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The Simpsons sit on the couch

The following is a list of couch gags seen on The Simpsons.

Season 1[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
1	No Gag	No Gag	"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"	7G08
2		The family sits; Bart is squeezed off, up into the air and out of frame, only to crash back down to the floor during the credits shot of the TV. (This is the only time the couch gag visually continues into the closing shot of the TV.)	"Bart the Genius"	7G02
3		The family sits; the couch falls apart under their weight, leaving them sitting on cushions on the floor.	"Homer's Odyssey"	7G03
4		The family sits; Homer is squeezed off and lands on the floor with a thud.	"There's No Disgrace Like Home"	7G04
5	No Gag	No Gag	"Bart the General"	7G05
6		The family sits; Maggie is squeezed off, up into the air and out of frame, but Marge catches her as she falls back down (this couch gag also appears in the The Simpsons Arcade Game).	"Moaning Lisa"	7G06
7		The family sits; nothing else happens.	"The Call of the Simpsons"	7G09
8		repeat of 7G02's gag	"The Telltale Head"	7G07
9	No Gag	No Gag	"Life on the Fast Lane"	7G11
10		repeat of 7G03's gag	"Homer's Night Out"	7G10
11		repeat of 7G04's gag	"The Crepes of Wrath"	7G13
12		repeat of 7G06's gag	"Krusty Gets Busted"	7G12
13		repeat of 7G09's gag	"Some Enchanted Evening"	7G01

Season 2[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
14		The family sits; the couch falls through the floor with a crash. Homer says "D'oh!" only in this version, all repeats cut it.	"Bart Gets an "F""	7F03
15		The family stands in a line, does a little dance (Egyptian-like moves) and lands on the couch, arms outstretched in a "ta-da!" pose.	"Simpson and Delilah"	7F02
16	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror"	7F04
17		The family sits; the couch pops open into a fold-out bed.	"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"	7F01
18		The family-minus Maggie sits; then Maggie pokes her head out of Marge's hair.	"Dancin' Homer"	7F05
19		Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II sit on the couch among the family members.	"Dead Putting Society"	7F08
20		The family can not sit; the couch is already occupied by Abe Simpson, who is woken up startled.	"Bart vs. Thanksgiving"	7F07
21		The family sits; Homer's weight tips the couch over sideways, launching the family off-screen, but Maggie lands safely on a cushion on the floor.	"Bart the Daredevil"	7F06
22		The family runs in to find the couch missing; they look around, puzzled.	"Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"	7F09
23		The family sits; Homer squeezes the others onto the floor one-by-one and takes the couch for himself.	"Bart Gets Hit by a Car"	7F10
24		The family sits; the couch tips over backwards, and Maggie pops up from behind.	"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"	7F11
25		repeat of 7F03's gag	"The Way We Was"	7F12
26		repeat of 7F02's gag	"Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"	7F13
27		repeat of 7F01's gag	"Principal Charming"	7F15
28		repeat of 7F05's gag	"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"	7F16
29		repeat of 7F08's gag	"Bart's Dog Gets an "F""	7F14
30		repeat of 7F07's gag	"Old Money"	7F17
31		repeat of 7F06's gag	"Brush with Greatness"	7F18
32		repeat of 7F09's gag	"Lisa's Substitute"	7F19
33		repeat of 7F10's gag	"The War of the Simpsons"	7F20
34		repeat of 7F11's gag	"Three Men and a Comic Book"	7F21
35		repeat of 7F03's gag	"Blood Feud"	7F22

Season 3[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
36		The family sits; the couch tips over backwards, but this time crashes through the back wall.	"Stark Raving Dad"	7F24
37		The family sits; Homer pulls Santa's Little Helper out from beneath him.	"Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"	8F01
38		repeat of 7F02's gag	"When Flanders Failed"	7F23
39		The family forms a human pyramid, cheerleader-style, on the couch with Maggie on top.	"Bart the Murderer"	8F03
40		A space alien on the couch hears the family coming, pulls a hanging cord, and disappears through a trapdoor in the floor. The family enters and sits.	"Homer Defined"	8F04
41		The family (minus Bart) sits in a normal fashion; Bart leaps in from the side and lands outstretched across the others' laps.	"Like Father, Like Clown"	8F05
42	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror II"	8F02
43		Homer arrives first and lies across the couch; the others arrive seconds later and sit on top of him.	"Lisa's Pony"	8F06
44		The couch lacks cushions; the family sits, but sinks into the hollow couch.	"Saturdays of Thunder"	8F07
45		Two burglars are in the process of carrying the couch out of the room; the family runs in and sits, but the burglars dump them onto the floor and carry the couch away.	"Flaming Moe's"	8F08
46		The family cannot sit, as the couch is already occupied by Santa's Little Helper, who growls menacingly; the family backs away cautiously.	"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"	8F09
47		The family cartwheels into the room and onto the couch; Maggie falls while cartwheeling and hops the rest of the way.	"I Married Marge"	8F10
48		The family sits; with confused looks on their faces, they bounce around on the couch, passing over and under each other, ending in entirely different positions from where they first sat.	"Radio Bart"	8F11
49		repeat of 8F01's gag	"Lisa the Greek"	8F12
50		repeat of 8F03's gag	"Homer Alone"	8F14
51		repeat of 8F04's gag	"Bart the Lover"	8F16
52		The family runs in; they all bang their heads together and fall over, unconscious on the floor, except Maggie who sits alone.	"Homer at the Bat"	8F13
53		repeat of 8F05's gag	"Separate Vocations"	8F15
54		repeat of 8F06's gag	"Dog of Death"	8F17
55		repeat of 8F07's gag	"Colonel Homer"	8F19
56		repeat of 8F08's gag	"Black Widower"	8F20
57		repeat of 8F09's gag	"The Otto Show"	8F21
58		repeat of 7F24's gag	"Bart's Friend Falls in Love"	8F22
59		repeat of 8F10's gag	"Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"	8F23

Season 4[edit]

#	Gag	Episode	Code
60	The family go to sit on the couch, but find it occupied by Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, and Pebbles Flintstone. Fred waves to Homer.	"Kamp Krusty"	8F24
61	The family sits; the couch morphs into a monster, swallowing the family.	"A Streetcar Named Marge"	8F18
62	The family sits; the couch rotates into a secret compartment in the wall, leaving an identical empty couch in its place.	"Homer the Heretic"	9F01
63	Maggie is already seated; the rest of the family runs past the couch and out of frame, into empty white space beyond the edge of the film, before frantically running back into frame.	"Lisa the Beauty Queen"	9F02
64	The family (as skeletons) sit in a normal fashion.	"Treehouse of Horror III"	9F04
65	The family sits; the couch deflates like a balloon.	"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"	9F03
66	The family sits with mismatched heads; they swap heads back and forth until they are back to normal.	"Marge Gets a Job"	9F05
67	repeat of 7F03's gag	"New Kid on the Block"	9F06
68	A wooden chair is in place of the couch; Homer and Marge sit on it, with the kids in their laps.	"Mr. Plow"	9F07
69	Circus Line couch gag	"Lisa's First Word"	9F08
70	The family, all tiny-sized, sits on the couch. Maggie needs to be pulled up onto the couch.	"Homer's Triple Bypass"	9F09
71	The family sits; within seconds, the room fills with other regulars from the cast, totally blocking the family and obscuring their view.	"Marge vs. the Monorail"	9F10
72	The family is snared in a net trap.	"Selma's Choice"	9F11
73	repeat of 9F01's gag	"Brother from the Same Planet"	9F12
74	Circus Line couch gag	"I Love Lisa"	9F13
75	repeat of 9F02's gag	"Duffless"	9F14
76	repeat of 8F18's gag	"Last Exit to Springfield"	9F15
77	repeat of 9F05's gag	"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"	9F17
78	Circus Line couch gag	"The Front"	9F16
79	repeat of 9F07's gag	"Whacking Day"	9F18
80	repeat of 9F09's gag	"Marge in Chains"	9F20
81	repeat of 9F11's gag	"Krusty Gets Kancelled"	9F19

Season 5[edit]

#	Gag	Episode	Code
82	A trio of couch gags: The family runs in, crashes into each other, and shatters into pieces; Santa's Little Helper wanders in and examines the pieces. A voice says "Couch gag, take two." The family sits on the couch, coalescing into a five-headed, ten-eyed, multicolored blob. A voice says "Couch gag, take three." The family runs in, crashes into each other, and explodes; Maggie's pacifier drops out of the air onto the scorched floor (in the syndicated version, the "take one" couch gag where the family smashes like glass as they run to the couch is used).	"Homer's Barbershop Quartet"	9F21
83	Circus Line couch gag	"Cape Feare"	9F22
84	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	The family cannot sit as the couch is already occupied by an identical family.	"Rosebud"	1F01
86	The family (as zombies) tunnel to the couch and sit as normal.	"Treehouse of Horror IV"	1F04
87	The family runs in and crashes through the wall, as it turns out the couch and other living room furniture is just a flat backdrop.	"Marge on the Lam"	1F03
88	The couch is already occupied by a morbidly obese man, who slides over, giving the family little room to sit.	"Bart's Inner Child"	1F05
89	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	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	repeat of the first of 9F21's three gags	"$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"	1F08
92	repeat of the third of 9F21's three gags	"Homer the Vigilante"	1F09
93	repeat of the second of 9F21's three gags	"Bart Gets Famous"	1F11
94	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	repeat of 1F02's gag	"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"	1F12
96	repeat of 1F05's gag	"Deep Space Homer"	1F13
97	There are two identical couches side-by-side; the family members split down the middle vertically, each half-family sitting on a couch.	"Homer Loves Flanders"	1F14
98	repeat of 1F06's gag	"Bart Gets an Elephant"	1F15
99	The family bounces into the room in ball form. Everyone lands safely on the couch except Bart, who bounces away; Homer pulls him onto the couch.	"Burns' Heir"	1F16
100	The family sits as the FOX logo bug appears in the lower-right corner of the screen; Homer tears it off and the family stomps on it then sits back down.	"Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"	1F18
101	repeat of 1F07's gag	"The Boy Who Knew Too Much"	1F19
102	repeat of the first of 9F21's three gags	"Lady Bouvier's Lover"	1F21
103	repeat of the third of 9F21's three gags	"Secrets of a Successful Marriage"	1F20

The Complete Fifth Season[edit]

Image	Gag
	The living room is tilted and the couch tilts with the family and ports outside the frame. Homer tries to climb up by falling down.
	The couch goes up like a rocket, a fire starts on the floor and a man comes and puts out the fire.
	Homer pushes when he sits on the couch, and Maggie jumps off the couch but when she comes down it start Homer crowded again.
	The family bounces out of the picture and ports outside the frame but Maggie still bounces up and down
	Everyone except Bart are angels, he is the devil and he pokes the iron fire on Lisa
	Maggie tries to leave the couch, but Homer takes her back.
	The family flies down in parachutes before a can of beer comes in a separate parachute that Homer drinks.
	The Flanders family pray in the Simpsons' clothing.
	The family gets a drop of water and grows, Lisa begins to shrivel but gets a drop of water and being then normal.
	The family sits on an invisible couch, Lisa points out that to Marge.
	When the family sits down, the music is stopped and the family look surprised before the music continues.

