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Matt Marshall is a writer and assistant for the show who wrote In the Name of the Grandfather.
Early life[]
- “"I had a Bart Simpson T-shirt when I was 11 or 12 years old, with him dunking a basketball and saying 'Cowabunga.' Now I work with the woman who does that voice."”
- ―Marshall on his childhood
Marshall grew up in Mount Pleasant and Racine, both in Wisconsin. He went to Case High School. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Eight months later he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of working in the entertainment industry.
When he was growing up, Matt was a fan of the Simpsons.
Role on the Simpsons[]
- “This is what I pretty much have known I wanted to do since I was a kid, to work in the entertainment business”
- ― Matt on the job
Since 2004, Matt has worked as an assistant to the producers and writers, typing what they tell him as they worked through scripts. During this time he "soak[ed] up all their comedy genius".
- “Being a writer you can be in love with your stuff, but not everyone else will be, You have to learn to have thick skin and not take it personally. Let it go. A lot of the scripts get slashed to pieces. It's whatever's the best at the end of the show, whatever's the funniest, that's what matters.”
- ―Matt Marshall on script editing
In 2007 he pitched his episode idea, about Grandpa feeling ignored, so they return to a pub in Ireland that he has always wanted to visit. It was approved and he wrote the episode ready for a table read in late 2007 but the Writers Guild of America Strike pushed it back three months and delayed the episode by nearly a year.
After the strike the episode went through the standard review process where other writers added to parts of the episode
The episode has led to him gaining an agent, but he is currently still an assistant on the Simpsons team.[1]
Work outside the Simpsons[]
Matt was an assistant casting coordinator on "Can You Duet?" [2]
Credits[]
Assistant to the Producers (2004-20??)[]
Season 15
Episode – "Catch 'Em if You Can" (FABF14)
Episode – "Simple Simpson" (FABF15)- Episode – "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13)
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" (FABF17)
- Episode – "Fraudcast News" (FABF18)
Season 16
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" (FABF23)
- Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" (FABF20)
- Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" (FABF19)
- Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" (FABF22)
- Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" (FABF21)
- Episode – "Midnight Rx" (FABF16)
- Episode – "Mommie Beerest" (GABF01)
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" (GABF02)
- Episode – "Pranksta Rap" (GABF03)
- Episode – "There's Something About Marrying" (GABF04)
- Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" (GABF05)
- Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan" (GABF06)
- Episode – "Mobile Homer" (GABF07)
- Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch" (GABF08)
- Episode – "Future-Drama" (GABF12)
- Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer" (GABF10)
- Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" (GABF11)
- Episode – "A Star is Torn" (GABF13)
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday" (GABF14)
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer" (GABF15)
- Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" (GABF09)
Season 17
- Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees" (GABF18)
- Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" (GABF16)
- Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" (GABF19)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI" (GABF17)
- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
- Episode – "See Homer Run" (GABF21)
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" (GABF22)
- Episode – "The Italian Bob" (HABF02)
- Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" (HABF01)
- Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot" (HABF03)
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" (HABF04)
- Episode – "My Fair Laddy" (HABF05)
- Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" (HABF06)
- Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies" (HABF07)
- Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" (HABF08)
- Episode – "Million Dollar Abie" (HABF09)
- Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" (HABF10)
- Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11)
- Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" (HABF12)
- Episode – "Regarding Margie" (HABF13)
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit" (HABF14)
- Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" (HABF16)
Season 18
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (HABF15)
- Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" (HABF18)
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" (HABF20)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (HABF17)
- Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" (HABF21)
- Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa" (HABF19)
- Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" (HABF22)
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" (JABF02)
- Episode – "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2" (JABF01)
- Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" (JABF03)
- Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times" (JABF05)
- Episode – "Little Big Girl" (JABF04)
- Episode – "Springfield Up" (JABF07)
- Episode – "Yokel Chords" (JABF09)
- Episode – "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh" (JABF08)
- Episode – "Homerazzi" (JABF06)
- Episode – "Marge Gamer" (JABF10)
- Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" (JABF11)
- Episode – "Crook and Ladder" (JABF13)
- Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!" (JABF12)
- Episode – "24 Minutes" (JABF14)
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (JABF15)
Season 19
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (JABF20)
- Episode – "The Homer of Seville" (JABF18)
- Episode – "Midnight Towboy" (JABF21)
- Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (JABF19)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (JABF16)
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" (JABF22)
- Episode – "Husbands and Knives" (JABF17)
- Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" (KABF01)
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" (KABF02)
- Episode – "E. Pluribus Wiggum" (KABF03)
- Episode – "That '90s Show" (KABF04)
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" (KABF05)
- Episode – "The Debarted" (KABF06)
- Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" (KABF07)
- Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" (KABF08)
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" (KABF09)
- Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" (KABF10)
- Episode – "Any Given Sundance" (KABF11)
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" (KABF12)
- Episode – "All About Lisa" (KABF13)
Season 20
- Episode – "Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes" (KABF17)
- Episode – "Lost Verizon" (KABF15)
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (KABF14)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (KABF16)
- Episode – "Dangerous Curves" (KABF18)
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" (KABF19)
- Episode – "Mypods and Boomsticks" (KABF20)
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" (KABF21)
- Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen" (KABF22)
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
- Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
- Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
- Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
- Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
- Episode – "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
Writer (2009)[]
- Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" (LABF11)