John Swartzwelder (born February 08, 1949) is an American writer, best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons, as well as a number of novels. He is credited with writing the largest number of The Simpsons episodes (55 full episodes, with contributions to four others)^[1] by a large margin. Swartzwelder was one of several writers recruited to The Simpsons from the pages of George Meyer's Army Man magazine. Image File history File links Swartzwelder. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Al Jean (left) and David Mirkin (right), have both been writers for The Simpsons for more than ten years. ... George Meyer is a producer and writer for The Simpsons, and arguably the writer who has contributed the most to the show over its long run. ... Army Man was a surreal newsletter for comedy writers published in the late 80s by George Meyer, the acclaimed writer for The Simpsons. ...

Career

Before working on The Simpsons, Swartzwelder had a long career in advertising,^{[citation needed]} after which he began writing for Saturday Night Live, at which he met George Meyer.^[2] After Meyer quit, he created Army Man and recruited Swartzwelder to help him write the magazine.^[3] Along with Meyer, he was recruited to write for The Simpsons because one of their readers was Sam Simon, one of the show's original executive producers. This article is about the American television series. ... George Meyer is a producer and writer for The Simpsons, and arguably the writer who has contributed the most to the show over its long run. ... Army Man: Americas Only Magazine was a short-lived comedy magazine published in the late 80s by George Meyer, the acclaimed writer for The Simpsons. ... Sam Simon is an American television producer and writer, most notable as one of the original developers of The Simpsons, along with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In 1994, with the show's sixth season, Swartzwelder was granted a special dispensation and allowed to no longer attend rewrite sessions with the rest of the staff, instead just sending his drafts in from home so other writers could revise them. This was a direct result of Swartzwelder's avid smoking coming into conflict with a newly implemented policy banning smoking in the writers' room.^[4] The Simpsons sixth season originally aired between September 1994 and May 1995, beginning on September 4, 1994. ... The cigarette is the most common method of smoking tobacco. ...

According to his longtime collaborators on The Simpsons, Al Jean and Mike Reiss, Swartzwelder is a huge fan of Preston Sturges films and loves "anything old timey American."^[specify] This vaguely defined aesthetic presents itself in many of the episodes he has written in the form of wandering hobos, Prohibition-era speakeasies, carnies, 19th-century baseball players, aging Western movie stars, and Sicilian gangsters. Al Jean is a TV comedy writer most known for his work on The Simpsons. ... Mike Reiss is an American TV comedy writer. ... Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. ... This miscellaneous page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The term Prohibition, also known as A Dry Law, refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the sport. ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... This article is about the criminal society. ...

According to DVD commentaries, he used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, Swartzwelder bought the diner booth and installed it in his house, allowing him to continue to smoke and write in peace.^[4] Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

At one point his identity was heavily debated amongst The Simpsons fans on the internet. Because he is such a prolific writer of The Simpsons episodes, yet did not appear on any commentaries up to and including season eight it had been theorized that "John Swartzwelder" was an pseudonym for writers either not taking credit for episodes written for one reason or another or episodes written by a number of writers.^[5] A pseudonym (Greek: , pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons legal name. ...

He is also a staunch libertarian as well as a gun rights advocate, and despite having written many of the environmentally driven episodes, he has been described as an "anti-environmentalist".^[6] David X. Cohen once related a story of Swartzwelder going on an extended diatribe about how there is more rain forest on Earth now than there was a hundred years ago.^[7] This article does not adequately cite its references. ... The phrase Gun politics refers to the views of different people within a particular country as to what degree of control (increased gun rights vs. ... David X. Cohen (born 1966), born David Samuel Cohen, is an American television writer. ... A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. ...

