Seasons: 1-5 • 6-10 • 11-15 • 16-20 • 21-25 • 26-30 |
The following is a list of couch gags seen in the opening sequence of The Simpsons for Seasons 21 through 25.
Season 21[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | 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 | no gag (Halloween episode) | Treehouse of Horror XX | LABF14 | |
446 | November 15, 2009 | ![]() |
The Simpsons family, dressed in prehistoric-style clothing, runs 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 from "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"), 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 and Marge's sisters (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. | "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 swallows the phone. | "Million Dollar Maybe" | MABF03 |
453 | February 14, 2010 | ![]() |
A hand 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. Cut to reveal Grampa getting his fortune read by the gypsy from "Hex and the City". Grampa gasps and turns the Death card towards the gypsy. The gypsy drops dead. | 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 Simpsons' House, it rains, the cloud leaves and various fruits grow out of the ground the Simpson family (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.) | "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 5, 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 then blown up with a firecracker. | "Moe Letter Blues" | MABF13 |
463 | May 16, 2010 | ![]() |
Harold from the children's book, Harold and the Purple Crayon draws The Simpsons' living room just as they run in to sit. Homer asks Harold to draw him a beer, and Harold 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 the puppets begin attacking each other. The view pans down, and Homer is shown choking Bart himself. | "Judge Me Tender" | MABF15 |
Season 22[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | 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. They get sad. | Elementary School Musical "Banner" | MABF21 |
467 | October 3, 2010 | ![]() |
The family run in to find a dead body on their floor. The police arrive, and the family flee 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. They are jailed, and then electrocuted. When electrocuted they scream and light up (the sign the family holds says the production number's code on it.) | "Loan-a Lisa" | MABF17 |
467 | October 15, 2010 | ![]() |
The family are seated on the couch which turns out to be a Screenshot hanging in a sweatshop that produces animation cels and merchandise, in harsh environments. |
"MoneyBART" | MABF18 |
468 | November 7, 2010 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XXI" | MABF16 | |
469 | November 14, 2010 | ![]() |
A daredevil jumps the Simpsons with a motorcycle. | "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" | MABF20 |
470 | November 21, 2010 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
In a spoof of 2010's Avatar, The Simpson family is turn into Nav'i Avatars and each member try 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 Prof. Frink, the tiny family tries to rush to the couch, only for them to rush into a mouse hole and getting stuck in a mouse trap. | "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" | NABF02 |
472 | December 5, 2010 | no gag (Christmas episode) | "The Fight Before Christmas" | MABF22 | |
473 | December 12, 2010 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Simpsons are shown through an advent calendar. | "Donnie Fatso" | MABF19 |
474 | January 9, 2011 | ![]() |
The couch prepares for the day of the Simpsons sitting on it. | "Moms I'd Like to Forget" | NABF03 |
475 | January 16, 2011 | ![]() |
The couch is a bowl. 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. Burns sends Barney in to substitute for Homer, and Homer gives a thumbs-up as two paramedics wheel him away on a stretch. | "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 | ![]() |
On a "The Simpsons Couch Gag Game" video game, the five family members are selected as players and sit on the couch. The words, "GAME OVER" appears on the screen. | "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 sit on the couch normally and Bart takes off the letters forming homer's pants to write the word "Fatso" in Homer's shirt. 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 a video cover. It zooms out again to show the exterior of a video rental store, which is wrecked by a giant ball which has swung from a bulldozer. | The Real Housewives of Fat Tony "Ball/Video" | NABF12 |
484 | May 8, 2011 | ![]() |
The couch is on display in the Smithsonian Museum. The Simpsons break into the museum, cat-burglar style, 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 the name of every thing and person instead of showing the things and persons themselves. | "500 Keys" | NABF14 |
486 | May 22, 2011 | no gag | "The Ned-liest Catch" | NABF15 |
Season 23[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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487 | September 25, 2011 | None | "The Falcon and the D'ohman" | NABF16 | |
488 | October 2, 2011 | ![]() |
