Matt Selman is an American writer who has written several episodes for The Simpsons. Selman was one of eleven writers that worked on The Simpsons Movie.
Early Life
Selman grew up in Waterton, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 after majoring in history. He was editor in chief of the magazine 34th Street Magazine and had an internship at the Philadelphia.
Career
He co-wrote for a Seinfeld episode after sending sample material out for two years. In 1997 he joined the Simpsons and is currently an executive producer.
He is writing the screenplay for a film adaptation of Ricky Gervais' Flanimals.
Awards
- 1999
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Viva Ned Flanders (with other staff)
- Won an Annie for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production for Simpsons Bible Stories (with Tim Long and Larry Doyle)
- 2000
- Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Behind the Laughter (with other staff)
- 2001
- Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for HOMЯ (with other staff)
- 2002
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for She of Little Faith (with other staff)
- 2003
- Won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Three Gays of the Condo (with other staff)
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Animation for Jaws Wired Shut
- 2004
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for The Way We Weren't (with other staff)
- Won a Writers Guild of America Award for Animation for The Dad Who Knew Too Little
- 2005
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Future-Drama (with other staff)
- 2006
- Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for The Seemingly Never-Ending Story (with other staff)
- 2007
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for The Haw-Hawed Couple (with other staff)
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Animation for Girls Just Want to Have Sums
- 2008
- Nominated for an Annie for Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production for the Simpsons Movie (with James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti)
- Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind (with other staff)
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Animation for The Haw-Hawed Couple
- 2009
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Gone Maggie Gone (with other staff)
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy Series (with other writers)
Credits
Writer (1998-present)
Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" (5F18)- Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" with Larry Doyle and Tim Long (AABF14)
Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" (AABF18)- Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" (BABF03)
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter" with Tim Long, George Meyer and Mike Scully (BABF19)
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" (CABF01)
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error" (CABF14)
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" with John Frink, Don Payne and Bob Bendetson (CABF17)
- Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" (DABF05)
- Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" (EABF03)
- Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" (FABF20)
- Episode – "Pranksta Rap" (GABF03)
- Episode – "Future-Drama" (GABF12)
- Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" (HABF12)
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" (JABF02)
- Episode – "Husbands and Knives" (JABF17)
- Episode – "That '90s Show" (KABF04)
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z"" (LABF15)
- Episode – "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" (MABF01)
- Episode – "Flaming Moe" (NABF04)
- Episode – "The Food Wife" (NABF20)
- Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" (PABF20)
- Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" (RABF06)
- Episode – "Covercraft" (TABF02)
- Episode – "Sky Police" (TABF09)
- Episode – "There Will Be Buds" (VABF22)
- Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" (WABF05)
Staff Writer (1997-1998)
Season 9
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as Matt "Death of A" Selman) (5F02)
- Episode – "The Cartridge Family" (5F01)
- Episode – "Bart Star" (5F03)
- Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" (5F04)
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" (5F05)
- Episode – "Realty Bites" (5F06)
- Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" (5F07)
- Episode – "Bart Carny" (5F08)
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans" (5F09)
Story Editor (1998)
Season 9
- Episode – "Das Bus" (5F11)
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" (5F10)
- Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity" (5F12)
- Episode – "This Little Wiggy" (5F13)
- Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" (5F14)
- Episode – "Girly Edition" (5F15)
- Episode – "King of the Hill" (5F16)
- Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" (5F17)
- Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" (5F18)
Season 10
- Episode – "Lard of the Dance" (5F20)
- Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" (5F21)
- Episode – "Bart the Mother" (5F22)
- Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" (5F19)
Executive Story Editor (1998)
Season 10
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as Selmanimal) (AABF01)
Co-Producer (1998-1999)
Season 10
- Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind" (AABF02)
- Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" (AABF03)
- Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04)
- Episode – "Mayored to the Mob" (AABF05)
- Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" (AABF06)
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" (AABF07)
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" (AABF08)
- Episode – "Homer to the Max" (AABF09)
- Episode – "I'm with Cupid" (AABF11)
- Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" (AABF10)
- Episode – "Make Room for Lisa" (AABF12)
- Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive" (AABF13)
- Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" (AABF14)
- Episode – "Mom and Pop Art" (AABF15)
- Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student" (AABF16)
- Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" (AABF17)
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" (AABF18)
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (AABF20)
Season 11
- Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" (AABF23)
- Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" (AABF22)
- Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" (AABF21)
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror X" (as Nightmare on Selman Street) (BABF01)
- Episode – "E-I-E-I-D'oh" (AABF19)
- Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" (BABF02)
Producer (1999-2001)
Season 11
- Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" (BABF03)
- Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze" (BABF05)
- Episode – "Grift of the Magi" (BABF07)
- Episode – "Little Big Mom" (BABF04)
- Episode – "Faith Off" (BABF06)
- Episode – "The Mansion Family" (BABF08)
- Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" (BABF09)
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" (BABF10)
- Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" (BABF11)
- Episode – "Pygmoelian" (BABF12)
- Episode – "Bart to the Future" (BABF13)
- Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" (BABF14)
- Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run" (BABF16)
- Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" (BABF15)
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" (BABF18)
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter" (BABF19)
Season 12
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (as bloodselman@aol.com) (BABF21)
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields" (BABF20)
- Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy" (BABF17)
- Episode – "HOMЯ" (BABF22)
Supervising Producer (2000-2001)
Season 12
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" (CABF01)
- Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" (CABF04)
- Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (CABF02)
- Episode – "The Great Money Caper" (CABF03)
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (CABF06)
- Episode – "Pokey Mom" (CABF05)
- Episode – "Worst Episode Ever" (CABF08)
- Episode – "Tennis the Menace" (CABF07)
- Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" (CABF10)
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" (CABF12)