Swartzwelder has been absent from writing episodes of The Simpsons since the sixteenth season (2004-05), with his last episode airing (The Regina Monologues) actually being a "holdover" from the fourteenth (2002-2003) season. Since he's stopped writing scripts he has begun writing novels, beginning with the 2004 publication of The Time Machine Did It (ISBN 0-9755799-0-8) starring Private investigator Frank Burly. A new book in the series has followed every year; Double Wonderful (ISBN 0-9755799-2-4) in 2005, How I Conquered Your Planet (ISBN 0-9755799-4-0) in 2006, and The Exploding Detective (ISBN 0-9755799-6-7) in 2007. ^[8] In 2007 Swartzwelder returned to The Simpsons as a contributing writer to The Simpsons Movie.^[9] The Simpsons 16th season (November 2004 - May 2005) began on Sunday, November 7, 2004 with Treehouse of Horror XV. The season contains six hold-over episodes from the season 15 (FABF) production line. ... The Regina Monologues is the fourth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, which originally aired November 23, 2003. ... The Time Machine Did It (ISBN 0975579908) is a novel by American writer John Swartzwelder, known for his writing for the animated television series The Simpsons. ... A private investigator, private detective, PI, or private eye, is a person who undertakes investigations, usually for a private citizen or some other entity not involved with a government or police organization. ... Double Wonderful (ISBN 0975579924) is a comedic novel written by American writer John Swartzwelder, better known as a writer for the animated television series The Simpsons. ... How I Conquered Your Planet (ISBN 0-9755799-4-0) is a comedic novel written by American writer John Swartzwelder, better known as a writer for the animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Exploding Detective (ISBN 0-9755799-6-7) is a comedic novel written by John Swartzwelder an American, most famous for his work on The Simpsons. ... The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 animated comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons, directed by David Silverman, and scheduled to be released worldwide by July 27, 2007. ...

Reclusiveness

Swartzwelder is a notorious recluse and rarely, if ever, makes public appearances in connection with The Simpsons. He did not participate in any of the audio commentaries on the first eight Simpsons DVD sets. During the commentary for the ninth-season episode "The Cartridge Family," Mike Scully called Swartzwelder on the phone. After speaking for a few minutes Swartzwelder jokingly ended the call saying "too bad this is not really John Swartzwelder".^[10] For the spider, see Brown Recluse. ... The Cartridge Family is the fifth episode of The Simpsons ninth season. ... Mike Scully (born October 2, 1956 in West Springfield, Massachusetts) is an Emmy Award-winning American television writer best known for his work as show runner of the Fox series The Simpsons from 1997 - 2001 (Seasons 9-12). ...

References on The Simpsons

Swartzwelder's animated likeness, from the episode "Hurricane Neddy"

Free John Swartzwelder.

Swartzwelder has been animated in the background of several episodes of The Simpsons. His animated likeness closely resembles musician David Crosby; prompting Matt Groening to state that anytime that David Crosby appears is in a scene for no apparent reason, it is really John Swartzwelder.^[11] Some of the episodes in which Swartzwelder has appeared include: Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Hurricane Neddy is the eighth episode of The Simpsons eighth season which originally aired December 29, 1996. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. ...

• In "The Day the Violence Died", Swartzwelder is one of the "surprise witnesses" called by Lionel Hutz.
• In "Bart the Fink", he is one of the attendees at Krusty's fake funeral.
• In "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", his likeness appears as a statue (on a horse) outside a courthouse.
• In "Bart After Dark", he can be seen as one of the clients watching the show in the burlesque house.
• In "The Front", the Itchy and Scratchy writers all look like the writers of The Simpsons who were on the show at the time, one of which is Swartzwelder.
• In "Hurricane Neddy", he can be seen pacing in a padded cell inside a mental hospital. Later in the episode a sign reading "Free John Swartzwelder" can be seen briefly (behind Barney Gumble) during the fanfare of Ned Flanders' release from the same hospital.

In addition to his likeness being animated into the show, various other references to him have been slipped in, with his name being used to name various things in "freeze frame" jokes. The Day the Violence Died is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Lionel Hutz is a fictional secondary character from The Simpsons, voiced by Phil Hartman. ... Bart the Fink is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... “Krusty” redirects here. ... Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily is the third episode of The Simpsons seventh season, which originally aired October 1, 1995. ... Bart After Dark is the fifth episode of The Simpsons eighth season, first aired by the Fox network on November 24, 1996. ... The Front is the 19th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ... Hurricane Neddy is the eighth episode of The Simpsons eighth season which originally aired December 29, 1996. ... A padded cell is a cell in a mental hospital with cushions lining the walls; this is done for the patients who want to commit suicide. ... Barnard Barney Gumble is a character on The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Nedward Ned Flanders is a fictional character on The Simpsons, based on the real life Donald Macmillan, heir to the Alcan Fortune, voiced by Harry Shearer. ...

