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| * Bart lands on everyone's lap | * Bart lands on everyone's lap | ||
| * Homer gets to the couch first and lies on it; the others sit on him | * Homer gets to the couch first and lies on it; the others sit on him | ||
| * The seat cushions are missing; when they sit, they |
* The seat cushions are missing; when they sit, they fall into the couch | ||
| * Two burglars are holding the couch as everybody sits on it; they are dumped off and the couch is carried away | * Two burglars are holding the couch as everybody sits on it; they are dumped off and the couch is carried away | ||
| * Santa's Little Helper is on the couch and keeps everyone else off | * Santa's Little Helper is on the couch and keeps everyone else off | ||
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| * Everybody gets caught in a net that was spread on the floor | * Everybody gets caught in a net that was spread on the floor | ||
| * Everybody runs into each other and shatters on the floor; Santa's Little Helper examines the damage | * Everybody runs into each other and shatters on the floor; Santa's Little Helper examines the damage | ||
| * Everybody runs into each other and end up on the couch as a five-headed |
* Everybody runs into each other and end up on the couch as a five-headed blob | ||
| * Everybody runs into each other and there's an explosion; eventually, Maggie's pacifier falls from the ceiling | * Everybody runs into each other and there's an explosion; eventually, Maggie's pacifier falls from the ceiling | ||
| * The gag is a 3 take gag | * The gag is a 3 take gag | ||
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| * A fat man takes up most of the couch; everybody squeezes into the tiny spot remaining | * A fat man takes up most of the couch; everybody squeezes into the tiny spot remaining | ||
| * The room is dark as five pairs of eyes go to the couch; light reveals that it's only eyes, as eyeless bodies quickly enter, sit down, and reattach to the eyes | * The room is dark as five pairs of eyes go to the couch; light reveals that it's only eyes, as eyeless bodies quickly enter, sit down, and reattach to the eyes | ||
| * Everybody sits, then notice they're on the set of '']'' as |
* Everybody sits, then notice they're on the set of '']'' as Dave turns face forward | ||
| * Everybody pokes their head up from behind the couch (Maggie does it from behind a cushion on the couch) | * Everybody pokes their head up from behind the couch (Maggie does it from behind a cushion on the couch) | ||
| * Everybody sees two couches, then they each split into two halves, each half sitting on a couch | * Everybody sees two couches, then they each split into two halves, each half sitting on a couch | ||
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| * Everybody begins seated as if on an invisible couch; the couch comes in in pieces and forms itself atop them, causing them to fall to the floor | * Everybody begins seated as if on an invisible couch; the couch comes in in pieces and forms itself atop them, causing them to fall to the floor | ||
| * The floor is well underwater, and only the tops of everybody's heads are visible until they reach the couch (Bart is using a snorkel) | * The floor is well underwater, and only the tops of everybody's heads are visible until they reach the couch (Bart is using a snorkel) | ||
| * Everybody is |
* Everybody is beamed aboard the couch in original ] style (complete with sound effect) | ||
| * Everybody enters with a mismatched head and limbs (for example, one of Bart's legs is now Lisa's right arm, and Lisa's arms are where her legs should be) | * Everybody enters with a mismatched head and limbs (for example, one of Bart's legs is now Lisa's right arm, and Lisa's arms are where her legs should be) | ||
| * Everybody bounces up off the couch and gets their heads stuck in the ceiling | * Everybody bounces up off the couch and gets their heads stuck in the ceiling | ||
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| * Everybody runs by the same TV and couch again and again, all except Maggie grinning the whole time | * Everybody runs by the same TV and couch again and again, all except Maggie grinning the whole time | ||
| * Everybody runs to the couch from a different side (Marge runs down the side of a wall) in an ]-style house | * Everybody runs to the couch from a different side (Marge runs down the side of a wall) in an ]-style house | ||
| * The ], only with Homer in front of the couch firing the gun | * The ], only with Homer in front of the couch firing the gun | ||
| * In black & white, everybody |
* In black & white, everybody, wearing Mickey Mouse gloves, waves their hands in circles | ||
| * A cool Millonaire Likes Them | * A cool Millonaire Likes Them | ||
| * As the couch moves aside, everybody lines up in front of a police lineup height chart | * As the couch moves aside, everybody lines up in front of a police lineup height chart | ||
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| * Homer pulls a drain plug from the floor, and everybody and everything is sucked down the drain | * Homer pulls a drain plug from the floor, and everybody and everything is sucked down the drain | ||
| * Everybody sits, then inside a mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an identical couch | * Everybody sits, then inside a mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an identical couch | ||
| * A big game hunter sits on the couch, with a |
* A big game hunter sits on the couch, with a Homer-skin rug on the floor and the others' heads on the wall | ||
| * Everybody sits, bathed in fluorescent |
* Everybody sits, bathed in fluorescent ], until Homer turns on the lamp | ||
