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Tom Klein

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Animation producer
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	381
Seasons active:	Season 20 - Present
First short:	The Longest Daycare
Most recent short:	The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
First episode:	"Dangerous Curves"
Most recent episode:	"Homer? A Cracker Bro?"

Tom Klein is an animation producer. He currently serves as an animation producer for The Simpsons and previously served as an animation executive producer.

Awards

Award	Year	Episode	Result
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	2009^[1]	"Gone Maggie Gone"	Nominated
2010^[2]	"Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
2011^[3]	"Angry Dad: The Movie"
2012^[4]	"Holidays of Future Passed"
2013^[5]	"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
2015^[6]	"Treehouse of Horror XXV"
2016^[7]	"Halloween of Horror"
2017^[8]	"The Town"
2018^[9]	"Gone Boy"
2019^[10]	"Mad About the Toy"	Won
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	2020^[11]	"Thanksgiving of Horror"	Nominated
2021^[12]	"The Dad-Feelings Limited"
2022^[13]	"Pixelated and Afraid"
2023^[14]	"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"	Won
2024^[15]	"Night of the Living Wage"	Nominated
2025^[16]	"Bart's Birthday"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program	2021^[17]	The Force Awakens from Its Nap
2022^[18]	When Billie Met Lisa

Credits

Animation executive producer

Episode – "Dangerous Curves"
Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks"
Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"

Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen"

Animation producer

Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
Episode – "How the Test Was Won"

Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"

Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
Episode – "Wedding for Disaster"
Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"
Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"

Episode – "Coming to Homerica"

Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as Tomb Klein)
Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"
Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
Episode – "The Color Yellow"
Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge"
Episode – "Stealing First Base"
Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
Episode – "American History X-cellent"
Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
Episode – "To Surveil with Love"
Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
Episode – "The Bob Next Door"
Episode – "Judge Me Tender"

Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
Episode – "MoneyBart"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (as Tomb Klein)
Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
Episode – "The Fool Monty"
Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
Episode – "Donnie Fatso"
Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
Episode – "Flaming Moe"
Episode – "Homer the Father"
Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"
Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"
Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
Episode – "500 Keys"
Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"

Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (as Tomb Klein)
Episode – "Replaceable You"
Episode – "The Food Wife"
Episode – "The Book Job"
Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"
Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed"
Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"
Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
Episode – "At Long Last Leave"
Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother"
Episode – "Them, Robot"
Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"
Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda"
Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga"

Episode – "Moonshine River"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (as Tom Frankenklein)
Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting"
Episode – "Gone Abie Gone"
Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys"
Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"
Episode – "To Cur, with Love"
Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"
Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"
Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing"
Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"
Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please"
Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
Episode – "What Animated Women Want"
Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
Episode – "Whiskey Business"
Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
Episode – "The Saga of Carl"
Episode – "Dangers on a Train"

Episode – "Homerland"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (as Tomb Frankenklein)
Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"
Episode – "YOLO"
Episode – "Labor Pains"
Episode – "The Kid Is All Right"
Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge"
Episode – "White Christmas Blues"
Episode – "Steal This Episode"
Episode – "Married to the Blob"
Episode – "Specs and the City"
Episode – "Diggs"
Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much"
Episode – "The Winter of His Content"
Episode – "The War of Art"
Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"
Episode – "Luca$"
Episode – "Days of Future Future"
Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"
Episode – "Brick Like Me"
Episode – "Pay Pal"
Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"

Episode – "Clown in the Dumps"
Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
Episode – "Super Franchise Me"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (as Tomb Frankenklein)
Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
Episode – "Simpsorama"
Episode – "Blazed and Confused"
Episode – "Covercraft"
Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"
Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
Episode – "Bart's New Friend"
Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth"
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "My Fare Lady"
Episode – "The Princess Guide"
Episode – "Sky Police"
Episode – "Waiting for Duffman"
Episode – "Peeping Mom"
Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight"
Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot"
Episode – "Bull-E"
Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"

