Tim Long (born June 14, 1969 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) is a writer and producer for The Simpsons from Exeter, Ontario, Canada. He has also written for Politically Incorrect, Spy Magazine and The Late Show with David Letterman.
Tim graduated from University College at the University of Toronto with a major in English Literature and pursued graduate studies in English at Columbia University. He was a fact-checker at Spy magazine under E. Graydon Carter before joining the staff of The David Letterman Show.
Credits[]
Writer (1999-present)[]
Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" with Larry Doyle and Matt Selman (AABF14)
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" with Donick Cary and Ron Hauge (as Terrifying Tim Long) (BABF01)
Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" (BABF09)- Episode – "Behind the Laughter" with George Meyer, Mike Scully and Matt Selman (BABF19)
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (CABF06)
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" (CABF12)
- Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" (DABF04)
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" (DABF20)
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" (EABF15)
- Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" (FABF22)
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" (GABF02)
- Episode – "Mobile Homer" (GABF07)
- Episode – "Million Dollar Abie" (HABF09)
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (JABF15)
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" (KABF19)
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada" (LABF17)
- Episode – "Elementary School Musical" (MABF21)
- Episode – "MoneyBART" (MABF18)
- Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" (NABF17)
- Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" (PABF05)
- Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" (PABF14)
- Episode – "Moonshine River" (PABF21)
- Episode – "Love is a Many Splintered Thing" (RABF07)
- Episode – "The Kid is All Right" (SABF02)
- Episode – "Married to the Blob" (SABF03)
- Episode – "Bull-E" (TABF15)
- Episode – "Springfield Splendor" with Miranda Thompson (WABF22)
- Episode – "Haw-Haw Land" with Miranda Thompson (XABF03)
- Episode – "D'oh Canada" with Miranda Thompson (YABF14)
- Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me" with Miranda Thompson (ZABF04)
- Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" (QABF12)
- Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" (UABF14)
- Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass" (OABF13)
- Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa" (35ABF18)
Executive Story Editor (1998-1999)[]
Season 10
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as Tim "Mildly Unnerving" Long) (AABF01)
- Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind" (AABF02)
- Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" (AABF03)
- Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04)
- Episode – "Mayored to the Mob" (AABF05)
- Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" (AABF06)
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" (AABF07)
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" (AABF08)
- Episode – "Homer to the Max" (AABF09)
- Episode – "I'm with Cupid" (AABF11)
- Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" (AABF10)
- Episode – "Make Room for Lisa" (AABF12)
- Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive" (AABF13)
- Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" (AABF14)
- Episode – "Mom and Pop Art" (AABF15)
- Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student" (AABF16)
- Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" (AABF17)
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" (AABF18)
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (AABF20)
Season 11
- Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" (AABF23)
- Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" (AABF22)
- Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" (AABF21)
- Episode – "E-I-E-I-D'oh" (AABF19)
Co-Producer (1999-2000)[]
Season 11
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (as Tim I-Scare-You-Long-Time) (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)
Producer (2000-2001)[]
Season 12
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (as Terrifying Tim Long) (BABF21)
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields" (BABF20)
- Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy" (BABF17)
- 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 – "HOMЯ" (BABF22)
- 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)
Supervising Producer (2001-2002)[]
Season 13
- 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 (2002-2005; 2021-present)[]
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 Grim Long) (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, (Annoyed Grunt)-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 Tim Not Long For This World) (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 Tim Longs For Death) (GABF17)
- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
- Episode – "See Homer Run" (GABF21)
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" (GABF22)
Season 33
- Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" (UABF01)
Season 35
- Episode – "Homer's Crossing" (OABF18)
- Episode – "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" (OABF16)
- Episode – "McMansion & Wife" (OABF20)
- Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story" (OABF21)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" (as Tim Long's Dental Records) (OABF17)
- Episode – "Iron Marge" (OABF22)
- Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life" (OABF19)
- Episode – "AE Bonny Romance" (35ABF02)
- Episode – "Murder, She Boat" (35ABF04)
- Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing" (35ABF01)