| * As Death begins on the couch, everybody runs up to the couch and falls over dead | * As Death begins on the couch, everybody runs up to the couch and falls over dead | ||
| * Everybody lands on the couch via parachute except Homer, who lands on the floor with an unopened chute | * Everybody lands on the couch via parachute except Homer, who lands on the floor with an unopened chute | ||
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| * A takeoff on the cover of The Beatles' '']'' | * A takeoff on the cover of The Beatles' '']'' | ||
| * Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart red; Homer strangles Bart, turning him normal | * Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart red; Homer strangles Bart, turning him normal | ||
| * Everybody and everything is upside-down, until everybody falls off the couch and onto the |
* Everybody and everything is upside-down, until everybody falls off the couch and onto the ceiling | ||
| * Homer puts a coin in the "Vend-A-Couch", then bangs the back wall; the couch then falls on him | * Homer puts a coin in the "Vend-A-Couch", then bangs the back wall; the couch then falls on him | ||
| * Everybody flies in on jet-packs; Maggie flies in last and lands on Marge's lap | * Everybody flies in on jet-packs; Maggie flies in last and lands on Marge's lap | ||
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| * Grampa is sleeping in a convertible bed, which they convert back to a sofa (with him in it) and sit on it | * Grampa is sleeping in a convertible bed, which they convert back to a sofa (with him in it) and sit on it | ||
| * The couch remains empty while everybody waits outside as Homer struggles to open the front door | * The couch remains empty while everybody waits outside as Homer struggles to open the front door | ||
| * The couch is in an |
* The couch is in an '']'' window, which takes its time loading everybody before being interrupted | ||
| * The couch is sliding on the deck of a ship; when everybody (in raingear) sits on it, they are covered by a wave | * The couch is sliding on the deck of a ship; when everybody (in raingear) sits on it, they are covered by a wave | ||
| * To the tune of "]", everybody enters dressed as ] | * To the tune of "]", everybody enters dressed as ] | ||
| * Everybody runs to the couch dressed in space suits; the couch then |
* Everybody runs to the couch dressed in space suits; the couch then lifts off into space | ||
| * Homer stands in front of the couch; the top half then comes off (and lands on the couch), revealing Marge, then Bart, Lisa, and Maggie | * Homer stands in front of the couch; the top half then comes off (and lands on the couch), revealing Marge, then Bart, Lisa, and Maggie | ||
| * Everybody sits on the couch, then metal helmets fall on their heads and they are shackled in before being electrocuted | * Everybody sits on the couch, then metal helmets fall on their heads and they are shackled in before being electrocuted | ||
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| * The couch turns into a rollercoaster ride | * The couch turns into a rollercoaster ride | ||
| * Everybody is put under a hair dryer and ends up with someone else's hair; the weight of Marge's hair causes Maggie to tip over | * Everybody is put under a hair dryer and ends up with someone else's hair; the weight of Marge's hair causes Maggie to tip over | ||
| * The floor opens and everybody falls while |
* The floor opens and everybody falls while riding the sofa. '']''-style | ||
| * The couch, floating on water, hits an iceberg and sinks; Maggie resurfaces on a cushion | * The couch, floating on water, hits an iceberg and sinks; Maggie resurfaces on a cushion | ||
| * An adult Bart and Lisa and a young Homer (with a Maggie doll) and Marge go to the couch; Homer takes the remote from Lisa, but Lisa slaps his hand and he gives it back | * An adult Bart and Lisa and a young Homer (with a Maggie doll) and Marge go to the couch; Homer takes the remote from Lisa, but Lisa slaps his hand and he gives it back | ||
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| * The couch is a paper shredder; everybody ends up sucked into the couch and comes out in strips | * The couch is a paper shredder; everybody ends up sucked into the couch and comes out in strips | ||
| * Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the Simpsons as they looked back in '']''; all of them run off screaming | * Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the Simpsons as they looked back in '']''; all of them run off screaming | ||
| * Everybody is white with numbers |
* Everybody is white with numbers paint by numbers style; Korean artists enter and paint in the colors | ||
| * Marge erases the ] signature on the floor; Matt appears and rewrites it (with his right hand, unusual because he is left-handed). | * Marge erases the ] signature on the floor; Matt appears and rewrites it (with his right hand, unusual because he is left-handed). | ||
| * Everybody appears as a character from a previous ]; Maggie disintegrates Lisa | * Everybody appears as a character from a previous ]; Maggie disintegrates Lisa | ||
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| * The couch is in ] subway station; everybody gets aboard a train | * The couch is in ] subway station; everybody gets aboard a train | ||
| * Everybody walks barefoot over hot coals | * Everybody walks barefoot over hot coals | ||
| * Everybody swings in on vines |
* Everybody swings in on vines ]-style; Homer swings out of the room and crashes offscreen | ||
| * Bart puts a coin in the "magic fingers"; the couch vibrates its way off the screen | * Bart puts a coin in the "magic fingers"; the couch vibrates its way off the screen | ||
