The following is a list of couch gags seen in the opening sequence of The Simpsons.
Season 1 (1989-1990)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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1 | December 17, 1989 | no gag (Christmas special) | "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" | 7G08 | |
2 | January 14, 1990 | The family sits on the couch and squashes Bart into the air. He comes back down about six seconds later, during the TV scene. | "Bart the Genius" | 7G02 | |
3 | January 21, 1990 | The family sits, but the couch falls apart, leaving them sitting on cushions on the floor. The side table slides away as well. | "Homer's Odyssey" | 7G03 | |
4 | January 28, 1990 | The family sits on the couch and Homer gets "squashed" off, landing with a soft "D'oh!" on the ground. | "There's No Disgrace Like Home" | 7G04 | |
5 | February 4, 1990 | No gag (shortened opening) | "Bart the General" | 7G05 | |
6 | February 11, 1990 | The family sits, but Maggie gets squashed into the air and is caught by Marge. | "Moaning Lisa" | 7G06 | |
7 | February 18, 1990 |
The family sits normally. NOTE: This was originally going to be the first couch gag. Reused for Bart the Daredevil on VHS. |
"The Call of the Simpsons" | 7G09 | |
8 | February 25, 1990 | repeat of 7G02 | "The Telltale Head" | 7G07 | |
9 | March 18, 1990 | no gag (shortened opening) | "Life on the Fast Lane" | 7G11 | |
10 | March 25, 1990 | repeat of 7G03 | "Homer's Night Out" | 7G10 | |
11 | April 15, 1990 | repeat of 7G04 | "The Crepes of Wrath" | 7G13 | |
12 | April 29, 1990 | repeat of 7G06 | "Krusty Gets Busted" | 7G12 | |
13 | May 13, 1990 | repeat of 7G09 | "Some Enchanted Evening" | 7G01 |
Season 2 (1990-1991)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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14 | October 11, 1990 | The family sits down and the couch falls through the floor. Homer shouts "D'oh!" | "Bart Gets an "F"" | 7F03 | |
15 | October 18, 1990 | The Simpsons do an Egyptian dance before jumping on the couch in a "Ta-da" pose. | "Simpson and Delilah" | 7F02 | |
16 | October 25, 1990 | None (shortened Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror" | 7F04 | |
17 | November 1, 1990 | The Simpsons sit, and the couch opens into a bed, flinging the family into the air and landing on it. | "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" | 7F01 | |
18 | November 8, 1990 | Everyone except Maggie sit on the couch. Maggie then peeks out of Marge's hair, sucking happily on her pacifier. | "Dancin' Homer" | 7F05 | |
19 | November 15, 1990 | The Simpsons, along with Snowball ll and Santa's Little Helper, sit on the couch. Bart notices then faces the TV as usual. | "Dead Putting Society" | 7F08 | |
20 | November 22, 1990 | Grampa is asleep on the couch and is startled awake when the family comes in. | "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" | 7F07 | |
21 | December 6, 1990 | Homer tips the couch over on its side with everyone except Maggie, who ends up on a fallen couch cushion. | "Bart the Daredevil" | 7F06 | |
22 | December 20, 1990 | The family comes in and finds the couch missing. | "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" | 7F09 | |
23 | January 10, 1991 | The family gets pushed off the couch by Homer, who gets the couch all to himself while the rest of the family sits on the floor. | "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" | 7F10 | |
24 | January 24, 1991 | The couch falls over backwards, and Maggie peeks from behind. | "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" | 7F11 | |
25 | January 31, 1991 | repeat of 7F03's gag, but without Homer's "D'oh". | "The Way We Was" | 7F12 | |
26 | February 7, 1991 | repeat of 7F02's gag | "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" | 7F13 | |
27 | February 14, 1991 | repeat of 7F01's gag | "Principal Charming" | 7F15 | |
28 | February 21, 1991 | repeat of 7F05's gag | "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" | 7F16 | |
29 | March 7, 1991 | repeat of 7F08's gag | "Bart's Dog Gets an F" | 7F14 | |
30 | March 28, 1991 | repeat of 7F07's gag (Snore sound is added) | "Old Money" | 7F17 | |
31 | April 11, 1991 | repeat of 7F06's gag | "Brush with Greatness" | 7F18 | |
32 | April 25, 1991 | repeat of 7F09's gag | "Lisa's Substitute" | 7F19 | |
33 | May 2, 1991 | repeat of 7F10's gag | 7F20 | ||
34 | May 9, 1991 | repeat of 7F11's gag | "Three Men and a Comic Book" | 7F21 | |
35 | July 11, 1991 | repeat of 7F03's gag, but without Homer's "D'oh". | "Blood Feud" | 7F22 |
Season 3 (1991-1992)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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36 | October 3, 1991 | repeat of 7F02's gag | "When Flanders Failed" | 7F23 | |
37 | September 19, 1991 | The family sits, and the couch tips over backwards and crashes through the wall. The hole in the wall resembles the family's silhouettes. | "Stark Raving Dad" | 7F24 | |
38 | September 26, 1991 | The family sits on the couch, but Homer sits on Santa's Little Helper, whom he pulls out from under him. | "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" | 8F01 | |
39 | October 10, 1991 | The family forms a human pyramid on the couch with Maggie on top. | "Bart the Murderer" | 8F03 | |
40 | October 17, 1991 | A space alien is on the couch with a drink in its hand. Before the family comes in, it opens a trap door in the floor and escapes through it. The family comes in and sits as normal. | "Homer Defined" | 8F04 | |
41 | October 24, 1991 | Everyone except for Bart sits on the couch. Bart comes in moments later and lies stretched out on everyone’s laps. | "Like Father, Like Clown" | 8F05 | |
42 | October 31, 1991 | None (shortened Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror II" | 8F02 | |
43 | November 7, 1991 | Homer lies down on the couch and ends up sat upon by the rest of the family. | "Lisa's Pony" | 8F06 | |
44 | November 14, 1991 | The family sits on the couch and sinks halfway in. | "Saturdays of Thunder" | 8F07 | |
45 | November 21, 1991 | Two burglars are in the process of carrying off the couch. The Simpsons come in and sit, but the burglars throw them off and leave with the couch. | "Flaming Moe's" | 8F08 | |
46 | December 5, 1991 | Santa’s Little Helper is asleep on the couch. When the family comes in, he growls ferociously, and the family backs away slowly. | "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" | 8F09 | |
47 | December 26, 1991 | The family (except Maggie, who hops after failing to do a proper cartwheel) cartwheels to the couch and lands with a "ta-da" pose. | "I Married Marge" | 8F10 | |
48 | January 9, 1992 | The family sits on the couch and end up bouncing over and under each other until they're in completely different places on the couch. | "Radio Bart" | 8F11 | |
49 | January 23, 1992 | repeat of 8F01's gag | "Lisa the Greek" | 8F12 | |
50 | February 6, 1992 | repeat of 8F03's gag | "Homer Alone" | 8F14 | |
51 | February 13, 1992 | repeat of 8F04's gag | "Bart the Lover" | 8F16 | |
52 | February 20, 1992 | The family runs to the couch but knocks themselves unconscious in the process. Maggie, the only one who isn’t knocked out, ends up on the couch. | "Homer at the Bat" | 8F13 | |
53 | February 27, 1992 | repeat of 8F05's gag | "Separate Vocations" | 8F15 | |
54 | March 12, 1992 | repeat of 8F06's gag | "Dog of Death" | 8F17 | |
55 | March 26, 1992 | repeat of 8F07's gag | "Colonel Homer" | 8F19 | |
56 | April 9, 1992 | repeat of 8F08's gag | "Black Widower" | 8F20 | |
57 | April 23, 1992 | repeat of 8F09's gag, but with Santa's Little Helper's Barking. | "The Otto Show" | 8F21 | |
58 | May 7, 1992 | repeat of 7F24's gag | "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" | 8F22 | |
59 | August 27, 1992 | repeat of 8F10's gag | "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" | 8F23 |
Season 4 (1992-1993)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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60 | September 24, 1992 | The Flintstones (Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles) are on the couch. When the Simpsons come in, Fred smiles at Homer and invites him to sit. | "Kamp Krusty" | 8F24 | |
61 |
October 1, 1992 | The family sits on the couch, which transforms into a monster and swallows them all. | "A Streetcar Named Marge" | 8F18 | |
62 | October 8, 1992 | The Simpsons sit on the couch. The wall rotates around, leaving an empty couch from the other side. | "Homer the Heretic" | 9F01 | |
63 | October 15, 1992 | Maggie is already on the couch. Homer, Marge, and Bart run off the edge of the film onto an empty white space and quickly run back. Lisa jumps in at the last minute. | "Lisa the Beauty Queen" | 9F02 | |
64 | October 29, 1992 | The Simpsons are skeletons who rush to the couch and sit as normal. This is based on the promotional poster for "Treehouse of Horror II". | "Treehouse of Horror III" | 9F04 | |
65 | November 3, 1992 | The Simpsons sit on the couch, which deflates like a balloon. | "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" | 9F03 | |
66 | November 5, 1992 | The family’s heads are mismatched. Everyone undoes the mistake by taking back their proper heads, and Maggie takes her pacifier out of Homer’s mouth. | "Marge Gets a Job" | 9F05 | |
67 | November 12, 1992 | repeat of 7F03's gag, but without Homer's "D'oh". | "New Kid on the Block" | 9F06 | |
68 | November 19, 1992 | The couch is replaced by a small wooden chair. The family crowds together on it. | "Mr. Plow" | 9F07 | |
69 | December 3, 1992 | As the standard theme music stops, the family forms a chorus line, joined by a line of Rockette-like women, all high-kicking to a Vegas-like rendition of the main theme melody. The living room walls are lifted to make way for a large production number, featuring hand-standing elephants, magicians, Santa's Little Helper leaping through a ring of fire, and more all set to circus style music. The standard theme music then returns, concluding normally. (This is the first extra-long couch gag, as well as the first to cut into the standard theme with alternate music. This couch gag is also used for edited versions of other episodes from all seasons.) | "Lisa's First Word" | 9F08 | |
70 | December 17, 1992 | The family is shrunken and climbs the "giant" couch. | "Homer's Triple Bypass" | 9F09 | |
71 | January 14, 1993 | The Simpsons sit down, followed by three rows of secondary characters (such as Kent Brockman, Apu, Krusty, Principal Skinner, Marge's mother Jackie, Mr. Burns, Smithers, a black-haired Princess Kashmir, Nelson, Milhouse, Martin, and Mrs. Krabappel) who obstruct the family's view. | "Marge vs. the Monorail" | 9F10 | |
72 | January 21, 1993 | The family is caught in a rope trap set up on the floor. | "Selma's Choice" | 9F11 | |
73 | February 4, 1993 | repeat of 9F01's gag | "Brother from the Same Planet" | 9F12 | |
74 | February 11, 1993 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "I Love Lisa" | 9F13 | |
75 | February 18, 1993 | repeat of 9F02's gag | "Duffless" | 9F14 | |
76 | March 11, 1993 | repeat of 8F18's gag | "Last Exit to Springfield" | 9F15 | |
77 | April 1, 1993 | repeat of 9F05's gag | "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" | 9F17 | |
78 | April 15, 1993 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "The Front" | 9F16 | |
79 | April 29, 1993 | repeat of 9F07's gag | "Whacking Day" | 9F18 | |
80 | May 6, 1993 | repeat of 9F09's gag | "Marge in Chains" | 9F20 | |
81 | May 13, 1993 | repeat of 9F11's gag | "Krusty Gets Kancelled" | 9F19 |
Season 5 (1993-1994)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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82 | September 30, 1993 | A director does three couch gag takes. Take one: The Simpsons run into the living room and shatter like glass when they collide with each other, with Santa's Little Helper walking in to look at the mess on the floor. Take two: The Simpsons run in and coalesce into a multicolored, five-headed blob. Take three: The Simpsons run in and explode on contact, with Maggie's pacifier falling onto the blackened crater. (syndicated reruns use the “take one” couch gag only, and takes two and three are used as individual couch gags in different episodes) | "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" | 9F21 | |
83 | October 7, 1993 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Cape Feare" | 9F22 | |
84 | October 14, 1993 | The Simpsons sit on their couch but get crushed by the cutout foot from the opening sequence of Monty Python's Flying Circus. | "Homer Goes to College" | 1F02 | |
85 | October 21, 1993 | The Simpsons run in and find an identical Simpsons family on the couch. (This one is frequently used as the opening couch gag on syndicated versions of Simpsons episodes from seasons one to five.) | "Rosebud" | 1F01 | |
86 | October 28, 1993 | The Simpsons are zombies who break through the floor and groan as they sit on the couch. | "Treehouse of Horror IV" | 1F04 | |
87 | November 4, 1993 | The family runs in and crashes through the wall, as it turns out the couch and other living room furniture are painted on a backdrop. | "Marge on the Lam" | 1F03 | |
88 | November 11, 1993 | The family runs in and finds an obese man taking up the entire couch. The man tries to give the Simpsons room to sit, but it's a tight fit. | "Bart's Inner Child" | 1F05 | |
89 | November 18, 1993 | The lights are out as five pairs of eyes enter. The lights turn on revealing only eyes, as the eyeless family rushes in and sits down, reconnecting with their eyes. | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" | 1F06 | |
90 | December 9, 1993 | The family sits, then realizes the couch is on the set of the Late Show with David Letterman; next to the couch, Dave spins in his chair to face forward at his desk. | "The Last Temptation of Homer" | 1F07 | |
91 | December 16, 1993 | repeat of the first of 9F21's three gags, but with Santa's Little Helper's panting. | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" | 1F08 | |
92 | January 6, 1994 | repeat of the third of 9F21's three gags | "Homer the Vigilante" | 1F09 | |
93 | February 3, 1994 | repeat of the second of 9F21's three gags | "Bart Gets Famous" | 1F11 | |
94 | February 10, 1994 | Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa poke their heads out from behind the couch, and Maggie pokes out from behind the center cushion. | "Homer and Apu" | 1F10 | |
95 | February 17, 1994 | repeat of 1F02's gag | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" | 1F12 | |
96 | February 24, 1994 | repeat of 1F05's gag | "Deep Space Homer" | 1F13 | |
97 | March 17, 1994 | There are two identical couches in the living room. The Simpsons split themselves down the middle and each half sits on the couches. | "Homer Loves Flanders" | 1F14 | |
98 | March 31, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag | "Bart Gets an Elephant" | 1F15 | |
99 | April 14, 1994 | The Simpsons are balls that bounce onto the couch. Bart almost bounces away, but Homer grabs him and hurls him onto the couch. | "Burns' Heir" | 1F16 | |
100 | April 28, 1994 | The Simpsons sit on the couch just as a translucent Fox screen bug appears in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Homer gets up from the couch, peels it off and stomps on it, with the family joining him before returning to the couch. | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song 100th Episode" | 1F18 | |
101 | May 5, 1994 | repeat of 1F07's gag | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" | 1F19 | |
102 | May 12, 1994 | repeat of the first of 9F21's three gags, but with Santa's Little Helper's panting. | "Lady Bouvier's Lover" | 1F21 | |
103 | May 19, 1994 | repeat of the third of 9F21's three gags | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" | 1F20 |
Season 6 (1994-1995)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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104 | September 4, 1994 | The roles of the family and the couch are reversed; the couch builds itself on the Simpsons, who are sitting in mid-air, crushing them. | "Bart of Darkness" | 1F22 | |
105 | September 11, 1994 | The living room floor is a shallow body of water, and The Simpsons swim their way to the couch. Once on the couch, Bart removes his scuba mask and Homer dries out his ear by sticking his finger in it. | "Lisa's Rival" | 1F17 | |
106 | September 25, 1994 | repeat of 1F02's gag | "Another Simpsons Clip Show" | 2F33 | |
107 | October 2, 1994 | The family is beamed onto the couch Star Trek-style. | "Itchy & Scratchy Land" | 2F01 | |
108 | October 9, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag (first airing)/no gag (repeats) | "Sideshow Bob Roberts" | 2F02 | |
109 | October 30, 1994 | The Simpson family members are built à la Frankenstein’s monster with each other’s body parts. They exchange body parts until they nearly match. | "Treehouse of Horror V" | 2F03 | |
110 | November 6, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag | "Bart's Girlfriend" | 2F04 | |
111 | November 13, 1994 | The Simpsons sit on the couch and get shot into the ceiling, with only their legs and feet showing. | "Lisa on Ice" | 2F05 | |