Season 6[edit]

#	Gag	Episode	Code
104	The Simpsons are sitting in midair as if they're on the couch. The real couch then comes in and assembles itself on top of the family.	"Bart of Darkness"	1F22
105	The floor is water, the family swims into the room (Bart wearing a scuba mask) and climbs up onto the couch (Homer pokes his right ear to dry it).	"Lisa's Rival"	1F17
106	repeat of 1F02's gag	"Another Simpsons Clip Show"	2F33
107	The family is beamed aboard the couch a la Star Trek.	"Itchy & Scratchy Land"	2F01
108	First airing: repeat of 1F06's gag Repeats: No Gag	"Sideshow Bob Roberts"	2F02
109	The family sits with mismatched limbs and heads; they swap body parts, but don't fully correct the mismatches.	"Treehouse of Horror V"	2F03
110	repeat of 1F06's gag	"Bart's Girlfriend"	2F04
111	The family sits, then gets shot up into the ceiling, with only their legs and feet showing.	"Lisa on Ice"	2F05
112	In a loose parody of the film, Time Bandits, the family runs in and chase after the couch as the back of the room recedes endlessly away from them.	"Homer Badman"	2F06
113	The family runs in together from the side, with big grins, passing through a repeat pan 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	Circus Line couch gag	"Fear of Flying"	2F08
115	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	In the style of a James Bond film opening, an unseen somebody is watching Homer, Homer notices him/her and shoots her/him, casusing s/he to bleed badly and sits alone. Music typically heard in a James Bond film plays throughout.	"And Maggie Makes Three"	2F10
117	The scene is black and white, and the couch, TV, and other living room furniture have an 1930s appearance; the family runs in, wearing Mickey Mouse style white gloves and big smiles, dancing.	"Bart's Comet"	2F11
118	repeat of 1F22's gag	"Homie the Clown"	2F12
119	repeat of 1F17	"Bart vs. Australia"	2F13
120	repeat of 2F01's gag, but a visual effect closer to Quantum Leap's.	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma"	2F14
121	The family sits; their sizes are reversed, with Maggie the largest and Homer the tiniest. (Except Bart who has not changed.)	"A Star Is Burns"	2F31
122	repeat of 2F05's gag	"Lisa's Wedding"	2F15
123	repeat of 2F06's gag	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"	2F18
124	repeat of 2F09's gag	"The PTA Disbands"	2F19
125	repeat of 2F31's gag	"'Round Springfield"	2F32
126	repeat of 2F10's gag	"The Springfield Connection"	2F21
127	repeat of 2F11's gag	"Lemon of Troy"	2F22
128	repeat of 2F07's gag	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"	2F16

Season 7[edit]

#	Gag	Episode	Code
129	The couch slides away as a police lineup height chart unfurls from above; the family lines up in front of it.	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"	2F20
130	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	The screen is split into a 3-by-3 grid of squares, as in the opening to The Brady Bunch, with the living room in the center square, and the five family members, plus Grampa, Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II each occupying an outer square; they all run out of their individual squares and sit on the couch in the center square, except Grampa who remains asleep in his square.	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"	3F01
132	The family drive around the room in go-karts, wearing fezzes; they line up in front of the couch and honk their horns simultaneously.	"Bart Sells His Soul"	3F02
133	The family sits, colorless; mechanical arms from above then spray-paint their colors onto them.	"Lisa the Vegetarian"	3F03
134	The family drops down from above, their necks in nooses. Maggie then sucks her pacifier, zombie like.	"Treehouse of Horror VI"	3F04
135	Malfunctioning, buzzing wind-up doll versions of the family wander around the room, most of them failing to reach the couch.	"King-Size Homer"	3F05
136	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	The whole room is filled with 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	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	The family sits; Homer notices a drain plug in the floor and removes it, and the family, couch, and everything else in the room is sucked down the drain like a toilet flush.	"Marge Be Not Proud"	3F07
140	The family sits; the camera then zooms in through a mouse hole, where a small mouse version of the family sits on a couch as well.	"Team Homer"	3F10
141	Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's heads are mounted on the back wall like trophies, while Homer is sprawled across the carpet like a bear skin rug; a hunter sits on the couch, puts down his gun, and lights up a pipe.	"Two Bad Neighbors"	3F09
142	The family sits as the room is illuminated by a fluorescent black light and a guitar riff plays, until Homer turns the light on and everything returns to normal.	"Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"	3F11
143	repeat of 2F17's gag (but this time, the paper does not slide back under the couch)	"Bart the Fink"	3F12
144	repeat of 3F01's gag	"Lisa the Iconoclast"	3F13
145	repeat of 3F02's gag	"Homer the Smithers"	3F14
146	repeat of 3F03's gag	"The Day the Violence Died"	3F16
147	repeat of 3F05's gag	"A Fish Called Selma"	3F15
148	repeat of 3F06's gag repeat of 9F08 for edited version	"Bart on the Road"	3F17
149	repeat of 3F08's gag	"22 Short Films About Springfield"	3F18
150	repeat of 3F07's gag	"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""	3F19
151	repeat of 3F09's gag	"Much Apu About Nothing"	3F20
152	repeat of 3F11's gag	"Homerpalooza"	3F21
153	repeat of 2F17's gag	"Summer of 4 Ft. 2"	3F22

Season 8[edit]

#	Thumbnail	Gag	Episode	Code
154		The Grim Reaper sits on the couch; the family runs in one at a time, immediately falling over dead in a pile; the Grim Reaper puts his feet up on the pile and relaxes.	"Treehouse of Horror VII"	4F02
155		The family descends from above with parachutes on, except Homer, who falls flat on his face from a malfunctioning parachute pack.	"You Only Move Twice"	3F23
156		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		Clear blue bubble versions of the family members float into the room, land on the couch, and pop.	"Burns, Baby Burns"	4F05
158		The whole scene is a parody of the cover of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, featuring a large crowd of regulars, and the family standing in front of the couch, front and center; Homer, spoofing the back cover of the album, turns to look at the crowded scene behind him.	"Bart After Dark"	4F06
159		The family sits as normal, but Bart is green; Homer messes with the dials on the TV, turning Bart red; finally, Homer smacks Bart upside the head, correcting Bart's color.	"A Milhouse Divided"	4F04
160		The whole room is upside-down, with the couch and everything else on what appears to be the ceiling. The family, also upside-down, runs in on the ceiling and sits in a normal fashion, before falling down onto the floor "above" them.	"Lisa's Date with Density"	4F01
161		Homer puts a quarter in a slot marked "Vend-A-Couch". Nothing happens. Homer bangs on the wall a few times and a couch comes down, crushing him.	"Hurricane Neddy"	4F07
162		repeat of 3F23's gag	"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"	3F24
163		The family flies into the room via jet packs; Maggie spirals in last, landing in Marge's lap.	"The Springfield Files"	3G01
164		The family members intermittently pop up out of five holes in the floor, a la Whack-a-Mole, with a large mallet attempt to whack them. He fails to whack Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart but Homer gets whacked and says "D'oh!". The circus music from "Homie the Clown" plays throughout.	"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"	4F08
165		The family finds Grampa asleep on the couch, which has a folding bed. They fold the bed up, ignoring Grampa's cry of "Huh?" and sit down as normal.	"Mountain of Madness"	4F10
166		The living room is empty. Cut to an outside shot of the family waiting impatiently as Homer struggles with a locked door. he bangs on the door as Fred Flintstone would on his.	"Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"	3G03
167		repeat of 4F06's gag, however, in syndication, this is replaced with the "Simpsons Meet The Flintstones" couch gag from 8F24	"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"	4F12
168		The living room appears in an "America Onlink" window, on which a cursor clicks "Load Family," the message "Please wait... loading 1 of 5" is displayed, and a progress bar fills very slowly as the same few seconds of the theme music play in a loop; eventually, the pointer repeatedly clicks the "Exit" button in frustration but this does not seem to work. "LOADING COUCH GAG" appears but nothing happens for ages so the user gives up.	"Homer's Phobia"	4F11
169		repeat of 4F01's gag	"Brother from Another Series"	4F14
170		The couch is on the deck of a ship at sea in rough waters, sliding back and forth with the tilt of the ship. The family, dressed in rain gear, sits on the couch, before an enormous wave washes them away.	"My Sister, My Sitter"	4F13
171		repeat of 4F03's gag	"Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"	4F15
172		repeat of 4F05's gag	"Grade School Confidential"	4F09
173		repeat of 4F10's gag	"The Canine Mutiny"	4F16
174		repeat of 4F08's gag (Except this time, the sounds of the mallet hitting the family members is more aggressive and the circus music from "Homie the Clown" is sped up)	"The Old Man and the Lisa"	4F17
175		repeat of 4F07's gag	"In Marge We Trust"	4F18
176		repeat of 4F04's gag	"Homer's Enemy"	4F19
177	No Gag	No Gag	"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"	4F20
178		repeat of 4F01's gag	"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"	4F21

Season 9[edit]

#	Gag	Episode	Code
179	The family comes in, dressed as the Harlem Globetrotters, showing off different basketball tricks to the tune of Sweet Georgia Brown	"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"	4F22
180	The family sits, dresses up in spacesuits; the couch blasts off like a rocket.	"The Principal and the Pauper"	4F23
181	Homer runs in and his top half pops off, revealing Marge concealed inside; Marge's top half pops off, revealing Bart inside, and so forth (although it is unknown how Marge would fit in Homer due to her hair.	"Lisa's Sax"	3G02
182	The couch becomes a five-seated electric chair that shocks the family	"Treehouse of Horror VIII"	5F02
183	The family (on fire) run in, screaming in pain. They hop onto The couch (which is full of water) and sigh in relief.	"The Cartridge Family"	5F01
184	The family sits; an auto-crusher compresses them all into a rectangular block.	"Bart Star"	5F03
185	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	The living room is set up like a sauna. Three old men sit, pouring water on the coals. The family (wearing only towels) comes in, then leave sheepishly.	"Lisa the Skeptic"	5F05
187	The family sits; Matt Groening's^[1] live action hand spins the picture around, smearing the family like spin art.	"Realty Bites"	5F06
188	The family sits; the living room is revealed to be inside a snow globe, which is shaken, making snow fall in the living room. (Christmas episode for this first usage)	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"	5F07
189	The floor is a treadmill; the family runs in place on the treadmill before leaping to the couch, except Homer, who falls, gets dragged around on the treadmill, and shouts "Marge, stop this crazy thing!" a la George Jetson in the original closing credits of The Jetsons.	"All Singing, All Dancing"	5F24
190	The family goes to sit down, only to have the couch pulled from under them by Nelson Muntz (Nelson then says "ha-ha!")	"Bart Carny"	5F08
191	The family runs in, tiny-sized, (as in 9F09's gag); this time, each family member lifts the next up onto the couch one-by-one, then a full-sized Santa's Little Helper takes Homer away in his mouth as Homer screams.	"The Joy of Sect"	5F23
192	The floor is water and the couch is a lilypad; a frog family (Maggie as a tadpole) hops onto the lilypad and frog-Homer turns on the TV with his long tongue.	"Das Bus"	5F11
193	repeat of 5F01's gag	"The Last Temptation of Krust"	5F10
194	repeat of 5F03's gag	"Dumbbell Indemnity"	5F12
195	A vine grows in the middle of the room; each family member's face sprouts from the vine as a fruit or vegetable.	"Lisa the Simpson"	4F24
196	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	A take-off on the opening sequence to Rocky & Bullwinkle, ending with the family popping up from out of the ground in a flower patch; Bart coughs up a clod of dirt. The Rocky & Bullwinkle theme plays throughout.	"Simpson Tide"	3G04
198	repeat of 5F05's gag	"The Trouble with Trillions"	5F14
199	repeat of 5F06's gag	"Girly Edition"	5F15
200	The family runs in, only to end up in Mrs. Krabappel's classroom where Bart is writing "I Will Not Mess With The Opening Credits" on the blackboard.	"Trash of the Titans"	5F09
201	repeat of 5F07's gag	"King of the Hill"	5F16
202	repeat of 5F08's gag	"Lost Our Lisa"	5F17
203	repeat of 5F11's gag	"Natural Born Kissers"	5F18

Season 10[edit]