In a John Kricfalusi couch gag, Homer yells "BEER!" and a spotlight appears on Marge while she plops from the couch to the kitchen and Homer says "Gotta love to watch that woman get beer." Then Bart's eyes have a reflection of fire and then gets a whoopee cushion from under the couch and puts on Homer's seat. Homer sits on it and Bart laughs. Homer starts strangling Bart but then Marge appears again. Homer pours the beer on his head. Then behind the TV John Kricfalusi's signature is written. | "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" | NABF17 |
489 | October 30, 2011 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XXII" | NABF19 | |
490 | November 6, 2011 | ![]() |
repeat of NABF13's couch gag | "Replaceable You" | NABF21 |
491 | November 13, 2011 | None | "The Food Wife" | NABF20 | |
492 | November 20, 2011 | None | "The Book Job" | NABF22 | |
493 | November 27, 2011 | None | "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 cannot. Flanders tries and is successful. Homer and the rest of the family sit on the couch as Flanders leaves. | ""The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" | PABF02 |
495 | December 11, 2011 | ![]() |
The Simpsons are gingerbread people who run on a plate set out for Santa Claus. Gingerbread Homer eats his own arm. | "Holidays of Future Passed" | NABF18 |
496 | January 8th, 2012 | ![]() |
In a Victorian-period setting, the lights go out and there is a gunshot. When the lights come up, 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 15th, 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 their. Lisa points out that it's actually episode 499. Moe tells them that Fox won't do this again. Everyone is 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 image for "Angry Dad: The Movie"). | "At Long Last Leave" | 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 sword cross scene switches to the TV. | "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 ("Michael Jackson", Stampy with Ralph in his mouth, Poochie, the ghost of Maude, Spider-Pig/Harry 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 a Bill Plympton 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. In the last scene, we see the family on the couch and Maggie 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. | "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 | ![]() |
We see Zii figures of the family 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. | PABF14 | "Lisa Goes Gaga" |
Season 24[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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509 | September 30, 2012 | Referencing 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 | "No Couch Gag" | "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" | PABF17 | |
511 | November 4, 2012 | ![]() |
Original Airing: No Couch Gag:
Reruns:The Simpsons are bit by bit flipped onto the couch via animated cels |
"Adventures in Baby-Getting" | PABF18 |
512 | November 11, 2012 | In a parody of Wacky Races, Simpsons family races 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 | "No Couch Gag" | "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" | PABF20 | |
516 | December 16, 2012 | "No Couch Gag" | "To Cur, with Love" | PABFxx | |
517 | January 6, 2013 | The Simpsons are all metal objects which then get squashed by the couch and transformed into a cube that says "World's Best Grampa" | "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" | PABF03 | |
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 | ![]() |
Primiere Airing: 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!"
Reruns: Repeat of Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart with the scene of the knight beheading Homer added. |
"Hardly Kirk-ing" | RABF05 |
522 | March 3, 2013 | ![]() |
TV Airings:
The Simpsons do their own version of the Harlem Shake called the Homer Shake Online Airings: None |
"Gorgeous Grampa" | RABF06 |
523 | March 10, 2013 | ![]() |
The second cartoon done 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. We then see Walter White and Jesse Pinkman watching the couch gag on 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.
Note: This is the ONLY canon couch gag. |
"Pulpit Friction" | RABF11 |
527 | May 5, 2013 | ![]() |
The Simpsons are sculpted in ice sitting on the couch. Grampa then turns on the heat due to the room being cold, and melts the couch. | "Whiskey Business" | RABF12 |
528 | May 12, 2013 | ![]() |
Everyone and everything in Springfield is animated a la Robot Chicken, ending with the family getting strapped to the couch and forced to watch The Simpsons by the half-robot, half-chicken creature. | "The Fabulous Faker Boy" | RABF13 |
529 | May 19, 2013 | ![]() |
The family is in the ocean and they're different types of fish which are then eaten by Blinky, the three-eyed fish. | "The Saga of Carl" | RABF14 |
530 | May 19, 2013 | ![]() ![]() |
American Airing: Five dandelions bloom and turn white on the couch. The TV sneezes, blowing the white dandelion seeds in the air, which turn into multiple Homers, Marges, Barts, Lisas, and Maggies.