112 | November 27, 1994 | In a loose parody of the film Time Bandits, the family chases after the couch and the back wall as it slides down an endless hallway. | "Homer Badman" | 2F06 | |
113 | December 4, 1994 | The family runs in from the side past a repeating background shot of the couch and TV (a parody of how 1950s and 60s cartoons repeated backgrounds in order to save money.) | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" | 2F07 | |
114 | December 18, 1994 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Fear of Flying" | 2F08 | |
115 | January 8, 1995 | The living room is at the center of an M.C. Escher Relativity-style environment with multiple staircases and conflicting perspectives; the family enters from various directions (and dimensions) and sits. | "Homer the Great" | 2F09 | |
116 | January 22, 1995 | The living room is seen through the barrel of a gun with music typically heard in a James Bond film playing. Homer walks in and fires at the unseen gunman, and the screen “bleeds” red and falls. | "And Maggie Makes Three" | 2F10 | |
117 | February 5, 1995 | The living room is shown in black and white. The Simpsons, animated as smiling, rubber-hosed cartoon characters, come in and do a stiff dance. | "Bart's Comet" | 2F11 | |
118 | February 12, 1995 | repeat of 1F22's gag | "Homie the Clown" | 2F12 | |
119 | February 19, 1995 | repeat of 1F17's gag | "Bart vs. Australia" | 2F13 | |
120 | February 26, 1995 | repeat of 2F01's gag (except The Simpsons now appear on the couch in a burst of whitish-blue light much like the show Quantum Leap) | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" | 2F14 | |
121 | March 5, 1995 | The family's sizes are reversed; Maggie is now the largest while Homer is the smallest, except Bart's height is still the same. | "A Star is Burns" | 2F31 | |
122 | March 19, 1995 | repeat of 2F05's gag (sproing sound is added) | "Lisa's Wedding" | 2F15 | |
123 | April 9, 1995 | repeat of 2F06's gag | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" | 2F18 | |
124 | April 16, 1995 | repeat of 2F09's gag | "The PTA Disbands" | 2F19 | |
125 | April 30, 1995 | repeat of 2F31's gag | "'Round Springfield" | 2F32 | |
126 | May 7, 1995 | repeat of 2F10's gag | "The Springfield Connection" | 2F21 | |
127 | May 14, 1995 | repeat of 2F11's gag | "Lemon of Troy" | 2F22 | |
128 | May 21, 1995 | repeat of 2F07's gag, but with running sound | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" | 2F16 |
Season 7 (1995-1996)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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129 | September 17, 1995 | The theme from Dragnet plays as the couch slides away and a police lineup height chart unfurls from above. The family lines up in front of it. | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" | 2F20 | |
130 | September 24, 1995 | Like a fax machine, the couch ejects a sheet of paper with a screenshot of the family, which then floats up into the air, before sliding beneath the couch. | "Radioactive Man" | 2F17 | |
131 | October 1, 1995 | Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa (who’s sleeping), Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a Brady Bunch-style nine-square grid, with the couch in the center square. Everyone except Grampa runs to the center square. | "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" | 3F01 | |
132 | October 8, 1995 | The family drives around the room in go-karts, wearing Shriner fezzes. They line up in front of the couch and honk their horns simultaneously. | "Bart Sells His Soul" | 3F02 | |
133 | October 15, 1995 | The Simpsons are colorless blobs, and mechanical arms color and detail the family. | "Lisa the Vegetarian" | 3F03 | |
134 | October 29, 1995 | The family is hung from nooses, staring blankly. Despite being dead from asphyxiation, Maggie manages to suck on her pacifier. | "Treehouse of Horror VI" | 3F04 | |
135 | November 5, 1995 | The Simpsons are five malfunctioning wind-up dolls who buzz and waddle their way to the couch (or at least near it). | "King-Size Homer" | 3F05 | |
136 | November 19, 1995 | A bowling pin clearing bar scares Snowball II off the couch, then a pinsetter places the family on the couch like bowling pins. | "Mother Simpson" | 3F06 | |
137 | November 26, 1995 | The whole room is underwater, the couch is made of clam shells, and a treasure chest is in place of the TV. Sea monkey versions of the family swim in and sit on the clam couch. | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" | 3F08 | |
138 | December 3, 1995 | A montage of couch gags from 8F18, 9F02, 9F10, 9F09, 8F09, 1F02, 2F31, 2F09, 2F06, 1F17, 2F11, and 9F08. | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" | 3F31 | |
139 | December 17, 1995 |
The family sits on the couch. Homer notices a plug in the middle of the floor and pulls it, and everyone and everything gets sucked down the drain. NOTE: Unlike the other couch gags, the floor is brown in this one. It is unknown if this is a production error. The sailboat picture's frame is also blue, and the telephone on the cabinet is missing. |
"Marge Be Not Proud" | 3F07 | |
140 | January 7, 1996 | The family sits, and the camera then zooms in through a mouse hole, where a family of mice with similar features to the Simpson family rush to their couch and sit as well. | "Team Homer" | 3F10 | |
141 | January 14, 1996 | Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are mounted heads on the wall and Homer is a bearskin rug on the floor. A game hunter comes in, sits on the couch, and smokes a pipe. | "Two Bad Neighbors" | 3F09 | |
142 | February 4, 1996 | The living room is bathed in black light, with the Simpsons in fluorescent colors while a hard rock guitar riff plays. Homer turns the light on and the normal music plays. | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" | 3F11 | |
143 | February 11, 1996 | repeat of 2F17's gag (but this time, the paper doesn't slide back under the couch) | "Bart the Fink" | 3F12 | |
144 | February 18, 1996 | repeat of 3F01's gag | "Lisa the Iconoclast" | 3F13 | |
145 | February 25, 1996 | repeat of 3F02's gag | "Homer the Smithers" | 3F14 | |
146 | March 17, 1996 | repeat of 3F03's gag | "The Day the Violence Died" | 3F16 | |
147 | March 24, 1996 | repeat of 3F05's gag | "A Fish Called Selma" | 3F15 | |
148 | March 31, 1996 | repeat of 3F06's gag (all airings) / repeat of 9F08 for edited versions | "Bart on the Road" | 3F17 | |
149 | April 14, 1996 | repeat of 3F08's gag | "22 Short Films About Springfield" | 3F18 | |
150 | April 28, 1996 | repeat of 3F07's gag | "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" | 3F19 | |
151 | May 5, 1996 | repeat of 3F09's gag | "Much Apu About Nothing" | 3F20 | |
152 | May 19, 1996 | repeat of 3F11's gag | "Homerpalooza" | 3F21 | |
153 | May 19, 1996 | repeat of 2F17's gag | "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" | 3F22 |
Season 8 (1996-1997)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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154 | October 27, 1996 | The Grim Reaper is on the couch. The family runs in, but they all fall over and die one by one. The Reaper then puts his feet up on their corpses. | "Treehouse of Horror VII" | 4F02 | |
155 | November 3, 1996 | Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie deploy parachutes as they fall from the sky onto the couch. Homer comes down screaming and lands on his face from an unopened parachute pack. | "You Only Move Twice" | 3F23 | |
156 | November 10, 1996 | The couch sits in the middle of a desert; the family, in western cowboy garb, sits on the couch, which gallops off into the sunset. | "The Homer They Fall" | 4F03 | |
157 | November 17, 1996 | Clear blue bubble versions of the family float into the room, land on the couch, and pop. | "Burns, Baby Burns" | 4F05 | |
158 | November 24, 1996 | The whole scene is a Simpsons rendition of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album, featuring a large crowd of regulars, several objects associated with the show, wax statues of the Simpsons as they were on The Tracey Ullman Show. The last chord to the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" plays instead of the traditional Simpsons music as the family comes in, standing front and center and dressed in Sgt. Pepper regalia. Homer looks around and turns to look at the crowded scene behind him. | "Bart After Dark" | 4F06 | |
159 | December 1, 1996 | The family sits down, but now Bart is green. Homer fiddles with the TV antenna and Bart changes to red. Homer then returns to the couch, and smacks Bart in the back of the head in order to return him to his normal color (yellow). | "A Milhouse Divided" | 4F04 | |
160 | December 15, 1996 | Everybody and everything is upside-down. The Simpsons (also upside-down) come in and sit on the couch, but end up falling on the ceiling/floor. | "Lisa's Date with Density" | 4F01 | |
161 | December 29, 1996 | The couch is replaced with a coin slot and the words "Vend-A-Couch" written on the wall. Homer puts a coin in; nothing happens. Homer pounds on the wall four times before the couch falls on him. | "Hurricane Neddy" | 4F07 | |
162 | January 5, 1997 | repeat of 3F23's gag | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" | 3F24 | |
163 | January 12, 1997 | The family flies into the room wearing jetpacks. Maggie spirals in last, landing in Marge's lap. | "The Springfield Files" | 3G01 | |
164 | January 19, 1997 | The couch is a giant Whack-A-Mole game, with the Simpson family as the moles. The clown hallucination music from "Homie the Clown" plays as an unseen player tries to hit one of the Simpson moles and successfully gets Homer. | "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" | 4F08 | |
165 | February 2, 1997 | The couch is folded out into a bed with Grampa sleeping on it. The Simpsons fold the couch in (with Grampa shouting "Huh?" before he's folded in) and sit. | "Mountain of Madness" | 4F10 | |
166 | February 7, 1997 | The living room is empty. However, the Simpsons are locked outside, where Homer is struggling with the locked front door while the rest of the family waits impatiently. | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpialadohcious" | 3G03 | |
167 | February 9, 1997 |
repeat of 4F06's gag |
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" | 4F12 | |
168 | February 16, 1997 | The living room is in an "America Onlink" window on a computer screen. An unseen computer user tries to download the family, but the download shows no signs of progress after a few seconds and the user tries to exit the window (which also doesn’t work). | "Homer's Phobia" | 4F11 | |
169 | February 23, 1997 | repeat of 4F01's gag | "Brother from Another Series" | 4F14 | |
170 | March 2, 1997 | The couch is on the deck of a ship at sea in rough waters, sliding back and forth with the ship. The family, dressed in rain gear, sits on the couch, before an enormous wave washes them away. The TV surfaces moments later. | "My Sister, My Sitter" | 4F13 | |
171 | March 16, 1997 | repeat of 4F03's gag | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" | 4F15 | |
172 | April 6, 1997 | repeat of 4F05's gag | "Grade School Confidential" | 4F09 | |
173 | April 13, 1997 | repeat of 4F10's gag | "The Canine Mutiny" | 4F16 | |
174 | April 20, 1997 | repeat of 4F08's gag (only now, the sounds of the mallet hitting the family members is more aggressive.) | "The Old Man and the Lisa" | 4F17 | |
175 | April 27, 1997 | repeat of 4F07's gag | "In Marge We Trust" | 4F18 | |
176 | May 4, 1997 | repeat of 4F04's gag | "Homer's Enemy" | 4F19 | |
177 | May 11, 1997 | no gag (special opening) | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" | 4F20 | |
178 | May 18, 1997 | repeat of 4F01's gag | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" | 4F21 |
Season 9 (1997-1998)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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179 | September 21, 1997 | The family comes in dressed as the Harlem Globetrotters, passing a basketball to each other while "Sweet Georgia Brown" plays. Maggie dunks the ball into the basket above the couch, hitting Homer on the head. | "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" | 4F22 | |
180 | September 28, 1997 | The Simpsons are dressed as astronauts and sit on the couch just as it blasts off into space. | "The Principal and the Pauper" | 4F23 | |
181 | October 19, 1997 | Homer runs in alone and stands in front of the couch. The top half of him pops off and on to the couch, revealing a smaller Marge standing inside the lower half of Homer, like a Russian nesting doll. The top half of Marge pops off revealing Bart, whose top half pops off revealing Lisa, whose top half finally pops off to reveal Maggie, who stays in the middle of Homer’s body, and sucks on her pacifier. | "Lisa's Sax" | 3G02 | |
182 | October 26, 1997 | The Simpsons sit on the couch. Metal shackles restrain their wrists and ankles and a metal cap comes down on all of their heads. The family writhes in pain as they get electrocuted. | "Treehouse of Horror VIII" | 5F02 | |
183 | November 2, 1997 | The couch is a trough filled with water. The Simpsons, on fire, rush to the trough and sit to extinguish the fire. They all sigh in relief as steam billows out. | "The Cartridge Family" | 5F01 | |
184 | November 9, 1997 | The family sits. An auto-crusher compresses them all into a rectangular block. | "Bart Star" | 5F03 | |
185 | November 16, 1997 | Bart runs in and spray-paints the family onto the couch, tagging it with an "El Barto" signature, and runs off. | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" | 5F04 | |
186 | November 23, 1997 | The living room is a sauna, with three men in towels relaxing. The Simpsons (also in towels) arrive, but leave sheepishly as the three men glare at them. | "Lisa the Skeptic" | 5F05 | |
187 | December 7, 1997 | The family sits, and Matt Groening's live action hand spins the screenshot around, smearing the shot's paint. | "Realty Bites" | 5F06 | |
188 | December 21, 1997 | The Simpsons sit on the couch as normal. The camera zooms out and reveals that the living room is part of a snow globe that two hands shake to make the snow fall. (Christmas episode for this first usage) | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" | 5F07 | |
189 | January 4, 1998 | The floor is a treadmill. Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie run in place for a few seconds, then successfully dismount, while Homer gets stuck on it yelling, "Marge, stop this crazy thing!" a la George Jetson in the closing credits of The Jetsons. | "All Singing, All Dancing" | 5F24 | |
190 | January 11, 1998 | The Simpsons go to sit on the couch, but fall when the couch gets pulled back. Nelson Muntz comes from behind the couch and laughs. | "Bart Carny" | 5F08 | |
191 | February 8, 1998 | Similar to the couch gag on "Homer's Triple Bypass", the Simpsons are minimized and are trying to get on the giant couch. Unlike the couch gag to "Homer's Triple Bypass", The Simpsons take a little longer to climb onto the couch and, once they reach the top, Santa's Little Helper grabs Homer and carries him away in his mouth. | "The Joy of Sect" | 5F23 | |
192 | February 15, 1998 | The Simpsons are frogs (with Maggie as a tadpole) jumping to a lily pad "couch". Homer turns on the TV with his tongue. (according to the Season 9 DVD commentary, Dan Castellaneta's niece came up with the idea for this couch gag) | "Das Bus" | 5F11 | |
193 | February 22, 1998 | repeat of 5F01's gag | "The Last Temptation of Krust" | 5F10 | |
194 | March 1, 1998 | repeat of 5F03's gag | "Dumbbell Indemnity" | 5F12 | |
195 | March 8, 1998 | A vine grows in the middle of the living room and sprouts into a tree bearing Simpsons family versions of various fruits and vegetables: Bart is a strawberry, Homer is a squash, Marge is an asparagus, Maggie is broccoli, and Lisa is a pineapple. | "Lisa the Simpson" | 4F24 | |
196 | March 22, 1998 | repeat of 5F04's gag (but this time, Bart peeks from around the TV first to make sure the coast is clear) | "This Little Wiggy" | 5F13 | |
197 | March 29, 1998 | In a parody of the Rocky & Bullwinkle bumpers, The Simpsons fall off a cliff during a lightning storm as the Rocky & Bullwinkle theme plays throughout. Their eyes are shown floating towards the heavens. The scene then cuts to The Simpsons sprouting from the ground amidst a garden of flowers. Bart spits up a clod of dirt. | "Simpson Tide" | 3G04 | |
198 | April 5, 1998 | repeat of 5F05's gag | "The Trouble with Trillions" | 5F14 | |
199 | April 19, 1998 | repeat of 5F06's gag | "Girly Edition" | 5F15 | |
200 | April 26, 1998 | The Simpson family finds themselves in Mrs. Krabappel's classroom, where Bart is writing the blackboard punishment phrase "I will not mess with the opening credits", making a chalkboard gag within a couch gag. | "Trash of the Titans 200th Episode" | 5F09 | |
201 | May 3, 1998 | repeat of 5F07's gag | "King of the Hill" | 5F16 | |
202 | May 10, 1998 | repeat of 5F08's gag | "Lost Our Lisa" | 5F17 | |
203 | May 17, 1998 | repeat of 5F11's gag | "Natural Born Kissers" | 5F18 |
Season 10 (1998-1999)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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204 | August 23, 1998 | repeat of 5F08's gag | "Lard of the Dance" | 5F20 | |
