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The following is a list of all the credited writers and co-writers of episodes of the Fox animated series The Simpsons. The credited is usually the person who produced the episode's first draft. The Simpsons works principally on group writing sessions lead by the show's showrunner in the re-write room. Many of the show's longest serving writers have exerted great influence in the room - Meyer, with Vitti quote, does more work in the room than on his own scripts - on staff without writing. "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" - virtually nothing remained. This means many jokes, scenes and in some cases even the majority of an episode will have been conceived by people other than the credited writer. WGA rules? Swartzwelder, recluse, quote that he has the most and the least thrown out scripts, unproduced episodes, original Springfield script Gervais and Rogen - famous writers ie Greg Daniels, Rich Appel, David Cohen etc later went on to create x shows.

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For a full list of each writer's credits see their articles/season articles...

Key

Where a phrase is included in brackets after the episode title, that indicates the episode is a multi-part episode and that the writer wrote that segement alone

Writer No. of episodes First episode Last episode Time on staff[A] Ref.
Richard Appel 07 "Mother Simpson" "When You Dish Upon a Star" 1994-1998
Gary Apple 01 "Homer's Triple Bypass" "Homer's Triple Bypass" 1992
Jack Barth 01 "A Fish Called Selma" "A Fish Called Selma" 1996
Bob Bendetson 02 "Simpsons Tall Tales" ("Connie Appleseed") "Blame It on Lisa" 2001-2002
Neal Boushell 01 "Pray Anything" "Pray Anything" 2003
J. Stewart Burns 010 "Moe Baby Blues" "The D'oh-cial Network" 2003-present
Bill Canterbury 02 "Marge on the Lam" "Treehouse of Horror IV" ("Bart Simpson's Dracula") 1993-1994

Notes

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  • ^ A. "Time on staff" refers to the first and most recent times the writer was credited in any capacity, independent of when their first and last episodes came. (The dates given do not take into account writers leaving and returning)
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  • Full episode credits for all writers at IMDb