Talk:Bart Gets the Remote couch gag

This Woulda Been Funnier
This couch gag coulda been funnier. This is my fanfiction of what I'd do to make it funnier. When Homer is playing with the nuclear bullcrap, the rod gets stuck in his eye. He screams and yells and struggles to get it out, and as he does, he knocks over test tubes and breaks open pipes and causes gas leaks. He's pretty much tearing apart the entire power plant just to get the dang eye rod out of his eye. Homer then presses "The Button", which causes the power plant to self destruct, killing everyone in it. Homer's skeleton then lands on the ground and we see Homer's angel fly out of there, saying. "Well, at least I got that rod out of my eye." Then the rod falls down and lands in the other eye-hole of Homer's skeleton, which causes an angel-version of the rod to grow in Homer's angel version's eye, causing him to say "D'oh!" Then, Lisa plays the saxophone and then chokes on the reed. Dewey calls in Willie to help her, but when Willie tries to give her the heimlich manuver, he doesn't know his own strength, and he crushes her body. Lisa gets killed as she coughs out the reed. Nervously, Willie slowly puts Lisa down on the ground, lifts up the rug, and sweeps her under there with a broom, as though she were dust and then backs out of the music room. In the place where we'd usually see Homer driving the car and throwing the rod out the window, we see a hearse, carrying Homer's skeleton, and one of the guys pulls the rod out of his eye-hole and throws it out. Bart, who happens to be walking by, gets laughed at by everyone, making fun of him fr not skateboarding as usual. He then kicks the rod in anger. We then see Maggie actually driving the car and Marge freaks out about it. They crash into a lot of buildings and barns and stuff, and when Marge finally gets Maggie off the wheel, she takes control of the car. As soon as she does though, she drives off the cliff, the car falls and smashes into a bunch of ledges on the way down, and eventually drives off the ramp and lands on a rock in the water, blowing it up, and then it slowly slides off, lands in the water and sinks. Marge's bloody body, floats to the top, followed by Maggie, who is perfectly undamaged. The chicken then comes out and Maggie climbs onto the chicken's back and the chicken paddles like a duck, giving Maggie a ride to shore. When Bart gets home, he's still in a rut about his skateboard being broken. He then realizes he doesn't know where the key to the house is. He looks in a pile of garbage in the garage for the emergency key. As he does, Maggie crawls up to the Simpson house, but the hearse carrying Homer then drives up, and runs over Maggie, killing her too. Bart, who has his head in the pile, doesn't bother looking behind him to see who's there. The driver gets out of the car and says "Are you Bart Simpson, son of Homer Simpson?" Bart, not knowing who it is, makes up the lie, saying "Uhhhh ... No, this is Burt Sampson, son of Hamton Sampson. You got the wrong house." The driver, then confused says "Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I must have gotten the wrong place. So sorry about the mishap." Then he drives away with Homer's corpse. Bart then laughs, saying "I don't know who that was, but I just confused the hell out of him ... Ah, there's the key." Yes, he finds the emergency key and goes into the house. When he does, he notices that his entire family is gone. He wonders where they are, but then shrugs it off, and puts their pictures next to him, happy that he finally gets the remote. Now that woulda been better. Boyariffic (talk) 15:37, February 19, 2017 (UTC)