Don Payne

Payne at a San Diego Comic-Con panel for The Simpsons

Don Payne is a writer on The Simpsons. Many of his episodes are co-written with John Frink. Recently he has moved into screenwriting. So far he has written My Super Ex-Girlfriend and co-written Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He was recently hired to adapt the Maximum Ride novels.

In an interview for Star-News he revealed that his favorite Simpson episodes are the season eleven finale "Behind the Laughter", the season two episodes "Lisa's Substitute" and "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", the season three episode "Like Father, Like Clown", the season four episode "Marge vs. the Monorail", and the season eight special "The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase".^[1]

Writing credits

The Simpsons episodes

• "Treehouse of Horror XI" (co-written by John Frink)
• "Insane Clown Poppy" (co-written by John Frink)
• "Bye Bye Nerdie" (co-written by John Frink)
• "Simpsons Tall Tales" (co-written by John Frink)
• "Treehouse of Horror XII" (co-written by John Frink)
• "The Bart Wants What It Wants" (co-written by John Frink)
• "The Great Louse Detective" (co-written by John Frink)
• "Old Yeller Belly" (co-written by John Frink)
• "The Wandering Juvie" (co-written by John Frink)
• "Fraudcast News"
• "Thank God It's Doomsday"
• "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
• "Little Big Girl"
• "Love, Springfieldian Style"
• "Take My Life, Please"

Films

• My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

References

External links

• Don Payne at the Internet Movie Database

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