Paul Germain

Paul Germain (born June 6, 1959) is an American animation screenwriter and producer. Among the shows Germain has written, produced or directed are Rugrats, The Simpsons, Recess, Even Stevens, Lloyd in Space, The Tracey Ullman Show, and Beethoven: The Animated Series. Germain (along with Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó) was one of the creators of the award-winning animated series for Nickelodeon Rugrats and was a primary creative force for the series. With his Rugrats colleague Joe Ansolabehere, he is the creator of Recess and Lloyd in Space.

Among his film credits are Say Anything..., Big and Broadcast News.

Germain's son was the inspiration for the Rugrats character Tommy Pickles. The antagonist in Rugrats, Angelica Pickles was based on a bully (who was a girl) in his childhood.

Paul was born in Los Angeles, California. The school in Recess shares the name of Third Street School, an actual elementary school that his children attended.

Paul's younger brother is Marc "Mr K" Germain, a popular talk-show host formerly known as Mr. KABC and before that as "Mr. KFI".

Paul's other brother Gregory Germain, is a law professor at Syracuse University, College of Law.

He has recently been credited as screenwriter on Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue and voice director on Pound Puppies. Germain is currently working on live-action projects. As of March 2016, he was serving as a producer consultant for Smosh's web series, Part Timers.