205 | September 20, 1998 | Similar to "Marge vs. the Monorail", the living room is filled with supporting characters from the show. Unlike "Marge vs. the Monorail", however, the living room is now a movie theater and the Simpsons are shuffling their way through to find a seat. After they sit down, Homer leans in and eats from the Comic Book Guy's popcorn tub. | "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" | 5F21 | |
206 | September 27, 1998 | Two firemen hold the couch like a safety net. Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie land safely on the couch. Homer, however, falls screaming through the floor. | "Bart the Mother" | 5F22 | |
207 | October 25, 1998 | The family never makes it to the couch; Bart falls off of his skateboard, Lisa gets catapulted into the garage roof, and Homer gets run down by Marge (with Maggie next to her as they honk horns) as she drives into the garage. Meanwhile, in the living room, Freddy Krueger (of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies) and Jason Voorhees (of the Friday the 13th movies) sit on the couch. Freddy says, "I don't get it. They should be here by now," and Jason replies, "Eh, what are you gonna do?" and they resume watching TV. | "Treehouse of Horror IX" | AABF01 | |
208 | November 8, 1998 | Marge enters with a laundry basket, humming as she hangs wet sheet versions of Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie on a clothesline. | "When You Dish Upon a Star" | 5F19 | |
209 | November 15, 1998 | The family sits. A safety bar lowers over their laps and the couch zooms around the room like a roller coaster car. | "D'oh-in' in the Wind" | AABF02 | |
210 | November 22, 1998 | The family sits. Salon-style hair dryers descend onto their heads and lift up, revealing the family members with swapped hairdos. Homer has Maggie's spikes, Marge has Bart's spikes, Bart has Lisa's spikes, Lisa has Homer's "combover", and Maggie has Marge's big, blue bouffant (the weight of which causes Maggie to fall off the couch). | "Lisa Gets an "A"" | AABF03 | |
211 | December 6, 1998 | repeat of 5F11's gag | "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" | AABF04 | |
212 | December 20, 1998 | repeat of 5F03's gag | "Mayored to the Mob" | AABF05 | |
213 | January 10, 1999 | repeat of 5F06's gag | "Viva Ned Flanders" | AABF06 | |
214 | January 17, 1999 | In a parody of the famous scene in Dr. Strangelove where Slim Pickens’s character rides the bomb, the Simpsons (wearing tan cowboy hats) straddle the couch, which sprouts a point on its back (pushing away the side table) and is dropped from a trap door in the floor. The Simpsons scream “Yahoo!” as they plummet into oblivion. | "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" | AABF07 | |
215 | January 31, 1999 | The living room is in shallow water and the Simpsons sit on the couch. When an iceberg floats by, the couch sinks vertically like the RMS Titanic and the family clings to dear life as it goes under. Maggie resurfaces on a couch cushion moments later with the remote control in hand. | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" | AABF08 | |
216 | February 7, 1999 | repeat of 5F19's gag | "Homer to the Max" | AABF09 | |
217 | February 14, 1999 | repeat of AABF03's gag | "I'm with Cupid" | AABF11 | |
218 | February 21, 1999 | repeat of AABF02's gag | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" | AABF10 | |
219 | February 28, 1999 | repeat of 5F22's gag | "Make Room for Lisa" | AABF12 | |
220 | March 28, 1999 | Marge and Homer are depicted as children while Bart and Lisa are depicted as adults (and Maggie is a baby doll in Homer’s arms). Homer reaches for the remote control, but Lisa slaps it away from him. | "Maximum Homerdrive" | AABF13 | |
221 | April 4, 1999 | The family slips on banana peels on the floor, flipping upside-down in the air, but all land safely on the couch. | "Simpsons Bible Stories" | AABF14 | |
222 | April 11, 1999 | repeat of AABF07's gag | "Mom and Pop Art" | AABF15 | |
223 | April 25, 1999 | repeat of 5F21's gag | "The Old Man and the "C" Student" | AABF16 | |
224 | May 2, 1999 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" | AABF17 | |
225 | May 9, 1999 | repeat of AABF08's gag | "They Saved Lisa's Brain" | AABF18 | |
226 | May 16, 1999 | The Simpsons sit on the couch, but get sucked inside and come out looking like a shredded piece of paper. | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" | AABF20 |
Season 11 (1999-2000)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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227 | September 26, 1999 | The Simpsons (as they are currently drawn) run in and find their crudely-drawn counterparts from The Tracey Ullman Show. Both families look at each other and run screaming out of the room. | "Beyond Blunderdome" | AABF23 | |
228 | October 3, 1999 | The family comes in, colorless and marked with numbers. A group of Korean painters come in to color the family, but forget to outline the eyes on Homer and Marge. | "Brother's Little Helper" | AABF22 | |
229 | October 24, 1999 | The family comes in. Marge notices Matt Groening's signature at the bottom of the screen and wipes it off. A caricature of Matt Groening (complete with graying beard, glasses, and a tacky orange and yellow Hawaiian shirt) comes in and resigns the scene. | "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" | AABF21 | |
230 | October 31, 1999 | The family members (mostly) appear as they have in previous Halloween episodes: Homer is a jack-in-the-box (from II), Bart is a mutant fly (from VIII), Marge is a witch (also from VIII), and Maggie is an alien (from IX); Lisa, an ax murder victim (the only one not based on a previous episode), comments on the lackluster Halloween special hosted by Kang and Kodos ("What do aliens have to do with Halloween?"). Maggie yells, "Silence!" (in Shaggy's voice) and blasts Lisa with her ray-gun. | "Treehouse of Horror X" | BABF01 | |
231 | November 7, 1999 | The living room is set up like a trendy nightclub (complete with a disco ball, a velvet rope, three 20-something club hoppers, and a bouncer). The bouncer lets Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie in, but sends Homer away. | "E-I-E-I-D'oh" | AABF19 | |
232 | November 14, 1999 | A cement truck pours out concrete statues of the Simpson family. The top half of Homer’s statue quickly breaks off and falls to the floor. | "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" | BABF02 | |
233 | November 21, 1999 | The Simpsons sit on the couch and the wall spins around as seen in "Homer the Heretic". Instead of an empty couch, however, a Vincent Price-esque mad scientist and a shackled and scared Ned Flanders are on the other side of the wall. | "Eight Misbehavin'" | BABF03 | |
234 | November 28, 1999 | repeat of AABF20's gag | "Take My Wife, Sleaze" | BABF05 | |
235 | December 19, 1999 | Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie slide down a fire pole that's next to the couch. Homer, however, gets stuck in the hole and flails about helplessly, and says, "Get me down!" | "Grift of the Magi" | BABF07 | |
236 | January 9, 2000 | A crash test dummy version of the family sits. The couch slides forward and slams into the TV (simulating a car crash test), then pulls back into place. Crash test dummy Homer's head falls off from the trauma. | "Little Big Mom" | BABF04 | |
237 | January 16, 2000 | Sigmund Freud is seen sitting in a chair next to the couch. Homer hops on the couch and yells, "Oh, doctor, I'm crazy!", then sobs hilariously as everyone else stares sadly at each other. | "Faith Off" | BABF06 | |
238 | January 23, 2000 | repeat of AABF13's gag | "The Mansion Family" | BABF08 | |
239 | February 6, 2000 | The family leaps into the room, all dressed in white karate uniforms and black belts. They chop the couch to pieces while Homer does a spinning kick and clicks on the TV with the remote. | "Saddlesore Galactica" | BABF09 | |
240 | February 13, 2000 | Everyone (save Maggie, who's with Marge) comes in on bumper cars and slams Homer into the wall repeatedly. | "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" | BABF10 | |
241 | February 20, 2000 | The couch is sitting in the Evergreen Terrace Subway Station. The family (seated on a bench) gets on the next train that arrives on the track and leaves. | "Missionary: Impossible" | BABF11 | |
242 | February 27, 2000 | repeat of AABF21's gag | "Pygmoelian" | BABF12 | |
243 | March 19, 2000 | repeat of AABF19's gag | "Bart to the Future" | BABF13 | |
244 | April 9, 2000 | repeat of AABF23's gag but with Shaggy's scream sound is added | "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" | BABF14 | |
245 | April 30, 2000 | The Simpsons (except Maggie, who is in Marge's arms) are barefoot and briskly walking across a bed of hot coals. When the family sits on the couch, they prop their feet up, revealing their black and smoldering soles. | "Kill the Alligator and Run" | BABF16 | |
246 | May 7, 2000 | Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie (dressed in jungle loincloths) swing into the room on a vine gracefully like Tarzan. Homer, however, swings by, and crashes offscreen like George of the Jungle. | "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" | BABF15 | |
247 | May 14, 2000 | repeat of AABF22's gag | "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" | BABF18 | |
248 | May 21, 2000 | The family sits down. Bart puts a coin in the "Magic Fingers" slot on his side of the couch. The couch vibrates away, taking the family with it. | "Behind the Laughter" | BABF19 |
Season 12 (2000-2001)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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249 | November 1, 2000 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XI" | BABF21 | |
250 | November 5, 2000 | Bart puts a whoopee cushion under Homer's spot. When the family sits down, Homer sits on it and triggers its farting sound. Homer grins sheepishly at Marge, Lisa, and Maggie (who are frowning) while Bart laughs. | "A Tale of Two Springfields" | BABF20 | |
251 | November 12, 2000 | The shot opens on the TV rather than the couch. The family runs in and freezes in mid-air, and the camera pans around them in Matrix-style bullet-time. When the camera is angled on the couch, time resumes normally, and they sit down without further incident. | "Insane Clown Poppy" | BABF17 | |
252 | November 19, 2000 | Maggie is on the couch. The rest of the Simpsons waddle in dressed as Teletubbies and Maggie applauds with delight. | "Lisa the Tree Hugger" | CABF01 | |
253 | November 26, 2000 | A skating ramp is set up next to the couch. Marge (with Maggie in hand), Bart, and Lisa successfully do skateboard tricks off the ramp and onto the couch. Homer, however, falls off the ramp and, adding injury to insult, gets hit on the head with his own skateboard. | "Homer vs. Dignity" | CABF04 | |
254 | December 3, 2000 | Santa’s Little Helper dances on his hind legs like Snoopy on A Charlie Brown Christmas while a Peanuts-esque piano riff plays. When the family comes in, Santa’s Little Helper slowly stops dancing, sits on his hind legs, and barks. | "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" | CABF02 | |
255 | December 10, 2000 | The Simpsons swim to the couch in deep-sea diving gear. The camera zooms out to reveal that the living room is in a fish bowl. | "The Great Money Caper" | CABF03 | |
256 | December 17, 2000 | A football is thrown in the center of the living room. The Simpsons, dressed as football players, tackle each other for the ball. Maggie squirms out with the ball in hand, spikes it, and does a victory dance. | "Skinner's Sense of Snow" | CABF06 | |
257 | January 7, 2001 | The Simpsons are placed on the couch by the transport tubes used on Futurama. A yellow-skinned Philip J. Fry is in on the couch for a split second before he’s sucked up and replaced by Bart. | "HOMЯ" | BABF22 | |
258 | January 14, 2001 | repeat of BABF03's gag | "Pokey Mom" | CABF05 | |
259 | February 4, 2001 | The couch is replaced by a valet parking spot. The Squeaky-Voiced Teen pushes a couch in place for the Simpsons to sit down. He then holds his hand out for a tip and leaves angrily when he doesn’t get it. | "Worst Episode Ever" | CABF08 | |
260 | February 11, 2001 | The living room floor is frozen over. The Simpsons ice skate to the couch. When Homer sits down, his side of the couch falls through. (First couch gag to be digitally animated) | "Tennis the Menace" | CABF07 | |
261 | February 18, 2001 | repeat of BABF06's gag | "Day of the Jackanapes" | CABF10 | |
262 | February 25, 2001 | The couch is outside a prison wall. A siren wails and a searchlight moves as the Simpsons (dressed in striped prison jumpsuits) tunnel their way to the couch. | "New Kids on the Blecch" | CABF12 | |
263 | March 4, 2001 | repeat of BABF09's gag | "Hungry, Hungry Homer" | CABF09 | |
264 | March 11, 2001 | repeat of BABF10's gag | "Bye Bye Nerdie" | CABF11 | |
265 | April 1, 2001 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Simpson Safari" | CABF13 | |
266 | April 29, 2001 | repeat of CABF04's gag | "Trilogy of Error" | CABF14 | |
267 | May 6, 2001 | repeat of BABF02's gag | "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" | CABF15 | |
268 | May 13, 2001 | repeat of BABF04's gag | "Children of a Lesser Clod" | CABF16 | |
269 | May 20, 2001 | repeat of BABF11's gag | "Simpsons Tall Tales" | CABF17 |
Season 13 (2001-2002)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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270 | November 4, 2001 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XII" | CABF19 | |
271 | November 11, 2001 | The Simpsons are in the simplistically drawn sailboat painting located behind the couch. They jump out of the painting by going in the "water". The living room is wet from the splash and Homer uses his finger to clean his ear out while clicking on the TV with the remote. | "The Parent Rap" | CABF22 | |
272 | November 18, 2001 | repeat of CABF06's gag | "Homer the Moe" | CABF20 | |
273 | December 2, 2001 | repeat of CABF12's gag | "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" | CABF18 | |
274 | December 9, 2001 | repeat of BABF17's gag | "The Blunder Years" | CABF21 | |
275 | December 16, 2001 | The couch is a slot machine that shows Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa in the tumbler windows. Maggie, however, is replaced by lucky number "7" as a pile of gold coins spill out. | "She of Little Faith" | DABF02 | |
276 | January 6, 2002 | The couch is replaced by a hedge. A gardener comes in and creates a topiary of the Simpsons. | "Brawl in the Family" | DABF01 | |
277 | January 20, 2002 | The Simpsons sit on the couch as normal. A crane game clamp comes down and picks up Homer, who screams, “Ow! My brain!” as he's being pulled out of frame. (Some later airings have Homer screaming in pain) | "Sweets and Sour Marge" | DABF03 | |
278 | January 27, 2002 | Homer, dressed as Charlie Chaplin's "The Tramp" character, waddles in, twitches his nose, and sits down. The other family members, dressed as other archetypical silent film characters, join Homer. | "Jaws Wired Shut" | DABF05 | |
279 | February 10, 2002 | The family arrives to find two repo men carrying the couch away. As Homer cries over this, a confused Marge looks at Homer, while the kids watch TV. | "Half-Decent Proposal" | DABF04 | |
280 | February 17, 2002 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "The Bart Wants What It Wants" | DABF06 | |
281 | February 24, 2002 | The family catches the Squeaky Voice Teen making out with his girlfriend on the couch. | "The Lastest Gun in the West" | DABF07 | |
282 | March 10, 2002 | The family runs in to find the Blue Man Group performing on drums in front of the couch. Homer murmurs, "What the-?!" (in reruns and repeats of this couch gag in other episodes, The Blue Man Group plays more aggressively and Homer's "What the--?!" is muted out) | "The Old Man and the Key" | DABF09 | |
283 | March 17, 2002 | Drawn in pencil, the family sits in a flipbook flipped by live-action hands (possibly Matt Groening's). | "Tales from the Public Domain" | DABF08 | |
284 | March 31, 2002 | The family are marionettes who get caught in each other's strings. The camera pans up to reveal Matt Groening as the puppet master, who throws the puppets down and sighs in frustration. | "Blame It on Lisa" | DABF10 | |
285 | April 7, 2002 | repeat of DABF01's gag | "Weekend at Burnsie's" | DABF11 | |
286 | April 21, 2002 | repeat of DABF02's gag | "Gump Roast" | DABF12 | |
287 | April 28, 2002 | repeat of DABF03's gag | "I Am Furious (Yellow)" | DABF13 | |
288 | May 5, 2002 | repeat of DABF04's gag | "The Sweetest Apu" | DABF14 | |
289 | May 12, 2002 | repeat of DABF07's gag | "Little Girl in the Big Ten" | DABF15 | |
312 | May 19, 2003 | repeat of DABF05's gag | "The Frying Game" | DABF16 | |
313 | May 22, 2003 | repeat of DABF09's gag (but with different audio; the group plays more loudly/aggressively and Homer stays silent.) | "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" | DABF17 |
Season 14 (2002-2003)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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290 | November 3, 2002 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XIII" | DABF19 | |