| * Bart puts a ] under the couch seat, which Homer sits on. Homer laughs, embarrassed as the rest of the family looks at him suspiciously. | * Bart puts a ] under the couch seat, which Homer sits on. Homer laughs, embarrassed as the rest of the family looks at him suspiciously. | ||
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| * Everybody is in a football uniform and piles on a football; Maggie leaves the pile and spikes the ball | * Everybody is in a football uniform and piles on a football; Maggie leaves the pile and spikes the ball | ||
| * Everybody lands on the couch via a ]-style tube, except that Fry is in place of (and is then sucked up and replaced by) Bart | * Everybody lands on the couch via a ]-style tube, except that Fry is in place of (and is then sucked up and replaced by) Bart | ||
| * In front of a |
* In front of a 'valet' sign, the teenage kid pushes the couch into place | ||
| * Everybody ice skates to the couch; Homer's end of the couch falls through the ice | * Everybody ice skates to the couch; Homer's end of the couch falls through the ice | ||
| * The couch is outside a prison wall; everybody is dressed in prison clothes as they tunnel to the couch | * The couch is outside a prison wall; everybody is dressed in prison clothes as they tunnel to the couch | ||
| * Everybody jumps off a sailboat, which turns out to be the sailboat painting above the couch | * Everybody jumps off a sailboat, which turns out to be the sailboat painting above the couch | ||
| * Everybody (except Maggie, replaced by a |
* Everybody (except Maggie, replaced by a 7) is in the window of a five-reel slot machine | ||
| * A gardener trims a hedge into the shape of everybody on the couch | * A gardener trims a hedge into the shape of everybody on the couch | ||
| * A giant clamp (like on the prize machines in arcades) grabs Homer by the head and lifts him off the couch | * A giant clamp (like on the prize machines in arcades) grabs Homer by the head and lifts him off the couch | ||
| * In black and white, Homer appears as ] in silent film style, with the others as |
* In black and white, Homer appears as ] in silent film style, with the others as extras | ||
| * Two "Repo Depot" men take the couch away. Homer sobs piteously. | * Two "Repo Depot" men take the couch away. Homer sobs piteously. | ||
| * The pimple-faced teenager is making out with a girl on the couch. When the family enters, the teenager stops kissing his girlfriend and looks shocked. | * The pimple-faced teenager is making out with a girl on the couch. When the family enters, the teenager stops kissing his girlfriend and looks shocked. | ||
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| * Everybody is a mime, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existent couch | * Everybody is a mime, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existent couch | ||
| * Everybody grows old and turns into dust | * Everybody grows old and turns into dust | ||
| * A ] photo |
* A ] photo ejects onto the couch; it develops into a photo of the family | ||
| * There is a ] press on the back wall; it presses Play-Doh versions of everybody out onto the couch | * There is a ] press on the back wall; it presses Play-Doh versions of everybody out onto the couch | ||
| * Everybody slides down |
* Everybody slides down batpoles and end up on the couch, in ]-style costumes, in the Batcave" | ||
| * The couch is a street bench in Japan, and everyone is a famous anime character (for example,Homer as ], Marge as Jun from ], Lisa as ], Bart as ] and Maggie as ]) | * The couch is a street bench in Japan, and everyone is a famous anime character (for example,Homer as ], Marge as Jun from ], Lisa as ], Bart as ] and Maggie as ]) | ||
| * Somebody offscreen throws knives at the wall while everyone is seated on the couch | * Somebody offscreen throws knives at the wall while everyone is seated on the couch | ||
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| * Everybody walks through a ]; after four failed attempts, Homer (who is stripped down to his briefs) is scanned by a security guard with a handheld scanning wand | * Everybody walks through a ]; after four failed attempts, Homer (who is stripped down to his briefs) is scanned by a security guard with a handheld scanning wand | ||
| * Six clay balls roll around the floor, eventually becoming the family - and ] | * Six clay balls roll around the floor, eventually becoming the family - and ] | ||
| * Everybody sits on the couch, then the ] "Delete This Recording Now?" appears; when the show is |
* Everybody sits on the couch, then the ] "Delete This Recording Now?" appears; when the show is deleted, the screen goes black | ||
| * Springfield's couches rise up against their masters: Everybody's couch comes to life and starts attacking and swallowing the people sitting on them; Homer takes refuge in a store which turns out to be called "Couch World", and he is attacked by several couches | * Springfield's couches rise up against their masters: Everybody's couch comes to life and starts attacking and swallowing the people sitting on them; Homer takes refuge in a store which turns out to be called "Couch World", and he is attacked by several couches | ||
| * The living room is inside an "Earth Family" exhibit in a Rigelian zoo | * The living room is inside an "Earth Family" exhibit in a Rigelian zoo | ||
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The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. In most episodes, the opening sequence ends with a couch gag immediately before the show's title. The couch gag changes from episode to episode, and usually features the Simpson family's living room couch. A typical gag features the family running into the living room only to find that the couch is missing, or to find that it is entirely occupied by a very fat man.
Notable couch gags
The first couch gag to actually be made was for the first produced episode, "Some Enchanted Evening", with the family simply running into the living room and fittingly sitting on the couch. However, the episode was delayed and therefore, this couch gag was not the first to be aired.
The first episode of the series to air, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (episode 7G08), did not feature a couch gag. The second episode (aired and produced), "Bart the Genius," features the first couch gag to be screened. When the family sits down on the couch the pressure from the five causes Bart to pop into the air. During the shot of the television set following the couch shot Bart is seen falling back down in front of the TV.
In all, ten episodes do not feature couch gags. Most of these are Halloween specials. Two couch gags feature in five episodes each. One of these involves the family forming a chorus line with a group of dancers. The background falls away to reveal unicyclists and elephants in a large stage show. This gag was often used when episodes were in danger of being too short. The extra length of the gag compensated for a shorter episode. This has become less common in later seasons as the required length for each episode has reduced. The other much-used gag shows the family in miniature climbing onto the couch. Maggie is lifted up. In syndication, however, a common couch gag that replaces other gags is where the family runs up to the couch, only to see another version of themselves, as the two families look at each other in perplexion. The couch gag itself originated in the episode "Rosebud". Another gag would show the Simpsons making their way past movie theater seats (occupied by other characters) to the couch.
The longest couch gag (to date) is a spoof of the short film Powers of Ten which features the family running in and sitting on the couch. The camera then shifts to above the family and begins pulling out. It then shows Springfield, the United States, Earth, the Solar System, Kang and Kodos in their broken spaceship, and finally revealing the entire Milky Way galaxy. It continues pulling out; the galaxies turn into atoms, which become molecules, which become strands of DNA, which become skin cells, which become Homer's head. Homer then says "woooooow". On another episode, "On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister", Kang and Kodos can be heard laughing maniacally and Homer says "coooool". The whole sequence (about 45 seconds) takes place with Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra in the background.
Another extra-long couch gag seen recently was for the Season 17 episode "Marge's Son Poisoning," where the family went to sit on the couch, but it came to life, sprouted teeth and proceeded to attack and attempt to eat them. The family run outside to discover that everybody's couches and chairs are doing the same thing. We then see shots of various people being attacked by couches: Sherri and Terri get swallowed by theirs, Eddie and Lou get trapped in their police car by them, Professor Frink has lasers shot at him by his space-age couch, and Moe using a shotgun to fight off the seats and barstools in his tavern. It then cuts to Homer running up the street, deciding to take shelter in a local store. Unfortunately, the store turns out to be "Couch World", and Homer is attacked by several couches. Many people thought that this was meant to be part of the previous week's Treehouse of Horror episode, as during the shot of the TV afterwards it had Halloween-esque music playing.
One of the more memorable couch gags involves the Simpsons arriving to find The Flintstones sitting on the couch — a nod to The Simpsons' antecedent.
Another of the more unusual couch gags includes the family rushing in to sit on the couch, though the opening music stops suddenly. Nothing happens, until Lisa says "What, we can't sit on the couch without something weird happening?" Homer is then impaled by a long spear. The opening music then resumes.
