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Chris Clements (animation Director)
Chris Clements is an animation director with ''The Simpsons''. Prior to that, he was a character layout artist with the show. The second episode he directed, " The Haw-Hawed Couple", was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour). Episodes * " Dude, Where's My Ranch?" * " The Haw-Hawed Couple" * " Papa Don't Leech" * " Gone Maggie Gone" * " Million Dollar Maybe" * "Moms I'd Like to Forget" * " The Great Simpsina" * " The D'oh-cial Network" * " A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" * " A Test Before Trying" * "Pulpit Friction" * " Married to the Blob" * "Luca$" * " Walking Big & Tall" * " Let's Go Fly a Coot" * " The Girl Code" * " The Marge-ian Chronicles" (co-written with Matthew Faughnan) * " The Great Phatsby" * "22 for 30 "22 for 30" is the seventeenth episode of the twenty-eighth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 613th episode of the series overall. It aired in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation Director
An animation director is either the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated film or television, and animated segment for a live action film or television show, or the animator in charge of correcting layouts and drawings. The difference between the two is largely the difference between the western and eastern animation industries. Responsibilities Western production pipeline In western animation, such as Disney, the responsibilities of an animation director include directing the storyboards, character designs, background animation, and other technical aspects of a project's animation. Some animated film productions may split the duties between an animation director, who focuses on the creation of the animation, and a director who oversees all other aspects of the film. A supervising animator is commonly in charge of all aspects of the design and artwork for a single major character. The supervising animator oversees a group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married To The Blob
"Married to the Blob" is the tenth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'' and the 540th episode of the series. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on January 12, 2014. The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Chris Clements. The episode received positive reviews from critics and was watched by 4.83 million viewers and an 18-49 rating of 2.2. Coincidentally, the title for this episode has been previously used in a segment for "Treehouse of Horror XVII". Plot Bart, Milhouse and Homer line up at Comic Book Guy's store to purchase the first issue of a Radioactive Man reboot comic. Comic Book Guy finds out that his competitor Milo (the owner of Coolsville) is now married to his girlfriend, Strawberry. Comic Book Guy cries and sings a song about him being lonely his entire life. Suddenly, an imaginary Stan Lee appears to Comic Book Guy and tells him that he has another chance in love. A Japanese gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dad-Feelings Limited
"The Dad-Feelings Limited" is the 11th episode of the thirty-second season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 695th episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on January 3, 2021. The episode was directed by Chris Clements, and written by Ryan Koh. Plot Comic Book Guy and his wife Kumiko enjoy a lazy Sunday while Marge and Homer attend multiple children's birthday parties. Desperate for adult company, Marge and Homer leave the kids with Ned Flanders and go to Moe's for trivia night. Teaming up with Comic Book Guy and Kumiko, they win first place, and Marge and Kumiko relate over having overweight husbands. When Kumiko visits Marge, she bonds with Maggie and tells her husband she wants to have a child. Comic Book Guy, who works with children at his store every day and knows that he is an emotionally distant man, does not want to become a father. Kumiko arranges for her husband to attend a movie with the Simpsons, and he finds he trul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway To Well
"Highway to Well" is the 17th episode of the thirty-first season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 679th episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 22, 2020. The episode was written by Carolyn Omine and was directed by Chris Clements. Plot Marge takes Maggie to her first day of preschool. When she learns she cannot stay with her, she checks her favorite mommy blog, "Yaaass, Mom!", for tips on how to pass the time. She first tries going to the gym to take a Soul Cycle class, where she is uncomfortable with the aggressive coach who wins the other ladies over with his angry coaching. She then attends a ceramics class at the community center only to find it taught by a similar teacher whom the ladies cheer over. Later, she goes to the Nuclear Plant to sex-prise Homer, but finds they are unable to have any privacy since the surveillance team loudly insists on spying on them having sex. Running out of activities to do, Marge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
"Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" is the ninth episode of the thirty-first season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 671st episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on December 1, 2019. The episode was written by Tim Long & Miranda Thompson and was directed by Chris Clements. Plot Maude Flanders appears in a dream to Ned as a ghost. Ned cries and asks Todd if he ever dreams about his mother. Todd confesses he no longer remembers what she looks like. After watching Christmas tapes of their family in an attempt to jog his memories of Maude, Todd starts having doubts about Maude being in a better place. At church, Reverend Lovejoy invites the kids to say what they would want to say to baby Jesus if they could speak to him and Todd says he would angrily tell him thanks for nothing because his mom is dead and that he no longer believes in God, shocking everyone. Ned is shocked to the core and reprimands his actions, while Todd keep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bart Vs
