List of couch gags

Simpsons Couch — The Simpsons sit on the couch

The following is a list of couch gags seen in the opening sequence of The Simpsons.

Season 1

#	Airdate	Gag Name	Episode	Code
1	December 17, 1989	no gag	"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; the couch falls apart leaving the family sitting on cushions on the ground. The side table slides away as well.	"Homer's Odyssey"	7G03
4	January 28, 1990	The family sits on the couch. 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. Maggie gets squashed into the air, falls, and gets caught by Marge.	"Moaning Lisa"	7G06
7	February 18, 1990	The family sits normally; nothing else happens. NOTE: This was originally to be the first couch gag.	"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

#	Airdate	Gag Name	Episode	Code
14	October 11, 1990	The weight of the family causes the couch to fall 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	Halloween (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. They then land 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 on her pacifier happily.	"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 face the TV as usual.	"Dead Putting Society"	7F08
20	November 22, 1990	Grampa is asleep on the couch and gets startled awake when the family comes in.	"Bart vs. Thanksgiving"	7F07
21	December 6, 1990	Homer tips the couch over on its side. Maggie sits 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; Maggie peeks from behind.	"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"	7F11
25	January 31, 1991	repeat of 7F03's gag	"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	"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	"The War of the Simpsons"	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	"Blood Feud"	7F22

Season 3

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
36	September 19, 1991	The family sits; the couch tips over backwards and crashes into the back wall.	"Stark Raving Dad"	7F24
37	September 26, 1991	The family sits on the couch but Homer sits on Santa's Little Helper, whom Homer pulls out from under him.	"Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"	8F01
38	October 3, 1991	repeat of 7F02's gag	"When Flanders Failed"	7F23
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	Halloween II (shortened Halloween intro)	"Treehouse of Horror II"	8F02
43	November 7, 1991	Homer lies down on the couch and ends up getting sat on by the rest of the family.	"Lisa's Pony"	8F06
44	November 14, 1991	The couch's cushions are missing; the family sits, but falls into the couch.	"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	"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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
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 the family.	"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 now skeletons who rush to the couch and sit as normal. This is based on the promotional poster from "Treehouse of Horror II". (Halloween episode)	"Treehouse of Horror III"	9F04
65	November 3, 1992	The Simpsons sit on the couch. The couch 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	"New Kid on the Block"	9F06
68	November 19, 1992	The couch is replaced by a small wooden chair; the family sits 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 are shrunk and climb 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 in her belly dancer costume, Nelson, Milhouse, Martin, and Mrs. Krabappel) from the show 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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
82	September 30, 1993	A director does three couch gag takes. Take one: The Simpsons first run into the living room and shatter like glass, 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 family sits; the couch and family are crushed by the cutout foot from the opening 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 scene 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. (Halloween episode)	"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	"$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; 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 reigns him in and hurls him onto the couch.	"Burns' Heir"	1F16
100	April 28, 1994	The Simpsons sit on the couch just as a translucent FOX station identification logo appears in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Homer notices it, gets up from the couch, peels it off, and stomps on it (with the family joining him in stomping it) before returning to the couch.	"Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"	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	"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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
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. 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. (Halloween episode)	"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 run in from the side past a repeating background shot of the couch and TV (a parody where 1950s and 1960s 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's 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. 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 of the early 1930s—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 as seen on the show Quantum Leap).	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma"	2F14
121	March 5, 1995	The family's heights are reversed; Maggie is now the largest while Homer is the smallest. Bart's height is still the same.	"A Star is Burns"	2F31
122	March 19, 1995	repeat of 2F05's gag	"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	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"	2F16