Episode – "Every Man's Dream"
Episode – "'Cue Detective"
Episode – "Puffless"
Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" (as Tom Zombie)
Episode – "Friend with Benefit"
Episode – "Lisa with an "S""
Episode – "'Paths of Glory"
Episode – "Barthood"
Episode – "The Girl Code"
Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"
Episode – "Much Apu About Something"
Episode – "Love Is in the N₂-O₂-Ar-CO₂-Ne-He-CH₄"
Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian"
Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles"
Episode – "The Burns Cage"
Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"
Episode – "Fland Canyon"
Episode – "To Courier with Love"
Episode – "Simprovised"
Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow"

Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
Episode – "Friends and Family"
Episode – "The Town"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (as Tom Howlin' Wolf Klein)
Episode – "Trust but Clarify"
Episode – "There Will Be Buds"
Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend"
Episode – "Dad Behavior"
Episode – "The Last Traction Hero"
Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas"
Episode – "Pork and Burns"
Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One"
Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two"
Episode – "Fatzcarraldo"
Episode – "The Cad and the Hat"
Episode – "Kamp Krustier"
Episode – "22 for 30"
Episode – "A Father's Watch"
Episode – "The Caper Chase"
Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart"
Episode – "Moho House"
Episode – "Dogtown"

Episode – "The Serfsons"
Episode – "Springfield Splendor"
Episode – "Whistler's Father"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" (as Dr. Victor Tomenklein)
Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me"
Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be"
Episode – "Singin' in the Lane"
Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus"
Episode – "Gone Boy"
Episode – "Haw-Haw Land"
Episode – "Frink Gets Testy"
Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't"
Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage"
Episode – "Fears of a Clown"
Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished"
Episode – "King Leer"
Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues"
Episode – "Forgive and Regret"
Episode – "Left Behind"
Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane"
Episode – "Flanders' Ladder"

Episode – "Bart's Not Dead"
Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel"
Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" (as Tom Proto-Zoa Klein)
Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car"
Episode – "From Russia Without Love"
Episode – "Werking Mom"
Episode – "Krusty the Clown"
Episode – "Daddicus Finch"
Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season"
Episode – "Mad About the Toy"
Episode – "The Girl on the Bus"
Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can"
Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture"
Episode – "101 Mitigations"
Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Episode – "E My Sports"
Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy"
Episode – "Girl's in the Band"
Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh"
Episode – "D'oh Canada"
Episode – "Woo-Hoo Dunnit?"
Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"

Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content"
Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer"
Episode – "The Fat Blue Line"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" (as Tom "Dada" Klein)
Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast"
Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida"
Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" (as Tums Klein)
Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"
Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside"
Episode – "Hail to the Teeth"
Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
Episode – "Frinkcoin"
Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy"
Episode – "Screenless"
Episode – "Better Off Ned"
Episode – "Highway to Well"
Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two"
Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds"
Episode – "The Way of the Dog"

Episode – "Undercover Burns"
Episode – "I, Carumbus"
Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" (as Tom "Daddy Shark" Klein)
Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch"
Episode – "Podcast News"
Episode – "Three Dreams Denied"
Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati"
Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry"
Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas"
Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
Episode – "Diary Queen"
Episode – "Wad Goals"
Episode – "Yokel Hero"
Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?"
Episode – "Manger Things"
Episode – "Uncut Femmes"
Episode – "Burger Kings"
Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield"
Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion"
Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."
Episode – "The Last Barfighter"

Episode – "The Star of the Backstage"
Episode – "Bart's in Jail!"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" (as Tom Orrow Never Knows)
Episode – "The Wayz We Were"
Episode – "Lisa's Belly"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)"
Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire"
Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"
Episode – "A Made Maggie"
Episode – "The Longest Marge"
Episode – "Pixelated and Afraid"
Episode – "Boyz N the Highlands"
Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!"
Episode – "Bart the Cool Kid"
Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar"
Episode – "The Sound of Bleeding Gums"
Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"
Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun"
Episode – "Marge the Meanie"
Episode – "Meat Is Murder"
Episode – "Poorhouse Rock"

Episode – "Habeas Tortoise"
Episode – "One Angry Lisa"
Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout"
Episode – "The King of Nice"
THOH – "Not It"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
Episode – "From Beer to Paternity"
Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet"
Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa"
Episode – "Game Done Changed"
Episode – "Top Goon"
Episode – "My Life as a Vlog"
Episode – "The Many Saints of Springfield"
Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again"
Episode – "Bartless"
Episode – "Hostile Kirk Place"
Episode – "Pin Gal"
Episode – "Fan-ily Feud"
Episode – "Write Off This Episode"
Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars"
Episode – "Clown V. Board of Education"
Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"

Episode – "Homer's Crossing"
Episode – "A Mid-Childhood's Night Dream"
Episode – "McMansion & Wife"
Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" (as The Kleining)
Episode – "Iron Marge"
Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life"
Episode – "Ae Bonny Romance"
Episode – "Murder, She Boat"
Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing"
Episode – "Frinkenstein's Monster"
Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1"
Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom"
Episode – "Night of the Living Wage"
Episode – "Cremains of the Day"
Episode – "The Tell-Tale Pants"
Episode – "The Tipping Point"
Episode – "Bart's Brain"

Episode – "Bart's Birthday"
Episode – "The Yellow Lotus"
Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
Episode – "Shoddy Heat"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXV" (as Rosemary's Baby)
Episode – "Women in Shorts"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes"
Episode – "Convenience Airways"
Episode – "Homer and Her Sisters"
Episode – "O C'mon All Ye Faithful"
Episode – "The Man Who Flew Too Much"
Episode – "Bottle Episode"
Episode – "The Past and the Furious"
Episode – "The Flandshees of Innersimpson"
Episode – "The Last Man Expanding"
Episode – "P.S. I Hate You"
Episode – "Yellow Planet"
Episode – "Abe League of Their Moe"
Episode – "Stew Lies"
Episode – "Full Heart, Empty Pool"
Episode – "Estranger Things"

Special – The Longest Daycare

Special – Planet of the Couches

Special – Playdate with Destiny

Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap

Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki

Special – Plusaversary

Special – When Billie Met Lisa
Special – Welcome to the Club
Special – Feliz Navidad
Special – Rogue Not Quite One
Special – May the 12th Be with You
Special – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

References

External links

Tom Klein at the Internet Movie Database

Animation producers and Animation associate producers

view • talk • edit • past Current animation producers
Peter Gave • Nikki Isordia • Tom Klein • Michael G. Mahan • Sydney Ryan

view • talk • edit • past Former animation producers
Lolee Aries • Drew Arrison • Laurie Biernacki • John Bush • Chang, Myung Nam • Richard K. Chung • Gábor Csupó • Ken Duer • Film Roman • Joe Goyette • Scott D. Greenberg • Sherry Gunther • John Hyde • Jaspreet Katrib • N. J. Kim • Klasky-Csupo, Inc. • Joel Kuwahara • J.C. Park • Margot Pipkin • Rick Polizzi • David Pritchard • Kent Rice • Phil Roman • Andrea Romero • Bill Schultz • Nelson Shin • Ken Tsumura • Jon F. Vein • Michael Wolf

view • talk • edit • past Other animation producers
Edward Chiodo • Ron Diamond • Sanjee Gupta • Denise Minter • Kwan-sic Park • Ishani Priyamvada • Al Shier • Craig Sost • Joshua R. Wexler

view • talk • edit • past Current animation associate producers
Kip Lewis • Sean Patrick Rielly • Tennyson Turner

view • talk • edit • past Former animation associate producers
Laurie Biernacki • Jason Bikowski • Peter Gave • Nikki Isordia • Jaspreet Katrib • Michael G. Mahan • Rebecca Totman

view • talk • edit • past Other animation associate producers
Elise Belknap • Katherine Cullano Concepcion • Brent Crowe • Karen Miller

[1] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2009"

[2] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2010"

[3] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2011"

[4] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2012"

[5] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2013"

[6] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2015"

[7] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2016"

[8] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2017"

[9] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2018"

[10] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2019"

[11] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2020"

[12] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2021"

[13] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2022"

[14] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2023"

[15] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2024"

[16] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2025"

[17] Television Academy - Outstanding Short Form Animated Program - 2021"

[18] Television Academy - Outstanding Short Form Animated Program - 2022"

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