Bart is a masculine given name, usually a diminutive of Bartholomew, sometimes of Barton, Bartolomeo, etc. Bart is a Dutch and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, and derives from the name ''Bartholomäus'', a German form of the biblical name ''Bartholomew'' meaning 'son of talmai' in Aramaic. Given names * Bart Andrus (born 1958), American football player and coach * Bart Arens (born 1978), Dutch radio DJ * Bart Baker (born 1986), American comedian and parody musician * Bart Bassett (born 1961), Australian politician * Bart Baxter, American poet * Bart Becht (born 1956), Dutch businessman * Bart Berman (born 1938), Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer * Bart Biemans (born 1988), Belgian footballer * Bart Bok (1906–1983), Dutch-American astronomer * Bart Bongers (born 1946), Dutch water polo player * Bart Bowen (born 1967), American cyclist * Bart Bradley (1930–2006), Canadian ice hockey centre * Bart Braverman (born 1946), American actor * Bart Brentjens (born 1968), Dutch cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl On The Bus
"The Girl on the Bus" is the twelfth episode of the thirtieth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 651st episode overall. The episode was directed by Chris Clements and written by Joel H. Cohen. It aired in the United States on Fox on January 13, 2019. Plot Channel 6 news opens up with the city's history of the founding and development of Springfield, which leads to the run down school bus Lisa and Bart ride to school every day. On the bus, Lisa wishes she had a close friend, then notices a girl sitting on her front porch playing a clarinet. The next day, Lisa asks Otto Mann to stop the bus, and he drops her off. Exploring the Springfield Heights neighborhood, she finds the girl's house and notices her crying through a window. Lisa introduces herself to the girl, whose name is Sam, and finds that they have much in common. Sam's parents invite Lisa over to dinner, then ask her about her family. Wanting to not reveal her embarrassing famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
22 For 30
"22 for 30" is the seventeenth episode of the twenty-eighth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 613th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 12, 2017. In a parody of ''30 for 30'', Bart goes from delinquent with detention to the star basketball player at Springfield Elementary. Lisa covers Bart's success for the school paper, and Homer becomes the team's coach. Things go awry when Bart gets involved with the mafia. Plot The story is done as a documentary about the rise and the fall of Bart Simpson's career on the Springfield Elementary School basketball team. It all started with a joke that got him in the longest detention in history, where he started shooting baskets in the detention room wastebasket. Bart became a starter and then a star, reveling in his abilities while also letting his success go to his head. Homer Simpson became the coach of the team, and Bart started disrespecting Homer, leading to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Phatsby
"The Great Phatsby" is the twelfth and thirteenth episodes of the The Simpsons (season 28), twenty-eighth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 608th and 609th episodes of the series overall. The first part was directed by Chris Clements (animation director), Chris Clements and written by Dan Greaney. The second part was directed by Timothy Bailey and written by Dan Greaney and Matt Selman. The episodes aired in the United States on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox on January 15, 2017. It was the first two-part episode of the series since "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", though it was promoted and aired as the show’s first hour-long episode in its initial airing. The episode is a spoof of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby'', Jack Clayton's 1974 The Great Gatsby (1974 film), film version of the novel, Baz Luhrmann's 2013 The Great Gatsby (2013 film), film version of the novel with Tobey Maguire, and the 2015 Fox program ''Empire (2015 TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Faughnan
Matthew Faughnan is an animation director with ''The Simpsons'' and has directed twenty four episodes. Prior to that, he was an assistant director with the show and won an Emmy award in 2003 for "Three Gays of the Condo". Episodes of The Simpsons directed by Faughnan Season 18 * Stop! Or My Dog Will Shoot * Treehouse of Horror XVII - co-directed with David Silverman (as Malicious Matthew C. Faughnan) Season 20 * Dangerous Curves Season 21 * The Great Wife Hope Season 22 * Loan-a Lisa Season 23 * Treehouse of Horror XXII Season 24 * The Day the Earth Stood Cool Season 25 * Labor Pains Season 26 * Treehouse of Horror XXV Season 27 * Friend with Benefit * Orange Is the New Yellow Season 28 * There Will Be Buds Season 29 * Springfield Splendor * Whistler's Father Season 30 * Treehouse of Horror XXIX * Krusty the Clown * Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion Season 31 * Go Big or Go Homer * The Way of the Dog Season 32 * Podcast News Season 33 * Treehouse of Horror XXXII * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marge-ian Chronicles
"The Marge-ian Chronicles" is the sixteenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 590th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 13, 2016. Plot When Homer learns that Ned Flanders has been raising a flock of chickens in a backyard coop, he and Bart begin stealing the eggs they lay. Although he buys some chickens of his own to have a ready supply of eggs on hand, he and Bart realize that they preferred stealing from Flanders. The family finds a company called Exploration Incorporated that will take in the chickens, as part of a corporate-sponsored research project to establish space flight to Mars. Learning that the company wants to begin colonizing the planet within 10 years, Lisa eagerly volunteers. The rest of the family disagrees with her choice, but Homer persuades Marge to sign up as well in the hope that Lisa will lose interest and drop out. When this strategy fails, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Code
"The Girl Code" is the tenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 584th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on January 3, 2016. Plot When Marge notices that Homer forgot his lunch and panics over the effect fasting would have on his work (a moot point since Homer has several frozen pizzas on hand for sustenance), she rushes to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to get it to him and after she distracts Smithers from putting Homer on overtime, the two end up having fun hanging out together. Marge posts a picture on Facelook of Homer eating an ice cream outside the plant with the caption of "Meltdown at the Nuclear Plant". Mr. Burns, furious at the wordplay and ignoring Smithers' view that it was simply a joke, fires Homer immediately. Meanwhile, at school, Lisa is in a coding class led by a tough female coder named Quinn Cooper, who immediately makes Lisa her protege, mainly as s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |