The following is a list of couch gags seen on The Simpsons.
Season 1
# | Airdate | Thumbnail | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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1 | December 17, 1989 | no gag (Christmas, pilot episode) | "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" | 7G08 | |
2 | January 14, 1990 | File:CouchGagS1E02-01.jpg |
Squashed Bart couch gag | "Bart the Genius" | 7G02 |
3 | January 21, 1990 | Collapsed Couch couch gag | "Homer's Odyssey" | 7G03 | |
4 | January 28, 1990 | Squashed Homer couch gag | "There's No Disgrace Like Home" | 7G04 | |
5 | February 4, 1990 | No gag (shortened opening) | "Bart the General" | 7G05 | |
6 | February 11, 1990 | Squashed Maggie couch gag | "Moaning Lisa" | 7G06 | |
7 | February 18, 1990 | Normal 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 | Collapsed Couch couch gag | "Homer's Night Out" | 7G10 | |
11 | April 15, 1990 | Squashed Homer couch gag | "The Crepes of Wrath" | 7G13 | |
12 | April 29, 1990 | Squashed Maggie couch gag | "Krusty Gets Busted" | 7G12 | |
13 | May 13, 1990 | Normal couch gag | "Some Enchanted Evening" | 7G01 |
Season 2
# | Airdate | Thumbnail | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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14 | October 11, 1990 | Falling Couch couch gag | "Bart Gets an "F"" | 7F03 | |
15 | October 18, 1990 | Egyptian Dance couch gag | "Simpson and Delilah" | 7F02 | |
16 | October 25, 1990 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror" | 7F04 | |
17 | November 1, 1990 | Folding Bed couch gag | "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" | 7F01 | |
18 | November 8, 1990 | Hidden Maggie couch gag | "Dancin' Homer" | 7F05 | |
19 | November 15, 1990 | Pets and Family couch gag | "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 and 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 | Homer squeezes everyone off the couch one by one until he has the couch all to himself. | "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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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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. Homer pulls a distressed Santa’s Little Helper 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 hand. Before the family can come in, it escapes through a trap door in the floor. 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 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "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 | Everyone sits on the couch, and falls in with their legs behind their heads. | "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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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60 | September 24, 1992 | The Flintstones (Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles) are on the couch. When the Simpsons come in, Fred smiles at Homer and invites him to sit. | "Kamp Krusty" | 8F24 | |
61 | October 1, 1992 | The family sits on the couch. The couch 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 behind an empty couch. | "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. (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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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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 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 is 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 sees 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.
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"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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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104 | September 4, 1994 | The Simpsons sit down in midair; the couch builds itself on top of the family and makes them fall. | "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 try to retrieve their own parts, but it’s not an improvement.(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. (in a parody of how 1950s and 1960s cartoons utilized repeating 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 Quantam 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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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129 | September 17, 1995 | The theme from "Dragnet" plays as the couch slides away and a police lineup height chart unfurls from above. The family lines up in front of it.). | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" | 2F20 | |
130 | September 24, 1995 | Like a fax machine, the couch ejects a sheet of paper with a picture 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 under water, 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. | "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 the 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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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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 “Homer 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. | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" | 3G03 | |
167 | February 9, 1997 | repeat of 4F06's gag,(in syndication, this is replaced with the "Simpsons Meet The Flintstones" couch gag from 8F24, but the audio from 4F06's gag can still be heard) | "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 raingear, 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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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179 | September 21, 1997 | The family comes in, dressed as the Harlem Globetrotters, passing a basketball to each other while Sweet Georgia Brown plays. Maggie dunks the ball into the basket above the couch, hitting Homer on the head. | "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" | 4F22 | |
180 | September 28, 1997 | The Simpsons are dressed as astronauts and sit on the couch just as it blasts off into space. | "The Principal and the Pauper" | 4F23 | |
181 | October 19, 1997 | Homer runs in alone and stands in front of the couch. The top half of him pops off and on to the couch revealing a smaller Marge standing inside the lower half of Homer, like a Russian nesting doll. The top half of Marge pops off revealing Bart, whose top half pops off revealing Lisa, whose top half finally pops off to reveal Maggie, who stays in the middle of Homer’s body and sucks on her pacifier. | "Lisa's Sax" | 3G02 | |
182 | October 26, 1997 | The Simpsons sit on the couch. Metal shackles restrain their wrists and ankles and a metal cap comes down on all of their heads. The family writhes in pain as they get electrocuted. (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 picture 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 microsized 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”. | "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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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204 | August 23, 1998 | repeat of 5F08's gag | "Lard of the Dance" | 5F20 | |
205 | September 20, 1998 | Similar to 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 gets run over by Homer. Lisa gets catapulted into the garage roof, and Homer gets run down by Marge 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. (Halloween episode) | "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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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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 8F02), Bart is a mutant fly (from 5F02), Marge is a witch (also from 5F02), and Maggie is an alien (from AABF01); 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. (Halloween episode) | "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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code | |
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249 | November 1, 2000 | no gag (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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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270 | October 28, 2001 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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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 picture 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 pictures 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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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314 | November 2, 2003 | no gag (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 | Everybody slides down separate poles and end up on the couch, in Batman-style costumes, in the Batcave. | "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, D'oh-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!" 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 FABF01'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 FABF06's gag | "Bart-Mangled Banner" | FABF17 | |