A new more recent couch gag is exactly like the opening, but acted out by real people. This was filmed in Bromley, UK, for SKY One as an advert, but the show's producers liked it so much that they decided to incorporate it into the opening credits of an episode.
List of Simpsons couch gags
- Bart is squeezed off and pops into the air; during the shot of the TV, he is seen coming down
- The couch falls apart when everybody is on it
- Homer is squeezed off his side of the couch and lands on the floor
- Maggie is squeezed off her side of the and pops in the air, Marge catches her
- Everybody sits on the couch & nothing happens
- The couch falls through the floor
- The "Simpson Shuffle": everybody is in a line in front of the couch; they do two "Egyptian struts" (right arm up, left arm down, wrists at 90-degree angles) in one direction, then two in the other, then sit on the couch with arms in a "ta-da" position.
- The couch unfolds into a bed
- Everyone (except Maggie) sits on the couch, Maggie pops out of Marge's hair
- Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II fit on the couch with the family
- Grampa Simpson is lying on the couch sleeping the family wakes him up
- Homer tips the couch over sideways; Maggie falls off, but lands on a couch cushion which is on the floor
- Everyone rushes in to find that the couch is missing
- Homer bumps the others off the couch
- The couch tips over backwards; Maggie pops up from behind it
- The couch tips over backwards, and everybody crashes through the back wall
- They sit, then Homer pulls Santa's Little Helper out from beneath him
- Everybody forms a pyramid with Maggie on top
- A spy hears them coming, pulls a cord, and vamoose through a trap door in the floor
- Bart lands on everyone's lap
- Homer gets to the couch first and lies on it; the others sit on him
- The seat cushions are missing; when they sit, they fall into the couch
- Two burglars are holding the couch as everybody sits on it; they are dumped off and the couch is carried away
- Santa's Little Helper is on the couch and keeps everyone else off
- Everybody cartwheels to the couch
- Everybody bounces up and down on the couch; Homer bounces from one side to the other
- Everybody except Maggie bang their heads together and lie unconscious on the floor Maggie notices it
- Everybody stops to find the couch occupied - by The Flintstones
- The couch swallows everybody as it transforms into a monster
- The couch rotates 180 degrees through a secret door in the wall; an empty couch takes its place
- As Maggie is already seated, Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Bart run "past the edge of the film" and scurry back to the couch
- Simpson-sized skeletons sit on the couch
- The couch deflates (as if filled with air)
- Everybody has somebody else's head, which they remove and switch
- There's a wooden chair in place of the couch; the adults share it, with the children on their laps
- Everybody forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number
- Everybody is miniature and must climb the giant couch; Maggie has to be pulled up
- Everybody sits, just before the room is filled with other regular characters
- Everybody gets caught in a net that was spread on the floor
- Everybody runs into each other and shatters on the floor; Santa's Little Helper examines the damage
- Everybody runs into each other and end up on the couch as a five-headed blob
- Everybody runs into each other and there's an explosion; eventually, Maggie's pacifier falls from the ceiling
- The gag is a 3 take gag
- Everybody, plus the couch, is crushed by a foot that is reminiscent of how Monty Python's Flying Circus opens
- A Zombie Simpson family crashes through the floor from below and sits on the couch
- The couch is painted on a wall, which everybody runs through
- A fat man takes up most of the couch; everybody squeezes into the tiny spot remaining
- The room is dark as five pairs of eyes go to the couch; light reveals that it's only eyes, as eyeless bodies quickly enter, sit down, and reattach to the eyes
- Everybody sits, then notice they're on the set of The Late Show with David Letterman as Dave turns face forward
- Everybody pokes their head up from behind the couch (Maggie does it from behind a cushion on the couch)
- Everybody sees two couches, then they each split into two halves, each half sitting on a couch
- Everybody is shaped like a ball and bounces around before landing on the couch and returning to normal
- Everybody sits, then Homer gets up, rips the FOX logo from the screen corner, and they all stomp on it
- Everybody begins seated as if on an invisible couch; the couch comes in in pieces and forms itself atop them, causing them to fall to the floor
- The floor is well underwater, and only the tops of everybody's heads are visible until they reach the couch (Bart is using a snorkel)
- Everybody is beamed aboard the couch in original Star Trek style (complete with sound effect)