• The episode "Burns, Baby Burns" features a "Mt. Swartzwelder".
• In "Dog of Death", Santa's Little Helper is shown wandering through Swartzwelder County.
• In "The Front", Lisa and Bart read a book entitled How to Get Rich Writing Cartoons, which is written by John Swartzwelder.

Burns, Baby Burns is the fourth episode of The Simpsons eighth season, first aired by the Fox network on November 17, 1996. ... Dog of Death is the 19th episode of The Simpsons third season. ... The Front is the 19th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ...

The Simpsons episodes by Swartzwelder

• "Bart the General" (7G05) (1990)
• "The Call of the Simpsons" (7G07) (1990)
• "Life on the Fast Lane" (7G11) (1990)
• "The Crepes of Wrath"^[1] (7G13) (1990)
• "Treehouse of Horror"^[2] (7F04) (1990)
• "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"^[3] (7F01) (1990)
• "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" (7F09) (1990)
• "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" (7F10) (1991)
• "The War of the Simpsons" (7F20) (1991)
• "Bart the Murderer" (8F03) (1991)
• "Treehouse of Horror II" ^[4] (8F02) (1991)
• "Homer at the Bat" (8F13) (1992)
• "Dog of Death" (8F17) (1992)
• "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" (8F23) (1992)
• "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" (9F03) (1992)
• "Whacking Day" (9F18) (1993)
• "Krusty Gets Kancelled" (9F19) (1993)
• "Rosebud" (1F01) (1993)
• "Homer the Vigilante" (1F09) (1994)
• "Bart Gets Famous" (1F11) (1994)
• "Bart Gets an Elephant" (1F15) (1994)
• "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" (1F19) (1994)
• "Itchy & Scratchy Land" (2F01) (1994)
• "Homer the Great" (2F09) (1995)
• "Bart's Comet" (2F11) (1995)
• "Homie the Clown" (2F12) (1995)
• "Radioactive Man" (2F17) (1995)
• "Treehouse of Horror VI" ^[5](3F04) (1995)
• "Bart the Fink" ^[6](3F12) (1996)
• "Homer the Smithers" (3F14) (1996)
• "The Day the Violence Died" (3F16) (1996)
• "You Only Move Twice" (3F23) (1996)
• "Mountain of Madness" (4F10) (1997)
• "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment" (4F15) (1997)
• "The Old Man and the Lisa" (4F17) (1997)
• "Homer's Enemy" (4F19) (1997)
• "The Cartridge Family" (5F01) (1997)
• "Bart Carny" (5F08) (1998)
• "King of the Hill" (5F16) (1998)
• "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" (5F21) (1998)
• "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04) (1998)
• "Homer to the Max" (AABF09) (1999)
• "Maximum Homerdrive" (AABF13) (1999)
• "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" (AABF17) (1999)
• "Take My Wife, Sleaze" (BABF05) (1999)
• "The Mansion Family" (BABF08) (2000)
• "Kill the Alligator and Run" (BABF16) (2000)
• "A Tale of Two Springfields" (BABF20) (2000)
• "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (CABF02) (2000)
• "Hungry, Hungry Homer" (CABF09) (2001)
• "Simpson Safari" (CABF13) (2001)
• "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (CABF18) (2001)
• "The Lastest Gun in the West" (DABF07) (2002)
• "I Am Furious Yellow" (DABF13) (2002)
• "The Sweetest Apu" (DABF14) (2002)
• "The Frying Game" (DABF16) (2002)
• "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (EABF09) (2003)
• "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (EABF21) (2003)
• "The Regina Monologues" (EABF22) (2003)

1. ^  - with George Meyer, Sam Simon and Jon Vitti
2. ^  - "Bad Dream House" segment
3. ^  - with Sam Simon
4. ^  - contributor
5. ^  - "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" segment
6. ^  - teleplay, story by Bob Kushell

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References

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External links

• John Swartzwelder at the Internet Movie Database
• John Swartzwelder at TV.com