#	Gag	Episode	Code
204	repeat of 5F08's gag	"Lard of the Dance"	5F20
205	Similar to the couch gag in "Marge vs. the Monorail" (9F10), the living room is filled with secondary and tertiary characters from the show. Unlike 9F10, 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 has some of the Comic Book Guy's popcorn.	"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"	5F21
206	Two firefighters hold the couch and catch most of the family as they fall from above, but they miss Homer, who crashes through the floor.	"Bart the Mother"	5F22
207	The family never make 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.	"Treehouse of Horror IX"	AABF01
208	Marge enters with a laundry basket and hangs the other family members on a clothesline above the couch.	"When You Dish Upon a Star"	5F19
209	The family sits; a safety bar lowers over their laps and the couch zooms around the room like a roller coaster.	"D'oh-in' in the Wind"	AABF02
210	The family sits; hair dryers descend onto their heads, then lift up, revealing the family members all have swapped hairdos. Homer has Maggie's, Marge has Bart's, Bart has Lisa's, Lisa has Homer's, and Maggie has Marge's (the weight of it causing her to fall off the couch).	"Lisa Gets an "A""	AABF03
211	repeat of 5F11's gag	"Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble""	AABF04
212	repeat of 5F03's gag	"Mayored to the Mob"	AABF05
213	repeat of 5F06's gag	"Viva Ned Flanders"	AABF06
214	The family, in cowboy hats, straddles the back of the couch, a large trapdoor opens beneath the couch and they drop; a top-down perspective shows the family riding the falling couch as it drops from high above a city below, in a parody of Slim Pickens' character riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove.	"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"	AABF07
215	The couch is floating on water as the family sits; the couch hits an iceberg and sinks, taking the family under with it, but Maggie resurfaces shortly on a floating cushion (as shown in the film Titanic).	"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"	AABF08
216	repeat of 5F19's gag	"Homer to the Max"	AABF09
217	repeat of AABF03's gag	"I'm with Cupid"	AABF11
218	repeat of AABF02's gag	"Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""	AABF10
219	repeat of 5F22's gag	"Make Room for Lisa"	AABF12
220	Adult Bart and Lisa, and young Marge and Homer (with a Maggie doll) sit on the couch; young Homer snatches the remote, but mother Lisa slaps his hand and he drops it.	"Maximum Homerdrive"	AABF13
221	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	repeat of AABF07's gag	"Mom and Pop Art"	AABF15
223	repeat of 5F21's gag	"The Old Man and the "C" Student"	AABF16
224	repeat of 9F08's gag	"Monty Can't Buy Me Love"	AABF17
225	repeat of AABF08's gag	"They Saved Lisa's Brain"	AABF18
226	The family sits, get sucked inside the couch, and come out looking like shredded paper.	"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"	AABF20

Season 11[edit]

#	Gag	Episode	Code
227	The Simpson family (as they were drawn on The Tracey Ullman Show) is already on the couch. The Simpsons (as they're currently drawn) then enter; both families run screaming out of the living room.	"Beyond Blunderdome"	AABF23
228	The family comes in, colorless and marked with numbers. A group of Asian painters come in to color the family.	"Brother's Little Helper"	AABF22
229	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 (wearing an orange and yellow Hawaiian shirt) comes in and resigns the scene (i.e. the floor) to Marge's horror.	"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"	AABF21
230	The family members appear as they have in previous Halloween episodes: Homer is a jack-in-the-box (from 8F02), Bart is a mutantfly (from 5F02), Marge is a witch (also from 5F02), and Maggie is an alien (from AABF01); Lisa, an ax victim (the only one not based on a previous episode), asks what aliens have to do with Halloween, and Maggie demands "Silence!" in a deep voice before disintegrating Lisa with a ray gun.	"Treehouse of Horror X"	BABF01
231	The couch is set up like a trendy nightclub (with a disco ball, velvet rope, bouncer, and club hoppers). Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie are let in, while Homer is denied access.	"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"	AABF19
232	A cement truck pours cement onto the couch; the cement instantly hardens into sculptures of the family, but cement Homer's head cracks and falls to the floor.	"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"	BABF02
233	The family sits; the couch rotates into a secret compartment in the wall (as in 9F01's gag), but instead of an empty couch on the other side, it's Vincent Price as a mad scientist torturing a scared Ned Flanders.	"Eight Misbehavin'"	BABF03
234	repeat of AABF20's gag	"Take My Wife, Sleaze"	BABF05
235	The family slides down into the living room from a fire pole and sits, except Homer, who gets stuck in the hole in the ceiling and flails about.	"Grift of the Magi"	BABF07
236	A crash test dummy version of the family sits. The couch slides forward and slams into the TV (simulating 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	A psychiatrist is sitting in a chair next to the couch. The family tries to run on but Homer gets there first and hops on the couch and yells, "Oh, doctor, I'm crazy!", as the other family members stare sadly at each other.	"Faith Off"	BABF06
238	repeat of AABF13's gag	"The Mansion Family"	BABF08
239	The family leaps into the room, all dressed in white karate uniforms and black belts, and chops the couch up with karate moves; Homer, remote in hand, does a karate flip and switches on the TV.	"Saddlesore Galactica"	BABF09
240	Homer is driving a bumper car. Marge, Bart and Lisa appear, also in bumper cars, and ram him into the wall.	"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"	BABF10
241	The couch is sitting in the Evergreen Terrace subway station, and the family sits; the train arrives and they board, leaving the empty couch behind.	"Missionary: Impossible"	BABF11
242	repeat of AABF21's gag	"Pygmoelian"	BABF12
243	repeat of AABF19's gag	"Bart to the Future"	BABF13
244	repeat of AABF23's gag	"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"	BABF14
245	The family is barefoot and briskly walking over a bed of hot coals. When they reach the couch, they sigh in relief as their feet are black and smoldering.	"Kill the Alligator and Run"	BABF16
246	The family swings into the room on a vine, like Tarzan; Homer fails to release the vine in time and crashes off screen.	"Last Tap Dance in Springfield"	BABF15
247	repeat of AABF22's gag	"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"	BABF18
248	The couch has a coin slot on the side. The family sits, and Bart puts a coin in it. The couch then vibrates away, taking the family with them.	"Behind the Laughter"	BABF19

Season 12[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
249	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XI"	BABF21
250		Bart arrives at the couch first and places a whoopee cushion under Homer's spot. When the family sits down, Homer sits on the part of the couch with the whoopee cushion underneath 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		The family runs in and freezes in mid-air; the camera pans around them in bullet-time, then time resumes normally as they sit.	"Insane Clown Poppy"	BABF17
252		Maggie is already seated (as in 9F02's gag) but unlike 9F02's gag, this time, rest of the family waddle in dressed as the Teletubbies. Maggie claps with delight. Homer is Twinky Winky, Marge is Dipsy, Lisa is Po, and Bart as Laa-Laa.	"Lisa the Tree Hugger"	CABF01
253		The family skateboard off a ramp one by one, landing on the couch, except Homer, who flips upside-down and lands on the floor. Adding insult and injury, Homer's skateboard falls out of the air onto his head.	"Homer vs. Dignity"	CABF04
254		The family runs in to find Santa's Little Helper dancing on his rear legs like Snoopy from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special while the popular theme from the Charlie Brown cartoons plays. Santa's Little Helper notices the family staring at him, slowly stops dancing, and barks.	"The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"	CABF02
255		The couch is in a fishbowl; the family swims to the couch in scuba gear.	"The Great Money Caper"	CABF03
256		The family, in football uniforms, pile on top of a football (and on top of each other); Maggie, football in hand, leaps from the pile, spikes the ball, and does a touchdown dance.	"Skinner's Sense of Snow"	CABF06
257		The family is deposited one by one onto the couch via tubes. Fry is deposited but then sucked back up and replaced with Bart.	"HOMЯ"	BABF22
258		repeat of BABF03's gag	"Pokey Mom"	CABF05
259		The couch is absent, and the Squeaky-voiced teen stands next to a "valet parking" sign; the family runs in and waits while the valet pushes the couch into frame; the family sits and the valet holds his hand out for a tip, but he does not receive one and walks off annoyed.	"Worst Episode Ever"	CABF08
260		The family, wearing winter coats, ice skates around the room before sitting on the couch; Homer's portion of the couch breaks off and falls through the ice.	"Tennis the Menace"	CABF07
261		repeat of BABF06's gag	"Day of the Jackanapes"	CABF10
262		The couch is next to a prison wall as a searchlight pans around the scene; the family, in striped prison uniforms, burrows up from the ground and sits on the couch, where the searchlight spots them.	"New Kids on the Blecch"	CABF12
263		repeat of BABF09's gag	"Hungry, Hungry Homer"	CABF09
264		repeat of BABF10's gag	"Bye, Bye, Nerdie"	CABF11
265		repeat of 9F08's gag	"Simpson Safari"	CABF13
266		repeat of CABF04's gag	"Trilogy of Error"	CABF14
267		repeat of BABF02's gag	"I'm Goin' to Praiseland"	CABF15
268		repeat of BABF04's gag	"Children of a Lesser Clod"	CABF16
269		repeat of BABF11's gag	"Simpsons Tall Tales"	CABF17

Season 13[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
270	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XII"	CABF19
271		The family stands on a simplistically-drawn sailboat and leaps into the water; when the splash subsides, the family is sitting on the couch, dripping wet, having just leaped out of the crooked sailboat painting on the rear wall.	"The Parent Rap"	CABF22
272		repeat of CABF06's gag	"Homer the Moe"	CABF20
273		repeat of CABF12's gag	"A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"	CABF18
274		repeat of BABF17's gag	"The Blunder Years"	CABF21
275		A giant slot machine sits in place of the couch; the five tumblers each come up bearing the faces of the family, except for the final tumbler which comes up "7" instead of Maggie and the machine dispenses gold coins with Maggie's face on them.	"She of Little Faith"	DABF02
276		A hedge is in place of the couch; a gardener quickly trims the hedge into the shape of The Simpson Family sitting on the couch then wipes his forehead in sleepiness, and says "Phew!".	"Brawl in the Family"	DABF01
277		The family sits; a claw arm (as found in coin-op prize machines) grabs Homer's head and lifts him up as he screams, "Ow, my brain!"	"Sweets and Sour Marge"	DABF03
278		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		The family arrives to find two repo men carrying the couch off. As Homer cries over this, the kids sit on the floor to watch TV.	"Half-Decent Proposal"	DABF04
280		repeat of 9F08's gag	"The Bart Wants What It Wants"	DABF06
281		The family catch The Squeaky Voice Teen making out with a teenage girl on the couch.	"The Lastest Gun in the West"	DABF07
282		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		Drawn in pencil, the family sits in a flipbook flipped by live-action hands.	"Tales from the Public Domain"	DABF08
284		The family try to run to the couch but stop and start banging heads violently. The camera pans up to reveal they are on strings and Matt Groening is the puppet master, the family's torture finaly ends as their strings get tangled up and they are not under his control any more.	"Blame It on Lisa"	DABF10
285		repeat of DABF01's gag	"Weekend at Burnsie's"	DABF11
286		repeat of DABF02's gag	"Gump Roast"	DABF12
287		repeat of DABF03's gag	"I Am Furious (Yellow)"	DABF13
288		repeat of DABF04's gag	"The Sweetest Apu"	DABF14
289		repeat of DABF07's gag	"Little Girl in the Big Ten"	DABF15
290		repeat of DABF05's gag	"The Frying Game"	DABF16
291		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[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
292	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XIII"	DABF19
293		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 (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		Spoofing the Get Smart opening in tribute to Don Adams, who had recently died, 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		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		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.	"Helter Shelter"	DABF21
297		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		Everybody is deep-fried in a fast-food fryer, then emptied onto the couch and salted.	"Special Edna"	EABF02
299		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		Everybody sticks their head through a cutout of the couch and have their pictures taken.	"The Strong Arms of the Ma"	EABF04
301		A giant baby picks up doll versions of the Simpson family and plays with them.	"Pray Anything"	EABF06
302		Everybody and everything is made of gingerbread; Homer takes a bite out of Bart's head.	"Barting Over"	EABF05
303		repeat of DABF18's gag	"I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"	EABF07
304		repeat of DABF10's gag	"A Star Is Born Again"	EABF08
305		repeat of EABF01's gag	"Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"	EABF09
306		repeat of DABF08's gag	"C.E. D'oh"	EABF10
307		repeat of DABF22's gag	"'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"	EABF11
308		repeat of EABF02's gag	"Three Gays of the Condo"	EABF12
309		Everybody is a mime, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existent couch.	"Dude, Where's My Ranch?"	EABF13
310		repeat of EABF03's gag	"Old Yeller-Belly"	EABF14
311		repeat of EABF04's gag	"Brake My Wife, Please"	EABF15
312		repeat of EABF06's gag	"The Bart of War"	EABF16
313		repeat of EABF05's gag	"Moe Baby Blues"	EABF17