Season 7

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
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 drive 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. Mechanical arms color and detail the family.	"Lisa the Vegetarian"	3F03
134	October 29, 1995	The family are hanged on nooses, staring blankly. Despite being dead from asphyxiation, Maggie manages to suck on her pacificer. (Halloween episode)	"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 members 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. 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 an error.	"Marge Be Not Proud"	3F07
140	January 7, 1996	The family sits. 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 moose 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 version	"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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
154	October 27, 1996	The Grim Reaper is on the couch. The family runs in, but keel over and die one by one. The Reaper then puts his feet up on the corpses of the Simpson family. (Halloween episode)	"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 members 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 jet packs. Maggie spirals in last, landing in Marge's lap.	"The Springfield Files"	3G01
164	January 19, 1997	The couch is now a giant Whack-A-Mole game, with The Simpson family as the moles. The clown hallucination music from the season six episode “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. Cut to outside where Homer is struggling with a locked front door while the other members of the family wait 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 tilt of 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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
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. (Halloween episode)	"Treehouse of Horror VIII"	5F02
183	November 2, 1997	The couch is a trough filled with water. The Simpsons, with their butts 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, then 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; 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 original closing credits of The Jetsons.	"All Singing, All Dancing"	5F24
190	January 11, 1998	The Simpsons go to sit on the couch, but fall on their butts 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 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 daughter 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 growns 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 find 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"	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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
204	August 23, 1998	repeat of 5F08's gag	"Lard of the Dance"	5F20
205	September 20, 1998	Similar to the couch gag in Marge vs. the Monorail, the living room is filled with supporting characters from the show. Unlike "Marge vs. the Monorail," 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 A Nightmare on Elm Street movies) and Jason Voorhees (of the Friday the 13th movies) sit on the couch, wondering where the family is.	"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, then lift up, revealing the family members all have 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’ character rides the bomb, the Simpsons (wearing white cowboy hats) straddle the couch as it drops from a bomb bay door. 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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
227	September 26, 1999	The Simpson family (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 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!" 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. He 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 (simluating 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	A Sigmund Freud caricature is sitting in a chair next to the couch. Homer hops on the couch and yells, "Oh, doctor, I'm crazy!", then sobs 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) get on the next train that arrives on the track and leave.	"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	"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"	BABF14
245	April 30, 2000	The Simpsons (save 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, fails to release the vine in time, 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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
249	November 1, 2000	Halloween XI (Halloween episode)	"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. 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 The 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 The Charlie Brown Christmas Special while the popular "Peanuts" theme 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 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.	"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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
270	November 6, 2001	Halloween XII (Halloween special)	"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. Homer 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 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 sits on the floor with the kids to 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 catch The Squeaky Voice Teen making out with a teenage girl 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.	"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
290	May 19, 2002	repeat of DABF05's gag	"The Frying Game"	DABF16
291	May 22, 2002	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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
292	November 3, 2002	no gag (Halloween episode)	"Treehouse of Horror XIII"	DABF19
293	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
294	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
295	November 24, 2002	The couch is drawn on a "Etch A Sketch" (called a "Sketch-A-Etch" in the couch gag) and Homer yells, "Whoo-hoo!" when the Screenshot is completed.	"Large Marge"	DABF18
296	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
297	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
298	January 5, 2003	Everybody is deep-fried in a fast-food fryer, then emptied onto the couch and salted.	"Special Edna"	EABF02
299	January 12, 2003	In black and white, everyone is wearing early-20th-century clothing and is 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
300	February 2, 2003	Everybody sticks their head through a cutout of the couch and have their Screenshots taken.	"The Strong Arms of the Ma"	EABF04
301	February 9, 2003	A giant baby picks up doll versions of the Simpson family and plays with them.	"Pray Anything"	EABF06
302	February 16, 2003	Everybody and everything is made of gingerbread; Homer takes a bite out of Bart's head.	"Barting Over"	EABF05
303	February 16, 2003	repeat of DABF18's gag	"I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"	EABF07
304	March 2, 2003	repeat of DABF10's gag	"A Star Is Born-Again"	EABF08
305	March 9, 2003	repeat of EABF01's gag	"Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"	EABF09
306	March 16, 2003	repeat of DABF08's gag	"C.E. D'oh"	EABF10
307	March 30, 2003	repeat of DABF22's gag	"'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"	EABF11
308	April 13, 2003	repeat of EABF02's gag	"Three Gays of the Condo"	EABF12
309	April 27, 2003	Everybody is a mime, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existent couch.	"Dude, Where's My Ranch?"	EABF13
310	May 4, 2003	repeat of EABF03's gag	"Old Yeller-Belly"	EABF14
311	May 11, 2003	repeat of EABF04's gag	"Brake My Wife, Please"	EABF15
312	May 18, 2003	repeat of EABF06's gag	"The Bart of War"	EABF16
313	May 18, 2003	repeat of EABF05's gag	"Moe Baby Blues"	EABF17

