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Eli Balser

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Color designer Background colorist
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	457
Seasons active:	Season 16 - Present
First short:	The Longest Daycare
Most recent short:	May the 12th Be with You
First episode:	"Mommie Beerest"
Most recent episode:	"Parahormonal Activity"

Eli Balser is an artist. He currently serves as a color designer and background colorist for The Simpsons. He is related to Anne Legge.

Contents

1 Awards
2 Credits
3 References
4 External links

Awards[edit]

Award	Year	Episode	Result
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production	2012^[1]	"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"	Nominated

Credits[edit]

Color designer[edit]

Episode – "Mommie Beerest"
Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
Episode – "Pranksta Rap"
Episode – "There's Something About Marrying"
Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"

Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan"

Episode – "Mobile Homer"

Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
Episode – "Future-Drama"
Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer"
Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid"
Episode – "A Star Is Torn"
Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday"
Episode – "Home Away from Homer"
Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"

Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees"
Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning"
Episode – "See Homer Run"
Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
Episode – "The Italian Bob"
Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere"
Episode – "My Fair Laddy"
Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies"
Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife"
Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie"
Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore"
Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
Episode – "Regarding Margie"
Episode – "The Monkey Suit"
Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"

Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII"
Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa"
Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)"

Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"

Episode – "The Wife Aquatic"
Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
Episode – "Little Big Girl"
Episode – "Springfield Up"
Episode – "Yokel Chords"

Episode – "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh"
Episode – "Homerazzi"
Episode – "Marge Gamer"
Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"
Episode – "Crook and Ladder"
Episode – "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!"
Episode – "24 Minutes"
Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want"

Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
Episode – "The Homer of Seville"
Episode – "Midnight Towboy"
Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII"
Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
Episode – "Husbands and Knives"
Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum"
Episode – "That '90s Show"
Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
Episode – "The Debarted"
Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder"
Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter"
Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
Episode – "Apocalypse Cow"
Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
Episode – "All About Lisa"

Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
Episode – "Lost Verizon"
Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast"
Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida"
Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror"
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"
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"
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 – "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 – "Clown V. Board of Education"
Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"

Episode – "Homer's Crossing"

Episode – "McMansion & Wife"

Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV"
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 – "Bart's Birthday"
Episode – "The Yellow Lotus"
Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
Episode – "Shoddy Heat"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXV"
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"

Episode – "Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother"
Episode – "Keep Chalm and Gary On"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXVI"
Episode – "Men Behaving Manly"
Episode – "Bad Boys... for Life?"
Episode – "Bart 'N' Frink"
Episode – "Sashes to Sashes"
Episode – "The Day of the Jack-Up"
Episode – "Aunt Misbehavin'"
Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Skinner"
Episode – "Parahormonal Activity"

Special – The Longest Daycare

Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki

Special – Plusaversary

Special – Welcome to the Club

Special – May the 12th Be with You

Color[edit]

Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap

Background color[edit]

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 – "Clown V. Board of Education"
Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"

Episode – "Homer's Crossing"

Episode – "McMansion & Wife"

Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV"
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 – "Bart's Birthday"
Episode – "The Yellow Lotus"
Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
Episode – "Shoddy Heat"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXV"
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"

Episode – "Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother"
Episode – "Keep Chalm and Gary On"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXVI"
Episode – "Men Behaving Manly"
Episode – "Bad Boys... for Life?"
Episode – "Bart 'N' Frink"
Episode – "Sashes to Sashes"
Episode – "The Day of the Jack-Up"
Episode – "Aunt Misbehavin'"
Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Skinner"
Episode – "Parahormonal Activity"

Special – May the 12th Be with You

References[edit]

↑ The Annie Awards - "40th Annie Awards" (archived on Wayback Machine)

External links[edit]

Eli Balser at the Internet Movie Database

Color designers

view • talk • edit • past Current color designers
Eli Balser • Mike Battle • Dominique Blaskovich • Lisa S. Cervantes • Anne Legge • Dima Malanitchev • Amy Rychlick • Alex Zabolotsky

view • talk • edit • past Former color designers
Martin Alvarez • Bob Angelini • Karen Bauer • Chris Bolden • Andrew Brandou • Sandra Lee Calleros • Daniel Chiu • Leslie Ellery • Jeanne Erickson • Paul Fetler • Laura A. Gaimaro • Adriana Galvez • Chris Hacker • Daniel Harris • Samantha Harrison • Barbara Hiestand • Rafael Hurtado • Barbara Jewel • Syd Kato • Davy Lauterbach • Grant Lee • Brian Mark • Gyorgyi Peluce • Catherine Simmonds • Robert Stone • Kim Taylor • Cookie Tricarico • Teale Wang • Janet Watson • Carol Wyatt

view • talk • edit • past Other color designers
Kevin Hanley • Hyoung-Sun Kim • Michael Kinkade • Bike Kinzle • Kersti Myrberg • Jiseon Park • Viktoria Tarr • Yelena Tokman

view • talk • edit • past Color design supervisors
Karen Bauer • Dominique Blaskovich • Andrew Brandou • Paul Fetler • Samantha Harrison • Anne Legge • Amy Rychlick • Catherine Simmonds • Kim Taylor • Teale Wang • Carol Wyatt

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