TJ Kim

TJ Kim

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Background layout artist Background designer Status: Active Number of episodes: 408 Seasons active: Season 14 - Present First short: The Longest Daycare Most recent short: Feliz Navidad First episode: "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Most recent episode: "The Flandshees of Innersimpson"

TJ Kim is an animator. He currently served as a background designer for The Simpsons and previously served as a background layout artist. He also previously worked on Futurama.

Credits

Background layout

• Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little"

• Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"

• Episode – "C.E. D'oh"
• Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
• Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo"

• Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker"

• Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
• Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest"

• Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"

Background design

Episode – "Today I Am a Clown" Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" 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 – "Co-Dependent's Day" Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" Episode – "Catch 'Em If You Can" Episode – "Simple Simpson" Episode – "The Way We Weren't" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Fraudcast News" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" Episode – "Midnight Rx" 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 – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" 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 – "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 – "The Squirt and the Whale" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" Episode – "MoneyBart" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Book Job" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" 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 – "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 – "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 – "Much Apu About Something" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" 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 – "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 – "22 for 30" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" 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 – "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 – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "101 Mitigations" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Woo-Hoo Dunnit?" Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content" Episode – "The Fat Blue Line" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" 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 – "Bart the Bad Guy" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One" 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" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "Three Dreams Denied" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited" Episode – "Diary Queen" Episode – "Wad Goals" Episode – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion" Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A." 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 – "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 – "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 – "The King of Nice" THOH – "Not It" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa" 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 – "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 Night's Dream" Episode – "McMansion & Wife" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" Episode – "Iron Marge" Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life" Episode – "Ae Bonny Romance" Episode – "Frinkenstein's Monster" 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" Episode – "Women in Shorts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes" 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" Special – The Longest Daycare Special – Feliz Navidad

BG layout/design

• Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap

• Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki

External links

• TJ Kim at the Internet Movie Database

Background designers

Current background designers Lynna Blankenship • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Jabu Henderson • TJ Kim • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Assaf Meir • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Mark Mulgrew • Debbie Peterson • Javier Pineda • Charles Ragins • Chris Stephen Sentovich • Lance Wilder Former background designers Ben Anderson • Alvaro Arce • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Chris Bolden • Andy Chen • Chad E. Cooper • Seth Cooper • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Alexander C. Dilts • Edgar Duncan • Tria Ellison • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Ernesto Escobar • Dillon Froelich • Sarah Frost • Ed Ghertner • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Sam Ho • Gary Hoffman • Trevor Johnson • John Krause • Christian Lignan • John Liu • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Walter Mancia • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Kevin N. Moore • Phil Ortiz • John Pattison • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Gerald Clifford Rey • Dean Scammahorn • George Taylor • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich • Phillip O. Yeo Other background designers Geoffrey Anderson • David Beall • Ryan Cheetham • Andrew DeLange • Charles Garcia • John Gibson • Tim Hwang • Heejin Kim • Roman Laney • John Seymore • Robert Soussana • George Stokes • Antonio Torres • Arnel Torres • Lindsay Woods

Background layout artists

Current background layout artists Ben Anderson • Geoffrey Anderson • Ryan Cheetham • Andy Chen • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Dillon Froelich • Sam Ho • Heejin Kim • Alex Lee • John Liu • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Stokes • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Doug Walker • Phillip O. Yeo Former background layout artists John Achenbach • Young Baek • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Sue Bielenberg • Lynna Blankenship • Jennifer Bogartz • Chris Bolden • Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Mark Bykov • Mike Camarillo • Paul Castro • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Chad E. Cooper • Alfred "Tops" Cruz • Carol Delmindo Datuin • Peter J. DeLuca • Claude Denis • Alexander C. Dilts • Arnold Doong • Edgar Duncan • Eric Dunn • Mark Ervin • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Sarah Frost • Tricia Garcia • Monette Goldman • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Jake Hempe • Jabu Henderson • Gary Hoffman • Jeremy Horn • Mark Howard • Drew Johnson • Trevor Johnson • Dave S. Karoll • Atanas Karpelas • Kui Yong Kim • TJ Kim • Young Kim • John Krause • Nancy Kruse • John Lindauer • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • John Mathot • Pete Michels • Larry Miravalles • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Carlos Nieto III • John Pattison • Debbie Peterson • Mike Frank Polcino • Cameron Porter • Charles Ragins • Becca Ramos • Jerry Richardson • Denis Rychlick • Rick Salonga • Dean Scammahorn • Peter Shin • Cole Shortt • Steve Smith • Chad Stewart • Tuck Tucker • Scott Uehara • Don Vanderbeek • Cliff Voorhees • Jefferson R. Weekley • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background layout artists James P. Alles • Galina Budkin • Edgar Carlos • Derek Carter • Namsuk Cho • Randol Eagles • Natalie Franscioni Karp • Rodel Gravo • Lam Hoang • Cynthia Ignacio • Arlan Jewell • Hyung-Ki Kim • Yeon-Ju Kim • Ashley Lenz • Juan Luna • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Gary Mouri • Mark Mulgrew • Gang Peng • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Jonathan Pyun • Gerald Clifford Rey • Choun-Wung Son • Thomas Starnes • Allen Tam • Danny Taverna • Kevyn L. Wallace • Wallace Williamson • Chad Woods • Chung Sup Yoon • Jennifer Yuan