mike B. Anderson

Mike B. Anderson
Gender
Cast status	Current supervising director
First appearance	"Homer's Night Out"

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, and the WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series at the 1998 World Animation Celebration. He has won two Emmy Awards for directing Simpsons episodes, "Homer's Phobia" in 1997 and "HOMЯ" in 2000. He is also a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie.

Credits

Director (1996-present)

• Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast" (3F13)
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror VII" (as Mutant Mike B. Anderson) (4F02)
• Episode – "You Only Move Twice" (3F23)
• Episode – "Homer's Phobia" (4F11)
• Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (4F21)
• Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" (5F10)
• Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04)
• Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" (BABF02)
• Episode – "HOMЯ" (BABF22)
• Episode – "Trilogy of Error" (CABF14)
• Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" (DABF08)
• Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22)
• Episode – "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10)
• Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" (EABF20)
• Episode – "Margical History Tour" (FABF06)
• Episode – "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13)
• Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" (FABF21)
• Episode – "Pranksta Rap" (GABF03)
• Episode – "Future-Drama" (GABF12)
• Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
• Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot" (HABF03)
• Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11)
• Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" with Ralph Sosa (HABF20)
• Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" with Ralph Sosa (KABF12)
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XX" with Matthew Schofield (as Mike Beheaded Anderson 2) (LABF14)
• Episode – "Halloween of Horror" (TABF22)

Cleanup Artist (1990)

Season 1

• Episode – "Homer's Night Out" (7G10)
• Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath" (7G13)

Character Layout Artist

Season 2

• Episode – "Simpson and Delilah" (7F02)
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror" (7F04)
• Episode – "Dancin' Homer" (7F05)
• Episode – "Dead Putting Society" (7F08)
• Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" (7F10)
• Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (7F13)
• Episode – "Principal Charming" (7F15)
• Episode – "Lisa's Substitute" (7F19)

Season 3

• Episode – "Stark Raving Dad" (7F24)
• Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" (8F01)
• Episode – "Bart the Murderer" (8F03)
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror II" (8F02)
• Episode – "Flaming Moe's" (8F08)
• Episode – "Radio Bart" (8F11)
• Episode – "Bart the Lover" (8F16)
• Episode – "The Otto Show" (8F21)
• Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" (8F23)

Season 4

• Episode – "Homer the Heretic" (9F01)
• Episode – "New Kid on the Block" (9F06)
• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail" (9F10)
• Episode – "Selma's Choice" (9F11)
• Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield" (9F15)
• Episode – "The Front" (9F16)

Season 5

• Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" (9F21)
• Episode – "Cape Feare" (9F22)
• Episode – "Rosebud" (1F01)
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror IV" (1F04)
• Episode – "Bart's Inner Child" (1F05)
• Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" (1F20)

Assistant Director

Season 5

• Episode – "Bart's Inner Child" (1F05)
• Episode – "Bart Gets Famous" (1F11)
• Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" (1F18)

Animation Timing (1994)

Season 5

• Episode – "Deep Space Homer" (1F13)
• Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" (1F20)