Canadian Airing: The family sits with a Canadian loon, a hockey player, John A. Macdonald, and a beaver while Maggie sucks on a hockey puck. |
"Dangers on a Train" | RABF17 |
Season 25[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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531 | September 29, 2013 | ![]() |
Similar to the couch gag forseason 11's "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" and season 22's "Elementary School Musical", the couch is roped off and a bouncer lets Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie in, but not Homer in celebration of The Simpsons 25th season, a milestone. The end credits continue the couch gag by showing everyone in Springfield being let in (and the families from Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, American Dad!, and, after a brief protest over racism, The Cleveland Show) while Homer is still turned away, and ends up getting shocked with a tazer. |
"Homerland" | RABF20 |
532 | October 6, 2013 | ![]() |
A horror-themed opening directed by Guillermo del Toro, featuring classic and contemporary horror and science fiction monsters and movie references, ending with Lisa falling through a hole à la Alice in Wonderland (the 1950s Disney version) and ends up in the end sequence to del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth after getting brainwashed by Futurama's The Hypnotoad. | "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" | RABF16 |
533 | November 3, 2013 | ![]() |
A parody of The Hobbit in which The Simpsons trek to the couch. | "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" | RABF18 |
534 | November 10, 2013 | ![]() |
Everyone (except Maggie) tries to get to the couch as if they are climbing from a different direction, but gravity is pulling them away. Homer fails and falls up through the ceiling into the sky. | "YOLO" | RABF22 |
535 | November 17, 2013 | ![]() |
The Simpsons' take on the First Thanksgiving where The Simpsons (as Pilgrims) escape persecution by boarding the Mayflower (which looks like the simplistic sailboat Marge painted for Homer) and sailing to Plymouth Couch, where an Indian (Apu) offers them Thanksgiving dinner for $19.95 a person. | "Labor Pains" | RABF19 |
536 | November 24, 2013 | ![]() |
"MusicVille", a "Silly Simpsony" cartoon short featuring every character as a musical instrument (a parody of Music Land) | "The Kid Is All Right" | SABF02 |
537 | December 8, 2013 | ![]() |
The Simpsons are flailing tube man balloons on a used couch lot. Balloon Bart steals a pair of scissors and cuts Balloon Homer, who flies into some power lines. | "Yellow Subterfuge" | SABF04 |
538 | December 15, 2013 | ![]() |
Christmas version of the regular opening, this time, as a retelling of The Night Before Christmas | "White Christmas Blues" | SABF01 |
539 | January 5, 2014 | None | "Steal This Episode" | SABF05 | |
540 | January 12, 2014 | ![]() |
Another Bill Plympton animated couch gag in which the family change reality as they channel surf. | "Married to the Blob" | SABF03 |
541 | January 26, 2014 | ![]() |
Homer sits down to watch the Super Bowl, only to have to get up to get his six-pack of beer...which Bart tossed over an overhead power line. When Homer retrieves it, he gets shocked – and keeps getting shocked until the town's power goes out | "Specs and the City" | SABF06 |
542 | March 9, 2014 | ![]() |
As the Simpsons rush to the couch, the lights go off. Marge leaves to fix the fuse, and when the lights go up, the characters are drawn Triplets of Belleville-style and everything has a French aesthetic to it. Bart plays with a do-it-yourself foie gras kit, Lisa plays an accordion, Marge cries out, "Maggie? Où est Maggie?" and Homer gets up and eats a snail off the TV... oblivious that Maggie is stuck between his butt cheeks. | "Diggs" | SABF08 |
543 | March 9, 2014 | ![]() |
Earth's single large land mass breaks apart into five Simpsons-shaped continents, only for a Moe-shaped asteroid to destroy the planet. | "The Man Who Grew Too Much" | SABF07 |
544 | March 16, 2014 | ![]() |
Homer is the patient from the board game "Operation", with other characters as the pieces (Lisa is "Brainy" (the brain), and Moe is "Elbow Bender" (the elbow). When "Pain in the Butt" Bart is removed, he grabs the forceps and sticks it on the side, which causes Homer to buzz and scream in pain. | "The Winter of his Content" | SABF09 |
545 | March 23, 2014 | None | "The War of Art" | SABF10 | |
546 | March 30, 2014 | ![]() |
The Simpsons are running through the streets of Pamplona, Spain as several couch bulls chase after them. Once the Simpsons reach the couch, a bull slams Homer and takes his spot on the couch. | "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" | SABF11 |
547 | April 6, 2014 | ![]() |
The whole intro, and the couch gag as done by Minecraft. Moe comes in as a creeper and says "How yo doin?" and part of the building explodes. | "Luca$" | SABF12 |
548 | April 13, 2014 | ![]() |
The couch and the floor are covered in bubble wrap, which everyone pops. | "Days of Future Future" | SABF13 |
549 | April 27, 2014 | ![]() |
The Simpsons travel inside Homer's body. At the end, the family falls onto Homer's couch-shaped brain | "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" | SABF14 |
550 | May 4, 2014 | None | "Brick Like Me" | RABF21 | |
551 | May 11, 2014 | ![]() |
Everybody is a pawn in "The Game of Life", which ends with everybody (and a Grim Reaper pawn) on the couch. | "Pay Pal" | SABF15 |
552 | May 18, 2014 | ![]() |
The Simpsons (and Matt Groening) are part of a panel at the San Diego Comic Con. When the Comic Book Guy asks whether or not they'll be another Simpsons movie, everyone except Maggie leaves. | "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" | SABF18 |