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'''Ian Maxtone-Graham''' (born July 3, 1959) is a television writer and producer. He has written for ''Saturday Night Live'' (1992-1995) and ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (1995-present), and has also served as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for ''The Simpsons''.
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{{Crew
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|name= Ian Maxtone-Graham
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|image= [[File:Ian Maxtone-Graham.jpg|250px]]
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|gender= {{Male cast}}
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|job= Producer<br>Writer
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|birthdate= {{birthdate|1959|7|3}}
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|deathdate=
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|status= Inactive
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|episodes= 404
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|seasons= [[Season 7]] - [[Season 26]]
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|first episode= "[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]"
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|latest episode= "[[The Man Who Came to Be Dinner]]"
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|movie=yes
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|first album= ''[[Songs in the Key of Springfield]]''
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|latest album= ''[[The Simpsons: Testify]]''
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}}
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'''Ian Howes Maxtone-Graham''' (born July 3, 1959) is an American television writer and producer. He served as a writer, consulting producer and co-executive producer for ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
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== Awards ==
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{{Table|width=65%|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|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Music in an Animated Television Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[2003]]<ref name="Annie2003">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313093552/http://annieawards.org/31stwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 31st Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2003)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Dude, Where's My Ranch?]]"}}
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{{TRs|'''Won'''|2}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Television Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[2006]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120307173914/http://annieawards.org/34thwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 34th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2006)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]"}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production|Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production}}}}
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{{TRs|[[2007]]<ref name="Annie2007">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120208102916/http://annieawards.org/35thwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>|2}}
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{{TB|''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Television Production}}}}
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{{TB|"[[24 Minutes]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Writing in a Television Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[2009]]<ref name="Annie2009">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100815022604/http://annieawards.org/legacy37th.html The Annie Awards - "37th Annual Annie Nominations and Awards Recipients"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Gone Maggie Gone]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|3}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[2012]]<ref name="Annie2012">[https://web.archive.org/web/20171107003521/https://annieawards.org/legacy/40th-annie-awards The Annie Awards - "40th Annie Awards"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[How I Wet Your Mother]]"}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[2013]]<ref name="Annie2013">[https://web.archive.org/web/20141214105919/http://www.annieawards.org/nominees/ The Annie Awards - "41st Annual Annie Awards Winners"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Dark Knight Court]]"}}
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{{TRsT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program}}|14}}
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{{TB|[[1996]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1996"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]"}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|[[1997]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1997/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less.) – 1997"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Homer's Phobia]]"}}
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{{TRs|'''Won'''|2}}
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{{TBT|[[1998]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1998/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1998"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Trash of the Titans]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[1999]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1999/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1999"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Viva Ned Flanders]]"}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|[[2000]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2000/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 2000"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Behind the Laughter]]"}}
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{{TRs|'''Won'''|2}}
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{{TBT|[[2001]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2001"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[HOMЯ]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2002]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2002/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2002"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[She of Little Faith]]"}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|[[2003]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2003"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Three Gays of the Condo]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[2004]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2004/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2004"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Way We Weren't]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|2}}
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{{TBT|[[2005]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2005/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2005"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Future-Drama]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2006]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2006/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2006"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[2007]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2007/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2007"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Haw-Hawed Couple]]"}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|[[2008]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2008/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2008"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[2009]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2009/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2009"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Gone Maggie Gone]]"}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics}}}}
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{{TB|[[2003]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003/outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics Television Academy - "Outstanding Music and Lyrics – 2003"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Dude, Where's My Ranch?]]"<br>{{small|for "[[Everybody Hates Ned Flanders]]"}}}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TRsT|{{W|Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation}}|2}}
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{{TB|[[2005]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/2005/1/ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2005 Awards"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Catch 'Em If You Can]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[2010]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/2010/1/ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2010 Awards"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Gone Maggie Gone]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|2}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series}}}}
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{{TB|[[2009]]<ref name="WGA2009">[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/2009/1/?ref_=ev_eh IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2009 Awards"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|N/A}}
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}}
  