335 | May 23, 2004 | repeat of FABF02's gag | "Fraudcast News" | FABF18 |
Season 16
# | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
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336 | November 7, 2004 | no gag (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 | 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'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 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 a different version where after the knife is pulled Bart just runs away screaming, 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 balloons and Snowball V pops the one that looks like Homer. | "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" | GABF09 |
Season 17
# | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
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357 | September 11, 2005 | The family enters the living room through a metal detector, except for Homer, who sets it off. After 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 | 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 | no gag (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, it runs for exactly 40 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 and the family is wearing black. 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 |
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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 every castmember (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 | no gag (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, and Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II 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 gag1 | "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 |
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401 | September 23, 2007 | The entire opening sequence is changed to show a ruined Springfield being rebuilt in the aftermath of The Simpsons Movie. As construction work goes on around them, The Simpsons join Plopper the pig on the couch to the tune of 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 | "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 |
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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. | KABF14 | |
424 | November 2, 2008 | None | 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." | 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 | KABF23 |
431 | March 1, 2009 | The Simpsons go through the openings of The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, and Cheers. In the Cheers segment, Sideshow Bob enters in reference to Kelsey Grammer's character in Cheers, the family run out screaming and end up at the couch with a sigh of relief. . | How the Test Was Won | KABF24 |
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 | |
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442 | September 27, 2009 | The Simpsons are at an underground train station where a train pulls in and opens its doors, revealing the living room, complete with couch. The Simpsons get in and sigh as the door closes and the train pulls off. | 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 picture on the wall and blasts the room with a machine gun. | Bart Gets a "Z" | LABF15 | |
444 | October 11, 2009 |
repeat of LABF01's couch gag |
The Great Wife Hope | LABF16 | |
445 | October 18, 2009 |
None. (Halloween episode) |
Treehouse of Horror XX | LABF14 | |
446 | November 15, 2009 |
The Simpsons family, dressed in prehistoric-style clothing, runs onto the couch (which is in a prehistoric area, resting on a tar pit) and sinks with it into a tar pit. |
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 couch gag | "The Color Yellow" | MABF06 | |
455 | March 14, 2010 | repeat of LABF04's couch gag | "Postcards From the Wedge" | MABF05 | |
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 couch 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 couch 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 | | 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 | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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465 | September 26, 2010 | The Simpsons sit on the couch with a banner hung above saying "22 Seasons congratulations from FOX" A FOX representative invites Maggie to blow out a candle on a cake, then eats the cake himself leaving the Simpsons Family. The banner then falls down. | Elementary School Musical | 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. NOTE: The sign they're holding has the Production number on it. |
Loan-a Lisa | MABF17 | |
467 | October 15, 2010 | The family are seated on the couch which turns out to be a picture hanging in a sweatshop that produces animation cels and merchandise, in harsh environments. | MoneyBART | MABF18 | |
468 | November 7, 2010 | None (Halloween episode) | MABF16 | ||
469 | November 14, 2010 | ? | Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life | MABF20 | |
470 | November 21, 2010 | In a spoof of 2010's Avatar, The Simpson family is turn into Nav'i Avatars and each member try to get a "couch-monster", but only Bart manages to get it. The couch flies to a mountain, which Bart turns on the TV. | The Fool Monty | NABF01 | |
471 | November 28, 2010 | After getting shrunk by Prof. Frink, the tiny family tries to rush to the couch, only for them to rush into a mouse hole and getting stuck in a mouse trap. |
How Munched Is that Birdie in the Window? |
NABF02 | |
472 | December 5, 2010 | None (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 | The couch runs away and the Simpsons chase it through the sections of The Springfield Shopper, finally catching up to it in the classified ads. | 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 and get sent to the penalty box. Homer spits out a tooth, | Angry Dad: The Movie | NABF07 | |
479 | March 6, 2011 | Family being selected via game | The Scorpion's Tale | NABF08 | |
480 | March 13, 2011 | The simpsons sit on the couch, and then a springboard comes out, smashing them to the screen. | A Midsummer's Nice Dream | NABF09 | |
481 | March 27, 2011 | In a black-and-white version, The Simpsons sits on the couch normally and Bart pushes the word "Fatso" in Homer's direction. Homer says "D'oh". | Love is a Many Strangled Thing | NABF10 | |
482 | April 10, 2011 | None (no opening credits) | 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 | 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 | None | The Ned-liest Catch | NABF15 |
Season 23
# | Airdate | Thumbnail | Gag | Episode | Code |
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487 | September 25, 2011 | None | The Falcon and the D'ohman | NABF16 | |
488 | October 2, 2011 | In a John Kricfalusi couch gag, Homer yells "BEER!" and a spotlight appears on Marge while she plops from the couch to the kitchen and Homer says "Gotta watch that woman to get beer." Then Bart's eyes have a reflection of fire and then gets a whoopee cushion from under the couch and puts on Homer's seat. Homer sits on it and Bart laughs. Homer starts strangling Bart but then Marge appears again. Homer pours the beer on his head. Then behind the TV John Kricfalusi's signature is written. | Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts | NABF17 | |
489 | October 30, 2011 | None | Treehouse of Horror XXII | ||
490 | November 6, 2011 | Repeat of NABF13's couch gag | Replaceable You | ||
491 | November 13, 2011 | None | The Food Wife | NABF20 | |
January 29, 2012 | Repeat of KABF24's couch gag. | Moe Goes from Rags to Riches | |||
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, look around, and then the screen zooms out to reveal the previous couch gags in a mosaic saying "500". The screen then shatters, and shows Homer strangling Bart (looking similar to "Angry Dad: The Movie") | At Long Last Leave | PABF07 |
Couch gags within episodes
Sometimes there is a couch gag during the episode itself, usually during a spoof of the opening sequence.
Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
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October 7, 1993 | During the "Thompsons" introduction, the family sits on the couch and a pile of fish falls from above. | "Cape Feare" | 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" | 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" | 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" | 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 two 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 |