Season 15[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
314	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XIV"	EABF21
315		The family runs to the couch as normal, only to decay and turn to piles of dust.	"My Mother the Carjacker"	EABF18
316		A Polaroid photo ejects onto the couch; it develops into a photo of the family.	"The President Wore Pearls"	EABF20
317		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		repeat of DABF20's gag	"The Fat and the Furriest"	EABF19
319		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		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		The family sit on the couch. Knives are hurled at the Simpsons' heads but they hit the wall. Homer tries to get the bowl of chips but a knife stops him.	"Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"	FABF03
322		Everybody is squeezed like frosting out of a pastry bag onto the top of a cake.	"I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"	FABF04
323		Everybody's head pops out of a giant piece of apple pie; Homer bites into the pie.	"Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"	FABF05
324		A tray is placed into a microwave, and the family rises as the tray is cooked.	"Margical History Tour"	FABF06
325		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		Everybody is a bag on a moving dry-cleaning rack, which stops over the couch.	"Smart and Smarter"	FABF09
327		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 then says "Wooowww". (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		repeat of EABF18's gag	"Co-Dependent's Day"	FABF10
329		repeat of EABF20's gag	"The Wandering Juvie"	FABF11
330		repeat of EABF22's gag	"My Big Fat Geek Wedding"	FABF12
331		repeat of FABF04's gag	"Catch 'Em If You Can"	FABF14
332		repeat of FABF01's gag	"Simple Simpson"	FABF15
333		repeat of FABF03's gag	"The Way We Weren't"	FABF13
334		repeat of FABF06's gag	"Bart-Mangled Banner"	FABF17
335		repeat of FABF02's gag	"Fraudcast News"	FABF18

Season 16[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
336	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XV"	FABF23
337		The couch is outside, mounted on the end of a catapult. The family sits on the couch, and then get launched skyward (Maggie be-ing the only one who enjoys the ride). Maggie and Bart are unharmed, Lisa seems to feel even better. Marge has a minor injury and Homer yells D'oh as he suffers the most serious injuries	"All's Fair in Oven War"	FABF20
338		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		All of the family members sit down as normal. The twist: Homer, Bart and Lisa now look like Moe Syzlak	"She Used to Be My Girl"	FABF22
340		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 eats the family.	"Fat Man and Little Boy"	FABF21
341		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		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		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		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		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		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		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		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 after Bart.	"Mobile Homer"	GABF07
349		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		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		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		repeat of FABF20's gag	"The Heartbroke Kid"	GABF11
353		repeat of DABF20's gag	"A Star Is Torn"	GABF13
354		repeat of FABF22's gag	"Thank God It's Doomsday"	GABF14
355		repeat of FABF21's gag	"Home Away from Homer"	GABF15
356		The family floats into the living room as balloons and Snowball II pops the one that looks like Homer.	"The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"	GABF09

Season 17[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
357		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.	"The Bonfire of the Manatees"	GABF18
358		The living room is made of clay. Six balls roll to the couch and form into Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, Bart and Gumby.	"The Girl Who Slept Too Little"	GABF16
359		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	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XVI"	GABF17
361		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; Sherri and Terri were eaten by their couch only to spit out their bows, Lou and Eddie are trapped in their police car while couches try to attack 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.	"Marge's Son Poisoning"	GABF20
362		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		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		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		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.	"Simpsons Christmas Stories"	HABF01
366		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		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'ohwhere"	HABF04
368		repeat of GABF16's gag	"My Fair Laddy"	HABF05
369		The couch moves down an automated assembly line; Homer is added by a mechanical arm.	"The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"	HABF06
370		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		Original airing: The family (played by live action actors and actresses) sit on the couch just as the animated Simpsons opening comes on. International/online airing: repeat of GABF08's gag	"Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife"	HABF08
372		repeat of GABF19's gag	"Million-Dollar Abie"	HABF09
373		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		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		repeat of GABF06's gag	"Girls Just Want to Have Sums"	HABF12
376		repeat of GABF12's gag	"Regarding Margie"	HABF13
377		repeat of HABF03's gag	"The Monkey Suit"	HABF14
378		repeat of GABF20's gag	"Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"	HABF16

Season 18[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
379		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		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		A vending machine filled with lots of characters (including the Simpson family) from the show appears instead of the couch. Ralph Wiggum comes in, selects a Homer figurine, and bites the head off before leaving.	"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"	HABF20
382	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XVII"	HABF17
383		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		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		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		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 Simpson family members. Homer can be heard yelling, "Whoo-hoo!"	"The Haw-Hawed Couple"	JABF02
387		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, Volumes I & II"	JABF01
388		The family on the couch is pinned up, one by one, onto a bulletin board.	"The Wife Aquatic"	JABF03
389		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		The family are paper dolls, and are each dressed into their regular clothes.	"Little Big Girl"	JABF04
391		repeat of HABF22's gag	"Springfield Up"	JABF07
392		repeat of HABF20's gag	"Yokel Chords"	JABF09
393		repeat of HABF04's gag	"Rome-Old and Juli-Eh"	JABF08
394		Homer's Evolution couch gag	"Homerazzi"	JABF06
395		repeat of HABF01's gag	"Marge Gamer"	JABF10
396		repeat of HABF15's gag	"The Boys of Bummer"	JABF11
397		repeat of HABF21's gag	"Crook and Ladder"	JABF13
398		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	No Gag	No Gag	"24 Minutes"	JABF14
400		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[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
401		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		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		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		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 doll house 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	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XVIII"	JABF16
406		The family (already seated on the couch) appears on the cover of Modern Couch Gag magazine.	"Little Orphan Millie"	JABF22
407		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		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		Repeat of FABF08's gag (but this time Homer says "weird" at the end)	"Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"	KABF02
410		Artwork emulating the style of the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Flanderses stealing the Simpsons's couch. The Simpsons then take it back and kill the Flanderses.	"E Pluribus Wiggum"	KABF03
411		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		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		Two hands add to a Lite-Brite of the family on the couch.	"The Debarted"	KABF06
414		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		Wile E. Coyote paints a fake couch on the wall which the Simpsons run into.	"Smoke on the Daughter"	KABF08
416		The Simpson family is painted on the couch.	"Papa Don't Leech"	KABF09
417		Repeat of KABF03's gag	"Apocalypse Cow"	KABF10
418		Repeat of JABF17's gag	"Any Given Sundance"	KABF11
419		Repeat of JABF06's gag	"Mona Leaves-a"	KABF12
420		Repeat of HABF19's gag	"All About Lisa"	KABF13

Season 20[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
421		The Simpsons are encased in Carbonite by bounty hunter Boba Fett.	"Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"	KABF17
422		The Simpsons see themselves sitting on the couch where Mount Rushmore should be. Bart remarks "Aye Caramba!"	"Lost Verizon"	KABF15
423		The Simpsons are caught in a twister and when they land, they are on a farm in black and white.	"Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"	KABF14
424	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XIX"	KABF16
425		The Simpsons come out of cuckoo clocks.	"Dangerous Curves"	KABF18
426		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		Bart is writing on the Chalkboard "I will Not Bring The Chalkboard Home".	"MyPods and Boomsticks"	KABF20
428		repeat of JABF01	"The Burns and the Bees"	KABF21
429		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		Simpsons chasing couch	"Take My Life, Please"	LABF01
431		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"	LABF02
432		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		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		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		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		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		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		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 face down in the pool.	"Father Knows Worst"	LABF08
439		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 off screen. 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		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		repeat of LABF02's couch gag	"Coming to Homerica"	LABF12

Season 21[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
442		The Simpsons are at an underground train station where a train pulls in and opens its doors, revealing the living room, complete with couch. The Simpsons get in and sigh as the door closes and the train pulls off. This is similar to "Missionary: Impossible"'s gag, but this time with the couch in the train instead of the platform.	"Homer the Whopper"	LABF13
443		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		repeat of LABF01's gag	"The Great Wife Hope"	LABF16
445	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XX"	LABF14
446		The Simpson 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		Instead of the couch, The Simpsons (dressed as Victorian-era Christmas carolers) appear next to a Christmas tree and sing a parody of "Twelve 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		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		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.	"Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"	MABF01
450		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		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		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		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		repeat of LABF08's gag	"The Color Yellow"	MABF06
455		repeat of LABF04's gag	"Postcards from the Wedge"	MABF05
456		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		repeat of LABF11's gag	"The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"	MABF10
458		The couch is outside the house, which is a cardboard set that falls down on the Simpsons	"American History X-cellent"	MABF08
459		repeat of LABF05's gag	"Chief of Hearts"	MABF09
460		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		The Simpsons are a miniature model constructed by Nelson then blown up with a firecracker.	"Moe Letter Blues"	MABF13
463		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		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[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
465		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 Simpson family. The banner then falls down.	"Elementary School Musical"	MABF21
466		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, jailed, and electrocuted. When electrocuted they scream and light up.	"Loan-a Lisa"	MABF17
467		Banksy couch gag	"MoneyBart"	MABF18
468	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXI"	MABF16
469		"Lance Murdock jumps over the family, he jumps over the couch again only to hit something when he leaves the front door."	"Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"	MABF20
470		A parody of Avatar.	"The Fool Monty"	NABF01
471		"Professor Frink is sitting on the couch, and he zaps the family, causing them to shrink. Grandpa almost steps on them, then Homer takes a bite out of a giant chip. Snowball II chases the family, who escape into a mousehole. They sit on a piece of cheese, but it turns out to be on a mousetrap, which goes off, trapping them."	"How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"	NABF02
472	No Gag	No Gag	"The Fight Before Christmas"	MABF22
473		An Advent calendar appears. Each date has a holiday-themed picture featuring people and places of Springfield. It finishes with the Simpsons sitting on the couch with Santa on the 24th.	"Donnie Fatso"	MABF19
474		The couch prepares for the day of the Simpsons sitting on it.	"Moms I'd Like to Forget"	NABF03
475		The Simpsons are scoops of ice cream served as a sundae. Hot fudge, whipped cream and a cherry are added and Santa's Little Helper eagerly devours them.	"Flaming Moe"	NABF04
476		repeat of MABF14's gag	"Homer the Father"	NABF05
477		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 stretcher.	"The Blue and the Gray"	NABF06
478		The Simpsons are hockey players. Homer and Bart have a face-off and start a brawl. Officials Lenny and Carl break it up, and the whole family ends up in the penalty box, where Homer spits out a tooth.	"Angry Dad: The Movie"	NABF07
479		The "Couch Gag Video Game" starts. The Simpson family members are selected as the players. When they take their seats on the couch, "GAME OVER" appears on the screen.	"The Scorpion's Tale"	NABF08
480		The Simpsons run to the couch and a spring throws them off.	"A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"	NABF09
481		The couch gag is done in the style of ASCII artwork, with Bart putting the words "Fatso" on Homer's chest.	"Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"	NABF10
482	No Gag	No Gag	"The Great Simpsina"	NABF11
483		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 with a "Gone Out of Business" sign which is then demolished by a giant wrecking.	"The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"	NABF12
484		Smithsonian Museum couch gag	"Homer Scissorhands"	NABF13
485		The screen is white with words in black marking the locations of the objects in the living room. The Simpsons' names fly onto the screen, taking their places above "COUCH". "SUCK" flashes on and off next to "MAGGIE" as she sucks on her pacifier.	"500 Keys"	NABF14
486	No Gag	No Gag	"The Ned-liest Catch"	NABF15