- Everybody enters with a mismatched head and limbs (for example, one of Bart's legs is now Lisa's right arm, and Lisa's arms are where her legs should be)
- Everybody bounces up off the couch and gets their heads stuck in the ceiling
- Everybody chases the couch as it, along with the back wall, moves backwards away from them
- Everybody runs by the same TV and couch again and again, all except Maggie grinning the whole time
- Everybody runs to the couch from a different side (Marge runs down the side of a wall) in an M.C. Escher-style house
- The James Bond film opening, only with Homer in front of the couch firing the gun
- In black & white, everybody, wearing Mickey Mouse gloves, waves their hands in circles
- A cool Millonaire Likes Them
- As the couch moves aside, everybody lines up in front of a police lineup height chart
- The couch acts like a fax machine, and a sheet with a picture of everybody (in couch-sitting position) comes up from the back and slides beneath it
- Everybody, including SLH, Snowball II, and Grampa, appear in eight squares Brady Bunch style (with the couch in the middle); all but Grampa run to the couch
- Everybody is wearing fezzes and drives around in minicars like Shriners
- Everybody runs to the couch, entirely gray; the colors are then spray-painted on them
- Everybody drops from above, hanging from their necks by nooses; Maggie still manages to suck her pacifier
- Everyone stops as the couch is occupied by themselves
- Everybody is a wind-up doll
- Everybody is put on the couch by a pinsetter, after Snowball II is scared off by the pin-clearing bar
- Everybody is a sea-monkey and swims to a couch made of clam shells to stare at a treasure chest
- Homer pulls a drain plug from the floor, and everybody and everything is sucked down the drain
- Everybody sits, then inside a mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an identical couch
- A big game hunter sits on the couch, with a Homer-skin rug on the floor and the others' heads on the wall
- Everybody sits, bathed in fluorescent black light, until Homer turns on the lamp
- As Death begins on the couch, everybody runs up to the couch and falls over dead
- Everybody lands on the couch via parachute except Homer, who lands on the floor with an unopened chute
- Everybody is in western gear as they sit on the couch, which then gallops away into the desert
- Everybody is a clear balloon, which float onto the couch and then pop
- A takeoff on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart red; Homer strangles Bart, turning him normal
- Everybody and everything is upside-down, until everybody falls off the couch and onto the ceiling
- Homer puts a coin in the "Vend-A-Couch", then bangs the back wall; the couch then falls on him
- Everybody flies in on jet-packs; Maggie flies in last and lands on Marge's lap
- Everybody is involved in a giant game of Whac-A-Mole; Homer ends up getting whacked
- Grampa is sleeping in a convertible bed, which they convert back to a sofa (with him in it) and sit on it
- The couch remains empty while everybody waits outside as Homer struggles to open the front door
- The couch is in an America Online window, which takes its time loading everybody before being interrupted
- The couch is sliding on the deck of a ship; when everybody (in raingear) sits on it, they are covered by a wave
- To the tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown", everybody enters dressed as Harlem Globetrotters
- Everybody runs to the couch dressed in space suits; the couch then lifts off into space
- Homer stands in front of the couch; the top half then comes off (and lands on the couch), revealing Marge, then Bart, Lisa, and Maggie
- Everybody sits on the couch, then metal helmets fall on their heads and they are shackled in before being electrocuted
- Everybody has their rear ends on fire as they run to a water-filled couch and then breathe a sigh of relief
- Everybody sits on the couch and is crushed into a rectangular block, auto-crusher style
- Bart spray-paints everyone onto the couch, adding an "El Barto" signature
- Three men in towels are on the couch, which is part of a sauna
- Everybody sits, then a human hand spins the picture around
- The floor is a treadmill; Homer falls, gets dragged around on the floor and says "Marge, stop this crazy thing!"
- The couch gets pulled back, and everyone sits down on the floor. Then Nelson appears, saying his "Ha-ha"
- Everyone is miniature (like in 9F09), only this time Santa's Little Helper takes Homer away in his mouth
- Everyone is a frog (Maggie a tadpole) jumping to a lily pad; Homer turns on the TV with his tongue
- A vine grows in the middle of the room; everyone appears as a fruit or vegetable
- Everyone appears in a mosaic of colors & pop up from out of the ground in a flower patch, this a takeoff of the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.