- Episode – "Frinkenstein's Monster" (35ABF03)
- Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1" (35ABF05)
- Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom" (35ABF06)
- Episode – "Night of the Living Wage" (35ABF07)
- Episode – "Cremains of the Day" (35ABF09)
- Episode – "The Tell-Tale Pants" (35ABF10)
- Episode – "The Tipping Point" (35ABF11)
- Episode – "Bart's Brain" (35ABF12)
Season 36
- Episode – "Bart's Birthday" (35ABF15)
- Episode – "The Yellow Lotus" (35ABF08)
Executive Producer (2005-2009)[]
Season 17
- 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 The Ghost of Tim Horton) (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 Terrifying Tim Long) (JABF16)
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" (JABF22)
- Episode – "Husbands and Knives" (JABF17)
- 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 Trick or Tim Long) (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)
Consultant (2007)[]
Consulting Producer (2009-2021)[]
Season 20
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as The Tim Reaper) (LABF14)
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada" (LABF17)
Season 24
- Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" (RABF02)
Season 30
- Episode – "Bart's Not Dead" (XABF19)
- Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel" (XABF15)
- Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" (XABF17)
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" (as Timlong-Inable Snowman) (XABF16)
- Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" (XABF18)
- Episode – "From Russia Without Love" (XABF20)
- Episode – "Werking Mom" (XABF21)
- Episode – "Krusty the Clown (episode)" (XABF22)
- Episode – "Daddicus Finch" (YABF01)
- Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season" (YABF02)
- Episode – "Mad About the Toy" (YABF03)
- Episode – "The Girl on The Bus" (YABF04)
- Episode – "I'm Dancing As Fat As I Can" (YABF06)
- Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" (YABF05)
- Episode – "101 Mitigations" (YABF07)
- Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (YABF08)
- Episode – "E My Sports" (YABF09)
- Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" (YABF10)
- Episode – "Girl's in the Band" (YABF11)
- Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" (YABF12)
- Episode – "D'oh Canada" (YABF14)
- Episode – "Woo-hoo Dunnit?" (YABF15)
- Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" (YABF16)
Lyrics (2001-present)[]
Season 12
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" (Lyrics for All Party Posse Songs (with Tony Battaglia)) (CABF12)
Season 14
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" (Lyrics for M.C. Safety and the Caution Crew) (DABF20)
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" (Lyrics for I Love to Walk) (EABF15)
Season 17
- Episode – "Million Dollar Abie" (Lyrics for Springfield Blows) (HABF09)
Season 18
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (Lyrics for Menace Tooth Society, Baby Got Bacteria and Luda-Crest Wisdom) (JABF15)
Season 33
- Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" (Lyrics for Goodbye, Middle Class (with Laurence O'Keefe)) (UABF14)
Commentaries (2008-present)[]
- Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X"
- Episode – "Grift of the Magi"
- Episode – "The Mansion Family"
- Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica"
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger"
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
- Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes"
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Simpson Safari"
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error"
- Episode – "The Parent Rap"
- Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal"
- Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants"
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain"
- Episode – "Blame It on Lisa"
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu"
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- Episode – "The Great Louse Detective"
- Episode – "C.E. D'oh"
- Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly"
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please"
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
- Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest"
- Episode – "Today, I Am a Clown"
- Episode – "Margical History Tour"
- Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
- Episode – "Smart and Smarter"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "The Way We Weren't"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV"
- Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War"
- Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl"
- Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy"
- Episode – "Mommie Beerest"
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
- Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
- Episode – "Mobile Homer"
- Episode – "A Star is Torn"
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday"
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer"
- Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"
- Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog"
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
- Episode – "Simpson Christmas Stories"
- Episode – "Million Dollar Abie"
- Episode – "Regarding Margie"
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit"
- Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"
- Episode – "The Wife Aquatic"
- Episode – "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh"
- Episode – "Crook and Ladder"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII"
- Episode – "That '90s Show"
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
- Episode – "Apocalypse Cow"
External links[]
- Tim Long at the Internet Movie Database
- Tim Long at Wikipedia
