Jim Reardon is an American screenwriter, director and animator. While at Cal Arts in 1986, Reardon first made a student film, Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown. The film became a cult classic and gained revived interest through YouTube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on the 1987-88 cartoon series Mighty Mouse—The New Adventures. Afterwards, he wrote many episodes for the first season of Tiny Toon Adventures. In 1990 he was hired as an animation director for The Simpsons and he has served as supervising director on the series for many years. He left the staff to work on the Pixar film, WALL-E, and has also worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios on films such as Wreck-It Ralph and Zootopia which were directed by other fellow Simpsons alumni Rich Moore.
Credits
Director (1990-2004)
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" (7F09)- Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F" (7F14)
- Episode – "Brush with Greatness" (7F18)
- Episode – "When Flanders Failed" (7F23)
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" (as Jim Rondo Reardon) (8F02)- Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder" (8F07)
- Episode – "Homer at the Bat" (8F13)
- Episode – "Dog of Death" (8F17)
- Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" (8F22)
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic" (9F01)
- Episode – "Mr. Plow" (9F07)
- Episode – "Duffless" (9F14)
- Episode – "Marge in Chains" (9F20)
- Episode – "Homer Goes to College" (1F02)
- Episode – "Homer the Vigilante" (1F09)
- Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant" (1F15)
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness" (1F22)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (as Jaundiced Jim Reardon) (2F03)
- Episode – "Homer the Great" (2F09)
- Episode – "Lisa's Wedding" (2F15)
- Episode – "Lemon of Troy" (2F22)
- Episode – "King-Size Homer" (3F05)
- Episode – "Bart the Fink" (3F12)
- Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield" (3F18)
- Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" (4F05)
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" (3F24)
- Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" (4F13)
- Episode – "Homer's Enemy" (4F19)
- Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" (4F22)
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans" (5F09)
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (AABF20)
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" (BABF10)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" (CABF19)
- Episode – "Large Marge" (DABF18)
- Episode – "Simple Simpson" (FABF15)
Assistant Director (1990)
Season 2
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror" (All 3 segments) (7F04)
- Episode – "Dancin' Homer" (7F05)
Storyboard (1990-1998)
Season 2
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror" ("Hungry Are the Damned" segment only) (7F04)
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" (7F09)
Season 3
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" (8F02)
Season 4
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic" (9F01)
Season 5
- Episode – "Homer Goes to College" (1F02)
Season 6
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (2F03)
Season 7
- Episode – "King-Size Homer" (3F05)
Season 8
- Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" (4F05)
Season 9
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans" (5F09)
Supervising Director (1997-2005)
Season 9
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as Jurassic Jim Reardon) (5F02)
- Episode – "The Cartridge Family" (5F01)
- Episode – "Bart Star" (5F03)
- Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" (5F04)
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" (5F05)
- Episode – "Realty Bites" (5F06)
- Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" (5F07)
- Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing" (5F24)
- Episode – "Bart Carny" (5F08)
- Episode – "The Joy of Sect" (5F23)
- Episode – "Das Bus" (5F11)
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" (5F10)
- Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity" (5F12)
- Episode – "This Little Wiggy" (5F13)
- Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" (5F14)
- Episode – "Girly Edition" (5F15)
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans" (5F09)
- Episode – "King of the Hill" (5F16)
- Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" (5F17)
- Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" (5F18)
Season 10
- Episode – "Lard of the Dance" (5F20)
- Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" (5F21)
- Episode – "Bart the Mother" (5F22)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as Jim "Re-Animator" Reardon) (AABF01)
- Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" (5F19)
- 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)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (as Jim Ishtar Reardon) (BABF01)
- Episode – "E-I-E-I-D'oh" (AABF19)
- 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)
Season 12
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (as Chimp Reardon) (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 – "HOMR" (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)
- 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)
- 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 Jim Rear Window) (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, D'oh-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 Jim "Moonlighter" Reardon) (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)
Storyboard Artist (1999-2004)
Season 10
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (AABF20)
Season 11
- Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" (AABF21)
Season 15
- Episode – "Simple Simpson" (FABF15)
Storyboard Consultant (2005-20??)
Season 16
- 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" (GABF17)
- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
- Episode – "See Homer Run" (GABF21)
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" (GABF22)
- Episode – "The Italian Bob" (HABF02)
- Episode – "Simpsons 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" (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" (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" (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)
Commentaries (2002-2008)
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
- Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
- Episode – "Brush with Greatness"
- Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II"
- Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
- Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
- Episode – "Dog of Death"
- Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
- Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
- Episode – "Mr. Plow"
- Episode – "Selma's Choice"
- Episode – "Duffless"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V"
- Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
- Episode – "King-Size Homer"
- Episode – "Bart the Fink"
- Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
- Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
- Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
- Episode – "Homer's Enemy"
- Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
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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 | Gábor Csupó | 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 | |||