291 | November 10, 2002 | Homer is on water skis, with the others on him, as he ski-jumps over sharks; everybody lands on the couch, but Homer is without his legs, which are in the sharks' mouths. Homer doesn't notice (a reference to the term "jumped the shark", describing a TV show that has reached its peak and is now declining in quality or has done something to cause it to decline prematurely). | "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" | DABF22 | |
292 | November 17, 2002 | Spoofing the Get Smart opening, Homer walks through a series of futuristic doors, falls through the bottom of a phone booth, and lands on the couch, where the others are already sitting. | "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" | DABF20 | |
293 | November 24, 2002 | The couch is drawn on a Sketch A Etch, and Homer says, "Woo-hoo!" when the drawing is completed. | "Large Marge" | DABF18 | |
294 | December 1, 2002 | In a parody of the Macintosh paint program Kid Pix, a mouse cursor drags Homer from the left side of the couch to the right, changes the wall color to green, and replaces the boat painting with the Mona Lisa. (Final couch gag to be traditionally animated) | "Helter Shelter" | DABF21 | |
295 | December 15, 2002 |
The family sits on the couch. Homer clicks on the remote control and sends the family to the Stone Age, clicks it again to send them to the Roman Empire, where they watch a gladiator match, and clicks it a final time to return them to the present. |
"The Great Louse Detective" | EABF01 | |
296 | January 5, 2003 | The Simpsons are deep-fried in a fast-food deep fryer, then emptied onto the couch and salted. | "Special Edna" | EABF02 | |
297 | January 12, 2003 | In black and white, the Simpsons are wearing early 20th-century clothing and are watching the TV from a girder at a construction site. (Done in the style of Charles C. Ebbets' photograph "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper".) | "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" | EABF03 | |
298 | February 2, 2003 | The Simpsons stick their heads through a cutout of the couch and have their pictures taken. | "The Strong Arms of the Ma" | EABF04 | |
299 | February 9, 2003 | A giant baby picks up doll versions of the Simpson family and plays with them. | "Pray Anything" | EABF06 | |
300 | February 16, 2003 | The Simpsons and their living room are all made out of gingerbread; Homer takes a bite out of Bart's head. | "Barting Over 300th Episode" | EABF05 | |
301 | February 16, 2003 | repeat of DABF18's gag | "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can 301st Episode" | EABF07 | |
302 | March 2, 2003 | repeat of DABF10's gag | "A Star Is Born-Again" | EABF08 | |
303 | March 9, 2003 | repeat of EABF01's gag | "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" | EABF09 | |
304 | March 16, 2003 | repeat of DABF08's gag | "C.E. D'oh" | EABF10 | |
305 | March 30, 2003 | repeat of DABF22's gag | "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" | EABF11 | |
306 | April 13, 2003 | repeat of EABF02's gag | "Three Gays of the Condo" | EABF12 | |
307 | April 27, 2003 | The Simpsons are mimes, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existent couch, as if a couch was there. | "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" | EABF13 | |
308 | May 4, 2003 | repeat of EABF03's gag | "Old Yeller-Belly" | EABF14 | |
309 | May 11, 2003 | repeat of EABF04's gag | "Brake My Wife, Please" | EABF15 | |
310 | May 18, 2003 | repeat of EABF06's gag | "The Bart of War" | EABF16 | |
311 | May 18, 2003 | repeat of EABF05's gag | "Moe Baby Blues" | EABF17 |
Season 15 (2003-2004)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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314 | November 2, 2003 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XIV" | EABF21 | |
315 | November 9, 2003 | The family runs to the couch, only to shrivel to piles of dust. | "My Mother the Carjacker" | EABF18 | |
316 | November 16, 2003 | A Polaroid photo ejects onto the couch, and it develops into a photo of the family. | "The President Wore Pearls" | EABF20 | |
317 | November 23, 2003 | A Play-Doh press on the back wall presses Play-Doh versions of the Simpsons out onto the couch. | "The Regina Monologues" | EABF22 | |
318 | November 30, 2003 | repeat of DABF20's gag | "The Fat and the Furriest" | EABF19 | |
319 | December 7, 2003 | The Simpson family goes down on assigned ramps and lands on the couch on a superhero lair, all dressed as Batman-style superheroes. | "Today, I Am a Clown" | FABF01 | |
320 | December 14, 2003 | The couch is a street bench in Japan, and everyone is a famous anime character: Homer is Ultraman, Marge is Jun from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Lisa is Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon, Bart is Astro Boy, and Maggie is Pikachu from Pokémon. | "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" | FABF02 | |
321 | January 4, 2004 | Somebody offscreen throws knives at the wall while the Simpsons are seated on the couch, and when Homer reaches for a bowl of chips, a knife nearly hits him. | "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" | FABF03 | |
322 | January 11, 2004 | The Simpsons are squeezed like frosting out of a pastry bag onto the top of a cake. | "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" | FABF04 | |
323 | January 25, 2004 | The Simpsons' heads pop out of a giant piece of apple pie, which Homer takes a bite out of. | "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" | FABF05 | |
324 | February 8, 2004 | A tray is placed into a microwave, and the family rises as the tray is cooked. | "Margical History Tour" | FABF06 | |
325 | February 15, 2004 | A woman throws some seeds into a plot of dirt where the couch usually is and waters them, which makes the Simpsons sprout up like plants. | "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" | FABF07 | |
326 | February 22, 2004 | The Simpsons are in bags on a moving dry-cleaning rack, which stops over the couch. | "Smart and Smarter" | FABF09 | |
327 | March 14, 2004 | In a parody of Powers of Ten, the couch scene pans out until it reaches outer space, where the galaxies are replaced with atoms, which pan out until they reach Homer's head and then the couch scene again. Afterwards, Homer says, "Wooowwww." (reairings and repeats of the couch gag in other episodes redub "Wooowww" with "Cool." or "Weird.", and have Kang and Kodos laughing instead of staying silent) | "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" | FABF08 | |
328 | March 21, 2004 | repeat of EABF18's gag | "Co-Dependent's Day" | FABF10 | |
329 | March 28, 2004 | repeat of EABF20's gag | "The Wandering Juvie" | FABF11 | |
330 | April 18, 2004 | repeat of EABF22's gag | "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" | FABF12 | |
331 | April 25, 2004 | repeat of FABF04's gag | "Catch 'Em if You Can" | FABF14 | |
332 | May 2, 2004 | repeat of FABF08's gag | "Simple Simpson" | FABF15 | |
333 | May 9, 2004 | repeat of FABF03's gag | "The Way We Weren't" | FABF13 | |
334 | May 16, 2004 | repeat of FABF08's gag | "Bart-Mangled Banner" | FABF17 | |
335 | May 23, 2004 | repeat of FABF02's gag | "Fraudcast News" | FABF18 |
Season 16 (2004-2005)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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336 | November 7, 2004 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XV" | FABF23 | |
337 | November 14, 2004 | The couch is outside, mounted on the end of a catapult. The family sits on the couch, and then get launched skyward. | "All's Fair in Oven War" | FABF20 | |
338 | November 21, 2004 | The family runs into the living room to find the couch missing, only to have the couch fall and crush them. | "Sleeping with the Enemy" | FABF19 | |
339 | December 5, 2004 | The Simpsons sit down on the couch as normal. The twist is that the Simpsons now have the head of Moe Szyslak. | "She Used to Be My Girl" | FABF22 | |
340 | December 12, 2004 | After the family takes their usual places on the couch, the couch rises into the air and is actually part of the tendril of an anglerfish (which bears a striking resemblance to the one from Finding Nemo), which eats the family. | "Fat Man and Little Boy" | FABF21 | |
341 | January 16, 2005 | The family runs into the room and take their usual places on the couch. Nothing happens, so Lisa then asks directly to the viewers, "What? Can't we sit on the couch without something happening?" Homer then gets impaled by a spear and yells, "D'oh!" | "Midnight Rx" | FABF16 | |
342 | January 30, 2005 | The living room is a desert with all of the furniture and fixtures made of sand. The family crawls to the couch, but the room dissolves, leaving them under the desert sun. | "Mommie Beerest" | GABF01 | |
343 | February 6, 2005 | The family enters the living room and in front of the couch, they climb on top of the other like a totem pole. | "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" | GABF02 | |
344 | February 13, 2005 | The family hops into the living room dressed as chess pieces: Homer is the king, Marge is the queen, Bart is a rook, Lisa is a knight and Maggie is a pawn. | "Pranksta Rap" | GABF03 | |
345 | February 20, 2005 | The family, dressed as hockey players with cuts and scrapes, skate into the living room and skate around the couch. Homer is carrying the Stanley Cup with Maggie sitting in the bowl. (There was a lockout in NHL that season) | "There's Something About Marrying" | GABF04 | |
346 | March 6, 2005 | repeat of FABF08's gag (but this time, the theme music is used, Kang and Kodos are heard laughing and Homer says "Cooool." at the end) | "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" | GABF05 | |
347 | March 13, 2005 | The family comes into the darkened living room. The lights suddenly turn on, the living room is set up with balloons and streamers, and a group of recurring characters (Edna Krabappel, Chief Wiggum, Julius Hibbert, Kirk Van Houten, Jimbo Jones, Nelson Muntz, Kent Brockman, Hans Moleman, Bumblebee Man, Milhouse Van Houten, Moe Szyslak, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Mr. Burns, Comic Book Guy, Kearney Zzyzwicz, Professor Frink, Principal Skinner, Dolph Starbeam, Barney Gumble, Judge Constance Harm, and others) yell out "Surprise!". Homer then gets surprised as he has a heart attack and collapses. | "Goo Goo Gai Pan" | GABF06 | |
348 | March 20, 2005 | The family enters the living room and sits on the couch like normal. "Homer" then pulls off his face, revealing himself to be Sideshow Bob. He pulls out a knife and chases Bart out of the living room. (Note that some airings use an alternate version where after Sideshow Bob grabs his knife out, Bart starts to panic and runs out of the living room screaming with no chase happening. Some airings use the Duplicate Family couch gag instead.) | "Mobile Homer" | GABF07 | |
349 | April 3, 2005 | The family sits on the couch, only to have a spit come through the wall and the floor open up to reveal fire down below. The couch and family begins rotating over the fire like a kebab over a grill. Marge's hair catches fire and the boat painting falls off the wall. | "The Seven-Beer Snitch" | GABF08 | |
350 | April 17, 2005 | The living room is an almost fully assembled jigsaw puzzle, with only the pieces with the Simpsons' heads needing to be placed. The person completing the puzzle places all the heads on correctly except for Homer and Maggie, after which the person switches the two. | "Don't Fear the Roofer 350th Episode" | GABF10 | |
351 | May 1, 2005 | Several toy forms of transportation come into the living room, only to change Transformers-style into the family: Homer is Optimus Prime, Marge is Skyfire, Lisa is Hound, Maggie is Bumblebee, and Bart is Jazz. | "Future-Drama" | GABF12 | |
352 | May 1, 2005 | repeat of FABF20's gag | "The Heartbroke Kid" | GABF11 | |
353 | May 8, 2005 | repeat of DABF20's gag | "A Star is Torn" | GABF13 | |
354 | May 8, 2005 | repeat of FABF22's gag | "Thank God It's Doomsday" | GABF14 | |
355 | May 15, 2005 | repeat of FABF21's gag | "Home Away from Homer" | GABF15 | |
356 | May 15, 2005 | The family floats into the living room as parade balloons, and Snowball V pops the one that looks like Homer after it scares Snowball V. | "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" | GABF09 |
Season 17 (2005-2006)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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357 | September 11, 2005 | The family enters the living room through a metal detector, except for Homer, who sets it off. After three failed attempts, Homer, who is now stripped down to his briefs, is detained by a security guard who is inspecting him with a handheld scanning wand. | "Bonfire of the Manatees" | GABF18 | |
358 | September 18, 2005 | The living room is made of clay. Six balls roll to the couch and form into Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, Bart, and Gumby. | "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" | GABF16 | |
359 | September 25, 2005 | The family enters the living room and takes their places on the couch, then an on-screen TiVo style menu pops up asking if the viewer would like to delete or save this recording. "Delete this recording now" is selected and the screen goes blank. | "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" | GABF19 | |
360 | November 6, 2005 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XVI" | GABF17 | |
361 | November 13, 2005 | The family runs in to sit on the couch, but it turns into a monster and chases them out of the house. Everyone's couches come to life and start attacking and swallowing the people sitting on them; after showing Hans Moleman, Grampa, Sherri, Terri, Eddie, and Lou getting attacked by couches, Professor Frink is attacked by a futuristic flying couch with laser weaponry, and Moe is attacked by the booths in his bar, but fights quite well with his shotgun. Homer eventually takes shelter in a store called "Couch World", where he is piled upon by dozens of couches. (an unusually long couch gag, as it runs for exactly forty seconds) | "Marge's Son Poisoning" | GABF20 | |
362 | November 20, 2005 | The family enters the living room and take their usual places on the couch, only the camera pulls back and the living room and the family are part of an alien zoo exhibit on Rigel 7. | "See Homer Run" | GABF21 | |
363 | November 27, 2005 | The couch is replaced with a bird's nest and the family members take their usual places. A large bird enters the room and feeds Homer a giant worm. | "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" | GABF22 | |
364 | December 11, 2005 | A pair of animated hands deals five cards on the couch: the jack of diamonds (Bart), the queen of diamonds (Marge), the king of diamonds (Homer), the ace of diamonds (Lisa), and a joker (Maggie). | "The Italian Bob" | HABF02 | |
365 | December 18, 2005 | A copy of "The Springfield Shopper" spins into frame, with the headline "COUCH GAG THRILLS NATION" and a black and white photo of the Simpsons already seated. | "Simpson Christmas Stories" | HABF01 | |
366 | January 8, 2006 | The Simpsons sit on the couch as normal and a camera flashes, setting off a series of family portraits. In the 2006 and 2007 portraits, they all look the same. In 2008, Homer is missing, Marge is wearing black, and the kids are wearing their Sunday clothes. In 2009, Lenny has taken Homer's place and Bart and Lisa both begin puberty. In 2010, Carl has taken Marge's place and Lenny is still there. In 2011, Marge is back, but Lenny is gone and replaced by Jimbo Jones. In 2012, Homer is back, but is now a robot. In 2013, every member of the Simpson family is a robot. | "Homer's Paternity Coot" | HABF03 | |
367 | January 29, 2006 | In a parody of the Bonanza opening sequence, a map of Springfield burns away to reveal the family on horseback in the countryside (The couch is nowhere to be found, however). The Bonanza-esque music that plays continues over the TV credits. | "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" | HABF04 | |
368 | February 26, 2006 | repeat of GABF16's gag | "My Fair Laddy" | HABF05 | |
369 | March 12, 2006 | The couch moves down an automated assembly line, and Homer is added by a mechanical arm. | "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" | HABF06 | |
370 | March 19, 2006 | The family enters the living room only to find out that their access to the couch has been blocked by laser beams. They work their way through the laser beams and sit down. The beams shut off and Homer's head drops to the floor. | "Bart Has Two Mommies" | HABF07 | |
371 | March 26, 2006 | The family, played by live-action actors, sits on the couch just before the TV credits come on, which is superimposed over the live action TV. (Syndicated airings have a repeat of the Kebab Grill couch gag instead) | "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" | HABF08 | |
372 | April 2, 2006 | repeat of GABF19's gag | "Million Dollar Abie" | HABF09 | |