- Everyone runs into Bart's classroom, where he writes "I Will Not Mess With The Opening Credits" on the chalkboard
- A number of Springfieldians are sitting in chairs in front of the couch, as if in a movie theater
- Two firemen carry the couch and catch everybody falling from above - except Homer, who falls through the floor
- Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason of Friday the 13th sit on the couch and wonder where the Simpsons are after they died in the driveway scene
- Marge carries in a laundry basket and hangs the others on a clothesline
- The couch turns into a rollercoaster ride
- Everybody is put under a hair dryer and ends up with someone else's hair; the weight of Marge's hair causes Maggie to tip over
- The floor opens and everybody falls while riding the sofa. Dr. Strangelove-style
- The couch, floating on water, hits an iceberg and sinks; Maggie resurfaces on a cushion
- An adult Bart and Lisa and a young Homer (with a Maggie doll) and Marge go to the couch; Homer takes the remote from Lisa, but Lisa slaps his hand and he gives it back
- Everybody slips on banana peels, but end up on the couch anyway (Maggie ends up in Marge's arms)
- The couch is a paper shredder; everybody ends up sucked into the couch and comes out in strips
- Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the Simpsons as they looked back in The Tracey Ullman Show; all of them run off screaming
- Everybody is white with numbers paint by numbers style; Korean artists enter and paint in the colors
- Marge erases the Matt Groening signature on the floor; Matt appears and rewrites it (with his right hand, unusual because he is left-handed).
- Everybody appears as a character from a previous Halloween Special; Maggie disintegrates Lisa
- A bouncer lets everybody except Homer onto the couch
- A cement truck pours cement versions of everybody onto the couch; Homer breaks in two
- The couch rotates 180 degrees through the wall, replaced by Vincent Price with Ned Flanders shackled upside-down
- Everybody slides down a fire pole - except Homer, who gets stuck in the hole in the ceiling
- Everybody is a crash test dummy; the couch crashes into the TV
- A psychiatrist is sitting next to the couch; Homer lies on it and says "Oh, Doctor, I'm crazy"
- Dressed in karate gear (with black belts), everybody chops up the couch
- Everybody is driving a bumper car; Homer is bumped by the others against the back wall
- The couch is in Evergreen Terrace subway station; everybody gets aboard a train
- Everybody walks barefoot over hot coals
- Everybody swings in on vines Tarzan-style; Homer swings out of the room and crashes offscreen
- Bart puts a coin in the "magic fingers"; the couch vibrates its way off the screen
- Bart puts a Whoopee cushion under the couch seat, which Homer sits on. Homer laughs, embarrassed as the rest of the family looks at him suspiciously.
- Everybody freezes in mid-air as the camera pans The Matrix-style from the TV to the couch
- Maggie sits on the couch, the rest of the family comes in as Teletubbies Maggie claps as they sit down
- Everybody skateboards off a ramp onto the couch, except that Homer lands on the floor
- Santa's Little Helper dances on his hind legs like Snoopy as everybody watches
- The couch is in a fishbowl; everybody is wearing scuba gear
- Everybody is in a football uniform and piles on a football; Maggie leaves the pile and spikes the ball
- Everybody lands on the couch via a Futurama-style tube, except that Fry is in place of (and is then sucked up and replaced by) Bart
- In front of a 'valet' sign, the teenage kid pushes the couch into place
- Everybody ice skates to the couch; Homer's end of the couch falls through the ice
- The couch is outside a prison wall; everybody is dressed in prison clothes as they tunnel to the couch
- Everybody jumps off a sailboat, which turns out to be the sailboat painting above the couch
- Everybody (except Maggie, replaced by a 7) is in the window of a five-reel slot machine
- A gardener trims a hedge into the shape of everybody on the couch
- A giant clamp (like on the prize machines in arcades) grabs Homer by the head and lifts him off the couch
- In black and white, Homer appears as Charlie Chaplin in silent film style, with the others as extras
- Two "Repo Depot" men take the couch away. Homer sobs piteously.
- The pimple-faced teenager is making out with a girl on the couch. When the family enters, the teenager stops kissing his girlfriend and looks shocked.
- Blue Man Group perform in front of the couch
- The couch opening is drawn as a flipper book in pencil, with the pages flipped by real hands
- Everybody is a marionette, and they run into each other; the puppeteer, Matt Groening, gives up in disgust
- 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 shark's mouths. This is, presumably, a reference to "Jumping The Shark", a term used by aficionados attempting to pinpoint the moment a TV programme fell into decline. This stems from an episode of Happy Days in which the Fonz literally does "jump the shark."
- Homer goes through the Get Smart opening, he falls through the phonebooth and lands on the couch(where the others are already sitting)
- The couch is drawn on a "Sketch-A-Etch" after it's done, Homer shouts woo hoo!
