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John MacFarlane

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	FX layout artist
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	261
Seasons active:	Season 25 - Present
First short:	Playdate with Destiny
Most recent short:	The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
First episode:	"The Kid Is All Right"
Most recent episode:	"Guess Who's Coming to Skinner"

John MacFarlane is an effects artist. He currently serves as an FX layout artist for The Simpsons. He has also worked on Futurama.

Contents

1 Credits
2 External links

Credits[edit]

FX layout[edit]

Episode – "The Kid Is All Right"

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 – "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 – "Bart's New Friend"
Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth"
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "My Fare Lady"

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 – "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 – "Habeas Tortoise"
Episode – "One Angry Lisa"
Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout"
Episode – "The King of Nice"
THOH – "Not It"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"
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"
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"
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"

Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

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

Prop design[edit]

Episode – "Luca$"

Episode – "Bart's New Friend"

Episode – "A Father's Watch"

Episode – "The Serfsons"

Episode – "Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother"

Episode – "Men Behaving Manly"

FX artist[edit]

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

External links[edit]

John MacFarlane at the Internet Movie Database

FX layout artists

view • talk • edit • past Current FX layout artists
John Dillon • Rosanna Lyons • John MacFarlane • Brice Mallier

view • talk • edit • past Former FX layout artists
Jess Espanola • Al Holter • Sooan Kim • Cynthia Neill Knizek • Eric Lara • David Lee • Kevin O'Neil • Jeff Topping

Prop designers

view • talk • edit • past Current prop designers
Darrel Bowen • Seth Cooper • John Krause • Kevin N. Moore • Ernie Ochoa • Jefferson R. Weekley

view • talk • edit • past Former prop designers
Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Daniel Chiu • Jarod Daetwiler • Lance Falk • Matthew Faughnan • Lucas Gray • Heejin Han • Ken Harsha • Dale Hendrickson • Sam Ho • Trevor Johnson • Heejin Kim • Alexandra Kube • John MacFarlane • Richard Manginsay • Kevin M. Newman • Mike Pettengill • John Rice • Tommy Tejeda • Bill Thyen • Joe Wack

view • talk • edit • past Other prop designers
Lynna Blankenship • Liz Craig • Christy DeHoog • Lindse Fletcher • Nathan Gammill • Phillip Hartmann • Mark Mulgrew • Brent Noll • Gene Warren III

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