373 | April 9, 2006 | repeat of HABF02's gag (but this time Homer shouts "Woo-hoo!" after the cards are dealt, since this can be a Royal Flush) | "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" | HABF10 | |
374 | April 23, 2006 | repeat of GABF10's gag (but this time, Homer says D'oh! when the heads are mixed up and giggles when they are fixed) | "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" | HABF11 | |
375 | April 30, 2006 | repeat of GABF06's gag | "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" | HABF12 | |
376 | May 7, 2006 | repeat of GABF12's gag | "Regarding Margie" | HABF13 | |
377 | May 14, 2006 | repeat of HABF03's gag, but this time, the theme music is used | "The Monkey Suit" | HABF14 | |
378 | May 21, 2006 | repeat of GABF20's gag, but this time, the theme music is used | "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" | HABF16 |
Season 18 (2006-2007)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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379 | September 10, 2006 | The couch is replaced by four wooden stools. An instrumental version of "Pop Goes the Weasel" plays as the family plays musical chairs. When the music stops, everyone, except for Homer, sits down, and Homer groans in disappointment. | "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" | HABF15 | |
380 | September 17, 2006 | Everyone but Homer sits on the couch. King Homer, from Treehouse of Horror III, grabs Marge through a window and drags her to the top of the Empire State Building, where he is attacked by biplanes. | "Jazzy and the Pussycats" | HABF18 | |
381 | September 24, 2006 | A vending machine is in place of the couch, which is filled with snacks that resemble Simpsons characters (including the family). Ralph Wiggum comes in, selects a Homer figurine, and bites the head off before leaving. | "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" | HABF20 | |
382 | November 5, 2006 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XVII" | HABF17 | |
383 | November 12, 2006 | The family sits down and gets moved across the floor in a car wash, where they get sprayed with water, squirted with hot wax, and scrubbed with brushes. Marge's hair turns puffy, Maggie's pacifier goes missing, and everyone looks exhausted as three men wipe them dry and puts a new pacifier into Maggie's mouth. | "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" | HABF21 | |
384 | November 19, 2006 | In a computer window, everyone is drag-and-dropped onto the couch, which is then drag-and-dropped into the computer's trash can. The mouse then clicks on "empty trash" from the dropdown menu. | "Moe'N'a Lisa" | HABF19 | |
385 | November 26, 2006 | The Simpsons have the bodies of cockroaches. When the lights turn on, they all scuttle off. | "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" | HABF22 | |
386 | December 10, 2006 | A pair of cartoon hands cuts a piece of paper into the shape of Homer. The hands then pull out the paper to reveal a chain shaped like the rest of the Simpsons. Homer can be heard saying, "Woo-hoo!" | "The Haw-Hawed Couple" | JABF02 | |
387 | December 17, 2006 | The family (in Christmas attire) sits on the couch, and the camera pulls out to reveal they are in a Christmas ornament which is on their Christmas tree. Santa's Little Helper and Snowball V rest nearby as the last notes of a Christmas tune play instrumentally in the background. | "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" | JABF01 | |
388 | January 7, 2007 | The family on the couch is pinned up, one by one, onto a bulletin board. | "The Wife Aquatic" | JABF03 | |
389 | January 28, 2007 | The family, as infants in diapers, crawls into the living room and up onto to their usual place on the couch. They begin to age into their current appearance. | "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times" | JABF05 | |
390 | February 11, 2007 | The Simpsons are paper dolls, and are each dressed into their regular clothes. | "Little Big Girl" | JABF04 | |
391 | February 18, 2007 | none/repeat of HABF22's gag | "Springfield Up" | JABF07 | |
392 | March 4, 2007 | repeat of HABF20's gag | "Yokel Chords" | JABF09 | |
393 | March 11, 2007 | repeat of HABF04's gag | "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh" | JABF08 | |
394 | March 25, 2007 | Homer evolves from a single-celled organism which continuously divides to a more complex organism—first as a jellyfish, then a common fish that nearly escapes the clutches of an octopus that looks like Mr. Burns. Getting out of the ocean, Homer evolves into a prehistoric lizard that extends his tongue to snack on an insect that resembles his power plant coworker, Lenny. Homer then evolves into a slightly larger lizard with a scale on his back that sees a pterodactyl resembling Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, flying overhead. Homer then evolves into a rat that gets chased by a tyrannosaurus rex resembling Bart, who then gets into a battle with a stegosaurus resembling Lisa. Homer hides in a hole just before a large asteroid crashes on Earth, wiping out all dinosaur life. Homer comes out of the hole, passing the skeletal remains of T-Rex Bart, before changing into a sloth, then a monkey as he approaches a jungle, becoming more apelike upon swinging through the trees. Leaving the jungle, a brief Ice Age occurs as he evolves from a Neanderthal, to a Cro-Magnon, to an upright walking caveman. Caveman Homer passes by Moe (who is also a caveman), who then devolves into a rat creature. As Homer continues walking, he evolves into men from different historical eras (a nomad from the Middle Ages, a Spanish explorer, a Pilgrim, and a 19th-century intellectual) until he finally evolves into his modern self and enters the house, stepping over Santa's Little Helper. With the rest of the family sitting on the sofa, Marge asks him "What took you so long?", but Homer can only give an exhausted sigh of relief. (This is the second longest couch gag to date as it runs over 1 minute long; the longest being the Rick and Morty Couch Gag from "Mathlete's Feat") | "Homerazzi" | JABF06 | |
395 | April 22, 2007 | repeat of HABF01's gag | "Marge Gamer" | JABF10 | |
396 | April 29, 2007 | repeat of HABF15's gag | "The Boys of Bummer" | JABF11 | |
397 | May 6, 2007 | repeat of HABF21's gag | "Crook and Ladder" | JABF13 | |
398 | May 13, 2007 | The Simpson family comes in and sits on the couch. A second family comes and also sits on the couch. Eventually, hundreds of multiple families come in, and the whole house gets overflowed by them. One of the Homers shouts, "Hey, don't shove!" | "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!" | JABF12 | |
399 | May 20, 2007 | no gag (special opening/24-themed) | "24 Minutes" | JABF14 | |
400 | May 20, 2007 | no gag (the Family Portrait short from The Tracey Ullman Show is shown, along with a caption that reads, "20 Years Ago...") | "You Kent Always Say What You Want 400th Episode" | JABF15 |
Season 19 (2007-2008)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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401 | September 23, 2007 | The entire opening sequence is changed to show a ruined Springfield being rebuilt in the aftermath of The Simpsons Movie. As construction work goes on around them, The Simpsons join Plopper the pig on the couch to the tune of "Spider-Pig". Homer holds him and says "My summer love", to which Plopper squeals in delight. | "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" | JABF20 | |
402 | September 30, 2007 | repeat of JABF06's gag (but this time, Marge's line after Homer enters the living room is "Did you bring the milk?") | "The Homer of Seville" | JABF18 | |
403 | October 7, 2007 | The living room is made of Lego bricks and the family is built one by one out of Legos. Homer can be heard shouting, "Woo-hoo!" when a 2x4 Lego brick is put on his head, and "D'oh!" when a black 1x2 Lego brick (representing his two strands) is placed on his head instead. | "Midnight Towboy" | JABF21 | |
404 | October 14, 2007 | The family sits down as normal, except Maggie is missing. Homer looks to the empty space where Maggie is, then gets lifted by a giant Maggie as the camera pulls out to reveal the living room being part of a dollhouse and the family as the dolls that live within. Maggie puts the miniature Homer in her mouth and sucks it like a pacifier. | "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" | JABF19 | |
405 | November 4, 2007 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" | JABF16 | |
406 | November 11, 2007 | The family (already seated on the couch) appears on the cover of Modern Couch Gag magazine. | "Little Orphan Millie" | JABF22 | |
407 | November 18, 2007 | A pair of hands opens up a book and reveals a pop-up centerfold of the family sitting on the couch. | "Husbands and Knives" | JABF17 | |
408 | November 25, 2007 | A magician walks into the living room and uses his cape to make the couch and the Simpsons appear. | "Funeral for a Fiend" | KABF01 | |
409 | December 16, 2007 | repeat of GABF05's gag (but this time Homer says "Weird." at the end) | "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" | KABF02 | |
410 | January 6, 2008 | A medieval tapestry shows the Flanders stealing the Simpsons' couch. The Simpsons then take it back and kill the Flanders. | "E. Pluribus Wiggum" | KABF03 | |
411 | January 27, 2008 | The family is sitting on the couch. The screen zooms out to show them as a painting in a museum that says "This is not a couch gag" in French. Mrs. Vanderbilt and a man look at the painting. | "That '90s Show" | KABF04 | |
412 | February 17, 2008 | Each family member rushes into the living room and attaches themselves to a giant-size baby mobile, which Homer tips. | "Love, Springfieldian Style" | KABF05 | |
413 | March 2, 2008 | Two hands add to a Lite-Brite of the family on the couch. | "The Debarted" | KABF06 | |
414 | March 9, 2008 | The family are small toys on the couch. Professor Frink puts drops of water on them and they all grow to normal size, except Homer, who needs a bucket of water. | "Dial "N" for Nerder" | KABF07 | |
415 | March 30, 2008 | Wile E. Coyote paints a fake couch on the wall which the Simpsons run to, except for Maggie, who sticks her tongue out and takes off, Road-Runner style. The remaining family members sit on the couch except for Homer, who falls through the wall and yells, "D'oh!" | "Smoke on the Daughter" | KABF08 | |
416 | April 13, 2008 | The Simpson family is painted on the couch. | "Papa Don't Leech" | KABF09 | |
417 | April 27, 2008 | repeat of KABF03's gag | "Apocalypse Cow" | KABF10 | |
418 | May 4, 2008 | repeat of JABF17's gag | "Any Given Sundance" | KABF11 | |
419 | May 11, 2008 | repeat of JABF06's gag | "Mona Leaves-a" | KABF12 | |
420 | May 18, 2008 | repeat of HABF19's gag | "All About Lisa" | KABF13 |
Season 20 (2008-2009)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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421 | September 28, 2008 | The Simpsons are incased in Carbonite by Bounty Hunter Boba Fett. (A reference to Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back) | "Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes | KABF17 | |
422 | October 5, 2008 | The Simpsons see themselves sitting on the couch where Mount Rushmore should be. Bart remarks "Aye Caramba!" | Lost Verizon | KABF15 | |
423 | October 19, 2008 | The Simpsons are caught in a twister and when they land, they are on a farm in black and white. (A reference to The Wizard of Oz) | KABF14 | ||
424 | November 2, 2008 | None (Halloween intro) | Treehouse of Horror XIX | KABF16 | |
425 | November 9, 2008 | The Simpsons come out of cuckoo clocks. | Dangerous Curves | KABF18 | |
426 | November 16, 2008 | The Simpsons rush to the couch in 79 AD, and Mount Vesuvius explodes and covers them in ash. | Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words | KABF19 | |
427 | November 30, 2008 | Bart is writing on the chalkboard, "I will not bring the chalkboard home," another chalkboard gag within a couch gag. | Mypods and Boomsticks | KABF20 | |
428 | December 7, 2008 | repeat of JABF01 | The Burns and the Bees | KABF21 | |
429 | January 25, 2009 | The Simpsons run to the couch in a box. Comic Book Guy puts a $19.99 sticker on it and says "Worst. Couch Gag. Ever." (Last couch gag to be in 4:3 standard-definition) | Lisa the Drama Queen | KABF22 | |
430 | February 15, 2009 | The Simpsons run to find that the couch is missing, and they chase it around the world and into outer space. (First couch gag to be in 16:9 high definition) | Take My Life, Please | LABF01 | |
431 | March 1, 2009 | The Simpsons go through the openings of The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, and Cheers. In the Cheers segment, Sideshow Bob enters in reference to Kelsey Grammer's character in Cheers, the family runs out screaming and ends up at the couch in the opening of their show with a sigh of relief. | How the Test Was Won | LABF02 | |
432 | March 8, 2009 | The Simpsons come in and find their couch beaten and torn. Funeral music plays as they bury the couch in the backyard. The Simpsons then visit a ranch to pick out a new couch. The Simpsons sit on a black and white spotted couch, which throws Homer off it. The Simpsons are now back in the living room, sitting on their new couch. Homer is in a body cast and turns on their wall-mounted flatscreen TV. | No Loan Again, Naturally | LABF03 | |
433 | March 15, 2009 | The couch is strung up like a piñata. A blindfolded Ralph Wiggum comes in, swinging a stick and hits the couch, making the Simpsons spill out on the floor. | Gone Maggie Gone | LABF04 | |
434 | March 22, 2009 | The Simpsons are dog show participants being lead on leashes by men in fancy suits. A judge awards Bart the blue ribbon, and Homer attacks Bart. | In the Name of the Grandfather | LABF11 | |
435 | March 29, 2009 | The Simpsons are a meal at a fancy restaurant (Homer is a garden salad, Lisa's face appears in a bowl of soup, Marge is a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, Bart is a T-Bone steak, and Maggie is the mint that comes with the restaurant bill), which Comic Book Guy eats. After he wipes his mouth with a napkin, a stain appears that resembles The Simpsons sitting on the couch. | Wedding for Disaster | LABF05 | |
436 | April 5, 2009 | The screen is white. A cartoon hand flips an animation cell that has eyes on it, flips another that has Homer's skeleton sitting cross-legged, flips another that has Homer's stomach and a can of Duff beer on the lap, flips another that has Homer naked, another where the rest of the family are fully clothed and sitting in mid-air, and another where The Simpsons are in their living room and sitting on the couch. Marge notices Homer is still naked and pulls down an animation cell that has Homer's clothes. | Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe | LABF06 | |
437 | April 19, 2009 | The living room is covered in thick, jungle plants. The Simpsons slash their way through in order to reach the couch, and find an ape version of the Simpson family already seated. The ape Simpsons hoot and screech, scaring off the human Simpsons. | The Good, the Sad and the Drugly | LABF07 | |
438 | April 26, 2009 | There is an Olympic-sized pool leading to the couch. The Simpsons take their places on the marks and swim to the couch once a starter pistol goes off. Marge is first, Lisa's second, Bart is third, and Maggie is last. The family looks around, wondering where Homer is. Unfortunately, Homer is now unconscious as he floats in the pool. | Father Knows Worst | LABF08 | |
439 | May 3, 2009 | The living room is the seating area in the Colosseum during the era of the Roman Empire. The Simpsons (dressed in togas) rush to an empty space to sit down. The sounds of a gladiator match can be heard offscreen. The audience cheers as the head of a gladiator flies into the audience, and Bart catches it. | Waverly Hills, 9-0-2-1-D'oh | LABF10 | |
440 | May 10, 2009 | A large marble rock is in the living room where the couch should be. A French sculptor quickly chisels out a statue of The Simpsons sitting on the couch. The sculptor then turns the statue of the Simpsons into a statue of a Civil War soldier on a horse. | Four Great Women and a Manicure | LABF09 | |
441 | May 17, 2009 | repeat of LABF02's couch gag | Coming to Homerica | LABF12 |
Season 21 (2009-2010)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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442 | September 27, 2009 | The Simpsons are at an underground train station where a train pulls in and opens its doors, revealing the living room, complete with couch. The Simpsons get in and sigh as the door closes and the train pulls off. (This couch gag is similar to the one from "Missionary: Impossible", but from a different angle) | Homer the Whopper | LABF13 | |
443 | October 4, 2009 | The Simpsons, wearing white cowboy hats, exchange gunfire around the couch. Maggie comes out from behind the sailboat Screenshot on the wall and blasts the room with a machine gun. | Bart Gets a "Z" | LABF15 | |
444 | October 11, 2009 | repeat of LABF01's couch gag | The Great Wife Hope | LABF16 | |
445 | October 18, 2009 | None (Halloween intro) | Treehouse of Horror XX | LABF14 | |
