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Mike Frank Polcino

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Layout artist Animation timer Assistant director Director
Birth date:	April 27, 1962 (1962-04-27) (age 62)
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	220
Number of comic stories:	3
Seasons active:	Season 3 - Present
First short:	The Longest Daycare
Most recent short:	The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
First episode:	"Bart the Murderer"
Most recent episode:	"The Past and the Furious"
Game:	The Simpsons Game
First comic:	Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips
Most recent comic:	Dr. Crab's Commie Comics
First book:	The Simpsons Fun in the Sun Book
Most recent book:	The Simpsons Ultra-Jumbo Rain-or-Shine Fun Book

Michael Frank "Mike" Polcino (born April 27, 1962) is an American animator and director for The Simpsons. He serves as a director and animation timer and previously served as a character layout artist, assistant director and retake director. He also served as an artist for Bongo Comics. His brother, Dominic Polcino, is a former The Simpsons director.

Awards[edit]

Award	Year	Episode	Result
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program	2021^[1]	The Force Awakens from Its Nap	Nominated
2022^[2]	When Billie Met Lisa

Credits[edit]

Directed by[edit]

Episode – "The Mansion Family"

Episode – "The Great Money Caper"

Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"

Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants"

Episode – "The Frying Game"

Episode – "Pray Anything"

Episode – "The Bart of War"

Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"

Episode – "Regarding Margie"

Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"

Episode – "The Homer of Seville"

Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum"

Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"

Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"

Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"

Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"

Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"

Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"

Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"

Episode – "Them, Robot"

Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"

Episode – "YOLO"

Episode – "Diggs"

Episode – "Pay Pal"

Episode – "My Fare Lady"

Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"

Episode – "Fland Canyon"

Episode – "Trust but Clarify"

Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart"

Episode – "Singin' in the Lane"

Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane"

Episode – "Werking Mom"

Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh"

Episode – "The Fat Blue Line"

Episode – "Screenless"

Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch"

Episode – "Wad Goals"

Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."

Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar"

Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again"

Episode – "Bart's Brain"

Episode – "The Past and the Furious"

Character layout artist[edit]

Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
Episode – "Homer Defined"

Episode – "Lisa's Pony"

Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"

Episode – "Radio Bart"

Episode – "Homer Alone"

Episode – "Colonel Homer"

Episode – "Kamp Krusty"

Background layout artist[edit]

Episode – "Homer Defined"

Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"

Animation timer[edit]

Episode – "Homer Badman"

Episode – "Homer the Great"

Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"

Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"

Episode – "King-Size Homer"

Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"

Episode – "Bart the Fink"

Episode – "Homer the Smithers"

Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"

Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"

Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"

Episode – "Lisa's Sax"

Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet"

Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again"
Episode – "Bartless"

Episode – "Pin Gal"
Episode – "Fan-ily Feud"

Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars"

Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"

Episode – "Homer's Crossing"
Episode – "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream"

Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV"

Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life"

Episode – "Murder, She Boat"
Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing"

Episode – "Night of the Living Wage"
Episode – "Cremains of the Day"

Episode – "Bart's Birthday"
Episode – "The Yellow Lotus"

Episode – "Shoddy Heat"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXV"

Episode – "Convenience Airways"

Special – The Longest Daycare

Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap

Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki

Special – When Billie Met Lisa

Special – Feliz Navidad
Special – Rogue Not Quite One

Special – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Additional timer[edit]

Episode – "Homer's Enemy"

Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees"
Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"

Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"

Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"

Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"

Episode – "500 Keys"
Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"

Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"

Episode – "Replaceable You"

Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"

Episode – "Gone Abie Gone"

Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"

Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"

Episode – "Dark Knight Court"

Episode – "Pulpit Friction"

Episode – "Dangers on a Train"

Episode – "The War of Art"

Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"

Episode – "Clown in the Dumps"
Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"

Episode – "Super Franchise Me"

Episode – "Blazed and Confused"

Episode – "Sky Police"

Episode – "'Paths of Glory"

Episode – "Barthood"
Episode – "The Girl Code"

Episode – "Much Apu About Something"
Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"

Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"

Episode – "To Courier with Love"
Episode – "Simprovised"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII"

Episode – "There Will Be Buds"

Episode – "Dad Behavior"
Episode – "The Last Traction Hero"
Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas"

Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One"
Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two"

Episode – "Dogtown"

Episode – "Springfield Splendor"

Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus"

Episode – "Gone Boy"

Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't"

Episode – "Fears of a Clown"

Episode – "King Leer"

Episode – "Forgive and Regret"

Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"

Episode – "Daddicus Finch"

Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season"
Episode – "Mad About the Toy"

Episode – "The Girl on the Bus"

Episode – "Woo-Hoo Dunnit?"
Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"

Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside"
Episode – "Hail to the Teeth"

Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two"

Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't"

Episode – "Podcast News"

Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati"
Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry"

Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion"

Episode – "The Star of the Backstage"

Episode – "Lisa's Belly"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)"

Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"

Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"

Assistant director[edit]

Episode – "The Canine Mutiny"

Episode – "Bart Star"

Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity"

Episode – "Lard of the Dance"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX"

Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"

Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"

Storyboard[edit]

Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity"

Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"

Episode – "The Mansion Family"

Episode – "The Great Money Caper"

Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"

Episode – "Pray Anything"

Episode – "Regarding Margie"

Storyboard cleanup[edit]

Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"

Retake director[edit]

Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
Episode – "Homer to the Max"
Episode – "I'm with Cupid"
Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""
Episode – "Make Room for Lisa"
Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive"
Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
Episode – "Mom and Pop Art"
Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"

Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"

Episode – "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"

Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"
Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
Episode – "Margical History Tour"
Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

Episode – "Smart and Smarter"
Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"

Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"

Assistant retake director[edit]

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"

Lead animation timer[edit]

Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"

Episode – "Fatzcarraldo"

Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished"

Episode – "101 Mitigations"

Storyboard director[edit]

Video game – The Simpsons Game

Animation director[edit]

Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Finished art[edit]

Simpsons Comics and Stories:

Comic story – Itchy & Scratchy's Power Tool Safety Tips (as Rascally Mike Polcino)

Additional art[edit]

Radioactive Man:

Comic story – The Origin of Radioactive Man
Comic story – Dr. Crab's Commie Comics

Creative team[edit]

Book – The Simpsons Fun in the Sun Book

Book – The Simpsons Ultra-Jumbo Rain-or-Shine Fun Book

References[edit]

See also[edit]

Episodes directed by Mike Frank Polcino

External links[edit]

Mike Frank Polcino at the Internet Movie Database
Mike Frank Polcino at MobyGames
Mike Frank Polcino at Wikipedia
Mike Frank Polcino at the Grand Comics Database

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