Season 23[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
487	No Gag	No Gag	"The Falcon and the D'ohman"	NABF16
488		John K. couch gag	"Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"	NABF17
489	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXII"	NABF19
490		repeat of NABF13's gag	"Replaceable You"	NABF21
491	No Gag	No Gag	"The Food Wife"	NABF20
492	No Gag	No Gag	"The Book Job"	NABF22
493	No Gag	No Gag	"The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"	PABF01
494		A sword is planted in the couch similar to Excalibur. Homer attempts to get it out, but fails. Flanders gets it out successfully. Homer shrugs it off and the family sits down.	"The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"	PABF02
495		The Simpsons are gingerbread people set out on a plate for Santa Claus. Homer takes a bite of himself.	"Holidays of Future Passed"	NABF18
496		Victorian Whodunnit couch gag	"Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"	PABF03
497		David Letterman couch gag	"The D'oh-cial Network"	PABF04
498		repeat of LABF02's couch gag	"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"	PABF05
499		"500th episode" couch gag	"The Daughter Also Rises"	PABF06
500		500th episode couch gag	"At Long Last Leave"	PABF07
501		A parody of the opening sequence of Game of Thrones.	"Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"	PABF09
502		The Simpsons lye on a rug and get rolled up by a person, then cut up into slices. Maggie pokes her head out.	"How I Wet Your Mother"	PABF08
503		The Simpson family go from 1989 to 2012, with each odd year having something happening, mainly people appearing next to the couch related to an episode broadcast in a year.	"Them, Robot"	PABF10
504		An animated short by Bill Plympton in which a young Homer falls in love with the couch...until he meets Marge. The couch tries to reunite with Homer after having a "baby couch," but Homer casts it out. The couch is forced to support itself by stripping and selling its body after being thrown out of its apartment and nearly commits suicide by throwing itself in a garbage truck, only to be rescued by Homer. The "baby couch" then ends up being Maggie's play chair.	"Beware My Cheating Bart"	PABF11
505		repeat of NABF14's gag	"A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"	PABF12
506		The Simpsons run into their seats in a stadium. An announcer tells the fans to raise their cards. All of them except Homer do so. Homer follows suit a few seconds later when he realizes what he's supposed to do. The cards form a picture of the Simpson family, with Homer's card showing part of his own face.	"The Spy Who Learned Me"	PABF13
507		repeat of NABF01's gag	"Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda"	PABF15
508		The family are playing a Zii game in which they sit on the couch, but Homer keeps failing. Homer angrily throws his controller down and tries to sit on the real couch, but fails just like in the game.	"Lisa Goes Gaga"	PABF14

Season 24[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
509		A reference to The Longest Daycare: Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa hatch out of coccoons as butterfiles. Baby Gerald chases after them and tries to smash them with a hammer, but Maggie comes to their rescue and stops him.	"Moonshine River"	PABF21
510	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"	PABF17
511		Original airing: No Gag International/online airing: The family is sitting on the couch, being formed piece by piece by animation cel, showing the internal organs, muscles and skin. Everytime a cel is placed, Homer is heard screaming. He then grabs a donut and eats it, with the donuts parts being shown on the cel too.	"Adventures in Baby-Getting"	PABF18
512		In a parody of Wacky Races, the family races against many characters but all of them crash near the finish line and Grampa wins.	"Gone Abie Gone"	PABF16
513		A tattooing needle is seen drawing a picture of the family seated on the couch. When the tattoo is finished, the view pulls back to reveal that Marge is getting a lower-back tattoo and has her dress rolled down to her waist. She pulls her dress back up and chuckles coyly.	"Penny-Wiseguys"	PABF19
514		Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart sit on the couch as normal. But Homer comes in later and surprises them with a bloody ax. This zooms out to reveal "Tales from the Couch".	"A Tree Grows in Springfield"	PABF22
515	No Gag	No Gag	"The Day the Earth Stood Cool"	PABF20
516	No Gag	No Gag	"To Cur, with Love"	RABF01
517		The family are awards. Homer is an Oscar, Marge is an Emmy, Lisa is a Grammy, Bart is a purple version of Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and Maggie is a Stanley Cup. They sit on a trophy shelf and are then crushed into a "Best Grampa award", which is taken by Abraham Simpson.	"Homer Goes to Prep School"	RABF02
518		The couch sequence is a trailer for an action movie called The Couch.	"A Test Before Trying"	RABF03
519		The Simpsons sit down on the couch, which zooms out to a ball whacking game. Nelson Muntz hits the target and a the living room falls in the water.	"The Changing of the Guardian"	RABF04
520		The Simpsons all look like Moe Szyslak (similar to FABF22's gag) and announce that their new sitcom, The Szyslaks has been cancelled.	"Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"	RABF07
521		The Simpsons sit on the couch while the Game Of Thrones theme plays as a knight chops Homer's head off and part of Marge's hair with a spear, making Lisa say, "Eew!". In the syndicated version, the Game Of Thrones couch gag plays, but at the end, we fade to the living room.	"Hardly Kirk-ing"	RABF05
522		Original airing: Homer Shake. International/Online airing: No Gag	"Gorgeous Grampa"	RABF06
523		In another Bill Plympton-animated opening, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are in a 1930s gangster story, armed with weapons and ready to attack. When Maggie turns on the lights, everyone is in the present day, holding common objects. Maggie then fires off a Tommy gun as they sit on the couch to watch TV.	"Black-Eyed, Please"	RABF09
524		Easter eggs painted to resemble Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are on the couch. Homer comes along and sits on the couch and squashes all four eggs.	"Dark Knight Court"	RABF10
525		Breaking Bad Couch Gag.	"What Animated Women Want"	RABF08
526		The Simpson family are skydiving. Homer's parachute breaks and the entire family crash into the house and fall onto the couch, which breaks the couch. Note: This is the only canon couch gag.	"Pulpit Friction"	RABF11
527		The Simpsons are carved into a block of ice by three men. Grampa Simpson comes in and turns on the heat. The ice sculpture melts.	"Whiskey Business"	RABF13
528		Robot Chicken couch gag.	"The Fabulous Faker Boy"	RABF12
529		The Simpsons are sea creatures sitting on a shell couch before being eaten by Blinky, the three-eyed fish.	"The Saga of Carl"	RABF14
530		Original/international (except Canada)/online airing: The Simpsons appear as dandelions. They grow seeds and the TV then blows on them. The seeds fly up into the air and float around the room. Hundreds of seeds, which are actually Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, look around confused. Canada airing: A loon, a Canadian hockey player, John A. Macdonald and a beaver all sit on the Simpsons' couch. O Canada (the national anthem of Canada) plays. The Simpsons rush in and shove them aside, but their guests say nothing. Maggie sucks on a hockey puck.	"Dangers on a Train"	RABF17

Season 25[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
531		The couch is behind a velvet rope and guarded by a bouncer with a clipboard. When the family approach the couch, the bouncer lets Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie in to sit on the couch. However, he denies entry to Homer, pointing to the clipboard and showing him that his name isn't on the list. When Homer tries to force his way in, the bouncer hits him over the head with a nightstick.	"Homerland"	RABF20
532		A horror-themed opening sequence directed by Guillermo del Toro, featuring classic and contemporary horror and science fiction monsters and movie references, ending with Lisa falling through a hole à la Alice in Wonderland and ends up in the end sequence to del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.	"Treehouse of Horror XXIV"	RABF16
533		A parody of The Hobbit in which The Simpsons trek to the couch.	"Four Regrettings and a Funeral"	RABF18
534		Parody of the film Upside Down - gravity prevents the family from sitting down, with Homer falling up through the ceiling into the sky.	"YOLO"	RABF22
535		A Simpsons take on the First Thanksgiving where The Simpsons (as Pilgrims) escape persecution by boarding the Mayflower (which looks like the simplistic sailboat painting hung above their couch) and sailing to Plymouth Couch, where an Indian (Apu) offers them Thanksgiving dinner for $19.95 a person.	"Labor Pains"	RABF19
536		"MusicVille", a "Silly Simpsony" cartoon short featuring every character as a musical instrument. A parody of Music Land.	"The Kid Is All Right"	SABF02
537		The Simpsons are flailing tube man balloons on a used couch lot. Balloon Bart steals a pair of scissors and cuts Balloon Homer, who flies into some power lines.	"Yellow Subterfuge"	SABF04
538		The family, dressed as elves, stand in front of the couch. They then get Victorian clothes and an old time filter with the text "'Twas the Couch Gag Before Christmas" over the top.	"White Christmas Blues"	SABF01
539	No Gag	No Gag	"Steal This Episode"	SABF05
540		Channel Changer (third Bill Plympton's couch gag).	"Married to the Blob"	SABF03
541		Homer sits down to watch the Super Bowl, only to have to get up to get his six-pack of beer...which Bart tossed over an overhead power line. When Homer retrieves it, he gets shocked -- and keeps getting shocked until the town's power goes out.	"Specs and the City"	SABF06
542		Sylvain Chomet couch gag: As the Simpsons rush to the couch, the lights go off. Marge leaves to fix the fuse, and when the lights go up, the characters are drawn Triplets of Belleville-style and everything has a French aesthetic to it. Bart plays with a do-it-yourself foie gras kit, Lisa plays an accordion, Marge cries out, "Maggie? Où est Maggie?" and Homer gets up and eats a snail off the TV, oblivious that Maggie is stuck between his butt cheeks.	"Diggs"	SABF08
543		Earth's single large land mass breaks apart into five Simpsons-shaped continents, only for a Moe-shaped asteroid to destroy the planet.	"The Man Who Grew Too Much"	SABF07
544		Homer is the patient from the board game "Operation," with other characters as the pieces (Lisa is "Brainy" (the brain), and Moe is "Elbow Bender" (the elbow)). When "Pain in the Butt" Bart is removed, he grabs the forceps and sticks it on the side, which causes Homer to buzz and scream in pain.	"The Winter of His Content"	SABF09
545	No Gag	No Gag	"The War of Art"	SABF10
546		The family are at the Running of the Bulls, that are couchs as bulls.	"You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"	SABF11
547		A "Minecraft" parody	"Luca$"	SABF12
548		The couch and the floor are covered in bubble wrap, which the family pops when jumping.	"Days of Future Future"	SABF13
549		In an opening directed by Michal Socha, the family takes a trip through Homer's body.	"What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"	SABF14
550	No Gag	No Gag	"Brick Like Me"	RABF21
551		Everybody is a pawn in The Game of Life, which ends with everybody and a Grim Reaper pawn on the couch.	"Pay Pal"	SABF15
552		The Simpson family and Matt Groening are taking part in a panel at the San Diego Comic Fest. When Comic Book Guy asks whether or not there will be another Simpsons movie, everyone except Maggie leaves; she sucks on her pacifier twice.	"The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"	SABF18