446 | November 15, 2009 | The Simpsons, dressed in prehistoric-style clothing, run onto the couch (really a log, which is in a prehistoric area, resting on a tar pit) and sinks with it into a tar pit. Their skeletons, their prehistoric clothing, and the log are all in a museum exhibit. | "The Devil Wears Nada" | LABF17 | |
447 | November 22, 2009 | Instead of the couch, the Simpsons (dressed as Victorian-era Christmas carolers) appear next to a Christmas tree and sing a parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas," featuring twelve Grampas grumbling (as they stand in a customer return line), eleven Barneys belching (as they lie drunk in the snow), ten Lennys leaping (over a fence), nine Carls dancing (in a ballroom), eight Moes a-milking, seven Selmas smoking, six Flanders praying, five golden Frinks (Professor Frink's heads are on five gold coins), four crawling nerds (Database, Wendell, Martin, and Milhouse crawling from Nelson Muntz), three-eyed fish (Blinky), two special Ralphs, and (as the Simpsons walk to the couch) a Maggie in a Snuggly. | "Pranks and Greens" | LABF18 | |
448 | November 29, 2009 | The Simpsons, Patty, and Selma gather around the dinner table for a Thanksgiving meal, but soon gather their plates and head for the couch where they watch a football game on TV. | "Rednecks and Broomsticks" | LABF19 | |
449 | December 13, 2009 | The living room furniture (the couch cushions, the rug, the flat-screen TV, and the lamps) are all dancing to disco music just as the Simpsons come in. Once Homer yells, "Hey!", the furniture returns to normal and the Simpsons sit on the couch. | "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" | MABF01 | |
450 | January 3, 2010 | Homer is standing on a coiled platform, which launches him (and the rest of the Simpson family) through a pinball game called "Couch Gag Chaos". | "Thursdays with Abie" | MABF02 | |
451 | January 10, 2010 | The couch is seen inside a human egg. Each family member is a sperm cell swimming towards and penetrating the egg to sit on the couch. The zygote then divides multiple times, forming a Mr. Burns embryo, who says, "Excellent!" after being formed. | "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" | LABF20 | |
452 | January 31, 2010 | Homer runs to the couch first. He pulls out a myPhone, presses the "Couch Gag" app, and downloads Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Maggie. When Homer gets an incoming call from Mr. Burns, he screams and eats the phone. | "Million Dollar Maybe" | MABF03 | |
453 | February 14, 2010 | The Gypsy deals five tarot cards featuring Homer (the King of Cups), Marge (the Queen of Cups), Bart (the Fool), Lisa (the Princess), and Maggie (the Death card) on a blue table. Unfortunately, Grampa gets the Death card, so he gets scared and turns the Death card towards the gypsy, who then gets a heart attack and dies. | Boy Meets Curl" | MABF05 | |
454 | February 21, 2010 | repeat of LABF08's gag | "The Color Yellow" | MABF06 | |
455 | March 14, 2010 | repeat of LABF04's gag | "Postcards From the Wedge" | MABF04 | |
456 | March 21, 2010 | A rain cloud moves over a crop field behind the Simpson House. It rains, the cloud leaves, and various fruits grow out of the ground. The Simpsons (all except Homer) are bugs and sit on the largest fruit; Homer, as a grub, pops out of the fruit. | "Stealing First Base" | MABF07 | |
457 | March 28, 2010 | repeat of LABF11's gag | "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" | MABF10 | |
458 | April 11, 2010 | The couch is outside the house, which is a cardboard set that falls down on the Simpsons. | "American History X-cellent" | MABF08 | |
459 | April 18, 2010 | repeat of LABF05's gag (but this time, Comic Book Guy says "terrible" after eating. Also, the eating sounds are not heard and Comic Book Guy says his usual rude comments after he eats each food. But his "Ah." was the same before "terrible".) | "Chief of Hearts" | MABF09 | |
460 | April 25, 2010 | The Simpsons chase after the couch through the articles on The Springfield Shopper. The couch gives in and reunites with the family after seeing an ad about it in the classified section. | "The Squirt and the Whale" | MABF14 | |
461 | May 2, 2010 | The Simpsons running into the living room, and are lifted onto the sofa and into the air by several supporting characters as everyone sings to Ke$ha's "Tik Tok". | "To Surveil With Love" | MABF12 | |
462 | May 9, 2010 | The Simpsons are a miniature model constructed by Nelson, which is then blown up with a firecracker, and Nelson says, "Ha Ha!". | "Moe Letter Blues" | MABF13 | |
463 | May 16, 2010 | Harold from Harold and the Purple Crayon draws the Simpson living room just as the family runs in to sit. Homer asks Harold to draw him a beer, and he obliges. Homer pats the child on the head. | "The Bob Next Door" | MABF11 | |
464 | May 23, 2010 | Homer and Bart appear as hand puppets, and they begin attacking each other. The view pans down, and Homer is shown strangling Bart himself. | "Judge Me Tender" | MABF15 |
Season 22 (2010-2011)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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465 | September 26, 2010 | The Simpsons sit on the couch with a banner hung above saying "22 Seasons congratulations from FOX" A FOX representative invites Maggie to blow out a candle on a cake, then eats the cake himself, leaving the Simpsons family. The banner then falls down. | Elementary School Musical "Banner" | MABF21 | |
467 | October 3, 2010 | The family runs in to find a corpse on their floor. The police arrive, and the family flees on the couch driven by Homer. They are caught and placed in a police lineup. There, they are identified as the murderers instead of the Flanders's and the Hibbert's, and are jailed and then electrocuted. When electrocuted, they scream and light up (the sign the family holds has the production number's code on it) | "Loan-a Lisa" | MABF17 | |
467 | October 15, 2010 | The family is seated on the couch, which turns out to be a picture hanging in a sweatshop that produces animation cells and merchandise in harsh environments. At the end, the camera zooms out to show the scene taking place inside a prison-esque 20th Century Fox structure. | "MoneyBART" | MABF18 | |
468 | November 7, 2010 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XXI" | MABF16 | |
469 | November 14, 2010 | Captain Lance Murdock jumps over the Simpsons with his motorcycle, but injures himself afterwards. | "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" | MABF20 | |
470 | November 21, 2010 | In a spoof of Avatar, the Simpson family are transferred into Nav'i bodies, and each member tries to get a "couch-monster", but only Bart manages to get it. The couch flies to a mountain, which Bart turns on the TV. | "The Fool Monty" | NABF01 | |
471 | November 28, 2010 |
After getting shrunk by Professor Frink, the tiny family tries to rush to the couch, only for them to rush into a mouse hole and get stuck in a mouse trap. |
"How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" | NABF02 | |
472 | December 5, 2010 | None (Christmas intro) | "The Fight Before Christmas" | MABF22 | |
473 | December 12, 2010 | The Simpsons are shown in an advent calendar. | "Donnie Fatso" | MABF19 | |
474 | January 9, 2011 | The couch prepares for the day, which consists of getting out of bed in the morning, shaving, eating breakfast, riding the train to work, clocking in at the back entrance of the Simpson home and going to its usual spot in the living room, where the Simpsons run in and sit down normally. | "Moms I'd Like to Forget" | NABF03 | |
475 | January 16, 2011 | The couch is a bowl, and an arm releases five scoops of ice cream resembling the Simpsons into the bowl then tops the ice cream with chocolate syrup, whipped cream. and a cherry. Santa's Little Helper licks the sundae, taking scoops of the ice cream away, and burps as he leaves the room. | "Flaming Moe" | NABF04 | |
476 | January 23, 2011 | repeat of MABF14's gag | "Homer the Father" | NABF05 | |
477 | February 13, 2011 | Homer trips and sprains his ankle before he reaches the couch, to the consternation of Lenny, Carl, Moe and Barney (wearing warm-up suits), and Mr. Burns, their coach. Mr. Burns sends Barney in to substitute for Homer, and Homer gives a thumbs-up as two paramedics wheel him away on a stretcher | "The Blue and the Gray" | NABF06 | |
478 | February 20, 2011 | Similar to the couch gag with the family as hockey players but are playing hockey where they hit each other with their sticks Lenny & Carl dressed as referees blow whistles and the family gets sent to the penalty box. Homer spits out a tooth. | "Angry Dad: The Movie" | NABF07 | |
479 | March 6, 2011 | Family being selected via game. | "The Scorpion's Tale" | NABF08 | |
480 | March 13, 2011 | The Simpsons sit on the couch. A springboard then comes out and smashes them to the screen. | "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" | NABF09 | |
481 | March 27, 2011 | In an ASCII version, The Simpsons sits on the couch normally and Bart puts the word "Fatso" on Homer's stomach. Homer says "D'oh!". | "Love is a Many Strangled Thing" | NABF10 | |
482 | April 10, 2011 | no gag (no opening sequence either) | "The Great Simpsina" | NABF11 | |
483 | May 1, 2011 | The Simpsons come onto the couch and the camera zooms out revealing the scene to be a video cover. It zooms out again to show the exterior of a video rental store, which is being demolished by a giant wrecking ball. | The Real Housewives of Fat Tony | NABF12 | |
484 | May 8, 2011 | The couch is on display in the Smithsonian Museum. The Simpsons break into the museum as criminals/cat-burglars, and make their way to the couch by disguising themselves to blend in with the various exhibits they pass through. When they reach the display with the couch, a blast from a spray can reveals that the couch is surrounded by a grid of laser beams, but with gaps shaped like the Simpsons' silhouettes. The family then step through the gaps and sit on the couch. | "Homer Scissorhands" | NABF13 | |
485 | May 15, 2011 | A white screen comes up, showing text of where the furniture and family would be. | "500 Keys" | NABF14 | |
486 | May 22, 2011 | None (shortened intro) | "The Ned-liest Catch" | NABF15 |
Season 23 (2011-2012)[]
># | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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487 | September 25, 2011 | None (shortened intro) | "The Falcon and the D'ohman" | NABF16 | |
488 | October 2, 2011 | The entire couch scene is drawn and animated by John Kricfalusi. | "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" | NABF17 | |
489 | October 30, 2011 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XXII" | NABF19 | |
490 | November 6, 2011 | repeat of NABF13's couch gag | "Replaceable You" | NABF21 | |
491 | November 13, 2011 | None (shortened intro) | "The Food Wife" | NABF20 | |
492 | November 20, 2011 | None (shortened intro) | The Book Job | NABF22 | |
493 | November 27, 2011 | None (shortened intro) | The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants | PABF01 | |
494 | December 4, 2011 | A sword with the label "Property of Ned Flanders" is stuck on the couch. Homer tries to remove it, but to no avail. Ned Flanders tries and is successful. Homer and the rest of the family sit on the couch as Ned leaves. Homer, who's annoyed at Ned, slouches onto the couch and groans in annoyance. | The Ten-Per-Cent Solution | PABF02 | |
495 | December 11, 2011 | The Simpsons are gingerbread cookies, who run on a plate set out for Santa Claus. Gingerbread Homer eats his own arm. | Holidays of Future Passed | NABF18 | |
496 | January 8, 2012 | In a Victorian-period setting, the lights go out and there is a gunshot. When the lights turn back on, Homer is found dead and Bart is arrested for his father's murder. Marge (the real culprit) sits on the couch and hides the smoking gun in her hair. | Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson | PABF03 | |
497 | January 15, 2012 | Similar to the couch gag from the season five's "The Last Temptation of Homer," the Simpsons find themselves on the set of The Late Show With David Letterman. Unlike the couch gag from that episode, the Simpsons are shown racing through New York City to get to Letterman's studio, David Letterman guest stars as himself, and Letterman actually speaks to the family. | The D'oh-cial Network | PABF04 | |
498 | January 29, 2012 | repeat of LABF02's couch gag | "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" | PABF05 | |
499 | February 12, 2012 | The Simpsons go into their living room. Moe says "Happy 500th episode!" Many citizens of Springfield are also there. Lisa points out that it's actually episode 499. Moe tells them that Fox won't do this again, which makes everyone disappointed. | "The Daughter Also Rises" | PABF06 | |
500 | February 19, 2012 | A few earlier couch gags appear at normal speed, then screenshots of the previous couch gags appear, right up until the gag from "The Daughter Also Rises". Afterwards, the Simpsons run to the couch as normal, look around, and then the screen zooms out to reveal the previous couch gags in a 25x20 mosaic saying "500". The screen then shatters, and shows Homer strangling Bart and says "Why you little!" (looking similar to the promo image for "Angry Dad: The Movie"). | "At Long Last Leave 500th Episode" | PABF07 | |
501 | March 4, 2012 | In a parody of the opening to "Game of Thrones", various structures rise from the ground via rolling gears, with the family and other characters dressed in medieval clothes. The monorail is seen, passing through various locations, including Springfield Gorge, Moe's Tavern, the church and the Kwik-E-Mart. Moleman gets bowled over by the giant Lard Lad Donuts statue, several three-eyed crows fly out of the nuclear plant, passing by the largest object outside of town, the couch, which remains unoccupied, before a GoT-style transition transitions to the TV credits. | "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" | PABF09 | |
502 | March 11, 2012 | The family lies down on a sushi mat, then gets rolled up and diced into sushi. Maggie pops up from a roll unharmed. | "How I Wet Your Mother" | PABF08 | |
503 | March 18, 2012 | A banner above the couch reads "America: The Most Powerful Country In The World". The years the show has been on appear on screen, with characters popping in and out (Leon Kompowsky, Stampy with Ralph in his mouth, Poochie, Leprechaun, the ghost of Maude, Baron Von Kiss-A-Lot, Goose Gladwell, Chazz Bubsy, Plopper, and Princess Penelope) Homer and Bart spray paint the banner to read "Too Big to Fail, We Hope", and in the last shot, Maggie holds a Chinese flag. | "Them, Robot" | PABF10 | |
504 | April 15, 2012 | In Bill Plympton's first couch gag, an extended sequence shows Homer having a whirlwind romance before meeting Marge. After Homer married Marge, the couch attempts to commit suicide from jumping into a garbage truck, but Homer saves the couch and takes it back home. Eventually, the family is on the couch and Maggie is on a smaller couch. | "Beware My Cheating Bart" | PABF11 | |
505 | April 29, 2012 | repeat of NABF14's couch gag | "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" | PABF12 | |
506 | May 6, 2012 | The scene switches to a stadium with the family amongst the crowd. A voice on the loudspeakers says "Raise your cards now!" and most of the crowd holds up a card making a picture of the family on the couch. Homer finishes his hot dog and holds up a card of his face, finishing the picture as he says, "Woohoo!" | "The Spy Who Learned Me" | PABF13 | |
507 | May 13, 2012 | repeat of NABF01's couch gag | "Ned 'N Edna's Blend" | PABF15 | |
508 | May 20, 2012 | Zii versions of the family are on the couch, but Homer repeatedly fails to sit down. The real Homer slams his controller down, then tries to sit on the couch, but doesn't and sits on the floor in frustration. | "Lisa Goes Gaga" | PABF14 |
Season 24 (2012-2013)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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509 | September 30, 2012 | Based on The Longest Daycare, the Simpsons are butterflies that come out of their cocoons and nearly get smashed by Gerald (the baby with a unibrow who Maggie hates). Maggie stops Gerald from smashing the butterfly Simpsons, and all four of them fly off into the sunset. | "Moonshine River" | PABF21 | |
510 | October 7, 2012 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" | PABF17 | |
511 | October 21, 2012 (Canada); November 4, 2012 (USA) |
The family gets layered from their bone to skin while Homer is eating a donut. |
"Adventures in Baby-Getting" | PABF18 | |
512 | November 11, 2012 | In a parody of Wacky Races, the Simpsons race against many characters, but all of them crash near the finish line and Grampa wins. | "Gone Abie Gone" | PABF16 | |
513 | November 18, 2012 | A tattoo gun draws the family and couch on a patch of skin, revealed as Marge's lower back; she quickly puts her dress on to cover it. | "Penny-Wiseguys" | PABF16 | |
514 | November 25, 2012 | Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie sit on the couch as normal. But Homer comes in later and surprises them with a bloody ax. This zooms out to reveal "Tales from the Couch" | "A Tree Grows in Springfield" | PABF22 | |