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== Family and earlier work ==
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== Credits ==
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Maxtone-Graham was born in New York City, the son of naval historian and author John Maxtone-Graham and author Katrina Maxtone-Graham (née Kanzler), and the great-nephew of the British author and poet Joyce Maxtone-Graham (pen name Jan Struther). His younger brother is Guy Maxtone-Graham, a onetime writer and actor for Beavis and Butthead.
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He attended Brown University, in contrast to much of the other ''Simpsons'' crew, who went to Harvard. While at Brown, he wrote for and later served as Editor-in-Chief of the ''Critical Review'', Brown's student publication of course evaluations. He entered Brown with the class of 1981 but graduated in January 1983.
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=== Consulting producer ===
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Maxtone-Graham is a triathlete, and swims with the UCLA masters team. He also kayaks, and in college was a rower.
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=== Co-executive producer ===
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== ''Saturday Night Live'' ==
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=== Executive producer ===
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While at ''Saturday Night Live'', Maxtone-Graham co-wrote the first version of The Chanukah Song with Adam Sandler. Maxtone-Graham once dumped a cup of water on Norm MacDonald's head for smoking in the writer's room. MacDonald responded by punching Maxtone-Graham, who went home and did not return for a week. Maxtone-Graham considered filing charges against MacDonald for assault and battery, and against NBC for not enforcing the no-smoking policy, but decided against it.
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== ''The Simpsons'' ==
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=== Screenplay by ===
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Maxtone-Graham was one of several writers recruited to The Simpsons from the pages of [[George Meyer]]'s short-lived Army Man magazine. He joined the ''Simpsons'' crew in the [[Season 7|seventh season]] (though he only began writing episodes in the [[season 8|eighth season]]) and has since written some important episodes, such as "[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]", in which [[Maude Flanders]] dies. In [[2005]], he won a [[Writers Guild of America]] award. He has written 18 episodes, the four most recent of which he co-wrote with [[Billy Kimball]].
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However, Maxtone-Graham has also become wildly unpopular among ''Simpsons'' fans on the Internet. The animosity kicked off in 1998, when he stated that he had never watched the show prior to working on it. In the same interview, he contrasted the ''Simpsons'' writers' somewhat lackadaisical approach (saying, for example, that they sometimes confused [[Rod Flanders|Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders|Todd]]) with the Internet fans' apparent obsession with continuity, and remarked, "That's why they're on the Internet and we're writing the show." The interviewer Charlotte O'Sullivan expressed discomfort with his assertion that female writers were not often part of the writing staff, as the "guy humor" of [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] dominated the show's plotlines over the characters of [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]].
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=== For The Simpsons ===
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*{{alb|Songs in the Key of Springfield}}
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The design of the occasionally-appearing Simpsons character "[[Very Tall Man]]" (his most notable appearance being "[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]") is based on Maxtone-Graham, who in real life measures in at 6'8".
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=== Parody lyrics by ===
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*{{alb|The Simpsons Movie: The Music|("{{ap|Spider Pig|song}}")}}
  
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== Credits ==
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=== Commentary ===
 
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*{{dvdcom|The Sweetest Apu}}
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*{{dvdcom|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
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*{{dvdcom|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
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*{{dvdcom|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade}}
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*{{dvdcom|Large Marge}}
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*{{dvdcom|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}}
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*{{dvdcom|I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can}}
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*{{dvdcom|A Star Is Born Again}}
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*{{dvdcom|C.E. D'oh}}
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*{{dvdcom|Three Gays of the Condo}}
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*{{dvdcom|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
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*{{dvdcom|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
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*{{dvdcom|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
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*{{dvdcom|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
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*{{dvdcom|The Wandering Juvie}}
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*{{dvdcom|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
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*{{dvdcom|Fraudcast News}}
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*{{dvdcom|On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister}}
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*{{dvdcom|Goo Goo Gai Pan}}
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*{{dvdcom|The Seven-Beer Snitch}}
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*{{dvdcom|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
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*{{dvdcom|The Heartbroke Kid}}
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*{{dvdcom|Thank God It's Doomsday}}
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== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
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*Eric Idle's character in the sitcom ''Suddenly Susan'' was named after Ian Maxtone-Graham.
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*{{ap|Ian|very tall man}}, the very tall man, was based on him.
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== References ==
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*[http://www.snpp.com/guides/lisa-4.html The Simpsons Archive] explains Maxtone-Graham's unpopularity.
 