Season 15

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
314	November 2, 2003	Halloween XIV (Halloween episode)	"Treehouse of Horror XIV"	EABF21
315	November 9, 2003	The family runs to the couch as normal, only to decay and turn to piles of dust.	"My Mother the Carjacker"	EABF18
316	November 16, 2003	A Polaroid photo ejects onto the couch; it develops into a photo of the family.	"The President Wore Pearls"	EABF20
317	November 23, 2003	There is a Play-Doh press on the back wall; it presses Play-Doh versions of everybody 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, the protagonist 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 everyone is seated on the couch, but 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	Everybody is squeezed like frosting out of a pastry bag onto the top of a cake.	"I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot"	FABF04
323	January 25, 2004	Everybody's head pops out of a giant piece of apple pie. Homer takes a bite from the pie.	"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. (The is the third food-based couch gag in a row)	"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; everybody sprouts up like plants.	"Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"	FABF07
326	February 22, 2004	Everybody is a bag 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. Homer: 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

#	Airdate	Screenshot	Gag	Episode	Code
336	November 7, 2004		Halloween XV (Halloween episode)	"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 room to find the couch missing, only to have the couch fall from the sky and crush them.	"Sleeping with the Enemy"	FABF19
339	December 5, 2004		All of the family members sit down as normal. The twist: The Simpsons now look like Moe Szyslak.	"She Used to Be My Girl"	FABF22
340	December 12, 2004	Finding Nemo reference	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. Lisa then says 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 get buried by the sand underneath 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 to 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, 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 go up; 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, Montgomery Burns, Comic Book Guy, Kearney Zzyzwicz, Professor Frink Principal Skinner, Dolph Starbeam Barney Gumble, Judge Constance Harm,and many others yell out "Surprise!". Homer then 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. Bob pulls out a knife and chases Bart out of the living room. (Note some airings use an alternate version where after Sideshow Bob gets his knife out Bart starts to panic & runs out of the living room screaming with no chase, some airing use the Simpsons seeing their doubles on the couch gag instead.)	"Mobile Homer"	GABF07
349	April 3, 2005		The family sits on the couch, only to have a spit comes through the wall and the floor open up to reveal fire down below. The couch and family begin rotating over the fire. Marge's hair catches fire and the boat painting falls off the wall.	"The Seven-Beer Snitch"	GABF08
350	April 17, 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 appears to be Jazz.	"Future-Drama"	GABF12
351	May 1, 2005		The living room is an almost fully assembled jigsaw puzzle, with only the pieces with the family members' heads needing to be placed. The person completing the puzzle places all the heads on correctly except for Homer and Maggie, after which the former fixes them.	"Don't Fear the Roofer"	GABF10
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.	"The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"	GABF09

Season 17

#	Airdate	Screenshot	Gag	Episode	Code
357	September 11, 2005		The family enters the living room through a metal detector, except for Homer, who sets it off. After four failed attempts, Homer (who is now stripped down to his briefs) is detained by a security guard who is inspecting Homer with a handheld scanning wand.	"Bonfire of the Manatees"	GABF18
358	September 18, 2005	Gumby animation.	The living room is made of clay. Six balls roll to the couch and form into Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, Bart—and Gumby. (filmed in claymation)	"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		Halloween XVI (Halloween episode)	"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; Professor Frink is attacked by a futuristic flying couch with laser weaponry; Moe is attacked by the booths in his bar, but fights quite well with his shotgun; Homer takes refuge 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 we find that the living room and the family are part of an alien zoo exhibit on Rigel IV.	"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; then a large bird enters 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, a map of Springfield burns away to reveal the family on horseback in the countryside. The couch is nowhere to be found. Bonanza-like music continues over the closing shot of the TV.	"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; 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 their access to the couch has been blocked by laser beams. They work their way through the laser beams and sit down. Then 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 and actresses) sit on the couch just as the animated Simpsons opening comes on. (Subsequent airings had a repeat of the "Simpsons Roasting on a Barbecue" couch gag from GABF08).	"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 "Whoo-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 laughs 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	"The Monkey Suit"	HABF14
378	May 21, 2006		repeat of GABF20's gag	"Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"	HABF16

