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|gender= {{Female cast}}
 
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|job= Animation camera operator<br>Character layout artist<br>Retake director<br>Additional timer<br>Animatic layout artist<br>Storyboard revisionist
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|job= Animation camera operator<br>Character layout artist<br>Retake director<br>Additional timer<br>Animatic layout artist<br>Storyboard artist
 
|birthdate=  
 
|birthdate=  
 
|deathdate=  
 
|deathdate=  
 
|status= Active
 
|status= Active
|episodes= 176
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|episodes= 240
 
|seasons= [[Season 1]], [[Season 15|15]] - Present
 
|seasons= [[Season 1]], [[Season 15|15]] - Present
 
|first episode= "[[The Telltale Head]]"
 
|first episode= "[[The Telltale Head]]"
|latest episode= "[[The Last Barfighter]]"
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|latest episode= "[[Homer? A Cracker Bro?]]"
 
|movie=yes
 
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|first short= ''[[Playdate with Destiny]]''
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|latest short= ''[[May the 12th Be with You]]''
 
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'''Karen Carnegie Johnson''', also credited as '''K.C. Johnson''', '''KC Johnson''', '''Karen Carnegie (KC)''' and '''Karen Carnegie''', is an animator for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. She has worked as an animation camera operator, character layout artist, retake director, additional timer, animatic layout artist and storyboard revisionist.
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'''Karen Carnegie Johnson''', also credited as '''K.C. Johnson''', '''KC Johnson''', '''Karen Carnegie (KC)''' and '''Karen Carnegie''', is an animator. She currently serves as a retake director and animation timer and previously served as an animation camera operator, character layout artist, animatic layout artist, and storyboard artist for ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
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== Awards ==
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{{Table|width=50%|align=left|
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{{THT|Award}}
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{{TH|Year}}
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{{TH|Episode}}
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{{TH|Result}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program}}}}
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{{TB|[[2021]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2021/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - Outstanding Short Form Animated Program - 2021"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|''[[The Force Awakens from Its Nap]]''}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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}}
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Animation camera ===
 
=== Animation camera ===
*{{ep|The Telltale Head}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer's Night Out}}
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{{Season1A
*{{ep|The Crepes of Wrath}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Busted}}
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Character layout ===
 
=== Character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
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{{Season15A
*{{ep|All's Fair in Oven War}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Mommie Beerest}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
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{{Season16A
*{{ep|The Italian Bob}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II}}
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}}
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs}}
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|E1=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|The Fabulous Faker Boy}}
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}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|Waiting for Duffman}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
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|E11=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI}}
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}}
*{{ep|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|The Town}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Havana Wild Weekend}}
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}}
*{{ep|22 for 30}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|Springfield Splendor}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Throw Grampa from the Dane}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
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}}
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
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{{Season24A
*{{spec|Playdate with Destiny}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part One}}
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}}
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part Two}}
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{{Season26A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXXI}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The 7 Beer Itch}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Podcast News}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Road to Cincinnati}}
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{{Season27A
*{{ep|A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Diary Queen}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Wad Goals}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Manger Things}}
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}}
*{{spec|The Force Awakens from Its Nap}}
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{{Season28A
*{{ep|The Last Barfighter}}
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|E3=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season29A
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season30A
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season31A
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season32A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season33A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season34A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season36A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|Playdate=yes
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|StarWars=yes
 +
|Marvel=yes
 +
|Plus=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Additional timer ===
 
=== Additional timer ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Crook and Ladder}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|The Homer of Seville}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Dial "N" for Nerder}}
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}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
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}}
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
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{{Season20A
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Mathlete's Feat}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Fland Canyon}}
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}}
*{{ep|Orange Is the New Yellow}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus}}
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|E12=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVII}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Dad Behavior}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Pork and Burns}}
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}}
*{{ep|Kamp Krustier}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The Caper Chase}}
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|E18=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVIII}}
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}}
*{{ep|Forgive and Regret}}
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{{Season25A
*{{ep|Left Behind}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Heartbreak Hotel}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX}}
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{{Season26A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
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}}
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
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{{Season27A
*{{ep|Hail to the Teeth}}
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|E19=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXXI}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Road to Cincinnati}}
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}}
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{{Season28A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season29A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season30A
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season31A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season32A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season33A
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|E9=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
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=== Retake director ===
 
