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The Bart Gets the Remote couch gag is the 6th couch gag of Season 28, in the episode Dad Behavior.
Plot[]
After an alternate opening with Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie dying or otherwise being affected from several accidents, we cut to the living room, where Bart enters and wonders where everyone is. He grabs photos of all the Simpsons and pretends they are with him and turns on the TV with the remote.
Characters[]
- Bart Simpson
- Homer Simpson (Pictured)
- Marge Simpson (Pictured)
- Lisa Simpson (Pictured)
- Maggie Simpson (Pictured)
Trivia[]
- This is technically the second opening sequence that has most of the Simpsons dying from freak accidents, after the opening for "Treehouse of Horror IX". Coincidentally, both openings ended with a character wondering where the family was (Bart in this opening, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees in the one for Treehouse of Horror IX).
- It is also the only time where Maggie is actually seen driving the car. In most other instances, it only appears as if she's driving the car only to be revealed to be playing with a play driving set.
- As the TV is showing the Created By/Developed By credits at the end of the opening, it slides off of a slanted cardboard box, being used for a TV unit. It then cuts to a scene of Homer, pushing the TV back into place with the broom, thus starting the episode from there.
- In the scene where Maggie drives into the lake, the people who were in the car were Marge, Maggie, and a chicken. Marge's body was seen floating to the top first, then after a long pause, the chicken's body floated to the top. Apparently, either the animators forgot to draw Maggie's body floating to the top, or due to controversy.
- This is the first couch gag to continue into the episode.
- The fate of the various family members (excluding Bart):
- Homer accidentally ingests his discarded plutonium rod, and ends up dying from nuclear poisoning as a result.
- Lisa accidentally hits the door and is at a bare minimum knocked out cold.
- Marge either is killed from colliding hard into the seat after the car was sent flying off the highway, or drowned when the car falls into a lake.
- Maggie, although not seen (see above), presumably drowned inside the car after it fell into the lake.
Gallery[]
Video[]
Bart Finally Gets Control Of The Remote Season 28 Ep. 8 THE SIMPSONS