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(#1) Mathlete's Feat
Season 26. Episode 574.
Rick and Morty of the Adult Swim series Rick and Morty suddenly crash into the TV room, instantly and gruesomely killing the entire Simpson family. The alcoholic scientist and his put-upon grandson go to great lengths to wipe out any evidence of the accident, eventually creating hideously mutated Simpsons clones, with Bart declaring, "No more guest animators!"
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(#2) Treehouse of Horror XXIV
- Oct 06 2013
Season 25. Episode 532.
This phantasmagoric opening directed by Guillermo Del Toro is jam-packed with references to horror, fantasy, and science fiction, including Lisa falling through a hole à la Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland and ending with homages to del Toro's own Pan's Labyrinth and the Hypnotoad from Futurama. -
(#3) Homerazzi
- Mar 25 2007
Season 18. Episode 394.
Millions of years of evolutionary history in a couch gag. Homer evolves from a single-celled organism into a more complex lifeforms, first as a jellyfish, then a fish. Emerging from the ocean and outwitting predators, Homer morphs into a lizard, a rat, a sloth, and a monkey, becoming more apelike as he swings through the jungle. He then strolls through an ice age, going from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon to upright walking caveman. Homo sapiens Homer rides out several historical eras until finally, he's arriving home at 742 Evergreen Terrace. Marge, already sitting with the kids, asks, "What took you so long?"
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(#4) The Fabulous Faker Boy
- May 12 2013
Season 24. Episode 528.
Everyone and everything in Springfield is animated in the stop-motion style of Robot Chicken, ending with the family getting strapped to the couch and forced to watch The Simpsons by that Adult Swim show's half-robot, half-chicken creature.
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(#5) Simpsorama
Season 26. Episode 558.
The Simpsons sit on the couch, but it turns out to be the Hedonismbot from Futurama. -
(#6) Four Regrettings and a Funeral
Season 25. Episode 533.
A parody of The Hobbit in which the family embarks on an epic journey to the couch. -
(#7) I Won't Be Home for Christmas
Season 26. Episode 561.
A message that reads, “Now for obligatory Frozen reference. Sure enough, there's a snow couch, where Lisa, looking an awful lot like Frozen’s Elsa, is sitting. Bart hits her with a snowball and she immediately creates a giant ice palace, stranding Bart at the top. Homer appears as Olaf the Snowman, and is disappointed to discover his nose is a nutritious carrot.
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(#8) Seasons 1-5 Couch Gags
Seasons 1-5. Episodes 1-103 (lots of repeated intros in those days).
The original couch gags, which are much shorter and much harder to find individually, have been gathered up for consideration as a whole. -
(#9) MoneyBART
- Oct 10 2010
Season 22. Episode 467.
This special opening overseen by enigmatic street artist Bansky beings with the family already on the couch before pulling back to reveal that they are, in fact, simply in a picture hanging in a sweatshop where factory workers (most of whom are women and children) produce merchandise and animation cels for the show under inhumane conditions. The camera pulls back further to reveal that the sweatshop is 20th Century Fox, which owns The Simpsons. -
(#10) The Kid Is Alright
Season 25. Episode 536.
A pretty deep cut reference of a couch gag, "MusicVille" is a cartoon short featuring every character as a musical instrument in homage to Disney's Silly Symphony short "Music Land." -
(#11) What Animated Women Want
- Apr 14 2013
Season 24. Episode 525.
A special intro parodying the the AMC dark series Breaking Bad. Marge makes blue cupcakes for a church bake sale while Homer spies on her. The entire sequence is watched by Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) in live-action. -
(#12) Simpsons Time
Season 28, Episode 1.
The Simpsons offered a playful take on Adventure Time in the opening episode of Season 28, with Bart standing in for Finn the Human (Bart the Boy) and Homer playing the role of Jake the Dog.(Dog Named Homer). The dizzying sequence, which moves with disorienting fluidity, moves through various classic Simpsons moments - the three-eyed fish, Lisa playing her saxophone, Bumblebee Man buzzing over Springfield - before landing on Finn Bart and Jake Homer in a tree house. They sniff each others's butts and have a wee adventure before ending up on the couch, which is perched on the top of a mountain.
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(#13) Seasons 6-10 Couch Gags
Seasons 6-10. Episodes 104-226 (lots of repeated intros in those days).
The original couch gags from the back half of the show's golden age, gathered here together to watch as a whole. -
(#14) Clown in the Dumps
Season 26. Episode 553.
A surreal depiction of the show's past and future created by underground animation legend Don Hertzfeldt.
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(#15) My Fare Lady
Season 26. Episode 566.