Season 26[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
553		The episode featured the longest couch gag to date, directed, written, animated, and produced by independent animator Don Hertzfeldt. The surreal sequence, projecting the fate of The Simpsons deep into the future, was described by Spin Magazine as "mind-melting" and "two of the strangest minutes of television ever to air on a major network during prime time."	"Clown in the Dumps"	SABF20
554		The Simpsons walk in and see Itchy trying to kill Scratchy. Itchy escapes and Scratchy is living with the Simpsons now. Everything is fine until he comes with his girlfriend and his friends. The Simpsons bring back Itchy and he kills Scratchy.	"The Wreck of the Relationship"	SABF17
555		A parody of the cover of the 1970 Cat Stevens album Tea for the Tillerman, with its opening track playing over it.	"Super Franchise Me"	SABF19
556	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXV"	SABF21
557	No Gag	No Gag	"Opposites A-Frack"	SABF22
558		The couch turns into Hedonismbot, all the Simpsons stand up except Homer who gets comfortable lying on Hedonismbot.	"Simpsorama"	SABF16
559		The couch is a ski lift. The family walks in, ready to go skiing. The couch rises up. Seconds later, the couch comes back down and the family are all injured. Except for Maggie, who comes in and has a medal and isn't injured.	"Blazed and Confused"	TABF01
560		The family is playing with their smartphones as they walk in. But, they don't pay attention to where they're going and bump into each other and fall over. They pick up their smartphones and carry on playing.	"Covercraft"	TABF02
561		There is a message that reads; "Now for obligatory Frozen reference", before cutting to a snow couch, where Lisa, appearing as Elsa, is sitting. Bart hits her with a snowball and she immediately creates a giant ice palace, with Bart stuck at the top. Homer appears as Olaf, and bites his own nose, disappointed to discover it is simply a carrot.	"I Won't Be Home for Christmas"	TABF03
562		A piano version of Great Gate of Kiev is played in the background as the gag showcases artwork of each Simpson. The camera turns to the Simpsons sitting at an art gallery. Homer grabs the remote control and all the artwork on the wall changes channels, pleasing the family.	"The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"	RABF15
563		In an updated version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Homer, Marge and Bart are shown walking into their home. They find out that someone has been eating their porridge and broke their couches but they catch Lisa who is sleeping on Bart's couch. She wakes up to find the three of them surrounding her, causing a fight between them that ends with the Simpsons eating parts of Homer's body. The scene is revealed to be a story Homer a traumatized Maggie.	"Bart's New Friend"	TABF05
564	No Gag	No Gag	"The Musk Who Fell to Earth"	TABF04
565		People start to eat each Simpson off of a sushi plate that is sitting on a moving boat, except for Homer, who falls into the water and gets eaten by a fish after the boat flips over.	"Walking Big & Tall"	TABF06
566		Simpsons Pixel couch gag.	"My Fare Lady"	TABF07
567		The printer gets jammed while printing out the couch gag.	"The Princess Guide"	TABF08
568	No Gag	No Gag	"Sky Police"	TABF09
569		The family is repeatedly sucked into a portal above the couch until Bart eventually separates from the rest, avoids getting beamed up, and closes the portal via a remote control. He then finds a severed Homer's head.	"Waiting for Duffman"	TABF10
570		5 ears of corn are placed on the couch, which then heats up in order to pop the Simpson family. Homer, who takes longest to pop, is burned.	"Peeping Mom"	TABF11
571		repeat of SABF15's gag (but this time, Homer didn't say "What the---?!" and the music appears in the intro and Abraham Simpson as a pawn appears at the end.)	"The Kids Are All Fight"	TABF12
572		Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie appear as penguins sitting on an ice molded couch, until they are eaten by walrus Homer.	"Let's Go Fly a Coot"	TABF13
573		Homer fails at making goal saves; Maggie continues kicking soccer balls at him until he is buried in them.	"Bull-E"	TABF15
574		Rick and Morty couch gag.	"Mathlete's Feat"	TABF16

Season 27[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
575		Several albums of the Beatles gets parodied by the Simpson family and on Flabby Road they get ran over by a red Double-decker bus.	"Every Man's Dream"	TABF14
576	No Gag	No Gag	"'Cue Detective"	TABF17
577		The Simpsons come in as cars: Homer as a caravan, Lisa as an electric car, Marge as a five doors van and Bart as a low-rider. Lisa connects to the charger, and when everyone gets on the couch, Maggie as a monster truck crushes them and sucks on her pacifier.	"Puffless"	TABF19
578	No Gag	No Gag	"Halloween of Horror"	TABF22
579		The episode opens with a Kricfalusi-animated couch gag where the Simpson children are trick-or-treating before being set upon by soul-hungry spirits with a monstrous Frank Grimes among them. The spirits chase after the Simpson children to their house with the Frank Grimes monster taking Homer's soul.	"Treehouse of Horror XXVI"	TABF18
580		Short with Santa's Little Helper titled Feast and changed to fat. He gets fed by the family till he becomes fat and is sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle, where he's fed strained prunes and dies afterwards. He's greeted by God. He sees the Fit Dog Heaven but God sends him to Fat Dog Hell where a signs says free pizza.	"Friend with Benefit"	TABF21
581		Parody of Star Trek, with the Simpson family in a donut Enterprise, that shots their couch, and then gets shot by a ring of couches.	"Lisa with an "S""	TABF20
582		A Simpson family member throws dices with Sideshow Bob, Patty, Lisa, Dewey Largo, Willie, Bart, Sherri, Terri, Nelson, Marge, Patty, Ned, Maggie, Wiggum, Crazy Cat Lady, Homer, Grampa, Moe, Mr. Burns, Duffman, Dr. Hibbert, Luann, Miss Hoover, Barney, Mr. Teeny and Professor Frink's faces on them. Homer's dice lands on Mr. Burns and Homer d'ohes. The other four dices lands on Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Marge.	"'Paths of Glory"	VABF01
583		The couch gag is animated in Rotoscoping and Homer and Bart complains about it, till Lisa grabs the remote and switches to normal saying it was a noble experiment that failed.	"Barthood"	VABF02
584	No Gag	No Gag	"The Girl Code"	VABF03
585		Homer sits on the couch, puts sunglasses on and the couch is taken to a lower level via a hidden elevator. Then, a montage showing Joe "Kaz" Kazinsky (Homer) and his partner, a high-tech couch chasing down their enemy, Fernando Withmore (Ned) on Miami of the 1980s. In the end, it's revealed that the scenes are a rerun from a 1980 show, to which Homer replies "Damn reruns", only for the family to be surprised by Maggie imitating the show's main heroes and setting the living room floor on fire.	"Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"	VABF04
586	No Gag	No Gag	"Much Apu About Something"	VABF05
587		Marge picks up a letter from the couch which sets the Simpsons off on a journey to find it, but Homer eventually wakes up from the dream, only to find a goodbye letter from Marge.	"Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"	VABF07
588		The Simpsons, dressed as rugby players, reunite at the center and get in position. Homer tries to sneak Maggie in as a rugby ball but goes over the couch and smashes the wall where he finds the TV remote.	"Gal of Constant Sorrow"	VABF06
589		Roomance by Bill Plympton The television and the couch dreams of the television bouncing on the couch and both having fun. At the end of the dream, the television tries to bounce on the couch but the plug line stops it and crashes.	"Lisa the Veterinarian"	VABF08
590	No Gag	No Gag	"The Marge-ian Chronicles"	VABF09
591		Homer sends a message with emoji of him, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and the couch, and recieves in answer "Meh" "I don't get it" "Needs a payoff" "Created by Matt Groening", to which he says "Oh, sorry, yes sir", and "Developed by James L. Brooks Matt Groening Sam Simon", to which he says "Who are these guys?", and the reciever sends "Meh" again.	"The Burns Cage"	VABF10
592		The Simpson family wakes up from cryo sleep in a space ship except Homer. Marge opens his pod but he comes out as bones.	"How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"	VABF11
593		The Simpsons become different Disney characters with Maggie as 1920s era Minnie Mouse, Lisa as Cinderella, Marge as Snow White, Homer as Baloo, and Bart as Sorcerer Mickey (animated by Disney veteran Eric Goldberg)	"Fland Canyon"	VABF12
594		The wall behind the couch breaks and the Simpsons themselves in Duff Stadium during a rugby match. Homer next finds himself piled under the rugby team.	"To Courier with Love"	VABF14
595	No Gag	No Gag	"Simprovised"	VABF13
596		Homer builds the couch in an IKEA themed instruction manual.	"Orange Is the New Yellow"	VABF15

Season 28[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
597		A parody of the opening sequence from Adventure Time, featuring multiple Simpsons characters playing the roles of the Adventure Time characters, such as Bart as Finn the Human and Homer as Jake the Dog. Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward contributed to the sequence.	"Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"	VABF20
598		Someone is transforming the Simpson family in emoji for their myPhone, but Homer doesn't fit because he's too fat. Switching to the myPad doesn't help either, so the mysterious character hits Homer with a hammer till he's unconscious.	"Friends and Family"	VABF18
599	No Gag	No Gag	"The Town"	VABF17
600		In a spoof of Planet of the Apes, the Simpsons are being chased by couches through a field, until they are caught and imprisoned. The Simpsons' couch breaks them out, and leads the family to a buried Lard Lad statue. Homer then grabs a rock and slams it on the couch, making it unconscious. The Simpson family sits on the couch.	"Treehouse of Horror XXVII"	VABF16
601		Marge and Lisa force Homer to visit the Springfield Museum of Art where a special exhibit is on. Upon entering Homer starts hallucinating, seeing Marge and Lisa as paintings. He comes out of the museum and sees Bart, Santa's Little Helper and the whole Springfield as paintings too, he arrives home and sits on a couch with Maggie. The whole house is a painting too so he tries to change himself in a painting, but becomes a point stile comic instead.	"Trust but Clarify"	VABF21
602	No Gag	No Gag	"There Will Be Buds"	VABF22
603		The family flies to the couch on top of Mount Olympus but Lisa is missing. She comes out of Homer's head (as Athena was fabled to have emerged full-grown from Zeus's forehead); Homer takes Maggie's pacifier to close the hole in his head.	"Havana Wild Weekend"	VABF19
604		Bart gets home and finds no one after calling "Hello? Hello!", he grabs Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie's portraits and places them on the couch, he sits down and exclaims "Uh, finally I get the remote" and switches the TV on. The TV slides down a media center box, suspended on top of other media equipment.	"Dad Behavior"	WABF01
605		The Simpsons walks toward where the couch should be and find it empty, then they walk backwards as soldiers point musquets at them. The scene turns into a oil painting and Homer d'ohes	"The Last Traction Hero"	WABF03
606		Homer arrives home on a ski sled, Bart hits it with his skateboard, Lisa avoids him on her bike and Marge hits him through the door with a sled led by 4 Santa's Little Helpers. They sit on the couch, dressed as A Christmas Carol characters, with Homer holding a chalice, but Ebenezer Burns arrives and asks Smithers to release the Christmas Hounds, that attacks the family that flees, with Lisa flying.	"The Nightmare After Krustmas"	WABF02
607		The Simpsons sit down on the couch that is revealed to be a sticker on a "Couch Gag Play Set". The set is between other Simpsons merchandise (t-shirt, couches, snow globes, hats, stand-up figures and a The Simpsons Video Game). Bart asks Marge to get one, but Marge refuses, even if it's 3 for $1.	"Pork and Burns"	WABF06
608 609	No Gag	No Gag	"The Great Phatsby: Part One" "The Great Phatsby: Part Two"	WABF04 WABF05
610		The family arrives on the couch but Maggie is missing. Marge turns around, moves the painting behind the coach, opens a safe, and retrieves Maggie, revealing gold bars inside the safe.	"Fatzcarraldo"	WABF07
611		The family arrives at the couch, but Homer notices the sail boat painting has disappeared. Bart suggests another animated show stole it. Homer walks on the set of South Park and The California Raisins but can't find it, and booes the raisins, but in the fight that follows a fire starts, he escapes through a door to find that the Nerd from Robot Chicken, who is watching a video of the previous Robot Chicken couch gag, bought it from Bart on a bid. Homer, while the Nerd rambles on, steals the painting and leaves a paper one, and runs through the stages back home, killing the South Park characters too, announcing he did retrieve it, only to find the family replaced it, and Marge swears her disappointment.	"The Cad and the Hat"	WABF08
612		A pachinko machine is shown, with the family at the bottom. Everyone but Homer gets many balls in. Homer is sad but on opening his mouth he swallows one and chokes.	"Kamp Krustier"	WABF09
613		The Simpson family arrives on the couch gag, hand-drawn, but Bart is missing part of his head. A pencil draws it and reveals it is Maggie correcting it. After, Lisa is seen drawing Maggie, Bart drawing Lisa, Marge drawing Bart and Homer drawing Marge, while eating a donut. Proceeding to eat the donut, he stabs himself in the eye with another pencil.	"22 for 30"	WABF10
614		All the past and present Simpsons' pets are on the couch	"A Father's Watch"	WABF11
615		The Simpson family arrives as the X-Men (Homer is Professor X, Marge transforms into Mystique, Lisa is Storm, Maggie is Wolverine and Bart is Angel). Then Stan Lee arrives and says "There is nothing too short I can't cameo".	"The Caper Chase"	WABF12
616		The 20th Century FOX logo explodes like a Big Bang and starts showing stills from the most iconic episodes of the show since 1987. At the end, the family arrives at the couch but it disappears leaving them on the floor.	"Looking for Mr. Goodbart"	WABF13
617		Chia Pet of the Simpson family are watered, they all grow full air, except for Homer who still has only his two hairs and a beard. While the hairs grows, he says "What? Cheap. Lousy. Uh. There.".	"Moho House"	WABF14
618		The Simpson family climb a mountain, on Homer's command, two Sherpas bring the couch and the TV to them, one of them faints and is taken away by the other. Maggie is the last to arrive and, with a pickax, destroys the frozen family, which melts.	"Dogtown"	WABF15