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" (CABF09)
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie" (CABF11)
- Episode – "Simpson Safari" (CABF13)
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error" (CABF14)
- Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" (CABF15)
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" (CABF16)
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" (CABF17)
Season 13
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XII" (CABF19)
- Episode – "The Parent Rap" (CABF22)
- Episode – "Homer the Moe" (CABF20)
- Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (CABF18)
- Episode – "The Blunder Years" (CABF21)
Co-Executive Producer (2001-2005)
Season 13
- Episode – "She of Little Faith" (DABF02)
- Episode – "Brawl in the Family" (DABF01)
- Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" (DABF03)
- Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" (DABF05)
- Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" (DABF04)
- Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants" (DABF06)
- Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West" (DABF07)
- Episode – "The Old Man and the Key" (DABF09)
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" (DABF08)
- Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" (DABF10)
- Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's" (DABF11)
- Episode – "Gump Roast" (DABF12)
- Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)" (DABF13)
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu" (DABF14)
- Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten" (DABF15)
- Episode – "The Frying Game" (DABF16)
- Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" (DABF17)
Season 14
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XIII" (DABF19)
- Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22)
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" (DABF20)
- Episode – "Large Marge" (DABF18)
- Episode – "Helter Shelter" (DABF21)
- Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" (EABF01)
- Episode – "Special Edna" (EABF02)
- Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" (EABF03)
- Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" (EABF04)
- Episode – "Pray Anything" (EABF06)
- Episode – "Barting Over" (EABF05)
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" (EABF07)
- Episode – "A Star Is Born-Again" (EABF08)
- Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (EABF09)
- Episode – "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10)
- Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" (EABF11)
- Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" (EABF12)
- Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" (EABF13)
- Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly" (EABF14)
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" (EABF15)
- Episode – "The Bart of War" (EABF16)
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues" (EABF17)
Season 15
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (as Matt Skeleton) (EABF21)
- Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" (EABF18)
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" (EABF20)
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues" (EABF22)
- Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest" (EABF19)
- Episode – "Today, I Am a Clown" (FABF01)
- Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" (FABF02)
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" (FABF03)
- Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" (FABF04)
- Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" (FABF05)
- Episode – "Margical History Tour" (FABF06)
- Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (FABF07)
- Episode – "Smart and Smarter" (FABF09)
- Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" (FABF08)
- Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day" (FABF10)
- Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" (FABF11)
- Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" (FABF12)
- 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
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XV" (as Island of Lost Selmans) (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)
Executive Producer
Season 16
- 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)
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XVI" (as Matt Wolfman) (GABF16)
- 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 – "Simpson 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)
Commentaries (2006-present)
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
- Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions"
- Episode – "Natural Born Kissers"
- Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star"
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
- 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 – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"
- Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome"
- Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
- Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror X"
- Episode – "E-I-E-I-D'oh"
- Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
- Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'"
- Episode – "Grift of the Magi"
- Episode – "Faith Off"
- Episode – "The Mansion Family"
- Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica"
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
- Episode – "Missionary: Impossible"
- Episode – "Pygmoelian"
- Episode – "Bart to the Future"
- Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run"
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XI"
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"
- Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy"
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger"
- Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity"
- Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
- Episode – "The Great Money Caper"
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
- Episode – "HOMЯ"
- Episode – "Pokey Mom"
- Episode – "Worst Episode Ever"
- Episode – "Tennis the Menace"
- Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes"
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch"
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Simpson Safari"
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error"
- Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland"
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
- Episode – "The Parent Rap"
- Episode – "Homer the Moe"
- Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"
- Episode – "The Blunder Years"
- Episode – "She of Little Faith"
- Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge"
- Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut"
- Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal"
- Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the Key"
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain"
- Episode – "Blame It on Lisa"
- Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's"
- Episode – "Gump Roast"
- Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)"
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu"
- Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XIII"
- Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "The Great Louse Detective"
- Episode – "Special Edna"
- Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little"
- Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma"
- Episode – "Pray Anything"
- Episode – "Barting Over"
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
- Episode – "A Star Is Born-Again"
- Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"
- Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo"
- Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
- Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly"
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please"
- Episode – "The Bart of War"
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
- Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker"
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
- Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest"
- 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"
- Episode – "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"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning"
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
- Episode – "The Italian Bob"
- Episode – "Simpson Christmas Stories"
- Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where"
- 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"
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