Season 18

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
379	September 10, 2006	The couch is replaced by four wooden stools. An instrumental of Pop Goes the Weasel plays as the family plays musical chairs. When the music stops, everyone, except for Homer, sits down. 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 filled with snacks looking like some characters (including The Simpson family) from the show appears instead of the couch. 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	Halloween XVII (Halloween episode)	"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 turns up missing, and everyone looks sad as three men wipe them dry and puts a new pacifier in 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 onto a wastebasket; a computer menu item "empty trash" is then selected.	"Moe'N'a Lisa"	HABF19
385	November 26, 2006	All of the family members have the bodies of cockroaches; they all scuttle off after the lights are turned on.	"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 family members. Homer can be heard yelling, "Whoo-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 decoration which is on a Christmas tree. Santa's Little Helper and Snowball V rest nearby.	"Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2"	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 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 family are paper dolls, and are each dressed into their regular clothes.	"Little Big Girl"	JABF04
391	February 18, 2007	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?" Homer can only give an exhausted sigh of relief. (This is the longest couch gag to date as it runs over 1 minute long.)	"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 family comes in and sits on the couch. A second family comes and also sits on the couch. Then hundreds of multiple families come in, and the second story windows and chimney overflow with them. Homer 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 Tracy Ullman Show-era Simpsons episode "Family Portrait" (where Homer tries to get the family to pose for a family photo) is shown with a caption that reads, "20 Years Ago...")	"You Kent Always Say What You Want"	JABF15

Season 19

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
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 the "Spider Pig" theme. Homer holds him and says "My summer love".	"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 members are built one by one out of Legos. Homer can be heard shouting, "Woo-hoo!" when a 1x3 Lego Brick is put on his head, and "D'oh!" when a black 1x1 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 open up a book called "The Simpsons" 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 family members 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's 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 '90s Show"	KABF04
412	February 17, 2008	Each family member rushes into the living room and attaches themselves to a giant-size baby mobile. Homer tips the mobile.	"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 into, except for Maggie, who sticks her tongue out and takes off.	"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 KABF02's gag	"Mona Leaves-a"	KABF12
420	May 18, 2008	repeat of HABF19's gag	"All About Lisa"	KABF13

Season 20

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
421	September 28, 2008	The Simpsons are incased in Carbonite by Bounty Hunter Boba Fett.	"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.	Double, Double, Boy in Trouble	KABF14
424	November 2, 2008	None(Halloween episode)	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 roman times. A volcano 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."	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.	Take My Life, Please	LABF01
431	March 1, 2009	The Simpsons go through the openings of The Honeymooners (from the 1950s), The Dick Van Dyke Show (from the 1960s), The Brady Bunch (from the 1970s), and Cheers (from the 1980s). In the Cheers segment, Sideshow Bob enters in reference to Kelsey Grammer's character in Cheers, the family run out screaming and end up at the couch in the opening of their show(from the 1990s/2000s) 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 scene then cuts to The Simpsons in their living room, sitting on their new couch. Homer is in a body cast and turns on the 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 The 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 left hand flips an animation cel 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 cel 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's 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. Cut to a shot of an unconscious Homer floating facedown 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. 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 stereotypical 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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
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	Halloween XX (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	Episode	Code
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 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		Halloween XXI (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	Avatar (2009) animation.	In a spoof of 2009'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	Tom and Jerry animation.	In spoof of 1940's Tom and Jerry and 1998's Oggy and the Cockroaches. 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 getting stuck in a mouse trap.	"How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"	NABF02
472	December 5, 2010		The Night Before Christmas (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 MABF24'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 stretche	"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	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too animation.	In spoof of 1928 children's book The House at Pooh Corner and 1974's Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. 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 a ASCII version, The Simpsons sits on the couch normally and Bart pushes the word "Fatso" in 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 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 text of where the furniture and family would be.	"500 Keys"	NABF14
486	May 22, 2011		First Day of School	"The Ned-liest Catch"	NABF15