Season 29[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
619	No Gag	No Gag	"The Serfsons"	WABF17
620	No Gag	No Gag	"Springfield Splendor"	WABF22
621		The Simpson family is the furniture instead of the characters on the couch: Homer is the couch, Bart is the left lamp, Lisa is the right lamp, Maggie is the painting above the couch and Marge is the TV antenna. Couches comes in to sit on Homer and painting-Maggie tilts herself once they're settled.	"Whistler's Father"	WABF16
622	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXVIII"	WABF18
623		The Simpsonovich family is peeling potatoes, when suddenly they grab the couch and escape, when soldiers storm in the house. After travelling on a boat, they arrive in the U.S., where they're granted access, renaming themselves as Simpson. Moe arrives and grabs pieces of the name tags, renaming himself as Szyslak, but he is not granted entrance, and is instead quarantined. At their new home, Homer is sewing, Maggie is in a crib, Bart is playing with a baseball, Lisa is crocheting, and Marge is cleaning clothes and then hangs the couch to the clothesline. The scene changes to a bar where Marge and Homer are sitting on the couch while other people dance. Homer tries to put his arm on Marge but she moves away. At 742 Evergreen Terrace the family is sitting on the couch when they have to leave when the house is flooded. Springfield families find themselves on a UFO, that flies away from Earth. The Simpson family arrives at the acceptance room, where a Riggelian attaches a Riggelian family name to their name, and Homer d'ohs.	"Grampy Can Ya Hear Me"	WABF19
624		In a black and white mute movie setting, the Simpson family arrives at the couch gag and Lisa points at it and says "Look Father! A couch!". Marge remarks "Proper young ladies don't point!". Homer checks his pocket watch and says "Now it's 8 a.m. You kids get to work!". Bart and Lisa go to work at the Coal Mine (through the children's entrance), but Marge follows them in saying "Kids! Kids! You forgot your sister!" and gives them Maggie. Descending the elevator, they find themselves in Hell. Lisa exclaims "Uh-oh! Too far!", while Bart goes on to dance next to the devils, exclaiming "Well, I'm staying here.". A final text onscreen says "Another Couch Gag Classic. Filmed in Simpsorama MCMXVII".	"The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be"	WABF20
625		When the Shrimpson family arrives at the couch, they get hooked by Ned, and deposited into a capture cage. Homer says "our own home", before shrimps are revealed to be in it as well.	"Singin' in the Lane"	WABF21
626		The family arrives on the couch, then the scene transforms into a Lincoln Memorial statue, with "In couch gags we trust" written above it, which turns into a bronze coin with "Vescere Bracis Meis" ("Eat my shorts" in latin) written under it. The coin is then shown given by Mr. Burns in his office to Homer as a raise, to which Homer shouts "D'oh".	"Mr. Lisa's Opus"	XABF01
627		The couch burns up and the Simpson family transforms into popcorn and are laced around the Christmas tree; Homer exclaims "D'oh!"	"Gone Boy"	XABF02
628	No Gag	No Gag	"Haw-Haw Land"	XABF03
629		The couch gives birth to a baby couch, with Dr. Hibbert performing the operation, Homer tries to hold it in his hands but drops it on the carpet. Maggie then sits down on it.	"Frink Gets Testy"	XABF04
630	No Gag	No Gag	"Homer Is Where the Art Isn't"	XABF05
631		Homer sings "Your Face" while his face contorts, divides and explodes. At the end, Homer appears on the couch with the other members of the family.	"3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage"	XABF06
632		At the Museum of Television, the Simpson family passes in front of wax statues of characters from the tv shows Bonanza, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Lassie and Gunsmoke. At the end, they sit on the couch, under the label "The Simpsons 636 episodes" but Lisa points out they're 4 episodes early and Homer d'ohs.	"Fears of a Clown"	XABF08
633		Skinner does a connect-the-dots of the Simpson family, but Homer ends up having three eyes and d'ohs.	"No Good Read Goes Unpunished"	XABF07
634	No Gag	No Gag	"King Leer"	XABF10
635		Marge, Maggie, Bart and Homer are at the couch gag, but Lisa doesn't show up as she's still talking with Dewey Largo. Homer would have cut the couch out of a log with a chain saw. The text "We're lumberjacks. Why is that funny?" appears as on-screen text.	"Lisa Gets the Blues"	XABF11
636	No Gag	No Gag	"Forgive and Regret"	XABF09
637		The family gets on the couch, and a handle comes down. The couch gets raised off the roof and is shown that it's attached to a Ferris wheel, which, destroying half the house, takes them around for one turn. At the end Bart says "Worth it", Lisa says "Totally worth it" and Homer says "Again!"	"Left Behind"	XABF12
638		The Simpson family gets printed out from printers, but Homer gets paper jammed, and then says "Mmm..., Jam"	"Throw Grampa from the Dane"	XABF13
639		The Simpson family goes to sit on the couch but the couch is not there. Marge rings a bell and Puritans starts building a wooden one. After sitting on it, Homer tries to change the channel with the remote, but one of the Puritans informs him there is no electricity, to which Homer D'ohs.	"Flanders' Ladder"	XABF14

Season 30[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
640		A series of clips from each season is shown (for a full list, see the references page). An alien family is then seen sitting on a couch in the Star System HD 102365 - 30 Light Years Away from Earth. The adult male alien asks why Homer sounds like Walter Matthau.	"Bart's Not Dead"	XABF19
641	No Gag	No Gag	"Heartbreak Hotel"	XABF15
642		After getting hit through the door of the Simpson house, Homer appears in Bob's Burgers, during the show's opening sequence. He gets scared at this. Meanwhile, the family look in on him and talk about Homer, wondering what he is doing.	"My Way or the Highway to Heaven"	XABF17
643	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXIX"	XABF16
644		The Simpson family gets on exercise bikes, and everyone but Homer go to move around the house with them. Homer then D'ohes.	"Baby You Can't Drive My Car"	XABF18
645		The Simpson family is inserted as toasts into the couch, transformed into a toaster, Homer gets stuck and burns out before yelling "D'oh".	"From Russia Without Love"	XABF20
646	No Gag	No Gag	"Werking Mom"	XABF21
647	No Gag	No Gag	"Krusty the Clown"	XABF22
648		Bart, Maggie, Lisa and Marge arrive at the couch, finding Homer sleeping on it, dreaming of other opening sequences. The first, in an underwater setting, one sees Blinky flying across the title screen, then the scene at the garage sees them being mermaids, with Homer getting hit in the head by Bart, almost hit by Lisa and Marge and Maggie hitting him and swimming with him inside. Then on the couch we see Homer sleeping again, dreaming of the second sequence. The second sees Three-eyed crow flying across the title screen, sees the normal sequence at the garage, pencil-drawn. They then arrive at the couch with Homer sleeping, starting the third sequence. The third one sees just the couch sequence with the family as atoms. The sequences then go back to the first one, to see Homer waking up and the rest staring at him, to which Homer says "Sorry, no room." and goes back to sleep.	"Daddicus Finch"	YABF01
649		Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart are upside down on the ceiling. When wampa-Homer comes to attack them, Bart uses the force to grab the light saber and cut its hand. The monster reattaches it and hugs Marge, and they all say "Merry Christmas", and then the wampa's hand comes off once again.	"'Tis the 30th Season"	YABF02
650		The Simpson family are at a football game, where on the sidelines they sit on the couch, dressed as football players, and Homer spins Maggie on his fingers, and then gets congratulated by the public.	"Mad About the Toy"	YABF03
651		The Simpson family arrives to find Thanos on the couch. Maggie gives him her pacifier which he places on his Infinity Gauntlet, proceeding to vaporize the family, except Maggie, who joins him on the couch. The gauntlet proceeds to suck on the pacifier as they get comfortable to watch TV.	"The Girl on the Bus"	YABF04
652		The family arrive at the couch, where a heart shaped chocolate box is located, and fill the spot in it. Mr. Burns grabs Homer and tries to eat him, just to spit him out in disgust and Homer D'ohes.	"I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can"	YABF06
653	No Gag	No Gag	"The Clown Stays in the Picture"	YABF05
654		The Simpson family arrives on the couch as cups, with cup fillers on top filling them. Duff Beer for Homer, Diet Buzz for Marge, lemonade for Lisa, Baby Buzz for Maggie and Buzz Cola for Bart. Homer's cup overflow and he falls on the floor, saying "Refill".	"101 Mitigations"	YABF07
655		Homer and Marge are partecipating at the Pyramid game show. Phrase is "Things a couch would say". Marge starts with "You sit on me, there's a remote in my crack.", Homer answers "Uh, problems I have.". Marge suggests "I could use a slip cover.", to which Homer answers "Uh, things your sister would say.". Finally, Marge says "Uh, you haven't replaced me since 1989." and Homer suggests correctly "Things a couch would say.", and Marge says "Yes." with the crowd cheering.	"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"	YABF08
656	No Gag	No Gag	"E My Sports"	YABF09
657	No Gag	No Gag	"Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy"	YABF10
658		Homer arrives at the couch, with the whole scene, except him, in black and white, then he D'ohes.	"Girl's in the Band"	YABF11
659		Bart, Maggie, and Lisa star in the opening of "My Three Kids", with Groundskeeper Willie as angry Uncle Angus	"I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh"	YABF12
660		repeat of LABF02's couch gag	"D'oh Canada"	YABF14
661	No Gag	No Gag	"Woo-Hoo Dunnit?"	YABF15
662		The family arrives at the couch, but the room looks made of paper, they touch it to check it. Homer doesn't notice and tries to sit on the couch, falling beyond the paper on the stage	"Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"	YABF16

Season 31[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
663		Homer folds over a piece of paper into origami, with the intention to create a swan, till it forms the family on the couch instead, exclaiming "what the?" when done.	"The Winter of Our Monetized Content"	YABF19
664	No Gag	No Gag	"Go Big or Go Homer"	YABF21
665		The Simpson family arrives on stage on a recreation of the 1985 Live Aid Queen concert, Homer is Freddie Mercury, Lisa is John Deacon, Marge is Brian May, Bart is Roger Taylor and Maggie is the camera woman. Homer shouts "Day-oh!", the public shouts back, and then does a split and his pants rips apart, to which he D'ohes, and the public D'ohes back.	"The Fat Blue Line"	YABF21
666	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXX"	YABF18
667		A target is placed on the couch, and the Simpson family is thrown at it for target practice. Homer is last, yelling "make way", before being thrown against the wall instead and exclaiming d'oh.	"Gorillas on the Mast"	YABF20
668		The Simpson family gets on the couch, followed by the Hibbert family, and is moved to the entrance to a pirate attraction, "Alas there, it be too late to alter course matey and there be pirates lurking in every cove", Homer answers it "Get to the ride", and they crash down a cave, full of destroyed couches and bones, with Homer on the ground asking "Did they get a picture?", and Bart facedown in the water].	"Marge the Lumberjill"	ZABF02
669	No Gag	No Gag	"Livin La Pura Vida"	ZABF03
670	No Gag	No Gag	"Thanksgiving of Horror"	YABF17
671		Ned, Todd and Rod Flanders arrive at where their couch would be, but Ned tells them he gave it to the poor and they cheer.	"Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"	ZABF04
672		The couch is placed as a Christmas tree ornament, and the Simpson family is placed on it, but when Homer is placed, the tree falls and Homer exclaims "D'oh ho! Ho!"	"Bobby, It's Cold Outside"	ZABF01
673		The family sits on a couch, the image of it is seen on a bronze coin that Nelson places on a railroad, and gets flattened. Nelson shows it shining and he exclaims Ha Ha!, just before getting hit by another train	"Hail to the Teeth"	ZABF05
674	No Gag	No Gag	"The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"	ZABF06
675		Cat Simpsons couch gag	"Frinkcoin"	ZABF07
676	No Gag	No Gag	"Bart the Bad Guy"	ZABF08
677		Lisa arrives at the couch, just to realize everyone forgot about Daylight Savings time, as the rest of the Simpson family is not present.	"Screenless"	ZABF09
678		A person is tracking the family trip home on Uber, then rates the trip 1 star and doesn't tip the driver	"Better Off Ned"	ZABF11
679	No Gag	No Gag	"Highway to Well"	ZABF10
680		The Extremesons couch gag	"The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby"	YABF13
681		Living clothes couch gag	"Warrin' Priests: Part One"	ZABF12
682		Succession couch gag	"Warrin' Priests: Part Two"	ZABF13
683	No Gag	No Gag	"The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds"	ZABF14
684	No Gag	No Gag	"The Way of the Dog"	ZABF16