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*Maxtone-Graham's [http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/ian.html infamous interview].
 
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*[http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/maxtone-graham99.html Another interview]
 
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*[http://www.zip.com.au/~lnbdds/home/mgjohn.htm Maxtone-Graham family tree]
 
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*[http://www.norm-macdonald.com/articles/jaymohr.html An excerpt from Jay Mohr's book "Gasping for Airtime"] describes the fight between Norm MacDonald and Maxtone-Graham.
 
  
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Ian Maxtone-Graham
Ian Maxtone-Graham.jpg
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Producer
Writer
Birth date: July 3, 1959 (1959-07-03) (age 67)
Status:
Inactive
Number of episodes: 404
Seasons active: Season 7 - Season 26
First episode: "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
Most recent episode: "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie
First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield
Latest album: The Simpsons: Testify



Ian Howes Maxtone-Graham (born July 3, 1959) is an American television writer and producer. He served as a writer, consulting producer and co-executive producer for The Simpsons.

Awards[edit]

Award Year Episode Result
Annie Award for Music in an Animated Television Production 2003[1] "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" Won
Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Television Production 2006[2] "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production 2007[3] The Simpsons Movie Nominated
Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Television Production "24 Minutes" Won
Annie Award for Writing in a Television Production 2009[4] "Gone Maggie Gone" Nominated
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production 2012[5] "How I Wet Your Mother"
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production 2013[6] "Dark Knight Court"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 1996[7] "Treehouse of Horror VI" Nominated
1997[8] "Homer's Phobia" Won
1998[9] "Trash of the Titans"
1999[10] "Viva Ned Flanders" Nominated
2000[11] "Behind the Laughter" Won
2001[12] "HOMЯ"
2002[13] "She of Little Faith" Nominated
2003[14] "Three Gays of the Condo" Won
2004[15] "The Way We Weren't" Nominated
2005[16] "Future-Drama"
2006[17] "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" Won
2007[18] "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Nominated
2008[19] "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" Won
2009[20] "Gone Maggie Gone" Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics 2003[21] "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
for "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders" 		Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation 2005[22] "Catch 'Em If You Can" Won
2010[23] "Gone Maggie Gone" Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series 2009[24] N/A

Credits[edit]

Written by[edit]

Consulting producer[edit]

Co-executive producer[edit]

Executive producer[edit]

Screenplay by[edit]

For The Simpsons[edit]

Parody lyrics by[edit]

Commentary[edit]

Trivia[edit]

  • Ian, the very tall man, was based on him.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 31st Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2003)" (archived on Wayback Machine)
  2. ↑ The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 34th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2006)" (archived on Wayback Machine)
  3. ↑ The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)" (archived on Wayback Machine)
  4. ↑ The Annie Awards - "37th Annual Annie Nominations and Awards Recipients" (archived on Wayback Machine)
  5. ↑ The Annie Awards - "40th Annie Awards" (archived on Wayback Machine)
  6. ↑ The Annie Awards - "41st Annual Annie Awards Winners" (archived on Wayback Machine)
  7. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1996"
  8. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less.) – 1997"
  9. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1998"
  10. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1999"
  11. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 2000"
  12. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2001"
  13. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2002"
  14. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2003"
  15. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2004"
  16. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2005"
  17. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2006"
  18. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2007"
  19. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2008"
  20. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2009"
  21. ↑ Television Academy - "Outstanding Music and Lyrics – 2003"
  22. ↑ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2005 Awards"
  23. ↑ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2010 Awards"
  24. ↑ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2009 Awards"


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