A pixelated version of the opening sequence by Paul Robertson, Ivan Dixon (directors/animators) and Jeremy Dower (music).
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(#16) White Christmas Blues
- Dec 15 2013
Season 25. Episode 538.
A holiday version of the regular intro providing a Simpsonian retelling of the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (more popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas"). -
(#17) Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
- Mar 04 2012
Season 23. Episode 501.
A spoof of the intro to HBO's adventure fantasy series Game of Thrones, with the buildings rising out of the ground, being driven by cogs, and a giant couch overlooking the entire town. -
(#18) The Originals
A blast from the past. The first run marking the very beginning of the couch gags! -
(#19) What To Expect When Bart's Expecting
Season 25. Episode 549.
This one - a mix of 2D animation and CGI by Polish filmmaker Michal Socha - travels inside Homer's body, with the rest of the family ultimately falling onto Homer's couch-shaped brain.
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(#20) At Long Last Leave
- Feb 19 2012
Season 23. Episode 500.
A frame-by-frame montage of every previous couch gag starting with the one from "Bart the Genius" and ending with the one from "The Daughter Also Rises" is followed by a new one where the Simpsons sit on the couch, then the camera zooms out to reveal a celebratory "500" mosaic made up of stills from past gags. The mosaic falls apart and reveals tuxedo-wearing Homer and Bart strangling each other. -
(#21) Dangers on a Train
- May 19 2013
Season 24. Episode 530.
Five dandelions bloom and turn white on the couch. The TV sneezes, blowing the white dandelion seeds in the air, which turn into multiple Homers, Marges, Barts, Lisas, and Maggies. This surreal couch gag was submitted by Cheryl Brown, who won The Simpsons Create-A-Couch-Gag contest in America.
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(#22) Simpton Abbey
Special Promo. No Specific Episode.
A mysterious intro that parodies the British soap opera Downton Abbey. So far, it has never used as the intro to any single episode but instead as a general promotion for The Simpsons on Fox. -
(#23) I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot
- Jan 11 2004
Season 15. Episode 322.
In this confectionery couch gag, the couch itself is a cake onto which the Simpsons are squeezed out of a pastry bag just like frosting. -
(#24) Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
- Apr 05 2009
Season 20. Episode 436.
The screen is white. A cartoon left hand begins flipping through different animation cels. The hand flips one that has Homer's skeleton sitting cross-legged, flips another that has Homer naked, another where the rest of the family are fully clothed and sitting in mid-air, and another with the family seated. Marge notices Homer is still naked and pulls down an animation cel that has his clothes. -
(#25) Diggs
Season 25. Episode 542.
As the Simpsons rush to the couch, the lights go off. Marge leaves to fix the fuse, and when the lights go up, the characters appear in a Triplets of Belleville-style French aesthetic. Bart plays with a do-it-yourself foie gras kit, Lisa plays an accordion, Marge cries out, "Maggie? Où est Maggie?" and Homer gets up and eats a snail off the TV... unaware that Maggie is, in fact, stuck between his butt cheeks. -
(#26) Million Dollar Maybe
- Jan 31 2010
Season 21. Episode 452.
Homer runs to the couch first, pulling out a "myPhone" and opening the "Couch Gag" app to download Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Maggie. When Homer gets an incoming call from Mr. Burns, he screams and swallows the phone. -
(#27) Love Is a Many Strangled Thing
- Mar 27 2011
Season 22. Episode 481.
The entire couch gag is done in ASCII art, with Bart taking some of the letters that comprise the graphic art form and spelling "FATSO" on top of Homer, who responds via word balloon, "D'oh!" -
(#28) Luca$
Season 25. Episode 547.
This one's for Minecraft fans: the whole intro is executed in the style of the video game, adopting it's signature simplified, blocky design.
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(#29) Super Franchise Me
Season 26. Episode 555.
A parody of the cover of the 1970 Cat Stevens album Tea for Tillerman with its title track playing over it. -
(#30) Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts
- Oct 02 2011
Season 23. Episode 488.
The entire couch scene is drawn and animated by subversive cartoon mastermind John Kricfalusi. -
(#31) Love Is a Many Splintered Thing
- Apr 17 1994
Season 16. Episode 339.
The Simpsons all look like Moe Szyslak - maybe the fugliest man in Springfield - and announce that their unlikely and entirely fictitious new sitcom The Szyslaks has been canceled. -
(#32) Homer's Barbershop Quartet
- Sep 30 1993
Season 5. Episode 82.
A director demands three takes of the gag. Take one: The Simpsons run into the living room and shatter like glass. 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 only the first take, while takes two and three are used as individual couch gags in different episodes.
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