Season 23

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
487	September 25, 2011	None	"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	Halloween XXII (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
498	January 29, 2012	repeat of KABF24'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	In a version of the movie "Avatar", the family lays down in virtual tanks and sees themselves in Na'vi. They frolic, then try to tame flying winged couches in a canyon. Homer fails, but Bart tames one and flies the family to an area with a TV nearby, then plugs Homer's ponytail into a nearby socket. The rest of the family put's on 3D glasses.	"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.	"Lisa Goes Gaga"	PABF14

Season 24

#	Airdate	Screenshot	Gag	Episode	Code
509	September 30, 2012		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		Halloween XXIII	"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"	PABF17
511	October 21, 2012 (Canada); November 4, 2012 (US)		Original airing: no gag International/online airing: 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, 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	"The Day the Earth Stood Cool"	PABF20
516	December 16, 2012	"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		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 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.	"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 world.	"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 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’ 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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
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 series shows their version of the first Thanksgiving where the family (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 (opening sequence shortened)	"Steal This Episode"	SABF05
540	January 12, 2014	A Bill Plympton 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 eletrocuted 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 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 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 everybody pops.	"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	"Brick Like Me"	RABF21
551	May 11, 2014	Everyone's a pawn in The Game of Life, which ends with the family pawns and a Grim Reaper pawn on the couch.	"Pay Pal"	SABF15
552	May 18, 2014	The family and series creator 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

#	Airdate	Gag	Episode	Production Code
553	September 28, 2014	A surreal depiction of a future episode of the show created by Don Hertzfeldt	"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	"Treehouse of Horror XXV"	SABF21
557	November 2, 2014	None	"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 famliy 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	There is a message that reads; “Now for obligatory Frozen reference”, before cutting to a snow couch, where Lisa, appearing as Frozen’s 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 an updated version 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 couchs 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	"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 pixelated version of the 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	No couch gag	"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 forth 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. And there is background music added	The Kids Are All Fight	TABF12

Couch gags within episodes

Sometimes there is a couch gag during the episode itself, usually during a spoof of the opening sequence.

Airdate	Gag	Episode	Code
October 7, 1993	During the "Thompsons" introduction, the family sits on the couch and a pile of fish falls from above.	"Cape Feare" "The Thompsons"	9F22
December 21, 1997	After everybody of Springfield has taken all the stuff from them, The Simpsons walk to the place where the couch gags take place. In which Marge blurts out "Good Lord!"	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" "No Couch"	5F07
May 21, 2000	In an "aborted" couch gag, the family sits wearing Western outfits; the director cuts the scene as Bart is busy on the phone agreeing to do Teen Wolf 3. Lisa complains that she wants to go to bed, asking if there are child labor laws. Homer asks if Marge told her about the laws, and Marge tells him to poop in his hat. Kang and Kodos then show up with useless ballet tickets, asking if they needed them that night.	"Behind the Laughter" "Aborted (1992)"	BABF19
May 1, 2005	Instead of saying "The Simpsons", the announcer says "Three weeks later". Everyone except Bart sits; the overweight Bart arrives late and suffers a heart attack.	"The Heartbroke Kid" "Heart-attacked Bart"	GABF11
February 19, 2012	The Simpsons move in to the Outlands, a fake opening begins as "The Outlands". Bart uses spray paint, not chalk. Instead of Bart running out of the school, he uses a motorcycle, and the following four sequences are removed completely. When Homer returns home, Lisa has a helicopter and Marge uses a carriage. A fox replaces the TV when the family sits down on the couch.	"At Long Last Leave"	PABF07

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