515 | December 9, 2012 | None (shortened intro) | "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" | PABF20 | |
516 | December 16, 2012 | None (shortened intro) | "To Cur, with Love" | RABF01 | |
517 | January 6, 2013 | The Simpsons are awards: Homer is an Oscar, Marge is an Emmy, Lisa is a Grammy, Bart is a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award and Maggie is a Stanely cup. They sit on a trophy shelf and get crushed by a crusher, being turned into a "Best Grampa Award". | "Homer Goes to Prep School" | RABF02 | |
518 | January 13, 2013 | The couch sequence is a trailer for an action movie called The Couch. | "A Test Before Trying" | RABF03 | |
519 | January 27, 2013 | The couch is part of a dunk tank. After the Simpsons sit down, Nelson hurls a ball at the target and the family falls into the water. | "Changing of the Guardian" | RABF04 | |
520 | February 10, 2013 | The Simpsons all look like Moe Szyslak (as seen in the couch gag for "She Used to Be My Girl") and announce that their new sitcom, The Szyslaks has been cancelled. | "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" | RABF07 | |
521 | February 17, 2013 | The family sits on the couch as normal, until a knight uses his sword to decapitate everyone, but ends up only decapitating Homer and chopping some of Marge's hair off. Everyone is mortified, except Lisa, who just says "ew!". | "Hardly Kirk-ing" | RABF05 | |
522 | March 3, 2013 | The Simpsons do their own version of the Harlem Shake called the Homer Shake. | "Gorgeous Grampa" | RABF06 | |
523 | March 10, 2013 | The second couch gag by Bill Plympton. In a hotel, the family prepare to kill each other with various objects. Maggie turns the lights on, and it turns out the objects were not harmful at all. As Bill Plympton's signature is being signed on the drawing, Maggie pulls out a gun and shoots the lights. | "Black-Eyed, Please" | RABF09 | |
524 | March 17, 2013 | The family are all Easter eggs except Homer who sits down and squashes the others. | "Dark Knight Court" | RABF10 | |
525 | April 14, 2013 | In a parody of the Breaking Bad opening, Marge bakes cupcakes and Homer comes along and take some of the mixture. She puts the cupcakes in the oven and they rise. She then has a bake sale. Milhouse takes on and we see Homer watching through binoculars. Eventually, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are watching the couch gag on their TV. | "What Animated Women Want" | RABF08 | |
526 | April 28, 2013 | The Simpsons jump from a blimp and go sky diving. Everyone successfully pulls out their parachute except for Homer's that falls off. Homer then falls on everyone else and they crash land into the living room and destroy the couch. | "Pulpit Friction" | RABF11 | |
527 | May 5, 2013 | The Simpsons are sculpted in ice sitting on the couch. | "Whiskey Business" | RABF12 | |
528 | May 12, 2013 | The whole of Springfield are action figures in a 3D plasticine-like world. | "The Fabulous Faker Boy" | RABF13 | |
529 | May 19, 2013 | The Simpsons are all sea creatures, who get eaten by Blinky. | "The Saga of Carl" | RABF14 | |
530 | May 19, 2013 |
Original/international (except Canada)/online airing: The Simpsons are dandelions. The TV blows on them, causing their seeds (which are actually the family members) to fly around the room. Canada airing: A loon, a Canadian hockey player, John A. MacDonald and a beaver all sit on the Simpsons’s couch. O Canada (the national anthem of Canada) plays. The Simpsons rush in and shove them aside, but their guests say nothing. Maggie sucks on a hockey puck. |
"Dangers on a Train" | RABF17 |
Season 25 (2013-2014)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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531 | September 29, 2013 | Just as it's seen in Season 11's "E-I-E-I-D'oh" and Season 22's "Elementary School Musical", the couch is roped off, this time in honor of the series' 25th season. A bouncer lets Marge and the kids sit on the couch and refuses to let Homer do so. In the end credits, the couch gag is continued with the bouncer letting everyone in Springfield in. The bouncer also lets the families from Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show in (the latter after a brief protest of racism). Homer is still turned away, and is eventually tazed. | "Homerland" | RABF20 | |
532 | October 6, 2013 | Guillermo Del Toro-style opening, with various references to horror and sci-fi monsters and movies. The gag ends with Lisa falling through a hole Alice in Wonderland-style and ending up in the ending sequence of Pan's Labyrinth (a Del Toro film), where she is hypnotized by the Hypnotoad from Futurama. | "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" | RABF16 | |
533 | November 3, 2013 | A parody of The Hobbit that shows the family on a trek to the couch. | "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" | RABF18 | |
534 | November 10, 2013 | The family (save Maggie) tries to get to the couch as if they are climbing from different directions. However, gravity pulls them away, and Homer falls up through the ceiling and into the sky. | "Yolo" | RABF22 | |
535 | November 17, 2013 | The Simpson family shows their version of the first Thanksgiving, where they (as Pilgrims) escape persecution by boarding the Mayflower (which looks similar to the sailboat in the painting that hangs above the couch). The Simpsons soon sail to Plymouth Couch (a parody of Plymouth Rock), where Apu (an Indian) offers them a Thanksgiving dinner for $19.95 a person. | "Labor Pains" | RABF19 | |
536 | November 24, 2013 | A "Silly Simpsony" cartoon, titled "Musicville", where everyone is a musical instrument. Based on Disney's Silly Symphony short, "Music Land". | "The Kid is All Right" | SABF02 | |
537 | December 8, 2013 | The Simpson family are flailing tube man balloons on a used couch lot. Balloon Bart steals a pair of scissors and cuts Balloon Homer, who flies into power lines. | "Yellow Subterfuge" | SABF04 | |
538 | December 15, 2013 | Christmas version of the opening sequence, this time a retelling of "The Night Before Christmas." | "White Christmas Blues" | SABF01 | |
539 | January 5, 2014 | None (shortened intro) | "Steal This Episode" | SABF05 | |
540 | January 12, 2014 | Bill Plympton's third couch gag that features the family changing reality and channel surfing. | "Married to the Blob" | SABF03 | |
541 | January 26, 2014 | Homer is watching the Super Bowl when he goes to get a pack of beer. Trouble is, Bart tossed the six-pack on an overhead power line. Homer goes to retrieve the six-pack, only to be electrocuted and cause a power outage across Springfield. | "Specs and the City" | SABF06 | |
542 | March 9, 2014 | The family rush to the couch as normal. Suddenly, the power goes out. Marge goes to fix the fuse, and when the lights come back on, the family is now drawn Triplets of Bellville-style, and everything has a French aesthetic to it. Bart plays with a do-it-yourself foie gras kit, Lisa plays an accordion, Marge searches for Maggie, and Homer goes to eat a snail off the TV, unaware that Maggie is stuck between his buttcheeks. | "Diggs" | SABF08 | |
543 | March 9, 2014 | Pangaea (Earth's single largest land mass) breaks apart into 5 Simpson family-shaped continents, only for an asteroid (shaped like Moe) to destroy the planet. | "The Man Who Grew Too Much" | SABF07 | |
544 | March 16, 2014 | Homer is the patient from the board game "Operation." Other characters appear as the pieces, such as Lisa (who is Brainy (the brain)) and Moe (who is Elbow Bender (the elbow)). After the "Pain in the Butt" (Bart) is removed, he grabs the forceps and sticks in the side, making Homer buzz and shout, "D'oh!" as Bart laughs. | "The Winter of His Content" | SABF09 | |
545 | March 23, 2014 | None (shortened intro) | "The War of Art" | SABF10 | |
546 | March 30, 2014 | The Simpsons are running through the streets of Pamplona, Spain, as couch bulls are chasing after them. When the family arrive to the couch, a bull slams Homer and takes his place on the couch. | "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" | SABF11 | |
547 | April 6, 2014 | The entire opening sequence is done in Minecraft. When the family arrive to the couch, Moe, appearing as a creeper, says "How you doin'?" and explodes part of the house. | "Luca$" | SABF12 | |
548 | April 13, 2014 | The couch and floor are covered in bubble wrap, which the Simpsons pop. | "Days of Future Future" | SABF13 | |
549 | April 27, 2014 | A couch gag animated by Michal Socha in which the family travel inside Homer's body to his brain, which is couch-shaped. | "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" | SABF14 | |
550 | May 4, 2014 | None (shortened intro) | "Brick Like Me" | RABF21 | |
551 | May 11, 2014 | The Simpsons are pawns in The Game of Life, which ends when a Grim Reaper pawn shows up on the couch. | "Pay Pal" | SABF15 | |
552 | May 18, 2014 | The family and Matt Groening are part of a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. When Comic Book Guy asks if there's going to be another Simpsons movie, everyone except Maggie leaves. | "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" | SABF18 |
Season 26 (2014-2015)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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553 | September 28, 2014 | Homer is watching TV, and realizes that the date on the TV is wrong, so uses the remote to change it. As the date changes all the way back to April 19, 1987, he turns into the original Tracey Ullman Homer from The Simpsons shorts. He then turns the date forwards, and eventually turns into a surreal depiction of a future episode of the show created by Don Hertzfeldt. After remembering other future episodes he says, "D'oh" | "Clown in the Dumps" | SABF20 | |
554 | October 5, 2014 | The Simpsons find Itchy about to kill Scratchy on the couch. Homer intervenes by removing Itchy and allowing Scratchy to stay on the couch for several months, which ultimately starts annoying the family. Homer brings back Itchy who effectively murders Scratchy. | "The Wreck of the Relationship" | SABF17 | |
555 | October 12, 2014 | A parody of the cover of the 1970 Cat Stevens album Tea for the Tillerman, with its title track playing over it | "Super Franchise Me" | SABF19 | |
556 | October 19, 2014 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XXV" | SABF21 | |
557 | November 2, 2014 | None (Halloween intro) | "Opposites A-Frack" | SABF22 | |
558 | November 9, 2014 | The Simpsons sit on the couch, but it turns out to be Hedonismbot. | "Simpsorama" | SABF16 | |
559 | November 16, 2014 | The couch is a ski lift. The family walks in, ready to go skiing. The couch rises up. Seconds later, the couch comes back down and the family are all injured. Except for Maggie, who comes in and has a medal and isn't injured. | "Blazed and Confused" | TABF01 | |
560 | November 23, 2014 | The family are playing with their smartphones as they walk in. But, they don't pay attention to where they're going and bump into each other and fall over. They pick up their smartphones and carry on playing. | "Covercraft" | TABF02 | |
561 | December 7, 2014 | In a parody of Disney's Frozen, there is a message that reads; “Now for obligatory Frozen reference”. Afterwards, the family tries to sit on a snow couch, where Lisa, as Elsa, is sitting. Bart hits her with a snowball and she immediately creates a giant ice palace, with Bart stuck at the top. Homer appears as Olaf, and bites his own nose, disappointed to discover it is simply a carrot. | "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" | TABF03 | |
562 | January 4, 2015 | A piano version of "Great Gate of Kiev" is played in the background as the gag showcases artwork of each Simpson. The camera turns to the Simpsons sitting at an art gallery. Homer grabs the remote control and all the artwork on the wall changes channels. | "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" | RABF15 | |
563 | January 11, 2015 | In a parody of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Homer, Marge and Bart are shown walking into their home. They find out that someone has been eating their porridge and broke their couches but they catch Lisa who is sleeping on Bart's couch. She wakes up to find the three of them surrounding her, causing a fight between them that ends with the Simpsons eating parts of Homer's body. The scene is revealed to be a story Homer told to a traumatized Maggie. | "Bart's New Friend" | TABF05 | |
564 | January 25, 2015 | None (Shortened intro) | "The Musk Who Fell To Earth" | TABF04 | |
565 | February 8, 2015 | People start to eat each Simpson off of a sushi plate that is sitting on a moving boat except for Homer who falls into the water and gets eaten by a fish after the boat flips over. | "Walking Big & Tall" | TABF06 | |
566 | February 15, 2015 | A 16-bit version of the Season 2-early Season 20 opening sequence by Paul Robertson, Ivan Dixon (directors/animators) and Jeremy Dower (music). | "My Fare Lady" | TABF07 | |
567 | March 1, 2015 | A fax copy of the Simpsons tries to come through. But then it suffers a paper jam, which Homer pleasantly says "Mmm, paper jam". | "The Princess Guide" | TABF08 | |
568 | March 8, 2015 | None (shortened intro) | "Sky Police" | TABF09 | |
569 | March 15, 2015 | The Simpsons sit on the couch, only to be sucked into a portal. They come in again and the same thing happens two times more. The fourth time, Bart doesn't sit on the couch. As the rest of the family gets sucked in, Bart uses the remote to get rid of the portal. He sits down to watch television when he discovers and holds Homer's decapitated head. | "Waiting for Duffman" | TABF10 | |
570 | April 19, 2015 | 5 ears of corn are placed on the couch, which then heats up in order to pop the Simpson family. Homer, who takes longest to pop, is burned. | Peeping Mom | TABF11 | |
571 | April 26, 2015 | Same couch gag as SABF15, but instead of death threatening them, it's Grampa. Background music is also added. | The Kids Are All Fight | TABF12 | |
572 | May 3, 2015 | Bart, Maggie, Lisa and Marge join up on the couch as penguins in a living room made of ice, before Homer as a walrus jumps on it from the left and swallows them all up. | Let's Go Fly a Coot | TABF13 | |
573 | May 10, 2015 | Homer fails at making goal saves, as Maggie continues kicking soccer balls at him until he is buried in them. | Bull-E | TABF15 | |
574 | May 17, 2015 | In a gag written and animated by Rick and Morty creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, the Simpsons sit down on the couch, but Rick and Morty suddenly crash their ship into the house, killing them. Panicking, Rick collects some of the family's gooey remains in a vial and sends Morty to have new Simpsons made while he cleans up the wreckage. While Morty travels to an alien world to get the materials needed to restore the family, Rick proceeds to ransack the Simpsons' home, stealing their possessions and freezing Ned Flanders. When Morty returns, Rick finishes the restoration process. However, because Rick cleaned the vial with his spit, the family members all resemble deformed versions of Rick. The two fly off, destroying the frozen Flanders in the process, and Bart declares "No more guest animators, man!" | Mathlete's Feat | TABF16 |
Season 27 (2015-2016)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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575 | September 27, 2015 | A parody of several Beatles album covers. The last cover features the double decker bus running over The Simpsons who were recreating the Abbey Road walk. | Every Man's Dream | TABF14 | |
576 | October 4, 2015 | None (shortened intro) | Cue Detective | TABF17 | |
577 | October 11, 2015 | Each Simpson parks a spot on the couch until a monster truck Maggie runs them over. | Puffless | TABF19 | |
578 | October 18, 2015 | None (shortened intro) | Halloween of Horror | TABF22 | |
579 | October 25, 2015 | The episode opens with a Kricfalusi-style animated short where the Simpson children are trick-n-treating before being set upon by soul-hungry spirits with a monstrous Frank Grimes among them. The spirits chase after the Simpson children to their house, with the Frank Grimes monster taking Homer's soul. | Treehouse of Horror XXVI | TABF18 | |
580 | November 8, 2015 | In a parody of the Disney short "Feast" (known here as "Fat"), Santa's Little Helper gets fed by the family until he becomes fat and is sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle, where he's fed strained prunes and dies afterwards. He is greeted by God. He sees the Fit Dog Heaven but God sends him to Fat Dog Hell where a signs says free pizza. | Friend with Benefit | TABF21 | |
581 | November 22, 2015 | In a parody of Star Trek, the Simpsons are in the Donut Enterprise that shoots their couch, and then gets shot by a ring of couches. | Lisa with an "S" | TABF20 | |
582 | December 6, 2015 | Homer rolls the dice, which reveals all the Simpsons, but his side flips to Mr. Burns. Homer than says "D'oh!" | Paths of Glory | VABF01 | |
583 | December 13, 2015 | Homer and Bart complain about the animation in the gag. Lisa tells them it is called rotoscoping. | Barthood | VABF02 | |