- 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
- Homer uses the remote to switch everyone to the caveman era, then the Roman era, then back to the present
- Everybody is deep-fried in a fast-food fryer, then emptied onto the couch and salted
- In black and white, everyone is wearing early-20th-century clothing and is watching the TV from a girder at a construction site
- Everybody sticks their head through a wall of them sitting on the couch (but in different positions), which is photographed
- Everybody is picked up off the couch by a baby as if they were dolls
- Everybody and everything is gingerbread; Homer takes a bite out of Bart's head
- Everybody is a mime, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existent couch
- Everybody grows old and turns into dust
- A Polaroid photo ejects onto the couch; it develops into a photo of the family
- There is a Play-Doh press on the back wall; it presses Play-Doh versions of everybody out onto the couch
- Everybody slides down batpoles and end up on the couch, in Batman-style costumes, in the Batcave"
- The couch is a street bench in Japan, and everyone is a famous anime character (for example,Homer as Ultraman, Marge as Jun from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Lisa as Sailor Moon, Bart as Astro Boy and Maggie as Pikachu)
- Somebody offscreen throws knives at the wall while everyone is seated on the couch
- Everybody is squeezed like frosting out of a pastry bag onto the top of a cake
- Everybody's head pops out of a giant piece of apple pie. Homer takes a bite from the pie.
- A tray is placed into a microwave, and everybody rises from it
- A woman throws some seeds into a plot of dirt where the couch usually is, and waters them; everybody sprouts up like plants
- Everybody is a bag on a moving dry-cleaning rack, which stops over the couch
- The couch scene pans out until it reaches intergalactic space, where the galaxies are replaced with atoms, which pan out until they reach Homer's head and then the couch scene again
- Everybody sits on the couch, which is outside - and which is catapulted
- Everybody runs to where the couch is supposed to be, but isn't - because it then falls on top of them
- Everybody runs onto the couch with Moe's face
- The couch is attached to a giant fish, which eats everybody
- Without music, everybody enters and sits on the couch; Lisa says, "What, can't we sit on the couch without something happening?", and Homer is then hit by a spear and says D'oh!
- Everything is made of sand; everybody crawls to the couch and sits on it, after which everything collapses, revealing the desert sun
- Everybody gets on top of one another in front of the couch, forming a totem pole
- Everybody is a chess piece (Homer the King, Marge the Queen, Lisa the Knight, Bart the Rook, and Maggie the Pawn) and hops to the couch
- Everybody is wearing an ice hockey uniform and skates around the couch; whith cuts and scrapes, Homer carries the Stanley Cup (with Maggie inside it)
- The room is dark, except for a number of pairs of eyes; the lights come on to reveal a surprise party for the Simpsons as they approach the couch, causing Homer to collapse
- "Homer" removes his Homer head mask, revealing himself to be Sideshow Bob, who then pulls out a knife and goes after Bart
- A roasting spit comes out of the wall and through the couch, while the floor opens up to reveal fire; the spit rotates the couch, and everyone on it, over the flames
- Five miniature vehicles enter, only to transform (literally) into the Simpsons
- The couch scene is a jigsaw puzzle, with the heads missing; two hands put the heads in place, then, noticing Homer and Maggie are switched, fixes them and says, "Woo-hoo!"
- Everybody is a balloon which floats to the couch, except for Homer, who is popped by Snowball II
- Everybody walks through a metal detector; after four failed attempts, Homer (who is stripped down to his briefs) is scanned by a security guard with a handheld scanning wand
- Six clay balls roll around the floor, eventually becoming the family - and Gumby
- Everybody sits on the couch, then the TiVo "Delete This Recording Now?" appears; when the show is deleted, the screen goes black
- Springfield's couches rise up against their masters: Everybody's couch comes to life and starts attacking and swallowing the people sitting on them; Homer takes refuge in a store which turns out to be called "Couch World", and he is attacked by several couches
- The living room is inside an "Earth Family" exhibit in a Rigelian zoo
- The couch is replaced by a nest; a giant bird feeds Homer a worm
- A pair of animated hands deals five cards onto the couch; the jack (Bart), queen (Marge), king (Homer), and ace (Lisa) of diamonds, and a joker (Maggie)
- A newspaper headline from The Springfield Shopper reads: Couch Gag Thrills Nation, with a black and white picture of the simpsons sitting on their 17 year old couch
- A photographer takes the family picture on the couch, which becomes a series of family portraits from 2006 to 2013; Marge is widowed in 2008, and Homer is replaced by a robot in 2012. The 2013 photo has everybody as a robot
- A parody of the opening of Bonanza - an old map of Springfield burns away to reveal the family on horseback in cowboy's outfits
- The couch is in a factory, Homer is grabbed by a claw to get him on the couch.
- A live-action spoof from a British trailer for the series on Sky One, featuring similar scenes regular opening credits.