Season 32[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
685		The Simpsons try to sit on the couch but bonk on something. It's revealed that Nelson created the couch gag using a green screen, making them bonk on it.	"Undercover Burns"	ZABF19
686	No Gag	No Gag	"I, Carumbus"	ZABF18
687		Repeat of gag of PABF18.	"Now Museum, Now You Don't"	ZABF21
688	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXXI"	ZABF17
689		The Simpson family arrives at the couch on the moon, but when Homer tries to land on it, he bounces off, being sent into orbit, while he D'hoes.	"The 7 Beer Itch"	ZABF15
690	No Gag	No Gag	"Podcast News"	ZABF22
691		The Simpson family arrives to find the couch have prepared dinner, but it says that they said they'd be home at 7 and to go sleep on the bed, then it blows the candles, darkening the room.	"Three Dreams Denied"	QABF02
692	No Gag	No Gag	"The Road to Cincinnati"	ZABF20
693		The Simpson family joins the room as Pac-Man ghosts. After the level start song ends, Homer comes in the room as Pac-Man itself and eats them. When it comes to eating Ned, he tries to eat him, just to die due to the invincibility pallet running out, exclaiming "Oh, stupid Flanders. D'oh"	"Sorry Not Sorry"	QABF01
694	No Gag	No Gag	"A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas"	QABF03
695	No Gag	No Gag	"The Dad-Feelings Limited"	QABF04
696		The couch is on Martian soil and gets crashed by an UFO. Marge and Maggie come out of the UFO, while Homer, Lisa (on a hover bike) and Bart (on his skateboard) come on foot. However, Homer has no space helmet, which Marge asks on where it is, and Homer's head explode, with his mouth shouting D'oh.	"Diary Queen"	QABF05
697	No Gag	No Gag	"Wad Goals"	QABF06
698	No Gag	No Gag	"Yokel Hero"	QABF07
699	No Gag	No Gag	"Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?"	QABF08
700		Homer's Family couch gag	"Manger Things"	QABF09
701	No Gag	No Gag	"Uncut Femmes"	QABF10
702		Swiss Pocket Knife couch gag	"Burger Kings"	QABF11
703	No Gag	No Gag	"Panic on the Streets of Springfield"	QABF12
704		Marge is hatching eggs on a nest. Homer jumps in the nest, breaking the eggs, and gets a taste of the egg yolk.	"Mother and Child Reunion"	QABF14
705	No Gag	No Gag	"The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."	QABF13
706	No Gag	No Gag	"The Last Barfighter"	QABF15

Season 33[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
707	No Gag	No Gag	"The Star of the Backstage"	QABF17
708	No Gag	No Gag	"Bart's in Jail!"	QABF18
709	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXXII"	QABF16
710		All Hail Princess Maggie	"The Wayz We Were"	QABF19
711	No Gag	No Gag	"Lisa's Belly"	QABF20
712	No Gag	No Gag	"A Serious Flanders (Part 1)"	QABF21
713	No Gag	No Gag	"A Serious Flanders (Part 2)"	QABF22
714		Swiss Pocket Knife couch gag	"Portrait of a Lackey on Fire"	UABF01
715		The Simpson family is placed all together in the shape of the couch, with grunts they separate and run out of the room.	"Mothers and Other Strangers"	UABF02
716	No Gag	No Gag	"A Made Maggie"	UABF03
717	No Gag	No Gag	"The Longest Marge"	UABF05
718	No Gag	No Gag	"Pixelated and Afraid"	UABF04
719	No Gag	No Gag	"Boyz N the Highlands"	UABF06
720	No Gag	No Gag	"You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!"	UABF07
721	No Gag	No Gag	"Bart the Cool Kid"	UABF08
722		Someone is doing a sliding puzzle of the Simpson family. After he completes it, Homer burps and rearranges the pieces.	"Pretty Whittle Liar"	UABF09
723		Lisa plays Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts" on her saxophone while Marge, Homer, Maggie and Bart are on a sheet music on the wall moving around as she plays. In the end, Homer gets hit by a normal note and d'ohes.	"The Sound of Bleeding Gums"	UABF10
724	No Gag	No Gag	"My Octopus and a Teacher"	UABF11
725	No Gag	No Gag	"Girls Just Shauna Have Fun"	UABF12
726		The Simpson family is sculptured on Mount Rushmore, Homer starts picking his nose, a tree branch. Marge warns him to not pick it, but Homer keeps picking it, till his face crumbles.	"Marge the Meanie"	UABF15
727	No Gag	No Gag	"Meat Is Murder"	UABF13
728		Several of the kids from Springfield Elementary are having a party in the house, when Marge and Homer suddenly arrive and everyone hides behind furniture or in other rooms. Lisa then retrieves a shirt that was left on the floor just as they're sitting on the couch. Everyone peek from around the corner and Maggie pops her lollipop out of her mouth.	"Poorhouse Rock"	UABF14

Season 34[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
729		No Connection	"Habeas Tortoise"	UABF16
730		The Rug	"One Angry Lisa"	UABF19
731		Tiles on a wooden couch try to form the world "Couch Gag" in a game of Scrabble, till they eventually succeed.	"Lisa the Boy Scout"	UABF21
732	No Gag	No Gag	"The King of Nice"	UABF20
733	No Gag	No Gag	"Not It"	UABF17
734	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"	UABF18
735		In a live action recording by Jacob's Food Diaries, the Simpsons are made out of food and covered in gravy.	"From Beer to Paternity"	OABF01
736	No Gag	No Gag	"Step Brother from the Same Planet"	UABF22
737	No Gag	No Gag	"When Nelson Met Lisa"	OABF02
738	No Gag	No Gag	"Game Done Changed"	OABF03
739	No Gag	No Gag	"Top Goon"	OABF04
740	No Gag	No Gag	"My Life as a Vlog"	OABF05
741		"Yarn"	"The Many Saints of Springfield"	OABF06
742	No Gag	No Gag	"Carl Carlson Rides Again"	OABF07
743	No Gag	No Gag	"Bartless"	OABF08
744		"Weird Al" Yankovic plays his accordion as the Simpsons watch. After he finishes, he asks if he can stay for dinner, but Homer tells him no.	"Hostile Kirk Place"	OABF09
745		A box containing dolls of the Simpsons and a couch is placed down and emptied. A dog then comes along and chews on the Homer doll.	"Pin Gal"	OABF10
746	No Gag	No Gag	"Fan-ily Feud"	OABF11
747	No Gag	No Gag	"Write Off This Episode"	OABF12
748	No Gag	No Gag	"The Very Hungry Caterpillars"	OABF14
749	No Gag	No Gag	"Clown V. Board of Education"	OABF15
750		The Simpsons run in and sit on the couch in a room full of random characters. Homer asks his family "Who the hell are these people?"	"Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"	OABF13

Season 35[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
751	No Gag	No Gag	"Homer's Crossing"	OABF18
752	No Gag	No Gag	"A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream"	OABF16
753		Homer gets text messages from Marge telling him to hurry home. He puts on his Lambuggini jacket then leaves the Power Plant. When he's in the parking lot, he presses his key fob and his Lambuggini drives to him, hitting Lenny along the way. Lenny then hits a helicopter which was flying by. Homer gets in his car and presses the "make me look cool" button, which changes both the car's and Homer's appearance. Homer then drives along the mountain roads and presses the "goat milker" button to get milk from nearby goats. When he runs out of fuel, he presses a button that makes a jet fly by to give him more fuel. He then jumps over a gorge and starts flying, passing by Dick Van Dyke in a flying car as he goes. Homer then makes it home and the garage doesn't open properly. Homer forces the garage open enough to drive the car in and onto its side before he goes into the house and to the couch. Marge then tells Homer that there's no food left and Santa's Little Helper got sprayed by a skunk. Homer then wakes up in the Power Plant at work and complains about his stupid imagination.	"McMansion & Wife"	OABF20
754	No Gag	No Gag	"Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story"	OABF21
755	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXXIV"	OABF17
756	No Gag	No Gag	"Iron Marge"	OABF22
757		Thanksgiving Turkey Hand Couch Gag	"It's a Blunderful Life"	OABF19
758	No Gag	No Gag	"Ae Bonny Romance"	35ABF02
759	No Gag	No Gag	"Murder, She Boat"	35ABF04
760	No Gag	No Gag	"Do the Wrong Thing"	35ABF01
761		The Simpson family are hanging on a tree when they wither and fall on the ground. They are then blown away by Willie.	"Frinkenstein's Monster"	35ABF03
762	No Gag	No Gag	"Lisa Gets an F1"	35ABF05
763	No Gag	No Gag	"Clan of the Cave Mom"	35ABF06
764	No Gag	No Gag	"Night of the Living Wage"	35ABF07
765	No Gag	No Gag	"Cremains of the Day"	35ABF09
766		The Family sits, but then the screen zooms in and the scenery turns into a comic-like Ben Day process image and Homer has a D'oh speech balloon.	"The Tell-Tale Pants"	35ABF10
767	No Gag	No Gag	"The Tipping Point"	35ABF11
768		The family gets scared away from the couch by the brain and Bart appears behind the couch laughing.	"Bart's Brain"	35ABF12

Season 36[edit]

#	Image	Gag	Episode	Code
769		All the Couch gags in the show unite to form it, with the Simpson family dressed for the special night.	"Bart's Birthday"	35ABF15
770	No Gag	No Gag	"The Yellow Lotus"	35ABF08
771	No Gag	No Gag	"Desperately Seeking Lisa"	35ABF18
772	No Gag	No Gag	"Shoddy Heat"	35ABF16
773	No Gag	No Gag	"Treehouse of Horror XXXV"	35ABF13
774			"Women in Shorts"	35ABF17
775			"Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes"	35ABF14
???			"The Beautiful Shame"	36ABF??
???			"Marge and Homer and Moe and Maya"	36ABF??
???			"Convenience Airways"	36ABF01
???			"The Man Who Flew Too Much"	36ABF02
???			"The Last Man Expanding"	36ABF06
???			"Estranger Things"	36ABF11
???			"Men Behaving Manly"	36ABF12

Disney+ Specials[edit]

#	Episode	Code
???	"O C'mon All Ye Faithful"	35ABF21 35ABF22
???	"The Past and the Furious"	35ABF19
???	"Yellow Planet"	35ABF20

Couch gags within episodes[edit]

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

Season	#	Gag	Episode	Code
5	83	During the "Thompsons" introduction, the family sits on the couch and a pile of fish falls from above.	"Cape Feare"	9F22
9	188	After everybody of Springfield has taken all the stuff from them, The Simpsons walk to the place where the couch gags take place.	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"	5F07
11	248	In an "aborted" couch gag, the family (minus Bart) 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 ballet tickets, asking if they needed them that night.	"Behind the Laughter"	BABF19
16	352	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
23	500	After the Simpsons move to The Outlands, the family take their seats on the couch and watch a fox sleeping on a rock.	"At Long Last Leave"	PABF07
34	746	At the end of the music video for The Meltdown, the family run towards the couch, then pause for a second before sitting down. The video ends when Homer switches on the remote.	"Fan-ily Feud"	OABF11

References[edit]

↑ Season 10 DVD audio commentary "Viva Ned Flanders"

Visual gags

view • talk • edit • past Opening sequence gags
Billboard gag (List) • Chalkboard gag (List) • Couch gag (List) • Title screen gag (List)

view • talk • edit • past Other gags
A113 • Eyes Without a Face • First Church of Springfield marquee • Floorboard gag • Gravestones • Springfield Shopper headlines • Strangling

[1] Season 10 DVD audio commentary "Viva Ned Flanders"

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