584 | January 3, 2016 | None (shortened intro) | The Girl Code | VABF03 | |
585 | January 10, 2016 | While sitting alone on the couch, Homer puts on shades and descends into a 1980s-style opening sequence titled La-Z Rider, as "Push It to the Limit" by Paul Engemann plays. | Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles | VABF04 | |
586 | January 17, 2016 | None (shortened intro) | Much Apu About Something | VABF05 | |
587 | February 14, 2016 | The couch leaves the family and they embark on an adventure to find their sofa. In the end, it is revealed that was a dream while Homer was sleeping on the couch. But then Marge leaves Homer for spending too much time in the couch. | Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4 | VABF07 | |
588 | February 21, 2016 | The Simpsons are a football team, Bart passes Maggie to Homer, who jumps the couch and breaks the wall behind it, scoring a point. | Gal of Constant Sorrow | VABF06 | |
589 | March 6, 2016 | In Bill Plympton's fourth couch gag, the television and the couch dreams of the television bouncing on the couch and both having fun. At the end of the dream, the television tries to bounce on the couch but gets prevented by the plug and it falls on the floor. | Lisa the Veterinarian | VABF08 | |
590 | March 13, 2016 | None (shortened intro) | The Marge-ian Chronicles | VABF09 | |
591 | April 3, 2016 | Homer sends a message with emoji of him, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and the couch, and receives in answer "Meh" "I don't get it" "Needs a payoff" "Created by Matt Groening", to which he says "Oh, sorry, yes sir", and "Developed by James L. Brooks Matt Groening Sam Simon", to which he says "Who are this guys?", and the receiver sends "Meh" again. | The Burns Cage | VABF10 | |
592 | April 10, 2016 | The Simpsons family wakes up from cryo sleep in a spaceship except Homer. Marge opens his pod but he comes out as bones. | How Lisa Got Her Marge Back | VABF11 | |
593 | April 24, 2016 | The Simpsons become different Disney characters with Maggie as 1920s era Minnie Mouse, Lisa as Cinderella, Marge as Snow White, Homer as Baloo and Bart as Sorcerer Mickey (animated by Disney veteran Eric Goldberg) | Fland Canyon | VABF12 | |
594 | May 8, 2016 | The wall behind the couch breaks and the Simpsons family finds themselves in the Duff Stadium during a rugby match. Homer next finds himself piled under the rugby team. | To Courier with Love | VABF14 | |
595 | May 15, 2016 | None (shortened intro) | Simprovised | VABF13 | |
596 | May 22, 2016 | In the living room, Marge suggests building a couch, so Homer orders one from a store and tries to assemble it. He fails, so he steals the Flanders' couch. | Orange is the New Yellow | VABF15 |
Season 28 (2016-2017)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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597 | September 25, 2016 | In a parody of the Adventure Time intro, it zooms up through what looks like a simpsonized Land of Ooo and ends in a tree house, then a parodied version of the Adventure Time theme plays. | Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus | VABF20 | |
598 | October 2, 2016 | Homer is on the couch, but Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are in different positions in the living room. A hand with a myPhone taps Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie into a text, leaving Homer the only one on the couch. The hand attempts to put Homer into the texts, but fails due to his size. He says, "I'm too fat!". Then the hand pulls out a myPad, but it still doesn't work, after that the hand grabs a hammer and knocks Homer out with it until he's unconscious. | Friends and Family | VABF18 | |
599 | October 9, 2016 | None (shortened intro) | The Town | VABF17 | |
600 | October 16, 2016 | In a couch gag named, "Planet of the Couches", the Simpsons are being chased by couches through a field, until they are caught and imprisoned. The Simpsons' couch breaks them out, and leads the family to a buried Lard Lad statue. Homer then grabs a rock and slams it on the couch, making it unconscious. The Simpson family sits on the couch. | Treehouse of Horror XXVII 600th Episode | VABF16 | |
601 | October 23, 2016 | Marge and Lisa push Homer into a art museum. He then looks at distorted-like paintings and then sees the world like the paintings. He walks out of the art museum to see a distorted Springfield, and walks back to his home and sits on the distorted couch with a distorted Maggie. Homer tries to blend in, but ends up in the wrong art form, and says D'oh! in a speech bubble. The TV credits are also distorted. | Trust But Clarify | VABF21 | |
602 | November 6, 2016 | None (shortened intro) | There Will Be Buds | VABF22 | |
603 | November 13, 2016 | Everyone, except for Lisa sit on a couch made of clouds on a heavenly Roman scenario. The family looks around for her and she appears from a hole on Homer's forehead reading Homer's Odyssey. Homer then covers the hole with Maggie's pacifier. | Havana Wild Weekend | VABF19 | |
604 | November 20, 2016 | Only Bart sits on the couch as the rest of the family was killed during the opening. He looks around for them, grabs pictures of his family, puts them on the couch, grabs the remote and turns the TV on. | Dad Behavior | WABF01 | |
605 | December 4, 2016 | The Simpsons go to sit on the couch, but it's nowhere to be seen. A group of Russian soldiers point guns at the family and they immediately surrender. the gag turns into a painting similar to "The Third of May 1808" and Homer yells "D'oh!" | The Last Traction Hero | WABF03 | |
606 | December 11, 2016 | The Simpsons run to the couch, dressed as characters from A Christmas Carol. (Homer is the Ghost of Christmas Present, Marge is Jacob Marley, Lisa is The Ghost of Chrismas Past, Maggie is the Ghost of Christmas Future, and Bart is Tiny Tim) Mr. Burns (dressed as Ebenezer Scrooge) says "Smithers, release the Christmas hounds!" and the hounds chase them off the couch. | The Nightmare After Krustmas | WABF02 | |
607 | January 8, 2017 | The Simpsons go to sit on the couch, then it turns as part of a Simpsons Couch Gag playset. It zooms out revealing more Simpsons toys, until enough to see Bart and Marge. Bart is trying to get a toy as it is only 3 for $1, but Marge says not to get it and pulls Bart off. | Pork and Burns | WABF06 | |
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January 15, 2017 | None (shortened intro) | The Great Phatsby | WABF04 WABF05 | |
610 | February 12, 2017 | The Simpsons sit on the couch, but Maggie is missing. Marge moves the picture behind the couch and opens a safe to reveal Maggie and gold. | Fatzcarraldo | WABF07 | |
611 | February 19, 2017 | The family arrives at the couch, but Homer notices the sail boat painting has disappeared. Bart suggests another animated show stole it. Homer walks on the set of South Park and The California Raisins but can't find it, and booes the raisins, but in the fight that follows a fire starts, he escapes through a door to find that the Nerd from Robot Chicken, who is watching a video of the previous Robot Chicken couch gag, bought it from Bart on a bid. Homer, while the Nerd rambles on, steals the painting and leaves a paper one, and runs through the stages back home, killing the South Park characters too, announcing he did retrieve it, only to find the family replaced it, and Marge swears her disappointment. | The Cad and the Hat | WABF08 | |
612 | March 5, 2017 | A pachinko machine is shown, with the family at the bottom. Everyone but Homer gets many balls in. Homer is sad but on opening his mouth he swallows one and chokes. | Kamp Krustier | WABF09 | |
613 | March 12, 2017 | Bill Plympton's fifth couch gag. In the living room, crudely-drawn versions of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart walk in and sit on the couch. As the camera pans upwards, it is revealed that Maggie drew the crudely-drawn family, and she continues drawing. The camera continues to pan upwards as Lisa is drawing Maggie, Bart is drawing Lisa, Marge is drawing Bart, and Homer is drawing Marge while holding a bitten donut and another pencil in his other hand. When Homer tries to finish his donut, the pencil on his other hand stabs him in the face as he screams in pain while blood squirts out. The scene stops as Bill Plympton's signature appears and Homer finishes screaming. | 22 For 30 | WABF10 | |
614 | March 19, 2017 | Most of the Simpson family's pets are seen on the couch, including Santa's Little Helper, Snowball V, Santa's Little Helper's puppies, Mr. Pinchy, Plopper, Mojo the Helper Monkey, Nibbles, Stampy, Hendrix, Strangles, Laddie, Raymond Bird, Chirpy Boy, Bart Junior, the Bolivian tree lizard, Bart's raccoon, Princess, Pokey, the Screamapillar, Jub-Jub, and Lou. Stampy then trumpets afterwards. | A Father's Watch | WABF11 | |
615 | April 2, 2017 | The family arrives at the couch dressed up as X-Men characters. Homer is Professor X, Marge is Mystique, Bart is Angel, Lisa is Storm, and Maggie is X-23. Stan Lee appears and complains, "There's nothing too short that I can't cameo!" | The Caper Chase | WABF12 | |
616 | April 30, 2017 | In a parody of The Big Bang Theory opening, a song plays to the tune of said show's theme song as the camera zooms through the universe. We get close to the planet Earth and learn a brief history of The Simpsons from the beginning to present day, while brief second screenshots of older Simpsons moments are shown. We then see the Simpsons run to the couch and sit on it, which then disappears out from under them. | Looking for Mr. Goodbart 616th Episode | WABF13 | |
617 | May 7, 2017 | The Simpsons are shown as Chia Pets on a plant display cart instead of the couch. Someone off-screen waters them, and the grass in each of the family members grow. However, only Homer's sideburns and beard succeed to grow, but his two head hairs grow in seconds later. This is the very first couch gag to appear in place of the intro (meaning that the episode immediately begins with the couch gag). | Moho House | WABF14 | |
618 | May 21, 2017 | The family (except Maggie), in snow suits, are ice climbing to the top of an ice shelf. Homer then asks for the couch, which a sherpa brings up, and the family sits. Another sherpa brings the TV in, but collapses, and the sherpa who brought the couch up is out of breath and carries his partner to safety. Maggie appears, who finished her ice climb, but hits her ice axe on Homer's foot, causing the couch and the family (but Maggie) to freeze and melt.
NOTE: This episode does have the normal intro, but it´s part of the episode. |
Dogtown | WABF15 |
Season 29 (2017-2018)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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619 | October 1, 2017 | None (shortened intro) | The Serfsons | WABF17 | |
620 | October 8, 2017 | None (shortened intro) | Springfield Splendor | WABF22 | |
621 | October 15, 2017 | The Simpsons are all different furniture in their living room (Homer as the couch, Marge as the TV, Bart as the lamp next to the phone, Lisa as the other lamp, and Maggie as the sailboat painting). Then, the different pieces of furniture sit on Homer. | Whistler's Father | WABF16 | |
622 | October 22, 2017 | None (Halloween intro) | Treehouse of Horror XXVIII | WABF18 | |
623 | November 5, 2017 | The family goes through different decades. First, they appear in the 1800s as the Simpsonovich family, where they run in to the 1800-style living room, sit on the couch, and peel potatoes. When they hear a knock, they lift the couch and take it with them as they leave the room and three soldiers come in. The Simpsonovichs are now sitting on their couch on a ship with many other people and their couches. They leave the ship and are now in the US, where they are granted access. However, the Szyslaks don't get access, so they get quarantined. Then, the Simpsons are in the early 1900s, where they are living in a small apartment doing things; Homer is sewing, Maggie is in a crib, Bart is playing with a baseball, Lisa is crocheting, and Marge is doing the laundry, including hanging the couch outside to dry with the other clothes. Next, the Simpsons are in the 1950s, where only Homer and Marge are sitting on the couch while other couples are dancing. Then, the Simpsons are in the present day, where they are in their normal living room, but the house starts to get flooded, so they lift their couch and leave the house with it. Finally, they are in the future, where they're sitting on the couch in a UFO with other Springfieldians as the UFO flies away from Earth. The Simpsons arrive in the acceptance room, where a Rigellian places a Rigellian family name next to the Simpsons' name, to which Homer shouts, "D'oh!" | Grampy Can Ya Hear Me | WABF19 | |
624 | November 12, 2017 | In a silent film known as "Another Couch Gag Classic", the Simpsons run into their living room, where Lisa points out the couch to Homer, but Marge scolds her for pointing. Homer checks the time, and sees that it's now 8am, so he tells the kids to get to work. Bart and Lisa walk to the coal mine in sorrow with the other kids, but Marge tells them that they forgot Maggie, so she gives Maggie to them. After an elevator ride to the underground coal mine, Lisa realizes that they went too far down, and that they're now in Hell with dancing devils. Bart, however, decides to stay in Hell and starts to dance with the devils. | The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be | WABF20 | |
625 | November 19, 2017 | Based on "The Shrimpsons" opening sequence, the Simpson family (as fish) swim into their underwater living room, which is decorated with coral, underwater plants, and other decorations that are from the coral reef, and sit on the couch. Suddenly, a fishing hook grabs the couch with the family in tow, and is raised to the surface, where Ned Flanders grabs the couch and says, "Okily dokily!" as he places them inside a lobster cage. Once in it, Homer says, "Aw, our own home." However, a few lobsters are seen crawling towards the family. | Singin' In The Lane | WABF21 | |
626 | December 3, 2017 | The Simpsons sit on the couch as usual, but turns into a figure similar to the Lincoln Memorial, and then is seen as a Lincoln coin. Mr. Burns then presents this to Homer as his raise, to which Homer says, "D'oh!" | Mr. Lisa's Opus | XABF01 | |
627 | December 10, 2017 | The Simpsons run in and sit on the couch as usual, but they suddenly pop like popcorn, and are placed on a string, which is then wrapped around the tree. Homer yells, "D'oh!"
(NOTE: In some versions of this couch gag, the family is in their Christmas attire (elf costumes), but in others, they're just in their regular outfits.) |
Gone Boy | XABF02 | |
628 | January 7, 2018 | None (shortened intro) | Haw-Haw Land | XABF03 | |
629 | January 14, 2018 | The couch gives birth to a baby couch, but Homer drops the baby couch and Maggie sits on it. | Frink Gets Testy | XABF04 | |
630 | March 18, 2018 | None (shortened intro) | Homer Is Where the Art Isn't | XABF05 | |
631 | March 25, 2018 | Homer's Face couch gag | 3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage | XABF06 | |
632 | April 8, 2018 | Someone connects the dots The Simpson (plus Homer with 3 eyes) and as he finishes, Homer is seen 3-eyed and yells "D'oh!". | No Good Read Goes Unpunished | XABF07 | |
633 | April 15, 2018 | None (Shortened intro) | King Leer | ||
634 | April 1, 2018 | None (Shortened intro) | Forgive and Regret | XABF09 | |
635 | April 22, 2018 | None (Due to Lisa extended sax before skip the couch gags) | Lisa Gets the Blues 635th Episode | XABF11 | |
636 | April 29, 2018 | Museum of television. | Fears of a Clown 636th Episode | XABF08 | |
637 | May 6, 2018 | Ferris Wheel | Left Behind | XABF12 | |
638 | May 13, 2018 | The Simpson family gets printed out from printers, but Homer gets paper jammed, and then says "Mmm..., Jam" | Throw Grampa from the Dane | XABF13 | |
639 | May 20, 2018 | The Simpson family goes to sit on the couch but the couch is not there. Marge rings a bell and Puritans starts building a wooden one. After sitting on it, Homer tries to change the channel with the remote, but one of the Puritans informs him there's no electricity, to which Homer D'ohs. | Flanders' Ladder | XABF14 |
Season 30 (2018-2019)[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag | Episode | Code |
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640 | September 30, 2018 | A series of clips from each season is shown (for a full list, see the references page). An alien family is then seen sitting on a couch in the Star System HD 102365 - 30 Light Years Away from Earth. The adult male alien asks why Homer sounds like Walter Matthau. | Bart's Not Dead | XABF19 | |
641 | October 7, 2018 | None (Shortened intro) | Heartbreak Hotel | XABF15 | |
642 | October 14, 2018 | After getting hit through the door of the Simpson house, Homer appears in Bob's Burgers, during the show's opening sequence. He gets scared at this. Meanwhile, the family look in on him and talk about Homer, wondering what he is doing. | My Way or the Highway to Heaven | XABF17 | |
643 | October 21, 2018 | None (Halloween intro) | "Treehouse of Horror XXIX | XABF16 | |
644 | November 4, 2018 |