=== Retake director ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Midnight Towboy}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Funeral for a Fiend}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Love, Springfieldian Style}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Debarted}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Smoke on the Daughter}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Apocalypse Cow}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
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}}
*{{ep|No Loan Again, Naturally}}
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{{Season20A
*{{ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Four Great Women and a Manicure}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|The Great Wife Hope}}
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|E13=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Once Upon a Time in Springfield}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Boy Meets Curl}}
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}}
*{{ep|American History X-cellent}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|The Squirt and the Whale}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Bob Next Door}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Flaming Moe}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
+
|E22=yes
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|The Daughter Also Rises}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|To Cur, with Love}}
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}}
*{{ep|Changing of the Guardian}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Homerland}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|YOLO}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Yellow Subterfuge}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Specs and the City}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Winter of His Content}}
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}}
*{{ep|Luca$}}
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{{Season24A
*{{ep|Brick Like Me}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
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|E12=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
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}}
*{{ep|Peeping Mom}}
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{{Season25A
*{{ep|Bull-E}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|'Cue Detective}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Lisa with an "S"}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|'Paths of Glory}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Burns Cage}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Simprovised}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Friends and Family}}
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}}
*{{ep|Trust but Clarify}}
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{{Season26A
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|The Cad and the Hat}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|A Father's Watch}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Moho House}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Whistler's Father}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Gone Boy}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Homer Is Where the Art Isn't}}
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}}
*{{ep|Fears of a Clown}}
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{{Season27A
*{{ep|Lisa Gets the Blues}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Flanders' Ladder}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Girl on the Bus}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|101 Mitigations}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
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}}
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
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{{Season28A
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Livin La Pura Vida}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Screenless}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Better Off Ned}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds}}
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}}
*{{ep|Undercover Burns}}
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{{Season29A
*{{ep|I, Carumbus}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Sorry Not Sorry}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Yokel Hero}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Uncut Femmes}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A.}}
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season30A
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|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E23=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season31A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season32A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season33A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season34A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season35A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season36A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10/11=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season37A
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|E2=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|Bowl=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
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=== Storyboard ===
 
=== Storyboard ===
*{{ep|The Marge-ian Chronicles}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Last Traction Hero}}
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{{Season27A
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
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}}
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{{Season28A
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|E9=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Animation timer ===
 
=== Animation timer ===
*{{spec|Playdate with Destiny}}
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{{Scroll|
*{{spec|The Force Awakens from Its Nap}}
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{{TO}}
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{{Season34A
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|E4=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season35A
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|E1=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season36A
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season37A
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{SpecialsA
 +
|Playdate=yes
 +
|StarWars=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
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}}
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=== Lead timer ===
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{{TO}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|May12th=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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== References ==
 +
{{Reflist}}
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*{{IMDB|name/nm2991130}}
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*{{IMDb|name/nm2991130}}
  
 
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{{Animatic layout artists|former=yes}}
 
{{Animation timers|current=yes}}
 
{{Animation timers|current=yes}}
{{Character layout artists|current=yes}}
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{{Character layout artists|former=yes}}
 
{{Storyboard artists|former=yes|formerrev=yes}}
 
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[[Category:Animation camera operators]]
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[[Category:Primetime Emmy Award nominated crew]]

Latest revision as of 19:24, February 17, 2026


Karen Carnegie Johnson
Crew Information
Gender:
Female ♀
Job: Animation camera operator
Character layout artist
Retake director
Additional timer
Animatic layout artist
Storyboard artist
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 240
Seasons active: Season 1, 15 - Present
First short: Playdate with Destiny
Most recent short: May the 12th Be with You
First episode: "The Telltale Head"
Most recent episode: "Homer? A Cracker Bro?"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie



Karen Carnegie Johnson, also credited as K.C. Johnson, KC Johnson, Karen Carnegie (KC) and Karen Carnegie, is an animator. She currently serves as a retake director and animation timer and previously served as an animation camera operator, character layout artist, animatic layout artist, and storyboard artist for The Simpsons.

Awards[edit]

Award Year Episode Result
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program 2021[1] The Force Awakens from Its Nap Nominated

Credits[edit]

Animation camera[edit]

Character layout[edit]

Additional timer[edit]

Artist[edit]

Retake animation timer[edit]

Retake director[edit]

Storyboard revisions[edit]

Animatic layout[edit]

Second unit director[edit]

Storyboard[edit]

Animation timer[edit]

Lead timer[edit]

References[edit]


External links[edit]